#Tales of xillia 2 illusionary darkness series

#Tales of xillia 2 illusionary darkness series

So in the end I thought 'which one do I go back to most?', and that would be the series celebration in Generations which gets the wonderful luxury of picking already strong tracks from the series entire history. Then there's also a load of crud like Sonic 4 and Professor Beef's beloved Sonic Chronicles disaster, but regardless the great outweighs this thus continuing to make my choice tricky. Unleashed's Planetary Pieces has tremendous scope, production and worldly variety (fun side story: I initially considered the OST 'not Sonic enough', a reasoning that holds little logical weight and drew the ire of our previous musical thread host, safe to say she gave me a valuable lecture on why my thoughts were flawed here and look I really like it now!). Colours holds my favourite track of the gens Sonic outings with the mesmerising Aquarium Park (linked for greatness). Yes I'm being a bit underhanded here, I have struggled to narrow down my one Sonic choice from this generation and boy is there a ton of great options. The vocals here are hauntingly good, for my money the most mesmerizing on the OST. This probably explains why I really took a while to click with the soundtrack and remind myself of some of the truly fantastic pieces which aren't quite as prevalent in a playthrough. It's actually almost criminal how some tracks don't get used nearly enough if I recall in game (Grandma!) while some others rear their heads a bit too much (Emil Sacrifice, pls stop being in EVERY emotional scene towards the end!). It's a very distinct style for sure that leads a lasting impression.

I felt (and in a way still do think) that the emphasis on Emi Evans vocals leads to a level of sameyness across the board which can slightly hinder variety (you could say if she's not your jam then you ain't got much to ummm.spread on your toast here?) but on the other hand there's little else like it among gaming soundtracks. It's been something of a journey for Nier in my musical musings, I always appreiated it but not to the same heights as most.

While the SMG2 OST isn't quite a clean sweep with a few tracks being simply 'there' I find its highs to really elevate the whole thing, when that endgame sequence has Galaxy Generator, the killer final bowser phase music that leads into one hell of a staff roll you're going out on top of the world.no, on top of the GALAXY! Yokota- Fluffy Bluff/Cloudy Court Galaxy (I like this more than Gusty Garden, come at me!) Kondo delivers some great last hurrahs with what little he contributes being some of his best in years, meanwhile Yokota and Nagamatsu continue the musical legacy with applomb. Of course the new tracks are fantastic as well and are among my favourites in the vast Mario series. That said I have more to my reasons behind voting for the sequel, the amount of orchestartion is upped from the first game which lends a greater level of consistency to the proceedings, be it the various jingles no longer being jarringly lower quality (Grand Star Get is so much grander now!) and even souping up some of the more ho-hum tracks of the first game (Honeyhive gets a massive boost from the addition of extra instruments). The sneaky thing about going with Galaxy 2 over Galaxy 1 is that a number of the originals best tracks return either straight up or in remixed forms, as a bang for my buck vote I've leaned towards 2.

I usually throw out Oven Fresh Day and Bedtime Story as the fearsome duo so I'll mix it up this time. Click to expand.And it shows, I'm of the thought that this OST is really quite underrated on the whole, some of the most soothing night time themes you'll hear from a game and the overall air of pleasantness is something of a breath of fresh air in itself.