Also a vocal track, this feels haunting while remaining calm and is a good finishing track for the opening group. This remix feels even more jarring when the next track, Dive into the Heart -Destati- begins. While Hikaru Utada’s vocals are impressive, the speed at which this is played makes this feel too rushed to enjoy, and the remix sounds completely at odds with the style of the song. The mood set by these two opening tracks is suddenly shattered with the remixed version of Hikari used in the opening video. The New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra show off their talent for unconventional music well here, and they are wisely brought back later for similar tracks. The orchestral version of Hikari comes next, and I cannot stress how better this sounds compared to both vocal versions of this song.
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The opening track to all the Kingdom Hearts games, Dearly Beloved, starts us off here, and while there are four more nearly identical versions of this track to come, here it is new, and is one of the most effective opening tracks to a game. Tracks almost universally fall into one of three categories: world themes, used for the majority of the gameplay, battle themes, which are either paired with a particular world or used for boss battles, and filler tracks, mainly used during cutscenes.ĭisc 1 is one of the strongest discs in the album, and nearly every track is fairly strong. This being the definitive Kingdom Hearts soundtrack collection, I would be remiss in not writing the definitive Kingdom Hearts soundtrack review, and therefore I’m going to cover all three games, giving due attention to each (although many tracks are repeated at least once). 02 – Hikari -KINGDOM Orchestra Instrumental Version.