Is really that? I feel that Hamauzu music is still very "gamey".
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Square Enix reveals Final Fantasy VII Remake composers
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Is really that? I feel that Hamauzu music is still very "gamey".
Hamauzu is a truly gifted composer who made some of the most beautiful songs I've heard. It's absurd to say he is bad.
Final Fantasy X wouldn't have been half as good if Hamauzu wasn't there. Compare the depth of Hamauzu's tracks with Uematsu's. All the truly emotional and impactful tracks came from Hamauzu. Saying he doesn't have a focus on melody is absurd. No one says that about FF10.
Final Fantasy X wouldn't have been half as good if Hamauzu wasn't there. Compare the depth of Hamauzu's tracks with Uematsu's. All the truly emotional and impactful tracks came from Hamauzu. Saying he doesn't have a focus on melody is absurd. No one says that about FF10.
Wouldn't know. Nothing he composes stays in my brain after it's over and it also doesn't generate any emotion in me. That includes FFX - the only songs from that game I really remember are To Zanarkand and the main battle theme. I don't even like the boss music.
Masashi "No Melody" Hamauzu
You only remember the main battle theme of FFX? I am afraid you are diagnosed with the ability to only remember bad tunes :/
I don't like FFX very much as a game. It was kind of the beginning of the bleed-out of the FF series for me. The ultra-linear world design, the battle system being ultra dumbed down and only having four elements yet for some reason having both ice and water as separate elements. The soundtrack being kind of mediocre just came part and parcel with all of that.
Keep in mind that Junya Nakano (Dew Prism, Threads of Fate) also had a hand in FFX's OST, including the boss theme "Enemy Attack."
I know. Usually, battle themes and boss themes are my primary memory anchor point for a game's score, and I just didn't like the boss music in X. Most of the soundtrack just wasn't memorable for me at all.
I don't really have any strong feelings on Hamauzu's music.
But these examples show me my first impression of him not being a good fit for FFVII's style are right.
Does he have anything with the industrial weight FFVII needs. He might be good on JENOVA, but the main and boss battle themes would not be right with that style in game.
It's basically like going to a bar and having people simultaneously slapping your face and tickling your balls as you try drinking a beer.
I mean, I've talked up a NUMBER of other composers in this thread alone. I just don't like Hamauzu and his musical style. Uematsu, Shimomura and Ito are the composers that defined my musical taste as far as games are concerned, Hamauzu really doesn't click with their styles at all.
I have genuinely mixed feelings on Hamauzu. Some of his pieces are among the top tiers of game tracks for me. But there's also a bunch of stuff that does nothing for me at all.
I couldn't classify any composer as just "good" or "bad" outright. But he isn't one that stirs huge amounts of hype for me.
I couldn't classify any composer as just "good" or "bad" outright. But he isn't one that stirs huge amounts of hype for me.
Takeharu Ishimoto should be composing this game, Crisis Core OST is objectively better than FFVII regardless how different the two games are
FF is one of my favorite franchises but I basically never engage in conversation about it unless I'm feeling especially patient
Anyways here's one of Yoshinori Nakamura's previous FF arrangements since I'm unfamiliar with them
Pretty good!
I don't know about that, but I am sad he's not on the list. He did amazing work on CC and Type-0.
Would love it if they were holding off on roping him in until whichever Remake "episode" features Zack. Price of Freedom is basically Zack's theme, after all.
seeing all this talk over one guy not liking Hamauzu makes me afraid to say I don't like his music either lol
I think Masashi Hamauzu might be the lead composer on FF7 Remake, with the other composers following the vision he put out.
Hamauzu setting the vision of Final Fantasy VII's music is going to be huge. His wife was part of the One Winged Angel chorus, now he's the lead of FF7's music. We're going back full circle.
Hamauzu is the perfect choice for this whether or not you like him. He truly is.
Not to mention he already got your money because you already heard his music in the leaks and I didn't see anyone talking shit about it ;)
Hamauzu setting the vision of Final Fantasy VII's music is going to be huge. His wife was part of the One Winged Angel chorus, now he's the lead of FF7's music. We're going back full circle.
Hamauzu is the perfect choice for this whether or not you like him. He truly is.
Not to mention he already got your money because you already heard his music in the leaks and I didn't see anyone talking shit about it ;)
For my money, Yoshitaka Suzuki could prove to the MVP here, particularly when it comes to matters of rearrangements. His work in the Record Keeper soundtracks are insanely good.
Just listen to these monster-sized medleys:
Just listen to these monster-sized medleys:
what the FUCK
Thanks for this! I would have gone the rest of my life never knowing this (probably)!
You think so? There wasn't anything in the demo that specifically screamed him to me.
Honestly whenever someone judges a soundtrack by how much they can remember the melody of certain tracks, it just makes me think they have poor or selective memory. It's pretty unreliable too cause everyone will remember things differently and there's also the fact that any ear worm can stay in your brain regardless of actual quality.
I'm mostly with you. If any Hamauzu piece stuck in my mind, it was his more melodic ones: People of the North Pole, FFX's Final Battle Theme, Blinded By Light and Saber's Edge. That's about it, though. Students of music have tried to explain to me why Hamauzu is a genius and such (even though I never asked for an explanation), save it, it's not up for debate as far as MY taste is concerned. Regarding MY taste, it's most definitely narrows down to, "I might not KNOW art, but I KNOW what I like!" and I know most of Hamauzu's stuff I don't like. I don't HATE it, just don't LIKE it.
Desolate-sounding guitar rock man? I don't care for that guys music more than I don't care for Haumazu's stuff.
Weren't there some new tracks in the leaks? I only ever had a passing interest in the remake so I thought the soundtrack was already available.
It's a very diverse score in terms of mood and instrumentation, so I'm not really sure how you arrived at that reductive assessment.
From the blogpost it sounds like Suzuki is putting in the most work
Almost all the music in the demo is built off of either Bombing Mission, the main battle theme or Mako Reactor. This might be Hamauzu, though.
Which Suzuki? Yoshitaka or Mitsuto?
I really like Mitsuto, Yoshitaka is good too but his orchestral tunes are a bit less unique.
Yeah, it feels like it goes back to the FF10 style a bit
Having listened to the music from the demo, I can only really pick out two of the tracks Hamauzu may have done; the VR one listed above, and going by the file name of another it was for a cutscene. It sounded good, very Hamauzu, but probably not what you would think of when you think FFVII. But I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. I mean, this game is only really the first 5 hours or so of the original game extended to 30 or so; they need new music somewhere.
Mitsuto. Hamauzu's ambient stuff is some of my favorite music in the series, so happy that he's involved.
most of the tracks that got leaked are a bunch of versions of the same musics, most of the music didnt got leaked
Your post is a shitfest. Just compliment the music. God I hate this fanbase
