I really don't like Sakuraba all that much. The only soundtrack I truly enjoyed from him was Star Ocean 3: Til the End of Time (which I thought was lightyears better than SO2).
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. Tales of Symphonia was head over heels better than the other Tales games, too, and the Baten Kaitos soundtrack was surprisingly good.
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Unlike some (Uematsu and Mitsuda come to mind), Sakuraba tends to segregate his compositions; a track will either be orchestral in style, or will feature rock and heavy synth, with few exceptions. The dual album release for Star Ocean 3 is a good example of this methodology.
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I wouldn't call that methodology a good thing, especially in SO3's case.
That's why the SO3 soundtrack got such negative reviews. It wouldn't have been so bad if he mixed things around; I was playing around with the soundtrack in my playlist editor the other day, and I noticed that the orchestral songs stand out a helluva lot more when mixed together with the rockin' and heavy synth songs.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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