Quote Originally Posted by Celaine View Post
I miss all the 1.0 music. Emerald Labyrinth, On Windy Meadow... especially Unspoken. In fact, I miss that track so much, and so much blah over the Gothic crap in Coerthas now that any time I'm out in the zone, I just turn off the BGM and fire up Unspoken on repeat instead.

I have to say the music in Gridania in 2.0 bothers me the most though. It feels like Lord of the Rings meets Final Fantasy. Too much Hobbiton sounding.
I like the music for both versions.

But, Soken and his team when they produced the sounds and music for ARR wanted to do what Uematsu didn't in the original which was to use instruments that suited the zone, each area has a instruments you'd consider "native" to an area of that style, which makes sense. Uematsu sadly didnt have much to go on in his defence, a few pieces of artwork and some descriptions to make an entire OST was a bit much to ask.


But the BATTLE themes, oh god no. There's plenty of chance to mix things up, but using the same melody arranged for each individual zone has made me get to the point where I mute it.