Quote Originally Posted by Shai View Post
Not going to flame you, but that sounds like a lot of Uematsu battle themes. Predominantly recurring themes from VIII, IX and X. Lots of his music does this in the FF series. It's part of what has made FF feel like FF to me in general. XIV is the first FF since X that's really felt like "FF" to me mostly in part to the music. Though XI had its moments.

I think you picked a bad example.
I honestly dislike FF8 and FF10 OSTs. A strong (none-SNES) Uematsu battle theme to me would be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r50bTK49Gzc

I do agree that some of the tracks in XIV have that old school Nobuo FF feel to them but at the same time I think they lack the creativity of his past work that really makes it stand out. Not only that, but again, the soundtrack doesn't really suit the game. I do appreciate you for not flaming me though. It's just like, my opinion, man.