Musical Plagiarism? Final Fantasy IV vs.The Legend of Zel...

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Musical Plagiarism? Final Fantasy IV vs.The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
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[nGen]

Sound similar, but both clearly are taking cues from classical music that is widely available and both composers probably listened to all the time.

[ridleysaria]

I don't hear it.

[Parapsyche]

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.

[Roth]

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

[Orian]

They're vaguely similar, however only very, very vaguely. Straws, you're grasping at them musical comparing guy.

[DZComposer]

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.

[dlf]

It's not really a strech for Uematsu & Kondo to have done that. They did work on the Mario RPG music together.

[SparkyMuffin]

That's way too much of a stretch.

[tellis429]

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.

[WesFX]

I don't know how people can't hear what he's saying is very similar.

[Poochy]

It's not really a strech for Uematsu & Kondo to have done that. They did work on the Mario RPG music together.

No they didn't. The music in Super Mario RPG was handled primarily by Yoko Shimomura.