final boss spoilers "The game's up. I know exactly what you are now. You're this world's core, the reason it can operate autonomously... but you're not Rufina. YOU'RE THE COPY OF MY STIGMA THAT WAS MADE HERE HALF A YEAR AGO! Maybe I can't match up to Rufina, but I'm not fighting her. I'm fighting YOU. I'm not gonna lose to my own Stigma, and I'm gonna set her free from you! SO GET READY FOR ONE HELL OF A BEATDOWN!" i love Kevin so much this scene lives rent free in my brain
I discovered this song by chance while I was writing a love letter to someone that is going to travel far away for several years. The violin part cracked my heart 💔.
This makes me wanna cry, it's so beautiful, thinking back to those lovely days in Liberl. I wanna go back there in a 3D game, Falcom, gosh darn it! ;_;
Just finished Zero and Azure a week ago and my goodness, favorite two games out of the entire series, and in general. This theme playing during chasing the counterfeit dealer atop the train made it all the more epic! :D
This reminds me of my last year at university. Specifically when I walked into the main building for my program. By that point everyone knows everyone.
Older niche games with great osts like this always make me sad because nobody will ever care enough about them to have their amazing music be widely recognized Space Ship and The Village Without Memories are two songs included in my huge list of some of the greatest video game songs. I don’t ever plan on playing Opoona for myself, but it’s a tragedy the game got the reception that it did (dropping it on the same day as Super Mario Galaxy was a horrible move though)
This is really one of the best OST in the game. Fighting with a comrade/rival , aiming for the same goal. At least to me, it really felt like the moment where I show what I have learned from all the traveling and crash it into the battle.
The only thing wrong with this game's soundtrack is that it is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE to find the most brilliant piece amidst every brilliant piece... which is to say, almost every one of them. This soundtrack as a whole is just pure, unadulterated genius, and this track in particular is so beautiful that it defies the language that could otherwise explain it. Aggressive but melancholy, regretful but with that drive to push onward, this track is one of but a handful of paradoxical masterpieces in the OST. Almost every other piece is a masterpiece in its own right, but this one is special in its ability to make you feel contradictory emotions not only from second to second _but within the same second._ Not even Vanishing Trail, another paradoxical masterpiece in this OST, is able to produce such a rapid change of emotions. Especially when those church bells hit and ring in (literally) another revision of one of the two main themes, both of which get their proper due here, this track is what it means to be epic. Other musicians, take note... _this_ is how you compose video game music.
