HAY GUYS

Dallista · Local time: Jun 7, 2006, 08:15 PM

Been listening to this soundtrack on the way to work and back (two hours to and two hours from... still took me two days to get through the OST!). Will probably keep on listening it for the coming couple of weeks at least. It's lovely, absolutely lovely. I used to dislike Sakimoto because his soundtracks, more than most others, remind me of movie scores, in the sense that I could never really appreciate the music until I'd seen the movie/played the game. I hated the FF Tactics and Advance soundtracks until I played the games.
But something's change since then. I don't know what, because his style of music still sounds the same to me, but this soundtrack just 'has it'.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Dallista · 05:04 PM

This just keep getting and better whenever I listen to it. The final battle theme, words cannot describe its beauty. I can just imagine having a party fighting some truly epic battle, and have that song play at the same time. That must be pure bliss. That part from 4.13 to about 4.50 has got to be one of the most beautiful bits of music ever composed.
Other faves: the boss battle, Secret Practice, Penelo's theme, Rebellion, Ozmone Plains, the FF V song, Mosphoran Highwaste, and Kiss me Goodbye.

Why are they making us wait so long for the PAL release? *pout* Wanna play now!!

Originally Posted by Spatula

Holy cow, how taxing is this for your car gas bills?

I travel by, *gasp*, bus, train, another train, and another bus... and vice versa to get back home. Company pays my public transportation bills, though, so it doesn't cost me a penny, and, even better, it gives me four hours of pure relaxation every day with minimal interruption. Ideal for watching stuff on my video iPod and listening to VGM.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Dallista · Local time: Jun 10, 2006, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by Cheezeman3000

It's really a treat figuring out how all of his music works together and still finding new things in his music after so many playthroughs.
To sum it up, great soundtrack, amazing orchestrational technique (and counterpoint!), and you really need to listen to it at least 5 times in order to truly understand it.

How very well put. I fully agree with this description. It's such.. different music from, for instance Uematsu's and Mitsuda's. I find it harder to find 'instantly memorable' tunes in Sakimoto's work, but if you really give the soundtrack a chance, and you listen to it a number of times, every single song may actually stand out by its melody.
I'm utterly awed by this soundtrack. So much, in fact, that I may have to track down his Vagrant Story OST and give it another chance.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.