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Originally Posted by Onyx
Maybe it's just me, but I think Sakuraba's newer music is actually better than his older stuff. I'm probably the only person in the world who thinks that the VP2 promo CD already sounds better than the entire VP1 soundtrack.
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I´m sure you are NOT the only person who thinks that way, but I couldn´t agree less. I have the impression that the 4 VP2 tracks on the promo CD sound too much like his Baten Kaitos works, which isn´t necessarily a bad thing because I really like the music in BK and its sequel. But on the other side I prefered a different and more distinct approach. I abolutely loved his style in Valkyrie Profile, the heavy use of synth brass in "Confidence in the Domination" or the mellow sounds of "To a World Becoming Impure" - I thought it sounded so much different from any gamemusic I´ve heard so far. But I won´t judge from a selection of 4 songs, I´ll wait for the full soundtrack release, respectively the western launch of the game. The impact of the compositions in conjunction with the actual game sequences is usually different to the impression you get when listening to the plain score.
Somebody might say my point is irrelevant because Sakurabas works usually sound the same all the way, as for me, I don´t think so. Tales Music sounds nothing like Star Ocean, BK is different too, and so was Valkyrie Profile. Sure, there are similarities in terms of instrumentation and sometimes he recycles certain chords and melodies, but I wouldn´t go so far to say he´s overdoing it in a painful way (well, maybe sometimes, but considering how many soundtracks he´s done in the past few years, I wouldn´t blame him). If people listened to his older effords (Arcus for instance) carefully and compared it to his more recent music, they could see he has changed his style more that some of you would have expected.
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