Title: BIO HAZARD SYMPHONY Op.91 Crime and Punishment (バイオハザードシンフォニー)
Publisher: Suleputter (セルピュータ)
Catalogue: CPCA-1010
Released: 21/08/1998
Retail: 2,100円
Scans: Front, Back etc

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This is an interesting soundtrack. It features solely the works done for the Director's Cut Dual Shock version of the games. Some of the pieces are a bit hit-and-miss when you listen to them on their own, but combined with the visuals of the game really did allow for a different experience. There are two discs with this, the first being the soundtrack with its 38 tracks, and a second which contains sound effect and character voice tracks. The voice tracks are very interesting, as the third one contains some of the scrapped Japanese VA work for the game that had been done in 1996 before they'd ultimately decided to use english voices only by the team.

Though the soundtrack has a majority of the songs used in the Dual Shock version of the game, there are still tracks that don't see the light of day on this disc. Yes, that includes the infamous Ass Trumpet Basement theme—something which has sound music theory but an awful choice of samples. The history of this version of the soundtrack is fraught with drama in itself, as composer Mamoru Samuragouchi is a fairly controversial figure in Japan. We do know that Samuragouchi was assisted by Takashi Niigaki, and it's implied both worked on Biohazard DC-DS and Onimusha for Capcom at the time, but we don't have a confirmation on who truly wrote what.

My favourite piece from this OST is Humanity's Demise, the opening organ piece which actually doesn't make it into the game itself. The full track name according to the booklet is 「ロ短調人類終焉ミサ曲」which translates to Humanity's Demise, Mass in B Minor. Missa, often mistranslated as Misa, is the latin word for mass. My second favourite is Pietoso, which is used for just the Joy of Life puzzle room, and is hauntingly beautiful.

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