Game info: playthrough video
Listening: extracted audio
Credits
BGM: Kyu Sendou (Q), Kousuke Matsuoka (eki)
The game is downloadable for free, and the music can be extracted from the game’s sound.dat file using the yanePackDX utility (click the bottom button in the window). Sendou composed 1.mid, 2.mid, and 3.mid, and Matsuoka composed the others.
Info
Next up is one of the two Alpha Secret Base games without soundtrack releases, a cute score attack platformer about collecting bananas(???) that just reuses some sound effects from a Kirby game(??????). Truly anything can happen when you download random free games from the online.
Kyu Sendou wrote the first three stage themes, all of which are pretty easy-going poppy tunes. They’re all a few minutes long, which seems heftier that necessary for the amount of time you’ll hear them in-game, but other than that I didn’t find them especially remarkable. Then Kousuke Matsuoka’s final stage theme comes completely out of nowhere with a more energetic dance beat and some intense shamisen-in’, which does not seem especially appropriate given the tone of the rest of the music and how the final stage is just a city at night, but I think the song is significantly better than the rest of the stage themes, so I’ll let it slide. Matsuoka also wrote the opening theme and ending jingle (which just quotes a very small part of the opening theme); it starts off as an orchestral piece before transitioning into a couple of different styles briefly, also ending in a synth bwomp and repeating figure that I kind of wish was developed.
Recommended tracks:
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“Stage 1” (Sendou) has something very important that set it apart from Sendou’s other stage themes for me: an organ solo at 2:51
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“Stage 4” (Matsuoka, orig. Hiroaki Yoshida & Tatsuya Kiuchi) is not as overtly prog as other Matsuoka tracks, even in comparison to the opening theme of this game, but the phrase-ending shamisen licks at 0:17 and 0:23 are a bit proggy; this is a rearrangement of the main theme from Atomic Runner Chelnov, a game which Magical Runner Shippuu Utsunomiya is generally referencing (thanks Tked for pointing this out!)
(track titles are unofficial)
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