I think hearing music reinterpreted often affects how I view the original music itself. It includes all of the games current songs (except the Wizard. I wonder when we'll start seeing fan or official covers/remixes of things like the Fantasian soundtrack. The Rolling Sky 2 Music Album is an album released by Cheetah Mobile on November 11th, 2019. So I welcome his different direction and will happily listen to Fantasian for years to come. Not that I'd wish him to return to that style, it's his work after all, and perhaps there's just no topping what he managed in that same style. I think he's an incredible composer (my favourite ever) with a very wide range but I think he has a strength that he used to full effect during his Final Fantasy days that produced what I consider his best work. Fantasian follows the story of a young man named Leo who is looking for his father and ends up traveling across dimensions as he searches, suffering memory loss and encountering a number of. Personally, I do lean more towards his excellent melody driven FF music. So later works have often seemed to take away emphasis on music lead by a strong emotional melody and instead focused on other aspects, though the melodies are still good. Since he left Final Fantasy, I think Uematsu has been keenly aware that his music is widely known for focusing on really good melodies and perhaps he feels he became a little too predictable and familiar. One thing that stands out to me though is the way melodies are treated. I only wonder how my opinions might be shaped if I actually played the game. I still wouldn't put it on the level of his best work, but it's incredible nonetheless. After so much time and listening, I've really come to appreciate most of this OST. Now I'm listening to the soundtrack again after buying the official release. So after my slight initial disappointment, I quickly began to re-listen to the whole soundtrack, knowing that I could probably enjoy it and began noticing many small callbacks to Final Fantasy and other works including his Phantasmagoria album. I enjoy much of his music post-FF (and pre-FF) but I never felt it quite reached the heights of his best FF work. I know Uematsu has continued to make music after Final Fantasy and I've followed his and Sakaguchi's work as much as I can. I'd heard it was said to be his best work yet (and possibly his final videogame soundtrack) and although I realise that a creator might have a very different view on their work (and of course that opinions vary), I couldn't help thinking of my favourite FF soundtracks and expecting something similar. I've since purchased the official release and it's beautiful.Īt first, I was slightly underwhelmed. Unfortunately I've never played the game, since I don't own any Apple devices, but as soon as the music rips appeared, I started listening.
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