Uh this is sad

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About my statements on Uematsu's involvement, I got my information about Final Fantasy XI from the retrospective linked in another thread on this site stating that he did about half the work on the original but none of it on the expansions.

Well, they are wrong, but oh well. He did only a few things such as the opening theme song, Longfall, and a couple of others. I think he also did the lyrical song played in the CoP expansion, though I could be wrong.

As for Final Fantasy XII, according to the credits, he composed one song. This song had lyrics written by someone else. But at least four of his previous songs were used. The Prelude, The Prologue, The Fanfare, and Clash On The Big Bridge. So, what the other composers had to do is make it fit. Make it sound like Uematsu. They failed at this in Final Fantasy X-2. They didn't even try. My point was to show how it could be done as it was in Final Fantasy XI and XII, and that they chose to make the music not fit.

Final Fantasy XI doesn't really resemble Nobou Uematsu's work, save for the Chocobo theme and the tracks he wrote. Neither does Final Fantasy XII except for the track he did and a couple of remakes -- it sounds like the work of the composers of Final Fantasy Tactics.

I do agree that Final Fantasy X-2 just went way off course -- they had Final Fantasy X's soundtrack to refer to, and they ultimately failed.