Dude, XPRTNovice is amazing. Plays guitar, clarinet, flute, piano, and trumpet, whistles like friggin' songbird, and does it all with an incredible sense of fun. Got involved with OCR's FFVI album by winning a remix contest during development, and went on to contribute four of the best tracks on the album (and collaborated on two more). He's probably my favorite active remixer right now.
Edit: And that Mt. Koltz cover singlehandedly inspired my next DnD character (a swashbuckling Zorro-esque fencer who is a huge fraud and only really knows stage combat).
thinking about it now, it's interesting how strongly Nobuo Uematsu's stepping down as composer correlated with my interest in final fantasy declining. It was probably not only because of that but it sure as hell was one of the big factors.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsGDqBviJ0o
Uematsu-san... :tell_me_more:
also what the fuck I played a bit of Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon and I don't remember an awesome soundtrack like that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYFabSQpFKI
Almost its entire soundtrack is classy remakes of earlier FF music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6pmn708uOA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdFqI13sl0I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PatFx4QZFbU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A04tJAGqn10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peVTBZt3TFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ_-JjuiFaU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckYd7lCO3g8
Heaps of other great remixes here too
Somebody mention XPRTNovice's work on Balance and Ruin????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PbAebwc2zE
Edit: And that Mt. Koltz cover singlehandedly inspired my next DnD character (a swashbuckling Zorro-esque fencer who is a huge fraud and only really knows stage combat).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Jap1r9juo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-pI-1E9Pic
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3NhE8Z9I0UM
but stuff from terra battle is p gold, considering sakaguchi has got an all-star cast of composers on his friends list
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDAkkeAnzK8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNgWGarPkrE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n5WHoI7Z90
The first bit of this song seems like an updated version of this, which is a track I always wished was longer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS-Zq4hC1lQ
Just... man
This gets me all emotional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7YkjBC8Ak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtoX-B2dO-M
ugh man that's a tough question for me
I think mine might be Star Salzman's remix of Highwind (I think it's called Airships Make Me Happy)
but also, every time I listen to that rock opera west side story version of the aria from FFVI I get all giddy and stupid, sooooooooo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18w0_gnnImM
best original song, I should say
Big Iron stands alone
this song is my favorite entry into the most storied JRPG music genre: Hilariously Balls-Out Metal Ripfest Bossfight
This is one of my favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxNDbQiiTI
https://youtu.be/Nd5kjzfwX_A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8eCnuOmETE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d55os6M0SA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve3Qssw3eDs
eeeeee he did Wind Waker too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIb100-74G8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1yvL4TTTIU
Edited because I'm dumb: this is neat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__jFRBc33e0
Full album