Track Listing

1. Japanese Title
2. Take A Flight
3. Japanese Title
4. Valhalla
5. Japanese Title
6. Japanese Title
7. Japanese Title
8. Japanese Title
9. Japanese Title
10. Japanese Title
11. Japanese Title
12. Emotional Upset
13. Turn Over A New Leaf
14. Japanese Title
15. Japanese Title
16. Japanese Title
17. Japanese Title
18. Japanese Title
19. Confidence In Teh Domination
20. Japanese Title
21. Japanese Title
22. Japanese Title
23. Japanese Title
24. Japanese Title
25. Japanese Title
26. Japanese Title
27. Hopeless Resolution
28. Japanese Title
29. Japanese Title
30. Japanese Title
31. Japanese Title
32. Japanese Title
33. An Illusion Of The Brainsterm
34. Hard Chain Reaction
35. Japanese Title
36. Japanese Title
37. Japanese Title
38. Rise Above The World
39. Japanese Title
40. Japanese Title
41. Circulate On A Windup Doll
42. Japanese Title
43. An Inscription On A Tombstone
44. Japanese Title
45. Japanese Title
46. Japanese Title
47. Japanese Title
48. To The Last Drop Of Blood
49. Japanese Title
50. Japanese Title
51. Japanese Title
52. A Tense Atmosphere
53. A Clash Of Personalities
54. Japanese Title
55. Japanese Title
56. Japanese Title
57. Japanese Title
58. Behave Irrationally
59. Japanese Title
60. First Unison
61. Systematic Enemy
62. Japanese Title
63. Break Down
64. Neverending Cycle Of Reincarnation
65. Turn Over A New Leaf (Rythmn Version)
66. True Nature Of All
67. Japanese Title
68. Japanese Title
69. Mission To The Deep Space
70. Beast Of Prey
71. Shiver
72. Climax Of The Tower
73. Incarnation Of Devil
74. Mighty Blow
75. Japanese Title

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #272404 in Music
• Released on: 2006-03-13
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Import, Soundtrack

Customer Reviews

ODIN WOULD BE PROUD
Playing an RPG can be a long an tedious task. So imagine the difficulty of the task of a Japanese composer making not just 2 CD's, but 2 GOOD CD's for a game steeped in Norse Mythology. With that being said, Motoi Sakuraba, while not overall as good as well-known Nobuo Uematsu, definitely fulfilled this task.

Let's see how one-eyed Odin grades this . . .

EMOTION: 4/5
For me, what makes a truly great game soundtrack are tracks that capture what I like to call, "The Emotion of the Moment". If you're fighting a huge battle, the music itself must be huge and epic. If a character has just died, then the music needs to be more soft and woeful to capture that and draw the gamer further into this imaginary world.
Some highlights are . . .
CD 1, track 4 (the music played when you first meet Odin in Valhalla sounds fit to be played in a huge cathedral and indeed Valhalla is as big as a cathedral in the game).
CD 1, track 19 aka "Confidence in the Domination" (is a great battle theme, full of adrenaline).
CD 2, track 24 aka "Behave Irrationally" (is by far the most beautiful track on either CD and sounds wonderfully retrospective/sad/mournful, like a lullaby you'd sing to a dead child (morbid thought, yes, but I think it's fitting).

VARIETY: 4/5
As seen above, you have your battle themes, boss battle themes, slower and more repetitive cave-exploring music, storyline-progressing music and shorter transitional pieces. For each of these styles there is probably at least one track that sticks out for me as being good enough to listen to by itself.

SOUND QUALITY: 5/5
One of the great things about the game Valkyrie Profile is that it allowed you to listen to the whole soundtrack on the game itself. But if you no longer have that game then know that this game soundtrack sounds exactly as you remembered it.

OVERALL: 4/5
This soundtrack has 60 to 70 tracks on it, of which I found 14 tracks to be exceptional. This is not uncommon with video game soundtracks or even mainstream music in general. It's not that the other pieces aren't necessarily good (although there are a few "blah" ones), but that they aren't that interesting unless you're listening to it while playing the game.
As a guideline, my highlighted tracks are:

From CD 1--tracks 1, 4, 9, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 32
From CD 2--tracks 1, 4, 9, 20, 24

Lifting his mighty spear Gungnir, Odin stamps this game soundtrack with his seal of approval!