Hello brothers and welcome to our
collective review of:
Drum roll
Cymbal crashes
Audience drawing breath in anticipation
A sound track that I’m sure will surprise
no-one
A soundtrack so long it comes across five
discs
This is:
Buh-da-da-dah
2006’s
‘Okami’
Yes, I’m sure it’s a shock to everyone
reading that the soundtrack that we eventually decided to review is the very
same one that we’ve been reviewing in bits for the last month and a half. But
it’s a soundtrack that is worth it.
Not letting our collective rabid fanboyism
for beautiful adventure games cloud our objective reasoning, this is an
outstanding soundtrack.
As ‘Okami’ is a Japanese game set in feudal
Japan, the orchestration and instrumentation is exactly what you might think.
Lots of strings, and flutes and those Japanese style voices that go (heuah…
sort of.) There’s not much brass instruments involved except in battle music.
It gives the soundtrack and light and energetic feeling just like the game as
you roam the landscapes.
The themes in the soundtrack are almost all
great, Issun’s Theme perfectly fits his character, the Shinshuu Plains music is
rousing and adventurous, the themes for the different maps and areas blend so
perfectly with the areas that they gain a kind of equilibrium and the tow are
inseparable. I’ll listen to the particular music and I instantly know where
it’s from.
My favorites are the Shinshuu Plains theme,
Tamaya’s Theme, Hansaki Valley, Ushiwaka’s Theme (which I whistle frequently)
and More Digging Here Bow-Wow.
Overall, a fantastic soundtrack, very long,
but endlessly enjoyable and an outstanding component of the game.
R. A. Lyons.
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