RE: Soundtrack Review | Albert Odyssey & Albert Odyssey II (Naoki Kodaka)
Good review as always! I didn't notice that some tracks from the first were reprised in the sequel. (That might be because, like you, I thought some of the tracks were not very memorable.) Legend of Eldean has a lot of good tracks (I'm a fan of the two main themes especially), so I look forward to your next review!
I think "Wondering for Mates" might be a weird translation of "Searching for Friends" (like one of Final Fantasy 6's overworld themes), but haven't been able to verify that.
Don't worry about breaks! I don't think anyone minds, considering that you're doing this as a hobby.
Oh, and just a quick note, but I read somewhere (I can't remember where exactly) that the PSX game Kodaka worked on was a remake of an older game with a different composer, so there might (I'm not sure) be limited contribution from Kodaka himself.
Interesting! It's truly disappointing the sheer dearth of information there so often is about these early days of videogames, even as relatively recently as the PSX era.
That translation thing sounds about right, actually... semantically you could say that those two are the same, but connotation, as ever, outranks denotation.