Dear Eriol
Thank you for posting! Yes, they are the new links to the new campaigns!
And to all!
If the campaigns met their goals, the general music direction VGMC will take would be the direction set by the originals. So, it would be a natural musical extension by an orchestra. We will try to preserve and strengthen the musical intentions of the originals, and make something artistically competent as orchestral works.
VGMC will not do any medley unless the originals were so or we got the permission to do so (EX. like an ending credit medley etc). Additionally, VGMC will not do any parody unless the originals were so, or we got very good reasons to do so (EX. the cooking tune of Suikoden II, which was a parody of the theme music of a famous Japanese cooking show).
The orchestral setup would be what we call "two-wind system." This is a standard setup for any classical/romantic era orchestral works. So any standard orchestras around the world could perform the tunes if they wished and there were opportunities.
We had a long discussion about whether we include a piano and a drum set as a standard setup or not. We decided not to. Certain things work well in a studio but not in a concert hall, and piano-focused orchestral tune (excluding concerto-like setup) and drum groove (or percussion heavy arrangements) falls into this category unfortunately.
So, any such version with piano/drums? will be bonus recordings.
These decisions are pretty much in line with what Mr. Koich Sugiyama did in his early orchestral suites of Dragon Quest series (like III, IV, V).
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