Overall it is a surprisingly gentle score filled with the wonder of discovery. The score tends to be a bit more restrained overall with the mallet percussion playing a prominent role. Brass are used sparingly and as is to be expected tend to have more of an electronic feel to them. Rather than create an extensive swashbuckling score, there are segments that use smaller ensemble palettes of percussion and vibraphone or marimba sounds with harp flourishes. The music strives for cinematic quality, achieving it often. By sticking to shanty-esque wind segments - shown off prominently in “The Pirate’s Song” and perhaps used to accompany them when the idea appears elsewhere - Deriviere is able to set the tone of the backdrops well. The music has wonderful magical quality to it and fun harmonic shifts, particularly with some great syncopated ideas in “Something is Wrong”. BodyĪfter a “Main Title” that could easily accompany a Disney adventure, we head off in to a series of tracks that feature the sort of endless variety one has come to expect from the composer. Deriviere uses orchestral samples from the Vienna Symphonic library, less of a distraction against game play, but at times feeling a bit thin in the strings. For the present Kheops Studios game, Destination: Treasure Island, the composer gets a chance for a more upbeat palette. Olivier Deriviere’s music for Alone in the Dark showed off the composer’s ability for dealing in choral writing and some Eastern European styles. Pirates, old enemies of Long John, are on his trail.Destination -Treasure Island- Original Game Soundtrack In the message the old pirate announces that he has buried a marvelous treasure on the secret isle where he retired : Emerald Island. The bird brings him a message from his master. Imagine his surprise when, one morning, he sees a parrot enter his bedroom window : none other than Captain Flint, Long John's own companion. Jim Hawkins has become an upstanding adventurous young man, attentive to those around him. ![]() Rescued by a passing ship several years later, they have but one goal in life: find Long John to kill him.įour years have passed since the end of the adventure recounted in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel. All these men hate Long John, who was their leader and yet betrayed them to save his own skin. The Pirates in the game are Morgan, Dick, Yellow Dog and others. After he betrayed his fellow pirates, he managed to escape the Royal Guard and flee to a secret island with a good amount of the plunder. Long John Silver is an acquaintance of Jim, and a colorful character. The parrot shows up in different places on the island, always ready to make a sardonic but humorous comment on the player's actions. Faithful to the memory of its master, Captain Flint helps Jim in his quest and delivers useful information. ![]() With the money remaining, he buys a small boat and leaves England for the West Indies.Ĭaptain Flint is a parrot. His taste for adventure soon sets him on his travels again. Jim has become an upstanding adventurous young man, attentive to those around him. He uses his share of the treasure to buy his mother a small estate. Treasure Island ends with Jim returning to England. But now, four years after the events in the novel, Jim has become a fully grown teenager. Jim Hawkings was only a child in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel, Treasure Island.
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