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An RPG/SLG hybrid originally released for Sega Saturn (then ported to PlayStation), QuoVadis takes the popular Japanese playing genre and sticks it in another popular Japanese realm: outer space. The artwork and style of the game are reminiscent of Macross: the music, however, is more like a Gundam soundtrack. With the exception of a few… Read More »

RF (Rising Force) Online is a sci-fi MMORPG that was developed in Korea and now has a fair base of US and European players joining in the fun. The game hasn’t seen an officially published OST, but since Asian pop star “Lia” did a bunch of work on the game, she released a full length… Read More »

A spiritual successor to Super Robot Taisen IMPACT, MX was released a year after Alpha 2 and a year before Alpha 3. It served to bridge the gap between the two titles for the year, and it managed to be a rather successful title in its own right. …Particularly, its soundtrack was incredibly impressive. Most… Read More »

Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology was released in Japan recently on the PSP. The game’s ending theme, from artist Kana Uemura, is one big happy surprise. If you’re ready to throw aside what you previously thought of Japanese Pop in favor of a “new wave” of modern-Asia-meets-modern-America, check this out. “Paper Plane” (Kami Hikouki)… Read More »

I find this soundtrack to be quite a strange one. Released months after the original Alpha Gaiden OST (which was awesome) had come out, it was marketed a “complete” collection of songs from Alpha, the Dreamcast version of Alpha and Alpha Gaiden. Listening to the Alpha Gaiden OST the very least, I can safely say… Read More »

The first SRT Alpha game was a hit, managing to evolve the franchise in a new direction. That includes the dynamics of the music too. This is the second installment in the series (not numbered for some reason). Since I heard all the other soundtracks from the other series, I initially thought I would be… Read More »

When Alpha Gaiden was released back in 2001, it was also the debut of the J-Rock group JAM Project, who would be the official performers for all the future Super Robot games. Considering the fact that some of the band members sang openings for mecha shows long before, and that some even do seiyuu for… Read More »

While the Alpha Complete Sound Track is somewhat enjoyable, it was missing the character theme songs, which is a big letdown, considering those portions of the songs I tend to find most enjoyable. However, there were three albums released that contained the character themes featured in the game, along with some of the original music… Read More »

Super Robot Wars Alpha Original Score II: Earth Chapter continues the Original Score trilogy. This installment consists vocal versions of the SRX crew, plus Levi, along with miscellaneous songs. None of their theme songs are featured in this album (that’s in the next installment). As much as I like the SRX team, I did not… Read More »

Original Score III: Soldier Chapter is the third and final album from the Alpha Original Scores. It is personally my favorite among the three. It contains a number of good character theme songs, some nice vocals, and there is no drama portions in the vocal songs, so listeners can engage in the songs easily. It… Read More »

“IMPACT” took the Super Robot Taisen “Compact” series (on WonderSwan) and mashed it into one lovely PS2 title (much like how the PS2 “Original Generations” in 2007 is a compilation of the two OG games on GBA). This soundtrack is really excellent, for two reasons in particular: first, the sound quality is amazing on both… Read More »

Since JAM Project began to sing for Banpresto’s Super Robot Wars series, they have done opening and ending songs for the later SRW games (excluding GameCube and all the handheld ones). This single is from 2002’s SRW Impact (A remake of 3 WonderSwan games into one). It is their second SRW single as well. Though… Read More »

JAM Project has done it again. They have done another great single, this time covering 2004’s Super Robot Wars/Taisen MX (A miscellaneous SRW title). Like the other singles, it covers the full versions of the opening and ending songs. In general, I greatly enjoy their songs, but there have been some that stood out to… Read More »

There have been a lot of vocal albums released under the banner of “Super Robot Taisen,” both studio compilations and live concert albums. However, most of the songs performed would come from the classic anime, particularly the works of Tomino (Gundam) and Nagai (Mazinger). Now, however, Super Robot Taisen has become so large that its… Read More »

The first of Kitty Records’ three SRW soundtrack releases, this album is an OST/arrange album for 4th Super Robot Wars, which was released on the Super Famicom in 1995. The album marked the first attempt to really market the music to a strategy RPG that bred itself with a multitude of mecha anime. The soundtrack,… Read More »

A musical “sequel” to the 4th SRT soundtrack, Shin (New) Super Robot Taisen Powerful Music Battle II is an OST/arrange album for the PlayStation strategy RPG that helped usher the series into the 32-bit era. I’ve listened through my fair share of SRT (or SRW, however you want to abbreviate Taisen/Wars) soundtracks, though this is… Read More »

Note: “dimention” is spelled this way in the packaging, and is a typo of the publishers, not us. This typo is fixed in the “Never7 Sound Collection” released three years later. Who here is a fan of Kid’s Infinity series of digital novels besides me? Well, series fans are most aware of the “numerical” titles… Read More »

To Heart’s soundtrack brings to mind a rather unexpected game to me. In my mind, the compositions of Kazuhide Nakagami, Shinya Ishikawa, and Naoya Shimokawa are what I think a Persona game would sound like if it were a bright, cheerful game and not the darkly twisted demonic enitity it really is; “The Witch’s Secret… Read More »

When it comes to video game soundtracks, my favorite songs are always the character themes. For me, the most interesting part of any story is the characters. Even if the events of a story are ho-hum, if the characters are interesting, I’ll remain intrigued. And since games like To Heart 2 are so highly character… Read More »

It is no secret that I quite enjoyed the soundtrack to To Heart. Great soundtrack, great game. So when To Heart 2 came out, fans were overjoyed. I was certainly looking forward to listening to this soundtrack. It offers more: more tracks than its predecessor (41 over two CDs versus 33 on one CD), longer… Read More »

Released a year after the first “Forever With You Original Game Soundtrack,” this three disc version of the soundtrack is not a “follow-up” to the first OGS as much as it is a more complete version. The first OGS was a two disc album with music from the original Super Famicom version of the game.… Read More »

This release of DQ6 Symphonic Suite is actually the third print of the soundtrack. The first was a two disc soundtrack including the symphonic performance and then an OST disc. The second print, from SPE Visual Works (now Aniplex), was just the one disc of symphonic music. This new print was performed in March of… Read More »

Konami and Red’s joint project “Mitsumete Knight” received the royal musical treatment when it was released: an OST, an instrumental arranged album, and a vocal collection. Among the three, it’s not difficult for me to pinpoint my favorite album: the instrumental album, “Concerto.” However, it’s equally easy for me to say that all three albums… Read More »

Shin Megami Tensei III‘s US release had quite an impact on the hardcore RPG community, because it was the first game of its kind to find its way to this side of the Pacific. The only hints of the MegaTen franchise that the US had seen were the two Persona games which had been translated.… Read More »

Note: The obvious typos on the tracklist are the work of the publisher, and not this website. “Tears stained Eyes” and “Tention” are due to bad Engrish, not bad RPGFan staff. One of the things I’m known for in the circles I run in is my fondness for power rock. I’m a huge, huge fan… Read More »