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The Music of Final Fantasy
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Oops you took that the wrong way, should have worded it better. I was ripping the piss out of the [sarcasm]wonderfully realised, well thought out and clever[/sarcasm] storyline of FFVIII not having a go at you
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It suffers from the same affliction as FF9. Brilliant (well enjoyable and sensical at the very least) storyline for half the game. Up until the Introduction of all the different witches in FF8.
At least FFIX had likable characters, FFVIII had annoying bellends for a cast and ditzy bimbos.
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The flutes in the opening of the Castle are great. I don't like everything after that. I wish the whole song was based on the flutes.From Final Fantasy X it's gotta be Calm Before the Storm : http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_5_pKYkDQAw
And Via Purifico* : http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YEAFgPnU78I
FFIX has loads of great tracks. Definitely more than VIII or X in my opinion.
Examples - Freya's theme* (I prefer this to Kingdom of Burmecia) -http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iJCMGRCB9iU
Terra - http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=LlhdZQWmteI and Bran bal - http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=B74BNhYB6pQ&feature=related
Pandemonium really sums up the epic castleness of the area - http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=KFcLvnNnQpY&feature=related
Stirring the forest* - http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=i6u9JcU9Cxc - as good as forest themes come.
Frontier Village Dali* - http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=KPyNbti2eCw
Nuff o that anyway.
FFVIII - not my favourite ost but:
The Man with the Machine Gun - http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=a2vpqd9gKXk
The Stage is Set - http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=torEytKxkeI&feature=related
Fragments of Memories - http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=3mOMQ_S3OCc&feature=related
the piano collections version of Silence and Motion*** (couldn't leave it out) - http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=zgGtxsx_5as
Truth* - http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=IAvz7F67oRE
and the Castle - http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=CqtGBR80NWw&feature=related
That's quite a few i suppose. There are just a whole lot of bland tracks on that ost.
More later
* best of these
I know how to play the piano collection version of Via Purifico.
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There's actually a couple of decent tracks in these if you dig deep.
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Probably the weakest of all FFVII 'canon' that I've heard (note: I have never played Dirge of Cerberus), there is however 3 standout tracks:- Promised Land - where FFVII typically stuck to male choirs and VIII to female choirs, for thiss haunting choral piece they put the two together which served as a pretty haunting / epic background track for Marlene's exposition bit at the start of AC.
- For The Reunion is a nifty piano piece. This one being a fast-paced one, which is break from teh FF-norm.
- Divinty II I believe is the track playing during the Bahamut fight. Whatever about the scene, the music is suitably epic. Easily puts the (imo) dire One Winged Angel track to shame.
Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core
Wow, they went all out with the violins (esp the violins) and pianos in this one! And I can see how that can put a lot of people off. Still, I'm a fan of the stuff and there's some great tracks to be heard:- Lots of screeching violins in The Burdened - but I think its a fantastic piece for its setting (which is Aeris' church, right?)
- Sky Blue Eyes is one of the more melancholic tracks in Crisis Core, and yup it features those violins again. Great track
- Absolutely love An Ancient Hymn Sung by the Water. Mainly, I guess because its a break from the aforementioned violins which can be a bit much sometimes. But secondly, its got a pretty cool beat to it.
- There's a lot of hate from some boardsies (Retr0
) for Price of Freedom which is a track played at a pivotal point in the game. This track is oft accused of being just "wailing guitars" but I (and fellow boardsie GothPunk) swear by this track and the way it's used in-game is perfect. - Fulfilled Desire - aka, awesome piece of music. Fufilled Desire is an 8 minute epic! A medley of tracks from the original game (e.g. Main Theme / Battle Theme) + the new stuff. Particularly check out the Crisis Core piece at the 2:00 - 3:00 section. Amazing.
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The burdened is a decent track but Sky Blue Eyes is fairly dull. An ancient hymn sung by the water I thought was awful and what made it worse was how many times you had to listen to it.
I'm sorry but Price of Freedom is an outwoegeously bad track and was totally inappropriate for the scene it was in. Fulfilled desire was good but you can't really mess up orchestrated nobuo uematsu. Hated the crisis core bits in it though.
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I quite liked the Lost Oddyssey soundtrack. Some of the town themes were forgettable but the orchestrated battle and boss themes were amazing and there are some standout trakcs played during the dreams. Have to admit though it's far from Uematsu's best.
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