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Sound similar, but both clearly are taking cues from classical music that is widely available and both composers probably listened to all the time.
I don't hear it.
Yeah I don't really hear this. I've been playing FF1 and LttP frequently for years and I've never thought they were similar whatsoever.
LOL, they ARE similar!
But back in the 90s, I didn't really care if one was similar to the other one. If the game is good, I play it, and like. That's all that mattered to me.
// Roth
They're vaguely similar, however only very, very vaguely. Straws, you're grasping at them musical comparing guy.
Same melodic pitch changes, but that's it. Also, it's just one small section of the pieces that is similar. Besides this, they are completely different.
I can do this too! The Legend of Zelda MAIN FREAKING THEME is a "ripoff" of a march called "Peacemaker" by Karl King written in 1955! Same deal, though. Only a few measures sound similar. This does not a ripoff make. And, once again, the context is completely different.
If you're interested in my so-called "ripoff," listen to the first strain of Peacemaker. You'll hear almost the same rhythm pattern (Difference is King's use of dotted-eight-sixteenth, and Kondo's use of eighth-sixteenth-sixteenth) and note change intervals are the second phrase of the LoZ theme.
It's not really a strech for Uematsu & Kondo to have done that. They did work on the Mario RPG music together.
That's way too much of a stretch.
I don't think anyone intentionally plagiarised anybody else, but they do indeed sound similar.
The similarities aren't as much of a stretch as some of you guys make it out to be.
I don't know how people can't hear what he's saying is very similar.
No they didn't. The music in Super Mario RPG was handled primarily by Yoko Shimomura.
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