For Hitoshi Sakimoto, 2007 was one of his most prolific years as a composer. He commented on this particularly busy year in our recent Blast From the Past interview that we republished just last week, with titles that included Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, Grim Grimoire, Deltora Quest, ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat, Final Fantasy Tactics A2, Opoona, and Odin Sphere. It was a good time for Sakimoto fans, and to make the year even more important, 2007 also saw the beginnings of Basiscape.
Odin Sphere also marked the beginning of Sakimoto’s partnership with Vanillaware, who Basiscape would go on to collaborate with on the Muramasa soundtrack that we thoroughly enjoyed earlier this year. Interestingly, if you look at the back of the Odin Sphere game case, you’ll see that Sakimoto’s involvement was used as a selling point for the game, although they misspelled it on the original version of the game (it’s corrected on my greatest hits copy). In any case, this was an interesting score given this time of transition, but you’ll have to read our review to find out whether this played in favor or against of the score.
Hit the jump for our review of Sakimoto and Basiscape’s Odin Sphere soundtrack! (more…)
