Thankfully, the title of the arrangement is only indicative of the opening section, as the track quickly evolves past its music box intro (complete with wind-up sounds) to surprisingly include electronica elements by Yukinori Kikuchi. The first track on the disc is “The Zodiac Age (Music Box Arrangement)”, which mainly focuses on the main motif of the game without the many permutations of the original. The draw of the limited edition for many will be the bonus CD of exclusive arrangements. As a Blu-ray it follows the pattern of offering game visuals along with the music and separate mp3’s for download, but the visuals are redundant and don’t offer much new for fans. Newcomers will find a complex cinematic score that is heavy on motifs and rewards the attentive listener. As a whole the re-recording is quite successful and fans of the original should definitely check it out, as many tracks feel properly realized and some even have new life breathed into them. There are a few new tracks that round out the score but do not feel essential, save for perhaps the excellent “The Zodiac Age”. This re-recorded version of the score features live strings and wind instruments where the original used orchestral libraries, so that much of the score sounds much improved, although the brass and choral libraries still hold back some of the tracks. The main disc is the same as that of the standard edition of the Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age Original Soundtrack. Although the contents are solid, the edition as a whole may be too pricey for anyone but ardent fans of the game or score. The tracks of this bonus CD are thus not available digitally.
It only comes in a physical format, containing the Blu-ray edition of the Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age Original Soundtrack as a well as a bonus CD titled Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age Exclusive Arrangements, which has six new arrangements of Hitoshi Sakimoto’s work handled mostly by Rikako Watanabe. Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age Original Soundtrack Limited Editionįinal Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age Original Soundtrack Limited Edition is a special edition of the re-recorded score of Final Fantasy XII made for the remaster of the game.
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