I had high expectations going into Woolly World. I could listen to this forever while flying around. Don't worry is without a doubt my guilty pleasure song of the year, too. Then there's tracks like Prone Base, for example, starting around 1:24, has what I'd like to think are subtle callbacks to the kind of music you'd hear Mitsuda compose, say for something like Chrono Cross. This one track really put the game over and it also provided me one of my few "Idle Moments" of the year. I was right at that sweet spot, some 50 hours-in, both physically and emotionally invested, when the nighttime variation of Sylvalum hit. There's moments in games where the right kind of music can become amplified and made even greater.
I didn't hit this region until I was fairly invested with the game. I would hope these tracks were as good as they are as that's where most of the player's time is spent! Of all of the field themes, Sylvalum stood out to me the most, however. Primordia, Oblivia and Noctilum, for example, all have that "moment" or "hook" that everyone who's played the game long enough looks forward to. The main field themes all work so well thematically and I never grew tired of listening to them, too.
There's so much variety and a lot of the good stuff seems to get lost within all of the racket/noise people make over how much they love/hate the NLA Theme, when there's shit like this or whatever this is called. I feel like this game covered everything I love about RPG soundtracks, too. I have a huge soft spot (or maybe it's a guilty pleasure) for games that have soundtracks with a strong emphasis on lyrical content. I'm not familiar with Hiroyuki Sawano outside of his work on this game, but I will argue that I enjoyed this game's OST, as a whole, more so than the original Xenoblade Chronicles. The soundtrack was more or less everything I expected and needed to hear. Xenoblade Chronicles X is the game I played the most in 2015.
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