You heard that right. In August of this year, Square Enix will ship out copies of what is not only their largest box set, but is actually the largest box set of game music in the history of the genre. The SaGa Series 20th Anniversary Original Soundtrack -PREMIUM BOX- contains 20 CDs of music (OSTs for every game in the series, though no arranged albums unfortunately), as well as a bonus DVD and some extra visual content included in the box.
Of course, it’s retailing for over $200, so you’d better start saving for it now. The Square Enix Members Store is already taking preorders. As for me, I’ll wait until an import-friendly shop like Play-Asia or VGM World lists it.
So we really want to hear feedback on this. Why this large a box, and why for this “underdog” franchise? Obviously, celebrating the 20th anniversary is a big deal, but it’s not like they put out a 40 disc box set for the Final Fantasy 20th anniversay (which took place two years ago). And who’s looking forward to reliving their favorite musical moments from Kenji Ito and Masashi Hamauzu?
Tags: Box, Do Want, Kenji Ito, Masashi Hamauzu, News, SaGa, Square Enix
This is something I need some extra money for. I’ll also wait for an import-friendly site. Any info on what’s in the box? Personally, I prefer the SaGa music to all Square work, but it’s really just a preference, as I know for the populace it does not equal Nobuo-level or other things, I suppose.
Oddly enough, the only stuff I care about in this box is the SaGa stuff. Ryuji Sasai is the man! Odd that they’re creating such an expansive collection for this series.
Bravo SE! Now I want an epic Mana series box.
- Oddly enough, the only stuff I care about in this box is the SaGa stuff.
Are there other things than SaGa stuff? That would make no sense.
Pierre,
When Jayson says “SaGa stuff,” he means the original Game Boy games. “SaGa” without the Romance, or the Frontier, or the Unlimitedness.
But what he REALLY MEANS apparently is SaGa 3, since that’s the only one Ryuji Sasai worked on. That’ll be one of the 20 CDs.
The detailed breakdown is pretty simple, and it looks at this point as though it’ll be straight ports of all the music (though there is some question about the GameBoy SaGa games, since they’re broken into three discs when “All Sounds of SaGa” was a two disc print). As I said in the news post, it’s only OST material, none of the arranged albums. So that’s…
disc 1~3 — SaGa 1~3
disc 4 — Romancing SaGa
disc 5 — Romancing SaGa 2
disc 6~8 — Romancing SaGa 3
disc 9~11 — SaGa Frontier
disc 12~14 — SaGa Frontier 2
disc 15~16 — Unlimited SaGa
disc 17~20 — Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song
Unlikely that there will be any “original” content here, though the possibility of added/extended tracks for the GameBoy games is there. No one knows yet.
Ah, Thank you very much Patrick. I’ve actually never played the original three, neither have I bought any OST for those games, so even if it’s not arranged, it’s definitly something I want
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[...] Every original soundtrack for every SaGa series game will be included in this massive set, which OSV says is the largest game soundtrack set ever [...]
God damn. I don’t think I have a big enough apartment to fit this soundtrack into!