Game info: Gematsu
Listening: soundtrack album, extracted audio
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Did you think the Takeshi Abo VN posting was over? Think again, suckers! Actually this is the last one I have in the immediate queue, it just felt appropriate to follow up all the Famicom Detective Club games with it. This is an original story by MAGES. not related to any other series, a painful gay romance with some suspense and mystery set in a mansion in the 1960s.
Compared with most of the music I listen to by Abo, this is a very acoustic score: lots of piano, strings, and acoustic guitar, with some occasional winds and vox. There are a few synths, though most of the time it’s just a pad in the background to help round things out. It’s mostly fairly calm and atmospheric music with a Romantic edge to it, sometimes light and happy and sometimes dark and solemn.
The music is fine for setting the atmosphere it’s trying to set, but I otherwise found it to mostly be on the blander side, though a lot of tracks do have some occasionally nice chord changes to keep things interesting. The tracks I liked most unsurprisingly ended up being the darker ones, which tended to have better chords and be slightly synthier.
Recommended tracks:
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“Iwakura Mansion” was my favorite of the lighter-feeling pieces, though there’s some hints of darkness in a couple of the chords, especially in the piano intro
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“Moonlight” has my favorite overall chords in the soundtrack, and is also in 7 for an extra value-add
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“Madly in Love-Hate” is a bit syncopated in a way that catches me if I’m not paying attention
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“Escape” is mostly some kinda standard dramatic tension string music, but man is the chord progression at 0:39 good
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“Ritual” starts off with a bunch of spooky bell/chime noises
(track titles are unofficial translations by me)
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