Terrible RPG Battle Music: Part 1

Well I'm bored. Let's look at some music from RPG battles that is, well, bad. I may or may not create a second one, but let's see which RPG battle music is really bad.

Breath of Fire 2 - Hide n' Seek (Roach battle)

Ugh, you do NOT do this for a battle theme. Especially not one with roaches. This theme works for hunting, but not battling. Let's just put it at that. Breath of Fire 2 had absolutely amazing battle themes, and should be remembered for the good ones.

Final Fantasy 3 - Boss battle

For the most part, the battle themes of the entire Final Fantasy series is always good, and even some of the zanier themes are pretty badass. Can't say that I agree when I listen to FF3's boss battle theme. Like the previous one, the issue is that it's a very happy-go-lucky and zany theme that doesn't really fit for some of the nastier-seeming battles. Remember, if it sounds like it belongs in a carnival, it doesn't fit with an actual boss theme.

Chrono Cross - Main battle theme

Thankfully, this one doesn't sound like it could be carnival music, but it just sounds all over the place still. The instrumentation definitely felt overdone, and while I like the violin part and wish that that part of the battle theme would stick, the rest sort of makes me annoyed. It makes me want to go to the Bend of Time and fight random battles there just because the dungeon music is far more listenable than the main battle theme.

Phantasy Star 3 - Basically any battle theme

Hard to pinpoint which battle theme is the least fun, but when you've got music like in Phantasy Star 3, which seems to be incredibly dissonant with how battle themes should sound, you really just can't tell which battle theme is the worst. The time you get sucked into a random battle, it sounds like a racing game soundtrack, and then there's a few other ones, like one which usually happens upon an ambush that, well I don't know or care how it sounds other than it just sounding awful. What's with the one track that sounds like it could be a mix of techno and church music? Ugly. Just ugly.

Dual Orb II - Battle theme

I mean, this is the ONLY battle theme in the entire game, and that hurts this one real bad. On the surface, Dual Orb II's battle theme is, at its very best, just generic as hell. Not really shabby but not really amazingly exciting. It's just, with all the damn grinding I had to do, with all the battles I had to do, and the fact that they didn't even have unique battle music for any of the bosses not even the final boss, it just got on my nerves real quick. And of course that's all I got there.