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It’s Ys…It’s Ys V…It’s Ys V’s OST! Ahhh….If only I had played the game first… The music seems to be really really good to me…However, I have never played the game before so I have no game experience to associate the music with (which I’m told makes you appreciate Ys V music a lot less).… Read More »

Falcom Special Boxes: Each one varies in content. The content in Falcom Special Box ’96, however, is not so hot for the monolingual English fan. The first two of these three CDs are Drama Discs…Japanese Dialogue for almost an hour per disc. Each drama disc gets a piano track in the middle and a vocal… Read More »

Final Fantasy III Original Sound Version is a great OST, it is! This soundtrack is probably the best NES OST you’re ever going to find. Right in the end of its age, the NES struck in Japan with Final Fantasy III, a revolutionary game with jobs and classes…Not to mention great music. The styles of… Read More »

Dear Friends is the arranged version soundtrack to Final Fantasy V. This soundtrack is a little different than most arranged soundtracks for Final Fantasy. Instead of having all the parts arranged with live instruments, this only has a few real instruments playing along with synth. They used high-quality synthesized sounds for the other parts. This… Read More »

Another review I saw somewhere said that to appreciate the Front Mission Series Gun Hazard soundtrack, you must not compare the other work of the artists to this. Personally, I totally disagree. I call this “FFVII done right” for Uematsu and “Every 2300 AD Chrono Trigger track” for Mitsuda. The music on here is downright… Read More »

“The time may put us apart, I know that I will find you with faith, I don’t believe in destiny but I know you were the one when our eyes met…Defied your Fate.” – This is the best overall soundtrack Iwadare has EVER done…It beats Grandia, it beats Lunar, it beats Langrisser. The music in… Read More »

More properly entitled Sugiyama Koichi Divertimento Hanjuku Eiyuu (Half-Boiled Hero), this soundtrack is one of two full soundtracks that Square never bothered to reprint (the other is the Final Fantasy Mystic Quest OST). This CD features 4 incredibly well-done orchestrated tracks at the beginning, and then the rest is the OST part. So as not… Read More »

It’s relaxing…it’s crazy…It’s BGM at its best. The live tracks are the bomb. I only bought this CD because of the intro movie I had seen a long time before, remembering how much I liked the music. Luckily, the music stays good throughout the whole soundtrack. Of course, since a lot of it is just… Read More »

This soundtrack rules. This is some of Iwadare’s best work, all on one amazing CD. The wailing guitars rule. The modern synth rules…I can’t remember what DOESN’T rule, this is so good. Ooh, the greek letters rule! The vocal track at the end totally rules. I think that’s everything that rules…Oh, the packaging is pretty… Read More »

Being a big piano fan, I really enjoy this CD. However, I can say that the arrangements are nothing special and are “what’s expected” from Falcom. It seems to me that the same style is used throughout this piano collection…”modern”. No romantic, baroque, or classical, (maybe some impressionist) but mainly modern. However, the music is… Read More »

It’s Drama…But it’s rare Drama! This CD here is another of many hard-to-find collectible Falcom CDs out there. I picked it up awhile back on an eBay auction (probably the only place you’ll find it now) and to tell you the truth, it isn’t all that bad. Though I had NO idea what they were… Read More »

It’s…uhh…different. “Little…yellow…different” comes to mind. But will it really be as effective as Nuprin? If that didn’t make any sense to you, then I’ve done my job in conveying my feelings about the CD. It was interesting, even entertaining, but when I listen to it I feel like I’m on the outside of an inside… Read More »

After a first listen, I didn’t like it much. After a second listen, it seemed alright. Third listen, I was hooked. Rudra’s Treasure (Rudora no Hihou) grew on me. Though I am usually pretty bad at this, I was able to pick out the strengths and weaknesses of this OSV very easily. A strength is… Read More »

The Threads of Fate Music Selecion is available to people who placed a $10 deposit on Threads of Fate. This CD was made as an incentive to buy the game as part of Square’s “Summer of Adventure” promotion. This CD is very small sample of the music from Threads of Fate, as there are only… Read More »

It’s Ys…It’s Ys V…It’s Orchestrated…Ahh! Ys V Orchestra Version! Refreshing… Simply stated, you don’t need to be a fan of Ys or any Falcom music in general to enjoy this soundtrack. This one goes out to all the orchestra-buffs…It hits home. A review I read at Soundtrack Central for this CD by Adam Corn said… Read More »

All Sounds of Final Fantasy I • II was destined to be a classic. This is the OST that, in my opinion, started the whole Japanese-soundtrack hype among importers in the West. Why? One, because of name recognition; two, because it’s GOOD! Not only does it feature all music from two different games (and it… Read More »

Until the release of Final Fantasy Anthology (or maybe the translated ROM), Final Fantasy V was the game that drew a line between the casual Final Fantasy fan and the know-it-all FF gamer. And one thing known about this game was that it was intriguingly different from all the others. One thing that made it… Read More »

Regarding Final Fantasy VII Reunion Tracks, well, let’s start with the bad news. This CD consists of 16 tracks right off of the OST, no difference at all. So if you already own the OST, buying this CD just gave you 16 tracks of what you already own. However, depending on how willing you are… Read More »

Final Fantasy VIII is one of the few games that has had its soundtrack released in North America. The CDs in this set are identical to the Japanese Final Fantasy VIII OST. The music of Final Fantasy VIII is simply amazing. From the moment I saw the opening movie, I found I was completely drawn… Read More »

Final Fantasy Vocal Collections II “Love Will Grow” is the second of two vocal soundtracks that Square released for Final Fantasy I-VI. Basically, tracks are taken from the first 6 FFs and arranged for vocals. In comparison to Pray, this soundtrack is much better. It’s hard to describe the feeling you get when you hear… Read More »

This little sample CD was released with Square’s “Summer of Adventure 2000” promotion, which was given to anyone who put a $10 reserve or more on the game to which this sample CD is featured. Many were upset to see that these CDs are only 5 tracks each and hoped for more. If anything, it… Read More »

As a big fan of both techno and all VG music, I must say that this CD was a bit of a dissappointment. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Yoko Shimomura and the Parasite Eve original soundtrack…But the various people that did these remixes really ruined a lot of these songs. However, a 20-some dollar… Read More »

Commonly referred to as Chrono Trigger ’99, or the Chrono Trigger PSX OST, this soundtrack was re-released to accompany the game’s remake on PlayStation. It contains 21 of the best tracks from the original OST and has 9 arranged songs that play during the game’s anime cutscenes. These arranged tracks are definitely the highlight of… Read More »

Note: There are multiple versions of this CD, PSCN-9101 and PSCN-5011 (with NTCP-5011 being a reprint of PSCN-5011). PSCN-9101 was the Special Edition and came with a large book filled with poems and other writings by Nobuo Uematsu (in Japanese). There is no difference in the music between the CDs, however. Final Fantasy 1987 –… Read More »

This is the soundtrack to the hit game Zelda: Ocarina of Time released for the Nintendo 64, composed by Koji Kondo, Nintendo’s “music man,” who wrote the music to Mario and a number of other games. Let me clarify that there are two versions to this CD. One is the Japanese version, containing all the… Read More »