{"id":11251,"date":"2023-08-19T20:37:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T18:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/19\/a-break-from-the-past-final-fantasy-xvis-composer-on-ushering-in-a-new-era\/"},"modified":"2023-08-19T20:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T18:37:34","slug":"a-break-from-the-past-final-fantasy-xvis-composer-on-ushering-in-a-new-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/19\/a-break-from-the-past-final-fantasy-xvis-composer-on-ushering-in-a-new-era\/","title":{"rendered":"A break from the past: Final Fantasy XVI\u2019s composer on ushering in a new era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masayoshi Soken has quietly ripped up the rulebook for the latest edition of Square Enix\u2019s epic series<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we have to bring the old world crashing down in order to build us a new one,\u201d says Cid, Final Fantasy XVI\u2019s gravel-voiced deuteragonist in the first act of the game, \u201cwhat say you? Are you with me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cid delivers this dramatic line as a musical refrain that any Final Fantasy player will recognise ascends and descends ominously in the background. It\u2019s the most recent interpretation of the series\u2019 famous Prelude, originally played by a simple digital harp working its way up and down a scale. Legend has it that this number was a last-minute addition to the very first game in the series (more than 35 years ago) by composer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/shortcuts\/2015\/apr\/07\/nobuo-uematsu-video-game-composer-shaking-classical-music\">Nobuo Uematsu<\/a>. It took about 10 minutes to create, and has since been performed by orchestras all over the world, and used in the games bearing the indomitable Final Fantasy brand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/aug\/18\/final-fantasy-xvi-composer-masayoshi-soken\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6fec78caae92c78cc23a0dc5916138719d30e0b0\/442_391_2948_1769\/master\/2948.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9af49bb37c539ce9912eb413c7be43e6\" title=\"A break from the past: Final Fantasy XVI\u2019s composer on ushering in a new era\" \/>Masayoshi Soken has quietly ripped up the rulebook for the latest edition of Square Enix\u2019s epic series<br \/>\n\u201cIf we have to bring the old world crashing down in order to build us a new one,\u201d says Cid, Final Fantasy XVI\u2019s gravel-voiced deuteragonist in the first act of the game, \u201cwhat say you? Are you with me?\u201d<br \/>\nCid delivers this dramatic line as a musical refrain that any Final Fantasy player will recognise ascends and descends ominously in the background. It\u2019s the most recent interpretation of the series\u2019 famous Prelude, originally played by a simple digital harp working its way up and down a scale. Legend has it that this number was a last-minute addition to the very first game in the series (more than 35 years ago) by composer Nobuo Uematsu. It took about 10 minutes to create, and has since been performed by orchestras all over the world, and used in the games bearing the indomitable Final Fantasy brand. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masayoshi Soken has quietly ripped up the rulebook for the latest edition of Square Enix\u2019s epic series \u201cIf we have to bring the old world crashing down in order to build us a new one,\u201d says Cid, Final Fantasy XVI\u2019s gravel-voiced deuteragonist in the first act of the game, \u201cwhat say you? Are you with &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/19\/a-break-from-the-past-final-fantasy-xvis-composer-on-ushering-in-a-new-era\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A break from the past: Final Fantasy XVI\u2019s composer on ushering in a new era<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}