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FO said she liked Fate and Haze, but it sounds to me like a second rate Into the Darkness rehash.


The thing about "Fate in Haze" is that I have this 28-minute long midi called "Giant RPG Medley!" that I got from Vgmusic.com a long time ago. It has a bunch of different songs from different RPGs together in one medley. Somewhere near the end of it, it plays a small part of "Fate in Haze", and when I first heard it, I thought I really liked that but had no idea what I was actually listening to. I had to search through the info tag on the midi to figure it out. But the song in the actual FFV game doesn't sound quite that good. It's a similar situation with Ys 3's Ballacetine Castle theme - the best version I've ever heard of that is Jorge D. Fuentes's midi.

For the record, I don't like the Edgar & Sabin theme much either. For one thing, it repeats that "Daa Daa DAAA da DA da DA da DA da DAAA" part FOUR times before it goes into the second part of the song, and that just gets tedious to listen to for me. The Overture from FF8 sounds like a huge rip-off of Maurice Ravel's "Bolero". I do kind of like Liberi Fatali, though.

This has been mentioned on these forums before, but one opinion on music that seems incomprehensible to me is that Seiken Densetsu 3 has a better soundtrack than Secret of Mana. I don't even think they're close. I kind of like the opening theme, but it's a remix of the opening theme of Secret of Mana. I kind of like the Farewell Song, but that's just one song and it's not as good as, say, "Star of Darkness", or "The Wind Never Ceases", or "One of Them is Hope" from SOM. A lot of the music is (quite inappropriate) remixes of the Mana Beast theme from Secret of Mana, and even if you like that song, I can't imagine anyone not thinking the original version from SOM is the best version. Another thing about SD3 is that the entire soundtrack is extremely "samey". SOM has everything from rock, to orchestral, to calypso, and some stuff so bizarre it defies description, like the Dark Lich's theme.

I remember one time I was on some random message board where people were doing this thing where'd they'd post two game songs and ask "Which is better?" One was the battle theme from SD3 vs. Natural Selection (Darc's fixed battle theme) from Arc 4. My thought on that was that it's not even a contest - that's a slaughter.

But I dunno. Music can be very subjective and people can sometimes have bizarre tastes. I know that some of my tastes are pretty damn bizarre, too. I can imagine that not everyone would like the Knights of Justice soundtrack as much as I do.
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