Game Soundtrack: Final Fantasy V
Composer: Nobuo Uematsu
Release Year: December 7, 1992
Label/Company: Square and NTT Publishing
Recorded at: Sunrise Studio
Original System of release: Super Nintendo
Game Overview:
From the moment you start Final Fantasy you can tell it was designed to be a fun game minus some of the ridiculous boss fights laced out. Anyways, If you wait long enough on the title screen you will be treated to the intro credits screen which plays the game’s main theme “Ahead On Our Way” which spells what is basically a light hearted adventure to save the world from impending doom. Now this isn’t to say that the game is all laughs because it does have it’s serious moment, there is death and despair thrown in but for the most part the game is designed to give you that sense of an innocent adventure from the get go. The game starts of with a boy by the name of Bartz who is out camping with his Chocobo (Giant ostrich like birds that have graced the Final Fantasy series since the second game). Anyways, your camping session is interrupted when a giant meteor falls from the sky and crashes a about a mile away from camp and like any naive main character in a video game you go to investigate it. Lone behold you find a man near the meteor who in like many games of its type lost his memory, a plot device that would later be abused by this series and several others. Anyways by random chance you run into the princess who comes to inform you that the crystals that govern the elements are in danger and that they must save them and thus the journey begins. From cross dressing pirates, to some of the cheapest bosses a Final Fantasy game has to offer, this game will send you on a happy go luck thrill right that will take you to the ends of the fictional earth and then some more but the purpose of this review isn’t to speak about the game from the perspective of the story, gameplay or likeable characters. I’m here to talk about the game’s soundtrack and how it drives the overall mood of the game.
