apparently "lo-fi hip-hop for study" style covers of shadowbringers songs is
an oddly fruitful niche subgenre?
https://youtu.be/mB0qToExuRI and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyupzA-JacA are both brilliant
the top comment of the second one sums it up as "Lo-Fi hip hop (Beats to Craft and Gather to)" which is fantastic
and there's even canon precedent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcHjxOKN0Pk so i guess this bubble isn't entirely unexpected but y'know what? i can groove with it. jazz cover album when s-e #ffxiv
no seriously though, you know the jazz instrumental arrangement albums for phoenix wright games?
that but for ffxiv would be brilliant. i mean we already have The Primals jammin' away, somebody get Soken some jazz cigarettes and make it happen
@wigglytuffitout I would buy the shit out of that and I don't even play ff14
@InspectorCaracal honestly even if you don't play ffxiv, i commend its music to you, there is some seriously good shit in here
i feel like final fantasy as a series has traditionally been very music-strong but it's definitely an absolute delight, compared to my time playing WoW (where i can only list like one song as a real favourite i stop and listen to every time), SWTOR (good themes... taken directly from the movies)... in ffxiv i have trouble saying which song is my fav. THERE ARE SO MANY
@InspectorCaracal it's also fun because there's some brooooaaaaaad variety in genres. the primal fights/boss battles often are opportunities for them to go off the cuff and present something pretty different. pompous opera? whiny emo rock? chill hippie rave beats? hard metal? pop electronica? Those All Happen lmao
i saw a youtube video once theorizing as to why early video game music is more memorable, and i think ffxiv's music keeps that melody-heavy focus which means it's easy to remember -
@InspectorCaracal -and presumably it makes it much easier to do different covers, because people are expecting that distinctive melody instead of something much more nebulous. same reason why the ace atty jazz covers worked so good, too - the music has one foot in that oldschool melody-heavy video game soundtrack sentiment, due to design limitations. (i forget if the first game was old enough that it was basically midis or not but like, close enough, not able to do full-sound mp3s constantly.)
@wigglytuffitout first game was gameboy advance so yah