The Mirror (+ The Lost Shards) OST, played on Psygnosis V-CD via Demo One on PS1
0I have played the CDDA tracks of Demo One Version 5 within V-CD by Psygnosis, included on the disc. Now, I have decided to mix PlayStation nostalgia with a slice of Steam nostalgia by having V-CD play and visualize music from the controversial, yet highly-memorable 2018 GALGAME classic known as Mirror and its DLC, The Lost Shards, created by the then-infamous Hong Kong-based company known as SakuraGame, sold for the most attractive price point of just, you won't believe it!, a whopping €2 at launch (WHAT A PRICE POINT!) and released long before its subpar and lackluster follow-up, Mirror 2: Project X, ultimately destroyed and tarnished its legacy forever.
For those like me, who played it way back in 2018 when it came out of Early Access, you may always remember the many things it had on offer: The Match-3 Puzzle gameplay that has you doing battle against the 8 girls (+4 if you include the Lost Shards DLC), the "Discipline Modes" where you do "something" with them, the CGs and perhaps the most memorable of all: The Cosplay Album featuring Chinese cosplayers whom SakuraGame made contracts with to cosplay the characters. And who could forget this one image of an excited and blushy white rabbit censoring parts of the game that was removable by patches you had to download and install to enjoy its intended goodness. The Cosplay Album and OST had to be purchased separately, also for the same amount as the base game itself.
It is the kind-of game that I got hooked towards so much, I truly wish it were a PlayStation game, made by a small team based in either Hong Kong or Taiwan who somehow would have gotten hold of the PlayStation SDK to develop it and even implement the earliest example of Live2D long before the PS3 and the Unity Engine. They would have released the game 20 years before the Steam game as an unlicensed low-budget bootleg that would have been distributed to PlayStation gamers across the world and even would have made massive headlines in the PlayStation media for its excessive amount of NSFW content, even much more so than the massive BDSM-themed gore-fest known as Thrill Kill. Much like with Resident Evil 2 that mom and I got with our PlayStation back then, even I would have been disallowed to play Mirror at such a young age due to all the H it had on offer, had it been a PlayStation game instead of a Steam game, and if it also was among the games we got for our console as well.
Some of you may also remember the former YouTuber MusicalAntiHero, who once did coverage on SakuraGame and their shady business practices, before he ultimately "nuked" his channel and took all of the videos he made about SakuraGame, with it.
And so, as Irish Pete who runs the PSXGamingMemories channel, always tells you to keep PlayStation gaming memories alive, the same should be done for Steam and the H-filled Match-3 puzzle classic that turned so many us into proud "Men of Culture", keeping their memories alive by playing its music through the PlayStation and this familiar application included on the pack-in demo disc we got with our PAL PlayStation's back in early-mid 1998.
All music for the game was composed by Kimiyoshi Maruyama with piano arrangements by Soh Mizorogi, both of whom of the Japanese music company that SakuraGame partnered with during the game's development, known as Project Lights.
More info about the OST:
https://vgmdb.net/album/105591
Everything is captured from real hardware, of course.
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
01:00:00 Booting up V-CD
01:43:00 Lin's Theme (Immediately plays when you insert the CD with music from the game you've burned onto it)
04:40:00 Youko's Theme
07:24:40 Cai Yun's Theme
00:10:03 Martha's Theme
00:12:50 Daisy's Theme
00:15:38 Ebony's Theme
00:18:36 Ketsuno Ana's Theme
00:21:41 Unita's Theme
The Lost Shards:
00:24:48 Leah's Theme (as a human)
00:27:48 Madoka's Theme
00:30:48 Mafreeca's Theme
00:33:48 Hill's Theme
00:37:08 Leah's Theme (as a succubus)
Other:
00:40:06 Lost Romance (Plays during menus and ADV sequences)
00:44:12 Hot and Heavy (Plays in those highly-memorable "Discipline Modes")
00:48:32 Magic Mirror
00:53:28 Magic Mirror (w/ Vocals by Mao Uzuki)