Digital provider of Japanese music, JapanFiles has a limited selection of game music. Among their offerings are some soundtracks from developer Nitroplus. Nitroplus makes mature (often eroge) graphic adventures with elements of thrill and horror.
Song of Saya was their big release in 2003, and to date it remains the most popular soundtrack among the game music selections at JapanFiles. Having been exposed to other Nitroplus titles, but *not* to Song of Saya, I decided it was time for me to receive a solid education.
Before going on to read the soundtrack review, it’s good to get a feel for what this game is. The short plot summary is that a young man gets in a car accident; his parents die, but he lives. However, the trauma results in him taking on a special kind of agnosia that basically sends his senses into a state of hellish disarray. Good food tastes bad; people look like blobs of flesh and sinew; the walls in his own room pulsate and freak him out.
Then he meets a girl, Saya, who actually turns out to be an extra-terrestrial life form. In real life, she is (presumably) an ugly, fleshy mound of grossness, much like what our protagonist sees in his friends now. But to the protagonist, Saya looks like a very attractive young lady. Her goal? Reproduction, of course.
The diverse sound team (including KID vocals composer Toshimichi Isoe) did a surprisingly good job capturing the mood of this horror-suspense-thriller of a game. Learn more about the game by clicking here, and check out our review of the soundtrack after the jump! (more…)
