Great news for Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch!



The soundtrack from the PS3 game (2 CD) composed by Joe Hisaishi and a collector color booklet has just been announced by Namco Bandai and the label Wayo Records! Apparently, the item includes 12 exclusive tracks, that were never released on the japanese OST :)
Definitely, a limited collector item to own. 

Again, Joe Hisaishi did a great job, just listen to the worldmap theme, or the ending theme song!


They ship worldwide, needless to say I already ordered mine...
More info here on the official shop page of the label:

http://shop.wayorecords.net/

One of 3DS's best game as of today. It also known for the quality of its musics.
Just in case you did not have a chance to check out this beautiful soundtrack, well, it just won the "best score award" on the 2012 annual game music awards (organized by Square Enix Music Online : http://www.squareenixmusic.com/features/awards3/bestscore.shtml)



Mitsuda, Koshiro, Sakuraba, Sakurai... the best composers worked on the musics for the better! It's still possible to grab each composers' style.

Here's a sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY1IRYWrDgY

The boss themes are so majestic and the quality is amazing for 3DS. The OST is actually sold out verywhere, and it costs almost $80 if importing from Japan...
it can still be found on some online shops.

did you have a chance to play the game?

I received my precious package last week! and the handsigned picture was really there :)

No surprise, this is clealy a Hamauzu project, and what a great one!
It's a if he took the best from Saga Frontier II, FFX, FFXIII and XIII-2, with a spicy classical taste to give life to a wonderful atmosphere in which I was quickly immersed.
The track "Giant" is typically what I could expect on huge worldmap. Imeruat, is also one of my top-3 ! Mina's voice is always charming and efficiently adding this little something to the melodies.

If you have not had chance to listen yet, I recommand strongly this album!
I wish I could understand more of Ainu language now !

So anyone grabbed the CD ? It was released 2 days ago..
There are more and more samples on the official page, and it doesn't sound so bad after all ^^
Stil I can't understand why the track "Machinaries" was chosen among the other ones.

Honestly it is a bit disappointing. I was expecting something more lively, with better instrument quality. The result is still charming of course! I played the game so many times and know the melodies by heart with the Snes sound library.
Games were so good at the time!

If you have played Saga Frontier II, Unlimited Saga or  FF13, you know who is Masashi Hamauzu :)

I just heard of his brand new project: Imeruat!
He teamed up with Mina an Ainu descent singer and 4 talentuous musicens from which Hijiri Kuwano! (Violin performer on Chrono cross, Noir...)
There is a new album called Black Ocean, which looks quite good !



I found an interesting review and an awesome track here!
http://www.originalsoundversion.com/swi … an-review/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edhpdsnFE64

The CD was only available in Japan until now, but a french label (Wayo Records) is now taking care of worldwide distribution and they ship for a reasonable price (cheaper than importing from Japan^^)

Shop link: http://shop.wayorecords.net/index.php?lang_id=2
I'm ordering now, hopefully I should receive my CD in few days!

Can't wait..