![]() The brass slowly fades away letting the string takes control and perform a stirring rendition of the core theme. The instruments build to a swell that occurs at 0:47, leading to the exposure of the opening lines of "Prelude of Legend" from Gradius III on brass. The soundtrack begins with the track "Overture", which starts off with a lone flute and then draws in luscious strings. Although in truth, this album tends to stick by the original structure of the tracks and merely replace the synthetic sounds with actual instruments, the results are still very powerful and moving at times, and yet frustrating at others. Brought to us by various members of the Konami Kukeiha Club (referring to the sound team, not the cover band), we have here a series of medleys filled with arranged music from the Gradius series. ![]() ![]() Now that we've gotten that precaution out of the way, let's take a look at the core of this album itself. If they wish to hear the music of Gradius set to a more traditional orchestra feel, then they should head on over to Gradius in Classic I which would probably be more to their taste. That is not to say that fans of classical music will dislike this album. Yes, acoustic instruments are used which would primarily appears in a symphony orchestra, but there are also moments where electric guitars appear and even sound effects from the game itself amusing as that may be. And while the title carries the word 'symphonic', that is not entirely true either. For instance, while the vast majority of tracks do come from Gradius III, there are a number of tracks which originate from the original Gradius, Gradius II, and Salamander. There are several things which are not entirely true about the title of this album. Gradius III Symphonic Poetry :: Review by Andrew
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