Sword of Mana Book & CD?

[XLord007]

On the Saboten card that comes with the Sword of Mana soundtrack, there is some mention of a "Book & CD." My Japanese isn't good enough to decipher what the card is talking about. Does anyone know what this is? Here is a link to a scan of the card:

http://www.geocities.com/xlord007/saboten.htm

Thanks.

[CocoeBiz]

On the Saboten card that comes with the Sword of Mana soundtrack, there is some mention of a "Book & CD." My Japanese isn't good enough to decipher what the card is talking about. Does anyone know what this is? Here is a link to a scan of the card:

http://www.geocities.com/xlord007/saboten.htm

Thanks.

Hi XLord,

Here is the translation of the card.

There is a Sword of Mana game hint book , and there is a quiz on the
page 126-127 of the book. To answer that quiz, people have to use
the post card which only comes with the soundtrack CD.

To those who answered the quiz, they have a chance to win one type of
character goods that are "Saboten" holding-pillow and "Saboten" portable GameBoy-monitor cleaner (a small thing to wipe the monitor).....

DigiCube will pick 5 winners for the "Saboten" holding-pillow, and 100 winners for the cleaner.

Consequently, to answer to the question and try to win the promo item,
people have to buy both, the book and the CD....
(Heh... such a good sales strategy by Digicube...)

I hope this information helps you.
CocoeBiz :)

[XLord007]

Hi XLord,

Here is the translation of the card.

I hope this information helps you.
CocoeBiz :)


Yeah, that helps a lot! I was worried that it might be referring to another rare promo CD that only comes with a strategy guide or something. I'm relieved to learn that it's referring to the existing soundtrack. Thanks very much for translating it!

[cloudff7]

I know this doesn't have to do much with the topic, but how is the soundtrack? Is it really good? How does it fare to the other Mana soundtracks? Just curious since I'll be ordering it soon. Thanks for your help.

[XLord007]

I know this doesn't have to do much with the topic, but how is the soundtrack? Is it really good? How does it fare to the other Mana soundtracks? Just curious since I'll be ordering it soon. Thanks for your help.

The compositions are excellent, but some of the arrangements of the original GB music are spotty and the synth quality is fairly lousy (they should have included a "full sound" disc like the FFTA OST did). The piano arrange on the second disc is pretty good, though.

[cloudff7]

Great...thanks for your info. I'll include in my VGM order list just b/c it is Kenji Ito, lol! Thanks again.