EoFF RPG Thunderdome 2020: Round 1 Match 15

[Lord Golbez]

I honestly can't remember any of the music from FFXII. I figured it was because it was mostly atmospheric, but it could also be because I only played it once and want to wipe it out of my memory....

I think voice acting largely destroyed emotional game music (though not entirely). It used to be that the music really had to deliver the impact for dramatic scenes, but now it's more in the background while voice acting does the heavylifting, so it tends not to be as memorable.

I say not entirely because I think there are some games that don't really do this. For example, the Persona games, despite having loads of voice acting, never really seem to push the music to the background and, hence, have some great emotional and memorable tracks.