ronito said:You know. I'm a Uematsu fan, have been one since the Opera scene in FFVI. However, I'm sorta glad that the whole of VG music has moved beyond the simple melody on a woodwind instrument above an arpgegation. That's not to say it needs to go into self important/overly ponderous crap we saw with FFXII. But still composers are really spreading the wings quite this gen with OSTs like Unlimited SaGa, Minstrel Song, Shadow Hearts 3, SotC, Katamari, etc.
I'm excited to see Uematsu come back. I don't think his old style will hold up to the standards today, if he sticks to it. However, I remember reading that he said he didn't feel that he could write the music he wanted to in FFIX. So let's see how he does with BD.
ronito said:You know. I'm a Uematsu fan, have been one since the Opera scene in FFVI. However, I'm sorta glad that the whole of VG music has moved beyond the simple melody on a woodwind instrument above an arpgegation. That's not to say it needs to go into self important/overly ponderous crap we saw with FFXII. But still composers are really spreading the wings quite this gen with OSTs like Unlimited SaGa, Minstrel Song, Shadow Hearts 3, SotC, Katamari, etc.
I'm excited to see Uematsu come back. I don't think his old style will hold up to the standards today, if he sticks to it. However, I remember reading that he said he didn't feel that he could write the music he wanted to in FFIX. So let's see how he does with BD.
brandonh83 said:Can't please everyone.
Anyway, I think all the FF soundtracks* have plenty of strengths. I don't think they've gotten better or worse over time, FFXII included.
*except FFX-2, but that's not an FF game
Bizarro Sun Yat-sen said:no, Hamauzu-including soundtracks being superior to non-Hamauzu-including soundtracks is a universal axiom of mathematics. Hamauzu was not involved with SOTC ergo it is not even worthy of comparison, qed.
incidentally, Kawazu wasn't any more involved in FF2 than in FF1.
charlequin said:FFX-2 has plenty of strengths, the problems come in in the weaknesses. The opening-credits piano theme and the Calm Lands music are two examples off the top of my head of actual good tracks from X-2.
Zack-Morris said:I'm of the opinion that the music in FF Tactics is by far the best of the bunch. In fact, I'm listening to it at work now.
Error2k4 said:oh and you guys should check Kenji Ito stuff for the SaGa games specially Romancing Saga. dude is ****ing talented as well and his style is pretty similar to Uematsu imo.
Systems_id said:FFVIIs OST is the only Uematsu made soundtrack that I absolutely love, and I mean LOVE. The rest is either just really good or just mediocore so I never really understood all the love he got. Yasunori Mitsuda's soundtracks pretty much destroy anything Uematsu put out with the exception of FFVII.
Powerslave said:FF7 simply has the best soundtrack of them all.
charlequin said:I don't get it! :lol
When I hear people talk about the FF7 soundtrack I feel kind of the same way as when they talk about the game. Just as Cloud and Sephiroth (apparently) are > j00, so do I feel like the recognizable trifecta of Aeris' Theme/Highwind/OWA give the otherwise uneven FF7 soundtrack this auto-win quality compared to much more consistently impressive (and thematically rich) soundtracks he composed earlier, or the strides in orchestration and theatricality he made in FF8 and FF9.
Error2k4 said:actually, FF7 ost aside from a few songs (battle themes mainly) is pretty weak imo. specially coming after FF6 ost.