Game info: website (in Japanese)
Listening/music info: vol. 7, vol. 8
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We’re back again with more music from the hot boy mobile gacha! As is typically the case with gacha games, BREAK MY CASE has received content updates since it was released, and therefore new music has been added since the original six soundtrack volumes came out. They just released two more volumes last week, which I’ll cover together here since like the original volumes they’re also only about 20 minutes each.
Most of the music here is from events that ran in 2024, though there are some 2025 events as well. Unlike the first six volumes, these new two are broader collections that don’t seem to be as strictly themed around a specific corporate division and musical style, so there’s more genre whiplash on a track-by-track basis in going from nu-disco to erhu jazz to funky house. To the extent that the volumes have their own identities, volume 7 is more jazz and funk and volume 8 is more EDM and rock. There aren’t any new composers here, but 11 of the base game composers returned with new tracks, generally in the styles of their previous contributions though with some variability here and there.
It’s alright. It’s definitely more BREAK MY CASE music, so if you liked the first six volumes, I’d definitely check out these too, or at least just the composers whose work you previously liked. I didn’t enjoy these two new volumes quite as much as the others, though I think the balance of tracks I liked to tracks I didn’t is about the same; I think the problem might just be that the shorter runtime means there were less badass tracks for me to latch onto. But there are still badass tracks, though!
Recommended tracks:
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“Waterflower” (Dirty Androids) is some fun jazz fusion from someone who definitely did not write jazz fusion previously for this game
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“ALICE’S DICE” (Sondai Nishijima) comes from the more sugary, hyperactive side of Nishijima
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“Camaraderie” (Isamu Ohira) is some fun jazz fusion from someone who did write jazz fusion previously for this game; check the bass solo at 0:57
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“Chelem” (Feryquitous) has a nice screaming synth in the first minute
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“Hi-No-De” (y0c1e) has a funny extra measure at 0:43 with two telephone busy signal beeps and then the sound of a car remote
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“Echoes” (YiU) has a nice little syncopation coming into the section at 1:13, where it sounds like there’s an extra beat but it’s actually stolen from the start of the next phrase
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