Reddit reviews MELODYPHONY: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FULL SCORE (PARTS AVAILABLE ON RENTAL)

We have similar taste so here's what I used when I started:

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https://www.amazon.com/MELODYPHONY-LONDON-SYMPHONY-ORCHESTRA-AVAILABLE/dp/489066162X/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_2?keywords=melodyphony+joe+hisaishi&qid=1558534673&s=gateway&sr=8-2-fkmrnull


You may already know him but Joe Hisaishi is awesome and you can get a lot of his scores. He has a similar vocabulary to Uematsu, but with more of an orchestral edge. If you can transcribe all of this (I've done a good bit of it) and get it all right, then I'd go ahead and transcribe Uematsu's score to Lost Odyssey. It's so good and will stretch your ear muscles for sure. Just a quick suggestion since you're bumping the awesome soundtrack to FF8 haha.

Short of buying the original scores and creating your own piano reductions, you're likely out of luck: the crowd that wants to play the music often doesn't have conservatory-tier technique, so most arrangements are rather poorly done or over-simplified.

I know Hal Leonard published the Melodyphony score (you can get it on Amazon), but I am not aware of other works (especially not Poppy) similarly available. Best of luck finding these, though.