If we are talking about concerts, OWA has been played hundreds of time, FFT has not been featured a single time. Now Distant Worlds is making a FFVII-only symphonic concert, as if FFVII has ever been *not* featured in every oftheir concert to begin with. And we're just talking OWA, they are actually very close from having featured every FFVII tracks with two decades of arrangements.
This makes me so sad. Final Fantasy Tactics was *made* with orchestral arrangements in mind, it was built for it. Arrangers could build and harness the inherent beauty of those compositions and enhance them beyond belief, much more than any FF game. It has been two decades now, there haven't been a single thing, not a track, nada.
FFT was the most sold Strategy RPG for two decades, even Fire Emblem didn't surpass it until late FE Fates sales/Three Houses. Its prize for it success? Being forgotten and ignored.
Don't tell me only a few people would LOVE to sit down in a concert hall and listen the beauty of FFT's music. So many people grew up with it, it has been the inspiration for a ton of people to enter the game industry in the first place. People would go to the end of the world just to have the chance to listen to it live.
Just listening to this track, remembering all the time I spent farming JP in random battles free of worries and with all the time in the world makes me go like this
And the battle themes?? The power of these battle themes were enough to make you invested in ways few strategy RPGs managed to replicate. Trisection was the first battle theme you heard in the game. One single track was enough to set the tone of the game and make you tell "oh shit, this isn't your regular FF, I can feel it"
And the character themes are some of the most powerful I've heard. Hearing Ovelia's theme is enough to make me go into an episode of deep sadness. It perfectly encapsulated the state of every character.
"Did you get your end in all of this, Ramza? I...I got this."
We can't let FFT die like that, just left into the dust. If we can't get the prequel Matsuno wanted, or even a port of the original game, at least acknowledge its existence and its wildly acclaimed soundtrack with a concert.
This makes me so sad. Final Fantasy Tactics was *made* with orchestral arrangements in mind, it was built for it. Arrangers could build and harness the inherent beauty of those compositions and enhance them beyond belief, much more than any FF game. It has been two decades now, there haven't been a single thing, not a track, nada.
FFT was the most sold Strategy RPG for two decades, even Fire Emblem didn't surpass it until late FE Fates sales/Three Houses. Its prize for it success? Being forgotten and ignored.
Don't tell me only a few people would LOVE to sit down in a concert hall and listen the beauty of FFT's music. So many people grew up with it, it has been the inspiration for a ton of people to enter the game industry in the first place. People would go to the end of the world just to have the chance to listen to it live.
Just listening to this track, remembering all the time I spent farming JP in random battles free of worries and with all the time in the world makes me go like this
And the battle themes?? The power of these battle themes were enough to make you invested in ways few strategy RPGs managed to replicate. Trisection was the first battle theme you heard in the game. One single track was enough to set the tone of the game and make you tell "oh shit, this isn't your regular FF, I can feel it"
And the character themes are some of the most powerful I've heard. Hearing Ovelia's theme is enough to make me go into an episode of deep sadness. It perfectly encapsulated the state of every character.
"Did you get your end in all of this, Ramza? I...I got this."
We can't let FFT die like that, just left into the dust. If we can't get the prequel Matsuno wanted, or even a port of the original game, at least acknowledge its existence and its wildly acclaimed soundtrack with a concert.
