[Shujin Academy VGM Club] Episode 51 - The Eternal Journey

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Take a quest with these songs.

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• Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.
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Track Listing:

00:00 - Show Tagline

00:05 - Lost Odyssey (Xbox 360) - Neverending Journey (composer: Nobuo Uematsu)

02:48 - Talk Segment 1

05:55 - Dragon Quest IV (NES) - The Warrior Conquers Alone (Ragnar) (composer: Koichi Sugiyama)

07:30 - Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream (Dreamcast) - Flower of Yesterday’s (short) (composer: Yoko Kanno)

08:06 - Romancing SaGa 3 (Super Famicom) - Insufferable Desert (composer: Kenji Ito)

09:56 - True Swing Golf (DS) - BGM01_03 (composer: Katsumi Yokokawa)

12:51 - Hyper Iria (Super Famicom) - Forest (composers: Kiyotaka Sato, Shintaro Hirakawa, and Nobuhiro Makino)

15:34 - Blaster Master (NES) - Area 5 (composer: Naoki Kodaka)

17:25 - Super Black Bass 3 (Super Famicom) - Track 05 (composers: Michiya Hirasawa and Tsukushi Sasaki)

18:52 - Final Fantasy IV (SNES) - The Sea of Silence (Unreleased Track) (composer: Nobuo Uematsu)

21:13 - Talk Segment 2

23:28 - Final Fantasy III (DS) - Eternal Wind (composer: Nobuo Uematsu; arrangers: Tsuyoshi Sekito and Keiji Kawamori)

25:47 - Legend of Mana (PSX) - To the Sea (composer: Yoko Shimomura)

28:31 - Live A Live (Super Famicom) - Wait for Truth (composer: Yoko Shimomura)

30:18 - World of Final Fantasy (multiplatform) - Labyrinth of Darkness (composer: Masashi Hamauzu)

32:12 - Radical Dreamers (Super Famicom) - Under the Moonlight (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda)

36:12 - Dragon Quest V (Super Famicom) - Traveling Alone (composer: Koichi Sugiyama)

38:18 - Dual Orb II (Super Famicom) - Cassius’ Flute (composers: Nobuyuki Hara and Yu Yoshida)

39:02 - Talk Segment 3

42:38 - Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster (multiplatform) - Searching for Friends (composer: Nobuo Uematsu; arrangers: Hidenori Miyanaga, Tomonori Adachi, Reo Uratani, Shingo Kataoka, Yuko Komiyama, Daisuke Shiiba, Ryoue Takagi, Eri Tsunemoto, Kento Hasegawa, Masato Kouda, and Masaya Tsunemoto)

47:02 - Darius II (arcade) - Muse Valley (composer: Hisayoshi Ogura)

50:51 - Xenogears (PSX) - Dazil ~ City of Burning Sands (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda)

53:50 - Octopath Traveler (multiplatform) - Primrose, the Dancer (composer: Yasunori Nishiki)

56:31 - Phantasy Star II (Genesis) - Silent Zone (composer: Tokuhiko Uwabo)

58:13 - Bahamut Senki (Mega Drive) - Intruders (composer: Keisuke Tsukahara)

59:52 - Outro Talk Segment

1:01:49 - Last Bible III (Super Famicom) - Shark Ship (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada)