The acoustic guitar bass line and violin melody create such a warm and, being clichéd, tender experience. In keeping with the sentimental pieces, we are introduced to "Revival of a Tender Experience." While I don't find this to be nearly as sentimental as "Angel Hands," I find the overall effect of the music to be much more successful. The overall relaxing feel that this piece gives off, in addition to the slightly sad violin line, makes for an effective combination and really helps draw the listener into the music. The first instrumental piece to which we are introduced is "Angel Hands." This is probably the most sentimental of the pieces on the album and the use of live instruments really helps this track excel above some of the others. While there are what seem to be some live instruments, I think the decision to use synth was a very strong one because it helps enforce the easy listening, but also helps Uematsu work with a medium to which he has grown accustomed. Instrumentally, you can expect a lot of the synth with which Uematsu has grown familiar. I will be covering those tracks in the latter half of the review and will focus on the instrumental pieces at first. Out of the four verbal pieces, only one is truly sung. Most of the verbal pieces are exactly that, spoken word. Phantasmagoria is essentially broken down into two types of tracks, instrumentals and those with lyrics however, lyrics is a pretty misleading word. How does this sound pay off? Is it something that one would want to hear again or is it one of those albums that should be forgotten in time? Read on and find out. As opposed to making it sound anything like he's composed before, he opted to take a very easy listening approach to the entire album. After many successful Final Fantasy soundtracks, Square let Nobuo Uematsu compose his first, and only, non-VGM related solo album. Phantasmagoria is definitely one of those more unique albums by video game composers. If you don't think any of the above situations apply, you can use this feedback form to request a review of this block.Square Enix Music Online :: Phantasmagoria :: Review by Don Contact your IT department and let them know that they've gotten banned, and to have them let us know when they've addressed the issue.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from an area that filters all traffic through a single proxy server (like Singapore or Malaysia), or are you on a mobile connection that seems to be randomly blocked every few pages? Then we'll definitely want to look into it - please let us know about it here. You'll need to disable that add-on in order to use GameFAQs.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from work, school, a library, or another shared IP? Unfortunately, if this school or place of business doesn't stop people from abusing our resources, we don't have any other way to put an end to it. When we get more abuse from a single IP address than we do legitimate traffic, we really have no choice but to block it. If you don't think you did anything wrong and don't understand why your IP was banned.Īre you using a proxy server or running a browser add-on for "privacy", "being anonymous", or "changing your region" or to view country-specific content, such as Tor or Zenmate? Unfortunately, so do spammers and hackers. IP bans will be reconsidered on a case-by-case basis if you were running a bot and did not understand the consequences, but typically not for spamming, hacking, or other abuse. If you are responsible for one of the above issues. Having an excessive number of banned accounts in a very short timeframe.Running a web bot/spider that downloaded a very large number of pages - more than could possibly justified as "personal use".Automated spam (advertising) or intrustion attempts (hacking).Your current IP address has been blocked due to bad behavior, which generally means one of the following: