Squads: Saikyou no Kizuna (#17347)

[Enja Hamman]

Squads, for what little music it has, is definitely still the work of SEGA R&D2's sound team, since it was produced and directed by creators of Virtua Tennis 4, and it shares a lot of uncanny similarities with SEGA-RaceTV, Virtua Fighter 5 FINAL SHOWDOWN and MJ5's music.

I would assume they didn't get Tomoya Koga in to play guitars, but... maybe? GachiDama_00000000 reminds me so much of the SELECTOR theme from Virtua Fighter 5 R. I would imagine some of the music is Fumio Ito, maybe Kazuki Takagi or Yasuyuki Nagata as well. It kinda feels way older than it actually, so the obvious conspiracy theory would be that it's all unused stuff from a decade before, haha.

Some other tracks that stood as reminiscent of older stuff are GachiDama_00000005 (reminds me of the Result theme from SEGA-RaceTV) and GachiDama_00000007 sounds like pretty much any Game Over jingle throughout Virtua Fighter 5.