Music From FFVI

*Friday, 15th May 2009*

Suddenly thought of putting this up after Janvier told me about Distant World: Music From Final Fantasy (that was last month, by the way) concert in SG.

My first reaction was "Why doesn't the concert come to KL!?"

A gamer I am, but I'm not a loyal fan of Final Fantasy. In fact, out of the thirteen/fourteen main installments of Final Fantasy (not including those metaseries and spin-offs), I only played FFI, FFVI (also known as FFIII for North America's version), FFX, FFX-2 and FFXII (not completed).

In these 5 series, I personally feel that FFXII has the best CGI movies (for the meantime, before FFXIII is out, I guess), FFX has the best gameplay and FFVI has the best video game music soundtracks.

I particularly love a few tracks from FFVI, such as Forever Rachel, Celes Theme, Relm and Aria di Mezzo Carattere, where Celes 'performed' the song during a cutscene involving an opera performance. The track remain popular today and have been performed numerous times in orchestral concerts.

Celes (orchestrated) - Final Fantasy 6

Forever Rachel - Nobuo Uematsu

Aria di Mezzo Carattere - Celes in the opera scene in the game