Hmm, to comment on the music itself for SaGa Frontier II. Well, I like this soundtrack, I gave it a 3.5 rating which is a pretty good rating, not one of my stronger ratings but to me when you start getting down at around 2.5 it's not a very good soundtrack, it's your run-of-the-mill stuff. Maybe my ratings are skewed but it's how it works in my head. So, this is a good soundtrack, it has a number of songs that I like. But I can't deny that it has its share of just really not-so-good songs. I can't call this one of the greatest VGM soundtracks of all time by any stretch, and by no stretch can I also say that it is a chiefly flawed soundtrack that offers little enjoyment. It's a decent soundtrack, it does have its flaws and it does have its gems, I feel the good music outweighs the bad, but of course that's my opinion.
I think Nature Folk is a great example of melodious music on this soundtrack, one of my favorites, along with Dithyrambs for something to get my leg moving to a beat. Of course, like you duly mentioned Hellacia, Point really is pretty much just one single piano key struck over and over again for roughly 3 minutes long, but in VGM, I find that all soundtracks, even ones I love and give 4.0 and 4.5 ratings to, will always have some songs that just put me off, make me make a face and then just write it off and never come back to it. But on a whole the soundtrack can still deliver good stuff. Ultimately I find that SaGa Frontier II does that, even though it's not Hamauzu's strongest work by any means.
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