Thread: Does anyone else miss the original Battle Theme from v1.0?

why removing all these epic themes while it's there already? D:

Originally Posted by ulti_19

:O wth, the old music seems waaaay better to me. Did Nobuo Uematsu make the 1.0 songs?

Most of them, although some were also composed by ARR composer Masayoshi Soken, as well as other composers like Ryo Yamazaki, Tsuyoshi Sekito and Naoshi Mizuta. And quite a few ARR tracks were originally from 1.0. The only 1.0 battle themes not reused from ARR were the original zone and levequest battle themes.

Really, I only miss a handful of Uematsu's 1.0 tracks that haven't returned (the original Limsa theme Navigator's Glory, the original La Noscea theme On Windy Meadows, the original Gridania theme Born of the Boughs, the original Black Shroud battle theme The Forest's Pulse, two original Thanalan zone themes Twilight Over Thanalan and Widdershins, the original Mor Dhona theme Tears for Mor Dhona, the original Mor Dhona battle theme Phantoms on the Lake, the special cutscene theme Piece of Mind, Nael's final battle theme (the first stage anyway) Tempest, and the old open instanced battle theme The Seventh Gate.

Everything else from 1.0 has either returned for ARR or is quite frankly forgettable (I'm glad the old Ul'dah theme The Twin Faces of Fate has died in a fire for instance, it was horrible).

Originally Posted by -d-ky

why removing all these epic themes while it's there already? D:

Probably because the only tracks that didn't really return were either the original city themes, zone BGM and outside battle themes - as all those areas changed, SE probably thought the old music didn't really fit, and so it was decided to create new tracks that better fitted the 'changed world'. To be honest, I like the new music, but then, my opinions are usually in the minority anyway.