Game info: Sega Retro
Listening: digital soundtrack (tracks 5-8, incomplete), emulated + extracted audio
Credits
Sound Director: Teruhiko Nakagawa
Sound Creator: Naofumi Hataya, Tomonori Sawada, Tadashi Kinukawa
Sawada, Hataya, and Nakagawa are credited for composition for the four selected tracks on the compilation soundtrack. It’s not clear whether Kinukawa also composed here, though he has for other Sakatsuku games.
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The second DS Sakatsuku game has the same sound director and two of the same sound creators, though the musical style of this one is different both from that game and anything we’ve heard before: electronic dance music! It’s not in a consistent single style but rather a mishmash of house-, techno-, and trance-flavored styles, not particularly exciting or pulse-pounding but a bit cuter or slightly more on the chill side. In other words, it’s video game music! This is the soundtrack so far that I think sounds least specifically like “sports” and could most easily just appear in a wide variety of other games, though there are still several tracks with crowd noises in them and fanfare orchestral tracks so it’s not like you won’t be able to tell this is a sports game.
This soundtrack is a touch less quirky/weird than the first DS game’s, though in exchange we get more EDM planing chords, so it balances out a bit. I think I liked this one very slightly more on average than Sakatsuku DS the first, likely just because of its stylistic direction and not because the music is inherently cooler, though I don’t think its best tracks were quite as good as its predecessor’s best. It’s again just fine, pretty much.
Recommended tracks:
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“Glory, Forever” (Teruhiko Nakagawa & Naofumi Hataya) is one of those orchestral tracks I realized I haven’t really been posting a lot of, though it takes a turn halfway through for some reason
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“Office J” is a pretty standard chill groove kind of track
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“Office S” is one of the more unusual tracks in the game due to the acoustic guitar, though compositionally I think this still feels a bit like a dance track in secret
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“Institution” has some super moist beats
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“Quest” is the quirkiest track in the game and so the one that feels the most like it could’ve been in the last DS game; the thick chords at 0:18 are nice
(track titles except the first are taken from the filenames)
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