Game info: Steam
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Here’s the latest game by BAYACHAO, the artist and dev who made Nine-Tailed Okitsune Tale a couple of years ago. That game was an action adventure but this is more of a visual novel thing with different characters and darker themes. It’s also apparently pretty horny, which you might be able to figure out from the art and game description before even getting to the reviews saying stuff like “This isn’t a smut game but it isn’t not a smut game.”
As a game full of cartoony animal creatures that’s focused on devil summoning, it probably will not surprise you to learn the game’s soundtrack is mostly jaunty haunted house music. There’s a lot of plucked strings, winds, harpsichord, organ, marimba, and glockenspiel—all pretty standard—along with some more cartoonish elements like goofy sound effects or a bass-heavy piano/tuba rhythmic section alternating up and down every beat in a way that makes it sound like Banjo-Kazooie or a Looney Tunes episode. There is a little bit of chiptune or other synth leads here and there to remind you that you’re listening to an AAAA soundtrack, but for the most part, when tracks get electronic, they do so to get more ambient-sounding and not more EDM-sounding.
As I tend not to like cartoon haunted house music all that much, my favorite tracks were pretty much all ones that aren’t that, particularly more mysterious-sounding ambient ones and more bombastic piano-and-orchestra action ones. The spooky tracks do occasionally have some nice jazzy AAAA chords or get funky with detuning or something, but overall I generally feel like this is one of the less interesting AAAA soundtracks that I’ve listened to.
Recommended tracks:
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“Connection★Communication” was one of the most overt cartoon-electronic hybrids
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“Through the Crystal… Day 1” is a spooky waltz, a classic way to add some elegance to haunted house music
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“SUPERNOVA” is the most epic-sounding track in the game, I don’t know if this game has some battles secretly snuck in there or if this is just a really dramatic moment storywise
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“The Universe Smells of Raspberries” is just a nice chord pad, a delicate melody, and some background noises
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“Evil Within” was the only track that sounds actually scary evil and not funny haha evil
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“True END” is a pretty normal grand finale track, revealing that the game’s main theme (0:23) was actually an anime theme all the time by switching it to major and jazzing up the chords at 1:10
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