>40 hours in and I'm still hearing new music
How the fuck did they do it? It's like every enemy has it's own soundtrack. You walk through a cave and the music changes to a muted rendition. Each area has like 5 different tracks. It's fucking insane

>>714353512 (OP)
100 % SOUL.

>>714353512 (OP)
The composer had 5+ years to produce that shit, it's not that insane if you think about it.

There's like 160 tracks or some shit

>>714354202
If you think thats impressive Rebirth has over 300

>>714354591
Really? I put 150hours into it and it didnt feel like it had half the tracks E33 has

>>714353512 (OP)
Is there any scenes where maelle strips off like the whore she was meant to be while the soulful music plays in the background

>>714353512 (OP)
The whole soundtrack is like 8 hours.

>>714353512 (OP)
>this is the first JRPG i've ever played
Yeah we can tell - you and everybody else.

>>714354694
Really. OST of the year, nobody had a chance. 300 tracks all 9/10 or better.

The best one is Visages - Portrait Imparfait

The music is definitely the best part of the game but thats actually quite common in this genre. If you're a jrpg style game and your music isn't amazing something its like a canary in a coal mine. I remember Metaphor was getting ost of the year nods too, that award is half jrpg nominations literally every year.

>>714355279
The ost is good but you really have some low ass standards if you think all of them are "9/10 or better"

>>714353512 (OP)
That's callef sovl.

>>714355532
Honestly, it used to be true for a lot of genres too. Like strategy games back then always had hype ass music to get you pumped up to seeing your little toy soldiers fight other little toy soldiers on screen or while destroying each other's bases.
https://youtu.be/6FgtlpuQqAc?si=vqSgszWw1gOGa2kG
Most RTS games nowadays fail at this

>>714355532
>I remember Metaphor was getting ost of the year nods too
Must have been a slow year. Almost every boss fight reused the same 2 or 3 tracks and I'd only consider one of those halfway decent. Most of the rest of that soundtrack sucked shit.

>>714355496
I have a hard time picking a favourite, but it's between Lumiere, Portait Imparfait and Une vie a t'aimer.

>>714353512 (OP)
It's easy to make 4943 tracks when it's AI generated.

>>714355496
>>714356219
wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v4tyAoohCE

>>714356219
for me it's Lumiere, Gestral Merchant and the Act 2&3 overworld songs
I thought Renoir's boss music was over the top and annoying at first but I kinda love it now

>>714355568
Cope.

>>714358000
Whatever, you seething E33 tranny

>>714357914
True. Déchire la Toile is beautiful as well.

>>714356219
I just like the one playing on Sirène island.
There's an hypnotic quality to it and the way it's used in the game with it fading in and out as you fly across the colloseum is so good.

Aline is underrated, it's such a moving piece that spoils the whole story that's about to unfold after the bossfight.

>>714359946
The soundtrack is so full of spoilers, it's crazy. I'm glad I don't understand french.

>>714353843
You think so? Most of my favourite artists/bands need 3-5 years to record one album, ~12 songs. E33 probably has around 200 songs. The OST has 150+, but it doesn't actually have all of them.
Even assuming half of tracks are rearrangements, that's still 100 pieces.

https://youtu.be/9wYHLgLYQlU

>>714360212
Getting a big Furi vibe from this song.

>>714360087
It's great honestly, it's more breadcrumbs that help you figure out the plot.

>>714354591
It's not as impressive when they're almost all comprised from Uematsu's work on FFVII which contains less than 300 tracks.

>>714360194
>Most of my favourite artists/bands need 3-5 years to record one album
Because they do everything themselves, and they also need to tour to promote their albums.
Whereas Sandfall hired a chamber orchestra of professional musicians who recorded their stuff in a few months.

Still mad at the ending of Act 2.

>>714353512 (OP)
What surprised me is even after doing great song after great song, it still saves some of the absolute best for the end.

>>714360572
Recorded, but you can't compose and write lyrics for a 100 pieces + 100 arrangements in a few months. Most would be hard-pressed to finish it in 10 years.

>>714360673
Verso is a dumb nigger and his family (his actual family, not the demiurges) deserved better.

>>714353512 (OP)
It was already proven that most of them were ai generated retarded E33 chink shill lol

>>714361413
>in a few months
That's why Sandfall gave Testard 5+ years. Any professional composer worth their salt can achieve this given time and adequate direction.

>>714361572
They were? First time I'm hearing of this. Tell me more.

For me it's "Our Painted Death"

>>714353512 (OP)
I can't get over how the composer looks like Dobby.

I like E33's soundtrack because it goes heavy on a lot of leitmotifs without making it the entire identity of the soundtrack. Final Fantasy has had huge problems with this in recent years. Sokken is the kind of guy that will compose one composition and try to twist it as much as humanly possible to the point where it gets tiring and its been pretty noticeable in a lot of other games in recent years too

>>714361694
Well, I'd like to see some examples. I tried to google and only found that Bach wrote over 1000 pieces in his whole life (that's probably ~8 Clair Obscurs), Mozart 600+ and so on.
They aren't exactly just "professional composers worth their salt", so it still doesn't seem to me like composing 100+ in 5 years is a piece of cake for an average composer.

>>714353512 (OP)
The composer has been a fan of vidya OSTs and said in an interview it was his life’s mission. You’d go ham too if you got a chance to make your dream game or work on your favorite game series. The game had a long dev cycle too so they were able to really polish stuff like that.

>>714362326
I hope this means he keeps working on games, and isn't poached for "prestige" films and stuff.

>>714362164
>an average composer.
Never said anything about average composers. Most games don't require 8+ hours of music for them, but I'm pretty sure someone like Jeremy Soule or Hitoshi Sakimoto could easily whip up a 10+ hours suite if the devs asked.

Also this >>714361969 anon has the right idea. A lot of the ideas, chord progressions, melodies and instrumentation/arrangement choices get reused one way or the other. It's not like Testard wrote 300+ completely distinct pieces.

>>714353512 (OP)
Honestly can't imagine everyone suckling this game's balls so much. I wish you shills would tone it down.

Sepenphare is the most underrated battle theme.

>>714362326
>it was his life’s mission
Happy for him he got his lucky chance.

>>714362369
I mean he’ll definitely get more work but I can’t think of many vidya music industry leaders that ended up leaving full-time anyways. But yeah if you watch the SkillUp doc he says he loves making game music and used to make fan OSTs

>>714362541
You came into a thread about a game you don't like where people are discussing and enjoying it. You're autistic.

>>714362581
>fan OSTs
what's a fan OST?

>>714362621
Good thing 4chan is not a hugbox haven

People are still shilling this baguette shart?

>>714354591
one of the best parts about the remakes - all the music. Rebirth in particular is having a lot of fun with it.

>>714353512 (OP)
Most of the music is just loud instrument noise, its actually kinda dogshit, especially when compared to pieces of art soundtracks like Heroes 3.

In fact, this whole game is mid as fuck, the shitty graphics and press button to parry combat are the worst.

>>714362696
Yes, which is why I can call you a faggot autist and point out your misery while everyone else is having fun LOL. Worthless imbecile.

>>714362541
Well there's only like 3 threads on the catalog instead of 30 and they're not running into other threads to shill it so I guess the marketing campaign has mostly wound down.

>>714353512 (OP)
This has to be one of the most boring games ever made.

>>714362761
Not even the anon you replied to originally, but good job getting riled up like that over a nothingburger.

>>714353512 (OP)
This game reeks of slop.
Just look at that awful aesthetic.

>>714362761
You tell him, anon. I'm tired of those morons throwing a fit every time people talk about something popular.

>714362761
>714363068
>least obvious samefag

>>714353512 (OP)
I'm not a music guy, but i imagine having a leitmotif as a foundation and then creating derivations from it significantly lessens the workload

>>714363136
Wow, a triple digit IQ reply on /v/ of all places.

Honestly in recent years I can't think of a normal battle theme that has stuck out more to me than "Taking down the paintress" since like Faith is my Pillar from EO4

https://youtu.be/H0_6aGqsz7A?si=oj7AnnB4n7KkQH6c

>>714363134
God forbid more than one person thinks you're a cunt. Downright impossible.

You can stop samefagging now.

>>714363308
>God forbid
Yes.

Come up with several really good leitmotifs and then build dozens of songs using them in different ways

9 out of 10 posts here are samefags.
Nobody gives a shit about your cringe frenchie game faggot stop spamming

>>714353512 (OP)
The only good music the boss music
>goblu boss
>music is sick
>later
>find record named 'goblu'
>fuck yea cant wait to play it at camp
>it's some complete other bullshit
Fuck them

>>714363717
The Goblu fight OST is Rain from the Ground, the track called Goblu plays on regular fights in Flying Waters. It's weird.

>>714358319
I don't think you realise he was talking about FF7 not E33

>714363870
>FF7 out of nowhere
MINDBROCKUN

>>714360194
you can write a song a day and more, if you grind, if you work as a hired full time composer.

after 2-3 years of doing this you have a big catalogue from which you can pick the best ones and get them into production

this was fairly standart practice for decades

nah, this man game everything he had. now the musical jews doing just like, 50 songs for ost because they need to make more slopgames, so they ecomoning the songs.

this sound producer gave everything he had, like some Uematsu with ff8 ost, or Blue Reflection game, or Soken with ff14 stormblood-shadowbringers game.

>>714361537
There was no getting better for them, they've been painted to be the embodiment of Aline's grief.
Had she painted them to live happily in the canvas it would've been different but that's not what she did.

>>714360194
>>714353843
4 years, and probably took a year to decide on direction

really impressive pace, probably mostly driven by small size, lots of feedback, and lack of an army of menagers that would block every idea

>>714364753
>probably took a year to decide on direction
Can't be true, that's too much time to just decide on direction

>>714355496
This.

>>714365053
you seen the early wips?
they had completely different art style, and while the cast stayed the same since original script draft, the final one was created 2 years in
1 year isnt a lot, you will have a loooot of work prototyping gameplay, creating mood boards, thinking of audio cues and enemy sounds, trying music blending and other systems for fights, deciding how cinematics will look, etc etc

if anything going by their hiring decisions, they only had the vertical cut that they woild build into a full game 2 years in, then 3 years to make the game

>>714364753
He composed based on concept arts
I assume he was given a lot of creative freedom and his music became the game and not the other way around where artists are constantly being monitored by higher ups and such.
But I think the whole game's been developed that way, because the lead dev had a real talent for picking and choosing his team, they ended up in complete osmosis and everyone understood what the game needed.

>>714353512 (OP)
I'm near the end of the game and... Is this really it? Was it really just the whole it was fake shit? You're kidding me? What about the Expeditions? Are the people of the painting even real? They clearly don't matter anymore. Am I supposed to jump on board and care about the Dessendre's? What a rugpull.

>>714366826
Everything is real, there isn't a single thing that didn't matter, it has all led to this.

>>714366826
Yea, forget about all that boring expedition to save the world stuff nobody cared about. It was all made up. It's time for some gripping family drama. Isn't it oh so sad how their son/brother died? Enjoy.

>>714367083
What? The fuck do you mean? Only Gustave has been more or less erased (he's been mentioned twice and off handedly at that so far in Act III) and Sciel just fucked Verso again after he betrayed them (again) and genocided Lumière. The apprentices got 2 lines and were killed instantly afterwards. Now I'm supposed to care about these literal who painters? I don't like any of them. The writers should've killed them all in the fire for all I care.

>>714367089
Fuck me man the people of Lumière went through so much shit and had to sacrifice themselves every year to give their children a chance to live and I'm supposed to care that the french hyper billionaires lost their fag son to a fight with a group of people called the fucking WRITERS ARE YOU KIDDING ME WRITERS VS PAINTERS THIS IS THE FINAL ACT OF THE GAME WHAT IS THIS STUPID SHIT. I don't even care about finding the rest of the logs, they didn't matter. Fuck this game man, and after everyone sucked its dick off and after such a strong start it devolved to this what a fucking waste of my time.

>>714367694
I still think it was a good game and a month later I can focus on the good bits, but at the moment of the reveal I was fucking livid as well. Might be the most horrible twist I've seen in a video game.

>>714360194
Standalone music is much more difficult to produce.

if this game doesn't win soundtrack of the year my faith in the industry goes poof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aMIr6KI0Xc

>>714369712
I literally don't know what this nigga does since I two shot him. Wasn't even an optimized build lmao. Actually that's like 95% of Act III side content bosses.