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Thanks to solid composition and live performance, all of the game's battle themes have quickly become some of my favourite video game rock tracks, and really some of my favourite rock tracks in general. There's no doubt that Sakuraba is still at work here, and there's no place it's more evident than in the game's battle themes, all in Sakuraba's trademarked prog rock manner. In case all this talk of breakthrough has any longtime fans of Sakuraba worried that the core of his distinctive sound might have gone missing, cast that worry aside. And Sakuraba could not have chosen a better game to breakthrough on, the game itself is a real snoozer (although it's worth playing simply for the environmental graphics, absolutely gorgeous). He found his orchestral sound, and his progressive rock pieces were as strong as ever. Going further through the game, his music did not disappoint. From the opening movie, I knew this was the soundtrack that was going to break Sakuraba into my personal elite. Occasional stand-out tracks graced his albums, and all were of generally high quality, but a lack of a solid orchestral sound combined with often writing in a manner that seemed just a little bit off for his material made me unable to give him the elite composer status in my mind that I thought he deserved. For a great deal of his career, veteran composer Motoi Sakuraba teased me in such a way. Some composers love to play with their listeners, playing hide and go seek with their musical brilliance as they pop in and out of a soundtrack that, for whatever reason, fails to offer that complete experience. Square Enix Music Online :: Baten Kaitos ~Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean~ Original Soundtrack :: Review by TheShroud13īaten Kaitos Original Soundtrack :: Review by TheShroud13īaten Kaitos ~Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean~ Original Soundtrack