The Music of Cecil's Redemption - Final Fantasy IV | Warriors of Leitmotif

Game Score Fanfare Podcast 6 years ago

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Final Fantasy IV's most famous scene is when Cecil becomes a Paladin. Let's take a look at how the music of the sequence helps to tell the story.

Part 2 of the Final Fantasy IV episode of Warriors of Leitmotif is coming soon.

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Shout-out to MuseScore user Luiishu, who transcribed the entirety of Final Fantasy IV’s soundtrack. All of the written music shown in this video were adapted from his transcriptions, it was a phenomenally helpful resource.

https://musescore.com/user/1984081/sets/5097209

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Games shown in this video, in order of appearance:
0:07 - Final Fantasy IV
0:14 - Final Fantasy II
0:17 - Final Fantasy III

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All music used in this video is from the Final Fantasy IV Original Soundtrack and was composed by Nobuo Uematsu, unless stated otherwise:

0:00 - Prelude (Remix) - Final Fantasy VII Demo (Nobuo Uematsu)
0:36 - A Long Way To Go
1:05 - The Red Wings
2:27 - Mt. Ordeals
3:04 - Main Theme of Final Fantasy IV
3:33 - Golbez, Clad in Darkness
4:23 - Tower of Zot
4:53 - Battle with the Four Fiends
5:08 - The Final Battle
5:43 - The Lunarians
7:17 - In-game cue, not on the official soundtrack.

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Warriors of Leitmotif is a game-by-game study of the use of theme and leitmotif throughout the Final Fantasy soundtracks.

Game Score Fanfare is a show that celebrates music in video games, an aspect so overlooked as that's often the point: to work without you even realising it's there. I look at games through the lens of their score, discovering the unique perspective and roles that music can bring.