Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
I disagree. There is actually a large variety in the styles and frequency of different music tracks Soken uses for cutscene incidental music, and I never feel "oh no not this track again" when playing through the story. Imperial Will especially is the Garlean Empire's leitmotif so of course it's going to be played in many cutscenes involving the Empire, and given the importance the Empire has to FFXIV's storyline, it's only natural it plays a lot throughout the game (it's like Imperial March being associated with Darth Vader in the Star Wars films, it's automatically associated with him and variations show up throughout the original trilogy and even in the prequels and elsewhere).

But then I love FFXIV's OST as I love FF music in general, and feel Soken has actually got the right balance between his new tracks he's specifically composed for ARR and it's expansions, and Uematsu's original 1.0 OST which he has also included (the aforementioned Imperial Will is a Uematsu track originally composed for FFXIV 1.0, and Uematsu after all is the FF series composer, so it's only a good thing it's used as much as it has).
I also love FF music and the OST--as I said several times, this is by no means a critique of the OST. It's just a critique of how overplayed certain songs have become to the point that you can almost predict how an entire cutscene will go based solely on the song chosen