I'm not going to jump into the middle of this debate right now because it's the morning and I have to be at work in 20 minutes so I don't have time to read it all. I will say that looking at their bodies of work that I have listened to (which is quite a bit, though admittedly maybe half of the titles each has worked on), Uematsu has been far more consistent than Mitsuda in my eyes. Even his worst effort in my opinion (FFVIII) had quite a few stellar tracks on it. Mitsuda on the other hand seems to fluctuate between bouts of greatness with Chrono Trigger, to stuff that is bland and doesn't stand out at all like Xenosaga. I do like both of them quite a bit, but Mitsuda isn't always at top form. I don't blame him though since it'd be tough to do his job and come up with amazing soundtracks every single time.