My first experience with Hitoshi Sakimoto was back in the late 1990s with Final Fantasy Tactics. Yeah, I didn’t play Ogre Battle or Tactics Ogre, both of which were released before then, so let’s say to this day that I still have a lot of catching up to do. Through Basiscape Records, Sakimoto has made that task a lot easier by re-releasing the soundtrack to his 1996 arcade/Sega Saturn title Terra Diver (Soukyugurentai).
Get ready to take a trip back in time to when Sakimoto was mainly concerned with electronic soundtracks. To this day, Sakimoto still thinks of himself as an electronic composer despite the fact that many of his recent games have featured sweeping orchestral scores, so this is a rare treat to get another chance to hear some of his early game music.
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