Quote Originally Posted by Tiberious View Post
It's not ALL bad. I like the music in the towns, and coerthas is pretty cool. The battle music just doesn't seem to fit with the general theme of the rest of it. It's like one minute you're listening to this woodland type flute sound and then you're thrashing through a heavy metal club (a bad hair metal club from the 80s). That type of music would fit better in the more futuristic Final Fantasy games seen lately. Not in this setting though. See what I mean there?
Sure thing. They got this right in a couple of the areas I think, Mor Dhona really stands out. It has a really gloomy atmosphere, gloomy overworld music, then kind of a more upbeat, yet still "dark" vibe about it's battle music. It's hard to get it 100% right, because a battle is a faster tempo situation than just strolling through an area, so it can be hard to find that perfect formula.

I think it was at the 25th Anniversary panel with Yoshi-P and co. that Soken was discussing the music for ARR some, and depending on the situation, the music would change, so it sounds like there's a central song per area, and it gets sped up or something if you're in a battle. Don't know exactly how it'll work but it sounds cool in theory.