[Album] FINAL FANTASY XII Original Soundtrack (SVWC-7351~54)

I think Symphonic poem works well like that - besides the full version is avaliable on the single - I just wish that it was just one track instead of five

oh and btw

Esper Battle is absolutly amazing!! I really makes you feel like you're fighting a collosal summon monster! It's simply epic - it's starts of with the strong percussion beat, then kicks off with the vocal synth!

How ya doing, buddy?

If you ask me, the final fantasy series needs people like Hamauzu and Sakimoto - a variation in style. Uematsu's compositions may be memorable, but I get bored of Uematsu's classics (don't get me wrong I love them to bits) but I have hardly listened to the FF soundtracks for nearly six months. I think that Sakimoto does need to vary his style a bit - perhaps if he where to work on a genre that he may be less comfortable with (i.e. something that isn't medievil).

I have found quite a few tracks memorable in this collection (though I'm still downloading the last quarter of it and I want to give it a proper listen through)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I have heard nearly all of Sakimoto's Soundtracks - there isn't one track I don't like - it would be nice to hear a bit more techno, but I have waited since 2004 for this soundtrack - I'm not dissapointed

Regardless of what has gone before Sakimoto's instalments, this IS an epic

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

Even though there is a lot of synth instruments in this soundtrack, they could sound a lot worse (like Michiru Naruke's trumpet midi's from Wild Arms 3, Alter Code F - they needed some live sound!!)

I have found a few tracks that I'm unsure about, but the thing is I will grow to love these as I listen to them more.

I never really noticed Vagrant Story's Music when I first played it (first time hearing Sakimoto) except when I heard the Efreet battle theme - then I went and bought the sountrack and loved it. But I got it about the time I played Breath of Fire V - without realising it was Sakimoto's work until I heard the lift and first battle theme - another soundtrack I had to buy!!

I'm still waiting for my copy of FFXII OST

I like how there is slightly more piano stuff in the OST - and heck, Sakimoto has been known to compose some poor final battle themes in my eyes (Vagrant Story's Heteromorphic Person...so-so, but not great) but I LOVE Battle for freedom (even if it does use the ff theme in it - it makes it sound heroic after all the urgent atmosphere you get from the middle of the track - as the beginning leads up to this).

I'm sure Hamauzu's composition for XIII will be epic - in some eyes, better than XII, but I know ppl who hate Hamauzu (crazy ppl - I LOVE HAMAUZU!) and ppl who hate Sakimoto (because he composes for ambiense and atmosphere in a game) - which will work well in the game because after all this music wasn't composed to stand on it's own.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

The version of Symphonic Poem that is on the OST is the one for the English dub version trailer

I suppose it's a way of making you go out and buy the Symphonic Poem single

I was speaking idiomatically.