"Good King Moogle Mog XII" from Final Fantasy XIV on Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, OSX, & PlayStation 5 (2013 - 2021)
Composer: Masayoshi Soken
Vocals: Michael-Christopher Koji Fox, Yuriko Nagata
Album: Before Meteor Final Fantasy XIV Original Soundtrack
Label: Square Enix
Publisher: Square Enix
Developer: Square Enix
Not having actually played Final Fantasy XIV, I came across this song while playing THEATRHYTHM FINAL BAR LINE and figured that labeling it as specifically from Final Fantasy XIV would be a lot easier on me with all of the developer and publisher information for their respective games. But picking one song from the umpteen dozens of songs from FF XIV included in TFBL (of which there were 35 in the base non-deluxe version of the game) was a little difficult, to say the least. And while there is some original music composed for the game, the whole point of the game is to showcase music from the Final Fantasy series so I decided to use a song from a Final Fantasy game that I was not familiar with. So here we are in Final Fantasy XIV; which, apparently, is somewhat compatible with the Steam Deck.
As is to be expected, I have zero context for not only this song, but the thought of Moogles being aggressive en masse is a little unsettling (although the characters are cornered in Final Fantasy VI so it is not entirely unheard of). I assume that you have to fight a horde of Moogles in Final Fantasy XIV because in TFBL the song is presented as BMS (Battle Music Stage). But this song is just hilarious. The melody is bouncy and fun while some of the lyrics are a little terrifying in the same way that Wonderland can be a scary place to Alice. Maybe it is me, but there is a Nightmare Before Christmas / "This Is Halloween" / Danny Elfman feeling to this song too (that cannot be a coincidence, right?), which fits really well with a clan of murderous Moogles. I do love that halfway through the song we get the original Mog theme played as an interlude before the song repeats.
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