The Last Story - Music
Feb. 2nd, 2011 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainwatersparkFirst, I have to say: I love LJ's new header.
Secondly: Yay, a snow day today! Just what I needed...to catch up on all my work...
Okay, so The Last Story's soundtrack. I'm listening to the Premium Soundtrack (dunno why it's called that, it only has seven tracks) and typing my impressions as we go.
Overall: I'm really torn on this soundtrack. I love Nobuo Uematsu (meeting him at Anime Boston last year was totally wild), but this soundtrack has a downscaled feel to it in terms of quality--the instruments don't really sound orchestrated, more artificial/synth-like, which is disappointing. In terms of composition, I feel that a lot of the composition is nice to listen to, but also kind of bland and uninteresting. (By the way, I should mention that I haven't really listened to Uematsu's latest work. I tried listening to Lost Odyssey's soundtrack, but I really didn't like it.)
Track 1: Theme of The Last Story - Whoa, this song is all over the place. There's very little compositional unity; it feels very jerky and kind of random.
Track 5: Bonds - I thought this piece was kind of boring. It's more or less the same strain of violin repeating over and over again for the first half of the song, before finally changing a little bit. (I also have to confess, though, that I'm not very fond of overtly "happy" songs that are really cheerful and calm and never change mood.)
Track 7: The Flying One - Funny, this song is up on Youtube, but titled "Kanan's Theme." The beginning sounds almost exactly like the theme song on the website after a certain point, but the flute (...is that a flute?) is painfully artificial-sounding. Oh, wait--after the halfway point, it IS the song from the website. My bad. (At least the violin playing the melody sounds better than the flute at the beginning....) The melody is quite nice to listen to, I must say.
Battle songs (Tracks 2 & 6: Order and Chaos & Evil Beasts, respectively) - Quite intense and dynamic, pretty mood-setting. I think they work well as battle songs, though I can't see myself listening to these for fun.
On Youtube, I liked "Ariel's Tavern," an ambient piece (like the city theme), and "Seiren's Theme," which is funky jazz--a nice change of pace.
...I'm still hoping The Last Story gets localized. T_T (And what the heck happened to Xenoblade?? TT____TT)
Secondly: Yay, a snow day today! Just what I needed...to catch up on all my work...
Okay, so The Last Story's soundtrack. I'm listening to the Premium Soundtrack (dunno why it's called that, it only has seven tracks) and typing my impressions as we go.
Overall: I'm really torn on this soundtrack. I love Nobuo Uematsu (meeting him at Anime Boston last year was totally wild), but this soundtrack has a downscaled feel to it in terms of quality--the instruments don't really sound orchestrated, more artificial/synth-like, which is disappointing. In terms of composition, I feel that a lot of the composition is nice to listen to, but also kind of bland and uninteresting. (By the way, I should mention that I haven't really listened to Uematsu's latest work. I tried listening to Lost Odyssey's soundtrack, but I really didn't like it.)
Track 1: Theme of The Last Story - Whoa, this song is all over the place. There's very little compositional unity; it feels very jerky and kind of random.
Track 5: Bonds - I thought this piece was kind of boring. It's more or less the same strain of violin repeating over and over again for the first half of the song, before finally changing a little bit. (I also have to confess, though, that I'm not very fond of overtly "happy" songs that are really cheerful and calm and never change mood.)
Track 7: The Flying One - Funny, this song is up on Youtube, but titled "Kanan's Theme." The beginning sounds almost exactly like the theme song on the website after a certain point, but the flute (...is that a flute?) is painfully artificial-sounding. Oh, wait--after the halfway point, it IS the song from the website. My bad. (At least the violin playing the melody sounds better than the flute at the beginning....) The melody is quite nice to listen to, I must say.
Battle songs (Tracks 2 & 6: Order and Chaos & Evil Beasts, respectively) - Quite intense and dynamic, pretty mood-setting. I think they work well as battle songs, though I can't see myself listening to these for fun.
On Youtube, I liked "Ariel's Tavern," an ambient piece (like the city theme), and "Seiren's Theme," which is funky jazz--a nice change of pace.
...I'm still hoping The Last Story gets localized. T_T (And what the heck happened to Xenoblade?? TT____TT)
