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Sarutabaruta is just so relaxing and catchy, and like I said, nostalgic. It brings me back to being a kid and exploring that world for the first time.

Every FF soundtrack from 6-11 was amazing.

The FF12 OST had some good songs but overall paled in comparison to the past stuff. I don't even remember 13's soundtrack.

Edited, Mar 17th 2014 3:14pm by BrokenFox

Okay "Blinded By Light" I remember. It's not bad it's just.. I prefer every battle theme that came before it.

"Sabers Edge" sounds like a rehashing of older songs.

Two of my all time favorites. Giant nostalgia bombs.

Over the Hills (FF9)
http://youtu.be/a9hPegRaMRk

Besaid Island (FF10)
http://youtu.be/kxJE6SSX-aw

Edited, Mar 18th 2014 3:29pm by BrokenFox

FF8... depends on whether or not you're thinking of the normal battle theme, or Laguna's.

Man with the Machine Gun was freaking awesomesauce.

And the last boss theme.....oh yeah. That was awesome too. It is pretty "up there" with last boss themes in Squaresoft/Square-Enix games, right beside Parasite Eve's "Ultimate Being" (yeah, yeah, that wasn't Mr. Uematsu's work but that doesn't mean it isn't good).

EDIT:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxLosf7S9ZY

For those of you who've never played or heard any Parasite Eve music.

Edited, Mar 17th 2014 8:37pm by Lyrailis

Well, FF8 has two "main battle themes" you could argue: Squall's and Laguna's, so... *shrug*

I know that is pretty uncommon to Final Fantasy games (at least the singleplayer ones Pre-13 which I haven't played) to have multiple "main battle themes", but ah well.

Edited, Mar 17th 2014 9:07pm by Lyrailis

We have something in common! I could never get into VIII.

That's funny because I thought 8 had one of the most outstanding OSTs. I remember my first recital piece was Fisherman's Horizon: the first piece I really had to work towards because I had never played triplets in one hand and eighth notes in the other.

I loved the battle theme (both) and the boss theme was incredible.

8 is actually one of the FFs that took orchestration in moderation and was quite successful as a result. Liberi Fatali, Fragments of Memories, and especially the ending theme: which was incredibly well done and the most extensive, fleshed out ending theme of the entire FF series.

You did listen to the ending boss' soundtrack, right? It's no Dancing Mad but the four pieces that play (Premonition, The Legendary Beast, Maybe I'm a Lion, and The Extreme) are extraordinary.

SpoilerIf you want to see diversity...go listen to the Silence and Motion OST from the game. Then, after that, listen to the piano collections version. Two separate beasts! So incredible.

Fun fact, though: it took me nearly a year to beat FF8 the first time. I hated it immensely when I first tried it, got towards the end of the first disc, and then put it down for a year. I feel it's something that probably grows on you if you give it a chance otherwise you might have the same reaction! Its OST is actually one of the major reasons I consider it my favorite FF outside of 11.

Edited, Mar 18th 2014 3:15am by HitomeOfBismarck

It's not anything special! Easily one of the weaker normal themes from 6-10 but then again, if you listen to 6's battle theme it kind of is in the same spot.

I get the same feeling when I listen to 6's regular theme and 6's boss theme. I run the tread to 6's Dissidia remix of its boss theme. I kind of fall to sleep with the normal battle theme. I think both 7 and 9's battle and boss theme are pretty spot on.

In general, the boss theme always seems to overshadow the main theme. I'd say the exception is with 10's boss theme. Not very memorable. Neither is its last battle theme. Was really disappointed when I fought Sin. :(

Edited, Mar 18th 2014 3:26am by HitomeOfBismarck

My problems with 8 were mostly the Level-Scaling system and that awful magic junction system.

1). I don't like having to farm in a Singleplayer game, and if you wanted to actually have characters that didn't feel weak as hell, you had to farm magic, refine it into better magic, then refine THAT into even BETTER magic. And don't get me started on the ridiculous need to turn mobs into Cards to farm even more junk.

2). Getting levelups actually *hurts* you in the end run; you feel *weaker* as you gain levelups because the enemies get stronger faster than you do unless you farm magic for junctions. And even then, you're best off waiting until the end of the game so you can get Stat-Up Junctions, otherwise you're wasting your levelups (kinda like FF3 and Espers).

3). Every time you cast a spell, you get weaker. So somehow, I cast a, say, Firaga spell and my Strength goes down? lol. nice. Oh, and the last boss breaking entire stacks of spells is just cute too. That is, if you didn't cheese it with multihit limit breaks, because sure why not make the last boss "poke it 5 times and it dies" like every other Final Fantasy? At least they gave her multiple forms to force her to stay alive more than 10 seconds lol. Its just that the time she stays alive is mostly cutscenes of her transformations, since the actual forms don't live more than 10 seconds anyways.

The story and actual combat I enjoyed mostly, it was just the farm farm farm farm and the God-awful level scaling I hated.

Oh, and... they needed checkpoints or savepoints during long QTE/puzzles. Nothing sucks more than doing that huge long train section, then the game asks you if you want to check junctioned magic... say no because you HAD stuff junctioned properly but somehow it got messed up, and then die to the cheap boss that spams zombie and poison attacks on you. Oh joy, gotta do the entire train section all over again because they don't believe in Save Points. Nice.

Edited, Mar 18th 2014 2:34pm by Lyrailis

The music in sea. I would go there and fall sleep IRL.

But wasn't the music awesome? :D I enjoyed Al'taieu's theme as well as The Garden of Ru'Hmet. I have both on my phone, actually, and listen to them frequently.