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Time to jump on the band wagon again. This week I see it's soundtrack soo... A couple years ago I finally completed a game called Final Fantasy VII (that's 7, there's lots of them see). Now that may not seem like too big a deal, until you realise that I started playing the game when it was originally released. Which would be around 1997. Yes, it took me nearly 8 years to complete the damn thing. And over those 7 years there's one thing that continued to impress me; the soundtrack. Which is a damn good thing as, being an RPG with no spoken sections and continual music as the only background sound, if it were bad I don't think I'd have lasted the 50+ hours it eventually took me to complete (and that's on my third try, too).
A selection of orchestral and synthesized pieces composed by Nobuo Uematsu and somehow crammed onto the original Playstation in MIDI format, it's some of the most beautiful and haunting music I've ever heard in a game. The haunting part not being so great when you're a 13 year old creeping downstairs at 5 in the morning to get two more hours of play out before school starts. And damn you, why must Aeries die!! Anyway... I've included two select pieces from the 40+ tracks available on the soundtrack. Prelude is basically the start menu screen music, but don't let that put you off. Anxious Heart is one of those haunting ones that I wasn't such a fan of as a kid though if you like it, there's plenty more happier times on the rest of the sountrack, likely only available through P2P or some dodgy website nowadays, I mean it was 10 years ago. Now, back to my copy of Final Fantasy IX. Just another three years left and I should be done...
- Christopher ( pepsi_max2k )
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