I knew someone was bound to recognise it!
Having played both Road Trip Adventure and another Choro-Q game in my childhood, I pushed the team to draw a lot of inspiration from that series -- and yes the music similarities are very much intentional from my part haha :)
Thank you so much for the feedback and kind words! We'll definitely be working on some peoples' sticking points in further updates, so we greatly appreciate the time you took to write out your thoughts in full.