Post your favorite Final Fantasy songs here
here is one of my favorites from FFVI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTmfWqeTKYY&fmt=18
they should hire him for d3 music lol
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yo mod move my thread posted on wrong forum lol
And quite possibly one of the best boss music tracks I've ever heard. Just listening to it makes me want to play FFX again. (Althought granted, Uematsu didn't make this particular piece).
FFX was good on so many levels. I want a new game like that.
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One Winged Angel, for it's time in FFVII, was my absolute favorite, and still is amazing to me just out of nostalgia. It's current rendition with the Black Mages as rock backup in addition to a complete make-over in intuitive, occasionally loud and high-energy, and highly fluctuating orchestral themes (which I think helps portray the story of Jenova- constant change and adaptation, as well as Sephiroth's, a man who's mind was slowly corrupted by his desire to please his mother, since he never knew his real one, a plausible psychological path to madness).
JENOVA is my favorite MIDI of all time. Period. It's flow and persistent beat make it very catchy, and it instantly caught my adrenaline as I fought Jenova's various cells/mutations and as I descended further in to Northern Crater.
I also love many of the themes in FFIX. Many people hated the game. I have no idea why. It had many diverse and imaginative characters and areas, a constantly changing storyline, a unique skill system, and the list could go on and on. However, it was all brought well together with its music as its binding. I felt that the very medieval musical themes (obvious for anyone listening) for the area of Alexandria well portrayed its culture and setting. The same, I could say, would fit Burmecia, which was something of a Shakespearean play. The music of the Realm of Eternal Rain was instantly sobering and literally felt, to me, like a cascading sheet of rain falling from a downtrodden and defeated black sky. Kuja's theme and the many renditions of it also, I felt, brilliantly portrayed his self-assured, regal flamboyance. They used many beats and constructs I wouldn't have thought, at first, would match with his theme, but ended up working wonderfully for unique, engaging songs every time. There are many more areas and themes that I thought were great and really fit their areas, but that in itself would take up a ton of time to type, so I move on.
FFX. This music, you could tell, was the brainchild of composers and musicians really trying to make the first and greatest Final Fantasy installment on the PS2 shine (in my opinion). To Zanarkand, first of all, I learned to play, just because I love it so much. It has many focal points were dramatic stress is built and then never relieved until the Ending Theme, which, at the end, finally put it to rest with the well-incorporated Final Fantasy theme that's in (I think) every game, usually in the credits. The Song of the Fayth were all done by wonderful, clear voices with excellent diction. The version for Yuna's Sending in Killika had the primal but sober and then energetic composition that made it feel truly alive as a song. I could feel it unraveling in my breast, it really felt that amazing. Yes, a song that can be felt, not just heard. Suteki de Ni was a great use of a down-home Japanese theme, combined with a great singer and wonderful accompaniment. It's later reuse in orchestral themes was also tear-jerking to me. Like all of Spira, the song resonated of death (emotionally, if nothing else), the sober and often painful journey of life, and its ultimate joyful rest as a resolution.
FFVIII's opening theme, Liberi Fatali, was a well-written, awesomely dramatic piece with redundant themes that echoed of its long-over musical age, an age of music I still love. It's use of Latin is spot-on, the singers were excellent, it fit perfectly with the cinematic, and I have no complaints. Like the Song of the Fayth, this one, but in a different way, blossomed in my chest as it grew and flowed and finally exploded into a symphony of raw emotion that tantalized my ears until it finally reached its emotional apex. Inside me, I could feel it like a growing fire, something akin to Squall's choices and emotional repercussions in the story. A great orchestral piece.
I'd encourage anyone, fan or not, to listen to Uematsu's (and other's) musical contributions to the games. They made whole, unbelievable worlds come to life in vibrant symphonies of imagined color and movement. Final Fantasy is often said to be the main contributer to the turn-of-the-century quality of music for all video games, among several others. It's wonderful music and often its settings, artwork, and relatable characters make this barely a JRPG game series. It's really, in many respects, the pinnacle of the one-way storyline RPG. Even so, it's more than a game, it's a living, breathing story, and these games, among others today and of the past, are bringing to the gaming genre what the movie genre had for it in the mid 1900's- a growing respect and sense of art. It has greatly contributed to this mindset- games are slowly becoming more than games, they're becoming masterpieces.
To many to name.....I guess my absolute favs would be the second boss battle theme in FF3(errrr 6 w/e im used to calling it 3 still :P) the one used for when u fight atma wepon, the song played when your in the giant of babil(FF4), The undergroud theme of FF4, lunatic pandora song from FF8, matoyas cave from FF1, ....and to many more to name
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here is one of my favorites from FFVI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTmfWqeTKYY&fmt=18
they should hire him for d3 music lol
edit!
yo mod move my thread posted on wrong forum lol
Orchestral version I found. I thought the game version was good, but damn...
Summoned Beast Battle
And quite possibly one of the best boss music tracks I've ever heard. Just listening to it makes me want to play FFX again. (Althought granted, Uematsu didn't make this particular piece).
FFX was good on so many levels. I want a new game like that.
Jenova
JENOVA is my favorite MIDI of all time. Period. It's flow and persistent beat make it very catchy, and it instantly caught my adrenaline as I fought Jenova's various cells/mutations and as I descended further in to Northern Crater.
I also love many of the themes in FFIX. Many people hated the game. I have no idea why. It had many diverse and imaginative characters and areas, a constantly changing storyline, a unique skill system, and the list could go on and on. However, it was all brought well together with its music as its binding. I felt that the very medieval musical themes (obvious for anyone listening) for the area of Alexandria well portrayed its culture and setting. The same, I could say, would fit Burmecia, which was something of a Shakespearean play. The music of the Realm of Eternal Rain was instantly sobering and literally felt, to me, like a cascading sheet of rain falling from a downtrodden and defeated black sky. Kuja's theme and the many renditions of it also, I felt, brilliantly portrayed his self-assured, regal flamboyance. They used many beats and constructs I wouldn't have thought, at first, would match with his theme, but ended up working wonderfully for unique, engaging songs every time. There are many more areas and themes that I thought were great and really fit their areas, but that in itself would take up a ton of time to type, so I move on.
FFX. This music, you could tell, was the brainchild of composers and musicians really trying to make the first and greatest Final Fantasy installment on the PS2 shine (in my opinion). To Zanarkand, first of all, I learned to play, just because I love it so much. It has many focal points were dramatic stress is built and then never relieved until the Ending Theme, which, at the end, finally put it to rest with the well-incorporated Final Fantasy theme that's in (I think) every game, usually in the credits. The Song of the Fayth were all done by wonderful, clear voices with excellent diction. The version for Yuna's Sending in Killika had the primal but sober and then energetic composition that made it feel truly alive as a song. I could feel it unraveling in my breast, it really felt that amazing. Yes, a song that can be felt, not just heard. Suteki de Ni was a great use of a down-home Japanese theme, combined with a great singer and wonderful accompaniment. It's later reuse in orchestral themes was also tear-jerking to me. Like all of Spira, the song resonated of death (emotionally, if nothing else), the sober and often painful journey of life, and its ultimate joyful rest as a resolution.
FFVIII's opening theme, Liberi Fatali, was a well-written, awesomely dramatic piece with redundant themes that echoed of its long-over musical age, an age of music I still love. It's use of Latin is spot-on, the singers were excellent, it fit perfectly with the cinematic, and I have no complaints. Like the Song of the Fayth, this one, but in a different way, blossomed in my chest as it grew and flowed and finally exploded into a symphony of raw emotion that tantalized my ears until it finally reached its emotional apex. Inside me, I could feel it like a growing fire, something akin to Squall's choices and emotional repercussions in the story. A great orchestral piece.
I'd encourage anyone, fan or not, to listen to Uematsu's (and other's) musical contributions to the games. They made whole, unbelievable worlds come to life in vibrant symphonies of imagined color and movement. Final Fantasy is often said to be the main contributer to the turn-of-the-century quality of music for all video games, among several others. It's wonderful music and often its settings, artwork, and relatable characters make this barely a JRPG game series. It's really, in many respects, the pinnacle of the one-way storyline RPG. Even so, it's more than a game, it's a living, breathing story, and these games, among others today and of the past, are bringing to the gaming genre what the movie genre had for it in the mid 1900's- a growing respect and sense of art. It has greatly contributed to this mindset- games are slowly becoming more than games, they're becoming masterpieces.
Those are just my thoughts.
here is another one of my favorites, FFX normal battle theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RsawtJ6Kc8&fm=18