We were excited to hear some of our favorite songs from the original Final Fantasy VII OST in the remake, but some tracks are still missing.
Final Fantasy games are usually known for the great music that players can listen to as they explore the beautiful worlds.
For the trip back to Midgar, Final Fantasy VII Remake has the advantage of rearranging songs that are already well-known. Nobuo Uematsu, who made the music for the first game, worked on the music for the second game with Mitsuto Suzuki and Masashi Hamauzu.
The huge score has a lot of different songs from the 1997 PlayStation classic, but it’s missing a few good ones. Even though it makes sense that most of the ten songs below won’t be in this remake, let’s hope that they will be in the sequels. These songs aren’t on the soundtrack, and you can’t play them on the jukebox or during side quests, either. There are no references to their melodies in any other parts of the soundtrack, either.
Yuffie’s Theme
If the second game follows the same path as the first, Yuffie will be the next person the party meets. Players will probably hear a new version of the thief’s playful theme at this point. It might seem strange that a ninja’s music is a laid-back jam with a guitar and something that sounds like a glockenspiel, but it fits her playful personality.
Cid’s Theme
The scientist who wants to go to space and has the fighting skills of a dragoon for some reason doesn’t come into play until after the party has left Midgar. Before he comes along, space has nothing to do with the story, so his space-sounding theme would have been out of place in the dirty slums of Midgar. When the theme comes back in a sequel, it will be great to hear an orchestra bring out its grandeur.
Rufus Welcoming Ceremony
Rufus Shinra doesn’t do anything until the last few hours of the game, and when he does, it’s during one of the most dramatic parts. So, this military-style march that is often played in Junon would have seemed out of place.
Fans will be able to hear it when the party gets to Junon in the next parts of the remake. The city is so big that it will be interesting to see how it looks on new hardware.
Fort Condor
Players often go back to Fort Condor to help the workers and residents protect a nesting bird from the Shinra Corporation. Will the remake have a tower defense minigame like the original, or will it find a different way to tell the story of this town? No matter what, players are likely to do something while a new version of this song plays.
The North Cave
In the original game, this music plays as players get close to the Northern Cave, which is the last dungeon they have to go through before the final fights. Since it happens so late in the game, you might not expect to find it in the remake if the party stays in Midgar the whole time. Even with the sound chip in the PS1, the dreary sounds make you feel very scared. With new technology and live music, the feeling will probably be twice as strong.
Mining Town
Even though Barret is a big part of the game from the start, players in Final Fantasy VII Remake don’t know much about his past. He doesn’t even talk about Corel, his hometown, where this sad, quiet tune plays.
When you find out what happened to bring the second party member to Midgar, you can better understand why he hates Shinra so much.
The Nightmare Begins
This song is also Vincent’s theme, as it plays when he is recruited in the basement of the Shinra Mansion and in flashbacks of him and Lucrecia. The melodramatic tone of the piece is a great way to show that the character has had a hard life and carries a pain that not even saving the world can fix. One wonders if the remake will keep the same arrangement or if it will have more instruments added to make it fit an orchestra. Use this SoundCloud downloader to download The Nightmare Begins song.
Attack Of The Weapons
At the time, the original game was one of the most ambitious games ever made, and that is still clear today. The impressive size of the adventure is shown by the huge set pieces involving Weapons, which are huge monsters born from the planet. This piece of music, which usually plays when a Weapon shows up, can’t be found anywhere in Midgar.
Birth Of A God
Some songs are unique because they only play once throughout the whole campaign. “Birth of a God” isn’t as good as “One-Winged Angel,” but it’s a good addition to the fight with the second-to-last boss.
It’s hard to tell if the last part of the remakes will be the same, so it’s not clear if players will get a new arrangement of this exciting boss music or not.
Final Fantasy Theme/End Credits
Nobuo Uematsu wrote the first Final Fantasy theme for the first game, which came out in 1987. The end credits of the first game roll over a tune that includes that theme. This melody is not at all in the new version. It could mean that the goal of the remake is not to be a part of the Final Fantasy series but to be a whole new series. In the end, this remake could be anywhere from three to six games.
