Game info: website (in Japanese)
Listening: soundtrack albums
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Just remembered that I never got around to listening to all the music from this game, so let’s actually do that. This is a mobile hot boy gacha game about untangling corporate mysteries and also match-three puzzles? You don’t date the hot boys I don’t think, just every character is an inexplicably hot boy. This one caught my attention because the composer lineup is a super random mashup of folks from bemani, indie rhythm games, and Gran Turismo…?! Along with some miscellaneous lower-profile folks I’ve never heard of before. And Sondai Nishijima! More people should pay Sondai Nishijima to write video game music.
I don’t know anything about how the music is actually used in the game but it seems that each of the six digital soundtrack releases correspond to one of the six in-game corporate divisions, so volume 1 has a character from the Main Office on the cover and the music for puzzle mode when played in the Main Office apparently. The general musical flavor is also a little different for each volume, though they’re not stylistically uniform:
- Disco/nu-disco
- Chillout
- Jazz fusion
- Clubby EDM
- Artcore/IDM
- Electronic rock
So clearly my favorites were volumes 3 & 5, especially 5 since that’s the one that has the most Sondai Nishijima on it, though there’s some pretty good music in the others. I didn’t particularly like 2 & 6 that much but they’re fine, just not to my taste stylistically and they didn’t do much that interested me musically. Except for one track on volume 6, “Rain,” which I’m fairly certain has to be cribbing off of both “Csikós Post” and “Rondo alla Turca”??? That one was funny
Recommended tracks:
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“4 ON THE FLOOR” (good-cool) signals we’re going into the Transpose Zone at 1:02
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“Savant” (Maki Mannami) has some fun syncopation in the intro before busting out the smoldering sax solo in the second half
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“Be-Bop Aporia” (Isamu Ohira) is some hella racing jazz (Ohira is obviously one of the Gran Turismo composers)
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“Concrete Mirage” (Yamajet) has a great break at 0:57
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“The Catalyst” (Sondai Nishijima) starts with some delightfully choppy piano before bringing out the long 3×10 + 2 rhythm at 1:17
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“Complicated” (Feryquitous) has some big-assed bass
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