Square Enix Music is doing their best to gives fans of their earlier games some love by bringing the music of two of their classic game franchises to Blu-ray. The first three games of the Final Fantasy series as well as the SaGa series will be seeing their soundtracks brought to Blu-ray, along with video from the games and other art assets showcased in a special “Revival” disc series.
Both revivals are linear progressions. The first SaGa game was known as Final Fantasy Legend on the Gameboy in the states. As such, these revivals are the first three NES/Famicom and Gameboy games in the Final Fantasy series respectively. Nobou Uematsu worked on Final Fantasy 1-3, and also worked on both Legend and assisted with fellow composer Kenji Ito on Legend 2. (Ito would go on to composer for the Romancing SaGa games that succeeded the Legend series) Legend 3 was composed by Square newcomers Chihiro Fujioka and Ryuji Sasai.
The Blu-ray releases will not only feature the soundtracks to the games, but also gameplay and other art assets, as revealed by the Square Enix Music twitter.
【2018年8月15日発売】FFシリーズの原点の楽曲がゲーム映像付きBlu-rayでリバイバル!「FINAL FANTASY I・II・III Original Soundtrack Revival Disc」! 今週はサンプル動画はお休みして制作中のブックレットの一部をチラ見せ! 詳細はぜひ製品版で! #FFリバイバルサントラhttps://t.co/MbVsTGEvlm pic.twitter.com/FiLOt7PGWS
— SQEX MUSIC (@sem_sep) July 25, 2018
The SaGa 1,2,3 Original Soundtrack Revival Disc will be available on the Square Enix Music site and Amazon Japan on August 8th, while the Final Fantasy I, II, III Original Soundtrack Revival Disc will be available on August 15th.
The world of video game music labels seems to be (thankfully) growing, and VGM Classics (NM, USA), a classical record company specializing in video game music, has started three crowd-funding campaigns for new orchestral CD albums featuring music from the video games to help launch themselves into the scene.
VGM Classics has invited the award-wining composer/conductor Kentaro Sato (Final Fantasy Type-0, DISSIDIA Final Fantasy) to be its music director to oversee and direct the recordings of the orchestral compositions of music from the games Star Fox, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and Suikoden II.
The campaigns, which launched on July 20th, aim to raise US$40,000 each in an all-or-nothing format, and they all end on August 31, 2018, with $15 each being the entry-level pledge to receive the digital album from each campaign. You can check out more on each campaign by clicking the above links and contribute to the albums you want to see the most.
On August 3, 2018, Materia Collective will be releasing Jason Grave’s score to Moss. Jason Graves has scored several games including the Dead Space series, Tomb Raider, Until Dawn, and Far Cry Primal.
The VR game was developed by Polyarc for the PlayStation 4 and PC. The game’s description reveals that it begins in a library, where you play as the reader. You find an old book and once you flip through pages you get transported to a fantasy land inside the book. There you meet a young mouse, Quill and the adventure begins. You can view the game’s trailer below.
The game’s trailer features the song “Home to Me” with vocals performed by Malukah, who has worked with Jason Graves previously on Far Cry: Primal, and with Austin Wintory on The Banner Saga. The soundtrack also features Kristin Naigus on Flute, Oboe, English horn and Jeff Ball on Violin. You can sample three of the upcoming album tracks featured on Polyarc’s Soundcloud page below.
The album will features 11 tracks, and can be pre-ordered digitally from Amazon. Have you played Moss? Did you enjoy the music?
It’s been 25 years since the Super Famicom/SNES successor to the Blue Bomber, Mega Man X, was released. As such, Sony Music and Nintendo have released a special soundtrack collection to commemorate the musical history of the sequel series.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Capcom’s hit action game Rockman X series releases a commemoration album with 27 new tracks made for Rockman X Anniversary Collection Soundtrack and Rockman X Anniversary Collection Soundtrack 2, plus 1 bonus track specially created for this album, all provided by popular composer Yasumasa Kitagawa. Newly illustrated cover artwork by Mizuno Keisuke.
The soundtrack seems to pay homage to the music of the Mega Man/Rockman series music as a whole and features the following track list.
1.THE WORLD OF X
2.ORBIT
3.GALLERY (RELAXED)
4.GIVE IT A SHOT
5.PRESAGE
6.GRAVITY
7.STAGE START
8.X – BOSS 2
9.X2 – BOSS 2
10.X3 – BOSS 2 (EXTENDED)
11.X4 – BOSS
12.X5 – BOSS (EXTENDED)
13.X6 – BOSS
14.GAME OVER
15.WARNING
16.RE;FUTURE
17.GIVE IT A SHOT (EXTENDED)
18.STAGE CLEAR
19.GRAVITY (RESULT)
20.OVERCOME
21.RE;FUTURE FEAT.ERICA
22.TOTAL RESULT
23.GALLERY
24.THE CRISIS CONTINUES
25.END OF FILE
26.BREAK OUT
27.RE;FUTURE FEAT.JANET
28.ORBIT (NOSTALGIC)
The Rockman X Anniversary Collection Soundtrack releases today and is available for around $25 from PlayAsia and CDJapan.
The Splatoon games have always had a hand it marketing their music as much as their gameplay. Splatoon 2, which was released last year, it no exception as it’s about to see it’s Octo Expansion drop its own soundtrack.
The Octotune soundtrack will be two disc long. The first disc will include songs added to the game via updates and the upcoming Octo Expansion. The second disc will have the Game Party Japan 2018 performance tracks. Of course, no Splatoon music collection would be complete without our favorite idols. Off the Hook will definitely be on it, and for all you die hard fans the second Octotune disk will also contain recordings from one of their recent live performances.
The album contains 71 tracks covering the aforementioned content from the expansion and more. The Splatoon 2 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK -Octotune- releases July 18th to import retailers Play-Asia and CDJapan.
I don’t even have a great introduction to this review, so I’m just going to open it up as thus; 2 years ago, Castlevania developers Koji Igarashi created a Kickstarter campaign for a spiritual successor titled Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, meant to be the Castlevania that Konami had denied him the ability to make. The campaign was so popular that it made over 3 million in just pledges and broke all its stretch goals. One of the stretch goal was for the creation of am 8-bit retro-style prequel bonus game to be made separate from the main game the campaign was created for. This game was going to be released prior to the main Bloodstained game, as a taste of what backers and fans could hope for. Recently the retro bonus game saw it’s debut, first on steam and then on consoles, titled Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon.
And let me tell you, it has every bit the classic NES Castlevania feel to it’s music that you would hope for, and more. (Warning: this review contains some spoilers)
The original soundtrack to Square-Enix’s new action RPG, Octopath Traveler, containing the songs that colorize the fantastical world that the game presents to the player, will be releasing on the same day as the game itself.
The 4-disc album contains 80 tracks encompassing the game’s music as you take control of the game’s characters and traverse the different lands of Octopath. We previewed some of the music of the soundtrack back in March with a sampler release, and now it’s come time for the full shebang from composer Yasunori Nishiki to be released.
Now with Octopath Traveler releasing this Friday, July 13th (with hopefully no big, Friday the 13th unlucky game breaks on launch), the game’s soundtrack will be releasing simultaneously. You will be able to pick up the Octopath Traveler Original Soundtrack on Amazon, Play-Asia and the Square-Enix Music store.
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