Game info: website
Listening: YouTube, extracted audio
Credits
Sound Director: Takashi Yoshida
Music Composers: Takashi Yoshida, Mio Yamada
Info
Damn, another Takashi Yoshida soundtrack just came out. It’s almost like he works for a company that actively develops video games, weird! Unfortunately this is another spinoff of the Warriors metaseries, which fans of the blog will recall I did not have a particularly enjoyable time listening to most of the music of, though fortunately, if a YouTube uploader is to be believed, the game only has five new pieces and the rest is presumably reused music. There’s no scenario in which I go through every single piece of music in the game data and verify this personally, so we’ll just take Xaldin007’s word for it, though based on the filenames, I suspect there might be a short synthy ambient piece that’s not present in the sound test. (And maybe the opening cutscene BGM too?)
This is a roguelite spinoff that takes the Warriors slaughter-hundred-of-dudes-at-once gameplay and makes you do it through a random series of combat arenas like Hades or what have you, so it does make sense that it’s the kind of thing that they’d just reuse series music for. With Takashi Yoshida at the helm and this game apparently taking place in hell, the music direction here is pretty obvious: dark and imposing orchestral music with piano and choir in it. I tend to like this style more than the typical Warriors rock, so I don’t necessarily think this is a bad thing! The darker pieces I felt were kinda rote, but some of the tracks have some good chords in them. There’s also a bunch of piano going absolutely ham for no reason, which is fun.
Yoshida was joined on this one by Mio Yamada, whom I can’t find any information about, so it seems like they may be a brand new composer at KOEI TECMO.
Recommended tracks:
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“Bullet Hell Showdown” is the hammiest of the hammy piano tracks; I’ve never heard anything in this JRPG-y style by anyone in any of my Yoshida KOEI TECMO listens, so maybe this one is by Yamada
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“Bite the Bullet” has various quick staccato figures going at it at the start and at 1:02, and the syncopated bit at 0:47 is a treat too
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