If you’ve listened to original Dragon’s Crown soundtrack before, you’ll notice the track order in this release has no semblance to the original. “Memories to be Told” ( Dragon’s Crown Pro): Sometimes, some tracks have added instruments to them such as “Bilbaron Subterranean Fortress”. The source material is handled very well, sometimes expanded upon! Perhaps the best example of this “Memories to be Told”: the original run-time was 2:19, it’s now up to 4:13 with a completely new arrangement. Simply, I cannot ring my praises high enough. I think it’s very good, very well mixed (much better than the FINAL FANTASY XII: The Zodiac Age’s OST’s mixing) and expertly arranged by three Basiscape individuals: Azusa Chiba, Yoshimi Kudo and Kazuki Higashihara. To that end, what do I think about the orchestration? While I do love the traditional Sakimoto sound, Dragon’s Crown was one of those OSTs that would benefit from live orchestration the most – there’s a lot of ambience and flavor in the music that feels much more at home with a live orchestra. This time, instead of creating new tracks, the score receives a complete remastering with a live orchestra. Is it only natural, then, that you would see Muramasa remastered to the current generation consoles? Not so fast, because Dragon’s Crown takes the spotlight! I found myself asking “why” many times, seeing as Dragon’s Crown was originally on the PlayStation 3 – whereas Muramasa is on the Wii.īut, in the end, I didn’t care I knew other titles would get their remastering treatment eventually, so that brings me onto the music! Odin Sphere was remastered and remade into a beautiful game (named as Odin Sphere Leifthrasir), replete with enhanced gameplay features – and an extended score done by the Basiscape colleagues at the time.
Recently, there’s been a lot of re-releases coming out of Vanillaware – and that’s most certainly not a bad thing. This time with a live orchestra, done by the same arrangers for FINAL FANTASY XII: The Zodiac Age’s revamping, does Dragon’s Crown’s score hold up? Personally, it was never one of my favourites – but I treated the news about the live orchestration as a chance for the music to redeem itself. Dragon’s Crown has a score done solely by Hitoshi Sakimoto (something you only get with Valkyria Chronicles nowadays) and it boasted a cultural and western score – much different than what I was expecting at the time.
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