Kingdom Hearts fans know how great the series music is. The soundtracks have been coming slow, but Square Enix plans to catch up with an upcoming release that puts four games' soundtracks in one collection.
There's three CDs in the upcoming Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep & 358/2 Days Original Soundtrack, and on them you'll find music from Re:coded, Birth By Sleep, and 358/2, as well as tracks from the new Birth By Sleep Final Mix. That's catching up and then some!
There's samples on the soundtrack's official site. For me, it only took a couple of seconds of listening to take me up from 'want' to 'need.' I need this collection. The site says that the soundtrack comes out in Japan on February 2, with the price set at $3,800 yen (about $40).
Regardless of whether you can keep up with the KH games, I still say that they all have some of the best game music ever recorded.
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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1:00 PM on 12.02.2010 | 
About three months before Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep Final Mix International Edition something in Latin, various numbers
As for the soundtrack, YES.
That puts me into the "sold" category.
Also, I'm not sure if "$3,800 yen"(sic) is a good price. On one hand, it's cheap. On the other, it's a goddamn nuke on my wallet. :)