>The thing is: it's relatively easy to take a simple, chiptune-esque piece and make an orchestration out of it. But doing to reverse is nearly impossible, except for the simple parts of the piece.
And that is why the FM version of the soundtrack to Etrian Odyssey 5 is shit compared to the ones from 1 to 3. They made it in generic style, then went and just made "eight bit versions" of it, and it sounds like shit. Anyone with half a brain could see it coming the moment they announced that they would make an FM version of it, but retards didn't. When this is pointed out to them, they just go "you wanted an FM soundtrack, why are you complaining when you got what you want".