I'm glad you said this, because this is my feeling with both the overworld music and the town music in DQXI, and I'm only 17 hours in (loving just about everything else). I don't have much experience with Sugiyamia's music (other than the first Dragon Quest, which has an extremely pleasant overworld theme), but I'm finding those two themes kind of grating and unpleasant. It's like you have these nice interludes and then constant, blaring BRAP BRAP BRAP BRAP. Calm the fuck down with the bombastic horns, dude, I'm just taking a fucking stroll here. The staggering lack of musical variety in such a fully featured, polished game doesn't help -- I get that this (apparent bigot) is their star name, but shit, hire some additional composers if he's only going to give you three tracks for a 150-hour game.
Maybe I'll try that DQVIII theme.
I agree. I don't think the tracks are necessarily bad in 11, but the fact that they are so over used reeaalllly goes against their composition. It's exactly as you said. When you go out to the overworld after 20 or so hours and you know the first thing you're gonna hear is BUMBA DUMMMMM...
DUMMM DUMMM DUMMMMM!!!!!! It's like fuck comon man. It gets to be almost like a bucket of cold water to the face after a while. Especially because most of the time I'm just wanting to chill and take it slow, but the music's like "
GRAND FUCKINGGGGG ADVENTTUUREEE ALL THE TIMMMMMMEEE!!!".
If it was like in the first few areas and such and then shifted to something else it would have been fine. I think it's well suited to the beginning of an adventure. But when you realize it's supposed to go with you the rest of the game...jesus. Definitely switch to DQ8. I would recommend everyone does after a few hours. I'm the type that was sticking with the 11 theme because I wanted to play the game as intended from it's initial creation, but trust me, it's the right choice. 8's theme is not only just better arranged, but much more suited to hearing in a relaxed open world setting, and much more suited to be heard that fucking much.
I actually like the big city theme, but yeah by the time I got to like Octagonia which is a much different city from the rest and I realized it was
still gonna use it, yeah it's disappointing and starts to become grating itself. The lack of variety in music in the game I definitely think is the weakest quality of the game. It has a tendency to bring it down in a real way unfortunately. It makes the songs that are there sound even worse than they are over time, and can make the entire package seem a little cheaper. I kind of legit feel bad for the PS4/Steam players now, knowing they not only had no escape from the overworld theme, but all of this music was in MIDI form. Man, my god. I bet that single handily turned some players off from sticking with the adventure. A shame too because the game is marvelous in every other respect imo.
