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“Old Dragonslayer” has a solid undercurrent of strings that drives the track and gives it a solid foundation.

There are better boss tracks from the Dark Souls II score that have fewer issues and stand out a bit. But the lack of live instruments is the biggest disappointment with these tracks, especially since the original Dark Souls had them. Dissonance and chaos only go so far, and these tracks are rather overuse these with little else to carry them. Tracks like “The Last Giant”, “Ruin Sentinel”, “Old Iron King”, “The Duke’s Dear Freja”, and “Guardian Dragon” feel generic, and their homogeneity does not help in the larger context of the soundtrack. This unfortunately is a common criticism that can be made for a large majority of the tracks, which are mostly boss themes, as the game very sparingly uses music outside of these battles. However at the track’s end, the only aspect that is memorable is the dynamic journey it goes through little melodically stands out, and the synthetic orchestral sound is rather flat, especially in its phrasing of the meagre melodies that are present, leaving the notes disconnected and thus feeling all the more arbitrary. It then finally explodes into a cacophony of strings, brass, percussion, and vocals. Rather than jumping straight into the action, the track now has an atmospheric lead-up, starting very quietly before blossoming into a reduced version of the theme with vocal emphasis. Here it includes a three-minute introduction that was removed from previous releases. The soundtrack begins with the original Dark Souls II score, starting with “Departure”. The scores are composed by Motoi Sakuraba and Yuka Kitamura, and aside from a handful of quieter tracks, mostly focus on dark and bombastic orchestral themes in a similar style to the first Dark Souls score. The remaining tracks are from the three DLC expansions to the game. The first thirty-five tracks of the release cover the original Dark Souls II score, with several tracks here presented in full as opposed to the truncated versions from the previously released soundtrack. Dark Souls II -Scholar of the First Sin- Original Soundtrackĭark Souls II Scholar of the First Sin Original Soundtrack is the 2-disc album released only with the Japanese limited edition of the game.