>>54107260>It’s so generic and bland that the best you can say is that it was “influenced” by better musicSaying it's influenced by a genre is far from an indictment, though. I'm not incredibly well versed in music terms (despite one of my friends being a small-time composer, funnily enough), so I just used what sounded right.
>You could take West Province out of that area and put it into any other game and it would fit just as wellNot really? This is kind of a ridiculous claim to make, how many games even have areas that'd warrant a western-style track and have it fit?
>but a lot of games have deserts!Most of those deserts take more influence from Egyptian iconography than anything Western. They also don't have a bunch of black bulls running around in close proximity.
>but the fact that it sounds nothing like Pokémon should be a massive detrimentPoco Path Wild Battle and Trainer Battle "sound like Pokemon" and they're by far the least-discussed, least memorable tracks on the entire OST in favor of tracks like Area Zero, Gym Battle, Team Star Admin, etc. that break away from the series' usual musical trends pretty damn heavily.
Trying to claim that this series should have a singular musical identity and that straying from it is negative is frankly retarded.
>At least the Gym theme, even with how shitty it sounds, fits with the franchiseThe Gym Theme only "fits with the franchise" because it's heavily derivative of a song in the immediate last gen, which, at it's time, was a massive break from the traditions of music the series had set up in what's probably the franchise's most controversial OST to date. You're full of it.
