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The music of ' was composed by regular series composer Motoi Sakuraba: he created the soundtrack on a PC-9801 Composing for the Game Boy Color presented multiple limitations in cord numbers and quality. The battle theme, "Hand to Hand", was a track Sakuraba particularly remembered, as he tried to capture the momentum of battle despite the limited hardware. The music for ' was composed by Motoi Sakuraba, a long-time collaborator with tri-Ace. The soundtrack was eventually released in four parts. The limited edition of Volume 1 also came with box to hold all four albums. When the game was revised into the Director's Cut, Sakuraba composed a few new pieces of music and released an album for them. The song "The Small Bird That Forgot How To Fly" (飛び方を忘れた小さな鳥, "Tobikata Wo Wasureta Chiisana Tori") by the JPop singer Misia was used to accompany the game's ending credits. The music for "Star Ocean: The Last Hope" was composed by Motoi Sakuraba, who has worked on the soundtrack for the previous "Star Ocean" games and many other games developed by tri-Ace. The soundtrack will be released in two parts: "Star Ocean: The Last Hope Original Soundtrack" - A 3-CD set containing all the music tracks in the game, with a total of 71 tracks. It also contains a DVD extra of an interview with Sakuraba himself, plus video footage of his workshop and some original music performed by him. The other is "Star Ocean: The Last Hope Arrange Soundtrack" - A selection of tracks from the original soundtrack performed in different remixes. Sakuraba is a “series mainstay”, and included a “synth-rock” soundtrack in "Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness". As with the other games in the "Star Ocean" series, "" soundtrack was composed by Motoi Sakuraba.