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== [[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=GxZjuyU3ksM&fmt=18 Finale]", the credits music. As beautiful as it is, the vocalized version by Risa Ohki - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmYDNYtkCP8&fmt=18 Love Will Grow] - could give many [[Award Bait Song|Award Bait Songs]]s a run for their money.
* [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.
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* 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=M09p1wV-MYI The end][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCX99NZlNTM theme]--yes—yes, all ''20 minutes'' of it. Especially when the Main Theme kicks in towards the end.
* [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.
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*** [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=2YWRiq-plxw WEAPON Raid]" is the sound of [[Gaia's Vengeance]] in the form of gigantic implacable monsters crushing those [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters|bastard humans]] underfoot. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD739kJW3Vs Mario Paint 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.]
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* [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=3bv1oNp_wJw The Ending Theme], possibly the most heartrending track ever heard in a Final Fantasy--notFantasy—not surprising, given [[Bittersweet Ending|the game's nature]].
* [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.}}
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== [[Final Fantasy XI]] ==
* ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' may not be known for its music... but that's probably mainly because its standout pieces are the soft, gentle ones -- forones—for example, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnvsvo2d-9U Rolanberry Fields], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuvxcpQ-veg The Sanctuary of Zi'Tah], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De2yLOOs4pE A New Horizon], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxmTFUOnZhk Ululations from Beyond], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrHbsjylx1Q Flowers on the Battlefield].
* 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]
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* ''[[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.
*** And it's just one of the permutations of the game's [[Leitmotif]]. Other good songs include [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfhbVS_EWBs Cosmos], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeY7z8Ij6NU Chaos], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMj7_HARRZI The Messenger]. And yes, they all had [[Surprisingly Good English|the same lyrics]] in Japan.<ref> being written by a Canadian band helps.</ref>
** ''[[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.
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** 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]
** Still from Duodecim : [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUC_vapBBzA Carmen Lucis]. The first half is an awesome music of a desperate battle {{spoiler|that ends up with seven [[Heroic Sacrifice|Heroic Sacrifices]]s, including one from Cosmos}}. The second half is plays when {{spoiler|Shinryu revives the fallen warriors, with the Warrior of Light (not being dead) watching it, ending with Lightning's [[When She Smiles]] moment.}}
* 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.]