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Final Fantasy 6 is a game that managed to keep me engrossed the first time I played through it, and even though that was years ago, I still find myself reliving the opera scene from time to time.
I liked both the original and the GBA versions of Celes' aria. Each of them has its beautiful parts.

Recently, after playing FF6A I've been looking for a vocalised rendition (in English). I found a few but none of them were doing it justice. That was until I stumbled across one of the Advance version from "Dear Friends - Music from FINAL FANTASY" on Youtube, a while ago. I was expecting another butchered attempt but it turned out to be quite impressive.
Yes, it's not really the kind of operatic voice I imagined Maria would have, but all in all, it's beautiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQBcO32SauQ

I still wonder how the impresario relied on Celes' resemblance to Maria when it wasn't even near as essential as her voice.. Didn't her audience notice? >_>;
Anyway, that will always remain one of my favourite bits in the game. I just wanted to put up the link for whoever else is interested.

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that was actually pretty cool. if they add real voices to the game in an updated version they need to do something similar for the opera scene.that wuz cool

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Heh, I love that clip. Incidently that's my favorite performance of the Aria. You have to hear the whole thing for the awesome effect.

This post has been edited by Zeromus_X on 16th July 2007 09:35

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That's absolutely brilliant! Thank you a lot, Zeromus! That's the kind of thing I was looking for. I'm surprised I never heard of 'Dear Friends - Music from FINAL FANTASY' before.
After I found Stephanie Woodling's version on Youtube, I tried looking around for the 'whole thing' but couldn't find it.. You've made my day.

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Random game quote of the day:
"Wilt thou change this world... Or wilt thou change thyself?"
(Water Dragon, Chrono Cross)

I love the song, though I prefer the lyrics from FFIIIUS snes version.

Anyway, thanks for sharing ;]

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i really loved the opera scene. it is still one of my favorites ever, despite the lack of vioce and good graphics. even though this is good, it isn't the way i would imagine it, and i dont think that it does the scene justice.

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i really loved the opera scene. it is still one of my favorites ever, despite the lack of vioce and good graphics. even though this is good, it isn't the way i would imagine it, and i dont think that it does the scene justice.

Now if only Uematsu would use some of his free time to write a full-fledged opera that incorporates the opera material--including Aria di mezzo carattere--from FFVI...

Also, there was voice, just computer-generated voice. Was obviously not human voice, but at least you could tell it was supposed to be a voice-imitating SNES instrument.

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Also, there was voice, just computer-generated voice. Was obviously not human voice, but at least you could tell it was supposed to be a voice-imitating SNES instrument.

well yes, that was implied. even though at times i actually thought it sounded voice-like, it certainly wasn't a human.

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