DISC 1
Disc1 track22- track25 commentary!
Hello, this is Sekito.
The weather has been warm during a day and it is really cold at night lately.
I tend to catch a cold very easily if the weather stays unsteady like today.
Please do wash your hands when you get back home to prevent from catching cold!
Well, Today I am introducing you the sound director of Mr. Mikoshiba for the interview.
Let us begin.
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【Mr. Mikoshiba comments】
Hi all, I am Mikoshiba.
It has been about a week since “THE LAST REMNANT” has been released.
How has everyone been playing with THE LAST REMNANT?
I have just been done until the Disk2 of THE LAST REMNANT”. I can not seem to stop playing
this game!
The track “Reversal!” is so brilliant!
While the game was under development, I used to call this track” Ike Ike battle” LOL
This track is my favorite track out of all the tracks from the soundtrack of “THE LAST REMNANT”.
It looks like that the track ”Reversal” is not just yet ready for listening on the blog page though.
I really hope that the track will be available for everybody to listen from tomorrow.
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【Mr. Sekito comments】
What a compliment, Thanks Mr. Mikoshiba! LOL
I will be commenting his favorite track” Reversal” for the next interview tomorrow.
Please hold on tight for tomorrow, everyone.
Here are some comments of the soundtrack for today.
■22.Ante Up (Music: Yamanaka)
【Yamanaka comments】
While the game was under development, the track “Ante Up” was used to be called “Chaotic
Guild”.
This track was actually written just after finishing writing “An Open Mind” on Disk1-Track20
and “Fair Judgment” on Disk1-track21.
I remember that we did not spend much time to finish this track.
Because before we began to write “Ante Up”, we had already decided to use a specific
instrumentation for track 20 and track21 to cement the image for writing “Ante Up”.
Although the track starts off with dark and eerie feeling in the track, the second half of the tract
contrasts with very mellow melody.
■23. Creeping Shadows (music: Yamanaka)
【Mr. Yamanaka comments;】
This track is from a dungeon part of the game.
We deliberately did not use obvious phrases from the theme to emphasize intensity and eerie feeling in the track.
I highly recommend NOT listening to the track before going to bed! LOL
■24. Rolling Hills, Sprawling Plains (Music: Sekito)
【Mr. Sekito comments;】
The track is from a field part of the game including Mt. Vackel.
Despite Mt. Vackel has such a beautiful landscape with a clear blue sky, there are a plenty of
enemies everywhere in the field.
So that we thought that it might be an idea to add more intense feeling in the track.
To achieve this goal, we decided to use a closed chord voicing for the piano phrase in the
intro-section to make muddy sound.
After the intro, I deliberately did not introduce obvious melody in the first half of the track to flow
the track through.
Then I structured the 2nd half of the track to make a comparison between the 1st half of the track and 2nd half of the track by adding more open feeling in the track.
■25 Sword Sparks (Music: Sekito)
【Mr. Sekito comments;】
This track ”Sword Sparks” is also from the field part of the game as well.
Originally, the track had already been written while the game was in the beginning of
development.
As we continuously rewrote the track, it became slightly different version from the original one.
The director of “THE LAST REMNANT” “Mr. Takai” noticed the change of the track at the time, and he made a comment;
“The track is losing rough and hard expressions in the track right now, I m afraid…
It would be good if you could intensify the feeling of momentum in the track. “
Me and Mr. Yamanaka agreed with Mr. Takai`s comment about the track, saying that, “ I see, he has got a point…”
Then we chose a hard way of achieving the requirement by rewriting the track over and over. After rewriting the track, we completed with much better and stronger version than the original version of the track.
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Translation: Atsushi Suganuma
