Style: Orchestral video game music
Primary Emotions/Themes: Revisiting some of the greatest video game music ever created in an orchestral fashion.
Thoughts: Final Fantasy... arguably one of the greatest and most important video game franchises in the history of gaming - at least from the Japanese side. The music is as diverse and as epic as any I've heard in the medium, and the composer Nobou Uematsu is a legend in and of himself.
Seeing these iconic songs translated into orchestral form is something that few people have done correctly, fewer still have gotten it so right that it makes me want to go out of my way to listen to it. Arnie Roth has been instrumental in the arrangement of Mr. Uematsu's classic compositions.
There are a lot of good songs on here but the clear highlight is the Dancing Mad medley that takes up nearly an entire side of the record. Hearing this in a full orchestral form along with a choir is one of the very few times where I feel like the original is surpassed. This is one of the most epic moments in VGM history (at least personally) and it is more than done justice here.
Distant Worlds contains some of the best VGM ever to be created in it. While I do still prefer the actual soundtracks in almost every instance, there are just a few on here that eek above the original. I don't need every entry into this series, but the first three have the essential songs off of my favorite entry in the series: FFVI.
Written August 5th 2024
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