Everlasting VGM #24 Eternal Wind (FF3)

Everlasting Video Game Music, VGM that never gets old.
Entry #24
"Eternal Wind"
Scored by Uematsu Nobuo
Game: Final Fantasy III
Year: 1990
Publisher: Square
Final Fantasy III is a remarkable RPG for several reasons. First, the class system pioneers into the at the time never-seen-before dynamic classes. Your characters could change classes during the game (but not during fights) so it was possible to always have convenient skills for every boss. This, of course, was a great excuse to make the game insanely hard. The last dungeon lies after another dungeon, with a combined total of 6 or 7 bosses that you have to beat without saving or going to an inn, and that's not even counting the final boss. So OF COURSE I had to die at the last boss and lose about 2 hours of gameplay. And then I had to farm about 10 levels' worth of experience to be able to beat the last boss. All because I get lazy and run away from combat a bit too much. Anyway, the ground-breaking class system would give rise to a mediocre personal level-based skill learning class system in FF4 (think any Pokemon game). Only FF5 and, later, FF Tactics, would even hold a candle to FF3's class system. I wonder if it's coincidence or not that neither FF3 nor FF5 made it out of Japan... did Square think gamers elsewhere would dislike or not understand the class system or something?
Plot-wise, FF3 isn't all that much of an improvement over FF1, the whole 4 crystals thing is still around but this time at least, there are characters, like Elia, the water maiden, Une and Doga, and others. The protagonists are identical cuadruplets, and they all happen to dress alike and they're all ambidextrous, which I think is either an astronomical coincidence or they're all clones. Though I seem to recall something about them being orphans. Still, what are the chances of finding 4 ambidextrous kids in the same orphanage? The NDS remake did wonders for this game, adding actual character NAMES (I know, I couldn't believe it either) and character development, while also giving the game a complete overhaul. And people say Square Enix never gets anything right... The 4 protagonists are still ambidextrous, though.
The music in this game is wonderful, again, what we would come to expect from Uematsu. Several themes spring to mind, like Tozas, Battle 1 (they didn't come up with individual names for battle themes until FF7), Elia, Maiden of Water and Last Battle or This is the Last Battle. FF3's music has been rearranged and remixed extensively, of course not as much as, say, Chrono Trigger, but this little classic proves to be still in people's hearts even after all this time. I'll use this opportunity to direct you to some of this great doujin music:
"Water Pray" (Elia, the Maiden of Water) by Dangerous Mezashi Cat
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"KURAYAMINOKUMO" (This is the Last Battle) by The Black Mages (Uematsu himself is in the band!)
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(This is the NDS version of Eternal Wind, by the way. I chose it over the Famicom version for better quality.)
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