Tales of Arise’s soundtrack was spearheaded by Motoi Sakuraba, a Tales of regular known across many games in the series. The game featured spectacular animated “openings” featuring songs by Kankaku Piero and Japanese singer Ayaka, who also sang the song heard during the game’s credits. For fans of the music Arise offers, the game will be getting a physical soundtrack release next year.
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The soundtrack is said to feature a whopping 7 discs, featuring 133 tracks from the game. Naturally, this is expected for lengthy RPGs, but it is no doubt rather impressive just how many songs Tales of Arise has to offer throughout the roughly 40 or 60 hours players will spend with the title. The soundtrack was announced as part of Tales of’s Winter YouTube special.
The soundtrack has been confirmed to feature the opening songs by Kankaku Piero, including the version of “HIBANA” made specifically for the English dub of the game. Ayaka’s songs, “Hello Again” and “Blue Moon,” will also be in the huge collection of songs found on the discs. The soundtrack will release sometime in March 2022, and pre-orders are said to be open soon.
For fans of Arise’s soundtrack, this collection may perhaps be a great Christmas gift pre-order, as many of the songs aren’t given too much time to shine against the intense battles and intricate story that calls back to themes seen in previous Tales of titles. This would allow them to listen to the intricacies of Sakuraba’s compositions, and hear what these songs are meant to sound like in full rather than looped for the sake of gameplay.
Unfortunately, considering the trend of how many Tales of soundtracks can’t be found on platforms such as Spotify, there may not be a wide digital release for fans who prefer that format or use streaming music services. Those who wish to own Tales of Arise’s soundtrack for themselves will need to purchase it physically, be it through pre-order or second-hand on sites such as eBay.
Tales of Arise is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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