wankerness
Well-Known Member
Not just NES! I'm keeping this here where with the real nerds where people will talk about it and it won't instantly get swamped with people posting youtube videos of Zelda OOT or Tony Hawk 2 or whatever soundtrack excerpts with no commentary.
I picked up the Orchestral versions of Nier/Nier Automata when I was in Japan a couple weeks ago. I'm kind of disappointed that they're truly Orchestral, so all the vocal stuff is a huge choir! It means that they're well and truly arrangements, though, instead of just direct translations. Surprisingly the Nier one might be better than N:A, even though with the actual game soundtracks N:A is greatly superior. The Kaine arrangement in particular is really damn good, even if it goes too far into cheesy territory towards the end with big stupid cymbal crashes (something a lot of orchestral arrangements could stand to learn not to do).
I have the Persona 5 and Gravity Daze [Rush] 2 soundtracks set to be delivered today, so that should be good times.
I've been playing Ys VIII (Action RPG with gameplay more like Zelda than a J-RPG) the last couple weeks and the music is so great, reminds me of how I felt listening to the soundtrack to like, Mega Man X3 or F-Zero X back in the day. Lots of catchy cool guitar leads and high tempos.
I picked up the Orchestral versions of Nier/Nier Automata when I was in Japan a couple weeks ago. I'm kind of disappointed that they're truly Orchestral, so all the vocal stuff is a huge choir! It means that they're well and truly arrangements, though, instead of just direct translations. Surprisingly the Nier one might be better than N:A, even though with the actual game soundtracks N:A is greatly superior. The Kaine arrangement in particular is really damn good, even if it goes too far into cheesy territory towards the end with big stupid cymbal crashes (something a lot of orchestral arrangements could stand to learn not to do).
I have the Persona 5 and Gravity Daze [Rush] 2 soundtracks set to be delivered today, so that should be good times.
I've been playing Ys VIII (Action RPG with gameplay more like Zelda than a J-RPG) the last couple weeks and the music is so great, reminds me of how I felt listening to the soundtrack to like, Mega Man X3 or F-Zero X back in the day. Lots of catchy cool guitar leads and high tempos.