Game info: HG101
Listening: digital soundtrack, physical enclosure soundtrack (disc 1)
Credits
Composer: Shinichi Sakamoto
OST Remixes: Shogun, USK, Blasterhead
Info
For some reason I just remembered that ages ago I randomly bought the soundtrack to this on EGG MUSIC, a Japanese digital music service. This was an arcade game by Westone, the company probably best known for the Wonder Boy series, though it was never quite finished and released. Decades later, the source code was found, and the game was completed by a new publisher and released thanks to the power of emulation. Happy ending!
The music by Shinichi Sakamoto is sort of like a cuter and occasionally more tropical Streets of Rage, very VGM-flavored dance music with club beats and club piano and club synth riffs and club orchestra hits. The soundtrack also includes three guest remixes that embrace the source material’s core and go full dance music (well, the second by USK is also chiptune), and they’re not bad.
The physical CD also includes a second disc of remixed tracks, which I haven’t listened to and apparently aren’t actually used in-game, but just made available in a sound test.
Recommended tracks:
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“Pipperoos (Select)” is kind of demented and has a really loud noise at the end of the loop for some reason
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“Clockwork Aquario (Round 5 BGM)” has a nice whistle synth solo
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“Cooney Doop (Shogun’s Trance Remix)” (arr. Shogun) is my favorite of the three remixes, particularly the intro which starts off very pretty before getting demolished by dissonance
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