"Walking the Earth" from Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light on the Nintendo DS (2009)
Composer: Naoshi Mizuta
Album: Hikari no 4 Senshi -Final Fantasy Gaiden- Original Soundtrack
Label: Square Enix Co., Ltd.
Publisher: Square Enix
Developer: Matrix Software
It has been, a long time since I last played Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, released on the Nintendo DS back in 2009, although I do occasionally think about going back to restarting it and not grinding an additional (and useless) 30 levels above the recommended level before attempting the final boss. "Walking the Earth," from what I remember is the default theme that plays regardless of what biome you are walking in, so you end up hearing this theme a lot, although maybe not in its entirety due to the semi-frequent-ness of random battles. Interestingly in this game, there is a day/night cycle and with it a change in the overworld theme that plays (and I may just feature the nighttime music next week?).
"Walking the Earth" is just a good all-around overworld theme for a JRPG where you are going to be spending a lot of time walking around and listening to this particular track. The instrumentation, which is very much an element of its time and the system it was released on, is well-suited for the storybook aesthetic. It even reminds me a bit of music that would have been composed on the NES, although there is more depth here, again, the instrumentation hints that an 8-bit version of the song could exist. And now we are dipping our entire bodies into nostalgia.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
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