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We have one month before the OST releases and weeks before the game releases. We'll soon see.
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You know, for the 'Attack on Titan' Original Soundtrack, you could at least try to argue that the track names had meaning as pictographs, or, well, something hidden behind the symbols. For this OST though, man, some of these look like he just mashed the keyboard. I don't really think I can extrapolate much meaning from "z5m20i12r04a28."
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The name "mira" makes sense now that you mention it, but the recording date seems a little far-fetched to be accurate here.
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He had mentioned on his blog a while back that most the music had been recorded back in 2012.
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Yeah, he spent the first half of 2012 composing the music. Right after he finished Guilty Crown.
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Shows how far in the past game music can have been made due to the long development times.
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Uploaded scans. Kind of wish they would stop with the only white pages. Makes it a pain in the ass to scan and makes it easier to mix up the pages.
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If ya don't like the album sell it to me please.
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In the meantime, for a game that is by all accounts larger than Xenoblade, how on Earth did we go from five composers down to one?
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Though I don't know if there are more people involved in the final game (staff roll?). |
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That's respectable. Still, and I don't know if I'm trying to rub salt in my wounds before they've been formed here, but... Do we know what other composers may have originally been slated for Chronicles X?
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Music is co-produced and directed by Yasushi Horiguchi. There is also a Jingle Writer (Takafumi Wada) and a Score Copy (Shoji Kobayashi) credit. https://youtu.be/bD0GUWqoEuo?t=802
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Tetsuya Takahashi, inexplicably, really likes Sawano and was going to ask him from the beginning to do at least some music. I still consider Takahashi my favorite game director, but I'd rather someone else inside Monolith Soft make the music decisions from now on.
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I don't need to reiterate how exceptional the Xenoblade OST is (especially if you don't agree). Guess because I was expecting something similar for the "sequel" my first thought was 'budget cut' when I read one composer had the lion's share of it. At least Sawano didn't get the gig by blackmailing Takahashi. ... We can confirm that, right?
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I like this OST, don't get me wrong (except I wish a lot of the vocals had been left out), and I think Sawano is great what he does. But man, what could have been if Monolith had brought ACE+ back for this title!
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He didn't actually select Kiyota or ACE+; they were recommend to him by Uematsu's Dog Ear Records. Takahashi was in charge of music direction, as he kept in constant communication with them (and was severely critical of their submitted pieces). Why didn't he ask Shimomura to do the whole OST? Who knows. As for Mitsuda, I would say he was too busy on four DS titles and other projects during Xenoblade's principal development.
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So Takahashi is a Mitsuda fan. I interpreted your post incorrectly. You no longer want him making OST decisions -specifically- after putting Sawano on Chronicles X. Based upon your statement I assumed someone else must have pursued Mitsuda for previous Xeno games' music. Takahashi being "at fault" didn't make sense to me since you obviously hold Mitsuda in some regard. Got it now. I think. Probably.
Sounds like Takahashi credits Mitsuda for 'gears successful completion. Wow. Though he eventually came around, it blows my mind anyone could dismiss the impact music has on games. Which is exactly why I'm on this thread. This was going to be one of the few games I dedicated time to this year and possibly the only JRPG. I'm concerned I won't enjoy it as much due to its OST and wanted to talk it out a bit. And thanks for collecting the info here for easy reading. I also would have liked to see ACE+ make a return as I thoroughly enjoyed their work on Xenoblade's OST. Honestly a little surprised more didn't, but to each his or her own I suppose.
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Allow me to phase phrase this another way:
I'm not finding much to look forward to in the Chronicles X OST by reading the forums on our site. The closest he's had to an advocate is a post by nextday, though a follow-up was tempered by "on-second-thought..." apprehension. Of the threads I've read involving Sawano the focus will shift to imply the superior abilities of other composers. Even in the man's own Discuss section no one is sticking up for him. This is not a good first impression. The plus side of all this is with my expectations so incredibly low if the songs are even average I just might love them. Some of my favorite albums/bands are those that I absolutely despised first listen (STP's Purple; Rush come to mind). I still need to consider the possibility that this might end up being the first game I play with the sound completely off, listening to other soundtracks instead. Think I'll go with the Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey OST (with all due respect Dag, that was for you).
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This board seems to be the polar opposite of the Xenoblade X board on GameFAQs, where everyone fanboys and worships Sawano so hard that if you say anything negative about the soundtrack, you're automatically trolling and/or have terrible taste.
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I don't think any of the previous composers for Monolith Soft would have been able to produce the correct tone that Takahashi wanted for the sci-fi setting of Xenoblade X. Sawano fit that role perfectly. Before, I thought that it wasn't possible for Sawano to do a better job with the soundtrack than ACE+ and the others in the original game. Now that the soundtrack is out, I've been proven wrong. Personally, this is my favorite soundtrack of all time.
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Maybe it's because I've gotten far too used to Sawano's style, but I don't get this "sci-fi feel" from this soundtrack. Sometimes it sounds like Shingeki, or KLK, or Gundam Unicorn. So, for me, it sounds like everything he has composed up to this point, not with Unicorn alone. I do love some songs, like z15f20i12e09l14d or fiKAIeldJOU, but all of the vocal songs used in battles and such are typical-Sawano, not to mention the other over the top songs like THEMEX and N周L辺A (back in the day, I'd love songs such as these, but nowadays I feel "anesthetized" to them).
That being said, as much as I loved Blade's soundtrack, I wouldn't say the answer is Ace+, Kiyota or even Mitsuda. My "issue" lies with Sawano alone |
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I don't see how it's possible to not like THEMEX. Note that Sawano composed this music before Kill la Kill or Attack on Titan.
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Haha, I was just going to post along those lines. It's actually a bit sickening.
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It's possible just like how people can have different opinions. And yours is not the only one "right" or anybody else's for that matter. It's just that - an opinion.
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