Welcome to Morning Music, Kotakuit is an ongoing meeting place for people who love video games and the cool sounds they make. Today I’m going to talk about how amazing it is Final Fantasy VII Remakeis the music of, and specifically some of his new tracks that were not in the original.
It took me a while to get in Final Fantasy VII Remake (Youtube / longplay / VGMdb), and even more so to arrive at their complex arrangements of PlayStation tracks, often incredibly simple and deeply affective. But eventually, they both won me over. The music, like the game, is divided into layers like sheets of sedimentary rock that take years of history and are displayed in an organized way for you to appreciate, analyze and digest the present. Here is the new version of “Bright Lighthouse of Civilization”Which is reproduced for the first time when Jessie explains the layout of Midgar for Cloud after the game’s opening bombing mission:
If you read any my previous Morning Music Appetizer you know i love melancholic tracks and “shining beacon” hits the techno dystopia of the original while extracting the emotional resonance of watching the same human tragedies unfold repeatedly after decades of repetition Final Fantasy VII.
But I said I was here to talk about some of the Final Fantasy VII Remakeoriginal scores by, and I will do so. In the years since the game’s release in 1997, Square Enix composers, Masashi Hamauzu and Mitsuto Suzuki, began to spread their wings with more of their own projects. Your work in Final Fantasy XIII the trilogy in particular was a milestone for the departure of composer Nobuo Uematsu ‘music after the original series’ in 2004, and both brought the same talent and growing sophistication to Final Fantasy VII Remake. Here they are “Thief moonlight, ”Which starts at the beginning of the game, when you have the task of breaking into Jessie’s parents’ house to steal her father’s Shinra key card.
It’s cold and relaxing, but there’s a lot going on, from drums and maracas to harps and bells. The remake is about exploring the roads that were not covered in the original, and “Moonlight Thievery” is a perfect setting to have fun in the suburbs of Midgar 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 turn poor people to dust: it makes the lives of many other people extremely comfortable.
Then there is “Train Cemetery. ”I was initially discouraged, since the original“ Shining Beacon ”pieces throughout this section. For the remake, however, the new Hamauzu track is ideal. It shows his superb and subtle piano work, and his tendency to lift even the darkest tracks with sparkling harp strings and bells. It reminds me a lot their underrated work in Dirge of Cerberus.
Suzuki’s contributions are a little more peculiar and optimistic. His jazzy touch in “Wall Market”The theme is completely different of the original, but excellent, nonetheless. But my favorite is “Collected expressway”Which plays as Cloud and Aerith make their way through the tunnels connecting Sector 5 to 6. The kokyū strings kick off, followed by a cheerful electronic section, with the melody ending in a frantic synthetic collapse that makes you feel feel like you’re playing through the slums of an old arcade (suitable, as this is the section where Cloud has to navigate ancient robotic arms similar to a crane game to help clear the way).
Okay, there are a lot of tracks, but there is one more that I must mention before leaving them: “Due reward. “It is based on the original composition of Nobuo Uematsu for Wall Market called”Oppressed People, ”With the new version arranged by Naoyuki Honzawa. It is so different from the original that I am counting it as a new original musical piece and it is a genuine banger:
It’s dancing and full of mini vocal samples, with all kinds of other good stuff mixed in there too. The regular version is a good downtempo beat to walk under Midgar, but the battle remix takes it to another level. More club music in my Final fantasys please. I demand nothing less than an entire DJ mini-game, once the sequence takes us to the Golden Disco.
That’s it for today’s Morning Music! As I wrote about a lot of new Final Fantasy VII Remake music and don’t mention the “Hollow, ”The only new track he composed? I do not know. What a shame. It is excellent. The man is a master. Imagine creating one of the best video game soundtracks of all time and then coming back decades later to add an equally incredible and totally new and totally arranged song. I also can not. And yet he did it. Which Uematsu track is helping you throughout the day?