Anyone who happened to visit Yasunori Mitsuda’s website a few days ago might have noticed that instead of reaching the main page, they were instead greeted with a Christmas message from the man himself. The note featured a Christmas-themed background and a surprise announcement that a special promotional song would be featured on the site until Christmas day. Clicking the link took you to the main page which featured a piano version of the theme from the Korean MMORPG, Lime Odyssey.
For those of you who don’t know, Yasunori Mitsuda is in charge of the music for Lime Odyssey. As for the song itself, it’s soft and melodic with parts that remind me of his work on Xenogears. In fact, if I had not looked at the track title I might have suspected it was an arrangement or a lost track from that title. Perhaps it’s how the song is arranged, but it certainly has a very Christmas-like feel to it, and the timing is perfect!
As stated in the Christmas notice, the song will only be available until Christmas day, so if you haven’t already done so already, stop on by Mitsuda’s website and take a listen to this wonderful track.
Tags: Arrangements, Christmas, Lime Odyssey, Mitsuda, MMORPG, News, Piano, Previews
This is awesome. Although I wonder where the hell his Chrono Cross arrangement album is that he teased us with at Christmas last year. Good track, somebody needs to make an mp3!
His Chrono Cross arranged album will come out this summer, as hinted at on his Twitter page. You should follow his Twitter page!
YasunoriMitsuda
I am producing the album little by little now. It is that album.
1:54 AM Dec 2nd from web
NoirAkatsuki
That album?!!Chrono Cross arrange album??!! 😛
3:32 AM Dec 2nd from Tweetie in reply to YasunoriMitsuda
JassonMcMorris
What album are you working on? I am very curious. I really enjoy your work! 🙂
11:59 AM Dec 2nd from web in reply to YasunoriMitsuda
YasunoriMitsuda
It’s still a secret. I think it can be sold in summer of next year.
12:44 AM Dec 3rd from web in reply to NoirAkatsuki
ffworldcom
光田さん〜 クロノ・クロス アレンジを下さい〜〜〜 Do you remember in Köln? We begged for it!!
4:11 PM Dec 3rd from web
YasunoriMitsuda
Hello!! Thank you for your messege. I remember promising. I exert myself! !
6:08 PM Dec 3rd from web in reply to ffworldcom
Source: http://twitter.com/YasunoriMitsuda
Beautiful! Thank you for the mention.
Jayson,
You can get the MP3 by downloading the SWF file and using swfextract from swftools to rip out the audio track. Eg.:
swfextract -m Christmas2009.swf
It’s definitely a nice song. Thanks for mentioning it, Chris.
Beautiful…
It would be awesome if someone can make a mp3 out of it…
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While it would be nice to have an mp3 of it and I can certainly assume some of you know how to put that together, I would suggest that a request be made to Mr. Mitsuda for permission to do so. Well, at least in a public manner.
Otherwise, figure it out yourselves. 🙂
wow, he LOOKS like an anime character