Breath of Fire II: Orchestrated Soundtrack
355I was recently commissioned to reorchestrate the end portion of the Breath of Fire II soundtrack, from the SNES era. Getting paid to arrange video game music? This is exactly the kind of work I’ve always wanted to do :D My commissioner brought me on to make this music as a gift, giving me two weeks to try and write the entire thing. This essentially led to me doing one piece a day; writing down the music, arranging, orchestrating, and then mixing. This was definitely quite the challenge, but I gave it my all and had a blast doing it. Much of the source material was no more than 30 seconds long, so I had a lot of artistic liberty when it came to arranging. There are some tracks I’m rather proud of, others I wish I had more time to work on, but that is the nature of a deadline. I’m happy with the finished results and have actually been commissioned to arrange some more tracks from the game, so I may share a second part at some point.
Also you have noticed that this video is animated with the cast from the game! My commissioner also hired SmallBu Studio and Matt Cummings to work on the animation sequence and background art respectively. Below are some links to their stuff!
CREDITS:
Music by Campbell Flood (https://audistorymusic.com/)
Animation by Lindsay and Alex of SmallBu Studio (http://www.smallbu.com/)
Background work by Matt Cummings (http://eiffelart.ca/)
Produced by Andrew Duff (https://twitter.com/PrintsAndrew)
TRACK LIST:
Breath of Fire: 0:00
Our Journey: 3:49
Dying Corpse: 7:12
Silence of the Sand: 10:30
White Wings: 13:45
Twisted Bridge: 17:18
Nightmare: 20:33
Dramatic Battle: 23:08
God of Decadence: 25:29
Final Battle: 28:03
The Flower: 32:29
Unknown: 36:05
Thank You, Everyone: 40:19
Anyways, and as always, I appreciate comments as they are a good source of motivation.
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