Welcome to Morning Music, Kotakuis a permanent meeting place for people who love video games and the fun sounds they make. Today I’m going to spring up on the amazing Remake of Final Fantasy VIIMusic is, and specifically some of his new tracks that weren’t in the original.
It took me a while to get into it Remake of Final Fantasy VII (YouTube / long game / VGMdb), and even more time to tackle their complex arrangements of often incredibly simple and deeply affective PlayStation tracks. But in the end they both beat me. Music, like the game, is presented in layers like sheets of sedimentary rock that have years of history and present it perfectly so you can appreciate, analyze, and digest it in the present. Here is the new version of “Bright light of civilization”Which is first played out when Jessie explains the design of Midgar in the Cloud after the game’s initial bombing mission:
If you have read any my previous Morning Music tickets you know I’m a sucker for melancholy themes and “Shining Beacon” nails the techno dystopia of the original as you extract the emotional resonance of seeing the same human tragedies unfold again and again after decades of reproduction Final Fantasy VII.
But I said I was here to talk about some Remake of Final Fantasy VIIthe original scores, and so I will. In the years since the game’s release in 1997, Square Enix composers Masashi Hamauzu and Mitsuto Suzuki have opened their wings with more of their own projects. His work at Final Fantasy XIII the trilogy, in particular, resonated with the music of the series after the release of the original series composer Nobuo Uematsu in 2004, and both have brought that same style and growing sophistication. Remake of Final Fantasy VII. Here’s the one from Hamauzu “Moonlight“, Who plays at the beginning of the game when you’re tasked with breaking into Jessie’s parents’ house to steal her father’s Shinra card.
It’s relaxing and relaxing, but there are so many things going on, from drums and maracas to harps and bells. The remake is about exploring the roads that had not been traveled in the original and “Moonlight Thievery” is a perfect setting to go out in the Midgar neighborhood and see the other side of the corporate metropolis class division. After all, there is a reason why Shinra has so much free reign to destroy the planet and grind poverty to dust: it makes the lives of many other people extremely comfortable.
Then there is “Train cemetery“I originally left it behind, as in the original sections of” Shining Beacon “they are played throughout this section. For the remake, however, the new Hamauzu track is ideal. It shows its excellent and subtle piano work, and his penchant for lifting even the darkest tracks with shiny harp hairs and bells. his underrated work Dirge of Cerberus.
Suzuki’s contributions are a little more quirky and upbeat. His jazz turn in the “Wall Market“The issue is completely different of the original, but still excellent. Although my favorite is “Collapsed highway”Which plays as Cloud and Aerith make their way through the tunnels that connect sector 5 to 6. The kokyū strings launch it, followed by a windy ambient electronic section, with the melody ending in a frantic synthetic rupture that causes it feels like you ”. It’s being played through the slums of an old arcade (appropriate, as this is the section where Cloud has to navigate the old robotic arms similar to a game of cranes to help pave the way).
Okay, that’s a lot of topics, but I have to mention one more before I leave you: “Due reward“It is based on the original composition of Nobuo Uematsu for Wall Market called”Oppressed people“, With the new version organized by Naoyuki Honzawa. It’s so different from the original that I count it as a new original piece of music, and it’s a bona fide banger:
It’s sleek and full of mini-vocal samples, with all sorts of good stuff mixed in there too. The normal version is a good time down to traverse the bottom of Midgar, but the battle remix takes it to another level. More club music to mine Final Fantasys please. I demand at least a whole mini-DJ-ing game once the sequel takes us to the Gold Saucer.
And it’s already for today’s morning music! As I wrote about a lot of news Remake of Final Fantasy VII music and not to mention the “Empty“The only new song he composed? I don’t know. Shame on me. It’s great. The man is a master. Imagine creating one of the best video game soundtracks in history and going back decades later to add a new and completely arranged song just as amazing and just as appropriate.I can’t either.And yet it did.What Uematsu track brings you the day?