Final Fantasy/Awesome Music: Difference between revisions

== [[Final Fantasy II]] ==

* ''[[Final Fantasy II]]'' has "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnhX5KTpOuA Rebel Army Theme]", "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4pytSJ9Ba4 Magician's Tower]", "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx_iswdWY-4 Castle Pandemonium]" ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG9v80_CaG8 and its Dissidia Duodecim remix]), "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRlW5yRsejA Battle Scene A]", and "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgUqagP5lf8 Battle Scene 2]", the final boss theme.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqCxgB3V2E0 The fully orchestrated Rebel Army Theme], which sounds like a majestic national anthem.

** You think that's something? Try [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmDSMQhVxXk this] underrated MASTERPIECE.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehx1vUvSqgI Hey, Cid!]. A simple yet inspiring and cheerful song.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zrS8LzSkV0&fmt=18 Within the Giant], played in [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]. {{spoiler|In the one before it, too.}}

** From the same album, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcnaab6alfY Fighting for Tomorrow], a choral remix of the Fabul theme, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csSxgjY9CCw "Fallen Dragoon"], the Remix of "Suspicion."

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giw4e6U5A9s The Mysterious Girl's battle theme] in ''The After Years''. Every time it plays is a huge [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moment]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7wYrbNdX1k The final boss themes] aren't worth complaining about either.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WlrcP2zcys Dancing] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xpUOrwVMHo Mad] from ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' is especially notable because it samples at least three songs from earlier in the game, melding them together with some Bach to create the opera of madness. The fact that Nobuo Uematsu lists it as one of his favorites should be a tell-tale sign.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRnDbOwGipo The final section] of the song is particularly awesome in my mind, if for no other reason than because it includes Kefka's distinctive laugh as part of the music.

** [http://www.destructoid.com/final-fantasy-vi-s-dancing-mad-a-critical-analysis-157570.phtml This] detailed, critical analysis of Dancing Mad should be enough to make even the few who are left unimpressed by the music itself change their opinion and admit that it is an ingenious masterpiece concieved by an ingenious composer.

** And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMFCM0SKbnY this version] from the recent ''Distant Worlds II'' album.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdt74rarv4g The Black Mages' cover] of it from their very first album should not be missed either, as it is ''glorious.''

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SyLJ3MuQrs This one's] not exactly lousy either.

* it played several times before, but when [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smsWWiay0gE Metamorphosis] starts to play during Kefka's ascension, you know you won't be saving anybody, let alone the world.

* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKu7vlv_PY Epitaph]," the flashback song just before getting the Falcon, and "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnvZ6Dqv7Ws Searching for Friends]," the new world map theme just after. It comes just after the game has spent the last several hours hammering in the sheer hopelessness and gloom of your situation, and even gives you one more [[Tear Jerker]] in the form of just how Setzer got this spare airship from a lost love in the first place, complete with appropriately sad flashback music. But then... then Epitaph fades out, and Searching for Friends fades in just as Setzer declares that the Falcon just may save them all. On top of being a damn good song in general, it has this unmistakable aura of light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-style ''hope.'' Hearing this theme gives the message that all the sudden, you're back in the game, that you have one more chance. Even inside the game, Edgar declares "For once I feel hopeful!" Very powerful scene, the music absolutely makes it. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvlYM2HqszU See for yourself].

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TzPDsBNtsw Forever Rachel] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiLWZzeA3cY Cyan's theme]. Both were involved in some pretty intense [[Tear Jerker|tear jerkers]]...* sob*

** S.H.H. gives up this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF6BH5MFG2U remix] of Forever Rachel.

*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QYJJZo_vF8 And now, Advent Children One-Winged Angel in G Major]. [[Nightmare Fuel]] has never sounded so ''awesome''.

** How about the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yRdyZjjtH4&feature=channel_video_title Over Clocked] version?

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T3srk8Dkuo Cosmo Canyon] is just... beautiful. The remix played when Red finds out his father's fate, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrI8bHs6Qvk Great Warrior], is [[Tear Jerker]] in musical format.

** From the same segment of the game, we have [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9v7hx93IQM Lifestream.]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn0T6Xh5VXY "Find Your Way"]

* While the Chocobo sidequest was annoying as hell, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xErfUvB7NI music was awesome].

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l75zjpDpAWs Compression of Time.] A hauntingly beautiful yet eerie song

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGN_3Am98zc "Lunatic Pandora"]. Yes, you are inside a giant crystal superweapon {{spoiler|that just wiped out half of Esthar}}, oozing alien menace, {{spoiler|containing the reawakening Sorceress Adel}}.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sbp-Gm6Jz4 Besaid Island]. What every tropical paradise should sound like.

** Or this spine-tingling good [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwS0-Ogwn4k remix].

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIucmUkw-Zc Tidus's Theme] is pretty gorgeous.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14gA4R4e-cU Auron's Theme]: because he's such a bad-ass, he gets synthesiser music. It's also a bit of a [[Tear Jerker]] when it plays when {{spoiler|he dissolves into pyreflies at the end of the game.}}

 

== [[Final Fantasy XI]] ==

* The [[Final Battle]] music for Treasures of Aht Urghan, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1danrqg06wQ Ragnarok].

* The music for Ronfaure, both [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnwuKNav4Ec past] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clld-gFL050 present]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD6UW7ZP10c&feature=related The boss theme.]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qAqrLXsTLw&feature=related Combat.]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGg1qRe_mng&feature=player_embedded The Fires of Suzaku]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpDqoeO5XdY&hd=1 Recapture Strategy]

* ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]''. Not only does it have sweet remixes of classics, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0tfW_pZm6s Intro] is pretty awesome.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thFnJ3iVSH4 March], not quite sure when it plays, but damn if it's not awesome.

** ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' plays like a Greatest Hits album with some original work in there too... oh, right, there's also a game in there, but the music - original versions and kickass remixes - is mostly listed above for obvious reasons.

** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P6wr-inpXE ending theme] takes the cake, though, remixing the ending themes of all the first ten games as scenes from each character's story play over the credits. It's enough to make a die hard fan tear up.

** Courtesy of ''Duodecim'', two mind-blowingly epic tracks, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmo584truz8& Cantata Mortis & God in Fire.]

** More Duodecim originals: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPh415vsF2o Troops] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxXHEDoFRsQ Tension]

* Even if the music of the Chocobo series are remixes from various tracks in the series, these are very epic remixes. For example ''Chocobo Racing'' has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78A2FqKcCgM Mysidia's Sky Garden] is the upbeat, fast-paced version of the dragon-riding track from ''[[Final Fantasy V]]''.

* ''Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales'' has some awesome tunes, most of which are remixes from other music, but mostly better then the originals. An example: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4DWolUO_Cw The intro.]

* ''Heavy Metal Arrange Album GUARVAIL'', taking tracks from a ton of the games and turning them into metal of awesomeness. The whole album is pretty sweet, but the ones of the most note are the arrangements of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsKbs8Eg7aE The Extreme], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3SSXOfQ4lk The FF Main Theme], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jDgqQx7Sqc Battle Scene A], and last but most definitely not the least, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSDLPnJxVhM Dan][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNuxXSjd1OY ci][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-LT9jtdfmQ ng] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmgKrDDqSMI Mad].

* Nearly all of ''Love Will Grow'', the [[Spiritual Successor]] to the aforementioned Final Fantasy: Pray album, belongs here.

* CROW'S CLAW, known for its Touhou arranges, has also done some awesome remixes of Final Fantasy songs.

* While most of his other work has been [[Crowning Moment of Funny|humorous]], [[Brental Floss]]' [[With Lyrics|take on the]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyjTDiNWT0k main theme] is nothing short of masterful.

* ''Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec.'' This album as a whole is one of the better arrangement albums by Shirō Hamaguchi, including "Liberi Fatali" and the complete [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voMy4OJ4_qY ending theme with the reprise of "Eyes On Me"] (as well as the original)...but it also gives us the above-mentioned "Don't Be Afraid," "Fisherman's Horizon," [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRiCXn3QM70 "The Oath,"] and a [[Tear Jerker]] string-quartet rendition of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRsxl8pQGkc "Fragments of Memories."] Definitely a [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] in its own right.

 

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