I love Uematsu more than any composer in the world.

Frankly XIV is his worst piece of work because of the guys who did the arrangements. Sometimes it's even hard to hear the melody because of all the instruments. I still think all the osts where he did most of the music by himself are his best work.

Just look at all the awesome youtube videos of XIV osts that reveal the musical genius there is to be found underneath all those guitars and crap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LScY2...F8FC44&index=7

That is an AMAZING song when you peel out all the pretentious post processing out of it.