"Castle Cornelia" from Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster on Windows, Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series S/X (2021)
Composer: Nobuo Uematsu
Arranged By: Ayumu Murai
Album: FF PIXEL REMASTER: FINAL FANTASY Original Soundtrack
Label: Square Enix Music
Publisher: Square Enix
Developer: Tose, Square Enix
Since I'm finally getting around to playing the pixel remaster series of Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster and obviously starting with the first game, I decided to use one of the arranged songs instead of the original 8-bit music written by Nobuo Uematsu. While looking through the soundtrack, I discovered that multiple people worked on the arrangements, with Ayumu Murai contributing the arrangement for "Castle Cornelia."
What I enjoy about this arrangement is the approach that it could be performed by a quartet or larger, as you wander through this and other castles in the game. Four or more musicians tucked away in a corner of the castle. Even when this arrangement diverges from the original song and starts to go off on its own, the feeling of the original song is still there, and then when the main melody comes back in (1:20), there is a heart-wrenching/warming swell of emotion. The only negative thing I have to say about this arrangement is that the song ends and doesn't blend in with the beginning, which makes the start of the song feel like the start of the song again and not like it's continuing the same song that started playing when you entered the castle grounds.
Maybe it's just me being overly picky, but that's partly why we're here, and because I've been enjoying the music of Final Fantasy for the last 34ish years, so I can be a self-entitled curmudgeonny old man about this one thing, or at least until next week.
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