Have I ever mentioned how much I love VGMdb? I was browsing the release calendar as I often do, and happened across this new listing for the Genso Suikoden Tierkreis soundtrack, which we we found out last month will be scored by Norikazu Miura. Well, he’s not the only one on board, as Yoshino Aoki (who we talked about in our Breath of Fire III review) and Basiscape’s Masaharu Iwata are also credited as contributors to the score. I’m particularly curious about Iwata’s involvement.
So, what’s this troubling trend that I mentioned to grab your attention? Well, just like the upcoming Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia soundtrack, this album is apparently being released as a part of a special edition set that comes with the game, an art book, bookmarks, drama albums, and other goodies. While the soundtrack will definitely make an awesome bonus, I’m already hesitant about shelling out over $100 USD for a Japanese copy of the game to get the soundtrack. Can we get some separate soundtrack releases, Konami?
How will this trend impact your ability to secure some of these sure-to-be-awesome soundtracks? What are your thoughts regarding the involvement of Yoshino Aoki and Masaharu Iwata?
[via VGMdb]
Tags: Basiscape, Bonus, Can't Afford, Do Want, Genso Suikoden, Konami, News, Videogame
I just want them to start releasing everything on Amazon’s mp3 store. It’s not like people aren’t pirating the shit out of these anyway. So at least those of us who want to buy it and don’t care about the packaging can do so without having to shell out so much extra cash. Although I don’t know how much it costs to license and get it on the store, so it might not be worth it to them.
Kudos to square for putting there stuff on itunes. Maybe amazon mp3 isn’t far away? Jayson, perhaps if you have any inside contacts you could give them a wink, wink, nudge, nudge?
You’re a smart guy. Yeah, I can tell ’em what I think, and who knows, maybe they’ll listen. ;D
Regarding Konami stuff though, I personally want packaging, and it’s annoying that they’re backsliding into bundling this stuff.
Man, you’re over a week late. You need to check SEMO more. 🙂
SEMO needs to get an RSS feed more.
Good call Jayson. Konami has never really been one to release soundtracks with their games however, there was one Castlevania sampler that was given out as a preorder…I think that it was for one of the GBA titles…don’t recall. It was a while back though.