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 Member 542 Level 15.71 Mar 2006 
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While I've mentioned many times before that I'm not a big fan of Hitoshi Sakimoto (So far I've only enjoyed his score for Vagrant Story and it's the only OST of him that own....nope, I'm forgetting I also have his Breath Of Fire V score, since it's part of the Breat Of Fire I-V special boxset)...I cannot deny that the FFFXII OST is absolutely magnificent!
I had many doubt, since both the FFX and FFXI OST's didn't really rock my world (while also having a handful of spectacular tracks) and I didn't expect the FFXII to be any different....especially coming from a composer that I didn't really care much about. I did like most of the pre-released tracks and the music heard in the demo (that came with Dragon Quest VIII), but I wasn't expecting the rest of it to be so good. So far I have to disagree with a lot of people here. ~ The monotone soundscape heard in FF Tactics (and a bit in Vagrant Story) which people are talking about isn't apparant at all in this OST. I actually hear many kinds of spectacular and varied instrumentations!! I'm also highly impressed by the overal sound quality of this OST....especially since it sounds so much better then in the game and as the PSF's (like many people here have already mentioned before). ~ As far as I'm hearing, this OST has more then enough melodic substance. Maybe not to the same degree as mr. Uematsu compositions, but it all sounds memorable enough to me. (and I'm guessing this will be even more the case when I'll finally be able to play the full game) ~ The synth instrumentation on the FFXII OST sounds spectacular to my ears and all the whining about this subject by some people here really irritates me. This is videogame music.....just listen to moviescore's or other "live" compositions if you want to hear "real" instruments! I understand that these people probably aren't the people who fell in love with VGM when simple 8-bit/16-bit chiptunes played on the console's and probably haven't noticed VGM untill very recently (when games didn't rely on chip-tunage anymore). But a videogame is a videogame and "synth" just belongs in a videogame, even if it might try to mimic certain instruments in a way you might not like. I consider it to have it's own unique identity/quality, even if it makes certain mimiced instruments sound somewhat artificial! Sure, I love that more and more VGM score's include orchestral compositions, but I definitely wouldn't want it to completely overtake synth music. (I love both equally) Most amazing jew boots
Last edited by Tappy; Jun 6, 2006 at 02:45 PM.
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