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God Eater 2: Rage Burst Original Soundtrack
VGMO: Video Game Music Online
(2018)
Abstract
Last November, Masaru “Go” Shiina left Bandai Namco after a twenty-year career with the company. Following early contributions to games like Ace Combat 3 and Klonoa 2, Shiina’s VGM fame grew with 2005’s Tales of Legendia, the first soundtrack for which he was chiefly responsible. After Legendia, Shiina returned to working as an ensemble player, composing stage tracks for Tekken and IDOLM@STER. But in 2010, Shiina was given God Eater and the chance to fully express his mature and multifaceted style. It’s fitting, then, that his last major project for Bandai Namco, and his most ambitious to date, is 2015’s God Eater 2: Rage Burst, a soundtrack that finds Shiina at his most mercurial. At 83 tracks, Rage Burst maps a musical sensibility as baroque and baffling as the story it accompanies.
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Publication Date
Winter February 19, 2018
Citation Information
Michael J Hughes. "God Eater 2: Rage Burst Original Soundtrack" VGMO: Video Game Music Online (2018) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael_hughes/29/