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Anyhoo, I like a LOT of the music here, so I'll just name some of the highlights
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And agreed on the soundtrack thing; even if we may prefer one soundtrack to another, each one suits its game perfectly and for better or for worse, is irreplacable
I still prefer the opening, but I enjoy the Allegro theme very much; it's fast pace brings a certain intensity to the theme which I love
I like it better then AAI's Presto theme: while I find AAI's Presto to be catchier, AAI2's fits better with the other confrontation themes in the game, musically speaking. I mean in AAI, the Presto and Objection themes kind of clashed, so when the former transitioned into the latter, it kind of felt like the intensity dropped a little. Plus, it seemed quite different from the Moderato and Allegro themes before it, and seemed less of a musical continuation of those themes and more like something else altogether. It was still amazingly catchy, but it felt out of place
With AAI2 though, the theme feels musically in tune with the other pieces and is a great piece in and of itself
But hey, that's just my opinion; feel free to take it with a grain of salt
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). So this one, it doesn't stand out to me at its own but it's good and it gets you in the right mood, especially the very first second of it gives the feeling that an important confrontation is going down.
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). So this one, it doesn't stand out to me at its own but it's good and it gets you in the right mood, especially the very first second of it gives the feeling that an important confrontation is going down.
And I'm in agreement with you about your opinion on the Presto theme; to me it felt more... well, thematic then anything, and doesn't make for a particularly great stand-alone listen in my opinion
Off-hand I'd say they're my favorite in the series, but I'm sure there are some other ones that I'd place higher upon a relisten; most, if not all of the Cross-Examination/Confrontation themes in the games are really quite good
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I had forgotten what the Moderato/Allegro sounded like, and while it sounded quite good I can't help but feel annoyed by them, but I think that is mostly because in the fan translation I watched, the player pressed every statement in the confrontations so they all took much longer time than necessary, so I got a little bit tired with that.
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That feeling usually passes - either with time or a simple transition to a different theme, depending on how fed up I am with it- but I can understand not being attached to a certain theme as a result
I mean, Ray Shields? Gregory Edgeworth? Justine Courtney? Jeff Masters? I could go on and on, but they were all brilliant; they were all catchy, distinct, and matched the character it represented to a T. My personal favorite (as I think I've already mentioned) was Gregory Edgeworth's followed closely by Ray Shield's, but that was just me. What about you guys?
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I don't even know why I like Gregory's theme so much, I just find it really catchy and uplifting
Perhaps its because of the orchestrated rendition done of the theme for the game's arrange album; when something is orchestrated, whether or not the original tune is that good or not, it brings a certain beauty to it
) of the game and arranged them so they sounded absolutely majestic as an orchestrated score
It was the sort of album that really did justice to Iwadare's work on the original album, and made me wish this series had more arranges then it does: I mean Apollo Justice was barely covered, the Investigations mini-album was good though felt lacking, and Dual Destinies hasn't been touched at all (though granted it's still fairly new
). Imagine orchestra and jazz renditions of all this untouched material... it would be excellent
But hey, that's just me being selfish; we've already got MANY good arrangements of the series thus far after all, so I shouldn't complain
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Like you said, it really did justice to the scores. "Goddess of law" was really majestic and church-y (although it's hard not to be with an organ), which suited the theme of her... theme. And "Confrontation" and... a pleasant surprise to me was the "Logic" score, it sounded really soft orchestrated, and I lthink it was fun that they included it, especially since it's not the first you think of when speaking of the soundtrack, to me it feels more like a nice little background sound than an actual song, and it turned out real nice.
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Like you said, it really did justice to the scores. "Goddess of law" was really majestic and church-y (although it's hard not to be with an organ), which suited the theme of her... theme. And "Confrontation" and... a pleasant surprise to me was the "Logic" score, it sounded really soft orchestrated, and I lthink it was fun that they included it, especially since it's not the first you think of when speaking of the soundtrack, to me it feels more like a nice little background sound than an actual song, and it turned out real nice. 
I pretty much agree with all that you said here, particularly your thoughts on the 'Logic Suite': Logic Chess was great but all the other Logic themed....themes (now I'm doing it too!
Pretty much everything here was great; the suites were great, the character themes were well done (I particularly enjoyed Gregory Edgeworth's theme, but you could've already guessed that
), the Objection and Persuit themes were suitably epic, 'Bonds' was as poignant as the theme from the game, 'Great Revival' was grand and almost cinematic, and the final track (ironically called) 'Opening', though not my favorite piece, was a good mesh of music from throughout the album. I've already downloaded this album, but if Capcom were to officially release this album via iTunes or Amazon or somewhere (along with a fully localized version of the game, while they were at it
) I would buy it just to support it
Anyways, I'm glad you were able to discover some 'new' AA music, and that you enjoyed it
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Anyways, I'm glad you were able to discover some 'new' AA music, and that you enjoyed it 
Well, I'm glad you brought it up so that I could discover it.
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However you ARE right, pretty much EVERY character theme in this game is great; some are more enjoyable to me then others, but all of them fit their character to a T and are catchy to some degree or another
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it later on
Anyways, I'm glad you were able to discover some 'new' AA music, and that you enjoyed it 
Well, I'm glad you brought it up so that I could discover it. 
I'm a fan of video game music myself, and since I've been into Ace Attorney I've been keeping a close eye on any new albums/arranges/etc that are released.
Unless you're keeping a close eye on the AA music scene though, it's the sort of thing that's easy to miss, so I'm glad I was able to point people towards it
The character themes you mentioned were all pretty great as well; Miwa's was charmingly eccentric, Mikagami's felt epic and intimidating, while The Man Who Masterminded the Game definitely was catchy and final boss-y.
In any case, we agree on the most important point here; AAI2 had a GREAT soundtrack, and was a great contribution to the series musically.
Conversely, JFA is my least favorite AA album because, while it's still good and introduces some of the more prominent themes in the series (Miles Edgeworth, for example) just didn't feel as great as the others in the series
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Pretty much every track was amazing and a worthy listen (though come to think of it, I think I'm in agreement with you on Mikagami's theme in that I tend not to listen to it all that much ), and was one of those albums that both left me satisfied and wanting more
As for what I mean by the latter... like you said, there's still some great themes from the game that were untouched, which is a real pity
Plus, there are two other games in the series' whose music has been left untouched for arranges, AAI and DD, and then I start wondering about the possibilities and just how awesome it would be if Iwadare would...
My favorite soundtracks, other then Ace Attorney, come from a few different series: in no particular order, there's Persona (either this series' or Ace Attorney take the top spot as my favorite, I couldn't tell you which
)Zelda, Mario, Mega Man Zero, Chaos Rings, The World Ends With You, Jet Set Radio and Professor Layton. They all have something different to offer in terms of style and mood, but I find them all exceedingly catchy and I often can get entranced and addicted to any of these series' music for DAYS at a time
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This game's Objection, though I personally liked it a lot, felt especially grandiose and dramatic; sure it was nice, triumphant and catchy, but a tad ill-suited to Miles'
The soundtrack is good enough that it's worth not being forgotten, but apart from that, I don't think anyone can say it's a favorite
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While on the topic of fan-translated names, what would one do for Mr. Shields' track? In English it'd be
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It was one of the better ones..I don't blame you for I blame you tho'
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It was one of the better ones..I don't blame you for I blame you tho'
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