Final Fantasy VII - One Winged Angel | Reacting To Video Game Music!
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#FF7 #OneWingedAngel #Reaction
I think it's maybe easy to forget that in 1997 it was still a little unique for a video game boss track to even just like... have vocals? And nothing else in FF7 itself before this point has vocals either - it's just so effective at communicating that this moment is a big deal
Those Chosen By The Planet, maybe.
#suddenlyCDaudio. FF7 was that bridge, for me at least, where game music evolved from waveform-generating soundchips (think NES and GameBoy) to full orchestration and vocals. The FF7 soundtrack is still heavily grounded in synth, which sorta emulates the "simple" and "inorganic" noises made by a soundchip, but pairing amazingly with suddenly having real drums and vocals together with it.
If the soundchip vocals in ff6 count then that
@@BandedMetagrossMeteorMash FF6 (PS1) worked by emulating the SNES. What made One Winged Angel interesting on a technical level was everything, including the lyrics, was done under midi. The game as a whole has 3 sound fonts. One for pretty much every song in the game. And two just for this one song. It was for that reason that very few PCs could properly play the song back when the game came out for PC as having dedicated sound cards wasn't a common thing anymore. And the game required a specific Creative soundcard to sound right.
(To clarify, FF6's vocals were what music trackers call "Choir Aaa" which was actually a fairly commonly used for different things)
All the other boss themes, including the newer versions of this song, are just bad ass and flashy where you are hyped to fight it. But when hearing original one winged angel your reaction is just "...oh fuck"
That one and Jenova's theme still strikes the fear in me. My heart drops every time
One of the things I've noticed in modern versions of older game songs is there's always something that gets drowned out by new sounds and instruments. When you go back and listen to them in their original form, you notice things that can be easily missed in the newer versions.
This is usually because of 2 things. Either there's so much going on, that there's too much going on and you can't hear each individual instrument type. Or 1 or multiple types of instruments are being played way too loud over the rest and it just drowns out what else is being played, and 100% of the time it's either the brass, violins/string instruments, or a very loud choir.
I'm a little lucky that violins and choir are in my top 3 components in orchestras though. So not too bad for me.
Part of it is also that sometimes the synth sounds are also more distinct... That and sometimes there are limited channels in older stuff... It's kinda the difference between a wall of sound and a solo instrument... Listen to a rock band and an orchestra and you'll probably have an easier time hearing the individual instruments in the band.
@@KitsyX This is what I was about to say. Back in the day there was a limited number of channels for audio. Somewhere better than others and some just used cd audio. But the actual onboard sound processor of the PlayStation while it was very good was severely limited compared to what we have now. So now where you have full ranges of maybe several different parts playing something, back in the day you had to settle for a single tone.
That being said though. In 1997? This was the shit.
I haven't heard much of the FF7R soundtrack... mainly because I feel like the game's nothing but a major disrespect to the original and have no intention of ever playing it. But I do agree that the modernized versions or modern takes on songs tend to have some elements missing or drowned out that made the original so good. Heck, for Xenoblade 1 I prefer the original tracks the grand majority of the time. The new ones sound polished and soft in comparison. They are missing the superb rough edges that made the original's soundtrack a masterpiece.
I do think there's a decent amount of people who make fan remixes that do an excellent job respecting the original material though. Prancing Dad is mindblowingly good, for example (and it even throws in some One Winged Angel for good measure).
Yep, that’s the main thing I have against the Remake soundtrack, which I still think is great but the main theme, the main hook of the tracks is diminished by the complexity of the real or more real instruments used and perhaps the levels chosen for them.
Just think about it in context. In the entirety of the OG FFVII, you’ve only heard MIDIs. You understand because of the tech at the time.
And then at the very end of the game, on the final boss…vocal samples. The game was leading up to this moment using Sephiroth’s theme as a leitmotif. And then Uematsu hits you with the leitmotif as the only vocal sample in the entire game.
When Nobuo Uematsu was asked once what influenced him when he was writing One-Winged Angel, he mentioned two primary artists: Tchaikovsky and Jimi Hendrix. And that's everything you really need to know about how this song turned out the way it did.
Exactly
...That...makes perfect sense now that I've heard it.
I thought it was Stravinsky?
@@TyTeaStrings It was Stravinsky, particularly Rite of Spring.
This misinformation irritates me. Stravinsky. Not Tchaikovsky.
*Sephiroth uses Supernova* Fiiiive minutes later *Supernova still going off*
I remember doing that fight the first time and being able to walk to the kitchen, make a sandwich, and come back before the animation had finally finished lmao. Made snack runs/bathroom breaks super easy to plan
Then summon Knights of the Round for a bit more of a break
the feeling you get as a 13 year old kid finally getting to this final boss and hearing this track start, man! i dont think that can ever be replicated
Eeyup.
I was 16 years old at that time
@@lujack1801 I am now 15 and I finished the game just two weeks ago XD
@@user-vd7mv3pf6b 你是指原版還是重製版？
@@lujack1801 原版啊😂
I know you were really getting into "how other people reacted at the time". I think a good example to see how people respect this theme is to look up the reaction to their Smash Brothers release trailer. Sooooo many people recognized it by the first few notes alone and shit bricks before even seeing their face.
That's why i love the reactions to that trailer, you could tell who had played ff7, because it wasn't Sephiroth they noticed first, they went off the second they heard that first note.
I loved watching the Smash reveal reactions. It was great to see just how many picked it up just off those first two instrument hits.
If I recall, the composer, Nobuo Uematsu, essentially made this song by coming up with just a bunch of different melodies in his head and writing them down, then wound up combining them all into what became One Winged Angel. That's why it just constantly changes throughout the entire song
and the latin lyrics when translated in the original are basically people begging for mercy from the angel Sephiroth
@@Ladywizard imaginary people because who the frick knows him
Came here to comment the exact same thing but you took the words out of my mouth lol. You could even say the song sounds disjointed because of that, but the disjointedness is what makes it so damn good. Disorienting yet beautiful. Like Sephiroth's long long hair. Wait what.
@@Harpsibored A game journo took the clues from Crisis Core to try to duplicate Sephy's hair care regimen and ended up having hair sharp enough to cut skin. Nothing surprising about it!
@@specialnewb9821 I always found it suspicious that both his hair and Masamune are the same color. Makes sense.
fun fact, uematsu didn't write this song the way he normally writes, instead he wrote a whole bunch of random measures and played with it like a puzzle. and 20 years later it still fills me with hype and nostalgia
Imagine as a kid you suddenly hear this music
Then supernova kicks in
As a kid I was an idiot and used my save crystal near the start of the dungeon. I ran out of time to play in the middle of this fight and did not want to redo the entire dungeon so I paused the game and just left the console running for three days before I could get back to it and actually finish the game. Such a memory, I'll never forget.
And then, as your first time playing, you get "game overed" XDDDDDD
@@tokidensetsu I beat sephiroh in two times last week , the first time encounter with him my tifa became a frog after the nova . for the second time I sort my inventory and I found that I got two maiden kiss that can cure [frog］
man when supernova hits while hearing this for the first time was one of the most epic moments of my childhood gaming. There wasn't anything as epic as that at that time for me.
VENI VENI VENIAS
NE ME MORI FACIAS
*VENI VENI VENIAS*
*_NE ME MORI FACIAS_*
This song along with Super Nova, his several minute long Ultimate Attack, go hand in hand and really makes you feel like this guy could destroy everything.
My marching band did a small tribute to this song in our show back in 2011-12.
My 1st encounter with this song was the ???? Cup match in Kingdom Hearts 1. Never played FF7 before. Watch the cutscene. The visuals and music alone made me nope out of there before the fight even started and I didn't come back until max level and had the best gear. Needless to say it left a life long impression and he is my favorite video game villain of all time.
Greatest boss/villian song ever. Absolute masterclass
One Winged Angel is apocalyptic. That's really the only way to encapsulate the way the song makes me feel. There's grandeur, and yet madness and terror as well - all while you're literally grappling with a god for the fate of a planet.
I'm not sure how they could've topped JENOVA Absolute AND Birth of a God, but man, when I first got to this boss sequence, I really felt that immense weight, the stakes of the story beat were explained perfectly in the music. It's an incredible piece, and while I understand that it may not be everyone's favorite FF track, I have to believe it's the absolute best. If it's not in people's top 5 Nobuo tracks, I don't know what they're smoking. XD
I wasn't even born when this game came out originally, so I can only imagine how insane it felt back _then_ to hear an actual full-on choir performance come in in the middle of this crazy final boss sequence, back in the days when live performances within video game soundtracks were really uncommon. I played through the game for the first time recently (and already was aware of One-Winged Angel), and it still felt epic as hell, so it must've been even more mind-blowing for players back then.
I was 9 when It came out, this song scared the crap out of me! Safer Sephiroth took me like 4 attempts cuz I kept panicking, lol
@@Slop_Dog I was 18 when I first played FFVII. When this tune kicked in? I froze. I straight up and knew I was either going to wipe in seconds or witness the greatest fight ever.
Imagine its 1997 and just simply having vocals in your game is already absolutely ground breaking and then Sephiroth uses a move on you called ''Supernova''. You watch as a meteor reaches fuck-off levels of speed, crossing galaxies in seconds. Then you watch as planets are getting turned into rubble, and now it hits you that this planet destroyer is headed straight for you. You watch helplessly as the sun engulfs the entire Solar System, *OUR* Solar System, while Sephiroth does not give a single fuck as the majestic chanting at 4:20 hits. And this entire madness is happening infront of you in an age where people were still relying on dial-up connection to use the phone.
Japan is weird.
You nailed it. Getting face to face with Sephiroth finally as a wee 8 year old, and hearing THIS SONG playing? I was in love for life.
About the drums... In an interview Nobuo Uematsu told that he wanted to sound "Military" like a fanfare. That's the point with the rolling drums, we can easily think about to hear this in a Parade. And totally send us to the fact that Sephiroth is a Commando above all, so he's the commando for Jenova ahah
Took me up to XIV’s Nidhogg 3rd phase to get chills like I did when I first heard this one
First hearing this on PS1 was mind blowing
This is why as much as I like the AC version, it over-does the guitar and it feels more action packed (to fit the animation) rather than this which always feels in control. Like Sephiroth always being in control, and you're fighting this oppression.
I find other versions really don't give the quiet downtimes in the transitions which I really like. Oh, and having played this not long after it came out as a kid. I bricked it when I heard this after already fighting boss-level enemies and a couple of bosses.
Speaking of that, they got me with that in FF8 as well.
So for me, this game was not only my first Final Fantasy experience in 1997 at the age of 9 but it was my first RPG experience. By the time I got the final fight against Sephiroth the game had already cemented itself in my young mind, completely shattering my ideas and preconceptions my young mind held about WHAT makes a video game great. Then I got to that fight and heard One Winged Angel for the first time! The orchestral instrumental coupled with the angry latin chanting before hearing "SEPHIROTH!" and the fight itself mixed together was just so perfect! That experience has impacted me greatly, not just from a musical perspective either, that was probably the first time in my young life that I truly fell in love with a story itself. Overall it was just completely mind blowing to me and life changing in the end, there is no other way to describe the impact this game and it's music had upon myself and many others.
Ok so only one version missing is The World's Enemy (Crisis Core FFVII - One Winged Angel)
Man a PS1 game had this.
for perspective of how epic this was, you fight your way past the strongest enemies in the game to the center of the planet, you find Sephiroth who has basically doomed the world has sealed the one thing that can save it... he turns into a HUGE 100ft godlike mutant version of himself, you beat him... then this music begins and he descends in an almost angelic form for a second round... then during THAT fight he does an attack that destroys the solar system over a nearly 2 minute animation.
That attack is also incredibly consistent with the game's themes, too. He basically attacks you with a vision of the entire solar system slowly being destroyed in just the precise order so that Earth is destroyed last while your party is helpless to do anything about it.
You may already know this, but there is a version of this song done as if it were Mick Gordon, it's called "one-winged angel in the style of doom eternal", And I know at this point you've already done at least three of these versions but I'd highly suggest that one too, it absolutely rocks.
fun fact Nubou Uematsu the composer of this song (and many songs in Final Fantasy) zt the time of FF7 he was worried more about loading times than quality of music, but since the fans were immersed so much in the music in the FF series he decided to pay more attention to the quality and Square Enix agreed to it. I think this happened during either FF9 or when FFX was released. I'm not sure which one it was since I'm getting old 😅
Honestly I think what really works so well in this particular version of the song - you know, the original - is how much it calls back to the musical styles of Shinra itself, but with the creepy vocals and then the strings layered in to let you know that what you're fighting is a true terror, something that MUST be stopped. The percussion are actually the biggest link back to Shinra for me with the marching scene in Junon. It works so well for me.
....you know, I never got that link, there are so many layers to this that the link to Shinra's march drums flew past me.
But now that I'm listening for it...that extra tie-in just makes it even more epic and I'm hoping the ultimate Remake fight will also play a little more into that subtle note of relational complexity.
I remember a few years back I found this being played on an organ and it was insane.
As for hearing it for the first time in 1997? Oh yeah, it was an experience... considering I was under leveled the first time I did it, the fact it was a struggle just made it all the more horrifying. So many deaths.
I _vividly_ remember the first time I heard this song. I finally beat Bizarro Sephiroth, thought, "Thank god, it's finally over," then the screen cuts to black, and _that intro_ starts, and I just thought, "...Oh I am fucking DEAD."
The fear that this song has instilled inside kids hearts
*hears boss music with latin lyrics*
😨
The best thing about this is how it is presented. You just went through 2 hard final boss fights with no cooldown between them, one of them massive and using two teams. Then, black screen and this starts playing with nothing on screen. Then only a pink cloudy heavenly sky, and then Sephiroth in godly form slowly descending. It hits hard.
This song just screams "You're gonna have a bad time with this OG boss fight"
I remember playing this in the early 2000s, I played it way after this was released and when I got to the point when this battle starts...I was mindblown, and then the FIRST ever recorded vocals start playing and it just kicked me in the nuts and punch me in the face emotionally, but lol, in a good way(trying to express how insanely epic this was) and Ive still not heard anything that beats this in complexity, layers, man...this is THE best OST of my 37 years of living. But the orchestral versions of this song really brings it to another level, but I really feel this in the context of the technical limitations of its times and hardware, unbeat to this day.
"thinking about how when this first came about". It put the fear of God in you. And it wasn't an easy fight either
It almost sounds like the sound track for a boss that is going to destroy the world for draining it of its energy, to become a god.
... isn't it?
im well in my 30s now and i hear this song and i STILL get goosebumbs.
in other words, yes it was fucking epic back then.
especially that moment when the chorus dropped in all of a sudden.
video games man...video games.
This is too cool to be in a PS1 game
I remember my first time hearing this song. I was OBSESSED with FF7 and played it religiously. I could not beat Bizzaro Sephiroth but I kept getting close and when I went to go stay the night at my only friends house I brought my playstation because we stayed up late beating Zelda:OoT and wanted a change a pace.
I yold him how hard this boss was and how I couldn't beat him. Well I showed him me struggling and WOW....I finally beat him. But then "One Winged Angel" starts and I was so enthralled and crushed at the same time.
Yay I beat him....but then Safer Sephiroth starts haha. I actually got close to beating him but I ultimately failed.
I was 24 when I first played the game and got to this and I still figuratively shat my pants out of sheer intimidation
The inspiration for this song was the Carmina Burana. Per Uematsu himself.
Remembering the first time facing Safer Sephiroth in the final battle n hearing this song! Yip, this version still freaks me out!
Still love the original
There's a video somewhere on TH-cam of US and Japanese military bands performing final Fantasy main theme during a marching drill
The first time I faced Sephiroth as the One-Winged Angel I'd constructed an overpowered summon combo. Knights of the Round with x7 materia.
I had to come back and play him again so it didn't end so quickly. Never worked out how to do that summon again.
I love all versions of this but there is something special about the original version that hasn't been replicated in the versions since. I think even though the midi sounds are obviously dated, they give it this amazing punchyness that really emphasises the militaryesque marching feel in the beginning. I think it adds to the anxiety and urgency that you feel when you hear this song and see Sephiroth in his god like form 🤔
Yeah there's a marching band video of this song and there's also a video of the orchestra playing the advent children version. "The Black Mages - One Winged Angel (FFVII Advent Children) live with orchestra" is the video in case you want to watch them play it
Dancing Mad is a God Realizing hes a beast, and One Winged Angel is a Man realizing hes a God
The newer versions where a rock band takes over in the middle would just be too cheesy for a PS1 turn-based game.
This one is all about the vibe
On my first playthrough, I struggled to fight him while the epicness of the music was blowing my mind. But then, this part (6:53) started playing, and the fucker cast Supernova for the first time while this was going on.
After that he wrecked my shit.
10/10, would blow up the solar system again.
You know what just hit me? Whenever I watch a youtube video I'm reacting to a past event that no longer exists. The moment Jesse recorded this video is lost to time, captured only by way of technology. Jesse now is no longer who he was then. What I'm saying may sound obvious, but people like me are so used to just watching youtube videos that when I consciously thought about it, it blew my mind. I was just sitting in my room reacting to this man's video, having a faux conversation as if he could hear me, but the Jesse I was talking to doesn't exist anymore. I was talking to an illusion of a moment lost in time. Imagine watching videos of youtubers that have passed away. You can kind of interact with them as though nothing had really happened, as if you could just comment and get a reply from them.
Wow.
👋
@@JessesAuditorium Hey, you read that. Then consider yourself enlightened.
...(*￣０￣)ノ
Awww man, I missed this part of the livestream. Yes, this completely blew my mind back in 1997. I was 12 and I can safely say this game changed my mind. As for the Remake version... well I think I mentioned this before but the thing is, there is another theme mixed in with that one (The arbiters of fate or whispers). I think the new element (the arbiters) kinda dilutes the song AND the plot. Not gonna get too much into it since you seem to wanna play this game at some point.
SPOILERS:
it doesnt dilute the plot because its a new timeline different from the original. The arbiters are basically guardians of time trying to make things go the same way they did in the original FF7 and Sephiroth in the Remake is the same one from the original, trying to prevent his death from happening and the arbiters try to stop him but fail which is why Zack survives the events of Crisis Core. The "Remake" in the title is literally Sephiroth trying to remake the events of the original in his own way. There are a bunch of videos explaining this on youtube, it makes you appreciate the story way more imo.
@@shimik11 SPOILERS:
This is exactly my problem with remake, it goes completely against the spirit of what a remake is supposed to do (and no, I'm not against all other expansions to the game like Honeybee in or Jessie mision and others). No one, not even the people who are fine with the new direction wanted this. No one bought this game saying "oh god... oh gee, I really hope I get an AU/ stealth sequel/ requel" or whatever it ends up being. Calling this game a remake only to play with the semantics of that word was very dishonest. It is just fortuitous that most people are fine with it (are they though? people seem to be looking forward to very different outcomes on very different and irreconcilable paths). As someone who thought the fanbase was pretty focused on what they wanted (you know, an actual remake) the reaction of 80-90% of the fanbase seems insane to me.
@@ocram3333 pretty sure you're the minority on this. That's why it's called remake not remaster.
Spoiler:
It's actually a sequel.
@@siic I am for sure in the minority, as illustrated by the FFunion survey, but that's not gonna stop me from voicing my opinion.
Spoilers:
I will say, however, that of the people who are fine with the new direction there's many different camps with mutually exclusive expectations. There's the people who don't think the whispers and Zack stuff matters much and we are still getting basically the same story. Then there's those who think we are just getting a parallel story with Zack (many different versions of this, including a "sixth sense" kind of twist). And then there's the people who do want something completely different (Also a spectrum) like, "Zack comes back as a playable character and saves Aerith at the last moment, then Zack, Cloud and good Sephiroth kill evil Sephiroth and Genesis fusion with a blade made of lifestream" type of stuff. As cringe as that sounds, there's plenty of people on that kind of camp (as I said, very wide spectrum there).
Now, that was a very rough simplification of the camps of people "fine" with what remake is doing but it serves to illustrate my point: those 3 expectations are mutually exclusive. No matter what remake ends up doing, it will disappoint 2/3rds of its audience or so*. So i'm in the miniority, yes, for now...
*obviously making a lot of assumtions here, like every faction is about the same size and ignoring some overlap within the factions, but it's not like I'm going to do some statistical analysis for a youtube comment.
@@ocram3333 lmao ok edgelord, I hope you're able to find some amount of joy in your incredibly cynical life one day. just because something doesn't turn out to be exactly what you thought it would be doesn't mean it's bad and that everyone will eventually come to hate it as much as you do. I hate to break it to you but there's another faction you may have never considered, and that's the "people who are able to enjoy a good, well-made experience when they see one, even if it wasn't exactly what they thought it would be".
The one thing that I've never heard any other arrangement of One-Winged Angel appropriately capture is the bell. It never sounds as full and menacing as it does in the original version, and arrangements always add it to other points throughout the song further reducing the impact it has.
Honestly, i love the remake but I think it would’ve been cool if they had some of the original songs playing in it, or maybe an option to swap back and forth, cause all the original versions just feel more balanced to me and the orchestra doesn’t drown anything out
Ohhhh I’m happy to see I’m not the only one ! Idk everything else was very well translated IMO but the BELL in the OG
WOW
menacing not just a little
The bell is definitely a callback to shinra
Time to start checking out live performances by The Black Mages if you want to see Nobuo himself go off.
Fuck YES!!!
I seriously hope you do more of these reactions to the tracks from the Original *Final Fantasy VII* Soundtrack.
Some of my suggestions would be:
--> *_Birth Of A God_*
--> *_Jenova Absolute_*
--> *_J-E-N-O-V-A_*
--> *_Main Theme of Final Fantasy VII_*
--> *_Crazy Motorcycle_*
--> *_Those Who Fight Further_*
--> *_Those Who Fight_*
--> *_Opening Theme ~ Bombing Mission_*
I suggested the more badass/energetic sounding tracks for your reactions, saving you from the more happy/sad emotionally-charged pieces (save one, the *_Main Theme Of Final Fantasy VII,_* because I find it too good to pass up, it's the center piece of the Soundtrack in my eyes), unless, you'd also like to experience reacting to those types of tracks too? Let me know.
They have done live performance of one winged Angel.
I wish somebody would make a mega-song of all the versions of One Winged Angel, in order from the original to the Remake version of it, with proper transitions and everything. I could imagine that mega-song would just be absolutely epic.
There is one just missing the remake version I believe complete with lyrics and translation I just can't remember where I saw it on youtube
Uggggghhh, still can't shake the feeling that in 4:20 the choir is singing "Haryuu no Hanekata" instead of "Gloriosa, Generosa"
Marching band you say.... Someone introduce him to Distant Worlds.
Yes its so epic that make us still have PTSD almost 30 years now.
When I hear this version, I immediately start flashing back on the animation for Safer Sephiroth's Supernova Summons (say that fast three times!)
when I first played FF7 back in the day, and it was late in the evening, everying was dark, I encountered Sephiroth and, ngl... I had cold sweat on my forehead! out of respect and fear.
As a kid when I first played this, I knew for a fact that this one was the REAL final battle. Like you say this theme demands your respect for Sephiroth, but also Nobuo Uematsu. It was really epic indeed. There was nothing quite like it to me and many others. This is one of the big reasons why FF7 is like a culture in itself. The complete full loop of this things runs for a while too. I actually timed it one day haha. I can talk about this all day but I'll leave it here. Nice commentary and reaction! 👍 👍 ⚪️🟡🟢🔵🟣🔴⚫️☄️🎶
Sephiroth really is the perfect final boss in a video game.
I'm not sure One Winged Angel is the most famous song in Final Fantasy. FFV had Mozart's Turkish March in there somewhere.
Hey I know you
@@JessesAuditorium Does anyone _truly_ know anyone?
@@Harpsibored Damn she pulled out the _italics_ for emphasis ^_^
And no, we don't. But I have a feeling we will soon.
@@JessesAuditorium My _old_ ass had to google how to do it. I feel accomplished for the evening. Good night, new friend.
@@Harpsibored I'm probably *older*
night dude 🤙
Now he just needs to hear the drip remix
The very first mp3 I ever listened to was this song.
I've marched in marching bands and, as far as a I know, there's no recordings of anyone having done One Winged Angel out there (sadly). There have been a couple of bands that have played Final Fantasy music before though.
Well there are orchestral renditions that are played live. Especially of sephiroth. There's also a TH-cam upload of a guy playing this song on a church organ.
My favorite song from 7 nice one
I remember getting this game from my Uncle back in 98 and out of all the songs in the game this one was definitely the most epic and it' surprised the crap out of me when I 1st heard it. And I hope final fantasy 9 remake is real I really wanna hear dark messenger remade.
Imagine if you will...Having to face an enemy that teeters on the border of incomprehensiblity. It appears bathed in a divine, majestic light...But you can feel nothing but raw evil and contempt. This is a battle you cannot avoid or talk your way out of. The only way out of this...HELL...Is through.
Best version for me.
Can't wait for the day you listen to the Reunion version (the Orchestral version they used in Dissidia), still my favorite overall.
Uh cierto! Esa versión está muy buena ♪
As sephy was a solider I wonder if you noticed he has a military sound to it the cadenced drum beats like marching.
FRENCH FRIES
SWEETBERRY
GINGER BREAD
LEMON TEA
S E P H I R O T H !
Hey here is a fun challenge, create an music for an area/battle theme or whatever of an game that you have played that smiles with the rest of the soundtrack
You should try the Kingdom Hearts versions of One Winged Angle too. They sound similar, but more orchestrated.
Also on that note, love for you to listen to some Kingdom hearts music too. (Also developed by Square Soft/Enix)
now youve gotta listen to the distant worlds live version, heard the rest may as well finish it off!
I think Dissidia: Final Fantasy nailed this the best; it has the clearness of the original and the greater energy of the newer ones. Haven't played Dissidia however, but I heard that version on Advent Children DVD's extra materials. Having seen the AC and not played the original game, that track was one of the main reasons to buy myself a PS2 so I could play a PSone game. (This was in 2009 or 2010 maybe.)
The advent Children version is definitely different to the version in the video(game), Advent Children definitely had a rock/metal vibe to it and that’s what Uematsu the composer of One Winged Angel wanted to do with it, he wanted to really morph it and make it better and he really did that but both versions are absolutely incredible and I love both versions. Also an interesting fact all the lyrics are in Latin, I can’t remember the translations of the lyrics but it’s really dark but I do know Sephiroth translated from Latin to English is Satan, so it brings a whole new darkness to the villain and this theme itself
Estuans interius, ira vehementi - Burning inside with violent rage
Sors imma is, et inanis - Fate monstrous and empty
Veni, veni, venias, ne me mori facias - Come come my son, do not let me die
Gloriosa generosa - Bountiful glory
...I've had these lyrics memorized for years xD uuuugh...
I hope you attend Distant World Orchestra for Final Fantasy, I’ve attended twice the first time Nobuo was there but holy shit was it an experience, I cried both times and choked up.
Marching band... marching band...
RUFUS WELCOMING CEREMONY FF7
Alright Jesse you gotta listen to the Advent Children version now, my favorite version.
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You should react to the official piano version.
Still the best version. N. Uematsu was at his best when the tools he had to work with were limited.
Overall FF6 had a stronger music catalog than FF7 - and that was cartridge based SNES!
I recommend:
World of balance theme
World of ruin theme (searching for friends)
Floating continent
Magitech Facility
Kefka’s Tower
Dancing Mad
Listen to these and consider that they’re SNES midi. It’s like Uematsu didn’t understand that the SNES wasn’t supposed to be an orchestra, so he treated it as such and made music history.
Well.. Time to reinstall the original FF7.
got on steam and switch ready to go
Try New Threat mod. if you want something fresh
Buy a PS1, a PS1 version of the game, a CRT TV, a drink that makes you forget the first experience and a drink that makes you 24 years younger.
He should see the fight, complete with the super nova, he'd flip out lol
React to Kuja’s Final Boss theme from ff9. You won’t be disappointed 🔥
If You wanna relax listen aerith or tifas theme
what would you even categorize this sort of music as in terms of music history? there's definitely no shortage of "battle music" before video games
but this sort of music feels much different than music from different eras that have present "intense" moments
vivaldi summer 2 is the closest that comes to mind though, if baroque era had boss music to reference from
My 12 year old head explode in this music
Please do Meridian Dance from Secret Of Mana, Original Version
personally, I'd argue that Back to Zanarkand is a bit more iconic. I remember hearing that music everywhere, not knowing it was from a video game from all places. Sounded like a piece of music that belongs in a movie.
I very much recommend watching this video (th-cam.com/video/9BzkrgVivk4/w-d-xo.html) of Nobuo Uematsu talking how he made this song.
Back then when ps 1 audio chip was great but still not good enough for the composer to do what they want. Glad that Square Enix jump ship to Sony for FF VII because if they stayed with N64 i don't think they could pull it off, because they limited N64 cartridge compared to massive (at that time) CD capacity of 700 Megabytes
Someone correct me if I'm wrong about this, but didn't I hear that this version of One Winged Angel was the first ever track Nobuo Uematsu made for Final Fantasy using an actual orchestra, not just a computer program?
This isn't orchestra tho...it's still midi so no
@@nicogalax Hmm, must've gotten my info mixed up, ah well.
You’re thinking about the 1997 Reunion version of One Winged Angel. It’s the version that set the precedent for other orchestrations of the song, such as the Distant Worlds, Advent Children, and Remake versions.
@@peveral4246 Ahhh, that explains it. Thank ye :)
Now for the OG Airbuster theme. Seriously, they drowned the original riff out so badly in the remake...
I dunno why, but I think I'll always prefer this version to the others. The orchestral versions just don't have the same feel. Maybe I'd feel different if I get to see it live? Not sure.
And then there's the Advent Children version...
Reacted to it already!
@@JessesAuditorium Ohh, must have missed it. Thanks for head's up.