Secret of Mana (2018): Original Sound Version (!!!!!’s Nexus)

Composed by: Hiroki Kikuta

Arranged by: ARM, Noriyuki Kamikura, Kikuo, Hiroki Kikuta, Yuzo Koshiro, sasakure.UK, Junichi Sato, Haruka Shimotsuki, Tsuyoshi Sekito, Koji Yamaoka, DE DE MOUSE, Tsutomu Narita, PinocchioP, Sachiko Miyano

Tracklist:

Disc 1:
1-01 Fear of the Heavens
1-02 Door to the World
1-03 In the Dead of Night
1-04 Into the Thick of It
1-05 The Color of the Summer Sky
1-06 Spirit of the Night
1-07 Whisper and Mantra
1-08 Phantom and a Rose
1-09 Distant Thunder
1-10 It Happened Late One Evening
1-11 The Little Sprite
1-12 Did You See the Ocean?
1-13 Fond Memories
1-14 Eternal Recurrence
1-15 Ceremony
1-16 Danger
1-17 Boss Defeated
1-18 Calm Before the Storm
1-19 Got an Item 1
1-20 New Ally
1-21 New Elemental
Disc Time: 1:01:02

Disc 2:
2-01 Together Always
2-02 A Curious Happening
2-03 Cannon Travel
2-04 What The Forest Taught Me
2-05 Dancing Animals
2-06 A Wish
2-07 A Bell is Tolling
2-08 Secret of the Arid Sands
2-09 A Curious Tale
2-10 Flight into the Unknown
2-11 The Wind Never Ceases
2-12 Mystic Invasion
2-13 Monarch on the Shore
2-14 The Legend
2-15 Danger (Alternate ver.)
2-16 Got Midge Mallet
2-17 Got an Item 2
Disc Time: 1:08:36

Disc 3
3-01 The Dark Star
3-02 Still of the Night
3-03 I Won’t Forget
3-04 Prophecy
3-05 Steel and Snare
3-06 Leave Time for Love
3-07 The Curse
3-08 The Oracle
3-09 A Conclusion
3-10 Morning is Here
3-11 One of Them is Hope
3-12 Meridian Dance
3-13 Now Flightless Wings
3-14 The Second Truth from the Left
3-15 I Closed My Eyes
3-16 The Oracle (Alternate ver.)
Disc Time: 1:01:15

Total Time: 3:10:54

More disappointing then the 2012 arrange album. Tracks have in ordered more in chronological order unlike the original, original sound version.

Enjoy?

!!!!!’s Nexus Thread of Music 2.0 (An Updated Thread) (Thread 119192)

That’s what I’ve been waiting for! I’m curious how the soundtrack sounds.
I’ll start with one of my favorites: Did You See the Ocean?

Well, as with some remakes, you can’t win ’em all. At least some songs in this sound pretty good.

More disappointing then the 2012 arrange album.

The remake itself is disappointing, they took the mobile game aesthetic and just slapped Secret of Mana on it, because of that the cutscenes look absolutely horrid, this felt like a cashgrab at best.

Thank you!

Thank you !!!

Thank you for sharing this.

That aside, I deeply regret listening to this. I do not think I enjoyed a single track of this album. I could barely tolerate some of the tracks.

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

Thanks for the link! But yeah, they pretty much butchered this music.

Thanks a lot!

Thanks for this.

Oh and come on, it’s not THAT terrible. I mean, yeah sure, Oracle was wrecked beyond measure (literally the only thing I’ll agree with you guys on) and the choice of guitar for Dancing Animals was extremely unfitting (the intro was alright, but that guitar sounds like the kind amateur Youtube remixers use), but they actually did a pretty good job with the tracks I DO like, such as ‘Steel and Snare’, ‘Distant Thunder’, and ‘Secret of the Arid Sands’.

And I mean, it could be worse. It could be MUCH worse… *eyes the PS2 Remaster of Phantasy Star IV’s OST very repulsively*

Thank you for sharing this.

That aside, I deeply regret listening to this. I do not think I enjoyed a single track of this album. I could barely tolerate some of the tracks.

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

Sorry about that…

Thanks for this.

Oh and come on, it’s not THAT terrible. I mean, yeah sure, Oracle was wrecked beyond measure (literally the only thing I’ll agree with you guys on) and the choice of guitar for Dancing Animals was extremely unfitting (the intro was alright, but that guitar sounds like the kind amateur Youtube remixers use), but they actually did a pretty good job with the tracks I DO like, such as ‘Steel and Snare’, ‘Distant Thunder’, and ‘Secret of the Arid Sands’.

And I mean, it could be worse. It could be MUCH worse… *eyes the PS2 Remaster of Phantasy Star IV’s OST very repulsively*

Obviously not a complete disaster but more misses then I would ever expect from a company that at least gets the music right. Sounds like an experimental doujin. They really should have modeled the remixes after Essence of Mana.

UPDATE (2/22/2018):
-added individual artist tags for each track (now you know who to blame)
-corrected few track titles

oh, dear and I was so hoping for something as compelling as the FiFa 12 Zodiac, which has become one of my all-time favourite soundtracks while the original still is…

Anybody has a link to the 2012 arranged album, please? I don’t find it on ffshrine. 🙁

Sorry about that…

No sweat. You did mention that it was disappointing, after all.

I suppose this serves as a lesson on not blindly downloading 1GB+ soundtracks.

more kamikura yeahhhhhhhhhh! thanks for sharing this.

First of all, thanks for it.

In second place: WTF did D� D� MOUSE with their songs?! Why had to kill all my childhood good memories about Secret of Mana with this…? this…? oh, boy, I can’t even found words to express myself… I’ve just deleted all tracks from him. That’s it. Its abomination it’s intolerable. Rest of tracks… well, some are decent, others are fine and rest just pass away… Such a mess all of it.

Thanks for sharing. I will check it out but I am a little hesitant now lol. I’d like to second the request for the 2012 arrange album, is that the Genesis one?

Gotta listen to give my opinion. I’m a great fan of the original game and music, really good memories there.
Feeling sorry this seems like a cash grab blast from the past

Merci pour le partage, personnellement je trouve l’album excellent et certains arrangements sont franchement superbes et cr�atifs.
Aller il y a 3/4 arrangements phares qui sont plus d�cevants que les originaux mais sur 3cds, c’est vraiment pas grand chose. La nouvelle version de l’oracle m’a beaucoup surpris, mais vu que c’est Kikuta lui m�me qui l’a arrang�e, je pense davantage � un choix artistique de proposer du neuf. Finalement j’ai fini par l’adopter. La version alternative est carr�ment terrible. Sekito a fait du beau boulot aussi.

Thanks!!!!!

well.. i read your comments, happy fellows…
I won’t spoil my memory of Secret of Mana… I won’t download it !

Thanks for the hard work, anyway ….

I can’t tell if these are the vocal minority, but I don’t think that these arrangements are bad. I agree with flash6 that there are 3-4 tracks that are disappointing, but overall, I’m pleased with this release! I feel bad for the arrangers who have such a unique and pivotal soundtrack to attempt to recreate. I am thoroughly enjoying the soundtrack. Thanks, Nexus!

Thanks for the upload! But just as a note, I’d mention that we have official names for several of the jingles: they’re the tracks after "I Closed My Eyes" and before the two alternate versions in the official soundtrack’s listing.

And yeah, I have to agree with some of the posters here: it’s starting to get annoying with all the naysayers who say the new arrangements are a disaster as a whole, when the proportion of good arrangements to bad ones is about 85:15 in total, with the arrangements done by DE DE MOUSE, PinocchioP and Junichi Sato, as well as Kikuta’s own arrangement of "The Oracle" being the only ones I’d unequivocally class as inferior to the original pieces, and that’s only eight tracks from the 54 that make up the soundtrack.

On the flipside, we have Haruka Shimotsuki’s work on enhancing "Spirit of the Night" and "I Closed My Eyes", Yuzo Koshiro’s contributions (excepting for "Dancing Animals"), Kamikura’s arrangements, what sasakure.UK did on "What the Forest Taught Me", Narita’s great reworkings of several pieces like "Secret of the Arid Sands" or "The Dark Star", or Sachiko Miyano’s orchestration of the opening theme as examples that actually took what made the original pieces good and enhanced it.

Thanks a lot, friend !!!!!. Sadly I note the music lost life in that release, as I listen my favorite track on this soundtrack (Phantom and a Rose). Something simmilar happened with the PSP release of FFIV 🙁

is this album? https://vgmdb.net/album/73689 ?? … but with another order in the tracks … where is the link for download it?

up .. any answer?

is this album? https://vgmdb.net/album/73689 ?? … but with another order in the tracks … where is the link for download it?

Here: !!!!!’s Nexus Thread of Music 2.0 (An Updated Thread) (Thread 119192)

up .. any answer?

is this album? https://vgmdb.net/album/73689 ?? … but with another order in the tracks … where is the link for download it?

To answer your question: no, this is not an officially released album. All of this music was ripped straight from the game’s files.

Well… I must say so far I’m having quite the time with this! Mana Arranged is not so bad, although is hard to call it Mana if you listened and loved the original sounds. This is something entirely different. It makes me even forgive the over-the-top version of "Did You See the Ocean?" or the WTH is this new "The Color of the Summer".

Thank you so much for the extended versions, "Whisper and Mantra" sounds quite dreamy and beautifully "eternal" 7:07 minute long.

Does anyone know why there’s a cannon travel sound? From what I can tell, it’s not used in game? Did they nix it because of multiple loading screens or something?

Some tracks are good, some tracks are…kinda strange. If you are new to this, you will problaby like this. If you’re a beloved fan of the original soundtrack,
then it might be dissapointing here and there but it’s actually a okay~good soundtrack. I think this is one of the soundtracks who works better together with the game as alone.

what about the original soundtrack? … https://vgmdb.net/album/73689 …

what about the original soundtrack? … https://vgmdb.net/album/73689 …

Give it 2-3 weeks. It takes time for things to trickle out

what about the original soundtrack? … https://vgmdb.net/album/73689 …

Looks like the OST will be sorta "complete" compared to the rip.

Thanks!
I liked both the SNES and this, though some of the OST are better in the SNES.

Whats the password?

Nevermind thanks

thanks