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There is at least one moment, where I don't think I've ever heard anyone say they didn't have an emotional impact moment. You'll know it when you get there.
In an interview, he once said that sometimes (or most of the times, can't remember which) he feels that the music he's writing comes from another world to him.
Same. This is one of my favorite tracks as well. It really made me feel like I stumbled upon the Cetra’s stomping grounds. Almost like in FFVI when you first see the Esper World. 😎
What the f. I played this game three times all the years back than. I loved the music of this game. But somehow i totaly missed this track. Thank you youtube algorithm.
That feeling was in the replays too. You'd do so much before getting to this part, that happy overworld song is playing, and then you went into that mushroom structure... that synth starts playing and you immediately remember that you're about to relive a nightmare.
@@saurabhkanhere7033 To me it sounds like something that was sacred or revered a loooong time ago and has now been forgotten. And it might have been revered out of fear instead of worship. Altogether there is something oppressively silencing in the sound, ominous vestiges of authority still hanging in the air. Btw. is there a way to watch his playthrough of ff VII? This song is an introduction to having quite a bad time after all and I'd like to commiserate.
The Lost City of the Ancients. There was such an uncomfortable feeling to that place, like we weren't supposed to be there, the music just heightened those feelings
stop sucking Nobuo's dck man. Nobuo WAS amazing but thats like 15-20 years ago.. he hasnt made great stuff in ages. the last great Nobuo stuff was like in ff10 and thats 22 years ago
It is so crazy to me how FF7 still holds up and gives newcomers these magic moments. Such a masterpiece of a game. And for me the best a of all time. Would love to see a better one but so far there is nothing close in sight.
Was the exact perfect game at the exact right time for me. It took me a while to come to terms with it, but nothing will ever top this game for me, even one I have to admit is objectively better.
TL; DR : Don't be like me and don't stop yourself from playing a game because people seems to overhype it. It's stupid and stops you from enjoying video games in general. So I grew up with FF8 and 9, always thought FF7 was overhyped without actually having played it. Until 2 years ago, I was 26 and decided to properly play every single FF entry in the series. I made my way up to the end of 6 and then I was like *sigh, here we go for the BESS GAME EVER MADE DUUUH*. Boy. Was I wrong. It made me actually realize how intellectually and spiritually closed we can be sometimes. I seriously understood something I was missing back then. And the first time I realized that was when I reached this place and put down my controller for 10min straight. I was so happy to be proven wrong, it fact I think it even had a bigger impact overall. This game is a legit masterpiece. It sounds silly saying this today, maybe it is, but from this day on I stopped being a part of the "don't join the hype" team. Yes sometimes it is the case (hype on games that aren't out yet, Cyberpunk cough cough), but I'm pretty sure I missed out on a ton of stuff back then because of this stupid mentality. It's still not my favorite FF in the series, but it's a pretty S tier one for sure. And I'm now on the overhype side, except this time, I don't find it overhyped at all. It deserves its praise. By a lot.
I'm honestly just happy that and other games like it (in terms of giving people magical experiences) exist at all. I'll always remember my first. (Wario Land 4)
This music hits you where no emotion is in your soul. Our minds don’t know how to react to it. Perfect, yet completely imperfect, inspiring but also draining.
I am 39 years old. I've played countless games whose music I've forgotten. I was 12 when I discovered FFVII. I've never been able to forget that game's soundtrack
I feel you dude. Turning 39 this year, playing Rebirth that gives me goosebumps (I never expected to hear a song from Advent Children in Rebirth and Cosmo Canyon theme brought me tears of joy/nostalgia) and also playing FF7 with full mods from Tsunamod Team. This game will always have a special place in my heart, like Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana.
I'm also part of the turning 39 in less than a year club and first experienced this at either 12 or 13 and this song was so impactful that I also just stopped to appreciate it and made it a point to find a downloadable version on either Napster or Limewire and burned it onto a CD-R so I could listen to it any time I wanted which I still do to this day! Without a doubt still in my top 10 games of all time.
Glad to see this clipped because for me entering the forgotten city for the first time really was a "moment" on par with some of the iconic scenes of the game, especially because this has to be the most underrated track in FF7. Such a mix of feelings - it's foreboding, mysterious, somber, fills you with determination, and yet feels so alien (definitely because of the synth). It's so fitting for both this area and what happens there - the remains of a mysterious ancient civilization that represents another way of life, almost wiped out by a monstrous alien life form, its people then trying and failing to survive in a modern industrial world that uses them only for their powers. You arrive to the place that holds the history of these people just in time to witness the unholy marriage of that alien calamity and those unethical experiments emotionlessly eradicate their last member. It's like you're witnessing their entire history from beginning to end, and this music captures it so chillingly well.
To me Uematsu is the second greatest living composer perhaps behind John Williams only. His music always kept me remembering games decades past of me playing them.
I think the live symphonic versions of his songs showcase this well. If your music both works in a max of a handful of channels but you can also manage to write idiomatically and elegantly for orchestra, you're definitely up there.
@@ItsSVO Hans Zimmer doesn't have the same level of orchestral competence as Williams or similar. His strength is production and experimenting with arranging, and finding interesting textures and palettes. His music is most often simple in essence. Hisaishi plays piano while conducting, he's fantastic.
@@RohannvanRensburgI see the “simple” argument used against zimmer constantly and it’s possibly the worst argument somebody can use. Something being complex doesn’t make it better, especially when music is about eliciting an emotional response. This is why some of the best musicians and singers in the world can’t read music and are self taught, because we consume music via our ears. There’s a reason Hans Zimmer is so world renowned and songs iconic and so memorable on their own.
THIS track Makes me anxious in a beautiful kind of way. I Also love “reunion”, it’s creepy and melancholy at the same time. This entire soundtrack is peak video game ost
I was listening to this same track about a week ago in the car. When this song came on, even my dad who was with me listened in silence while we were driving down a road with misty hills and mountains on both sides. Perfect timing too, because it fit the mysterious looking scenery so well!
I played this game for the first time recently and while the graphics obviously haven aged well all that is completely forgotten once I got into the story and heard the music. I could totally see myself as a kid being blown away by this and even now as an adult I could tell how impressive this was for the time and how they were going for something cinematic in 1997.
Yup, that was my same reaction when I first got there back in 1997. Just... holy shit. The atmosphere that track is carrying is incredible. Even before you find out what happened to the Cetra this place feels not just abandoned but completely dead. The music has an air of tragedy and loss with a bit of mystery and mysticism.
I remember the first time I got here back in 97, I did the same thing, stopped and listened. The longer I listened the more I had this deep seated feeling that something horrible was going to happen but I had no idea that feeling of foreboding was going to end the way it did... first time I cried like a bitch at a video game and I'm not even ashamed to admit it. This music set the stage perfectly and will always be one of my favourite pieces of gaming music. chills every time.
This music just FILLS me with dread. When I first heard it back in 1997, I got such an ominous feeling in my gut that something terrible was coming. Anytime I hear it now, I just get chills and sick feeling. But yeah, this is "Forgotten Capital"
There's an ambient sorrow or gravitas in the melodies of games from that era that just doesn't often feel present nowadays in game music, or in popular music either for that matter. MechWarrior 2's music is my go-to for that sort of genre, but there's piles of examples from that time, and it's amazing.
I love that 25 years after I did exactly what you just did when this song came on for the first time, i get to see that it still hits that hard to new players!
When the newer version of this started playing in Rebirth, I genuinely lost my mind. It was unlike anything I'd ever heard, and in the context of the scene itself this track was just. so freakin good
FF7’s 4 disc OST back in 1997 was like gold for soundtrack enthusiasts like ourselves! So many varying styles found in this classic blockbuster JRPG title!
Even hearing this now i get chills, knowing what this particular music represents as far as what's coming. I still remember the very first time i played this game, not knowing anything about what was coming, even then i felt uneasy here because this music is so ominous and impressive.
Best theme of the game for me, it was indeed LIGHT YEARS ahead of other old jrpg themes of that era in terms of sheer composition and upon first hearing it I was absolutely floored. Thousands of years of Ancients lore and pure emotion seep out of that utterly brutal, heartbreaking and painful song it’s unreal. Uematsu is just, may I say, otherworldly superhuman for stirring our hearts with his music and other such contributions to the video gaming art form.
I remember stopping to listen to music in jrpgs even back on the SNES. Especially when stepping out onto the world map, including doing it multiple times during the game if the overworld theme changes.
@@Juan-Dering First part of the remake version is pretty good, I think with a violin, but it kind of goes off the rails into a bombastic action piece quickly. Would have been nice if they had stuck with the basic tempo and just modified it heavily into a full track based on the same theme. But it's hard to match THIS moment with this music - the foreboding of what is to come.
One of my favorite tracks of FF7, of anything ever! I just stuck around there for a while because of it. It's funny how games can make you feel and when I reached that part it made me feel sad, lonely and in awe. As if it was something real, remnants of a bygone civilization.
I havent replayed this game in about 20 years, saw the thumbail and title and honestly had no idea what track youre talking about. As soon as I played the video and the music kicked in I had literal goosebumps and I'm back to '98. The music for this game is just something else.
I think I got FF7 when it came out in UK in '97 and it blew my mind. To this very day it remains the single most important game I've played from my entire life and that includes other FF games and other triple A's like Skyrim
Since 97’ I’ve loved FF7 and I replayed it countless times. But something never made sense to me. WHY did I love it so much? And as I grew older and older I realized it was simply the soundtrack to this game. The music this game has and the absolute magic it holds is truly something I hold near and dear to my heart. Some tracks have the ability to make me cry - some bring back memories of my childhood, some sound like the music itself is actually crying. It’s truly incredible and the only other game ever that had an effect like this- although nowhere NEAR as strong is Earthbound for the SNES aka Mother II
I don't know man, Earthbound worked its way into people's memories in a strange way. Years after playing it, I can recall obscure details in the story. Maybe it's down to what affected us at a critical age more
As a kid, I had save files on my PS1 memory card that had my favorite music, and I would load those files, walk into that area, and do homework or study to those tracks.
This is one of the moments I'm looking forward to the most in FFVIIR. The moment this music is going to play I'm going to shit my pants I don't make the rules. Also "In Search Of The Man In Black."
Except all the gravity of the moment will be vaporized by Kingdom Hearts invading the game and the stupid fucking "It's time travel and this is actually a sequel instead of a remake" will make the song have no depth or substance.. Remake sucks, boycott it.
@@sasquatchredbeard9385 no thanks I love it so far and Rebirth seems even better. Can't say if I enjoy the fact that Zack is still alive just yet though. It depends what they will do with him.
You do realize that 90% of remake was faithful to the original or just expanded on the story (think chapter four with Jessie or the wall market chapter adding additional content and characters). The other 10%, whether I agree or don’t agree with, didn’t break the game for me. The people making this game (who, mind you, are a lot of the original people who worked on and created the original ffvii) even said they aren’t going to change the overall narrative of the main story in rebirth. Which, I guess we’ll see what happens but that was what was said in an interview with Kitase. I can’t imagine boycotting a game made by the original people who made the original game. I’m down for the ride bc if the same people who made this game in 97 want to tell another story with the characters they created, I’m here for it. If you’re not, then play OG ffvii, no one’s stopping you 😂
One of my fav songs of FF7. This is what “I have a bad feeling about this” sounds like. It captivated me in the OG and now during Rebirth it hits like a full speed train. Once you hear it…. You know it’s coming. Thank you Uematsu!!!!
Thank you, RUclips, for putting this on my recommendations. This brought back memories of how I felt the first time I heard the music back when it came out
I felt the same exact way when I was 9, when 7 seconds until the end happened, and just a few weeks ago with cloud and Sephiroth floating thru the edge of creation
FF7 has arguably one of the best gaming soundtracks of all time. Everything has its own unique theme and can draw out a myriad of emotions. This song feels so alien and does so well to put you in a place that draws out both mystery and anxiety.
I legit got chills watching this. Because I felt this same way when I first heard this when I was young. Really nice seeing someone else’s reaction to this song. I appreciate this. 🔥🔥🔥
I just came to your video randomly, and immediatly hear my favorite tracks from all final fantasy games. Well done ;) Et merci à Nobuo Uematsu. A french FF lover.
There will never be a better soundtrack made for a game of generation that will even come close to this one. Cries of the Planet is the best of the entire Century in terms of anything that will be heard for a very long time.
I am literally so pumped you are getting story plus the music. This is one of the few franchises that have the soundtrack and the story hold hands and walk the same path.
I hope they really pull out all the stops for this area in Rebirth. It's gorgeous and interesting in the OG, but you don't really get to explore much of it.
Literally saying what I want, I generally do hope when we get to the Forgotten City we get to explore every bit of it. It's my most anticipated area to visit in the game, for both exploration purposes and to see where the story will go.
This and Ruined World from Chrono trigger create a great sense of apprehension like something bad happened here and you are witnessing the aftermath long after the even occurred.
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Many times, friend - many times.
There is at least one moment, where I don't think I've ever heard anyone say they didn't have an emotional impact moment. You'll know it when you get there.
Just a hint: FFIX has the best OST of them all. From the single player main series, that is. Better than VI, VII, VIII, X, XII, and XV.
@@CrazyCircles1 opinion
Yeah. FFIX musics are amazing
Nobuo Uematsu will never die. He will simply become his music.
That's a very poetic way to look at the life and death of a composer.
That's deep. His music really does touch this special place that feels like it is "beyond life, beyond death".
In an interview, he once said that sometimes (or most of the times, can't remember which) he feels that the music he's writing comes from another world to him.
Thinking about him dy!ng makes me depressed. He is truly a legend
Nobuo Uematsu is a master when it comes evoking deep emotion from fairly simple melodies in hindsight.
Me at the age of 14 in 1998. FF7 has been with me almost my entire life.
Same. This is one of my favorite tracks as well. It really made me feel like I stumbled upon the Cetra’s stomping grounds. Almost like in FFVI when you first see the Esper World. 😎
FFVII was so ahead of its time. So good. Might be due another playthrough now with the a.i upscaled textures. Yum
I was 8 in 1998 dang
Being able to experience ffvii in your youth must have been incredible
Me in 2006 age 7 💯
"You Can Hear the Cry of the Planet"
One of my favorite tracks from the game.
Same ! So beautifull
One of my favorite tracks all time
That first 2 chords of the choir intro are so good. Uematsu killed this soundtrack.
*ever
What the f. I played this game three times all the years back than. I loved the music of this game. But somehow i totaly missed this track. Thank you youtube algorithm.
I remember as a kid, walking into the city of the ancients. Hearing this is when you knew- things weren’t going to go well.
That feeling was in the replays too. You'd do so much before getting to this part, that happy overworld song is playing, and then you went into that mushroom structure... that synth starts playing and you immediately remember that you're about to relive a nightmare.
Cloud gave it up that day......😢
and yet you simply STILL weren't prepared what happens next..
she will never laugh..smile...cry...again
This. Its so hauntingly beautiful. Yet tragic. As you say, even without knowing, you felt that things wernt going to end well.
The perfect "Something is going to happen/I have a very bad feeling about this" song.
I have the very same feeling for the Ifa Tree's theme from FFIX. It' just scare the shit out of me when I was young.
No , it sounds like a sacredness and purity.
@@saurabhkanhere7033 To me it sounds like that as well with a heavy sense of foreshadowing.
@@saurabhkanhere7033 To me it sounds like something that was sacred or revered a loooong time ago and has now been forgotten. And it might have been revered out of fear instead of worship. Altogether there is something oppressively silencing in the sound, ominous vestiges of authority still hanging in the air.
Btw. is there a way to watch his playthrough of ff VII? This song is an introduction to having quite a bad time after all and I'd like to commiserate.
@@adahnliegl740 i like when people use words I never heard before what is comiscurate sounds cool
The Lost City of the Ancients. There was such an uncomfortable feeling to that place, like we weren't supposed to be there, the music just heightened those feelings
This is a great description
Great description, I really like it =)
Agreed
I have always loved this song for how unnervingly ominous and somewhat saddening it was
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That is a great description
I mean those chosen by the planet hits me even harder.
Everything in final fantasy 7 is sad
It fits the theme of the lost temple perfectly. Mysterious, otherworldly and melancholy.
I respect when people pause the game to listen to Soundtrack. Have my respect man!
You might like the channel then lol
Nobuo Uematsu is a master music writer. There are quite a few gems in his collection. He's been called the Mozart of our time.
The John Williams of Video Games.
stop sucking Nobuo's dck man.
Nobuo WAS amazing but thats like 15-20 years ago.. he hasnt made great stuff in ages.
the last great Nobuo stuff was like in ff10 and thats 22 years ago
@@heyjeySigma and I suppose you could do better? Lol, trolls
FOH
Uematsu-san is the best imo…
I love that the instant he heard the first couple notes he hits the menu button 😂
It is so crazy to me how FF7 still holds up and gives newcomers these magic moments. Such a masterpiece of a game. And for me the best a of all time. Would love to see a better one but so far there is nothing close in sight.
It's the sign of a true classic, a massive point of pride for the artistic vision and direction of the team to make something so old so resonant.
Played it for the first time this past summer. Lived up to, maybe even exceeded, the hype and expectations I had for it
Was the exact perfect game at the exact right time for me. It took me a while to come to terms with it, but nothing will ever top this game for me, even one I have to admit is objectively better.
TL; DR : Don't be like me and don't stop yourself from playing a game because people seems to overhype it. It's stupid and stops you from enjoying video games in general.
So I grew up with FF8 and 9, always thought FF7 was overhyped without actually having played it. Until 2 years ago, I was 26 and decided to properly play every single FF entry in the series. I made my way up to the end of 6 and then I was like *sigh, here we go for the BESS GAME EVER MADE DUUUH*.
Boy. Was I wrong. It made me actually realize how intellectually and spiritually closed we can be sometimes. I seriously understood something I was missing back then. And the first time I realized that was when I reached this place and put down my controller for 10min straight. I was so happy to be proven wrong, it fact I think it even had a bigger impact overall. This game is a legit masterpiece.
It sounds silly saying this today, maybe it is, but from this day on I stopped being a part of the "don't join the hype" team. Yes sometimes it is the case (hype on games that aren't out yet, Cyberpunk cough cough), but I'm pretty sure I missed out on a ton of stuff back then because of this stupid mentality.
It's still not my favorite FF in the series, but it's a pretty S tier one for sure. And I'm now on the overhype side, except this time, I don't find it overhyped at all. It deserves its praise. By a lot.
I'm honestly just happy that and other games like it (in terms of giving people magical experiences) exist at all. I'll always remember my first. (Wario Land 4)
Chills and goosebumps. Every. Single. Time.
right there with you
fuckin same!
This music hits you where no emotion is in your soul. Our minds don’t know how to react to it. Perfect, yet completely imperfect, inspiring but also draining.
I am 39 years old. I've played countless games whose music I've forgotten. I was 12 when I discovered FFVII. I've never been able to forget that game's soundtrack
I feel you dude. Turning 39 this year, playing Rebirth that gives me goosebumps (I never expected to hear a song from Advent Children in Rebirth and Cosmo Canyon theme brought me tears of joy/nostalgia) and also playing FF7 with full mods from Tsunamod Team. This game will always have a special place in my heart, like Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana.
37 mine was Legend of
Dragoon!!
I'm also part of the turning 39 in less than a year club and first experienced this at either 12 or 13 and this song was so impactful that I also just stopped to appreciate it and made it a point to find a downloadable version on either Napster or Limewire and burned it onto a CD-R so I could listen to it any time I wanted which I still do to this day! Without a doubt still in my top 10 games of all time.
Im also 39 and couldnt wait to get home from school to play this. Man the remakes are so good also
I am now 37. When I was 12 my mother got me ff7 for our ps1. It was my first 3d rpg. It was a very special experience.
FF7 has one of the best OSTs in videogame for me. It 100% fits the mood and feel of the entire game.
Unfortunately these days, they make 100s of tracks and just randomly use them for stuff :(
Glad to see this clipped because for me entering the forgotten city for the first time really was a "moment" on par with some of the iconic scenes of the game, especially because this has to be the most underrated track in FF7. Such a mix of feelings - it's foreboding, mysterious, somber, fills you with determination, and yet feels so alien (definitely because of the synth). It's so fitting for both this area and what happens there - the remains of a mysterious ancient civilization that represents another way of life, almost wiped out by a monstrous alien life form, its people then trying and failing to survive in a modern industrial world that uses them only for their powers. You arrive to the place that holds the history of these people just in time to witness the unholy marriage of that alien calamity and those unethical experiments emotionlessly eradicate their last member. It's like you're witnessing their entire history from beginning to end, and this music captures it so chillingly well.
This is a great comment, thank you.
@@HydefHyde agree 100%. such an underrated comment.
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To me Uematsu is the second greatest living composer perhaps behind John Williams only. His music always kept me remembering games decades past of me playing them.
I think the live symphonic versions of his songs showcase this well. If your music both works in a max of a handful of channels but you can also manage to write idiomatically and elegantly for orchestra, you're definitely up there.
Hans Zimmer exists.
Joe Hisaishi is amazing too (he does the music to a bunch of Ghibli movies, and more)
@@ItsSVO Hans Zimmer doesn't have the same level of orchestral competence as Williams or similar. His strength is production and experimenting with arranging, and finding interesting textures and palettes. His music is most often simple in essence. Hisaishi plays piano while conducting, he's fantastic.
@@RohannvanRensburgI see the “simple” argument used against zimmer constantly and it’s possibly the worst argument somebody can use. Something being complex doesn’t make it better, especially when music is about eliciting an emotional response. This is why some of the best musicians and singers in the world can’t read music and are self taught, because we consume music via our ears. There’s a reason Hans Zimmer is so world renowned and songs iconic and so memorable on their own.
Nobuo Uematsu’s Final Fantasy soundtracks are among the greatest in video game history. They’re all amazing.
i dont think anything tops it
THIS track
Makes me anxious in a beautiful kind of way. I Also love “reunion”, it’s creepy and melancholy at the same time. This entire soundtrack is peak video game ost
Listen to the Cries of the Planet always gives me goosebumps because of how awesome the music is and how it reminds me THAT SCENE is coming!
Simply the Maestro Nobuo Uematsu ❤
This track just hits different. It gives an instant sense of a foreboding nature. Love it.
Music in the old FF games is one of the reasons why they were such great games
You Can Hear The Cry of the Planet (I'm pretty sure?)
This tune is so iconic. Beautiful and ominous.
I was listening to this same track about a week ago in the car. When this song came on,
even my dad who was with me listened in silence while we were driving down a road with
misty hills and mountains on both sides. Perfect timing too, because it fit the mysterious looking scenery so well!
I played this game for the first time recently and while the graphics obviously haven aged well all that is completely forgotten once I got into the story and heard the music. I could totally see myself as a kid being blown away by this and even now as an adult I could tell how impressive this was for the time and how they were going for something cinematic in 1997.
Yup, that was my same reaction when I first got there back in 1997. Just... holy shit. The atmosphere that track is carrying is incredible.
Even before you find out what happened to the Cetra this place feels not just abandoned but completely dead. The music has an air of tragedy and loss with a bit of mystery and mysticism.
I remember the first time I got here back in 97, I did the same thing, stopped and listened. The longer I listened the more I had this deep seated feeling that something horrible was going to happen but I had no idea that feeling of foreboding was going to end the way it did... first time I cried like a bitch at a video game and I'm not even ashamed to admit it. This music set the stage perfectly and will always be one of my favourite pieces of gaming music. chills every time.
Hearing many of these classic (and epic) tunes reminds me of my childhood. Such memorable (and simpler) times, dial-up be damned.
My all time favourite game. This song never fails to give me goosebumps
I love the tonal shift of going from the open world theme, to the City of the Ancients theme. It's so in your face
Cit of the Ancients is one of those powerful places where the area itself oozes something. The music and empty structures definitely help.
This music just FILLS me with dread. When I first heard it back in 1997, I got such an ominous feeling in my gut that something terrible was coming. Anytime I hear it now, I just get chills and sick feeling. But yeah, this is "Forgotten Capital"
HAHAHAHA. I can't tell you how much pleasure it gives me to watch someone hear this amazing track for the first time!
There's an ambient sorrow or gravitas in the melodies of games from that era that just doesn't often feel present nowadays in game music, or in popular music either for that matter. MechWarrior 2's music is my go-to for that sort of genre, but there's piles of examples from that time, and it's amazing.
Playing this game in the 90s felt like traveling through time and space
I love that 25 years after I did exactly what you just did when this song came on for the first time, i get to see that it still hits that hard to new players!
When the newer version of this started playing in Rebirth, I genuinely lost my mind. It was unlike anything I'd ever heard, and in the context of the scene itself this track was just. so freakin good
This track, and the Forgotten Capital are beautiful.
FF7’s 4 disc OST back in 1997 was like gold for soundtrack enthusiasts like ourselves! So many varying styles found in this classic blockbuster JRPG title!
If you listen closely, the progression at 1:16 is repeated in "Jenova absolute". This OST is eternal.
Good ear! Decades later and I’m still learning new stuff about FFVII 🥳
Holy shit
I don't hear it.
Son of a Mysidian...
@@CarotideEtude me either
Even hearing this now i get chills, knowing what this particular music represents as far as what's coming. I still remember the very first time i played this game, not knowing anything about what was coming, even then i felt uneasy here because this music is so ominous and impressive.
Best theme of the game for me, it was indeed LIGHT YEARS ahead of other old jrpg themes of that era in terms of sheer composition and upon first hearing it I was absolutely floored. Thousands of years of Ancients lore and pure emotion seep out of that utterly brutal, heartbreaking and painful song it’s unreal. Uematsu is just, may I say, otherworldly superhuman for stirring our hearts with his music and other such contributions to the video gaming art form.
I’m glad this came up on my feed. Goosebumps with you!
I love seeing Nobuo Uematsu's work do this to people, it will NEVER get old.
Happens a lot on this channel lol
@@JessesAuditorium How do you feel about the music in the Observatory tho?!
I remember stopping to listen to music in jrpgs even back on the SNES. Especially when stepping out onto the world map, including doing it multiple times during the game if the overworld theme changes.
When a grown ass man so many years after release has this reaction you know the music is special
This was one of my favorite tracks in the game that always stuck with me. I'd frequently jive to it just like this when I got there.
It's a banger, can't wait to hear it in the remake
Was in the remake already actually. Near the very end.
@@Juan-Dering First part of the remake version is pretty good, I think with a violin, but it kind of goes off the rails into a bombastic action piece quickly. Would have been nice if they had stuck with the basic tempo and just modified it heavily into a full track based on the same theme. But it's hard to match THIS moment with this music - the foreboding of what is to come.
And who knows, maybe in 2023 Rebirth or if they go beyond Midgar it will have it.
This was in the first remake. At the very end? Or have u not played ff7 remake yet
you can hear some of it in the "seven seconds till end" scene at the end of remake.
One of my favorite tracks of FF7, of anything ever! I just stuck around there for a while because of it.
It's funny how games can make you feel and when I reached that part it made me feel sad, lonely and in awe.
As if it was something real, remnants of a bygone civilization.
I havent replayed this game in about 20 years, saw the thumbail and title and honestly had no idea what track youre talking about. As soon as I played the video and the music kicked in I had literal goosebumps and I'm back to '98. The music for this game is just something else.
"Seven seconds till the end. But what will you do with it? _Let's see.._ "
_-Sephiroth, 2020_
FFVII and FFT have some of the best composition soundtracks I ever heard.
I think I got FF7 when it came out in UK in '97 and it blew my mind. To this very day it remains the single most important game I've played from my entire life and that includes other FF games and other triple A's like Skyrim
I remember my first time in there. I stopped running and explored the entire thing by walking when I began to hear the music
History teacher: "And this is what's called the Uematsu effect."
This soundtrack makes you really feel the heaviness of what’s going on…Very atmospheric music.
I regularly throw on the ff7 ost to do things around the house or when I'm in the car! This track is so eerie, but beautiful!
Every track from this game still gives me goosebumps 30 years later
ES BRUTAL ^^
love that doom bell sound, Uematsu is insane for what he did with such little tech
I love how memorable each song is and all the memories that come with them 💖
I had this music in my head for the past couple of days and seeing this video on my recommend feed genuinely scared me
Since 97’ I’ve loved FF7 and I replayed it countless times. But something never made sense to me. WHY did I love it so much? And as I grew older and older I realized it was simply the soundtrack to this game. The music this game has and the absolute magic it holds is truly something I hold near and dear to my heart. Some tracks have the ability to make me cry - some bring back memories of my childhood, some sound like the music itself is actually crying. It’s truly incredible and the only other game ever that had an effect like this- although nowhere NEAR as strong is Earthbound for the SNES aka Mother II
I don't know man, Earthbound worked its way into people's memories in a strange way. Years after playing it, I can recall obscure details in the story. Maybe it's down to what affected us at a critical age more
This one and ‘dear to the heart’ - the bgm that plays on the (pun intended) train tracks of Junon.
As a kid, I had save files on my PS1 memory card that had my favorite music, and I would load those files, walk into that area, and do homework or study to those tracks.
One of my favourite tracks from FF7. It’s just so foreboding and hits you with dread whenever you hear it.
and this is why 7 is a fucking legendary game, so many nostalgic memory's for me from this game.
This is one of the moments I'm looking forward to the most in FFVIIR. The moment this music is going to play I'm going to shit my pants I don't make the rules. Also "In Search Of The Man In Black."
We’re not too far away friend!!!!
Except all the gravity of the moment will be vaporized by Kingdom Hearts invading the game and the stupid fucking "It's time travel and this is actually a sequel instead of a remake" will make the song have no depth or substance.. Remake sucks, boycott it.
@@sasquatchredbeard9385 no thanks I love it so far and Rebirth seems even better. Can't say if I enjoy the fact that Zack is still alive just yet though. It depends what they will do with him.
You do realize that 90% of remake was faithful to the original or just expanded on the story (think chapter four with Jessie or the wall market chapter adding additional content and characters). The other 10%, whether I agree or don’t agree with, didn’t break the game for me. The people making this game (who, mind you, are a lot of the original people who worked on and created the original ffvii) even said they aren’t going to change the overall narrative of the main story in rebirth. Which, I guess we’ll see what happens but that was what was said in an interview with Kitase. I can’t imagine boycotting a game made by the original people who made the original game. I’m down for the ride bc if the same people who made this game in 97 want to tell another story with the characters they created, I’m here for it. If you’re not, then play OG ffvii, no one’s stopping you 😂
One of my fav songs of FF7. This is what “I have a bad feeling about this” sounds like. It captivated me in the OG and now during Rebirth it hits like a full speed train. Once you hear it…. You know it’s coming. Thank you Uematsu!!!!
Thank you, RUclips, for putting this on my recommendations. This brought back memories of how I felt the first time I heard the music back when it came out
Happy that this is one of your most popular videos.
Still hard after all these years. This was def a very underrated track and one of my favorites of all time
I felt the same exact way when I was 9, when 7 seconds until the end happened, and just a few weeks ago with cloud and Sephiroth floating thru the edge of creation
YEAH. I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH. i am playing rebirth right now and i am afraid that they butchered it in the reimagination. i will see....
Started my FIRST playthrough yesterday. Couldn’t be more excited
FF7 has arguably one of the best gaming soundtracks of all time. Everything has its own unique theme and can draw out a myriad of emotions. This song feels so alien and does so well to put you in a place that draws out both mystery and anxiety.
This has been my favorite ff7 track for 25 years. And the whole soundtrack is a masterpiece.
best song of the whole ost and I think this is the only video I've seen confirming it lmao so good dude
I legit got chills watching this. Because I felt this same way when I first heard this when I was young. Really nice seeing someone else’s reaction to this song. I appreciate this. 🔥🔥🔥
Of all the amazing and incredible soundtracks of Final Fantasy VII, this, will always be my favorite.
This song is the universe crying out to us humans to save it before it's too late.
Such a haunting a foreboding track. One of my favorites 🙂.
I just came to your video randomly, and immediatly hear my favorite tracks from all final fantasy games. Well done ;)
Et merci à Nobuo Uematsu.
A french FF lover.
OG FF7 is a timeless masterpiece. I kinda wish they would have made a true 1:1 copy. Even though I love Remake and Rebirth.
A true timeless masterpiece doesn’t need a 1:1 copy, otherwise the original would have be come obsolete. It’s good that they are different.
Look at his Ron Swanson approval face when he adjusts the settings volume haha
bruh, everytime this song hits, i turn into one giant goosebump. gaaaaahd damn. and it really does catch you off guard the first time it hits.
Every single time I replay the original, I find myself sitting just inside that zone for the ambience :)
There will never be a better soundtrack made for a game of generation that will even come close to this one. Cries of the Planet is the best of the entire Century in terms of anything that will be heard for a very long time.
Great track. I also felt like this when I heard Compression of Time in FFVIII when you travel to the future
this was my favorite part of your walkthrough haha
This track was always a banger for me, since i was 13 on christmas 97. This song is supposed to embody the cries of the planet and it slaps
one of the best kept secrets in ff7 tbh
How is it a "best kept secret"? You literally have to go there to continue the game, moron.
@@mtn9272 it's a secret in the same vein as number 7 in xenoblade 1. everyone gets there but no one talks about it.
asshole
Me as a teenager in 2000. I've been charmed by Mr. Uematsu's music since then.
This is just that moment. 7's OST sets the tone so damn well. God peak
It’s an absolute BANGER the city of ancients song! Just hearing this actually makes me so keen to do another play through (for the 100th time)
I am literally so pumped you are getting story plus the music. This is one of the few franchises that have the soundtrack and the story hold hands and walk the same path.
Coolest video i've seen today ! This song is so hypnotizing ! One of my fav from the soundtrack. Such a mystical place ✨️
I hope they really pull out all the stops for this area in Rebirth.
It's gorgeous and interesting in the OG, but you don't really get to explore much of it.
Literally saying what I want, I generally do hope when we get to the Forgotten City we get to explore every bit of it. It's my most anticipated area to visit in the game, for both exploration purposes and to see where the story will go.
I suspect we won't be getting this part of the game in the remake.
@@flamerollerx01 Really? I think this will essentially be the end area of Rebirth. Perfect narrative time for it.
You’re gonna be disappointed in Rebirth then
This and Ruined World from Chrono trigger create a great sense of apprehension like something bad happened here and you are witnessing the aftermath long after the even occurred.
City of ancient bgm haunted me for over 20 years