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Final Fantasy IX

 

 

Final Fantasy IX (2000)

Composer(s):
Nobuo Uematsu 

Released in:
2000

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Melodies of Final Fantasy
When I first played "Final Fantasy IX" I thought the soundtrack was not as good as some of the other FF soundtracks. But the music quickly grew on me, and is now one of my favorites. "Melodies of Life", "You're not Alone", and the opening and ending tunes are some of the major highlights. Each track, has it's own amazing melody, and I am sure that you'll like at least 90% of this collection. This four cd set, comes with 110 tracks, a nice slip cover, and a collector's booklet, that includes the lryics to "Melodies of Life". It also comes with three tracks not included in FFIX, including a new version of "Melodies of Life" and to Coke Cola add's featuring FFIX music. The only music this doesn't include is the cut scene music, which if you want, I suggest buying the "FFIX Plus" soundtrack. For all FF fans, this is a must have.

Go FF IX
I loved this CD set, four disks, and all are great as all the mugic from the battle mugic to the theme song, Melodies of Life. Get this Cd..
You'll never regret buying it eather..
Miya Kino

Excellent Soundtrack for an Excellent Game
Uematsu's music (known for all previous Final Fantasy games) has always been a favorite of mine. Final Fantasy IX takes a step back from the more modern-styled 7 and 8, and the music reminisces of earlier games. The victory fanfare (disc 1 track 19) returns to the original tune, and the battle theme (1.18) starts with the familiar rhythmic bass line. Also included are two new renditions of the Chocobo theme (2.8 and 2.9) and the "prelude" (4.23) which is played, ironically, at the end of the game.

Also worth mentioning is Gulug Mountain (3.25), which is a clever remix of one of the tunes from FF1, done largely in synth tones (possibly to hint at the more primitive origins of game music.) This is the track which, when I heard it in the game, immediately made me decide that I had to have this soundtrack.

The soundtrack covers many different styles, with four or five strong themes as the central focus. (Don't be put off though, not every track is based on one of a handful of themes.) Moods range from apprehensive to excited, from mysterious to just plain whimsical (for example, the "Black Mage Village" track, 3.6, which is punctuated occasionally by hooting sounds, or "Turning Frog," 3.23, which sounds like you might hear it at a ballpark.)

The song for the final boss, typically one where the composer goes all out, certainly lives up to many of its predecessors. This often plays right after the music for a scene in which the final boss explains its motives (which this particular boss seemed sorely lacking; the FF9 boss reminds me of the Mana Dragon in "Secret of Mana" in that both show up after you've beaten the villain you've been going for throughout most of the game, and neither really has a sensible reason to be there other than having another boss) and you get to pick your characters. Uematsu decided to lead this song into the boss tune, which has a cool effect in the game but means that in the soundtrack, it takes a while to get to the part that's actually the boss battle music within its track.

Those of you who like to examine music closely will notice some particularly clever intricacies in this soundtrack. My favorite example is "The Hilda Garde," Disc 4 Track 1. One almost has to be wearing headphones to catch that the instrument that does the arpeggios in the background starts out in the center but quickly pans further and further out to the left and right in a manner that is vaguely suggestive of the motion of a propeller starting up. (Keep in mind that this is the airship theme.)

There are some tracks in the set that don't go particularly well by themselves, but that's what you get in a more or less complete soundtrack. (It even has the music that plays when your party goes to sleep; the track is 9 seconds long.) I say "more or less" complete because a few tracks are not in this collection. For the music from the cutscenes, or Eiko's theme with the "Melodies of Life" song layered in, for example, you will need to buy the "PLUS" CD. On the other hand, Disc 4 of this item includes two tracks (24 and 25) that use the Melodies tune as backgrounds for what were apparently Coca-Cola commercials, though thankfully (or not, depending on what you're looking for) any speech in the ads has been removed.

If I have one complaint about the soundtrack, it's that the cutoffs could have been done better. In other game soundtracks, the tunes that repeat themselves go on for a relatively fixed number of times before fading out. In this soundtrack, it seems they were trying to make most tracks approximately the same length; as a result, some music loops three or four times while other tracks cut off shortly after it goes back to the repeat point. However, it's not entirely fair to blame the composer for writing for a medium that's inherently difficult to translate into a soundtrack. Technical issues aside, the music is characteristic of some of Uematsu's best (a category which, in my opinion, now includes several pieces in this soundtrack.)



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