Music4Games has run their advance review of OverClocked Remix's super-ambitious upcoming album Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream, a massive 45-song re-imagining of Nobuo Uematsu's original score for the famed PlayStation role-playing game.
M4G bravely attempts to cover the four-disc compilation, which clocks in at almost three-and-a-half hours of listening time. Everything from the "Overworld" to "Sephiroth's Theme" is covered by many genres of music, and reviewer Jayson Napolitano does his best to give us an idea of what we can expect from the collection, calling it "one of the most impressive and encompassing listening experiences in the world of video game music."
"It doesn’t get much better than this when it comes to arrangement albums," says Napolitano. "Needless to say, if Square Enix does ever get around to a Final Fantasy VII remake, their new-and-improved score is ready to go."
This freely available, fan-made album will be available to download at OverClocked Remix starting on September 14th, so fans of Final Fantasy, Nobuo Uematsu, and game music in general should mark their calendars.
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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11:09 PM on 09.10.2007
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IT'S REVIEWER JAYSON NAPOLITANO!
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NOW NOW NOW!
As far I'm concerned, pretentiousness is great if it means this caliber of music. If it's wrong, I don't wanna be right.
It's right though.
Hells yeah!!!
It's music, but it's not Mother 2 music. I tried so hard to like it, but the "fun" of Mother 2 didn't translate. At all. Why bother making tributes if it doesn't capture the feel of the thing they are making the tribute to? I'm not pissed that I didn't like the music, though. I'm pissed that they spent all that time and completely missed the point.
Good job. I enjoyed the original soundtrack. I might have to download this someday.
That title is purely reserved for the 2012 Game of the Year: Gears of War 4: Blood Dumpster Locust Babies
I may check this out
When someone makes a game that matches or surpasses FF7 on all fronts, we'll be able to move on partially. However, even then, FF7 will still hold a special place in all of our hearts.
The traditional answer is that if all you want to do is "capture the feel," you might as well listen to the original soundtrack.
"I'm not pissed that I didn't like the music, though. I'm pissed that they spent all that time and completely missed the point."
On the contrary, it seems you're the one who spent all that time listening to the project and missed the point. Sorry you expected it to be something it wasn't.