Apples and Oranges.

You can't really say that XCX music sucks, and then sneak in a 'sometimes', make up your mind! :P

As for the music, on their own, they are great tracks in my opinion, but perhaps they might not fit into where they are placed, I think this is apparent with the first track.

But seriously, you pick like four tracks from a game that has FOUR CDs worth of music of which you think are bad and automatically the whole music for the game is bad? If you want to come to an actual conclusion, then listen to all the tracks, but I doubt most of them are bad.

If the battle song on a JRPG is bad its a very serious problem. You gona be listening to that bad techno rap a lot on this game, it can get pretty tiresome.

Its your opinion, and I think we all know opinion=/= fact. I've actually listened to that track a lot, and at first I didn't like it but its really grown on me :P

But yeah, even if it was 'bad', I don't think it will bring down the ENTIRE game, plus, judging from the Treehoue footage of XCX, it isn't the only battle theme that plays, that or i'm deaf :P

i really don't see why they would do this, i want my RPG music without singing.
some of the non-vocal stuff is good though.

It definetly wont bring down the entire game but one thing I look foward a  lot in JRPGs are the songs, when theyre bad it sucks quite a bit. And you can like the song as much as you want, its tonaly way off, doesnt get somenoe pumped for battle the best it does is getting you in a dancing mood. Imagine just how fitting it would be tonaly to have Eminem singing on Dragon Age Inquisition for example.

You're ignoring some of the things i'm saying -___-

Firstly, it is your own opinion that it doesn't get you pumped for battle, but your opinion is not fact, so don't act like it is.

And again, by my understanding, it is not the only music that plays while in-battle, and if you want to see how it sounds while in battle, take a look at the Treehouse footage.

And again, you can't listen to 4 songs of a game that had 4 CDs worth of music and say that all of its music is bad, so they aren't all bad and the game won't suck as a result.

Yeah some tracks are hit and some are miss. 

I like this one. :) 

Honestly even the weakest FFXIII music is better than most songs in the OP...

The emotions a song evoke is not opinion, sound activate specific parts of your brain and evoke a certain emotion depending on its pitch, note, frequency etc. If its tonaly off its tonaly off, you wont feel fear for instance if youre listening to a Beyonce song (unless you somehow have some sort of childhood trauma related to Beyonce lol), so if you, for example, put Beyonce to play during a Resident Evil jump scare moment its tonaly off, visual cue says fear, sound cue says dance and be happy. Actualy, sounds/songs are amongst the strongest intruments for evoking emotions, if you play a game or watch a movie without sounds you do not feel nearly as much emotional impact. Thats a fact not opinion, its proven scientific research stuf. Liking how the song sounds is totaly opinion based tough the emotions it evokes arent.

The best composers greatest prowess is how they manage to manipulate the listeners emotions with a few tunes. Hear Satalaolas soundtrack for The Last of Us for example and you feel the emotional impact of the game without even seeing the scenes or reading the characters lines. His songs are super minimalistic in that game but they touch the exact spots in your brain to activate all the right areas and make you feel the right emotion on the correct time, thats what beeing tonaly on means. This battle song does none of that.

I like some of them, and dislike others, but have not heard enough to give a verdict..