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Thus, replacing that music is much more treacherous ground to tread.

Replacing NES music is one thing - but the SNES sound chip is pretty fabulous on its own, with a signature sound that defines much of those games. FF4-6 are allegedly set to release over the coming months, and one has to wonder - will they get the same treatment?

The quality of the music for the Pixel Remaster releases of FF1-3 gives one hope for the other upcoming games, too. But it’s fair to say that the versions of these compositions in the FF Pixel Remasters are the best to date it is now the definitive version of these soundtracks, and for FF music aficionados, the score alone might be worth the game’s price of entry. The PS1 release offered interesting new arrangements, and this trend was continued, albeit in native hardware, on Game Boy Advance. To that end, Uematsu has returned to the series, too, acting as a supervisor for these new arrangements.įor FF1 and FF2, at least, this isn’t the first time the music has been reconsidered in this way. In an official Q&A, Square Enix says that the new arrangements were created “while keeping in mind the importance of not destroying the image of the original music,” with the overall vision being of a goal to “restore” elements that weren’t there originally, but were intended. The result is music that evokes the feeling of the original rather than precisely replicating it as it was. Those who played the music of FF1 and FF2 as NES chiptune, or on later platforms obviously-synthesized samples - but here, each track has been reproduced lovingly with more realistic-sounding instrumentation - though there is still plenty of synth, of course. Thus the sprite redraws for the NES games they increase fidelity while keeping a more sort of simplistic colour scheme and style, veering away from the outright added detail featured in other ports of these same games. The idea behind the Pixel Remasters appears to be to produce a version of these games that looks, feels and sounds the way that you remember them rather than the way they actually were.

That makes them a fascinating time capsule - and it makes it all the more exciting to see them produced in an exciting new form. There’s a simplicity to the composition, and explorative reaches into genres, ideas, and affectations that the FF maestro would later perfect. The scores of the NES Final Fantasy titles is in part rudimentary because of the console’s limited audio capabilities - but it’s also undoubtedly an Uematsu still experimenting and finding his feet. When you’ve got individual tracks like One Winged Angel and Liberi Fatali and complete scores like those of Final Fantasy IX and Lost Odyssey under your belt, people are obviously going to focus on those over your earlier, more rudimentary works. It is perhaps inevitable that the earlier parts of Nobuo Uematsu’s career are overshadowed by his later works. Whatever you might think about sprite changes, missing content, or even that damned font, one aspect of the new Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster versions of classic FF games is definitive: the music.