SVWC-7514~5: LOST ODYSSEY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

[nitro322]

FYI, there seem to be two versions of this album, both labeled SVWC-7514~5 from Aniplex, Inc. The "original" release seems to feature a tri-fold design with a slipcase, which was previously scanned and included on the VGMdb page.

The version I received, however, is a double-width plastic jewel case. It has similar artwork, though arranged differently, different disc labels, and it's missing some pages from the booklet. This appears to be legit (you can see the catalog number and copyright info in the scans), and as far as I can tell it has the exact same catalog number as the release already in VGMdb, but the packaging and artwork are definitely quite distinct. Anyone know what's the deal?

I scanned and uploaded all of the artwork from this "new" packaging for anyone else that may want it. I labeled all of them them as "Alt ..." to avoid confusion with the original images.

[Gigablah]

The "original" release with the bells and whistles is the "first pressing" version, which has a limited print run. I'd presume that the one you obtained is the "regular" pressing.

Either way, thanks for the scans. Maybe to handle these scenarios in the future we should have the ability to split galleries into sections.

[Mac_Tear]

I just listened to this soundtrack again, and as for Blue Dragon a question shows up. The music was arranged by Henmi and Nakayama, that's known, but didn't Uematsu himself handle a few tracks himself? Many of the songs sound really Uematsu-ish, as for arrangement and synth quality. Has anyone more information about arranging roles?

[Xenofan 29A]

It probably is like the role of an orchestrator. The harmonies and melodies are Uematsu's, definitely, but some of the touches in the instrumentation are better than his work usually is. There are tracks that have less work done on them and tracks that have more, but Uematsu's strength has always been melody, and NOT arrangement.

[Xenofan 29A]

Alt Booklet 2 and 3 appear to be identical.

[BahamutZ]

Even at 1:52 length, The Gun Barrel Battle is probably the best track on this. Neverending Journey and A Sign of Hope are great too. Wasn't a fan of the main story of the game besides the flashback segments, but those tracks always stood out to me.

[SimonJXZ]

I renamed a few scans to help be more descriptive of what they are. A couple things though.

- Alt Booklet 2 and Alt Booklet 3 are indeed duplicates, like Xenofan 29A mentioned. And unfortunately, rather than just being an accidental second upload, one of these images is replacing a unique set of pages from the booklet (we're missing two pages of content).
- It's not digipack, it's digipak. I'm pretty sure this error is universal across VGMdb though. I didn't change it here, but we might consider changing it in the future.

[Dag]

I tweaked a bit the translation, now more in-line with the US ver.

Old tracklist for reference:

01 Prologue 2:19
02 Battlefield 3:02
03 The Gun Barrel Battle 1:52
04 Finishing Blow 0:23
05 An Immortal Life 0:48
06 Wohl Highlands 1:46
07 Battle Conditions 2:07
08 Victory 0:52
09 The Capital of Uhra 2:00
10 Neverending Journey 2:45
11 Epsylon Range 2:24
12 A Sad Tolten 2:32
13 Gongora's Plot 2:33
14 An Enemy Appears! 1:41
15 World of Ice 4:08
16 March of War 1:55
17 Crisis & Warning 2:34
18 White Depot Ship 3:23
19 Eclipse of Time (Harp Version) 3:48
20 Numara Palace 2:57
21 The Capital of Numara 2:57
22 Small Recollections 1:48
23 Kelelon Forest 1:57
24 A Formidable Enemy Appears! 3:00
25 Parting Forever 2:16
26 Kaette kuru, kitto... (Piano Version) 3:55
27 Flashback 1:02
28 Invasion 2:17
29 A Sign of Hope 2:35
30 Theme of the Pirates 2:05
31 Yosolo 2:17
32 Tosca Village 2:22
33 The Witch's Mansion 2:24

01 Kaette kuru, kitto... (Vocal Version) 6:33
02 The Mystery of the Demon Machine 2:01
03 Escape! 2:12
04 Saman, Town of Merchants 2:15
05 The Capital of Gohtza 2:02
06 Demonic Infringement 2:15
07 The Demon-Possessed Man 2:27
08 Determination 2:10
09 Blizzard Plains 2:03
10 What You Are (Guitar Version) 3:02
11 Battle with the Demonic Beast 2:31
12 The Wanderer of Darkness 3:05
13 Great Ruins of the East 2:19
14 Dark Saint 2:55
15 The Great Voyage 2:59
16 Narrow Dimension 1:24
17 Space Distortion 2:02
18 Howl of the Departed 4:55
19 Seth's Theme 2:56
20 Light of Blessing ~ A Letter 5:19
21 What You Are (Vocal Version) 5:28
22 Main Theme 4:08
23 Eclipse of Time (Vocal Version) 7:11

[nitro322]

My apologies on the extreme tardiness of this update, but I just noticed the comments saying that two of the images I had uploaded were identical. I still have my original scans, so I renamed the Alt Booklet images and uploaded the correct p. 01-02 image. Sorry about that - don't know how I would've made that mistake initially.