Splatune 3
- Release date: 4/26/2023
- Genre: Everything, sound effects
- Featuring: Toshiyuki Sudo, Ryo Nagamatsu, Toru Minegishi, Yumi Takahashi, Sayako Doi, Shiho Fujii (composition), Tetsuya Oyama (live arrangement)
- Runtime: 147 tracks, 5:04:39
Master of all tracks in Splatoon 3 up to the point of the CD's release. With six composers, one live performance, and dozens of sound effects and jingles across four discs, it's a large project that'll keep you listening for leitmotifs. Rich and overwhelming like the game is. (So was ripping it.) This master is excellent. Once you hear CD-quality story mode tracks, you can't go back.
Splatoon 3 is divisive on a gameplay level but its visual and sound design set bars that few can overcome. It's unified and celebratory of life in the face of adversity... and violence, but that's fine because it's just a sport young people like.
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- Sequential songs or those with multiple versions (Anarchy Poisons, Gold record tracks) transition into one another after one loop, likely to conserve tracklist space.
- The player hears one of three Alterna Citizen Program songs before missions in a normal playthrough of Return of the Mammalians. The special post-game stage, After Alterna, plays a unique song (disc 3, track 19, オルタナ市民プログラム M-??：mY dEAR); being the fourth and only track that fades out before looping, it signifies progress and an acceptance of sealife as the humans' successors. The stage, then, tests for if that idea is true.
- Disc 3, track 26 (衝天プチョフィンザ/Shoten puchofinza) is literally "high-spirits put(pu) your(cho) fins(fin) up(za)," hence the English title, Fins in the Air
- Disc 3, track 37 (Paintscraper (Uotora Demo)) is contextualized by one of Beika's tweets included in the album booklet: "Paintscraper is based on a demo that Uotora made. I heard that he played the guitar himself too. It’s very silly and ridiculous, but it has a unique charm to it. If I get the chance, I'd like to share it."
- Tracks associated with Tableturf Battles are credited to Ancho-V Games, an in-universe game company. Whether they produce the card game or not is unclear, but likely.
- Big Man's vocals are more audible in the Bankalive performances than in the in-game mixes.