Naoshi Mizuta for 5.0

[Brightshadow]

FFXI Soundtrack is something I've found to be pretty consistently overrated. Every time somebody tries to post "evidence" of how much better the OST in that game is than this one it usually just ends up ranging anywhere from "okay" to "mediocre", because in the end musical tastes are subjective. I don't see any reason to demote Soken just because "you liked FFXI a lot."

There are some 1.0 Uematsu songs I still really miss (especially all three city themes), but to pretend like Soken is bad or needs replacing is pretty silly.

Different composers have different ways of bringing the world to life I enjoy the other composers but I feel that the music in this game is too edgy and forgetful at times compared to FF11 and other works done by Mizuta, and his battle themes are just awesome. I remember most of his battle themes I don't remember most of the FF14 original battle themes.

I bet if you heard battle themes like this in XIV you would remember them even more lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FlQ...53DEA255C991A7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGnPdF02g0w

And the world has some of the best OST.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TnSMXcp2Hg (Forest)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AHrZVKt-tM (Open World)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc1bc1f_t-U (Undead Shipyard)