[PS2] Xenosaga III: Also Sprach Zarathustra

I do *not* want Mitsuda and the London Symphony Orchestra back. He wastedthat orchestra's time in Xenosaga Ep I, and I was thrilled with the life Shinji Hosoe breathed into Xenosaga II with his music. Great, great stuff. Episode I's soundtrack was so freaking lifeless it killed me. And I love Mitsuda's other work (Chrono, Xeno, Tsugunai) to tears, which made it even more painful.

I'm not sure why you guys are talking about Kaijura Yuki in Episode II. Did she do the cinematic tracks? The meat of the game's actual songs, the ones you heard in towns and dungeons and battles, was all Shinji Hosoe.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Hosoe did a better job than Mitsuda and Kaijura because he put some actual energy into his work. I can go watch pretty much any Hollywood movie if I want to hear grand sweeping string sections that wash over me and leave me dry. Hosoe's town and area songs were all totally electronic and yet still managed to sound much more human and dramatic than anything in the cutscenes. The theme to Second Miltia is my favorite song from the game. It's the most simplistic song Hosoe wrote for the game, and yet it also has a really soulful melody on top of a killer rhythm.

His work is vastly more interesting than anythg Mitsuda or Kaijura did. It only sucks that they didn't release an album for anything but the cutscenes. However, I am hosting the Xenosaga II Gamerip on my FTP, linked in my sig, if anyone's interested in seeing what I'm talking about.

There's nowhere I can't reach.