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Originally Posted by orion_mk3
I just wish they'd kept Sakimoto on for XIII. The one thing the series needs right now is consistency.
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I think I'll agree with that (or at least with the second half
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... I also think that Sakimoto's is very good, but the music just doesn't sound like "final Fantasy"-music to me. The only "new" composer to the FF-series which created music that sounded like "Final Fantasy" to me, was actually Naoshi Mizuta with all his FFXI-stuff.
Ok, but now to FFXII... I haven't listened to the OST yet (it still needs some time to download), but I've listened to the Best of and the PSF-set, and I'm glad to read, that the sound quality on the OST is better (or at least different from the PSF's) because I don't liked the sound quality from the PSF's at all but I was very impressed by the sound quality in the "Best of"-tracks.
I must say, I like the way Sakimoto uses his Main theme in his tracks, it may be not so catchy or impressive than Uematsu's previous Main themes, but I think, it's quite good, and I like the way the theme appears here and there in the OST.
So far my favourite tracks would be probably "Theme of the Empire", "The Strike of Blade" and the Final Battle, but I'm sure I will add more tracks to the list after listening to the OST.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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