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discovered quite possibly one of the worst jrpg battle themes ever
- Thread starter hwarang
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Is it just the way they were ripped/uploaded or is the music in that first video... skipping?
Can't compare them fairly until you've listened to both for the full length of a game, though.
I honestly never understood why people hate that theme so much. It's not amazing or anything, but I thought it was... perfectly fine? I kinda like the violins in it. And yet it's consistently brought up as being bad, so... I dunno, I feel like I'm missing something.
And wow this theme in the OP is... something.
The problem is. It gets really repetitive. It was a shame it was even used most of the time for boss fights.
It's weirdly grating compared to the brilliance of the rest of the soundtrack.
I am half expecting someone to post an actual good theme by page 2
and there it is
I guess I could see that, kind of, but I don't find it to be grating or repetetive really. I like how it's in an uncommon time signature and it has a great beat in spots, while also never letting you get too comfortable with it. TBH both the main battle theme and the main boss theme are some of the weakest tracks on the OST, but they're still good.
Isn't this the game where the director said people weren't smart enough to understand it when it didn't do well?
The time signature is admittedly probably the one thing I do appreciate about it, but I'm just a sucker for erratic time signatures in general.
I'm sorry WHAT? SMT4A's battle themes were great. I particularly loved the Divine Powers one.
Yes it's that one, and it's also literally one of the absolute worst things I have ever beaten. As a note this battle theme appears right after a character was comforting another character about his sister's suicide, it's an absolutely baffling moment.
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The entire OST: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo5mCDONA3OhAyHtkyMz3vmBgfXjpwyeG
It's an obscure Japan only JRPG called Ancient Roman where supposedly the instrumentation got messed up in every single song and it was too late to fix it by the time it got noticed.
edit: From what I remember, part of it is speculation (the game is seriously obscure) based on the fact that there was a soundtrack CD release where all the tracks sound... totally normal with different pitches, and not completely out of tune. The YouTube playlist actually has those so you can compare.
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I don't like them at all either, honestly. I don't think they're particularly bad, though.
Can't speak for the rest of the soundtrack, but the normal battle theme is doo doo butter.
Intro is fine, nothing wrong with it
1:10 is just what the fuck
1:24 is a janky transition
1:33 another janky transition
IMO it doesn't mesh well as if there was barely any effort put into the transitions at all which is why I called it a clusterfuck.
Edit: Although i really love the instrument that come in at 1:40 to 1:47, loved SMT4's soundtrack due to that sorta thing
Bitter Dance from Star Ocean 3 still has the take for me on oddest choice for a battle track. Sakuraba's at his best when he sticks to Prog Rock and Jazz, but this....Oh man. Mind you this is coming from someone who is big time triAce fanboy and love most of Motoi Sakuraba's material he composed.
This track being the lone exception.
This track being the lone exception.
Your ears are painted on. Chrono Cross has an amazing battle theme.
Whatever the fuck this trash is supposed to be:
It's pretty good for the first 45 seconds then gets awful, and gets even worse when the weird ass screeching kicks in.
It's pretty good for the first 45 seconds then gets awful, and gets even worse when the weird ass screeching kicks in.
It's been AGES since I've played this game but IIRC the normal battle themes are layered; during normal gameplay you have to charge a song that plays in the background that is layered onto the default theme so the video posted is not supposed to be heard in isolation. Now I can't recall if they were good or not in practice since you can't find any videos of it online of the normal battle theme variations but in general the whole series of Ar Tonelico does have some amazing boss themes and generally has a high quality soundtrack.
It's like the Resident Evil Mansion Basement of RPG battle themes.
Yeah OP, that might just be the worst battle theme I've heard. I can't believe someone approved of that "music".
I'm sorry, but I am from Reset Era dot com, and I am here to inform you that there is a battle theme from Final Fantasy or something that is much worse than this, actually.
Well clearly Im in the mood for my ear drums to be violated so don't tease me.
Nah it's this
I had never liked it but I could never figure out why until I just listened to the Retronauts episode on FFX & they nailed it by calling it the equivalent of a local news at 5 theme.
I had never liked it but I could never figure out why until I just listened to the Retronauts episode on FFX & they nailed it by calling it the equivalent of a local news at 5 theme.
even the zombies at 3:30?
who let zombies in
get the fuck out of here, zombies
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Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean OST - Track XI (CD 1)..."Is that all you got?!"
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This is like every game where you're running out of time played simultaneously by a person on 12 cups of coffee.