FFCT-0028: Elminage Gothic ~Ulm Zakir to Yami no Gishiki~ Soundtrack

[Ramza]

didn't Sakimoto/Basiscape handle previous Elminage games?

This is a surprise composer announcement. According to vgmdb's records, this composer hasn't done anything with game music in 20 years...

[dissident93]

yea, Basiscape did the last Elminage game (Hitoshi Sakimoto, Masaharu Iwata, Mitsuhiro Kaneda, Kimihiro Abe, and Noriyuki Kamikura)

and nah, he's been active in the game music scene since then. just obscure stuff that didn't warrant an OST release. you can check his worklist here.

[Ramza]

Nice find. Thank you.

Fitting that a guy who's got a strong background but is something of a perpetual underdog would score music for this franchise.

I just finished (well ... ALMOST finished, I'm gonna do a few more things!) Elminage Original on PSP. I was shocked by how much I liked it. Like ... I almost gave up after a few hours. Then the translation patch update came out and pushed through, and man am I glad I did. Dungeon crawlers are like that, though. The more you're willing to invest, the better they get (see: Wizardry, Etrian Odyssey)

[strugglepoo]

Interesting. I do love some of his works on the SNES, and I like the Elminage series. While it would be nice to hear Basiscape do a completely new outing (not a rehash like II and the DS Remixes), I'm still looking forward to this.