Focuses on the music. Fine by me!
4 stars
Focusing on the music was a pretty good choice — FFVI's soundtrack is iconic and not very thoroughly covered in the otherwise comprehensive Reverse Design book (which I obtained a free PDF of before they made the "definitive version" which they're now charging $50 for): thegamedesignforum.com/features/reverse_design_ff6_1.html
It seems like all the Boss Fight books I've read have some overbaked figures of speech, and this one is no exception — "It’s kawaii repackaged for the JV football team," "If climate change doesn’t kill us first, humanity will die drowning in attitude tees and Funko Pops" — but it does a good job of contextualizing Uematsu's music at a strange intersection of "low" and "high" art and drawing out his skillful use of leitmotif. A solid read for those who, like me, are somewhat musically inclined and for whom FFVI remains a linchpin of video game music.