- PIANO COLLECTIONS FINAL FANTASY XIII TORRENT FULL
- PIANO COLLECTIONS FINAL FANTASY XIII TORRENT SERIES
In the case of FFX, the music isn’t too complex. The transition to piano was simple enough, and the result was outstanding. SF2 is rich and complex, yes, but the “playing field” was leveled by synth limitations. Consider the source material for SF2 or FFX and suddenly my theory makes sense. Other than the obvious “this product was rushed to market,” which I believe to be 100% true, the problem may be that the source material was so rich, and so good, that solo piano just isn’t a fitting place for it. Carbon copies of the melody with some easy decoration around it cut some of the more harmonically interesting stuff from the source so that two hands can handle the sound, and tada! You have an FFXIII piano arrangement.Īnd maybe, just maybe, that’s the problem. In most cases, you can still detect the original melody.
Dennis thought I was suggesting that perhaps it was “over-arranged.” But I don’t think that’s quite it. I was discussing this particular issue of arrangement with RPGFan editor Dennis Rubinshteyn. But I would’ve been fine with that there are many pieces from FFX I can’t play because they’re too hard. Maybe, secretly, I’m just upset because I know when I procure the sheet music there’s no way I’ll be able to play some of these pieces. Giant chords and arpeggios just to show you can do them does not a good piano arrangement make. My critique of the first Kingdom Hearts piano album (not Field and Battle, the character-based themes album) applies to this album as well. Next, the arrangements suffer from needless grandiosity. But there is definitely a sense of soul, of consciousness and beauty, to the SF2 and FFX piano collections. For something as meticulous as impressionist arrangement, you may find this critique strange. For starters, the arrangements are soul-less. I’ll start generic and get more specific. I suppose now I should get to why I’m saying this. Yes, something was wrong! The CD I had such high hopes for totally let me down! I was visibly upset after my first listen through the CD. But I can definitely say that something went wrong.īefore I go any further, I have to assure readers that I’m not exaggerating my disappointment for shock value or additional page views. Let’s quickly go over the facts: Hamauzu is great at piano arrangement Kuroda proved herself a fitting performer for Hamauzu’s musical style the source material for this piano album is truly excellent. When it was announced that Aki Kuroda would return to perform on the FFXIII Piano Collections CD, and Hamauzu was (of course) self-arranging, it seemed like a match made in heaven.
PIANO COLLECTIONS FINAL FANTASY XIII TORRENT SERIES
And despite the game’s ranking in the series (most people would agree, it wasn’t exactly the crowning achievement we wanted it to be), the soundtrack was setting the bar for Square Enix’s music department.
PIANO COLLECTIONS FINAL FANTASY XIII TORRENT FULL
The arrangements were truly interesting, and performer Aki Kuroda did a fantastic job, particularly with dynamic variation.Įarlier this year, when Hamauzu’s full four-disc score for Final Fantasy XIII was released, I saw that he really had what it takes to fully score a high-profile title. And that album is, in my opinion, another big success.
Alongside being a co-composer with Uematsu (a sort of mentor for Hamauzu during the 16-bit era), Hamauzu was the arranger for the Final Fantasy X Piano Collections CD. Hamauzu’s high quality arrangements continued with Final Fantasy X. The arranged album for said game, a piano collection with some chamber music at the end of the disc, remains one of my all-time favorite arranged albums. But he got his chance in the late ’90s with SaGa Frontier 2, and he won his initial following there. His distinct impressionist style wasn’t an obvious fit for game music. Masashi Hamauzu is, in my own opinion, the most unexpected success in game music.
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