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Amaril
2016-09-20, 03:04 PM
I love works of fiction with attached theme music, especially when the music is a natural fit for the style, tone, and themes of the work. However, once in a while I see something odd happen: I run into a piece of theme music that seems, to be, like it would have worked better as the theme music for a completely different existing work.

The example on my mind right now is Eternal Return from Dragon's Dogma (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQkkVTsayko). Now, it may just be that I don't really like Dragon's Dogma, but I can't shake the feeling that Eternal Return would have fit better as a theme song for The Wheel of Time (which, yes, is a book series and can't include attached music, but still). It's gotten to the point where when I listen to the song (which I do like), I automatically visualize stuff from The Wheel of Time instead of Dragon's Dogma.

Does anyone else have this experience? What are some examples?

Fri
2016-09-20, 03:29 PM
I don't know what Eternity would've matched better for, but definitely not something you'd expect in a cartoony jrpg with super-deformed art style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3aEQuxQEOw