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"Featuring the PSG, in-game music, the compositions are very good, but sorely hindered by the horrible sound quality. Almost 8-bitish, I had expected more from the samples coming out of the PC-Engine's soundboard."
-From RPGgamer's review. Can someone explain if this means it is better to get a gamerip instead? I don't understand what he means specifically with writing horrible sound quality -- Is he not impressed by the PC-Engine music?. Is it not a true source of the game's music? |
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I understand it's the music from the game as is, just that the reviewer doesn't like the synth (internal chip/PSG). I guess he expected CD quality music (it was a CD game).
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Bump, but basically he's bothered by the PC Engine's sound hardware for some reason. Both The Legend of Xanadu games had a strange mixture of PC Engine source and Red Book-based tracks (various games do this, but not to the extent of TLoX); disc 1 is the PC Engine source, while the first 24 tracks on disc 2 are the Red Book.
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This is another great Falcom soundtrack that needs more recognition. Personally, I hope to be able to do some arrangements from this and the first Legend of Xanadu some day. It is unusual that this game did not get a J.D.K. Special release.
I don't think it really matters if the game uses PSG, Red Book audio, or both. It's whether or not the quality of the PC Engine music is good. I talked with Atsushi Shirakawa [Tenmon] and got a response about everything he remembers he composed in this game. He tweeted back saying he composed: 1. Passage of the Ocean 2. Fertile Plain 3. Happy-Go-Lucky 4. Moderation Tears 5. Apparition Tress 6. Mist Land 7. Heavenly Praise 8. Magnificence Street 9. Invitation for The new world 10. The Last of Dragonslayer 11. Longing Desire 12. Sophia 13. Unknown Truth 14. Other Side of Sorrows 15. Seventh Soul 16. Over the desert 17. Destruction Bell 18. Evil's Supremacy 19. Big Storm 20. Into the Dark 21. Some Day, Some Where He said he wasn't sure but thinks he also composed. 1. Throne of Close 2. Mist Land For those who missed it, I also got several composer credits for the first Legend of Xanadu from both Atsushi Shirakawa [Tenmon], and Naoki Kaneda [Kim's Soundroom]. |
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Naoki Kaneda (Kim's Soundroom) replied back recently on Twitter with what he believes were all the tracks he did in this game. From what he confirmed, I would like to share that he did:
1. Heart Warm 2. One's Last Moment 3. Blind Man 4. Scattered Islands 5. Vast & Sewer 6. Elegance Residence 7. Pleasant Estimation 8. Supremacy Title 9. The Missing Is... 10. Sea Breeze Town 11. At Your Departure 12. Darkness Thunderclap 13. On Blue Brilliant Place Now that's I've gotten a lot of credits, I will make a master post later on both Xanadu games. One theory I have is that Hirofumi Matsuoka didn't compose anything on both games and might had only arranged tracks/sound programming. I think that because Naoki Kaneda said that in the Legend of Xanadu he didn't do the arranged versions of his compositions. Anyways, I know little people actually are about these credits, but they do to me because these composers from that era of Falcom Sound Team J.D.K. have incredible talent and deserve more respect and recognition. Since I have contact with both Atsushi Shirakawa (Tenmon) and Naoki Kaneda (Kim's Soundroom), I'll try to get what they did in Popful Mail, the Legend of Heroes IV and Ys V next. It's harder for me because I don't speak Japanese, but I've been able to communicate with them through online translators. |
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I feel capable of making guesses on who did what for Popful Mail (e.g. Jungle (Exploration)/Cave tracks by Shirakawa, Volcanic/Iceberg (Battle)/Castle tracks by Ishikawa), but not the others, so please keep probing TENMON and KIM about what tracks they remember doing. Apparently Kaneda did half of Brandish 3, too? That makes identifying other musicians' tracks by process of elimination a bit easier once we know KIM's tracks.
Last edited by DragoonEnRegalia; May 7, 2016 at 02:40 PM. |
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I got credits from Kaneda on Twitter. There are some discrepancies here and there with what Shirakawa had said previously, but for the most part it meshes.
As per Kaneda: Kaneda Acquisition Pleasant Estimation Scattered Islands Triumphal Song Sea Breeze Town Idleness Sleep At Your Departure Elegance Residence Powdery Snow Heart Warm Vast & Sever The Missing Is... One's Last Moment Blind Man Tragedy Knight Supremacy Title Darkness Thunderclap Final Awakening Other Side of Sorrows On Blue Brilliant Place Following Wind Shirakawa Passage of Ocean Misfortune Hunch Extremity Fear Shipwreck Formation Big Storm Moderation Tears A Day of Love In Her Mind Magnificence Street Retreat Heavenly Praise Evil's Supremacy Into the Dark Throne of Close Happy-Go-Lucky Invitation for the New World (Motif: Arai) Recollection of Past The Triumphal Hymn Three Years Later Sophia (Motif: Kaneda) Whereabouts of Destiny Seventh Soul Ambition Territory Longing Desire Destruction Bell Some Day, Some Where Arai Peaceful Enclosure Fertile Plain Brave of Blaze Apparition Trees Underground Water Course Immovable Fossil Mist Land Bad Past Cave of Ocean Floor Hard Pressure From Faraway The Realms of Goddess The Last of Dragon Slayer (Arrangement: Shirakawa) Balmy Wind Unknown Truth (probably) Sternly Spirit (probably) Daylight Promise Nakajima First Attack Over the Desert Ancient Relics Forest of Shudder Weird Air Break Through Calm Reception Crystal Valley Slash for Chap Down to the Abyss |
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