Originally posted by: Howard
FF XII was more difficult to score though, IMO. The pacing of the game didn't really allow for leitmotifs as with the previous FF games. Case in point - does anybody remember any one person's theme? Seems like a soundtrack has more time to shine in those than in regular BG music. The feature pieces were alright (main theme song, Kiss Me Goodbye).
True, my main complaint about that game was the character development was practically nonexistant. At least in the previous games, at least a couple of the characters had some meaningful history or story.
Edit: saw your edit, but I still dont think that the plot had much character development. I dont think even having good character specific music would have salvaged the situation with that game.
Edit 2: Right, at the end, I was still confused with whether or not penalo was supposed to be an important character. Balthier and Fran, at least there was a slight story there, but vaan, penalo, not so much.
If Baltier and Fran were the main characters, perhaps the game would have been more acceptable... speculation at best though...