Why did Yoko Shimomura pick a mainline FF game to make her weakest soundtrack?
Why did Yoko Shimomura pick a mainline FF game to make her weakest soundtrack?
Lincoln Long
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Ryan Price
unironically the OST is God tier. Unlike the game.
Wyatt Flores
The majority of the soundtrack wasn't her doing though, she's only credited in all songs because of the VersusXIII bandwagon
Charles Young
no, she composed most of the songs.
Jeremiah Green
bait
OST is pretty godlike, the problem is that its so clear that parts of it was made for different games/made for gameplay that was changed or cut
Some of the best tracks in the game don't really get played or interrupted often because of the game system working against it to the point where outside of combat, there are times where the game just stops playing its music
Blake Nelson
Imagine a featuring between Nobuo and Yoko on the same music. It would be like when two pop/rap artists do a featuring, but with Yoko and Nobuo composing a music.
Nicholas Scott
Unironically tabatas fault
Nolan Rodriguez
even if you really like it. It's weak as hell compared to most other stuff she's done. Even fucking Heroes on Mana on the DS had a better soundtrack.
Noah Torres
Her arrangements in ff15 were better than her arrangements in KH3.
Some of the songs that should sound orchestral decided to pull on nostalgic heartstrings and use what I can only describe as PS2 midi tossed into a blender. It's just like MH World's ost turns to midi shit after the jungle starting zone.
Arrangement can make all the difference for a composition, and unfortunately, FF15 was the last time she did it well.
Mason Carter
Tabata sounds like one of those fodder hollywood directors
Juan Wood
But XV has a great OST
Cameron Smith
Only 5 tracks from XV were solely arranged by Shimomura. The rest were either herself and some other dude, or fully done by someone else.
Owen Roberts
Why did FFXIII and XIV have the best FF OSTs, despite being the worst FF games?
Isaac Smith
Why couldn't FFXV have a soundtrack as godtier as FF13?
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Asher Russell
FFXIII has a good ost, not the best but still good.
As for FFXIV i hope to god you're talking about 1.0 or else your opinion is utter trash.
Oliver Nguyen
Who said she picked it?
Grayson Bennett
None of that shit sounds good. It sounds like a cacophony, actually. Is this your babyfirst choirs tracks or what? Composition has no leitmotiv to it, no logic, it's soulless. FFXIII's OST is forgettable as fuck, heck I didn't even bother to download it, which was unthikable to me with how highly I regarded FF's music back then. Okay, its main theme had some soul put into it, I'll admit, and I liked its use.
Xavier Parker
>Still liking Nobuo "phone ringtone" Uematsu
Hudson Collins
>being an actual Sokenfag
I swear to god you people are just contrarians. Soken isn't even in the top 10 in terms of Square composers.
Jacob Green
>I'm going to throw out a bunch of Yea Forumssic terms without understanding what they mean
The music in FFXIII is using very obvious motifs, taken directly from famous styles of music and composers. Specifically Paganini, Puccini and Holst. While still putting the composers own unique style on it. And that's just for the orchestrated music. It then goes on to blend orchestration with synth. Some of the best out there.
Tyler Rivera
> nomura actually listens to music tabata just a-okayed everything
Nomuras only like 3 years Tabatas junior why is Tabata such an old man
Oliver Gray
> Composition has no leitmotiv to it, no logic, it's soulless
HEY GUYS I JUST LEARNED WHAT LEITMOTIF IS AND I'M GONNA ACT LIKE ITS AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY FOR GOOD COMPOSITION SO I CAN LOOK SMART!
Caleb Watson
>Tries too sound smart only to sound like an uneducated retard.
Alexander Wright
nah i just hate uematsu and still wonder why they hire that old fuck.
Jeremiah Nguyen
Probably hated the game about as much as everyone else who worked on it besides that faggot Nomura.
Luke Hernandez
lol
Alexander Ortiz
What's wrong with Uemetsu
Thomas Perry
Ah shit, someone actually got the lyrics for the Bhunivelze song? I always thought it was just ominous-sounding nonsense.
Benjamin Mitchell
nothing about ff13 or 15 is memorable other than the way they kill that little spark of hope in your chest that you would one day feel the same way you did when you started playing ff9. their ost's are irrelevant becaues the games are unplayable trash.
nothing, he's a retard on Yea Forums that enjoys acquiring (You)s.
Carter Evans
XIII-2 > XIII.
FF songs usually Latin, don't they? They haven't gotten into to the whole gibberish language like Kajiura and MONACA.
Luke Reed
embarassing post 3bh
Adam Perez
Back when FF1 was being made, they just hired whoever they could find. One of the producers in Squaresoft knew Uematsu, who went through the same university course Sugiyama did (the composer for Dragon Quest). And since Final Fantasy was already modeling itself off of Dragon Quest, they used him. Basically, they wanted their own Sugiyama.
What they got was someone who had a unique sound. And became a bigger selling point for the games than the art design or story. Like him or hate him, Uematsu has a unique sound. I personally think he's a master at pulling every ounce out of a synthesizer. But when it comes to orchestrated compositions, he's hit or miss (more miss). Funny enough, the best orchestrated versions of his music were arranged by Sugiyama.
Hunter Jackson
Back when FF1 was being made, they just hired whoever they could find. One of the producers in Squaresoft knew Uematsu
>Back when FF1 was being made, they just hired whoever they could find. One of the producers in Squaresoft knew Uematsu
you're a fucking retard. Uematsu was already working for Square before FF.
Jonathan Nguyen
Peak Shimomura is 1992 (all of Street Fighter II except one track and Wily Stage from MM5) to 2000 (Legend of Mana). Past that is a much more maudlin sound that too focused on violins the last ten years in particular.
Anthony Brown
Wyatt Sullivan
>legend
um, no sweetie
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Cooper Scott
People just really like to shit on ffxv
Nathan Rodriguez
I'm not arguing she can't do nice stuff outside of those parameters, just that it was her best streak. Anyway, I believe LoM is still her best work and KH1 ushered in a more inconsistent 'Silver Age' for her. She's still good, just not AS good.