New Secret of Mana album's teaser website gives me chills

Huge S densetsu fan, and fan of the music. I'll be checking this out for sure. SoM2 has the best music out of the whole series.

MetaTotoro

Man, we hardly get music like this anymore. There's something about the SNES era that spawned these amazing tracks, maybe programming music within certain constraints, forced composers to really filter the best harmony and background in a piece of music.

Vanor

So will this actually be any good? Everything after the SNES games seem to have been very "meh" to "Holy shit how did you fuck this up?!"

Vanor

Oh wait this isn't a new game? Bleh, oh well.

Sat

Joe Hisaishi on Ni No Kuni will continue the tradition of good music on J-RPGs. This is certainly an aspect of old school video games I miss very much. I like games where sounds effects are so good and alive that you don't need music, but sometimes I wish FPS had hard psych and heavy metal and boss fights, not just a few notes of pseudo-atmospheric stuff.

Rabite

Ooooo nifty.

Jayson Napolitano

@Rabite: Nice avatar. =D

@Andrew and MetaTotoro: If you've listened to anything from Hiroki Kikuta since his Square Enix days, it all has the same sort of sound. Lots of belltones, strange melody lines. I have high hopes for this album. Wasn't entirely impressed by Kenji Ito's but this should be good.

AND Yoko Shimomura is in line next for her Seiken Densetsu arrange album!

Rabite

Jayson: I figured it was only appropriate that I chime in. I kind of like the series.

myosan8bit

Remember buying Super Play magazine years ago just to read about Mana and the art Ollie used to do happy days...........

doomknight66

your damn right this song is one of the best, still gets me a bit teary eyed even to this day

there's just something about SNES era music man, just so damn good

crashnburn85

Can't freakin wait. By the way if anyone is longing for some symphonic Secret of Mana, check out the WDR production of Symphonic Fantasies for a 15 minute arrangement.

Shinomura's arrange album will be great - she's already done some Legend of Mana arrangements on an album called Drammatica.

PrinceHeir

wish we had a new Mana game :(

Cynic without a Cause

One of my favorite soundtracks from the SNES (and the game itself is up there of course). So many wonderful memories :)

Gamescook

Anyone else remember when Square could still weave a good yarn?

AlucardsQuest

Those first 3 games are classics! Legend and Sword of Mana also had their moments, but they really screwed things up from there. The producer had this "brilliant" idea to remove the leveling up you did after each area... it was horrible (plus they keep trying to reuse this system in games like Mindjack)! This is a series that really needs to come back, but as I'm wary of new games... I suggest remakes for 3DS. Then if they remember how great the old games were, maybe they can start working on new ones but Squenix isn't as reliable as it once was. And the tragedy is that I saw this coming, as the consoles got better graphics, the company's focus shifted away from story and gameplay towards visuals and tedium.

RPGFan2k

looks good

DoctorHair

Square, I've got five words for you: Secret of Mana HD Remix. Redo the beautiful art as HD sprites, remaster the soundtrack, and put it up on XBLA/PSN/WiiWare with online multiplayer support. DO IT.

Radio Silence

I'm definitely getting this. Secret of Mana is one of my favorite games, the music is amazing, and my birthday is August 8!

rokNrolenemyNo1

Funny, I've been getting songs from this game stuck in my head lately, even without hearing them in a long time.

Something about SNES music is great. I even tend to prefer the soundtracks for snes ports over many original arcade soundtracks.

Andre Oliver

They need to patch up and release secret of mana 3 over here already

Quadocky

Makes me wonder if video games benefit more from soundtracks with solid melodies rather than large scores that would be more suited for film.

Tonelico

"Prophecies" (Premonition) sounds hot. The flute and the vocal stuff are excellent, one of the few things that Kikuta's obsessive "let's milk SNES for all she's got" sound banks couldn't do at the time.