Lestallum - Worst FF music ever

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FF is known for its amazing music. Without Uemastu, the series music becomes decent at best like every other JRPG. But holy balls, they manage to create Lastallum theme which is the most annoying and repetitive song in any video games ever.

[Thyhel]

Guys, please. Yoko Shimomura is a legend. She's not Uematsu but she ain't bad, absolutely NOT.

[CrysisCore20]

You have bad taste. Lestallum has a fantastic theme and I love the dynamic shift as you enter the market.
Aside from the cutscenes this game's soundtrack is fantastic.

[Lmsd944]

Nothing wrong with the music you obviously suck.

[Elhoim]

Lestallum music is a very good one. But it's true that ever since X the music is rarely memorable (with a few exceptions).

[mikey_205]

Somnus is great but in general the breadth of excellent music is missing these days. Having said that XIV bucks the trend completey as its packed with great atmospheric songs. They need to nick that composer or the guy that does xenoblade

[CrysisCore20]

Originally posted by mikey_205:

Somnus is great but in general the breadth of excellent music is missing these days. Having said that XIV bucks the trend completey as its packed with great atmospheric songs. They need to nick that composer or the guy that does xenoblade

XIV's music is totally uninspired compared to XV. There's some really boring tracks in XIV.

Also Mitsuda used to work with Square.

[Alig200]

I imagine they tried to fit the music with the Cuban look of the town itself.
Assuming you are talking about the track I think you are, and not something else.

[Ryu Makkuro]

What real life city Lestallum has been based on - Havana

Now guess what type of music can be most often heard in that sort of city... yep, you guessed it. Exactly like that. Music fits the feel of the city, that's what matters. It doesn't have to be some epic fantastic thingamajig of a One Winged Angel and what not. It's meant to fit the theme of the place, even if it's not especially memorable. And it does that.

As to the subject of FF music going worse... well... there's only so many things that can be memorable although I still find FFXII's rendition of Battle on the Big Bridge to be the best of them all, and FFXV's exploration song is beautiful to say the least (shame it takes a long while for it to kick in...). And then there's the Somnus Nemoris which on epicness scale rivals the aforementioned One Winged Angel... all IMO. Still it's only natural it becomes harder and harder to think of something truly memorable while fitting the theme at the same time.

[Chico129]

Originally posted by Elhoim:

Lestallum music is a very good one. But it's true that ever since X the music is rarely memorable (with a few exceptions).

The theme from XIII is incredibly memorable, but that's mostly because every single track was just a small variation on one theme being repeated over and over again

[CrysisCore20]

Originally posted by AQH:

Originally posted by Elhoim:

Lestallum music is a very good one. But it's true that ever since X the music is rarely memorable (with a few exceptions).

The theme from XIII is incredibly memorable, but that's mostly because every single track was just a small variation on one theme being repeated over and over again

That's wrong. While The Promise was used repeatedly in the game it was no more often used than, say, To Zanarkand from FFX.

[Ryu Makkuro]

Originally posted by CrysisCore20:

That's wrong. While The Promise was used repeatedly in the game it was no more often used than, say, To Zanarkand from FFX.

Yep. What he said.
If one wants confirmation... buy the FFXIII OST for listening in Regalia and go through entirety of it. You'll notice that the songs there are very... not similar :P

[Chico129]

Originally posted by CrysisCore20:

Originally posted by AQH:

The theme from XIII is incredibly memorable, but that's mostly because every single track was just a small variation on one theme being repeated over and over again

That's wrong. While The Promise was used repeatedly in the game it was no more often used than, say, To Zanarkand from FFX.

"That's wrong"? Nah nah, that's not how this works. You've just said that another game repeats a theme over and over again. That doesn't change what I said from being a fact... It just means another game also repeats a theme over and over again.

Not saying it's ALWAYS a bad thing, soundtracks need an overarching theme to tie them together. Just saying FXIII did it too much. I like the theme personally, I often stick it on the car in XV... But they could've used more variation

[Chico129]

Originally posted by Ryu Makkuro:

Originally posted by CrysisCore20:

That's wrong. While The Promise was used repeatedly in the game it was no more often used than, say, To Zanarkand from FFX.

Yep. What he said.
If one wants confirmation... buy the FFXIII OST for listening in Regalia and go through entirety of it. You'll notice that the songs there are very... not similar :P

I literally do all the time, because I like it. Some songs being different doesn't change the fact that it is repeated a massive amount

[CrysisCore20]

Originally posted by AQH:

Originally posted by CrysisCore20:

That's wrong. While The Promise was used repeatedly in the game it was no more often used than, say, To Zanarkand from FFX.

"That's wrong"? Nah nah, that's not how this works. You've just said that another game repeats a theme over and over again. That doesn't change what I said from being a fact... It just means another game also repeats a theme over and over again.

Not saying it's ALWAYS a bad thing, soundtracks need an overarching theme to tie them together. Just saying FXIII did it too much. I like the theme personally, I often stick it on the car in XV... But they could've used more variation

You said "every single track is a small variation on one theme" but that's patently wrong. Listen to the soundtrack. It's like 90+ tracks long same as X, and both only have like 5-10 tracks that share the main theme (To Zanarkand or The Promise).

[Chico129]

Originally posted by CrysisCore20:

Originally posted by AQH:

"That's wrong"? Nah nah, that's not how this works. You've just said that another game repeats a theme over and over again. That doesn't change what I said from being a fact... It just means another game also repeats a theme over and over again.

Not saying it's ALWAYS a bad thing, soundtracks need an overarching theme to tie them together. Just saying FXIII did it too much. I like the theme personally, I often stick it on the car in XV... But they could've used more variation

You said "every single track is a small variation on one theme" but that's patently wrong. Listen to the soundtrack. It's like 90+ tracks long same as X, and both only have like 5-10 tracks that share the main theme (To Zanarkand or The Promise).

Hyperbolic speech is a thing, very commonly used, pretty easy to pick up on too. And yeah 90+ tracks, but the majority of them are not "OST" Type songs. For example the battle themes, I'm sure some people do enjoy them on their own, but they're not really fully fleshed out tracks the way the core songs are, I honestly didn't even think to include them