Simply, I cannot ring my praises high enough. I think it’s very good, very well mixed (much better than the FINAL FANTASY XII: The Zodiac Age’s OST’s mixing) and expertly arranged by three Basiscape individuals: Azusa Chiba, Yoshimi Kudo and Kazuki Higashihara. To that end, what do I think about the orchestration? While I do love the traditional Sakimoto sound, Dragon’s Crown was one of those OSTs that would benefit from live orchestration the most – there’s a lot of ambience and flavor in the music that feels much more at home with a live orchestra. This time, instead of creating new tracks, the score receives a complete remastering with a live orchestra. Is it only natural, then, that you would see Muramasa remastered to the current generation consoles? Not so fast, because Dragon’s Crown takes the spotlight! I found myself asking “why” many times, seeing as Dragon’s Crown was originally on the PlayStation 3 – whereas Muramasa is on the Wii.īut, in the end, I didn’t care I knew other titles would get their remastering treatment eventually, so that brings me onto the music!

Odin Sphere was remastered and remade into a beautiful game (named as Odin Sphere Leifthrasir), replete with enhanced gameplay features – and an extended score done by the Basiscape colleagues at the time. Recently, there’s been a lot of re-releases coming out of Vanillaware – and that’s most certainly not a bad thing. This time with a live orchestra, done by the same arrangers for FINAL FANTASY XII: The Zodiac Age’s revamping, does Dragon’s Crown’s score hold up? Personally, it was never one of my favourites – but I treated the news about the live orchestration as a chance for the music to redeem itself. Dragon’s Crown has a score done solely by Hitoshi Sakimoto (something you only get with Valkyria Chronicles nowadays) and it boasted a cultural and western score – much different than what I was expecting at the time.

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