Soundtrack - CD - Stranger Of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin

Today I wanted to make the post a lil bit different and instead of writing my own description, I thought I will share a part of an Interview with Naoshi Mizuta who composed the music with additional contributions by Hidenori Iwasaki and Ryo Yamazaki:

Question: Stranger of Paradise’s soundtracks are not an arrangement of past BGMs, but rather, a mixture of impressive phrases from the motifs and themes of the original Final Fantasy. What made you decide to use it in such a subtle way instead of rearranging it?

Naoshi Mizuta: From the very beginning, Inoue’s order was very clear: to not use an arrangement, but to use the motifs of the original soundtracks in a subtle way, so that those who would notice would be able to recognize them.

However, when we first submitted the demo, he asked me: “If you were to include this [in the original Final Fantasy], would it be fitting?” Feedback also went from “It would be better to have a few more phrases included compared to the original song,” or conversely, “What’s this? The motifs aren’t subtle at all.”

Ryo Yamazaki: I think at one point, he even outright said “This looks too much like the original.”

Naoshi Mizuta: Some stages in Stranger of Paradise look almost exactly the same, but the concept of the game as a whole was that someone somewhere had imitated them, so that’s what we focused on in the music as well.

Ryo Yamazaki: That being said, it was more of a case-by-case basis. The original dungeon-like tunes were pretty much an extension of the atmosphere of the original music, but it was difficult to create a battle tune from them.

Hidenori Iwasaki: Songs with melodies were especially difficult. I arranged as good as I could, but was told that it was just like the original. I said, “How come I ended up full circle?” *laughs*

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Name: Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin Original Soundtrack

Publisher: Square Enix

Category: Soundtrack

Platform: CD

Release Year: 2022

Tracks: 110

💎Quality: ★★★★★

💰Price: ★★☆☆☆

🍀Rarity: ☆☆☆☆☆

⭐Condition: ★★★★★

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