Fire Emblem Engage "Limited Edition" Soundtrack Out Now In Japan

Honestly the only song I even remember from the game is the opening one and I don't remember it in a remotely positive way.

Seven CDs ay? If it takes that many to hold everything, then no wonder we seldom get soundtracks from Nintendo! Though with that said, it's common knowledge that plenty of people want an official way to hear soundtracks from Nintendo games, could we ever see them added to Nintendo Switch Online?

Waiting on mine to ship! Nintendo has been rocking the OST releases lately. That reminds me I should pick up the FE Heroes OST.

Gets excited only to find out it's Japan only. Lovely...

Looks really cool though. I personally enjoyed the OST myself.

More Nintendo soundtracks on vinyl please. Give the people what they want

@Lizuka
Tear Streaked and Bright Sandstorm were pretty cool. But yeah, previous entries had way more songs that sticked with me. Three houses and the 3DS games had some of the best OST. They're still among my favourite videogame OSTs.

Let me be constructive about my opinion. Fire Emblem Engage had an extremely unfocused plot, characters with very little depth and an extreme downgrade when compared to its predecessor. It had less content and even graphically it wasn't much of an upgrade when compared to a game that came years before it.
The soundtrack was also very forgettable.

This is super cool! But the last thing I owned capable of playing CDs was the PS2. That ring sounds pretty groovy, though.

I'm going to settle for the standard set as the contents are identical where it counts. I'm not terribly keen on paying an extra AU$50 for what is likely to be some cheap plastic ring.

@larryisaman : I'll never understand why people would want digitally mastered music on vinyl. All it's going to do is sound objectively worse than the alternative (and if anything, introduce distortion idiosyncratic to vinyl). Raw files (or close to it) with higher resolution audio than what CD can provide (perhaps on a Blu-ray?) would perhaps be the best possible alternative for audiophiles, but impractical for most enthusiasts. I'm just glad that we get soundtracks at all (though being physical is a bonus).

Plus, you'd need about two 12" records per CD in a set this size, and they'd be crazy to release a ridiculously expensive 14 LP boxset aimed at a very niche audience on top of a niche audience.

I have a collection of fire emblem soundtracks, but i'm hesitant to buy this one. I have not played the game and what i heard on youtube was kinda getting on my nerves.

@StAmbrosius : I was completely indifferent to the game myself, but I picked it up on sale late last year and fell in love with it instantly (more so for the gameplay than the story/characters), and I very quickly amassed 100+ hours of playtime in no time at all.

It played very much like Awakening/Fates on 3DS, which is what I had been yearning for since the last two instalments.

While FE3H had an amazing soundtrack (and i did import CD set myself), with FEE, i don't really find the score that memorable. I did consider preordering it at some point, but decided it was just not worth it.

Still, if someone is of a different opinion this might be quite a treat for them, obviously

@Sisilly_G Moreso for the collectible side of it. The Xenoblade picture disc for example was infinitely nicer to have than a CD in my opinion. I can understand why people don’t care for vinyl (just as I don’t care for CDs), but for me it’s just great to have something as substantial as a record (especially when they’re uniquely coloured or picture discs etc).

Also wouldn’t be necessary to include the entire soundtrack, just a selection

Nah some of y'all are wild lmao. Engage had a banger soundtrack. They even included a dozen remixes of past songs that each play in a single map each. If this soundtrack actually includes everything (And it sounds like this one does, for once), then that's great.

The game slaps too, but I'm not even going to get into the number of outright falsehoods in these comments, lol.

The song I really remember is the Solm battle music. That one slaps!

@larryisaman : Sure, though the CD artwork for these types of releases are really quite nice, to be fair.

@Sisilly_G @larryisaman I much prefer CD releases over all these (beautiful but) expensive and wildly impractical vinyl releases. Folks buy vinyl to display the art of the record and sleeve art (and maybe as a bonus to seem cool and hip), they buy CD if they want to actually listen to a physical lossless format that will last 100+ years no matter how often it’s played or how it’s stored

Thankfully Japan doesn’t f w vinyl as much as US

@BLD Absolutely agreed. The game was a genuine blast and I personally like the OST, regardless of how polarizing the OST is in these comments. I wouldn't mind having the soundtrack myself, but it being Japanese only and money being tight suggests I probably better not, haha!

@BLD : The soundtracks include everything, and sometimes even a little more (like the CD exclusive Enishi song in the Fates/If set, and/or instrumental versions), but it wasn't until the Echoes OST that they would include English versions of any songs, which is a plus for those who prefer those versions.

Any recycled songs from past games, however, tend to be provided in MP3 format on the bonus DVD (which sucks given how much space there is to spare on the discs) as well as any bonus tracks that didn't fit on the CDs.

@DannZan Yeah, I rarely play any of my vinyl collection- especially in this age where any album is just a few taps away on your phone. I just love collecting records and having them on display for myself, same way I’ll buy digital games and buy them when they release physically later (Hollow Knight, Eastward etc.)- not that I’m going to play them that way but just to have them in a tangible format. CDs do the same job but I just prefer having the bigger artwork and unique colors and shapes of vinyl (I’ve got all sorts of weird ones from clear discs with coloured string embedded within them to liquid filled ones…just fun to pull out and look at from time to time).

I understand not caring for them though and picking CDs as your format of choice, I just listen to most music digitally and continue to buy vinyl to collect and support artists that way.