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#258: Final Fantasy X - Seymour Battle
Nominator: Horsehead2425 (9/10)
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I don't get this one. One of the most highly regarded FFX songs with multiple millions of views on multiple videos. Even the comment description and the comments are calling it the best battle theme ever. I really don't hear what's so great about this and never have. Is there some world-wide agreement to pretend this mediocre song is better than it is? Okay, so let's break it down...

0:00-0:21 is an okay song introduction, good even, but it leads to a pretty jarring change of style when the next section starts
0:22-0:43 the CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG (edit: it's apparently called a china cymbal or a chinese gong) wears thin almost instantly and totally overpowers the backing; the 'melody' is annoying and repetitive
0:44-0:57 is also okay, but the melody is a bit chaotic, and we know I'm not the biggest on that
0:57-1:15 the quieter parts are boring and the CLANG CLANG parts suck
1:15-1:44 considerably better than the previous sections, probably my favourite part over all - but even this is a little flat, because...
1:44-2:09 ...while this is a good follow-up, the whole last minute has the bass and drums steady with barely any variation, which makes it kinda boring
2:10-2:23 is there, I guess. It might be a little long for a transition
2:24-3:04 this part is pretty cool and feels like it's building up to something epic, but it just turns out to be more CLANG CLANG, great...
Then it loops.

But in listening to the whole thing, what sticks out is how to me, it feels like it doesn't fit together as one song. The mood and style changes section to section randomly. On a whole it's okay - definitely saved by a couple of particularly good sections - but I can also say that I think it is greatly overrated. In fact, even since long before this ranking, I've used it as a go-to example of that.
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