Hey all! Thanks for all the comments the vid has gotten! I love reading everyone's reaction to this incredible track! Here is another vid I made with some of the best parts from the best boss themes in the game! Yes, Airbuster makes it on the list! Take a peek! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c2k0tLXdmsU.html
How long did it take you to find and cut together the footage like that? This is like classic AMV material. Thanks for the hard work, and it looks like it was "transformative" enough to keep this song alive here. Bonus points if all that footage was your own. It was all so incredibly well timed, putting it together must have taken a while, if you played to get it all just right, that must have taken all day just fighting one boss over and over! XD (to be fair, i can't get over this fight, i do it at least three times over on most runs)
@@Pensive_Scarlet when the music is pumping the editing is so fun! Idk how long i took but i enjoyed every second of it. The footage is from my hard mode fight here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-feSXvdwehGY.html The game is always full of awesome sequences when you least expect it and I thought my hard mode Airbuster fight would make a nice counter piece the music. I'm glad you liked it!
@Immortas Gaming Except it's not even a remake since it has a completely different story. Doesn't make the product actually bad and it has a lot of good aspects, but it has a lot of bad aspects, too, but it's not a "Remake"
The hyper-realistic graphics of the remake really help to sell what a total chad Tifa is, running up to an enormous metal machine and beating it up with her bare hands.
I got into the series this year and im so happy I did, I watched my cousin play ff for years and always lowkey wanted to try the series out. All I can say is I picked a good year to get into ff😅
Proper return to form for the series. 7 remake was possibly the highlight of my gaming life. 7 being my favourite game ever I really struggled to keep it together playing the remake. It was more than just a game to me, I was 9 years old again. It's daft to say but playing this was monumental in a way nothing else has been.
@@Steve.Maverick it's probably the same reason why I love the orchestral version that plays during arsenal better than this one, since it's more faithful to the original melody :D
Airbuster in this game is so close to a literal perfect boss fight. The buildup is absolutely INSANE, and the fight itself pays off in spades for everyone and their mother hyping up the hell out of this thing, and it’s such an early boss too. This game is back to back quality.
"back to back quality", exactly! Tbh I've stopped following some accounts like The Night Sky Prince because he has developed such a negativity towards VIIR and it shows through most of his content since its release. He has interestingly enough a much better attitude towards the XV DLCs and XIV (he's only gotten into XIV in 2020 while I've played XIV since 2014, and he finally started playing it only because everyone else was telling him how good Shadowbringers was) although both are lower in quality (bloated, full of side irrelevant content, and paywalled). Maximilian Dood is one of the few FF-related channels I'm still following, cause he is still very enthusiastic about FF and hypes me up about VIIR. He is also genuiely a fan of VII and it shows through and through. NSP has started to hype random games like Sakaguchi's AA-projects or NieR more than FF, which is not what I've been following him since his early beginnings as a RU-vidr. VIIR is better than what many FF "RU-vidrs" claim it to be.
@@NoctLightCloud They're way too hung up on VIIR not being a 1:1 Remake they were hoping for, and turn a blind eye to all it's qualities. A shame, but it's on them, they're missing out on a great game
@@NoctLightCloud ye thats why i dont watch his videos anymore okay we get it XIV is great and 7R has its issues but come on man he is not like this way back on his XV days lmao
@@TheUndyingCrystal Yes Shadowbringers is low quality. Reasons: ● Lip-snychronization of XIV is on PS2/Gamecube level. ● Graphics are on PS3 level. ● Cutscenes are being dragged on for too long. ● Repetitive music in cutscenes. ●Too much random text and lore that you'll hardly ever remember. But that's the MMO-side effect. ● Characters in cutscenes lag when answering/it takes too long for characters to answer each other. Just like in Kingdom Hearts. In almost every single conversation between characters, there is a noticeable pause. ● The story is extremely cliché. ● Main character has no personality and is silent. I still play XIV regularly and get lost in it for hours. I probably have more playtime than the NSP. Can I still critisize Shadowbringers for its low quality? I think I can. It was released in 2020 and not in 2010, so I think I am allowed to expect a bit more, am I not?
My wife never cared much about my video games. But when airbuster battle started, she's put her book aside and watched my play through this entire fight start to finish. When airbuster was low HP and 4:30 started playing, my team collapsed on it for the last time and exactly at 5:00 it exploded. I turned to my wife and she was pale from emotion and her jaw was dropped on the freakin floor. She just mumbled something like: What happened to Cloud...? She is now playing her own round of FFVIIR, currently she is in chapter 10. It's thefirst video game she played since she was 12.
We pulled it out in the end. The curse of 2020 has been lifted. We can look forward to the rest of the year and a new beginning in 2021. This game is simply one of many good things in 2020 that kept us alive and kept us fighting. Never forget that.
For me, this song and this specific arrangement is quite easily one of the greatest pieces of video game music ever produced. It's quite honestly the best boss battle music ever. The jump into the fray, the conflict, the struggle, the doubt, the second wind, the climb, the rally, the push, the victory; It's all here, and all of it aurally narrated through sound, driven by controlled chaos and frenetic energy. All the individual instrumental parts come together like a perfect storm, and it is beautiful. A maximal auditory experience that allows the listener to visualize our heroes fighting in unison to persevere, so that they can save themselves; so that they can save the planet. I still get goosebumps listening to it and I've been listening to it almost daily since it came out. This song is for Those Who Fight Further. And you, yes you, whatever it is you're currently struggling to get through: you have it in you to fight further. You are not limited to your current predicament in life. Limits are meant to be broken. It is a goddam masterpiece.
It fit as an exciting boss battle, then the choir came in and I was like, "what?" For a end or late game boss theme, its good. But for what its for? Giving a dramatic choir to some random big shinra robot? You kidding me?
@@geostar1610 it's where you first hear the official boss theme in the orginal. Of course they wanted to make it epic and memorable. Your pettiness is ridiculous.
This song is so good it made me pause the fight and reflect on what I was hearing. I had tears streaking down my cheeks because this composition is incredibly good. It took the old and made it better
@@budakbaongsiah in fact uematsu was a consulter and active arranger for this ost, so is a team up remix , that's why is so insane and long. Same for some other tracks! Nobuo was all over his all songs arranged versions, help in others and some others just composed by the other great composers like hamauzu .
@@santus07 He's not, man. Hamauzu was the leader of the music department. Uematsu chose him because he felt like he's no longer able to lead such kind of project because of health reasons. This is also the reason why he only composed/arranged one song in the remake.
@@budakbaongsiah It wasn't Naoyuki Honzawa, it was Tadayoshi Makino (who was lead composer for Dragon's Dogma, a few tracks in XV: Comrades, and arranged everything in Episode Ignis, except for the Main Theme, A United Front, and Theme of Ravus). The key telling thing is that the songs Honzawa did arrange, are more in a EDM style, whereas Makino often has an orchestral style but with heavy use of guitar and drums, which you can also notice in J-E-N-O-V-A Quickening, by him. You can find the complete breakdown of composers/arrangers per track on VGMdb. You're right about the Uematsu part though. Too many give him credit for the music in FF7R specifically, when his only contribution was Hollow. Not even the instrumental version, Hollow Skies, was by him; it was Yasunori Nishiki. It doesn't help that the metatags of the digital releases of the soundtrack gives him the artist credit, just because he was responsible for the base compositions, adding to the confusion, causing a lot of misinformation. FF7R had tons of arrangers, but was led by Masashi Hamauzu, as well as Mitsuto Suzuki, who were also responsible for the majority of new compositions in the game.
Same here. Got FF7R in March and it was the first FF I played and I'm now playing FF7 on the ps1 to follow up with FF8. I recently got the FF15 plat too going for the Remake plat. I've grown to love the series very quickly.
Welcome, ff10 is my favorite game. Glad to see you gave the original ff7 some love. I cant wait for them to release that new ff7 mobile game. Ill play that instead of re playing ff7 for the 10th time.
Same happened to me last year. I've played 7 Remake, then 10, 9, 15, 7, 8 and lastly 12. I'm gonna play 6 (Pixel Remaster) as well if it has built-in cheats.
@@colinnixon7739 Not even close! I decided to play the OG after beating the remake and...literally. Tifa punched it, Barret did Big Shot, Cloud hit it with Bolt, then got triggered and hit it in the back with Braver for 622 damage. Literally less than two minutes for me. I was disappointed, lmao, I expected a really hard fight. Used my Tent and everything.
Too much orchestra not enough crunchy guitar and synth and organ the rest should be toned down. It's too much I just wanted the black mages... Great production values yes, best possible version, nah...
I'd have it more like black mages version with some of these orchestral overtones/aspects. Not up to me though. I mean sooo much about this remake is done so well its almost too good to be true just makes all the weird story beat changes and a lot of other little things really stick out badly. It's just like ahh almost everything it should be but yet just not quite there...
@@leifcian4288 This was exactly the problem I knew would happen with the Remake: everybody would dislike something. For me it's the sections where you're forced to use melee fighters only on flying enemies :P
Untrue. 'Fan service' is actually a pejorative term, meant to apply to cheap clumsy pandering, that's harmful to whatever contains it. This is *legitimately* awesome.
4:31 Absolute tears of pride. The most epic section of any video game song ever made. Cloud is my Luke Skywalker and my hero. I know he can do this and when i hear this section all i can say is "lets fucking go."
It's already my 4th most listened to song on spotify lol, and Nobou Uematsu is currently 2nd in my list of top artists on Spotify. This happened in less than a year, I've been listening to FF7R soundtrack waaay too much🤣
Dear video game awards. If you don’t award this best soundtrack or this song of the year, than you lose all credit. Seriously, this has to be one of the greatest compositions of all time.
The remake made that fight into one resembling how you imagined it as a kid, and I've been listening to that music track in one form or another since 1997.
Can't agree more. This boss fight is easily in my top 5 of all time. It was soo damn good. Just got past in the third time through the game and it was still so hype!
@@ellimeido7964 All the more reason to remake FF6. Imagine the final fight with Kafka requiring you to use all 14 members at once, and there is one more brief phase where you get to absolutely Maul him with esper terra
@@Victor-056 Plus Tifa charging in, slo-mo, midway through the limit break, backing him up with her bare fists. Then to top it off, the Airbuster clashes its fists together at 4:41 and switches into the final phase. Feels like this game was designed to have cool perfectly timed moments like that.
@@decklinpeters6775 you clearly never played hard mode then. Adrenaline? You people hype this up so hard trying to pretend this boss is any good. I did this on hard, was half asleep by the end.
Have to give prop to Square turning one of the most forgettable and pathetically easy fight in FFVII into one of the most hypest fight ever, very very well done on that one Square and HOLY SHIT this soundtrack.
This, Jenova and the new One winged angel are so good in terms of quality of soundtracks its not even funny when I say this game might have the best FF soundtrack of all time. It might beat the original 7, 6 and maybe some others for sure. God this game is so good
I'm 37 years old and somewhat jaded when it comes to games these days, but this goddamned boss fight made me feel like a giddy kid again. An OST hasn't gone this hard since Metal Gear Rising.
@@dontacrowder4319 Sure, MGR, most of the boss battles in DMC, Yakuza boss fights (Jin Kuwana is a personal favorite) MGS 3 The End (or the boss) Shadow of the Colossus, and many more.
Hell yea, im 40 and its the first time i screamed winning at a game in atleast 20 years, this fight was intense!!!! wow i love this remake so much, the old feeling came back real hard!!
NOTHING GETS YOU MORE PUMPED THEN SUMMONING IFRIT AND WATCHING HIM USE HELLRAISER WITH ALL THE BEAUTIFUL FLAMES BEFORE HE LEAVES MIDGAR TO THIS OST HOLY FUCK
I'm a notorious hoarder of consumable items in RPGs. I rarely use them, because I might need them later. This music made me go, "Screw it. *It's later."*
I'm gonna list all the freakin epic and frame perfect moments of this amazing masterpiece. 0:11 double bass drum headbang 1:04 epic 2:12 first epic choir 3:15 same of first but has a guitar 3:51 tifa summoning Bahamut 4:07 tifa punching sequence with harmonized guitars 4:30 Ultimate Choir a.k.a best moment of the song 5:22 third epic choir 5:37 only guitar riff hype 6:28 epic guitar solo 7:07 slow mo badass pose
It’s been about a year and a half since FFVII Remake released, and prior to this game my only exposure to Final Fantasy was through Kingdom Hearts and Super Smash Bros. I knew some things about the franchise (mostly about FFVII) but nothing substantial. The trailer and music of FFVII Remake caught my eye and I figured I may as well give it a shot. Final Fantasy VII Remake is now one of if not my most favorite game of all time. I’m now gonna start a play through of the original Final Fantasy VII, I’m looking forward to Final Fantasy XVI, I might give Final Fantasy XV and Final Fantasy VI a play through as well. All in all, I’d like to thank everyone who worked on FFVII Remake for introducing me into this franchise.
It was my introduction to the series and it's definitely one of my favorite games. I've played 7 Final Fantasy games so far, and this is still my favorite one 👍
That solo that starts at about 6:28 , holy crap. That is some of the most triumphant shit. Like it's telling you "come on, you've fought this far! You need to fight just a little bit further!" Absolute chills.
The timing of the footage with the music here is great. Also, the timing of that Bahamut summon needs some hilarious fan art. Watch the way Airbuster starts backing up with Bahamut just lying in wait, then boom, Mega Flare from behind! I think I saw sweat pouring out of the machine while the dragon's aura was spelling out the word "menacing". ;p
When 4:08 kicks I swear it, Barret was KO, and the airbuster was fliying off the brigde with low health, I fenix him, Barret stands up with full limit, I discharge his weapon then limit break. Airbusters explodes. One of the most epic momments in gaming in my life.
My first ever video game was the original FF7 for PS1, and the first ever theme that ever stuck with me was the Airbuster boss fight. Getting to this point in the remake, and hearing that oh so memorable melody kick in, but remastered to theatrical splendor brought a tear to my eye. It was like reliving my childhood all over again, BUT THIS TIME WITH MORE BAD ASS GUITAR RIFFS AND A CHOIR OF ANGELS IN ACCOMPANIMENT.
The new melody at 6:29-6:55 is, imo, the crown jewel of the arrangement. It sounds so beautiful, so epic and badass, yet it has a touch of the tragedy and poignance that comes to define the game and the Final Fantasy series as a whole. It just adds so much emotional weight to the song.
I had to pause for a while when I got here because of how awesome it sounded. I see some people complaining about this, saying the original is far better. In my view, the original suits the original, and this suits the remake. It fits with the new style and intensified gameplay.
The people that say the original boss theme is better aren't true fans of the original. Same with the people who say the OG game was better. People should go back and play the OG section of just Midgar, then play remake. If you think that 4-6 hour experience is better than the epic 40 hour adventure we got, your nuts. Then you can only imagine how they will handle the following parts, which they will exceed expectations similarly to part 1
@@davidspeier1723 “epic 40 hour adventure “ you mean that adventure filled with a bunch of filler and fights that are very boring. At least the og got going and wasn’t milking run time and boring me to tears. You are the kind of person square has by the balls. They will sell this to you in 8 parts or more with a story that doesn’t even resemble ff7 and you’ll eat it up, and somehow still have the nerve to think you can determine what a true fan is or call other people nuts.
@@moonmoon2479 I guess it isn't for everyone, I didn't really get the impression you did from the game. All the people I know (who also played the original) loved the remake. The game has "some" filler, but it really isn't a whole lot. You just sound like an angry person looking to bash the game for mostly silly reasons, since most of your criticism's aren't even valid. Such as the game is nothing like the original, when it clearly is lol
@@moonmoon2479 I also was referring to the midgar section of the original to this whole remake part 1. The entirety of FF7og is better, we can agree on that. Once it catches up, I'm optimistic they are going to surprise the dissapointed fans
He got me so many times in Hard mode. Mostly because my jaw frequently dropping with all those glorious effects and the party's slick battle animation.
The place where this awe-inspiring re-imagining of "Those Who Fight Further" was used helps me admire something else. The game plausibly made goofy, comparatively minor threats like Airbuster or the Hell House into frightening, impressive, and *formidable* foes without making them unrecognizable! This whole music track was a _necessity_ as music for the Airbuster battle, because he took so long to defeat!
