Game info: Wikipedia
Listening: soundtrack album (tracks 5.29~37, 6.01~27, & 6.33), extracted audio
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Second DLC! This one’s a little beefier than the first and the music was spread much more evenly across Minako Adachi, Go Ichinose, Hitomi Sato, and Hiromitsu Maeba. There were also two new contributors to the soundtrack: Rei Murayama, a planner who seemingly just contributed a melody for the new Pokémon Terapagos which was arranged by the main audio staff, and Haruka Soeda, a mysterious freelancer(?) who’s credited in the base game with “sound development support” and contributed two full tracks and two jingles.
Like the base game, this DLC also takes place in a school and in Area Zero, so the music’s a lot more similar to that than it is to the first DLC with its Japanese influence, though a little more tonally generic Pokémon without the Spanish influence either. For that reason I didn’t really like it as much, didn’t feel to me like it had quite as much personality in comparison. There are more Area Zero tracks though and the sound design of that area is still just as good as ever, so that’s great.
Recommended tracks:
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“Daily Life at the Academy” (Hitomi Sato, orig. Minako Adachi) has a bunch of those Satoisms I was talking about in that ask from yesterday, starting off with a long doubled synth line and then getting into it with a rambling, syncopated melody at 0:21
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“Battle! (BB League Elite Four)” (Minako Adachi) has a great, intense section in 13 at 1:03
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“Terapagos Comes Back to Life” (Hiromitsu Maeba, orig. Toby Fox, Rei Murayama, & Go Ichinose) was my favorite of the Terapagos-related tracks, with that nice Maeba sound production
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“Star Training Centers! Team Star” (Haruka Soeda, orig. Teruo Taniguchi) has a really cool intro before settling into a chill, funky remix of the Team Star theme from the base game
(track titles are unofficial translations from Bulbapedia)
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