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a poll had me relistening to the ffxvi final boss theme and i forgot how unlistenable this soundtrack was i still can't believe it's not a bigger controversey. it sounds like ass. legitimately not up to releaseable quality

i dont mean that the songs are bad. i think they're kinda safe and boring even compared to soken's ff14 work but in this case i mean like. as a professionally recorded and mixed product. like was there not a producer in the room

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Yeah the thing about XVI's OST is that a lot of the tracks were just sequenced tracks made with VST's in a DAW, not orchestral/studio recordings like FFXV or FF7R's OST, that's in part why XVI's production feels low Even then only the XVI tracks arranged by Yoshitaka Suzuki even hit production wise

Suzuki did some sequenced tracks for FFXV and FF7R too but he's mastered his production to the point where the only thing really sounding sequenced is his synthetic percussion, eg Ravus Aeterna in FFXV or Reno battle in 7R. In XVI he did the main arrangement of "Find The Flame" which is why it hits.

Hold the fuck up you edited this in, right? He doesn't say that in a real video game that was developed for millions of dollars and put out in stores for people to buy. Right?

this was localized by the same guy who loaded FF14 up with fucking Hamilton references. One day I will see Michael Christopher Koji Fox brought to justice for his many, many crimes.

When I looked on Japanese message boards they call it the most embarrassing line in FF history because in the JP version he says "究極の幻想", a transliteration of "Final Fantasy" into Japanese meaning "Last Illusion/Ultimate Illusion", which itself is a ref to the Japanese urban legend for FF's namesake

I cannot believe they followed up shimomura's XV soundtrack with this like genuinely embarassing (sidenote I've never seen anything from this game's finale and that one-liner is making me do the blackstar face)

Clive doing a final fantasy title drop and then doing a 9999 damage QTE punch followed up by him tragically dying made me laugh for ten minutes straight Insane mood whiplash

i remember that being lena's overwhelming beef with it when we were both playing through it was like... the composition is (just) fine but the orchestration is all VST stuff like... dude you're Square Enix!! what are we doin here!!