SMT: Digital Devil Saga OST: Integral
ARTIST
Shoji Meguro
GENRE
Rock, metal, techno
LOWDOWN
Shoji Meguro returns to ruin your life and your guitar playing skills.
RATING
A+
Then something happens. Trust me on this, it still is great, maybe it even gets a bit better, by a pinch, but then the music goes from rock to techno-rock. But don't worry, Shoji didn't sell out and go the Falcom way with lame JPop happy themes.
It's as morbid as ever.
I think the drastic style change is supposed to represent the drastic change of setting between part one and part two, and it makes sense too. It's unfamilier. It's gloomy. No reason at all to smile in part two.
The guitars are still here. Instead of just being in the lead the whole time, they share first spot with synthasizer's that'll make Marylin Manson green with envy.
The first song is a loud JPop theme. Don't worry, this is as happy as it gets for disk three and four. The third song, "The Atonment", is a true way of showing how this is going to play out. From here on out, the themes are all piano-led techno pieces, with some jazzy songs sprinkled here and there.
Then comes the first battle theme. This one might put some off due to it's fast speed and synth laidenness, once again reminding those of the Falcom and other generic RPG scores, but it never even comes close to those. This is more of a punch to there face.
Towards the end, major boss themes start to appear, like "Enemies Reborn" which is a power techno theme, similer to "Super Power Robot Yokozuna Jr." from Contra: Shattered Solider, except also sliced in with the guitar from the boss theme from the first game??????????????????. Then comes "Epic Battle - Prelude" which is just awesome, and that organ kicks major amount of ass. And obviously "Epic Battle" comes next, a fast, loud, awesome rock anthem. And then the last boss song...
The Digital Devil Saga has been building up to this. The fight against God. "Brahman" is God's theme. It starts out with drums clashes playing along with a orchastra then BOOM. The guitar exploads, the bass is going out of control, the synthasizer is the only thing keeping things cool untill the chorus, where the greatest guitar riff ever, EVER, overcomes the orchastra and the synthasizer to make you sit down, shut the fuck up, and remember you're fighting the one and only God himself.
It's so great, sex has compition.
So thats a wrap on my review for the Digital Devil Saga OST: Integral. Buy this now. buy buy buy buy buy buy buy.
Don't even worry about that this is game music. Where it comes from means nothing, it's the heart put into it that does.
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