{"id":55893,"date":"2026-01-20T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=55893"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:46:01","slug":"theres-an-increasing-number-of-game-osts-where-the-music-doesnt-match-the-gameplay-says-the-hundred-line-and-danganronpa-composer-masafumi-takada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/theres-an-increasing-number-of-game-osts-where-the-music-doesnt-match-the-gameplay-says-the-hundred-line-and-danganronpa-composer-masafumi-takada\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s\u00a0an increasing number of\u00a0game\u00a0OSTs where the music\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0match the gameplay, says The Hundred Line and\u00a0Danganronpa\u00a0composer Masafumi Takada\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Talking to AUTOMATON&nbsp;Japan,&nbsp;Masafumi Takada, the composer for&nbsp;<strong>The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy<\/strong>,&nbsp;talked about&nbsp;recent changes&nbsp;he\u2019s&nbsp;noticed&nbsp;in game music.&nbsp;Takada feels that&nbsp;lately,&nbsp;music&nbsp;is&nbsp;increasingly being treated as&nbsp;a separate entity, rather than an integral part of gameplay&nbsp;and worldbuilding, which is creating a mismatch in games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u300eHUNDRED LINE -\u6700\u7d42\u9632\u885b\u5b66\u5712- Original Soundtrack\u300f\u8a66\u8074\u52d5\u753b\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vU2iZI_BKmw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Takada is a veteran composer who has&nbsp;written&nbsp;music&nbsp;for&nbsp;a wide range of&nbsp;games, including&nbsp;Suda 51\u2019s&nbsp;The Silver Case, the&nbsp;Danganronpa&nbsp;series, the Earth Defense Force series, the Digimon Story series,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Super Smash Bros<em>.<\/em>&nbsp;series.&nbsp;Known for&nbsp;its&nbsp;distinctive use of synthesizers, Takada\u2019s latest&nbsp;work is&nbsp;the massive original soundtrack of Too Kyo Games\u2019 The&nbsp;Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In creating the OST, Takada&nbsp;says he&nbsp;paid special attention to&nbsp;making sure&nbsp;his music functioned&nbsp;as part of The Hundred Line\u2019s&nbsp;eerie&nbsp;setting and&nbsp;framework.&nbsp;In the same vein, he notes that&nbsp;he\u2019s&nbsp;seen&nbsp;an increasing number of&nbsp;games in which the music feels&nbsp;out of sync&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;rest of the experience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#eaeaea\">\u00a0\u201cLately, something\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0been bothering me a bit is that even though\u00a0game music\u00a0is often\u00a0very rich\u00a0and high in quality, there are\u00a0more and more\u00a0instances\u00a0where it\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0really align\u00a0well\u00a0with the actual gameplay experience.\u00a0To be honest, it sometimes\u00a0feels\u00a0more like\u00a0they\u2019re\u00a0just making good music\u00a0instead of\u00a0actually\u00a0<em>making\u00a0a\u00a0game<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0<br><br>\u00a0\u201cWhen you look at game reviews, you sometimes see comments like \u2018the music was great,\u2019 and\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0not really praise for the music,\u00a0it\u00a0means the music stands out more than the game itself.\u00a0In other words,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0not that a cohesive game is being made;\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0that the\u00a0playing\u00a0experience and the music are\u00a0out of sync. 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