I'm not sure if it's due to the tracks themselves or simply the way they're ordered on the disc, but it seems like a more natural flow. Listening to the soundtrack feels more like a storytelling than the previous Front Mission. Matsueda even rounds out her musical style, so the overall soundtrack sounds more like "Front Mission done by Matsueda" and not merely "Matsueda's Front Mission stuff done again". Believe me, this album reeks of originality. About five of the tracks are either remakes of Front Mission tracks or include references to them this is just enough to make the connection but not so many that it leaves you wanting more original material. But what may be surprising is that the disc is amazingly faithful to the style of the Front Mission Original Sound Version. This is not surprising, since it's PlayStation-era stuff. The first major difference you'll notice in this soundtrack is the sound quality. It gives us a great opportunity to look at the evolution of Front Mission music, since no one can claim that the differences are due solely to a change in composers. Noriko Matsueda contributed about half of the music to the first Front Mission game, and returned to write the FM2 soundtrack solo. One thing they do share, though, is a common composer. FM2 was for a completely different system (PlayStation), and there was also the intervening Front Mission: Gun Hazard, which some (incorrectly) assume to be the official sequel. Front Mission 2 and its prequel are not quite as close as you might think.
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