Baten Kaitos II Hajimari no Tsubasa to kamigami no Shishi Original Soundtrack

Although Motoi Saurai did an excellent job with the first BK OST, the soundtrack for the second game falls a little short. While it's still got the rockin' battle themes and majestic background music, it's just not as memorable as the themes from the first game. Plus, some of the songs are repeats from the first OST, as some of the locations are the same as the first game. Solid on its own, but the first OST is better.

The second Baten Kaitos soundtrack is like the first one. The music has the same style and some tracks are remixes of the first soundtrack. But thats no matter it's still very good. Especially the title track is wonderful.

Motoi Sakuraba's works sound alike. Unfortunately, this goes beyond simple style, so far as that you can pick out passages in this game's soundtrack and compare them to nearly identical parts of Star Ocean 3's score. That said, however, this is one of Sakuraba's stronger soundtracks as of late, and it is clearly worth 4 stars. Although it sounds similar to "The True Mirror", "The Valedictory Elegy" is an excellent Sakuraba-style battle theme, and "Le ali del principio" is a beautiful vocal opening. Of course there are the standard brass-filled 'epic' tracks that Sakuraba is infatuated with, but the standard of composition here is admirable, and they are mostly enjoyable. When taken as a whole, it's no masterpiece, but it is an enjoyable album from a composer who hasn't really been a favorite of mine.