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

Originally Posted by Celaine

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.

A lot of the original battle music felt like it didn't suit the game's atmosphere. They sound fine on their own but I rather not listen to electric guitars playing all the time. That's not to say I prefer the current one either, since it's used everywhere with slight variations. It would be nice to get some variety depending on what zone you're in. The same could be said for dungeons.

Originally Posted by -Lilia-

I apologize if there's already been a thread about this but I couldn't see any D;

Anyways~ I don't think they should have let such a good theme go to waste! I do like the new one but I thought v1.0's theme was soo much better in like a motivational way too! I hope they add it back in! for maybe PvP or something atleast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVUVvUfcNdg

I agree this could be a nice additional for pvp music on the list.

I wish there was an option to use 1.0 music or something along those lines. I never played 1.0 but my goodness that battle music makes me wanna battle monsters all day.

I think that'd make a better boss theme, a 30 riff buildup is too long for normal enemies.