Final Fantasy 7 vs Ys 7
This is tough. Abstain, I think, I'm not sure how well Ys 7 holds up in game. Ys 7 wins by out-of-game listening, of course, and FF7 has some erratic sound quality, and some meh tracks. But FF7 also has some all-time classic tracks. Not so much Aeris's Theme, but just plain the main theme of the game (the overworld) is very well done. OWA and the boss theme get obvious nods as well. The soundtrack holds up pretty decently. The one callout I'll make is for a type of theme that's easy to phone in, but FF7 does a great job on - unsettling background music for plot dumps. Yeah, Anxious Heart (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMvHTlWyxH0 ). Only realized how well the piece works on replays.
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days vs Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (PSP)
Dunno. KH music is pretty consistently great, while random TO samples other than "Blasphemous Experiment" fell off a bit in quality. TO still seemed pretty well done at least.
Wild ARMs XF vs Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
FFMQ battle themes? Awesome, all of 'em. Better than anything in the XF soundtrack. (Boss theme hype:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2vEakoOIdU ). The rest of the MQ soundtrack? Eh whatever bland. Okay some of the dungeon themes like Doom Castle are okay, but the town and anything else stuff is super-forgettable. Meanwhile, XF... it's not a soundtrack I would particularly hype listening to out of the game, but it's pretty solid in-game. Nice call out on the town music, that actually is one of the better pieces in the game IMHO. (Flip side Tormenta Triad is a yawner to me.)
Final Fantasy X vs
Final Fantasy 8"To Zanarkand" is probably my favorite piece between these two soundtracks? And FFX certainly has some great pieces. But it also has some misses, and some whatevers (Yevon's battle theme for example). FF8 is pretty much straight awesome through the entire soundtrack.
