The game was stopping to load sound data here and there, which I didn’t want to do.
And when the game shipped, I compared the sound quality of Final Fantasy 7 with another game released around that same time and the quality for the other title was pretty high. I was particularly invested in that idea.īecause we did that, though, the sound quality wasn’t as high as it could have been. So I gave up on that idea and made it work so all the sound would load when you first booted up the game.
And I didn’t want to do that just for the music, with the game starting and stopping as you play. I’d heard rumors that games were going to be on CD-ROMs, so the first thing that came to my mind was, “Oh great, now I can hire singers and create tracks with vocals on them.” But I tried it out and even though I had enough space to include vocals, they made it so the game took longer to load between scenes. While I was working on Final Fantasy 5, there were already rumors about the next-generation hardware, but I didn’t know what to expect. Composition was great, but compared to some of the other games coming out around that time, some of the horns sounded like literal electronic farts. Only thing I didn't like about the original FFVII music was that, for that time, I thought the synth was pretty bad. I mean, a fully orchestrated One-Winged Angel is pretty much a MUST. Now I don't expect that for every song in the remake, but for some stand out tunes of the original, I wouldn't mind it. That version, to me, is similar to what Orchestral Fantasy on YouTube does with classic video game music, basically play the songs how they WOULD'VE sound, same arrangement, but with real instruments instead of synths. Example is the original version of the Final Fantasy Theme to the post-FFVII versions of the theme (with the exception of FFXII's, which was basically Sakimoto's arrangement of FFIV's "Prologue").Īs long as Those Who Fight Further is upped in quality to sound like the Black Mages version (which, IMO, is how the original synth version would sound with real instruments), then I'm game. I think Uematsu's going to oversee the arrangements of his songs, and probably make some of the shorter-looping songs longer by adding to them.