Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
I've only the Shroud video releases to go off of, and I've yet to hear anything distinct in those. It all seems fitting enough, but bland.
You have to keep in mind you only heard parts of it. Some music tracks have a slow beginning, but get better after a while.

For example, take "unspoken" (Coerthas theme). It has an intro of 20 seconds that sounds pretty bland, but once you reach the violin part (it's a violin, right? <.<) it becomes great.

The beginning music in the Shroud gives off a "bright early morning/beginning" feel to me, and that's perfect for areas around Bentbranch. The SFX fit the atmosphere of a bright forest too. Then we have the Sylph... settlement or something, where the SFX and the music become more ominous (crows caw), fitting the "deep forest" atmosphere. And then there is the dungeon theme, which reminds me of FFVIII dungeons...

It's also not "1 track looping forever in an area" this time, but more of an "introductory tune to each location in an area". I remember hearing something about the music not always playing, but stopping for a while to resume playing after a certain period of time. So you're right about it being less listenable on it's own, but they said that if you run through all the areas, you will get the complete track of an area. Which means, when they release the OST, we will probably get a mixed version of the track that should be perfectly listenable on it's own.