Rufus' Welcoming Ceremony will always be one of my fave ost. Gives that positive, hopeful vibes, happy fiesta hehe. I was happy to hear it again during FF IX, and so many versions came by. Awesome FF VII Rebirth ost, magnificent! 🥰🤟💪
I thought we won't get Shinra Full Scale Assault OST but not only did we get a version of it in this track. We got the slow version when ascending to Upper Junon and we got a version extremely faithful to the OG at the end of Chapter 2 side quest, Beneath Still Waters. Basically we got 3 versions.
I'm not joking when I say that one of the lowest points in Remake for me was the lack of Shinra Full Scale Assault while climbing the golden shiny wire of hope up to Shinra HQ. So I feel veritably spoilt to have three versions of it now!
@@GustaveXIII I can understand that, but I think it gets a pass because the Chapter 15 OST in Remake is straight-up one of the best in the game. The Day Midgar Stood Still is one of the best tracks in that game, its battle mix Fires of Resistance is as well, and The Valkyrie is my favorite boss theme. There is a RU-vid channel that also made OG-soundfont versions of all three tracks (Sara Garrard Music) and she shows just how great they sound reverse-engineered to OG sounds. Great tunes on that chapter, so I didn't even miss Full-Scale Assault at all. Always felt a bit off given the massive death scale in the background.
What a genius contrast this section is to the rest of the game. The player knows how horrible shinra is and then there is this theme that makes you feel patriotic, hopeful and proud of shinra.
I think it shows what Tifa is always talking about. Although the company as a whole and the executives (minus Reeve) are evil, the rank and file soldiers are just regular people with families and dreams of their own. It does a great job humanising them and heck you even root for the Shinra 7th, in such a short time you like them. I hope they return in some way in part 3.
Theres so many versions of this theme and im looking for the one that plays when cloud tifa and aerith are in the changing room i cannot for the life of me find it tho
