Updated the music samples from this post with the composers from the OST, so you know what that means: it’s Accountability Time, where I point out my bungles and embarrass myself online. I guessed five of these right and got four of them wrong:
-
“Last Engage (Prayer-Incantation)” is by Yasuhisa Baba, not Takeru Kanazaki. I went with Kanazaki on this one because I haven’t heard Baba ever get anime poppy or EDMy like this before, while Kanazaki absolutely has in previous games, but I did suspect this was actually Baba because he’s the lead composer and this is the final battle theme which incorporates the theme song, so it would make sense that he would handle this one.
-
“Friendly Chat” is by Kazuki Komai, not Hiroki Morishita. This is similar to dialogue themes Morishita has written before, but it’s not very distinctive so I’m not surprised that it was actually by someone else, especially one of the composers I’m unfamiliar with.
-
“Keeper of History (Frenzy)” is by Fumihiro Isobe, not Hiroki Morishita. I went with Morishita because this is prog, but it’s not exactly prog in a way Morishita usually is, so like the previous track, in retrospect I’m also not surprised it ended up being one of the composers I don’t know.
-
“Faraway, Eternal Holy Land” is by Baba, not Morishita. This is the only one of the four that made me go “oh dang, really?,” because the orchestration of the first half and the harmonic and rhythmic complexity are to my ears very much in the Morishita Zone. Baba has shown in the past that he’s not bad at all of those things, and of course this also incorporates the theme song, so it does check out. This isn’t the first time I’ve played myself in assuming Morishita is the only person in a Fire Emblem game to write music in a certain way and I’m sure it won’t be the last.
Excited to eventually get into a relisten to this with individual attribution, because it seems Komai and Isobe may in fact be pretty good.
Leave a Reply