Jon Turner Oct 8, 2021 (edited Mar 3, 2022)
As a huge fan of this legendary SNES classic, I was very surprised by this announcement, and of course, it's music is legendary. The music sounds fantastic in its rearranged form (although there are some tracks, like the boss battle ones, which I think had a bit more power to them in the SNES versions and the Symphonic Suite from 1991). But to me the real treasure are the newly composed tracks and the SNES versions of those tracks as well. Most of them are new area themes for the other areas (Bloodpool, etc.), but they are hauntingly pretty. I can't say at the moment if they're as instantly memorable as the originals (but that may be on account of me not having had as much time to familiarize myself with them), but it really shows to me that after all this time, Yuzo Koshiro still has it. He's always been one of my favorite composers since I first heard ActRaiser, and this score sounds pretty terrific IMO.