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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
We may not have the game, but we can still hear the music!!, 17 Jan 2002
How good is some of this music? And how varied is it? When I first bought this soundtrack, I was expecting the music to follow the same kind of direction as Final Fantasy IX - decent, but uninspiring in places. How wrong was I? The fifth track on the first disc - "Otherworld" - leaps out at you instantly, mainly because it's a kind of heavy metal track and not something you would expect in a Final Fantasy game!
The songs do stay in this fine vein of form. The seperate themes for the characters (especially Tidus, Yuna and Auron) are good. "Sending off to a different world" on disc 2 and the various battle themes (especially "Battle with Seymour" on disc 4) are too much fun to listen to! Then we have "Suteki da ne" and the "Ending theme", both of which are beautiful. "To Zanarkand", "Brass de Chocobo", "Omen"... The list of decent tracks goes on.
The only complaint I would have are the various summoning themes - all of which are the same except that they are sung by different members of a chorus. It can get a little repetitive, but that's just one small complaint.
You can see that Uematsu-san hasn't lost his touch, and the additions made by the other two composers (whose names escape me at the moment...) are quite good. I can't wait for the game, especially if the music is anything to go by!
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Forget what you may have heard..., 12 Dec 2002
Before buying this soundtrack or playing the first ps2 instalment of the final fantasy series, i heard several reviews rating this soundtrack as "not usual uematsu" standards. Even if it wasn't up to "usual" standards, his lowest standards would still be stuninng. But my point is that it is just as spectacular as all previous OST's he has produced. I made the decision to buy the soundtrack despite early reviews fater playing the game. Time after time, even through the amazing animation effects and visuals, the music really stood out, not just as the perfect finishing touch, but as whole gaming element itself. Hours and hours of pure sweet music. Even if you don't know a blimmin' word of japanese, you can still appreciate the beauty of the vocal tracks. And i can guarrantee that you'll soon be humming the hymn to yourself, trust me, you can have alot lot lot worse songs stuck in your head. Buy. buy it now..............you know you want to.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good...but I've heard better., 28 Jul 2002
By A Customer
The latest installment of the epic final fantasy series brings with it a brand new soundtrack, but one of the first things you may notice about it is that for the first time Nobuo Uematsu isn't going solo. On this soundtrack Junya Nakano and Masashi Hamauzu did quite a lot of the composition...and for me it showed.
The CD opens with Uematsu's piano piece 'Zanarkand', the music from the opening credits and (in my opinion) one of the best tracks on the CD. From there you'll find yourself blown away by track 2 - 'Otherworld'. Not following the usual styles of Final Fantasy, Otherworld is pure hard rock (which shakes the room if you turn up the bass high enough!) and it sounds absolutely fantastic!!! After Otherworld the CD gets a little disappointing for me. The rest of the tracks include the latest remix of the chocobo theme (called Chocobo Jam), the game's battle theme is in there (aptly named Battle Theme), as is the music from the final battle (Final Battle), and the Hymn of the Faith is also there in the track 'The Sending'. Whilst these are all quality tracks when accompanying the awesome gameplay of FFX, they have trouble holding their own as independent tracks, and a lot of the magic is lost (on me at least).
And of course it wouldn't be modern Final Fantasy without the love song. This time it's called 'Suteki Da Ne' and whilst I find it far too cheesy to tolerate, I'm sure there's a few of you out there who'd enjoy it.In short...well, as it says above, good but I've heard better.
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