I had a feeling that I’d just get even more lost if I tried to start over from scratch, so I presented the idea of trying to combine the first and second versions into a third draft. I mentioned this in my Famitsu interview as well, but I honestly considered resigning from the project (even though I’d already composed half the soundtrack!). It was like I was lost in the woods, with no clue of how I could emerge with a completed piece. To be honest, at this point I was in complete disarray.
Which I did, but again, the response was…less than enthusiastic. I remember thinking to myself, “Yikes…I really messed this one up, didn’t I?” And so I was given five days to submit a second draft. Unfortunately, it wasn’t very well received. It took me about two weeks to compose my first version of the theme, which-after agonizing for quite some time-I decided to submit as my initial draft. I remember spending about a month composing something, tossing it out, and so on over and over again. We recorded the whole soundtrack in two sessions, and I composed this theme just before the first session. Thinking back, all I can really remember is how much I struggled with this-that’s how much pressure I felt having to compose the main theme of this game.Īt the point I wrote this, I had already finished about half the songs from the game. The main theme is the “face” of the game, as it were, but I can tell you that this one didn’t come out easily. For our inaugural entry in this deep dive into the music of Octopath Traveler, I’d like to talk about the main theme.
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