And they should've stayed there instead of giving more control to Senoue so he could write more love letters to his guitar.DackAttac wrote:I don't feel that Senoue's power-chord-based riffs sans melody that surfaced in SA2 are appropriate either, but the synthy jazz-tinged pop numbers in SA1 were the closest they ever came to the 16-bit music.
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Fucking signed. I like a few tracks that Senoue's released post-SA1 (Pyramid Cave and Final Haunt come to mind), but most of the time I find myself asking "Is it over yet?" Not that I'm giddy for everything pre-SA2, but hearing him churned out more tunes in that general style would be epic.Black Rook wrote:And they should've stayed there instead of giving more control to Senoue so he could write more love letters to his guitar.
Exactly, the problem is that you can't write Senoue off entirely, though, because he's written some of the most fantastic hooks when in that syrupy style (Emerald Coast, Rumbling Highway, Follow Me) and a few in the grungy gritty one he loves so much (Eternal Engine, which, let's face it, has enough material to make two songs out of) but as soon as the melody goes missing, it's worse than silence. I stopped caring about Heroes as soon as I got to Rail Canyon. The pits have no bottom, and the riffs have no hook. (Nail, meet coffin; that's the last oneâ€â€let's get this bitch in the ground.) I just find it impeccable a man so good at penning a melody has so little idea how much it means to his music.Black Rook wrote:And they should've stayed there instead of giving more control to Senoue so he could write more love letters to his guitar.DackAttac wrote:I don't feel that Senoue's power-chord-based riffs sans melody that surfaced in SA2 are appropriate either, but the synthy jazz-tinged pop numbers in SA1 were the closest they ever came to the 16-bit music.
But hey, that's just my opinion. I listen to Fountains of Wayne and shit.