Game info: Wikipedia
Listening: extracted audio, YouTube (missing cutscene and environmental tracks)
Credits
Music: Hayato Matsuo
Sound: Kojiro Nakashima, Misaki Okibe, Atsuhiro Ishizuna, Arata Iiyoshi, Yoko Ozeki
Info
I love Hayato Matsuo, and I just found a game I’ve never heard of before that he did the soundtrack for, so of course I checked it out. It’s an interesting-looking (not massively) multiplayer online RPG for the Gamecube, art style’s kinda cute. There are a few different types of instrumentation and styles in the soundtrack but the predominant mode is folky RPG music: lots of acoustic guitar, winds, piano, and hand percussion. It sounds “small scale,” like playing an RPG in miniature—kind of like how the game looks!
I tend to like older, synthier works by Matsuo where he goes prog, which there isn’t a lot of in this soundtrack, but you can find shades of it in the chords and piano writing in some tracks. Some pleasant tunes to hold hands and beat up monsters to.
Recommended tracks:
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JK17_dark_room is one of the environmental noise tracks and I just like it when big metallic scrapes and pads wash over me
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M03_school is some quirky piano mashing
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M19_field_02 is a jazzy nighttime forest vibe
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M26_battle_ruki has a couple of simple but dramatic switches to and from triplets
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M27_dungeon_last drops the funk
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M46_tetunagi_dungeon gets really spicy in the piano accompaniment at 0:41
(track titles are taken from the filenames)
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