Least favorite musical track from the series.
I've been playing way too much Theatrhythm lately and as usual, while I love going through certain game soundtracks over and over; there are others I tend to begrudgingly go through for completions. There are also times where I'll go through a soundtrack I love and find they chose a lot of tracks that I don't really feel represent the best the game had to offer. So what this thread is about is revealing which tracks from the series make you twicth uncontrollably when you listen to them or give out a deep sigh as you have to listen to this boring track.
While I have never been partial to regular battle themes in the series, usually going into auto-pilot for most of them, FFX's stands out for me as one that is just a bit annoying. I'm not sure if it's the fact it takes it awhile to pick up and feel "urgent" or if it's the fact that several parts sound way too familiar and the track sometimes feels like a bad remix of an earlier battle theme. While it's hardly the worst battle theme I've listened to, I think I can safely say it's my least favorite in the series. Honestly the music for the blitzball mini-game would have been a better choice for a battle theme.
I don't even know what's going on in this track. It starts off playful then kind of gets serious and the music just feels like a representation of walking, which makes sense cause it's a track that plays on a road. It's just so damn boring though, which is a shame because you just came away from awesome tracks like Besaid island and get to look forward to Macalania wood and Zanarkand but this theme is just boring and the Mi'hen Road is one of longest sections of the game by this point, and one that is largely not terribly story relevant until you reach Mushroom Rock, making it feel like filler, which this track is.
I learned to really hate this track in the first Theatryhthm game, probably cause it popped up with way too much frequency in the chaos shrine challenge section. Musically, there is nothing wrong with it. The melodies and beat are really nice, this track just has the misfortune to have singing in it, which just feels awkward to me for some reason. Probably cause the track feels more like something out of Persona 3 and 4 which used a lot of singing tracks for school days. This theme might represent the bright colorful location it plays in, but the area is rather forgettable for me (as most locations in FFXII tend to be for me) and I feel the track would have worked better had their been no singing cause it makes the track feel like XIII's composer was rummaging through Atlus' trash bin for music. The lyrics being utterly cheesy don't help, but then again, most FF songs are cheesy when lyrics are accounted for.
I love FFV's soundtrack for the most part, except this piece and a handful of others but this one gets played a lot. I don't know what it is, perhaps it just feels like it lumbers too much for me, or perhaps it's because the later world map themes are just overwhelming superior to it, but this track lacks the urgency and bite of the later tracks. It doesn't help that it feels like something closer to the NES era titles, whereas Unknown Lands and A New World feel like the kind of tracks Nobuo will compose for the later installments. It's tied with one other game for my least favorite world map theme...
Oh my lord this track is SOOOO BOOOORRRRING. Most world map themes fit the feel of the world and the story but I can't really put my finger on it for this game due to this track always putting me to sleep.
So what are some tracks you don't care for?
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Originally Posted by Vermachtnis
