MIDI Week Singles: "Conclusion" - Wizardry VII: Gadeia no Houshu (PSX)

 

"Conclusion" from Wizardry VII: Gadeia no Houshu on the PlayStation (1995)
Composer: Takeshi Yasuda
Album: No Official Release
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Developer: Sir-Tech Software

This one's a little interesting for a couple of reasons.  First, I decided on the PlayStation port of Wizardry VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant, originally released on DOS in 1992 and ported to the PSX in Japan only in 1995.  From what I could find, the music for the PlayStation port was completely rewritten by Takeshi Yasuda and didn't use any of the previous music that was written by Steve Miller.  Next, is that I am 98.47% certain that Takeshi Yasuda is specifically referencing Trevor Jones' score from The Last of the Mohicans, specifically at 1:56 where it sounds a lot like the Main Theme/Prologue at 0:40.  Lastly, I'm only guessing on the title of the song being "Conclusion."  Because there's no official soundtrack, my two frequented online sources only list this song as MUSU, and is always listed as the third of four tracks from the game; to note, there are song titles for the DOS and PC/Mac versions of the game, but again, this is a new score.  Conveniently, "むす" translates to "conclusion" although I could also be missing some significant context as to what musu actually translates to, but "conclusion" works well in this context and I actually find fitting for this song*

Without knowing any additional context as to when the song is played (as I couldn't find a longplay specifically for the PlayStation port), I still feel that this would be a fitting song for the conclusion of a sci-fi fantasy adventure.

~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian

But It's Not Gonna Change for Anybody

*P.S.  To note, none of the other file names, ANPA, DARK, TLAN are translatable in the same way, so it's likely  just a coincidence. DARK could just be music that plays during the dungeon crawling sections of the game (ie , when it's dark), and TLAN could be somehow related to the mission to defeat the T'Rang and just be mistranslated. I don't have any ideas about ANPA though.  Just theories of course.