Not much occurred in the basement, but you can bet that the menacing background music kept people on their toes. The sharp, Terminator-esque ORCH5 samples of the original basement theme freaked out many a RE1 player when they set foot in the mansion’s basement for the first time. So why was the DualShock soundtrack such a letdown? As you will hear, a lot of the rewrites change the mood completely, oftentimes even spoiling the game’s atmosphere with poor instrumentation and disjointed transitions. I’m not even sure how the revised score got approved by Capcom, or why the publisher even felt the need to alter the soundtrack at all. The DualShock version of the Resident Evil: Director’s Cut soundtrack, to put it bluntly, pales in comparison to the original work put out by Makoto Tomozawa, Akari Kaida, Koichi Hiroki and Masami Ueda. In actuality, it was the 1998 DualShock version of the Director’s Cut, which features a vastly different soundtrack from the original 1996 release of Resident Evil and its subsequent 1997 Director’s Cut.Īllow me to show you just how different it is.

It’s important to note that some online publications are erroneously reporting that Samuragoch had hired Niigaki to compose Resident Evil: Director’s Cut. The story gets even juicier when the ghostwriter, revealed to be Takashi Niigaki, publicly questioned Samuragoch’s supposed deafness. The composer has been hailed as “Japan’s Beethoven” by Time Magazine back in 2001 for his purported hearing loss in the late 90s. Samuragoch (birthname Samuragochi), who was originally thought to have composed the soundtracks to both 1998’s Resident Evil: Director’s Cut DualShock Ver. for PlayStation and 2001’s Onimusha: Warlords for PlayStation 2 and Xbox, has recently admitted through a spokesperson that he had actually hired a ghostwriter to do his work for more than 15 years. One of the series’ composers, Mamoru Samuragoch, didn’t actually write any of the music. Originally published on on February 7, 2014.Ī bombshell of a news story came out of this week that undoubtedly surprised fans of Resident Evil and Onimusha alike.

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