Yu Suzuki made a rail shooter for Apple Arcade and got Valensia to do the soundtrack. The entire Air Twister OST is operatic prog-rock with swan imagery, and it sounds like nothing else released in 2022. "Symphony Of The Swans" opens with theatrical grandeur.
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"Michelle Mambo 2022" and "Phantom Of The Opera 2022" are reworkings that bring older Valensia material into the game's fantastical world. "Act Of The Silver Squid" is exactly as bizarre as it sounds. The swan trilogy ("So White The Swan," "The Battle Of The Black Swan," "The Triumph Of The White Swan") tells a story in three acts.
"Requiem Somnia" closes with dreamlike finality. If you thought mobile games couldn't have ambitious soundtracks, Yu Suzuki and Valensia made twenty-one tracks of bombastic proof otherwise.