[Multiplatform] Tales of Vesperia announced, next main Tales

Originally Posted by Sousuke

So, not having a 360, I'd still like to preview the music that everyone's been bashing. Is it really that bad? Personally, I think Sakuraba's [sp?] Tales music sounds very similar from game to game... Is it any different this time around?

I disagree that Tales music sounds the same between games, that may be the effect of its usual unobtrusive genericness as well as the cue/style borrowing Sakuraba does from his other games around the same time.

There are plenty movies of the demo at nicovideo (needs registration, full demo playthrough, battle themes without sfx), I counted 6 pieces:

Title Screen (full): usual supershort orchestra theme, sounds sufficiently nice for what little there is
Field: takes strong cues from Trusty Bell, quality and development are very nice imo
Danger: sounds very annoyingly out of place, bet it's Tamura with his troubles with instrumentation he showcases in Tales since forever (more easily to catch since the move to streamed music in TotA)
Battle: rock theme, nicely mixed similarly to Sakuraba's Kirby remix in SSBB
Boss: only surprise in the demo, Golden Sum cues in a techno electronica style before only used on the Valkyrie Profile Voice Mix album as well as in the ToE arranged track Mid Boss 2 from the Peach Gumi preorder DVD
Cliff: nice use of string ensemble, something Sakuraba usually likes to hide with a louder brass ensemble

So overall considering the circumstances (only 6 tracks while soundtrack is to have 110 plus whatever ToS-R gets, music required to have usual Tales blandness, being rushed unpromoted throwaway work compared to IU and SO4) I like what I heard.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Don't know why ToS-R was discussed here instead getting an own thread, but whatever... I've put up the Tales of Symphonia: Knight of Ratatosk staff list, feel free to decide yourself whether Tales Studio is involved or not.

There's nowhere I can't reach.