"Trials of Mana", also known as "Seiken Densetsu 3", is the 1995 successor to the famous SNES "Secret of Mana" JRPG and, back then, was published only in Japan. About two years ago, in April 2020, fans were gifted with a full state-of-the-art remake after a quarter of a century, during which fan-translated ROM versions toured all around the planet.
Being one of these fans, I recently finished multiple runs of that game and found the opening scene — and, most notably, the orchestrated soundtrack — to be one of the major highlights of the remake. Needless to say that this called for an "organic" extension.
For those who own a 7.1 surround system, an 8-channel FLAC file can be picked up here to get an impression of what it will sound like in my living room:
- URL: http://via.woody-mc.de/to/AhilFIYNgjiwMgZq
- Player: Current versions of Media Player Classic are able to properly play multi-channel FLAC files.
Game: Trials of Mana / Seiken Densetsu 3
Publisher: Square Enix
Composer: Hiroki Kikuta