So I was reading this article http://kotaku.com/5880782/before-you-start-tips-for-playing-final-fantasy-xiii+2-the-best-way and when I got to number 9 I couldn't believe it. This is the funniest shit
FFXIII-2 The Music
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HolyDragoon
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I haven't sat and listened to the whole soundtrack yet since I am playing the game, but so far I quite like it. It's different, yet a lot of it actually works. Not all tracks mind you, so I wouldn't call it FF musical genius, but certainly enjoyable.
Music ripped from XIII works okay, but I'm not a fan of most of the new vocal pieces. The one that plays in Serah's home town is awful! 
I felt it overpowered any emotion in the exchanges between Noel and Serah. :/
However, I do like the battle theme, the victory/end of battle menu theme and the normal chocobo theme.
I'm rather unhappy to see that the XIII-2 Limited Edition CD only has 6 tracks on it!! XII had 10 or 12. TOh well.
I felt it overpowered any emotion in the exchanges between Noel and Serah. :/However, I do like the battle theme, the victory/end of battle menu theme and the normal chocobo theme.
I'm rather unhappy to see that the XIII-2 Limited Edition CD only has 6 tracks on it!! XII had 10 or 12. TOh well.
I forced myself to endure most of this, because soundtrack can make or break a game for me (and believe it or not, if FFXIII-2 had a good OST, I would have bought it and played it regardless of how awful it was; OST is THAT important to me, I look for it even before I look for articles and trailers) and I only liked the first 55 seconds of Caius' theme. FIFTY FIVE SECONDS of proper soundtrack in the entire thing.
Even FFXIII, which had a diabolical OST, had three full songs that I could listen to without wanting to rip off my ears (Born Anew, Ragnarok, and Fighting Fate) and was largely forgettable otherwise, so it could have been much worse than what it actually was. Some of these tracks I will NEVER forget, because they're going to haunt me in my sleep.
I'm not surprised, but I AM disappointed. Whilst variety is good - after all, not all OST can be perfect like NieR's - said variety needs to be composed properly and with some thought, and not just be an eclectic mess. I've heard better amateur compositions than this. They've got some nerve to even call this soundtrack.
Even FFXIII, which had a diabolical OST, had three full songs that I could listen to without wanting to rip off my ears (Born Anew, Ragnarok, and Fighting Fate) and was largely forgettable otherwise, so it could have been much worse than what it actually was. Some of these tracks I will NEVER forget, because they're going to haunt me in my sleep.
I'm not surprised, but I AM disappointed. Whilst variety is good - after all, not all OST can be perfect like NieR's - said variety needs to be composed properly and with some thought, and not just be an eclectic mess. I've heard better amateur compositions than this. They've got some nerve to even call this soundtrack.
I greatly prefer instrumental sound tracks over the singing tossed on the songs in this game. Also I do find it extremely annoying attempting to hear what characters are saying over a vocal track.
The few instrumental tracks this game has are very FF13 which had its own unique sound that fits. This game seems to have a lot more hip hop and pop in it then the first. I am just glad I have yet to hear that horrid leona louis song...
(MY EARS WHY!!)
I pretty much think its the worst final fantasy sound track to date. That does not mean its bad it just ranks very low on the list.
The few instrumental tracks this game has are very FF13 which had its own unique sound that fits. This game seems to have a lot more hip hop and pop in it then the first. I am just glad I have yet to hear that horrid leona louis song...
(MY EARS WHY!!)I pretty much think its the worst final fantasy sound track to date. That does not mean its bad it just ranks very low on the list.
It sounds like they took a ton of samplings, voice tracks and fills and stuck them together to make frankensteins behind.
On the bright side, I doubt it can get much worse.
Where's Nobuo Uematsu or Yasunori Mitsuda to save the day?
I wouldn't mind Tetsuya Nomura being put on the bench and replaced by Yoshitaka Amano, either!
On the bright side, I doubt it can get much worse.
Where's Nobuo Uematsu or Yasunori Mitsuda to save the day?
I wouldn't mind Tetsuya Nomura being put on the bench and replaced by Yoshitaka Amano, either!
I find it sad that I'm embarassed to say I like FFXIII-2's soundtrack.
Yeah the older FF ost are better, blah blah blah. But I like the variety in this game's music.
I'm honestly addicted to some of the vocal tracks. Sure some of these songs don't sound FF at all. But I don't think that they are automatically bad for that reason alone.
The instrumental songs, I thought, were brilliant and memorable. Especially 'wish'.
Please don't think I have a bad taste in music. It's really subjective IMO.
Yeah the older FF ost are better, blah blah blah. But I like the variety in this game's music.
I'm honestly addicted to some of the vocal tracks. Sure some of these songs don't sound FF at all. But I don't think that they are automatically bad for that reason alone.
The instrumental songs, I thought, were brilliant and memorable. Especially 'wish'.
Please don't think I have a bad taste in music. It's really subjective IMO.
I've been listening to the soundtrack a lot lately, and a lot of them are pretty good. The Last Travel is my favourite, followed by Yuel's Theme, and Followers of Chaos is good too, I couldn't help but laugh at Crazy Chocobo though.
After playing through the entire story, I've encountered a few tracks I actually really like! Yuel's Theme and Noel's Theme are simply gorgeous, and there are several others which make me want to purchase the OST - I wish I'd stuck with my pre-order of Crystal!! The hard rock tracks are a bit out of place...but they're no worse than Otherworld in X, so...y'know, I won't criticse something simply because it doesn't appeal to me personally. 
Climhazzard
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I'm probably the only one who didn't like the soundtrack then..
Okay they did have the odd okay piece here and there. But honestly, at points I've heard rap music and what can only be described as 'shouting' at others in the game.
Y'know that crazy mosh/rock/metal music where they just shout and make no sense? Yeah, that kind of music. Almost felt sickened when I first heard it. I also feel there's too much singing involved. I prefer theme-like melodies that epitomized the locations you were visiting aswell as describing character feelings and emotions throughout their adventures. I'm sure that's what they intended to do.. at some points.. I guess. Just wasn't there for me.
Give me Terra's theme, Bombing Mission, Ahead On Our Way, Tifa's theme, Flowers Blooming in the Church, J-E-N-O-V-A, Descendant of Shinobi (You have no idea how much it pains me to add this. No idea.) Great Warrior, Highwind Takes To The Skies, One Winged Angel, To Zanarkand, The Men Who Live For Blitz, Yuna's Theme, Suteki Da Ne, A Dream That Will End Sometime, X's Ending theme, The Place I'll Return To Someday, Frontier Village~Dali, Song of Memories, Loss of Me, Bittersweet Romance, Freya's Theme, Black Mage Village, The Ungrasped Memory, Hildagaldy, Liberi Fatali, Julia, Ami, Love Grows, Fragments of Memories, Overture, SeeD, The Landing, Shuffle or Boogie (That's right!) Ride On.
That, ladies and gentleman is my idea of FF music.
Okay they did have the odd okay piece here and there. But honestly, at points I've heard rap music and what can only be described as 'shouting' at others in the game.
Y'know that crazy mosh/rock/metal music where they just shout and make no sense? Yeah, that kind of music. Almost felt sickened when I first heard it. I also feel there's too much singing involved. I prefer theme-like melodies that epitomized the locations you were visiting aswell as describing character feelings and emotions throughout their adventures. I'm sure that's what they intended to do.. at some points.. I guess. Just wasn't there for me.
Give me Terra's theme, Bombing Mission, Ahead On Our Way, Tifa's theme, Flowers Blooming in the Church, J-E-N-O-V-A, Descendant of Shinobi (You have no idea how much it pains me to add this. No idea.) Great Warrior, Highwind Takes To The Skies, One Winged Angel, To Zanarkand, The Men Who Live For Blitz, Yuna's Theme, Suteki Da Ne, A Dream That Will End Sometime, X's Ending theme, The Place I'll Return To Someday, Frontier Village~Dali, Song of Memories, Loss of Me, Bittersweet Romance, Freya's Theme, Black Mage Village, The Ungrasped Memory, Hildagaldy, Liberi Fatali, Julia, Ami, Love Grows, Fragments of Memories, Overture, SeeD, The Landing, Shuffle or Boogie (That's right!) Ride On.
That, ladies and gentleman is my idea of FF music.
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I can't say I enjoyed it either. It sounds like the team gathered up a bunch of amateur composers, told them to go to their individual rooms and come up with something to hand in by next Monday. That's what it sounds like - a school project. A disjointed OST of random styles meshed together and often I was left wondering what the heck I had just listened to.
I know variety is the spice of life and that mixing up the soundtrack is an interesting idea, but so many of the tracks are just absolutely horrible - Historia Crux and the "metal" (or at least some random Japanese person's idea of metal) immediately spring to mind. I'm pretty sure I heard some techno club in there somewhere as well. I've seen reports of certain cutscenes having their mood completely ripped to shreds because of some incongruent endless fast-paced pop track playing in the background as opposed to something more sombre and slow-paced.
Like Martel, I was horribly disappointed by Caius's theme. It starts off so promising. Absolutely brilliant, and everything I could ask for from a badass villain theme. Suddenly, it drops the ball and starts turning into something I swear I have heard from a Disney soundtrack before. It does try to recover and gets better again towards the end, but it never manages to regain the awesomeness of the first 55 seconds.
I know variety is the spice of life and that mixing up the soundtrack is an interesting idea, but so many of the tracks are just absolutely horrible - Historia Crux and the "metal" (or at least some random Japanese person's idea of metal) immediately spring to mind. I'm pretty sure I heard some techno club in there somewhere as well. I've seen reports of certain cutscenes having their mood completely ripped to shreds because of some incongruent endless fast-paced pop track playing in the background as opposed to something more sombre and slow-paced.
Like Martel, I was horribly disappointed by Caius's theme. It starts off so promising. Absolutely brilliant, and everything I could ask for from a badass villain theme. Suddenly, it drops the ball and starts turning into something I swear I have heard from a Disney soundtrack before. It does try to recover and gets better again towards the end, but it never manages to regain the awesomeness of the first 55 seconds.