Nuvendil said:
Well that was hard. Well the first one was. Main theme I gave to the original. And I gave Beyond the Sky the edge over Your Voice by a hair. But I actually dealt like Mysterious from X trumps the Mystery from Chronicles. Also, I feel Tragic Decision lost out to X's music mainly because Tragic Decision is obliged to maintain enough tempo to be a battle theme which blunts the impact while X's is contextual.
Field was super easy IMO. Gaur Plains trumps Primordia, but Noctilum shreds Makna. I thought Valak had a chance, at least the night one, until I listened to The Sylvalum themes again :P . Erryth and Ocean split theirs. But Cauldros lost out to Central factory (and BTW, the actual finale dungeon music from Prison Island is FAR better than both :P). NLA lost to the town theme of Chronicles, although I do have a soft spot for the Day theme. But I actually really like the Manon themes and find them much more memorable than Frontier Village. Oh, and while I get Oblivia doesn't have a counterpart in Chronicles, a comparison would have been nice. Especially since it would be hard to find it a worthy opponent :P
As for the battle section, that was a pretty even splith. Mechanical Rhythm took the cake in its match up as did the standard battle theme from Chronicles. However, Sir Fliegen owned the vision one. Uncontrollable won over They Will Know Our Names but that's partly cause I never felt that one was even better than Mechanical Rhythm (and Uncontrollable is just awesome). Final boss themes both went to Chronicles, though The Key We've Lost came really close. However, I intentionally TOOK the reward from Unfinished Battle cause I've got a bone to pick with you: where the crap is No EX01?! Not having that in a boss battle discussion is just patently unfair to X. Thematically I would pair it up with Unfinished Battle and I think it TRUMPS Unfinished Battle. So yeah, mistake there :P .
Good pole. IMO, shows how X is certainly a worthy successor in music. I don't think it's quite as good in music, but it mainly comes down to lower and more prominent lows (NLA night, Tatsu's theme (though I don't like Riki's even more) etc) and misuse/overuse (seriously, The Way is great but way overused. Where are the three BEAUTIFUL piano pieces?).
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I did consider putting EX01 in the boss battle music, but that song was primarily used in skell boss battles, and I only wanted to have two tracks for each choice. Trust me, it was a hard choice for me to eliminate all the skell battle themes... The reason I paired Unfinished Battle with In the Forest is because they are only used once in their respective game, and I think both tracks deserves more recognition. It still saddens me that there is no real counterpart to Engage the Enemy...
I guess I could still add two more selections into the battle themes if there are fitting counterparts in XB. Any tracks in XB do you think I should pair up Oblivia and EX01 with?
