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>>16980940
Chinese Tea, Sepette, Even Tomboyish daughter had really well written refrains that just suffered from being in the hands of an inexperienced compositor. The general feeling from that Era is that ZUN had SO MANY cool ideas, but struggled to fit them into only so many tracks, resulting in the songs sounding overloaded and chaotic. You could pick out all of the verses from Sepette, and made them into like 5 cohesive tracks.

I do think they're overrated, but there's little glimmers of gold in the pan. Zun's inexperience, especially with broader, non-midi soundfonts, just shows really hard.

>>16980961
MoF is, I'd say, the game with the LEAST bad songs. Or rather, the most balanced soundtrack. It's really good at establishing this cohesive mood throughout. Nitori's theme flows really well into Autumnal waterfall, it's almost like they're different sections to an Opera.

The other side to this is that there's little diversity. Most are written in the same key, share similar progressions and a lot of the same instrumentation. It almost feels like playing one, very long stage, rather than 6 separate stages. The songs feel less like reflecting the characters, than the characters in the context of MoF. Compare that to, say, PCB, or EoSD, or even DDC where with every new track you get a completely different sense of what the music's trying to accomplish.

Now, whether a more cohesive soundtrack is a good thing or a bad thing is up to the listener. You could make cases for either side.