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Originally Posted by Cedille
was he really not aware of it as he had had no involvement in the in-game implementation?
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Shiina never was involved in any sequenced soundtrack, with ToL's battle themes being the sole exception. Wouldn't be surprised if the battle themes were converted to sequences due to technical necessities and Shiina didn't want to be involved at all (like Sakimoto with FFXII). Unfortunately the in-game credits I saw so far don't really help finding out who else did it (only sound related staff credited beside Shiina are sound programmer Yoshitaka Watanabe and battle sound effect designers Kouji Nakagawa and Tomomitsu Kaneko, game seems not to have sound effects outside the battles I guess *shrugs*).
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Originally Posted by Cedille
I know it's just a word game, but if a composer made their music but eventually had to deteriorate it due to the console constraint, isn't the former still 'the original soundtrack'? Not sure if this was also the case with Legendia though. If Legendia isn't called an original soundtrack, some camerot albums, some Sakimoto albums (Sword Maniac and FFXII) and some Square Enix albums (FFIII DS and FFIVDS) aren't, either, since they represent their own in-game music far less than Legendia. Not to mention there are many case where the in-game soundtracks were upgrated when they were released as official soundtracks.
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It's an interesting issue to say the least. In my opinion such cases always warrant a note. Whether it affects the status as 'original soundtrack' I don't dare to decide. (Even though I already marked the ToP, ToD and ToE soundtracks as arranged by unrelated people since there the difference from the in-game sound were that huge I couldn't left the "original" status with a straight face. I'm still undecided about Valkyrie Profile DS, were some hired person ported the music from VP1 verbatim while Sakuraba, uninvolved in the sound design, actually arranged those tracks on the "ost".)