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FF6 Special Tracks

How on Earth had I never heard of these!?!?

It's like every time I think I finally know everything about FF6, something new comes up.

And the game came out almost 20 years ago!

I found out about this because I was looking up "Troian Beauty" from FF4 and found an FF6 track. I thought it was a fan remake, until I looked into it further and found out that it was one of six tracks from the FF6 soundtrack that weren't used in the game.

Remarkable! Even the tunes that didn't make it into the game are good.

Naturally these are awesome, and my surprise at the low view count is perhaps due to a bias in favor of the game.

I can really understand why these didn't fit into the game though. Since the game is so thematic musically, I can easily see why those songs didn't fit into the overall plan. For instance, those two town themes-- I can't think of a single place in the game they would work for. Town Theme 3 might work for like Kholingan or something, but still not as well as the music they just standardized for towns across the map.

Of course, this opinion might be simply due to the fact that it's not what I'm used to, but I don't know enough about music in a purely technical sense to explain why I feel they don't belong in the pattern (or maybe they work better, I don't know, and I'm just xenophobic).

Haha, where's GMH when you need him to explain music stuff?

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Haha, I listened to them briefly last night and didn't have much to say in response yet so I didn't post anything.

I'm not sure why, but I think I do get what you mean about the new town themes. Especially Town 3, which sounds more playful than any town actually feels in the game.

Town 2 sounds a bit more like a stereotypical happy RPG town, but if you set it against the backdrop of the game as a whole I guess it's a bit less fitting? Though it's definitely nice, and I wouldn't have minded hear it somewhere. Can't really think of exactly where, though. Also remember that giving some towns a different theme would actually imply that there's some sort of significant difference, and people would try to read into that, so that's also a design decision there.

The Techno de Chocobo remix might work if there were some sort of chocobo stable or something? I dunno. The style does seem kinda contrasted with the rest of the game, but then again, Techno de Chocobo original. Though it was rare enough that you'd ever hear that anyway...

Toroian Beauty Remix seems to just be a lesser version of the existing town theme from FFVI. (Never been a huge fan of the track Toroian Beauty myself.)

I guess the song could have shown up at the end of the game or something, or in a "coffee break" intermission a la Earthbound. Not sure where else it would have fit. That said I noticed that it contains a motif from the Town 2 theme. Maybe in an alternate universe, that could have become a leitmotif or something.

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MogMaster, I agree with you, and that's what many of the other comments I've seen have said as well. While the tracks are enjoyable, they don't really fit into FF6 thematically and it's easy to see why they were cut.

Then again, there are several upbeat tracks already on the FF6 soundtrack you could say the same thing about, if you didn't already know the context in which they were used. Johnny C Bad immediately springs to mind.

Town 2 reminds me of Chrono Trigger for some reason. I've seen other people say the town themes remind them of Secret of Mana (never got into SoM so I wouldn't know).

GMH, you're probably right that Troian Beauty was intended as some sort of Easter Egg, but I don't think it was meant for the end credits. From what I've read, that distinction was meant for Approaching Sentiment (with vocals by Nobuo Uematsu!) but it was cut because the SNES couldn't support actual vocals. Hence, the version without vocals, which ultimately was also cut.

Wow, these are amazing! A little too happy to fit into the game, so I see why they were not included. They are very uplifting songs, while the game is dark with an adventurous streak. The chocobo remix is something I would have like to see in the game, but it just does not seem horse-ish or chocobo-ish enough. A good song, but not for its purpose. It would have worked for a black chocobo song. Town 2 seems a little more like a dragon-riding song than town song, but you never ride any dragons in the game. Town 3 is just plain perky, although a good song. The Troian Beauty remix is a beautiful song and actually better than the original, in my opinion. But absolutely not right for this game.

So, what everyone else said, I guess.

Quote (MetroidMorphBall @ 6th October 2013 14:09)

[item 1] Then again, there are several upbeat tracks already on the FF6 soundtrack you could say the same thing about, if you didn't already know the context in which they were used. Johnny C Bad immediately springs to mind.

[item 2] GMH, you're probably right that Troian Beauty was intended as some sort of Easter Egg, but I don't think it was meant for the end credits. From what I've read, that distinction was meant for Approaching Sentiment (with vocals by Nobuo Uematsu!) but it was cut because the SNES couldn't support actual vocals. Hence, the version without vocals, which ultimately was also cut.

Re item 1: Yes, Johnny C Bad is upbeat, but it's also got a specific flavor of sleaziness to it. It's meant to evoke a decadent atmosphere, not the lively playfulness that Town 3 suggests.

Re item 2: By "song" i meant Approaching Sentiment (as it's the only one with vocals).

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Swing dancing is decadent?

And Raving's not?

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Who knows? Seems you're the only person asking, in a thread about Final Fantasy VI. -R51

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 7th October 2013 10:43

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Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 6th October 2013 16:41)

Re item 2: By "song" i meant Approaching Sentiment (as it's the only one with vocals).

Ah, ok. So we basically said the same thing. I guess that's why you used "song" instead of "tune," so I should have caught that, but many people use the terms interchangeably.

Also, MogMaster:

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my surprise at the low view count is perhaps due to a bias in favor of the game.

I think the low view count is because very few people realize these tracks exist!