Xen said:
You fail for not knowing how to word yourself properly. |
It should have been obvious that I was talking about the music.
| c0rd said: I can see the preference of FF9 over FF6, I guess they're somewhat close. Cross over Trigger, though? Nevar! Some of my favs, I won't embed since there's already too much on the thread: Schala's Theme Most of the game's tracks is music that's okay on its own, but amazing in context, like Manoria Convent, Underground Sewer or... the sound played in our favorite ending (scarrryyy). It's amazing how great this soundtrack is, it probably has the most memorable unique tracks ever in a game. I've got people that don't really play videogames hooked on many of the songs (Frog's theme in particular, nobody can resist that one). I think his later tracks are good, but they rarely have the unique hook that's loaded in Chrono Trigger's soundtrack. I'm not sure if he changed his style, or if the limits of the SNES made it sound preferable, but... I definitely prefer the older stuff. This goes for most game music nowadays, it seems like everyone wants full on orchestral stuff (just because we can now), when I'd often prefer the synthesized stuff.
Oh, I haven't commented on topic yet. I've only heard the TWEWY soundtrack from Ishimoto, which I enjoyed, although... the tracks Soriku put up are not exactly my favorite, so I dunno. |
Chorno Trigger and Cross are both amazing. And while I do agree that Trigger probably has the larger ratio of good to amazing songs, it doesn't discount that Cross is still one of the best OSTs to ever come out for a Square game.
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| Kenryoku_Maxis said: Chorno Trigger and Cross are both amazing. And while I do agree that Trigger probably has the larger ratio of good to amazing songs, it doesn't discount that Cross is still one of the best OSTs to ever come out for a Square game. |
I do think that Cross' soundtrack is good, don't get me wrong.
However, the association with the game makes it harder for me to appreciate... it's like I associate it with bad times (and it's hard to disconnect the two). Now, I actually enjoyed the game as a whole, but for whatever reason I feel inclined to dislike it. It probably has to do with the character design being the worst I've ever seen in an RPG (that may sound like it's pushing it, but it's the truth). It's made worse by the fact that all of this is associated with Chrono Trigger, one of my favorite games ever.
It's a damn shame, but when you hate the character designs... it's extremely hard to get into a game (or any media, for that matter). That's half the reason I avoid so many western games, especially Valve (Gordon Freeman, ugh).
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
No, FFVI is Uematsu's best work. Just because Uematsu likes FFIX the best personally doesn't make it his best work. FFIX has got a lot of those boring 'background' tracks in it and much of the focus is just put on specific cutscenes, as with all the PSX FF games. Whereas FFVI, nearly every song is catchy, fun or downright amazing. Something that would otherwise be a bland background music in a PSX FF like a visit to a military base or one of many towns has its own distinct themes, as everything in the game does. Its no wonder its rumored Uematsu went through a type of breakdown after completing the music for FFVI. Trying to create so much original and powerful music with limited hardware under such a timetable must have been horribly straining. And I can see why later works had a different style of more 'main themes' and 'background songs'. He didn't want to go through what he did on FFVI again, but SE was requiring him to constantly make longer and longer OSTs. |
It's the opposite. He has said that he likes all of them the same and considers each game a child, but he has come out and said that FFIX is his best work. Just as Sakaguchi has said that FFIX is his best work.
Sorry...
FFVI and FIX soundtraks is the best ever... no other games match theses games in music terms.
So Uematsu is better after all.
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Chorno Trigger and Cross are both amazing. And while I do agree that Trigger probably has the larger ratio of good to amazing songs, it doesn't discount that Cross is still one of the best OSTs to ever come out for a Square game. |
While on that subject, one of the Square games I feel is most underrated is the perennially neglected masterpiece, Legend of Mana. Flawed as it may be, it had a profound impact on me as an independent/aspiring game desinger. It really is such a beautiful game, and Yoko Shimomura's score is easily one of my all-time favorites... Some of the most poigant music I ever heard, especially, well, you know the one... *sniff*
Otherwise, yeah, you can't go wrong with Mitsuda. Well, except Mario Party - I honestly wasn't very impressed by that.
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