Generally, I absolutely loved the area, dungeon, and boss themes for DT, and the OST is one of my favorites of all the expansions. I could gush about them all day.
However, I noticed there was a lack of unique music in many story cutscenes. It felt like there was a LOT of repeated stuff and/or stuff from older expansions, and none of the new characters had distinct leitmotifs the way that Venat, Emet, or Meteion did.
By far the biggest offender is Fragments of Forever. It's one of my absolute favorite quiet pieces in FFXIV, but I feel that it only works as well as it does because it was used so sparingly - maybe once or twice an expansion. It made the scenes that it was in hit all the harder. But in DT, I think I heard it almost a dozen times just in the MSQ, and even more in the sidequests. Plus, it was really really quiet during unvoiced cutscenes - I'd go from a voiced cutscene to an unvoiced with this theme and have to strain to hear it.
The other one I noticed a fair bit was EW's What Comes of Despair, which felt really weird because I associated it with Meteion and the Final Days. And that's my main gripe with reusing so much old music - there are strong associations built up with many of these themes, and it feels like DT is either attempting to co-opt those emotions to fill in what it's lacking or just doesn't understand those associations.
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However, I noticed there was a lack of unique music in many story cutscenes. It felt like there was a LOT of repeated stuff and/or stuff from older expansions, and none of the new characters had distinct leitmotifs the way that Venat, Emet, or Meteion did.
By far the biggest offender is Fragments of Forever. It's one of my absolute favorite quiet pieces in FFXIV, but I feel that it only works as well as it does because it was used so sparingly - maybe once or twice an expansion. It made the scenes that it was in hit all the harder. But in DT, I think I heard it almost a dozen times just in the MSQ, and even more in the sidequests. Plus, it was really really quiet during unvoiced cutscenes - I'd go from a voiced cutscene to an unvoiced with this theme and have to strain to hear it.
The other one I noticed a fair bit was EW's What Comes of Despair, which felt really weird because I associated it with Meteion and the Final Days. And that's my main gripe with reusing so much old music - there are strong associations built up with many of these themes, and it feels like DT is either attempting to co-opt those emotions to fill in what it's lacking or just doesn't understand those associations.
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