Artist: Yasunori Mitsuda | Album: Chrono Cross | Released: 1999 | Genre: Soundtrack | Country: Japan
The Chrono Cross Original Soundtrack is a soundtrack of the music from Chrono Cross, composed by Yasunori Mitsuda. The soundtrack spans three discs and 67 tracks, covering a duration of 3 hours. It was published by DigiCube on December 18, 1999, and reprinted by Square Enix on June 29, 2005.
Xenogears contributor Tomohiko Kira played guitar on the beginning and ending themes. Noriko Mitose, selected for the role by Masato Kato, sang the ending song “Radical Dreamers ~ Unstolen Jewel ~”. Ryo Yamazaki, a synthesizer programmer for Square Enix, helped Mitsuda transfer his ideas to the PlayStation’s sound capabilities. The soundtrack has been described as having “some of the most haunting melodies known to man”. The “Home World” tracks from the soundtrack have been termed “emotional”, “driving” and “striking”, while the “Another World” tracks are described as “slower”, “dreamier”, and more “serene” than their counterparts.
The soundtrack won the Gold Prize for Sony’s PlayStation Awards of 2000. It reached #72 on the Japan Oricon charts on its first print and #174 when reprinted. It was praised by reviewers such as Patrick Gann of RPGFan, who called it his favorite video game music soundtrack of all time and especially praised the vocals in “Radical Dreamers ~ Unstolen Jewel ~”. This high opinion was echoed by Don Kotowski of Square Enix Music Online, who called it “one of Mitsuda’s best, both in and out of [the] context” of the game and said that it “surpasses his Chrono Trigger soundtrack”. He singled out “Scars of Time” and “Radical Dreamers” as especially worthy of praise. IGN, in their review of the game, termed the soundtrack “a brilliant score” that “does wonders in stirring the emotional strings of the players as they’re playing through the game”. IGN praised the technical sound quality of the soundtrack as well, though they did comment that for them no specific tracks stood out as especially memorable. In a separate piece about Japanese RPG composers, however, IGN called “Scars of Time” and “Arni Village – Home World” as two of Mitsuda’s most memorable tracks in naming him the second best out of ten behind Nobuo Uematsu.
Tracklisting
CD 1
01 – Chrono Cross ~ Scars of Time [2:29]
02 – Between Life and Death [2:38]
03 – Arni Village ~ Home [3:23]
04 – Fields of Time ~ Home World [3:26]
05 – Lizard Dance [2:41]
06 – Reminiscing ~ Unerasable Memory [3:25]
07 – On the Beach of Dreams ~ Another World [2:22]
08 – Arni Village ~ Another World [3:32]
09 – Ephemeral Memory [2:51]
10 – Lost Fragment [3:12]
11 – Drowned Vallet [2:00]
12 – Termina ~ Another World [2:43]
13 – Departed Souls [3:43]
14 – Forest of Illusion [3:25]
15 – Viper Manor [2:54]
16 – Victory ~ A Gift of Spring [0:56]
17 – A Child Lost in Time [3:24]
18 – Guldove ~ Another World [3:26]
19 – Hydra Swamp [3:10]
20 – Fragment of a Dream [1:35]
21 – Voyage ~ Another World [2:32]
22 – Ghost Ship [2:00]
23 – Death Volcano [3:39]
24 – Fortress of Ancient Dragons [3:54]
25 – Grief [0:20]
Duration 01:09:40
CD 2
01 – Beginning of a Dream [0:42]
02 – A Narrow Space Between Dimensions [2:47]
03 – Termina ~ Home [3:38]
04 – Dragon Knight [3:01]
05 – Voyage ~ Home World [3:22]
06 – Guldove ~ Home World [3:58]
07 – Marbule ~ Home World [2:55]
08 – Zelbess [2:42]
09 – The Splendidly Grand Magic Troupe [1:31]
10 – Nap [0:13]
11 – Chronomantique [3:18]
12 – Dilemma [2:47]
13 – Optimism [2:19]
14 – Isle of the Dead [3:11]
15 – Dead Sea – Tower of Destruction [3:10]
16 – Prisoners of Fate [3:26]
17 – A Light for Lost Hopes [0:32]
18 – Island of the Earth Dragon [3:16]
19 – Navel of the World [2:59]
20 – Gale [2:00]
21 – Victory ~ A Cry in Summer [0:53]
22 – Marbule ~ Another World [3:00]
23 – Magic from the Fairies [0:13]
24 – Etude 1 [0:12]
25 – Etude 2 [0:14]
26 – Magical Dreamers ~ The Wind, Stars, and Waves ~ [3:31]
Duration 00:59:50
CD 3
01 – Garden of God [2:45]
02 – Chronopolis [4:12]
03 – Fates ~ The God of Destiny [3:10]
04 – Jellyfish Sea [2:55]
05 – Burning Orphanage [2:44]
06 – The Girl Who Stole the Stars [3:48]
07 – The Dream that Time Dreams [4:01]
08 – Dragon’s Prayer [5:37]
09 – Tower of Stars [2:26]
10 – Frozen Flame [2:54]
11 – Dragon God [3:21]
12 – Dark Realms of Time [0:42]
13 – Life ~ A Distant Promise [6:32]
14 – Reminiscing ~ Unerasable Memory [1:39]
15 – Radical Dreamsrs ~ Unstolen Jewel [4:34]
16 – Fragment of a Dream [2:00]
Duration 00:53:20
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Yasunori Mitsuda – It reached #72 on the Japan Oricon charts on its first print and #174 when reprinted. It was praised by reviewers such as Patrick Gann of RPGFan, who called it his favorite video game music soundtrack of all time and especially praised the vocals in “Radical Dreamers ~ Unstolen Jewel ~”. This high opinion was echoed by Don Kotowski of Square Enix Music Online, who called it “one of Mitsuda’s best, both in and out of the
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