There are probably a couple to be honest, mostly because they were MIDI files and not because the compositions themselves were bad. But then again, I can say this about pretty much every composer in FF history. Hell, gaming history!
The ones that grated on me the most are the ones that repeated over and over and had some kind of shrill, high pitch noise in them. Cosmo Canyon, I think, had a theme which grated on me after a while for that reason. The daytime theme of Idyllshire is another that I got sick of because I felt it repeats too quickly. It needed something in it that changed things up a bit, but it didn't. RIP.
Uematsu is great, don't get me wrong, but he is great for his amazing and memorable pieces you can hear over and over. That doesn't mean most of the stuff he makes is amazing, though, any more than any other composer these days. I do wonder if he can still do it in the modern times where MIDIs are out and we have voices talking over the top of the music. Voice acting killed the OST star.



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