Dark Chronicle Premium Arrange (2004)

This Album... I must say was...very disappointing. downloading it i thought I was going to get 12 quality songs and got something like 6. Some of these songs have simply been butchered beyond the point of recognition.. I (a 17 year old) could come up with a better arrangement to some of these. OF course there are some on here that stay true to the originals yet..innovate and slightly improve in some parts of the originals. They say that dark clouds most famous songs are on here but what of.. Dr Jammin, peace of the world.. I would have loved to see variations on Heim Rada, Gundorada Workshop, Gundor Volcano, spiral of dreams, Venniccio, and I would have LOVED to hear a Non-Abysmal version of the neverending adventure theme. Half these guys just don't do Tomohito Nishiura any justice. Sure they were trying to change it up a bit and innovate.. But it seems a few of the arrangers took several tabs of LSD and downed it with pints of alcohol before trying to innovate
 
Personally most of the songs on this soundtrack I actually like. The ones I don't are probably the most obvious: Neverending Adventure and Time is Changing. Ones such as Moon Flower Palace, The Dark Battle, Stella Magic Temple, and Flame Demon Monster Gaspard (going by character's english name) I'm split 50-50 on them. The rest I absolutely love.
To the previous reviewer: Don't be an lovable person and assume these guys didn't try their hardest. Were YOU there when they made the arranged versions? No. There are some songs that could use improvement and the songs you listed ARE missing, yes, but have you ever thought of Battle for the Future or Kazarov Stonehenge or Lunatic Wisdom Laboratory or even the Sindain areas including the future area? If these guys that made the soundtrack did those, however, some of the songs COULD have been butchered but not necessarily. Hell, some could have turned out pretty dam good. So good effort on their part, but done poorly for some of the songs.
 
I don't understand those who hate on Neverending Adventure. It is absolutely lovely and beautiful. I was thrilled to hear this take on the piece. Dark Chronicle's OST was already a masterpiece; as such there were only two ways to deal with this; either change the works completely, or give them an orchestral interpretation. I do believe most of these arrangements do justice to Nishiura's work, because they really changed the songs... And it was their own thing. And I like to hear people transforming songs I loved to give them a new life, and even more so if this new life is VERY different than what it first was. I am very thankful for this album, and for how it salutes Nishiura's masterpiece !
 
This album was updated on 4th of January, 2024.

Change Log:
-Upgraded quality to lossless FLAC.
 
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