Dissidia Final Fantasy

 (3 customer reviews)

I have a lot of Final Fantasy soundtracks, and I have to say this is one my favorites! I loved hearing some of my favorite songs remixed with a pop/metal/rock/techno style, and I was impressed with the themes by Your Favorite Enemies. If you like the previously mentioned types of music and Final Fantasy, give it a whirl.

This is a decent sampling of music from all of the Final Fantasy games. The orchestrations range from decent to pretty bad. There are a couple of standout pieces, but this two-disc set simply can't help but be what it is: average.

If you are unaware Dissidia - Final Fantasy is a Smash Bros-style fighting game with characters from the first 12 Final Fantasy games. As a fighting game, it was natural that most of the music would come from the combat music for the series. And there is some iconic fighting music in many of the Final Fantasy games.

Unfortunately, this soundtrack doesn't really know what to do with that music. The main themes for each game are (for the most part) done reasonably well. But the actual fighting music is hit and miss. If you like FFVIII's combat music, prepare for disappointment, as this soundtrack stomps on it. If you like FFIV's music, particularly Fight 2, you'll be in for... average? It's OK overall, but the pure chiptune from the SNES...Read more

I had very high hopes for this soundtrack as I understood that it would include rearrangements of the main cues of the first ten Final Fantasy games, including the beloved battle themes. That would have made for the ultimate arranged album of Final Fantasy.
What I found though is a terrible mish-mash of weak j-pop/techno/hard rock that shows the total misunderstanding of Uematsu's great work by, among others, Tsuyoshi Sekito (who is one of the main arrangers on this album).

There have been many attempts at rearranging FF music in the past, ranging from good to excellent, in my opinion. But at some point, there has been a distinct choice to make the music really pop-like, and this started with the abherrant "Advent Children". The score, like the movie, was a total desecration of one of the most beautiful stories ever told and one of the best video game scores of all times (Final Fantasy VII).It was clearly an attempt to "broaden the audience", but at what cost...Read more