Exentryk
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I think you can hear the words "OMNIS LACRIMA" around 2:58 in the announcement trailer. Have a listen -
http://youtu.be/mO92sHr4knM?t=2m57s
http://youtu.be/mO92sHr4knM?t=2m57s
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Shimomura's new album memòria! features a new FFXV track (OMNIS LACRIMA)
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HypocrisyGalore
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Front Mission, Legend of Mana, and Parasite Eve are all classics worth playing. Live a Live seems like an awesome concept but the game was never released outside Japan unfortunately.
The Kingdom Hearts series actually has arguably some of her weaker music. You'd definitely do well to try to listen to some of her other works.
By the way, does anyone else hear a bit of Masashi Hamauzu in Vector to the Heavens and Theme of Aya?
Perfect Cha0s
Member
Nice find. I think you're right.
Haeralis The BRave
Banned
http://squareportal.net/2014/03/13/...nal-fantasy-xv-bonus-track-listen-to-preview/
https://twitter.com/midiplex/status/444094924422516736
YES! The E3 announcement trailer one was good, but the 2008 / 2011 / 2013 gameplay trailer music is probably my favorite Final Fantasy piece in many many years.
https://twitter.com/midiplex/status/444094924422516736
YES! The E3 announcement trailer one was good, but the 2008 / 2011 / 2013 gameplay trailer music is probably my favorite Final Fantasy piece in many many years.
sixteen-bit
Member
Shimomura did most of the music in Street Fighter II as well. I think that would be her most famous work.
As far as we know, she's the sole composer for all of FFXV, not just trailer music, a single theme song or the like.
Play Radiant Historia. I think it features some of her best work.
Damn.. DAAAAAAAAAAMNNNN
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Can't wait.. ARGH.. I can't wait for the XV OST.. I need it NOWW!
No, it's just an arranged version.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
I think Shimomura made a boo boo? Omnis Lacrima sounds like it's the new one played in the E3 announcement trailer, based on this:
Or maybe the gameplay music is indeed Omnis Lacrima. I love that theme personally.
Probably just a better version as in audio quality will be better. It won't be horrible Youtube/Internet-stream/compressed trailer quality, but CD-quality bliss.
Her music in Xenoblade was "arranged" as well. Arranged might just mean remade for an orchestral version, and as we heard in E3, it's already orchestral.
kind of disappointed, I wanted the E3 2013 song.
Haeralis The BRave
Banned
But she flat out said that it won't be the one that first appeared at E3 last year. I don't think she's a liar... For all we know, the gameplay trailer could also contain those words somewhere. The problem is, we have to use this fairly muffled version as a reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm53QKJhXQs
I don't hear it.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
I can vouch for this. Legend of Mana and Parasite Eve are great as well, along with Street Fighter 2 and Super Mario RPG.
This song from Radiant Historia is too good.
I hope not everything is Latin, or else that would become pretentious to the point where it's untasteful. I really liked the E3 original music as well, so I'm kind of disappointed.
I hope not everything is Latin, or else that would become pretentious to the point where it's untasteful. I really liked the E3 original music as well, so I'm kind of disappointed.
Shogun1337
Junior Member
LOLLLLL
MagnaderAlpha
Member
As far as FFXV is concerned, everything IS Latin(character names, locations like "Nihilsomno"). Though, I'm with you. The overuse of Latin makes lessen's it's coolness.
Though I'm pretty sure we'll get a great assortment of different styles. Not everything's going to be epic Latin chanting and opera-esque. We'll likely get some soft, beautiful tracks, and maybe even some of those quirky Shimomura styled songs too, like the forest song in Super Mario RPG, or even songs like these:
Kingdom Hearts- Monstro
Legend of Mana- Cliff Town Gato
No, that was Somnus. The song that is apparently going to be on this Shimomura collection was first heard in the 2011 trailer, which hasn't gotten a CD release like Somnus did on the previous Shimomura collection.
Besides... NONE of the songs on the collection are exactly new...
Haeralis The BRave
Banned
Who cares? We've never heard a "clean" version. Its one of the best things Shimomura has ever composed, meaning that its inclusion on this album is welcome.
Actually, it first appeared in the 2008 trailer.
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/8cozto/final-fantasy-xv-dks3713-trailer
Ah, yes, I had forgotten we already got a short tease of the song earlier, but that was only a minute's worth of the song. The 2011 trailer had a lenghtier arrangement/the whole song.
ahh I see this has been posted. Yeah great work, she was a really great nab by Square.
HypocrisyGalore
Banned
So am I the only one who gets annoyed when non-songs are called songs?
Haeralis The BRave
Banned
Yes, yes you are.
HypocrisyGalore
Banned
No, and not many game composers do, as it's not the easiest thing to do and many of them aren't very technically proficient.
The only ones I can think of who have done their own orchestrations are Koichi Sugiyama, Yasunori Matsuda (who isn't a great orchestrator, by the way), and Masashi Hamauzu.
Well that's unfortunate.
Haeralis The BRave
Banned
So, if this comes out in Japan on the 26th, can we expect to be able to hear this on the 25th (since its actually the 23rd in Japan right now)?
qualitydisc
Member
Here are Yoko's liner notes for the song, as posted/shared by Exentryk on Twitter
Here's my rough sight-translation. I'm only intermediate level so maybe someone better at J-go can provide more nuance.
The recording credits:
Here's my rough sight-translation. I'm only intermediate level so maybe someone better at J-go can provide more nuance.
The recording credits:
The12thGripper
Member
In the Final could of been on this album, but they cut it. 
NoctisVsStar
Member
My body is waiting for this game
Exentryk
Member
Can listen to a 45 sec sample here - http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00I3LHM5Y/
Haeralis The BRave
Banned
Its too bad that this isn't hitting the states... I'd have happily paid money for this.
Exentryk
Member
Not yet. It's only available from SE Store, Sony music and Amazon.
I really wish they would. The FFXIV soundtracks are straight up JP import albums no reason why they couldn't release this.
Yeah I see that now. I have stuff in my Play Asia cart I was hoping it would be on there I guess I'll have to wait and see.
qualitydisc
Member
I was also going to ask where the cheapest place to order and ship to the US is, heh. I wanna get this and the Piano Opera FF VII/VIII/IX coming out.
The US Square Enix store stocks a selection of Japanese soundtracks, but they usually get them months later, and it's impossible to predict which ones. Worst of all, you have to deal with Digital River (puke) which I'm avoiding at all costs.
The US Square Enix store stocks a selection of Japanese soundtracks, but they usually get them months later, and it's impossible to predict which ones. Worst of all, you have to deal with Digital River (puke) which I'm avoiding at all costs.
Perfect Cha0s
Member
Any idea if/when it will unlock on the album website? The quality on the Amazon sample is terrible.
qualitydisc
Member
Even the low quality sample of Aya's Theme gives me chills. Amazing. Dat counterpoint. Based Shimomura.
omg that track is super old though :v
Amazing track but kinda old for us who watched the trailers so many times.
I thought it would be something new for once....