Motoi Sakuraba

It honestly depends on the game. I find his "Tales" work to be dull, dull, dull. Through all of them, you can't find anything that makes them distinctive. Any track from ToR could fit easily into ToS's soundtrack (and so on). It's like the developers went to him and said, "Okay, Sakuraba. Write 10 town themes, 5 battle themes, several map themes and make them as undistinguised and generic as you can. Oh, and have them done by next week!"

Bleah.

On the other hand, his more epic stuff (SO2, VP, Baten Kaitos) is generally quite good. I like "Golden Sun" as well.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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By the way, the music of most Tales games after Phantasia have a certain "sound" to them that if you must blame anyone, blame Shinji Tamura. I thought Tales of Symphonia had a horrid soundtrack, but then again I never could get into the game itself. (Tales games usually have music that works better after having heard in context of the game, IMO)

Has it ever been proven how much of the music Tamura writes? Out of the Tales games, I say Eternia has the best soundtrack (at least in-game) but I still can't listen to the soundtrack all the way through. Symphonia is even worse. The music just goes on and on and on and on...

How ya doing, buddy?

I've always found "Integral Body and Imperfect Soul" to be one of the best SO2 tracks. Sakuraba is usually pretty good with final battle themes.

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