Soundtrack Details and Track List

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The official soundtrack Web site has been updated again today with a brief item description, other soundtrack recommendations (the DOD1 & Nier soundtracks, respectively), as well as a track list for the 2-disc soundtrack.  Short samples for nearly every track on the first disc is available on the page, too!!  Check it out!


RELEASE INFORMATION

CD Release Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Price: 3,000 yen + 150 tax
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Square Enix
ID: SQEX-10414-5

Amazon IDs
ASIN: B00GXEY210
EAN: 4988601463676

Sound Director: Okabe Keiichi (MONACA)

Composition & Arrangement: MONACA (Okabe Keiichi, Hoashi Keigo, Ishihama Kakeru, Takahashi Kuniyuki), Sano “Denji” Nobuyoshi, Toyama Akitaka

Theme Songs:
“Kuroi Uta” by Aoi Eir
“This Silence is Mine” by Onitsuka Chihiro

Links to Purchase:
Square Enix e-STORE
Amazon Japan

Copyrights:
(C) 2013 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved. Character Design : Kimihiko Fujisaka.


TRACK LIST

** Please note that there is currently no complete, official track listing in English as of yet. The following is my translation of the original Japanese titles.  I like to be a little creative when translating titles, especially for music.  Of course, direct translations are fine, too, but I like to take the actual feeling of the music, what’s happening in the story, and other similar aspects into account to make a final translation. **

Disc 1
01 Better End
02 Those Long Forgotten – Battle Stage
03 Strike of the Valiant – Battle Stage
04 Raid of Redemption – Battle Stage
05 The Decent of God
06 Merciless – Battle Stage
07 Celebratory Dance – Battle Stage
08 A Narrow-minded Sin
09 Return Attack
10 Arrival of the Guards
11 Vacant Noise – Battle Stage
12 A Mysterious Spirit – Battle Stage
13 Out Come the Crawlers – Battle Stage
14 Altered Steps
15 The Leaves of Confusion – Battle Stage
16 The Anthem of Camaraderie – Battle Stage
17 A Darkness Deep Within
18 Exhausted 3
19 Censored Violence Piano Theme

Disc 2
01 Kuroi Uta -black song-
02 Out Come the Crawlers / Phanuel
03 Arrival of the Guards / Armaros
04 Raid of Redemption / Almisael
05 Celebratory Dance / Egregori
06 The Anthem of Camaraderie / Gabriel
07 Celebratory Dance / Raphael
08 The Anthem of Camaraderie / Abdiel
09 Arrival of the Guards / Zophiel
10 Out Come the Crawlers / Galgaliel
11 Raid of Redemption / Ezrael
12 Kuroi Uta -black song- (International)
13 The Ultimate Song
14 This Silence is Mine

Drag-on Dragoon 3 Soundtrack Official Web Site

New DLCs! Manah, Eris, Mikhail, and Nier BGM Set!

Additional DLCs are now available through the PlayStation Store. The new DLCs include DOD2’s Manah and Eris costumes, a scary baby head for Mikhail, and a Nier BGM Arranged set!!

The Manah and Eris DLCs are 300 Yen each, Mikhail is 100 Yen, and the BGM set is 200 Yen.

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BGM set includes the following tracks:

Song of the Ancients (Deporu & Popola)
Emil
Ashes of Dreams

Here is Dengeki’s announcement of the DLCs:
http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/000/785/785462/
Here are a couple low quality videos I made of the new BGM tracks and a short clip of the new costumes and weapons in action!  Enjoy!!

**Please do not inquire about making higher quality audio clips, however.  I do not have the proper equipment to make anything better than this.  Please purchase the DLC through the PlayStation Store!**

Eris’ Costume & Weapon – DLC

Manah’s Costume & Weapon – DLC

 

Song of the Ancients – DOD3 DLC Ver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6PKj6825eg

A & B Endings

I have been pretty submerged into playing this game…so I haven’t been able to make an overall impressions post yet.  I hope to be able to do that soon!!

In the meantime, though, I’ve made it through both the A and B endings and have posted my bad videos on YouTube, unlisted and hopefully a little secret, since they are huge spoilers.  Please do not watch them if you don’t want to be spoiled!!  If you are a spoiler whore like me, then go for it!  Just don’t blame me afterwards!!

* Zero manages to defeat One on her own but then she summons her dragon, Gabriel. Zero & Mikhail fight against the beast for a long time and manage to defeat it, too, but Mikhail pushed it a little too far in order to win and protect Zero and subsequently dies.

* One says her farewell to Gabriel just before Zero approaches to send her off. Just before the final blow, One says, “I’ll go on ahead.”

* With One out of the picture and her mission complete, Zero pauses a brief moment and creating the perfect chance to be ambushed from behind.

* A near duplicate figure of One stabs Zero in the back, and as her blood freely flows from her body, it stains the figure’s white garments a crimson red. In the dialogue, the figure says that he is One’s younger brother. Just as Zero had created her younger five sisters, so had One created him…for the sole purpose of killing Zero should One be killed first.

* One’s little brother tells Zero to please not hate him for his actions. Zero comments that she does not hate anyone, even her younger sisters whom she wanted to kill. She wanted to become the last standing Utautai Sister–that was all. Hate was never part of the picture. The male Utautai shrieks back in disgust/fear at this statement.

* Zero slowly crawls her way toward the body of Mikhail and is only able to say a half “thank you” before dying.

* The male Utautai stands victorious, his mission he obtained from One now complete. But now he’s at a loss for what to do next… Beside the body of One he asks, “How can I live in a world unprotected by the Utautai?”

* Then it comes to him! “If there are no more Utautai to protect this world, then I will do it. I will create a church of my own–a new church to worship my sister One. No, I am One. From this day forward, I am One!”

* As the male One exits, an unknown female figure enters the stage. “I knew this would happen, following this path. We’ll have to find another one then.”

* The scene ends with the figure mysteriously disappearing as though she was never there amidst the flight of many doves.

(The scene before the end battle shows Zero thanking the four Apostles for their assistance and that they cannot interfere in the last battle. She then says that since their corresponding Utautai goddesses have been killed, there is nothing holding their forms together…and thus she reverts them to their original forms…white doves.)

[END DIVERGENT PATH A]


The game restarts somewhere during the original journey as in Path A, but is somehow changed along the way. As Zero searches after Three and One, she witnesses their untimely deaths (not by her blade) before a serious confrontation with Two. This is when Cent betrays them all and kills Dito. The other two apostles also meet a similar fate before Zero must fight the two of them alone.

With the two of them nearly disposed of, they slowly crawl on the ground to reach one another…and in the simple touch of their hands, they are able to summon what looks like an upgraded form of Five’s spider-monster Phanuel: Raphael.

This is the video after the battle…

* One of the main attacks of the monster Raphael was its use of poison. During the battle, it seems like Mikhail was exposed to too much of the poison. Zero tells her to begin the necessary steps to regenerate, but Mikhail tells her that she doesn’t have the strength and apologizes before dying.

* Zero, at this point, is beyond distraught. She lashes out at Mikhail’s body, “Why did you go and die on me? You’re going to leave me alone–again!? Why…why am I the only one…? This damn flower!! …The flower. I’m sorry.”

* From here Zero enters into a sort of incantation or spell. “I command thee! As one who wields the power of Song, in order to save the life of this dragon, I hereby swear by this Contract! To the God in the East and the Goodess in the West, this I give thee as compensation…”

* Having complete the spell/contract, Zero says, “I’m glad I met you.”

* Next we see Mikhail groggily waking up to show us her new face… with Zero’s flower in one eye.

* Then we hear a the voice of a young child: “Hey, how long do you think you’re going to sleep? You’re really not a very good dragon, are you?” To which Mikhail responds, “Sorry, I’m awake now. Alright, shall we go, Zero?”

[END DIVERGENT PATH B]

TODAY IS THE DAY!! Drag-on Dragoon 3 is released today!

It is no officially the date of Drag-on Dragoon 3’s release, but we’re still hours away from getting our hands on the game, even though there has already been some lucky people out there who have nabbed it early!  I expect my 10th Anniversary Box to arrive sometime in the morning (I HOPE THEY ARE ON TIME!!).

In the meantime, check out the 4th and final track available on the Soundtrack page here:

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/music/sem/page/dod3/

Lastly tonight, I made an interesting image that shows the two different dragons that we have seen thus far in previous PVs and the latest Opening Trailer.

Do not hotlink my images

We know from Mikhail’s profile information that has been up on the Official Web site for some time now that Mikhail has been reincarnated… we just didn’t know the details on this until recently.

Of course, this is still sketchy speculation, but from the Opening Trailer that was released the other day, Zero may be referring to the bottom, gray dragon as Mikhail, pronouncing the K.

There is a brief moment in the movie that shows Zero dismounting from the back of the gray dragon and very much drops her guard…  Just then, a giant monster ambushes them and attacks Mikhail, from which you can see splashes of blood briefly move across the screen.  Perhaps this is how Mikhail dies…momentarily, of course.  We know that the souls of dragons cannot be killed, and even if their lives are taken, their soul lives on to regenerate anew.

Later, we see a nice image of Zero surrounded in floating orbs of light as she says “You’ve truly become a magnificent dragon,” implying that Mikhail has just been reincarnated or regenerated a la Doctor Who style.

Hmm!  That’s all for now!  Stay tuned!