These early arrangements, based on compositions from Thunder Force II, indicate a strong influence from contemporary J-rock and J-pop influences, with remarkably intricate melodies and, surprisingly, complex chord progressions. The efforts of both musicians start the album with "A Ray of Hope", before transitioning from this short orchestral stage theme arrangement to "The Wind Blew All Day Long".
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Naosuke Arai and Tomomi Ohtani are still active today to various degrees, and both artists had definable styles that they employed from the original Herzog PC game all the way though Thunder Force III.
The actual arrangements are just as unpredictable and odd as the context they're given, with dated sampling quality and questionable instrumentation, and reveal the various attitudes of each composer and arranger composers and arrangers that, aside from the abovementioned select two, have fallen off the map entirely. At the same time a historical testament to the sheer virility of the Japanese PC gaming scene in its early years, Illusion also represents short-lived careers in game musicianship, and a constant inability to fully reveal every facet of Technosoft's early productions.
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Many of the soundtracks featured on this album had never had full soundtrack releases most likely to their obscurity relative to the great Thunder Force releases to follow and some tracks only appear on this album in rearranged form, only resembling their original counterparts. Combined with a greater variety of titles produced by the small developer in the late 80s, this variety of different approaches to these different soundtracks would only come to an end by the turn of the decade, when Technosoft began to focus more on their shooting game talents and develop for Sega's aforementioned platform. In the earliest days of Technosoft's game development repertoire, any steady foundation for the growth of a Technosoft sound team had nebulous bearings, and sound designers and programmers often took it upon themselves to program the sounds and music for Technosoft's early Japanese PC releases Naosuke Arai and Tomomi Ohtani, in particular. Of all the descriptors one can give to this album, Illusion would be, without a doubt, the most befitting of all.
1 -Illusion- features original and arranged music from a wide variety of their early games, spanning the MSX's Legend of Nine Gems and D' to the Mega Drive's Herzog Zwei and Thunder Force II. The first of fifteen albums dedicated to the developer Technosoft, Technosoft Game Music Collection Vol.
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