While Americans only knew of this game as a Super Nintendo game, Lagoon was originally a Japanese PC game. This soundtrack features five live-band arranged tracks (bass, guitar, keyboard, drums), and the rest is X68000 original stuff. And while I was disappointed with the arrange, I was in for a big surprise with the original…
I’d heard X68000 music before, such as on the Ys III JDK Special, and I didn’t really like it. I guess that was because of the synths used on each I’d heard before, because what I heard on this CD is GREAT, at LEAST as good as the arranged tracks at the beginning.
And so, here it is, 31 tracks of original synth that you just can’t get enough of. While I have personally never played more than about ten minutes of Lagoon (and at a very young age, did not understand how to get anywhere at first), was never a big fan of the game. But this music makes me wish otherwise, as my older sibling had beaten this game and now tells me I should have done so back then. I don’t have the will to play it now, oh well.
In the arranged tracks, “Lagoon” is a pretty good track. The others start out really soft and take too long to get to a real musical section. Comparing the arranged track “Lagoon” to its OST counterpart “Premonition,” I find both sound really good! And then there’s music like “Castle Mark Philips” as well…That’s some great synth! And with a weird song title like that, who saw that coming?
Want the CD (or the even more rare cassette tape)? GOOD STINKING LUCK! This is apparently one of the most obscure OSTs to man, and it normally sells for $50 when it’s found. You won’t find this one in online stores, typically found in person-to-person secondhand trades.
