Not that it means that Balance and Ruin's opera cycle takes the unqualified Single Most Badass Thing award, but the unscripted climactic fight sequence with the pervert octopus absolutely CAN involve a suplex
This is my very first time listening to this... wow... they did a fantastic job. Yes, I played this on first released... was my favorite FF until 7 and I consider them both to be a couple of the greatest games made. 6 & 7 are the best FF games easy of the entire series.
Jacob Rousseau This song was already epic enough with the parallel between the play and Locke/Celes. The queen touch really gives this a Moulin Rouge feel of desperation. top 10 remixes on OC? I think so. Then again I'm partial to FF mixes.
Fun Fact: Jake Kaufman's well known for cranking out game music tracks in hours at a time (and it's good stuff, too! Check out 'Double Dragon Neon'). He took SIX MONTHS on this.
@@lorddoomer7271 don't underestimate the power of hate, specially considering the villain of this game lol. This is probably one of the best covers of all time, though.
The Opera scene in Final Fantasy VI was so moving to me when I was a young boy. Never had a video game brought me to tears(that weren't of frustration). The music, the emotion, the story, it completely changed the way I saw video games from that point forward. This song takes one of my favorite bands(Queen), one of my favorite scenes from any story, then one of the most moving pieces of music, and weaves it together. This is art. This kind of stuff is what we're meant to do with our lives.
Absolutely agree. Such attention to detail, creativity and passion went into it! It's legitimately enjoyable, high-quality music that I can even play to people who have no idea what FF6 is and they like it haha
AwesomeRepublic Muse? Why Muse? Just curious. I mean they're my favorite band and all, but I think it's pretty obvious that this was inspired partially by Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody.
rawrkitteh94 Yeah, I definitely see the resemblance--and it very well could have been inspired by Bohemian Rhapsody--but it sounded stylistically more like the stuff from The 2nd Law, specifically Supremacy.
There's no issue with it at all, specially since being acquainted with FF6's events makes this weigh more on us. Not really a statement to this being better (it's a pointless argument after all), but there is a way higher level of detail in this cover than in Queen's masterpiece.
I think it's probably because Bohemian Rhapsody (as good as it is) gets overplayed, whereas this is a deep cut, so you'll be less likely to hear it as often.
Just the kind of grandiose, overblown, Bohemian Rhapsody-homaging *titan* a Maria & Draco rock opera should be. Great work by Jake Kaufman and Tommy Pedrini.
Agreed. It's so damn genius that it convinced me to have my own retry on a pipe organ. Not as genius as this one most probably, but a milestone that means a lot to me: th-cam.com/video/zOR7D_4d9ng/w-d-xo.html Beware that a number of inconsistencies exist since I captured the OCR by ear and replayed/reimprovised it from memory. Would be highly interested in knowing what the OCR judges crew thinks about it and whether it would have been worth a try to submit it.
Just... How?? I mean... How did you guys remade some of the lyrics and even created new ones from scratch WITHOUT altering core emotion of the song? Lyricists are very talented. Instruments are perfectly played. Vocalists are superb. Whole music sounds like it is Professional Orchestra and Opera. Well done! This is the linkage between 90s kids and today's kids. We only need FF6 remake to play while having this music in it.
Just came here from JasonParadise's stream after I heard him play this, and this is so, so amazing! ff6 is still my favorite game to date, and this remix glorifies this song and scene in-game. This went in some directions musically that I did NOT expect in the slightest, but I loved everything about this. I almost never break a tear from music but this, this brought me close, really truly special piece of work...
i commented on this 8 years ago when i was a teenager. time flies! anyways this remix is still sick as hell. the vocals are top notch, the instrumentation is incredible at evoking draco's wistfulness and rage, his slow realization of what he's done, and ever since i rediscovered this i've been listening it to like at least three times a week. 3:49 is probably my favorite part, now, rather than 5:30 like i said-- 8 years ago, geez. y'all both went on to have professional careers, from what i can gather, and i have no idea if either of y'all will ever read this, or how you look back on something you two made like almost a decade ago but MAN i still love this and i'm glad you two seem to be doing well for yourselves
I like the [guitar solo] notes. Now I know when to tear up and when to rock out. Also this song is amazing, and the focus on Draco (with the obvious West Side Story feel) are really good.
Does anyone else get goosebumps? The combo of harmonies, Queen-esque musical styling, and emotional nostalgia hits you all at once, and it feels SO GOOD! Amazing work.
Even still, you should still see West Side Story if you can. Leonard Bernstein is an incredible composer. Especially if you are struggling with Romeo and Juliet.
True. I have seen West Side Story and what blows my mind is that the original Broadway version lost to The Music Man for best musical. The hell, Broadway!?
@@BriGuyIL1980 But I love The Music Man. It was absolutely a safer pick, as The Music Man is a much more conventional musical, and I agree that West Side Story was snubbed, but it's still a great musical.
The transition between the section at 1:28 and 1:45 might just be my favourite part of this song, but the entire thing is brilliant! Thanks to everyone involved for the awesome work on it!
Now and then this pops back into my head and I'm always blown away. I can hear so many things it's like if Queen, Haken, and a rock musical called Romeo and Juliet all got together and adopted Final Fantasy 6. So epic!
+hammertheshark Quote from the website : "Jake has taken the FF6 opera and made it a rock opera, in the style of Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' and MAMMA MIA does it go."
Totally! All the opera tracks from this album are reminiscent of both Queen and West Side Story. (Additionally, for another potential Queen reference, I'd like to recommend Joshua Morse's "Flava de Chocobo." Specifically, listen to the opening bass line. Not entirely certain that's what Morse was trying to do, but that is the vibe I got!)
It took me so long to find this again, but now that I have, I fully appreciate what I didn't understand all those years ago when I first listened to this. The love for both FF6 and Queen that went into this is stupendous.
I've listened to this almost every day at work recently, and it makes me tingly and teary every single time. The pipes on these singers are freaking amazing!
Great to see that (at the time of this comment) this song rose to 4th most popular. It's still easily my favorite OCRemix song of all time (having been a fan of OCRemix since even before they made a TH-cam channel).
I haven't played past FFVI's opera scene, actually. But that was as far as I had to play to know that this is the single greatest remix from OCR. Hell, this would floor me even if I had no idea about the original.
I've been listening to this for... two years now? It's the end of 202... so, yeah, two years. This is simply an incredible piece that I immediately share with anyone who's played FFVI
So glad to see this on youtube too. No matter how big ocremix is, youtube is infinitely bigger and this masterpiece should be presented to as many people as possible! This is quite possibly THE best videogame remix I've ever heard, using the entire opera scene and adding great lyrics that are even partially based on what's used in the game. I read it took more than 4 months to make this gem, and well, it shows! Absolutely amazing, virt! This is top quality!
Hope you guys read TH-cam comments cause I don't have an OCRemix account and just want to say that this was ABSOLUTELY INSPIRED. I was so curious how the Opera would turn out and I could not imagine ANYTHING better than this, I was grinning like a lunatic at the sheer gall and brilliance of it. Well done to all of you.
I really must admit that in terms of the arrangement itself this piece is really rather genius. The way the section which goes with “Blood is on your hands” is integrated with rock in particular is nothing short of inspired. I have mixed feelings about the lyrics though. Not because they’re badly written, but because it tries so hard to become it’s own homage to Romeo and Juliet that it kind of forgets what the sequence meant in the context of the game. Romeo and Juliet used cliché love tropes to serve a greater purpose and to comment on young love (as well as many other things) while Draco and Maria was a simple love story in and of itself. Look at the Impresario. He’s so OTT and pretentious that it’s only natural he’d (or… whoever wrote the piece in the game) write something as clichéd as The Dream Oath. The reason this part of the game works so well though is because of Celes’ involvement in the performance and how it contributes to her character arc. However, seeing as this is a retelling of what the in-game composer himself intended (given the title) then we can safely ignore what happened in the game (Ultros appeared and was generally a dick) and take the story on it’s own terms. And the above rock interpretation differentiates so much from the original text that I really do struggle what to make of it. Does it mean that Kaufman and Pedrini thought The Dream Oath was Uematsu’s own version of Romeo and Juliet? Did they believe the original piece would be improved by making it more like Shakespeare? Perhaps, you may very well sensibly suggest, they did what they did because they thought it’d make for a pretty cool sounding song. Which I very much admit it is.
This is a piece of art, not only a damned good mixture of the best of two worlds, but its more enganging than even their orginals, my hats off to Jake & Tommy for this master piece, and i do look forward to their next piece.
Yo this really rules, thanks Wools for pointing me this way! It took me like 4 minutes not to think that this was some weird orchestral metal version of West Side Story songs
I freaking love this track. It's amazing. I'm normally more of a VII fan than VI, but this is just awesome. (The Opera was always my favorite part of VI to begin with.)
I love this rendition, though making the Opera sequence like Romeo and Juliet instead of what actually happens in the game was an odd decision. There was no "forbidden love" between Maria and Draco, the only reason she couldn't be with him was because the East and West were at war and Ralse forces her hand in marriage when her castle falls. Either way, those decisions lead to possibly the best remixes I've ever heard in my life so I'm happy with it. I've got the whole Balance and Ruin album and this track is probably my favourite just ahead of Snappleman, Norg, and Captain Finbeard's battle theme.
Macho Pony Yes, but it's not the plot of the Opera. Draco and Maria are on the same side, they would have had no issues with being together if she wasn't being forced to marry Ralse while Draco was out fighting.
The arrangement isn't required to interpret the actual events of the game. In this case, he decided to take the approach of Rome and Juliet / West Side Story, perhaps because it fit the Queen homage better.
What I imagine for the opening and ending scenes: Opening Scene Draco is at the top of the same tower he and Maria were dancing on. He is sitting on one of the walls at the edge. Tears are streaking down his mournful, regretful face, as he stares at the center of the floor. Brief memories of his and Maria's time together flicker in his mind. Then the flashback after the flashback completes ending scene Draco is still in the exact same place and position. He hears the guards coming up the tower. He stands up on the wall, and turns to face the sky. He sees a faint visage of Maria's face in the sky. Just as the guards open the trap door and begin to gather on the top of the tower, Draco jumps off, and plummets to his death.
And I must say, I absolutely love the "I'll kill them" part. He belts it out like it's a man clutching his sword as he's surrounded. Like he knows they're on their way, and he's not letting them tear them apart.
I was looking for other Jake Kaufman works, stumbled upon an interview between him and the Completionist, and wound up here. Totally worth it!! Edit: Even if though I've washed my hands of the Completionist, this was still worth the experience.
Want to be even more amazed? The [piano intro] that starts the overture/Celes' theme? That's the "wrong" lyrics that you sing to screw up the song... ...which could mean it's Draco's part, and she simply sang the wrong lines!
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1:16 - This part is the best!
3:43 - Wait, this part is the best!
7:16 - Ok, this is the best part!
Fuck it, it's all good.
Thats virt for ya
*it's all the best
Something Awful described this as "The single most badass thing to come out of Final Fantasy 6 that doesn't involve a suplex."
Tried searching for the mention and I can't find it. Really wanna see it tho! Where is it? :)
@@crazypumpkin7106 same person, new account, and man I wish I still had the link. Unfortunately it's probably fallen into the forum archives, now.
Not that it means that Balance and Ruin's opera cycle takes the unqualified Single Most Badass Thing award, but the unscripted climactic fight sequence with the pervert octopus absolutely CAN involve a suplex
I wish I got what is so exciting to people about the suplex
@@kuribo04The incongruous image of pulling off a Hulk Hogan-ass wrestling move on a train. And it works!
Being unaware of this masterpiece for 8 YEARS is criminal
make it 9 for me
I learned about it in roughly late 2013/mid 2014
This is my very first time listening to this... wow... they did a fantastic job. Yes, I played this on first released... was my favorite FF until 7 and I consider them both to be a couple of the greatest games made. 6 & 7 are the best FF games easy of the entire series.
Queen meets Romeo & Juliet meets Final Fantasy VI! I... need to sit down for a minute... This is too intense!
10/10 Would listen to 1000x over.
Jacob Rousseau This song was already epic enough with the parallel between the play and Locke/Celes. The queen touch really gives this a Moulin Rouge feel of desperation. top 10 remixes on OC? I think so. Then again I'm partial to FF mixes.
Queen sucks.
Barbe Blasphemy.
This comment is wrong on so many levels.
Dude, I also feel some Dream Theater's Scenes From A Memory record feel to it.
Fun Fact: Jake Kaufman's well known for cranking out game music tracks in hours at a time (and it's good stuff, too! Check out 'Double Dragon Neon').
He took SIX MONTHS on this.
@@lorddoomer7271 don't underestimate the power of hate, specially considering the villain of this game lol. This is probably one of the best covers of all time, though.
Very happening beat. Fun lyrics too.
Thanks for sharing.
Little do we know, Jake actually procrastinated for five months and three weeks, before going "CRAP-" and getting it all done in one quick flurry
@@Trynt33 You're probably right. :D
Imagine being the arranger working on the Pixel Remaster and knowing you have to contend with this.
The Opera scene in Final Fantasy VI was so moving to me when I was a young boy. Never had a video game brought me to tears(that weren't of frustration). The music, the emotion, the story, it completely changed the way I saw video games from that point forward. This song takes one of my favorite bands(Queen), one of my favorite scenes from any story, then one of the most moving pieces of music, and weaves it together. This is art. This kind of stuff is what we're meant to do with our lives.
This is the single greatest thing that OCR has EVER done.
Absolutely agree. Such attention to detail, creativity and passion went into it! It's legitimately enjoyable, high-quality music that I can even play to people who have no idea what FF6 is and they like it haha
Truth
This is what the opera scene in Final Fantasy VI would sound like if done by Queen.
More like if Muse did it :)
AwesomeRepublic
Muse? Why Muse? Just curious. I mean they're my favorite band and all, but I think it's pretty obvious that this was inspired partially by Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody.
rawrkitteh94
Yeah, I definitely see the resemblance--and it very well could have been inspired by Bohemian Rhapsody--but it sounded stylistically more like the stuff from The 2nd Law, specifically Supremacy.
rawrkitteh94 It's more like muse,specially the vocals.But Muse has some queen inspired songs so,i can see why you talking about it
I know it's inspired by Bohemian Rhapsody, but is it bad that I like this MORE than Bohemian Rhapsody?
No. It's not bad. You're allowed to like whatever you like, as much or as little as you like. Don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise.
There's no issue with it at all, specially since being acquainted with FF6's events makes this weigh more on us. Not really a statement to this being better (it's a pointless argument after all), but there is a way higher level of detail in this cover than in Queen's masterpiece.
@@MrZaranthan you speak truth my friend!
I think it's probably because Bohemian Rhapsody (as good as it is) gets overplayed, whereas this is a deep cut, so you'll be less likely to hear it as often.
Yes; of course! ...But only a very, very little.
This legitimately might be the best OC Remix ever made.
Just the kind of grandiose, overblown, Bohemian Rhapsody-homaging *titan* a Maria & Draco rock opera should be. Great work by Jake Kaufman and Tommy Pedrini.
This is truly one of the most amazing video game covers of all time!
Agreed. It's so damn genius that it convinced me to have my own retry on a pipe organ.
Not as genius as this one most probably, but a milestone that means a lot to me: th-cam.com/video/zOR7D_4d9ng/w-d-xo.html
Beware that a number of inconsistencies exist since I captured the OCR by ear and replayed/reimprovised it from memory.
Would be highly interested in knowing what the OCR judges crew thinks about it and whether it would have been worth a try to submit it.
Just... How??
I mean...
How did you guys remade some of the lyrics and even created new ones from scratch WITHOUT altering core emotion of the song?
Lyricists are very talented.
Instruments are perfectly played.
Vocalists are superb.
Whole music sounds like it is Professional Orchestra and Opera.
Well done!
This is the linkage between 90s kids and today's kids.
We only need FF6 remake to play while having this music in it.
It's Art without doubts :)
Just came here from JasonParadise's stream after I heard him play this, and this is so, so amazing! ff6 is still my favorite game to date, and this remix glorifies this song and scene in-game. This went in some directions musically that I did NOT expect in the slightest, but I loved everything about this. I almost never break a tear from music but this, this brought me close, really truly special piece of work...
AmbassadorArt jparaWave
AmbassadorArt same good sir
Thanks to the Super Best Friendcast and Woolie for bring me here and thanks to Jake Kaufman for creating this.
Yup, just heard the podcast at work and this was the first thing I had to look up when I got home. This brings back the feels.
Benny Trinh Who's Woolie?
he means darlington
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, as told by Queen, set to music from Final Fantasy VI.
Everything seems to be in order here.
So, did you guys ever get that beer from Nobuo Uematsu?
Was that offered at some point?
@@kaemonbonet4931
Yup!
www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1hkxo1/we_are_overclocked_remix_creating_free_game/cavexad
Legendary
Sadly not yet. Someday? 🍻
This song came out SIX YEARS ago!?
Holy balls.
Still one of my favorites, all this time later 🙂
Now it's 10
@@jarrellfamily1422 I made that comment FOUR YEARS ago? Holy balls, time flies 😄
I listen to this probably 5-10 times in a row when it plays randomly on my flash drive in the car. Never gets old. Definately one of the best remixes.
"This is art. This kind of stuff is what we're meant to do with our lives."
Yes. Absolutely.
My God… you just combined two of the greatest things ever, Final Fantasy and Queen, and made a BEAUTIFUL creation out of it!! BRAVO!
i commented on this 8 years ago when i was a teenager. time flies!
anyways this remix is still sick as hell. the vocals are top notch, the instrumentation is incredible at evoking draco's wistfulness and rage, his slow realization of what he's done, and ever since i rediscovered this i've been listening it to like at least three times a week. 3:49 is probably my favorite part, now, rather than 5:30 like i said-- 8 years ago, geez.
y'all both went on to have professional careers, from what i can gather, and i have no idea if either of y'all will ever read this, or how you look back on something you two made like almost a decade ago
but MAN
i still love this and i'm glad you two seem to be doing well for yourselves
I discovered this back when I was a senior in high school thanks to JasonParadise. Sad I didn’t get blessed by the algorithm sooner.
This song continues to kick ass and I suspect as time goes on will still do so.
Just played the opera scene via the pixel remaster. The fact that this song wasnt put in the remaster is such a crime. This song is beyond perfect
I like the [guitar solo] notes.
Now I know when to tear up and when to rock out.
Also this song is amazing, and the focus on Draco (with the obvious West Side Story feel) are really good.
Does anyone else get goosebumps? The combo of harmonies, Queen-esque musical styling, and emotional nostalgia hits you all at once, and it feels SO GOOD! Amazing work.
Basically, they took West Side Story and compressed it down to, roughly, nine minutes. Saves everyone two hours and 20 minutes.
Cheers, fellows!
Even still, you should still see West Side Story if you can. Leonard Bernstein is an incredible composer. Especially if you are struggling with Romeo and Juliet.
True. I have seen West Side Story and what blows my mind is that the original Broadway version lost to The Music Man for best musical. The hell, Broadway!?
:)
@@BriGuyIL1980 But I love The Music Man. It was absolutely a safer pick, as The Music Man is a much more conventional musical, and I agree that West Side Story was snubbed, but it's still a great musical.
@@RawkLobstah88 Yeah, but history tells the truth, and more people know of West Side Story than The Music Man lol
The transition between the section at 1:28 and 1:45 might just be my favourite part of this song, but the entire thing is brilliant!
Thanks to everyone involved for the awesome work on it!
This is one of those songs I can listen to for years and never get tired of.
Queen really did a great job doing that Bohemian Rhapsody track in the style of this song.
I like how the one guy is all boom! HUNT HIM DOWN
and then the little cronie chimes in with a teeny 'beat him up '
i'm absolutely floored. Thank you woolie for bringing me here!
Just posting a comment to remind myself to show this to my brother.
Now and then this pops back into my head and I'm always blown away. I can hear so many things it's like if Queen, Haken, and a rock musical called Romeo and Juliet all got together and adopted Final Fantasy 6. So epic!
I love how the lyrics overlap, giving the song multiple meanings.
Never played FF6 in my life but this song hits me in every type of feel anyway! Glad this masterpiece is still here after all this time!
This is pretty phenomenal. Never thought I'd hear a Queen/FFVI mix. Glorious.
More like Weird Al/FFVI.
AM I THE ONLY ONE GETTING SERIOUS BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY VIBES FROM THIS?
+hammertheshark Of course not. :-)
+hammertheshark Goodness, I HOPE not.
+hammertheshark Quote from the website :
"Jake has taken the FF6 opera and made it a rock opera, in the style of Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' and MAMMA MIA does it go."
Totally! All the opera tracks from this album are reminiscent of both Queen and West Side Story. (Additionally, for another potential Queen reference, I'd like to recommend Joshua Morse's "Flava de Chocobo." Specifically, listen to the opening bass line. Not entirely certain that's what Morse was trying to do, but that is the vibe I got!)
And another gets on, and another gets on...
Jake Kaufman? As in, the guy who worked on Shantae's OST?
yup and shovel knight
this is one of the best remixes i’ve ever heard
This track periodically will just pop into my head and I always have to come back to listen to it. It’s way too good
Final Fantasy meets Rock Opera?
Uematsu would be proud.
This is so ridiculously good it's jarring. Well done.
HOW DID I MISS THIS FOR 7 YEARS?
Of the hundreds of tracks at bt.ocremix.org/ this one is my favorite.
How have I not heard this before? Takes an already powerful scene and song, runs it through the Bohemian Rhapsody mixer. Mind blown. Epic. :-)
I show this song to my wife and she love it, even she never played FF VI, this is just too awesome, a true masterpiece.
I had a dream about this song last night. All these years later and it's still a masterpiece.
It took me so long to find this again, but now that I have, I fully appreciate what I didn't understand all those years ago when I first listened to this. The love for both FF6 and Queen that went into this is stupendous.
usually don't listen to remixes with lyrics, but this is sublime :)
For this track (as well as much of this huge album), OCR had access to kickstarter money and ultra-professional vocalists :D
There are some gems out there.
Queen meets Final Fantasy!
It would have been great if Queen did the Final Fantasy soundtrack. I'll settle for this in place of being in that timeline.
*NO*
That was... wow. I'm friggin' speechless. That was (to say the least) AMAZING!
Bruh why is this channel and all of the OC remixes all underrated? What the hell?!
I've listened to this almost every day at work recently, and it makes me tingly and teary every single time. The pipes on these singers are freaking amazing!
Great to see that (at the time of this comment) this song rose to 4th most popular. It's still easily my favorite OCRemix song of all time (having been a fan of OCRemix since even before they made a TH-cam channel).
Jake Kaufman did this? holy shit.
My favorite OC Remix. Glad it's gotten recognition from the TH-cam community.
9 minutes never felt so short. This is an absolute gem.
If Final Fantasy music and Queen music had a baby:
I haven't played past FFVI's opera scene, actually. But that was as far as I had to play to know that this is the single greatest remix from OCR.
Hell, this would floor me even if I had no idea about the original.
You're correct, because it did me. Now I want to play FFVI.
It is perfect in so many ways...
I have to say this is one of the best tracks I have ever heard in my life.
It's not just the voice, even the instrumentation sounds very Queen-esque. I don't think it's a coincidence.
I've been listening to this for... two years now? It's the end of 202... so, yeah, two years. This is simply an incredible piece that I immediately share with anyone who's played FFVI
So glad to see this on youtube too. No matter how big ocremix is, youtube is infinitely bigger and this masterpiece should be presented to as many people as possible!
This is quite possibly THE best videogame remix I've ever heard, using the entire opera scene and adding great lyrics that are even partially based on what's used in the game.
I read it took more than 4 months to make this gem, and well, it shows!
Absolutely amazing, virt! This is top quality!
I've commented on maybe 5 TH-cam videos in the last 5 years... this deserves to be the sixth. Holy crapbaskets that was awesome.
Hope you guys read TH-cam comments cause I don't have an OCRemix account and just want to say that this was ABSOLUTELY INSPIRED. I was so curious how the Opera would turn out and I could not imagine ANYTHING better than this, I was grinning like a lunatic at the sheer gall and brilliance of it. Well done to all of you.
This is beyond any imagining of this opera scene. It practically put me into tears.
This... Oh. Wow...
I'm totally at a loss for words! All I can say is, can we please get more in this vein?!
Hard to find the talent for that, probably, haha!
I really must admit that in terms of the arrangement itself this piece is really rather genius. The way the section which goes with “Blood is on your hands” is integrated with rock in particular is nothing short of inspired.
I have mixed feelings about the lyrics though. Not because they’re badly written, but because it tries so hard to become it’s own homage to Romeo and Juliet that it kind of forgets what the sequence meant in the context of the game.
Romeo and Juliet used cliché love tropes to serve a greater purpose and to comment on young love (as well as many other things) while Draco and Maria was a simple love story in and of itself. Look at the Impresario. He’s so OTT and pretentious that it’s only natural he’d (or… whoever wrote the piece in the game) write something as clichéd as The Dream Oath.
The reason this part of the game works so well though is because of Celes’ involvement in the performance and how it contributes to her character arc. However, seeing as this is a retelling of what the in-game composer himself intended (given the title) then we can safely ignore what happened in the game (Ultros appeared and was generally a dick) and take the story on it’s own terms. And the above rock interpretation differentiates so much from the original text that I really do struggle what to make of it.
Does it mean that Kaufman and Pedrini thought The Dream Oath was Uematsu’s own version of Romeo and Juliet? Did they believe the original piece would be improved by making it more like Shakespeare? Perhaps, you may very well sensibly suggest, they did what they did because they thought it’d make for a pretty cool sounding song. Which I very much admit it is.
0:36 this chord transition... I'm taken aback. This made me launch myself INTO FF6
This piece is beyond epic.
I keep coming back to this! 7:04 Nailed this part! Truly awesome! The whole song is absolutely incredible.
This is a piece of art, not only a damned good mixture of the best of two worlds, but its more enganging than even their orginals, my hats off to Jake & Tommy for this master piece, and i do look forward to their next piece.
Man, this song is absolutely perfect. It's music like this that should make people less likely to doubt video game music as an art form.
Why the hell are there midroll ads?
Yo this really rules, thanks Wools for pointing me this way! It took me like 4 minutes not to think that this was some weird orchestral metal version of West Side Story songs
Kaufman. You can make everything you touch rock. Even when something was awesome to begin with. Kudos!
I freaking love this track. It's amazing. I'm normally more of a VII fan than VI, but this is just awesome. (The Opera was always my favorite part of VI to begin with.)
I love this rendition, though making the Opera sequence like Romeo and Juliet instead of what actually happens in the game was an odd decision. There was no "forbidden love" between Maria and Draco, the only reason she couldn't be with him was because the East and West were at war and Ralse forces her hand in marriage when her castle falls.
Either way, those decisions lead to possibly the best remixes I've ever heard in my life so I'm happy with it. I've got the whole Balance and Ruin album and this track is probably my favourite just ahead of Snappleman, Norg, and Captain Finbeard's battle theme.
isnt that the whole plot of romeo and juliet? 2 families at war, 2 lovers on each side want to be with each other but cannot.
Macho Pony Yes, but it's not the plot of the Opera. Draco and Maria are on the same side, they would have had no issues with being together if she wasn't being forced to marry Ralse while Draco was out fighting.
oh sorry its been awhile since i played FFVI and it seemed from the way you described it like they were on opposite sides.
Macho Pony Yeah, I realized I had typed it rather ambiguously, my bad lol.
The arrangement isn't required to interpret the actual events of the game. In this case, he decided to take the approach of Rome and Juliet / West Side Story, perhaps because it fit the Queen homage better.
THE TEARS FLOW WHILE I SING THESE POWER CHORDS~!
What I imagine for the opening and ending scenes:
Opening Scene
Draco is at the top of the same tower he and Maria were dancing on. He is sitting on one of the walls at the edge. Tears are streaking down his mournful, regretful face, as he stares at the center of the floor. Brief memories of his and Maria's time together flicker in his mind.
Then the flashback
after the flashback completes
ending scene
Draco is still in the exact same place and position. He hears the guards coming up the tower. He stands up on the wall, and turns to face the sky. He sees a faint visage of Maria's face in the sky. Just as the guards open the trap door and begin to gather on the top of the tower, Draco jumps off, and plummets to his death.
And I must say, I absolutely love the "I'll kill them" part. He belts it out like it's a man clutching his sword as he's surrounded. Like he knows they're on their way, and he's not letting them tear them apart.
Wish this was on Spotify it’s so great
It's levels of dedication to this song that makes me wonder, if this is great I wonder how great the game actually is?
Jason Paradise lead me here
probably the best remix of all time
Although it's a FF remix, this would totally fit with Queen.
This cover is so good, it makes me wonder what I’m doing with my life.
I just can't stop singing this, in the shower, on the way to work, at work. This song is amazingly addictive.... My favorite OCRemix song ever
I was looking for other Jake Kaufman works, stumbled upon an interview between him and the Completionist, and wound up here. Totally worth it!!
Edit: Even if though I've washed my hands of the Completionist, this was still worth the experience.
This is by far the best track from this album. Nothing else even comes close.
I’m angry it took me six years to find this song. It’s so good.
goosebumps and tears... wow.
Want to be even more amazed?
The [piano intro] that starts the overture/Celes' theme? That's the "wrong" lyrics that you sing to screw up the song...
...which could mean it's Draco's part, and she simply sang the wrong lines!
Same :)
I only encountered this recently. I listened to it once and thought it was okay; then I gave it a second listen and really fell in love with it.
Amazing. Truly, amazing. Just downloaded it and heard it like a million times.
God dammit it's been 4 years
God dammit it's been 7 years
Fuuuuuuuuu! I love how this reminds me of Queen!
lol!! I thought so too
right from the start
¿Les gusta Queen? ¿Les gusta Final Fantasy VI? Esta canción sin duda alguna les va a encantar, toda una obra maestra.
I don't even have to speak your language to understand what you're saying!
No, it's not that lame band.
A masterpiece, simply, the best remix of a video game theme ever.
I love this mostly for the excessively descriptive lyrics about murder. XD