well let me just raise another old dead thread !!
I am playing Final Fantasy Tactics A2 now and I was really surprised by the soundtrack.
Interesting review about the soundtrack and other comments on Hitoshi Sakimoto's music.
With a soundtrack longer as its predecessor and the promise that it would draw upon themes from both the first Tactics Advance game and Final Fantasy XII, I was looking forward immensely to listening to Grimoire of the Rift's soundtrack.
Since the inception of Basiscape, Sakimoto's distinctive style of composing has been slightly diluted by the group effort, but this hasn't hurt the quality of the releases. Whereas older Sakimoto soundtracks were defined by their strong, unique tracks that stand out as being memorable classical compositions in their own right, recently–most visibly evidenced by Final Fantasy XII–individual tracks have lost their prominence in favor of being considered a piece of the whole soundtrack, a single movement in a symphony. Now, Sakimoto never fails to turn a video game soundtrack into an entire symphony, and quite often I'm almost disappointed that the individual tracks haven't been merged together into a handful of movements lasting around half an hour each.
Read more here at RPGFan .....
In the article Basiscape is talked and i had to be reminded myself what that was.
Basiscape composes and produces music and sound effects for various types of interactive media, most notably video games. Sakimoto says that he left Square to found the company because he did not feel that he had enough "freedom" as an employee of a game company, though he notes that the cost of that freedom is the difficulty in remaining close to the development team.[
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