Least Favorite Black Mages Song?

[Forsaken Lover]

Two categories:

1. It's just not as good as the original:
My example-
Battle with Seymour:
Original
Black Mages

2. Just plain sucks:
Grand Cross

This is not a "I hate The Black Mages" topic because I do like a lot of their music. It's just no one is perfect and they've made some inferior or just bad songs. I want to know what people here think.

[P4ine]

Think I agree with Seymour Battle. Didn't actually like the original either.

But Grand Cross on the other hand is great I think! One of my MOST favorite songs OVER ALL
Though I like the Black Mages' version least.

Piano > Original > Black Mages ;P

[Forsaken Lover]

The original is good. It's just the BM version is not only inferior to the original, their version just sucks.

Which was the reason I have the two categories. Some songs are good but nto as good as the original and some just suck.

[ReloadPsi]

Grand Cross was painfully disappointing. Who would've thought they would actually try taking the MIDI sequence of the original track, changing the sound of a couple of instruments and then having a guitar in drop C tuning chug open chords throughout and pass it off as a "hard rock arrangement"?

I know people complain about Those Who Fight Further getting a similar treatment, but that was a rock piece to begin with, so a carbon copy with realistic instruments was the only appropriate treatment to give it. Besides, if people complain about it being a carbon copy then why the smeg do they like the other carbon copies so much? Bah.

[Jiro]

I didn't like Otherworld as much as the original. Grand Cross was.. not my cup of tea at all. I don't think Distant Worlds nor Darkness and Starlight worked properly either.

Grand Cross is probably the only one I would say I didn't like though. The rest of the songs more than make up for it

[Roogle]

I disliked Battle With Seymour out of all of The Black Mages tracks that I have listened to.

This is mainly due to the fact that this is one of the newer songs in the list of covers from the Final Fantasy series, and I am not sure if the song really needed that type of remix. I am a big fan of battle themes, but this was one of my most disliked battle themes.

[ReloadPsi]

Oh boy, I just heard Darkness and Starlight again.

One of my friends recently flatly claimed that "the Japanese can't sing". I didn't want to agree with him at the time, but if this is the best Maria they could get...

[VeloZer0]

I don't like any of their songs with lyrics it it. It is exceedingly rare I can get into a vg song or remix that has singing.

[Brennan]

Fight With Seymore really bothers me somewhat.
Although OST remakes that add singing usually ruin the song, I found The Skies Above to be pleasant.

[Clo]

I downloaded a Black Mages song called "Maybe I'm a Lion", and it's very bizarre, which makes me question the download, and it sucks. Yeesh.

[Jessweeee♪]

Battle with Seymour didn't include all of the stuff that made the original awesome

[Brennan]

Battle with Seymour didn't include all of the stuff that made the original awesome

Nah, it didn't, personally though, I would rather the one against Seymore Flux, but I'm not sure if they did it before.

This song: YouTube - 80-Challenge-FFX OST

[Jessweeee♪]

Yeah, that's probably my favorite battle theme in the game! I think it would have the same problem though.