While Opoona wasn’t the greatest game, it definitely had one of my favorite soundtracks of recent years. Composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto and the whole team over at Basiscape, it combined electronic, pop, experimental, and orchestral into a fun and majestic soundscape. To be honest, the only reason I even picked up Opoona was due to the fact that the Basiscape team was handling the music, and it ended up being, hands down, the best aspect of the game.
I’ve been bugging Sakimoto about a soundtrack release for since the game was released, and now it’s finally here. Interestingly, this announcement was made via Basiscape’s Twitter account, along with the release of Terra Driver. We’ll be sure to provide coverage of the release when it’s available, and we may be bringing you a certain blast from the past about Sakimoto’s work on the game in the near future. Now I’m just wondering how many discs it will be, as the score is pretty massive as I recall.
Are you surprised by this announcement? Will you be picking up the soundtrack when it’s released?
[via Basiscape’s Twitter, thanks Demetri!]
Tags: Basiscape, Basiscape Records, Hitoshi Sakimoto, KOEI, News, Opoona, Videogame
This is one of the few works which Sakimoto has the copyright, I guess it’s not so hard to actualize a release in comparison to Square Enix, Konami, Cave or Nintendo.
By the way, it appears the game’s counted domestic sales is between 7k and 8k. Given Muramasa OST sold about 2, 000 copies the first week, I wonder if an OST will turn out to be sold better than the game… :/ (this was the case with Koshiro’s The Scheme).
This is great news. I’ve been also thinking of picking up the game only for the music, so this is awesome.
Huh huh…..you said ‘poon’.
Huge surprise to finally see this news, but don’t overlook the re-release of Terra Diver. The CD of that is incredibly rare, so it’s awesome it’s getting a reprint, and this is a good sign that other stuff that’s out of print could make a comeback on the Basiscape label. I discovered game music too late to be able to get a Radiant Silvergun or any Ogre CD (without paying insane amounts of cash), so I’ve got my fingers crossed for reprints of those.
LOL @ Gideon. O – POONTANG!
This week’s podcast will offend all the ladies.
Yeah, Terra Diver’s 1 of my favorite shoot-’em-ups of all-time and Opoona turned out to be a compelling community-based game. The soundtracks for both are stellar, so I can’t wait!