Yes, we used "The Decisive Battle" in last week's MIDI Week Single and you are hearing it again this week, but the arrangement and game are different. This track is an arrangement by Takeharu Ishimoto (The World Ends with You, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII) from the Final Fantasy themed fighting game, Dissidia Final Fantasy. Because most of the tracks from this soundtrack are arrangements of themes from the older Final Fantasy games through Final Fantasy XII (although the character from XII is a hidden character only playable in certain modes). The music from the later games, VII-XI was not changed as much as I - VI because the music chips sounded significantly different than the ones used in the NES and SNES/SFC, which is why I ultimately went with this track.
What I love about this particular track is actually not what I loved about Nobuo Uematsu's original composition. In this arrangement, the predominant instruments seem to be focused more on the guitars, strings, and drums than the bass and the organ. And while the bass is still present, it is mixed at a much lower volume than the original. As much as I love those two parts from Uematsu's composition, I really do love how Ishimoto brought the other instruments forward to infuse the kind of energy you would need for a fighting game and not a turn-based RPG. It reminds me a bit of the arrangement for The Black Mages' self-titled album in that it takes the original song and makes its own version without creating a carbon copy with real instruments.
So no guarantees that we will not do something like this again in the future when we find similar arrangements.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
One More Time Now!
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