If I'm not mistaken Takahashi said in one of his interviews that he is a big fan of Sawano and wanted him to make the music for this game.
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Xenoblade Chronicles X "Direct" on Feb. 6 [info in OP]
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If I'm not mistaken Takahashi said in one of his interviews that he is a big fan of Sawano and wanted him to make the music for this game.
I also thought those composers were hired for FF XV first
Given Yasunori Mitsuda's abhorrent work throughout the Xeno games, I understand Takahashi's desire for change.
1000 % not serious.
All we know is Takahashi said he's been a fan of Sawano for a while and wanted to ask him.
The amount of amazing composers that have worked on the Xeno series confounds me: Mitsuda, Kajiura, Shimomura, ACE+, Kiyota, Shinji Hosoe and now Sawano.
With such talented people onboard and such great results for each game, you have to wonder why he felt the need to change from project to project... O_O.
Sawano is a hot name right now.
StreetsAhead
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Shulk's amiibo works with the New 3DS version of the original, not with X.
It just unlocks 'tokens' you can use to get models and music tracks in the model viewer/soundtrack mode.
threelights
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Takahashi said he handpicked Sawano himself, so he probably just wanted it that way.
I also remember something about being more trouble working with multiple composers at the same time.
Only Shimomura. But she's being doing stuff for FFXV since way back in the day (before the first Xenoblade's development even started).
Also, I don't think composers are locked to only one project (although to be fair, Shimomura probably got her hands full being the only composer for FFXV).
Ah. Thanks!
TheMoon
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Xenoblade 3D has amiibo support for Shulk. Not Xenoblade X. It's really not that hard to get right. X has nothing (as of right now).
To be honest Xenosaga ep. I was a little lacking in the music department.
TheMoon
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Mitsuda didn't even work on Xenoblade aside from contributing a single song (ending theme).
He did on Xenogears, the superior game.
She's in charge of KH3 too, and has contributed to Tri-Ace's Chronos Ring.
She must be so busy O_O Yet her music never sounds tired.
StreetsAhead
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What do you mean? The hexagons on the map? Or the 5 continents.
The 5 continents. It looks similar to Xenoblade as of now, which has area transitions for each huge map.
protomouse
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Different games with different atmospheres call for different musical styles and composers. As much as I like the works of the original composers, I think Sawano's music is a better fit for the tone XCX is setting.
StreetsAhead
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Well, they did say seamless and we haven't seen any transitions between the areas yet, so I guess we can't say for sure.
ACE+ is a group. The group as a whole only did Xenoblade.
ACE has worked on Emil Chronicle Online.
ACE (ACE+ minus Kenji Hiramatsu) have composed the Code of Princess soundtracks, and worked on arrangements with Uematsu for Fantasy Life.
Weird thing is, Kenji Hiramatsu DID work on Emil Chronicle, but was credited as a separate name.
TheGreatLugia
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At one point in the video they fast traveled from one continent to another without any loading, so it should still be seamless.
threelights
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Dude, people are not exaggerating when they say she is one of the (if not the) best composers out there. She is amazing.
But to be fair, maybe KH3 hasn't even started with the soundtrack yet =P
Yeah, the only reason why I didn't say ACE+ was because I wasn't sure if their work was segregated.
I really doubt she hasn't started working on it yet. I wouldn't be surprised to see Sekito/Ishimoto/Suzuki/etc. helping her out though.
Is the soundtrack any good? Haven't listened to it yet.
ACE did some remixes for Smash 4.
Smoothice65
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I hope that there are more then 5 continents.
Not really lol. There's a lot of stuff but most of it is pretty bad.
Xenoblade's soundtrack was fantastic, and seemingly one of the game's biggest strengths. It was largely praised by fans and critics alike, so it's interesting to me that they changed composers for Xenoblade X.
And Xenogears' OST was obviously amazing. Love Mitsuda's work (as well as ACE+'s in Xenoblade).
I follow pin it down to Takahashi being a mecha and Gundam fanboy. This is something that we've known since FFVI.
However, Xenoblade Chronicles X does appear to have a town in HD...
Smoothice65
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I have this song on repeat right now, the song has great parts and some weird parts but its catchy ass hell.
You might be right. The mech stuff in this game looks glorious though. Fingers crossed it beats the mech platforming in Xenogears
Thanks for the replies guys.
Also I took some screens of the maps in they showed in the video
Made this webm for fun. Had a lot of difficulty though cause conversion kept failing all day, but I just haaad to!
http://a.pomf.se/cjgwdz.webm
I'm getting playback issues on my Firefox, but it works on Chrome just fine. I honestly don't know what's causing this. Apologies :C
http://a.pomf.se/cjgwdz.webm
I'm getting playback issues on my Firefox, but it works on Chrome just fine. I honestly don't know what's causing this. Apologies :C
I definitely don't think we've seen all the "Worlds"
Isn't there supposed to be the other remains of the Colony Ship somewhere? I remember the Concept Art showed a huge city-sized piece still sticking up out of the ground and I don't see it in any of the revealed worlds environment layouts.
Isn't there supposed to be the other remains of the Colony Ship somewhere? I remember the Concept Art showed a huge city-sized piece still sticking up out of the ground and I don't see it in any of the revealed worlds environment layouts.
Yeah, same here with issues in firefox. Works fine in my chrome though. Really like this webm. What song is that? It sounds mighty familiar.
StreetsAhead
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Thanks for the replies guys.
Also I took some screens of the maps in they showed in the video
To go back to the seamless conversation, looking at this map, it does appear all areas are connected.
TwEE-N-Toast
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Wish they didn't reveal the world map. Would have liked to discover things on my own.
ahahahaha, that's awesome
at first I was like "that's basically the jurassic park theme, it's just missing the resolution. I'm going to make a comparison post!" then I kept watching/listening haha
What worries me is not the amount of continents, but the layout of the maps. Judging by the maps we've seen the continents have a relatively simple structure. That coupled with previous statements about the size of the world have me a little worried that every path will just be unnecessarily long. If the world is supposed to be five times the size of Xenoblade's, each continent would be roughly the size of Xenoblade's entire world. If that's the case, walking from the eastern part of NLA to the western part of NLA (via the bridge that connects both parts) would take half an eternity.
I guess Takahashi was just counting the ocean too when calculating that number. If there's nothing in between the continents that were shown today, then the ocean would be roughly the size of all continents combined.
I guess Takahashi was just counting the ocean too when calculating that number. If there's nothing in between the continents that were shown today, then the ocean would be roughly the size of all continents combined.
I just about lost my shit when the traversal with the mech started. Exploring new worlds is my favorite thing to do in games, and this just looks absolutely monumental in that respect. Plus, the Wii U's library has been really action-oriented up to now, so I can't wait to just sit back and be rewarded for finding bitchin' views.
It's the Jurassic Park theme of course
Oh god how the hell did I not pick up on that. It's been years since I last watched it but still.