The opening song sounds like "Stairway to Heaven". [14], The music of Final Fantasy IX, (2000), was based around a theme of Renaissance music, and was heavily inspired by previous Final Fantasy games, incorporating themes and motifs from earlier soundtracks. [14], Final Fantasy IV (1991) was the first game in the series to be released for the Super Famicom, and the resultant changes in the sound technology resulted in a composition process that Uematsu noted was "excruciating". [83] In 2005, a concert entitled More Friends: Music from Final Fantasy was performed to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the first Dear Friends concert and also had an album published of the performance. [72] In addition to the regular albums, a number of compilation albums of pieces from several Final Fantasy games have been produced both by Square Enix and outside groups, both officially and unofficially. [68] It was scored by Kenji Ito, with one track by Uematsu. Exdeath's theme, at its beginning, sounds like a sped-up version of the shower scene music from, Exdeath's battle theme features snippets that sound similar to the final boss theme of, One that falls between this and orchestration: Terra's Theme from. It has also been played in the Video Games Live concert tour from 2005 to date as well as the Play! [58] Tanioka is known for using an eclectic mix of instruments in her albums; she has described the musical style for the soundtrack to Crystal Chronicles as being based on "ancient instruments". The Chocobo Theme (From "Final Fantasy") is a very happy song byThe 8-Bit Big Bandwith a tempo of 165 BPM. [1] The expansion packs were mostly scored by Mizuta alone. [33], Uematsu, along with Naoshi Mizuta and Kumi Tanioka, composed the score for Final Fantasy XI (2002). Her only work on the main series to date has been as one of the co-composers for Final Fantasy XI. Final Fantasy XIII (2009) was composed by Masashi Hamauzu. [84] The latest Final Fantasy tour is the worldwide Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy tour, which began in Sweden in 2007 and still continues to date. In the Japanese version "Melodies of Life" is sung in Japanese, but the song is sung in English in the international versions. Gulg" is an arrangement by Yuzo Takahashi appears as a theme. This trend has faded in later games as many towns now have their own unique themes. In 2006, IGN ranked VII's music the best Final Fantasy soundtrack to date and cited the "gripping" character tracks and "One-Winged Angel" in particular as contributing factors. The series began in 1987 as an eponymous role-playing video game developed by Square, spawning a video game series that became the central focus of the franchise. Stream songs including "Prologue", "Main Theme" and more. The predominant theme to the tracks selected is the Chocobo theme from the Final Fantasy series, with eight of the tracks based on it. [108] Uematsu and his Final Fantasy music subsequently appeared at number seven in 2014,[109] number nine in 2015,[110] number 17 in 2016,[111] and in the top half of the list for every subsequent year through 2019. He could not express a character's emotions solely with plot, instead using images of appearance and attire. [74] Books are available for every main series game except for Final Fantasy V, as well as for Advent Children and Crystal Chronicles. 7/19/2010. In 2012, "Aerith's Theme", written by Uematsu for Final Fantasy VII, was voted into the number 16 position in the annual Classic FM (UK) "Hall of Fame" top 300 chart. [82] It has also been played by the Australian Eminence Symphony Orchestra, an independent symphony orchestra specializing in classical music from video games. Uematsu contributed 51 tracks, Hamauzu contributed 20 tracks and Nakano contributed 18 tracks to the game. 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