Battle for Freedom is one of the best tracks I've heard in the series. I love Uematsu's music but FFXII had a fantastic replacement. Even FFXIII did for that matter.
Music is the one thing that stayed consistently great throughout the series.
From: Jeff Zero | #099 Oh wow. A socksmakepeoplesexy link. That site's articles are terrific. I love the FF series.
I like those articles for the most part, but his FFXIII article is pretty terrible because it seems like a lot of, "This isn't old school Final Fantasy. Why are they doing things differently? Let's make fun of this game for referencing past games in the series like every game in the series that isn't Final Fantasy I does." That one more than anything, it feels like his bias toward old school FF keeps him from really giving newer FFs a fair shake.
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From: LeonhartFour | #104 The soundtrack was one of FFXII's weaker points, I thought. I never find myself having an urge to listen to FFXII music.
I'm pretty sure roughly 95% of my time spent listening to video game music outside of playing the games in question is spent on FFXII music. It's my favourite video game soundtrack ever.
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He's also the only person I've seen who considers FFVII part of old school Final Fantasy, but I think it's because he likes it and by grouping it in with old school, he can have free reign to bash new FF games without contradicting himself.
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LeonhartFour posted... He's also the only person I've seen who considers FFVII part of old school Final Fantasy, but I think it's because he likes it and by grouping it in with old school, he can have free reign to bash new FF games without contradicting himself.
Considering we're up to XIV now, FFVII is old enough that it's at the tail end of the back half. Discounting the two online titles it's still got wiggle room though.
Of course if we're just going by the whole "FFVII is in 3D! Good lord!" thing, then sure. :P
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From: LeonhartFour | #110 He's also the only person I've seen who considers FFVII part of old school Final Fantasy, but I think it's because he likes it and by grouping it in with old school, he can have free reign to bash new FF games without contradicting himself.
Pretty much. That guy's reviews are awful and almost 100% nostalgia. His FFII review is basically "the game sucks but it introduced traditions so YAY IT'S GOOD!" and his reviews for later games often criticize it for everything he claimed to like in earlier games. He's funny at times, but very contradictory and generally doesn't seem to care about the quality of games, only whether he has fond memories of it or not.
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LeonhartFour posted... Well, there's a pretty clear break in style once you hit FFVII that it makes it difficult to group it in with "old school" FF games.
I agree with you... but at the same time I don't agree with you. Tetsuya Nomura had already been flexing his design muscle a tad bit in FFV with monster designs and much more noticeably in FFVI with a few of the characters. On many levels VI and VII feel very much part of the same era to me. Just one is quite cinematic compared to the other's 2D overhead.
Both strive to develop their world, their casts and their villains more than the games that preceded them. Yoshinori Kitase began getting more hands-on with the series starting with VI as opposed to VII.
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FFXII has a great soundtrack. One of my favorite things about it is the great environment musics for the field areas. But yeah lol Vayne he was really boring.
Well, if I were going to make a break anywhere other than where it is now (and where most fans seem to agree it is), it'd be grouping VI in with the modern FFs rather than grouping VII in with the old FFs.
LeonhartFour posted... Well, if I were going to make a break anywhere other than where it is now (and where most fans seem to agree it is), it'd be grouping VI in with the modern FFs rather than grouping VII in with the old FFs.
Which just so happens to be where I divide things, actually. Hence my point in the more recent post. Before I was just throwing other statistics out as a way of demonstrating how different people can feasibly view the whole shebang differently
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Personally, I enjoy the articles. I think they're pretty witty and well written, but he's pretty clearly biased against the new games in his writing. The FFXIII one just got out of hand to me.
Well I also feel like he's harsher on FFIX and FFX than necessary for sure. I'm also not convinced his version of how FFVIII's plot came about is the "only possible explanation". But yeah, I still like the articles.
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FFXI is great though. The carrot analogy is really BS. If you're not having fun with the journey, then of course it's not fun. But the same could be said of any game you're not having fun with.
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