Pokémon AlphaOmega and RubySapphire

[Tellis]

You mean there isn't a battle frontier?  You mean we don't get a remix of that epic frontier brain theme!?  Say it ain't so!

Actually, there is. A remix of the Frontier Brain theme, that is. No Battle Frontier though. Apparently some NPCs hint that it's "being built" which may mean it'll show up in a patch or as DLC down the road. But if it's paid DLC then I might just give up on Pokemon because that sounds like a terrible path for Pokemon to tread down...

 And I don't have the game yet, so I don't know the context of WHERE the remix plays (or if it plays at all) but here it is:

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It's... okay? It's not what I'd call "good" but it's... there.


For real though? Excuse me, this is gonna probably get long but... I've been listening to some of the ORAS tracks here and there and I'm having the same problem I had with X/Y's soundtrack, where even a good composition is brought down by having really shitty digital instruments (which was also an issue with the original Gen III games but that was because the GBA sound chip is terrible). It's to the point where I'm really resenting Gen VI just because Game Freak apparently can't figure out how to do quality streaming music on the 3DS, and that subsequently screwed up some of my favorite Pokemon music. Seriously, what happened to Route 113?

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Why on earth did they choose to use that weird over-used synth sound and a bad string sample? Why not use a flute instrument, like the original was kind of obviously aiming for? I always thought that was the point of that song, like, along with giving it a peaceful tone, it was also the route where you gathered ash to MAKE FLUTES. Why does it sound so tonally dissonant?


Ugh, sorry for the music rant. I realize a lot of you probably don't care but I just... really hope the sound team can get things together for Gen VII. :c Gen VI is the first generation of Pokemon games where I've deliberately listened to other music while playing it, which is just... wrong.