Climactic, ominous, and deathly, boosted by memorable melodic fragments and awesome rhythmical impetus, this battle theme rivals even some of the best in the original album. It features eerie vocal use and the same 'cello riff throughout, but is punctuated wonderfully by Yoko Shimomura's piano use, ever-growing timbre, and the eventual addition of emphatic blasts from the brass in the most intense part of the piece. Opening with ominous synth vocals, the introduction and crescendo of an agitated 'cello riff gradually turns the track into an amazing action theme. The first of two original themes, "Disappeared" plays during a fight with the Unknown at Hollow Bastion available only in Final Mix. Effectively arranged to retain melodic emphasis while still being an ominous and unpredictable theme, it is filled with dynamic contrasts, wonderful chromatic runs, and brass crisis motifs, though obviously loses some of the power of full-orchestra through its synth use despite the competent synthesizer operating from Ryo Yamazaki. It was an interesting choice of theme to arrange, made perhaps in response to cries of 'Mussorgsky for VGM', though works well in context and proves a competently implemented reduction of the original. The overall choice to integrate "One Winged Angel" into Kingdom Hearts and add it to this album was inspired, however, given its popularity and the way it fitted in context.Īn arrangement of Modeste Mussorgsky's tone poem "Night On Bald Mountain" from Fantasia replaces "Guardando nel buio" during the boss fight with Chernabog at the End of the World. While a reduction in the length of the piece wasn't an uninspired idea, it was treated in an unmusical way, thereby sacrificing the integrity of the arrangement. Unfortunately, an entire section of the piece (the 'Veni, veni, venias' part) is cut and there is no bridge section to compensate, resulting in two jarring transitions and loss of coherency. Synthesizer operator Ryo Yamazaki gives a unique Kingdom Hearts feel by changing the instrumentation slightly and boosts up the bass and percussion for the opening riff. Though this wasn't exclusive to Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix, fans were appalled the arrangement was left off the Kingdom Hearts Original Soundtrack. Bodyįinal Fantasy VII's most famous theme, Nobuo Uematsu's "One Winged Angel," received a decent fan-pleasing arrangement from Shimomura to represent the Platinum Match colosseum battle with Sephiroth. With four themes in total, is the album worth buying? Read on and see. Not all were exclusive to Final Mix, but none featured on the Kingdom Hearts Original Soundtrack to the distress of many.
It did, however, receive a mini-album to commemorate the release, featuring two arrangements of famous pieces from both game music and classical music, as well as two delightful original themes.
This would have been quite a fun extension, but was unfortunately never released out of Japan. Kingdom Hearts was a great success, but the executives at Squaresoft decided that the game needed some tweaking, so they released a new version called Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix.
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