#98. Yeah, Felwithe sucks. The music, the High Elves, the city, the location, everything about it is terrible.
I take offense to this! I played a human first before switching to High Elf, and I never looked back. (Not being able to see in the dark might have had something to do with it.)
79. Treasure Quest - He and Beauty
Score: 14/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 69
Comments:
(Mega Mana) He's not here to fix your plumbing!
(Ed Bellis) this is hilarious and not awesome
(Kenri) ...This isn't Prophecy. Occasionally it has glimpses of... not really brilliance, but of something I'd at least listen to. The rest of it... not so much.
(TheArkOfTurus) I enjoyed... Parts of it?
Thanks to the weird, awkward nature of Treasure Quest, a puzzle game with no solution included and where you were supposed to mail your answer in for a $1,000,000 contest, I listened to this soundtrack a little more than what's considered healthy, looking for clues. Probably a futile effort considering that the album was made by the publisher's owner's daughter and not the producer. (It wouldn't be until 2005 before Gnant would professionally record music again, thanks to trading the fellow from oneredpaperclip for a recording contract, but she's not bad.) Back when I "played" the game, this was my favorite track from the album. These days, not so much. Like Kenri, I like Prophecy a lot, and there's a few other tracks I haven't subjected you all to yet that I would take over this one as well. Who knows, maybe I'll nominate TQ for Best OST 2. =)
78. Final Fantasy X-2 - YuRiPa Battle #3
Score: 14/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 89
Comments:
(Jeff Zero) must I give this a point? Must I?
(MycroProcessor) Really cool synth orchestra rock mix and COOL synths in general. SLAP BASS _ _ _ _ _sound design being APPEALING TO MY PERSONAL TASTES. whoa there was a metallic hit sound thing that sounded like a sound that I like I like that sound.
(Vengeful_KBM) Middle-ground track. Not too much to say. Pretty good battle theme.
(Ed Bellis) flat-out unpleasant to listen to
This is one of those songs that I cringed at the first time I heard it, during a YouTube compilation Ed posted of all the FF battle themes. Later, I played FFX-2, and I have to admit that after a while you start to get into it. It's certainly a noticeable deviation from other FF fight music, and while I'm not normally a "bass" person, I think that the way the sounds in this are handled is pretty cool. At least, now I do.
77. Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King - Heavenly Flight
Score: 15/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 11
Comments:
(Vengeful_KBM) Now THIS is absolutely beautiful. Damn.
(Ed Bellis) the only DQ song I've heard that I like, and I really like it
(xp1337) This is okay, I guess.
Talk about pulling up out of a nose dive. 9 of those 15 points came from the last two raters, and good thing for them, because this is the largest gap so far between list position and my ranking. The only other song so far that comes close is Beeton Tracks (85 vs 28). There may not be a lot going on in Heavenly Flight, mostly just a piccolo backed by an arpeggiated harp, but that hardly makes it boring. I haven't played DQ8, but I imagine this works beautifully for a flight theme.