This beauty has arrived fresh from Japan this Friday. Like the Skyward Sword Soundtrack from three years ago, I ordered this one via play-asia and everything went well, so I can only recommend this shop (I'm not affiliated in any way). It's the Limited Edition, which comes in a nice box and some extras.
There is the soundtrack itself, spread across a total of nine discs, a booklet, and a small Master Sword statue. The inside of the disc box shows the mural in the background and the discs have the Secret Stone runes on them, which is pretty nice.
And here's the Master Sword statue, which is secretly a USB drive, which I find funny. It's so cool to remove this from its socket. Though, I got excited there for a minute, because I thought that it might hold the entire soundtrack, but it's only a Sound Selection of 15 tracks. They are flac files (lossless quality), however, with one of them taking a whopping 475MB. So, not exactly something that you want to put on your MP3 player, but nice to have, especially since you get to hear more instrumental details that I never noticed before.
The 15 tracks include all the major boss battle themes, the main theme, and the trailer musics, where the last one is of course the highlight. You can find a complete tracklist of the entire soundtrack and the sound selection on play-asia.
But I'm happy with this purchase, it's another beautiful addition to my Tears of the Kingdom collection. It's a shame that these soundtracks are never coming to the west, because I would love to be able to read the booklet (and the tracklist inside) without learning Japanese first.
Just ordered mine from Play-Asia! Thanks for the reminder about this! I'm wondering if the Master Sword Pedestal might be able to play other flaac file usb sticks - I have a macbook pro so I can't actually get the music off my Xenoblade X special edition flaac usb stick! But either way, I cant wait for this gigantic soundtrack! Always love ordering these Japanese exclusives from them, though I'll wait on the TotK Master Works to get an English translation. I did order the Xenoblade 3 lore & artbook though from Play-Asia, because that's a series that generally doesn't get their massive lorebooks translated…
ReplyDeleteNot sure what you mean. The pedestal doesn't play anything, it's essentially the "cap" for the USB stick.
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