![]() ![]() The demo will also be available for PC via STEAM® tomorrow. 8, 2023) – SQUARE ENIX® today announced the release of the playable demo of upcoming title, OCTOPATH TRAVELER™ II for the Nintendo Switch™ system, the PlayStation®5 (PS5™) console and the PlayStation®4 (PS4™) console. My personal feeling about the Octopath Traveler music is that if you’re going to go, go all out.OCTOPATH TRAVELER II DEMO AVAILABLE NOW Demo With Save Game Data Carry Over Now Available to Play on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, with PC via STEAM Available Tomorrow While I ultimately remain frustrated that these tracks weren’t released as part of the Break & Boost album (and I wonder if this was an intentional shady tactic on the part of SEM to make an extra buck), I am ultimately not going to bite the hand that feeds me such lovely VGM arrangements. This new arrangement doesn’t do too much new, but it is still a great track. I also love the surprising liveliness and tension found in “The Gate of Finis,” a piece of music that only the most hardcore gamers will have heard while playing the game. ![]() The two-part dungeon medley “Dark Caverns ~ Beneath the Surface” received the heaviest treatment in terms of new instrumentation and added layers of harmony, and to that end, I find it most enjoyable. Some really didn’t need much alteration from their OST counterparts, like Atlasdam and River of Life. The new environmental theme arrangements are all great in their own way. In any case, the style of the arrangement and the big build to the intense rolling drums of the final 32 measures make for one absolutely incredible listen. The lyrics and lyricist are left out of the booklet, and I’m not even sure what language she is singing, though I am tempted to say French or another Romance-group European language such as Portuguese. And yet, I have no idea what she is talking about. They all pale in comparison to this performance. Vocalist Mayu Wakisaka has a small but growing body of work in Japanese media (game, anime), and I went out of my way to check out Wakisaka’s other works. ![]() I could write an entire review about this single arrangement, and I would argue that this song alone justifies a purchase of this album. For example, can you identify the order of the arrangements? Hint: it follows a particularly canonized order involving the OCTOPATH acronym.Īnd then you have the closing track, which is a surprisingly beautiful vocal track. As background music for daily life, it does not work as well. So lengthy, in fact, that it is hard to follow unless the listener is willing to really concentrate on the experience. For starters, the opening track is a medley of the eight character themes, and as you may imagine, that makes it quite the lengthy track. Getting a musical preview of said prequel through this album is definitely a treat.įrom a top-down perspective, because the quality of arrangements and music performers are largely the same as the original Break & Boost, it’s easy enough to write off this album as “more of the same.” In some ways, that’s true. Speaking of which, track 6 is a lovely oddity in that it is a battle theme from the mobile phone exclusive prequel “Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent,” which has yet to be released even in Japan. Rather, the chamber music crew and the metal-shredding rock crew interweave throughout the album, though there is no question who takes the lead on, say, track 6. This time, we do not have two coexisting sides. So let’s talk about this particular album, the “Extend” expansion to Break & Boost. If I were to get into licensed arrangements from Materia Collective and others … I would run out of breath trying to make heads or tails of things! And that, of course, is only from the publisher’s side. If you love the Octopath Traveler soundtrack, you cannot complain about a lack of great music. On top of that, they also made good on the “demake” style of HD-2D by releasing a 16-bit arranged album. Within months of the first arrange album’s release, Square Enix decided to double down by releasing this follow-up album of additional arranged material, which would later be incorporated in a live concert with a blu-ray release in late 2019. When Square Enix Music knows they have a good thing, they tend not to let up on it. ![]()
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