this tbh
If I can't recognize your main theme drummed out on the bottom of an upturned 5 gallon pail, you have failed.
I'd only ever seen that webm, but your post made me think to throw the name in the webm into YouTube to see what came up.
Have an entire fucking album, I guess.
I'm really not the guy to ask. I only have tangental contact with music development.
Not true. It's that people take orchestra as an excuse to not write good music. It's the same thing as the "the tech is better so so is the music" bullshit. Take something written to be good in minimalism and play it with an orchestra (that is arranged fucking competently) and it'll sound amazing.
Another huge mistake generic orchestra makes is that it feels like it has to keep reminding you "YEAH MAN WE REALLY GOT 180 INSTRUMENTS IN HERE" by never letting there be any quiet. All the instruments are going at once. Unless it's a sad song, then enjoy your violin, a few background strings, and maybe a piano. For some reason, people also think "orchestra" also means "no vocals allowed".
Embedded is an orchestra arrangement of Touhou, but if you want some competently applied orchestra in a videogame itself, I strongly recommend Yoko Shimomura's works. Kingdom Hearts music really brings her style out.
Yeah, I was about to correct myself. Thanks for pointing that out. There are vocals, but always as generic meaningless vowels that just carry under or over the instruments. God forbid there be lyrics, maybe something that has to do with the situation.
Here's some of the Yoko Shimomura I mentioned. A recurring boss theme from KHII. It has its own hook and also reprises several other major themes from the series.
Actually, here. This is probably the most impactful rendition of an old vidya song turned orchestra that I can think of. It's just the generic dungeon theme from the first Zelda game, but holy shit. Listen on the best headphones you have or with your best speakers turned up.
Skip to 11:06.
Woah, nice. Thanks, Anon.