Game info: website
Listening: extracted audio
Credits
Sound Director: Mitsuhiro Kaneda
Music Composer: Mitsuhiro Kaneda, Yoshimi Kudo, Toki Takeda, Richter, Norihiro Furukawa
Music Mastering: Masaaki Kaneko
Sound Effect: Norihiro Furukawa
Production Assistant: Megumi Uchimaru, Risa Kasuya, Yuka Deguchi
Info
Lemme slide another Basiscape soundtrack in here real quick, this time one with no involvement from Hitoshi Sakimoto unfortunately. This is a shmup based on the Macross series, featuring characters from several different shows. The game reuses nine different vocal themes from the animes, mostly for boss fights based on skimming through a video, but there are also fifteen original pieces for stages and cutscenes and some jingles.
This one’s mostly in a pretty straightforward electronic orchestra action music style, mixing exciting strings and brass writing with 4/4 beats, synths, and a bunch of electric guitar. I found it to be a little more on the less interesting side of their work, but there’s a big element of me just having sky-high expectations in that, because there’s still a bunch of good bits in there. It just tends to be, like, cool sound design to start a piece or a sick-ass chord progression for eight seconds, and not awesomeness sustained across an entire piece of music.
There’s currently no way to listen to this soundtrack besides extracting the audio files from the game, though the European collector’s edition from Red Art Games will apparently come with a soundtrack CD as one of the tchotchkes.
Recommended tracks:
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BGM_006 starts with my favorite electronic sound design in the soundtrack
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BGM_008 was the track that made me go “okay now what the heck is happening here” about the chords the most
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BGM_010 was the track that made me go “okay now what the heck is happening here” about the [gestures at everything] the most
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BGM_017 is one of the chill dialogue themes, with a little bit of tension coming from the string stabs
(tracks are referred to by their filenames)
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