We’re not talking about little one-minute melodies here. Each track is looped through once, but each composition in itself is also considerably lengthy, which is good. The synths used sound natural, and are all I had hoped would come from the recent FF titles. The new Chocobo arrangement is stellar, replacing some key notes in the melody (the mixolydian mode has been cut for a more “natural” and less “jazzy” sound). The battle themes are catchy, some of the best battle music I’ve heard for a next-gen RPG. The “town” and “overworld” songs use a lot of instruments associated with the “ethnic/world” music genre (various flutes, plucked string instruments, marimbas, etc.). In this expansion, adventurers set off to learn the truth of the Zilart - a technologically advanced race that was thought to have died out. In April 2003, the story of Vana'diel continued with Rise of the Zilart, the first expansion of FFXI. What I expected to be trite and boring turned out to be somewhat entertaining, and certainly more-than-suitable during gameplay. An adventure more than 1,000 years in the making. I was definitely taken aback, however, when I first stuck this soundtrack in my CD player.
I hadn’t heard any of Naoshi Mizuta’s work up to this point (I hadn’t heard the FF XI OST), and I wasn’t expecting much I certainly wasn’t expecting what I consider to be the “Final Fantasy” sound. Now, the expansion for FF XI, “Rise of the Zilart”, has new music composed solely by Naoshi Mizuta. Noriko Matsueda and Takahito Eguchi took hold of FFX-2 on their own.
He teamed up with Naoshi Mizuta and Kumi Tanioka for Final Fantasy XI. First, Uematsu teamed up with Masashi Hamauzu and Junya Nakano for Final Fantasy X. Nobuo Uematsu, once the sole composer for any game in the Final Fantasy series, has been handing over the title to different composers.
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