
Yet Taro Iwashiro’s orchestration is not quite as exuberant as Ryo Fukui’s, with its more modest dramatic arch and focus on longing suspensions. Both feature gushing suspended strings and elevating piano passages in romantic tradition. Both are slow expressive orchestrations influenced by the great romantics and cinematic legends in equal measure. The continuity between Romancing SaGa 2 -Eternal Romance- and Romancing SaGa 3 -Windy Tale- is evident right from the overture. The result is one of the finest arranged albums ever created. After the French-styled deviations of Romancing SaGa -La Romance- and overexuberant symphonies of Romancing SaGa 2 -Eternal Romance-, cinematic composer Taro Iwashiro decided to take a somewhat different approach to conveying the romantic aura of the series.


Romancing SaGa 3 -Windy Tale- closed a trilogy of arranged albums that portrayed the romantic aura of SaGa’s Super Nintendo titles.
