| lestatdark said: I don't want to make a confusion. I don't particulary care about the song "My hands", nor do I care about RnB, quite the contrary. I just think it's a bit too much to allow your experience to be detracted by a single song in the game. I prefer the JP song to the NA/EU version, but I don't go as far as most do to claim that the entire game suffers in quality because of it. Also, as a side note, why wasn't this same thing said about previous FF songs? After hearing the NA/EU song, it didn't strike me as it being so different from "Kiss me goodbye" or "Eyes on me". I've been a fan of the series since FFIV and have seen a fair share of complains, each time a new FF is released (fans can't never be satisfied, so it seems), but it's the first time they complain about a song and claim that it will ruin their experience. |
Kiss me Goodbye was a quansy translation song that use the same tune and similiar lyric in both its Japanese and Western iteration. In both language, It was design for Final Fantasy XII and I'm pretty sure Angela Aki sang both version to boot. Eyes on me didn't even have a Japanese version, there was only the English version sang by Wong Faye, even in the original Japanese release and again, the song was made for FFVIII
This is the first time that Square has picked an existing song from a popular idol as a main FF theme, every single other major FF release had song that were written and composed by Square Enix specifically for the game.
Darth is correct, Echo WILL appeal to more people because it is more mainstream.
This doesn't mean I have to like it. I just really wish they'd include the original or even better, took the effort to translate the song and hire someone to sing it like they did with 1000 Words or Kiss me Goodbye and give that as an option.
It won't make or break the game, but its the little thing that gives you a sense of completion and remind you that SE still cares enough to give a bone to its grassroot supporter in the west.
I guess that won't ever happen again...
