Final Fantasy IV: Official Soundtrack Music from Final Fantasy Chronicles [Soundtrack]

Nobuo Uematsu (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 26, 2002)
• Original Release Date: November 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Tokyopop Pictures
• ASIN: B00005NGZK
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #220,034 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Prelude

2. The Red Wings

3. Kingdom of Baron

4. Theme of Love

5. Prologue

6. Welcome to Our Town!

7. Main Theme of Final Fantasy IV

8. Battle 1

9. Fanfare

10. Enter Fat Chocobo!

11. Chocobo Chocobo

12. Into the Darkness

13. Battle 2

14. Bomb Ring

15. Rydia

16. Damcyan Castle

17. Sorrow and Loss

18. Edward's Harp

19. Mt. Ordeals

20. Faboul

See all 45 tracks on this disc

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Shame on Square! This should have beena double disc!, May 16, 2006

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E. J. Webster "postalblowfish7" (Matoya's Cave, Dayton, Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Final Fantasy IV: Official Soundtrack Music from Final Fantasy Chronicles (Audio CD)

First off let me say my one star rating has nothing to do with Nobuo Uematsu's BRILLIANT compositions. "Welcome To Our Town" and "Theme of Love" are classics that belong in any standard collection of uematsu's works. It's Square who screwed the pooch this ost, by cramming all 45 tracks on a single disc. What's wrong with that? The songs don't last nearly long enough, some are not even presented in their entirety! For example, the stunning "Welcome To Our Town" clocks in at a whopping 45 seconds! This song was made to loop at least 4 times before the listener tires of the melody, instead it plays once through and fade out.

Most insulting of all, however, is the butchery of the sacred "Prelude." As FFIV was the first Final Fantasy on the SNES, it was the first version of the classic "Prelude" to feature a new string part, that comes in after one regular rotation of the harp piece. This would have been a goose-bump rising shock to gamers used to the 8-bit harp only version. However, on this pathetic ost, the prelude quickly fades shortly after the strings come in - not just not looping it long enough, but not ever letting it go a single rotation before it decides to fade out! It's clear this CD was mixed by someone who a) didn't understand the music and b) didn't care about the music.

frankly it's worthless. i have a software player that can read sound data from SNES game files. you're much better off emulating the music than buying this piece of garbage. SHAME ON YOU SQUARE, SHAME.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Final Fantasy IV: Excellent OST, November 18, 2002

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Daniel Richards (Henderson, NV) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Final Fantasy IV: Official Soundtrack Music from Final Fantasy Chronicles (Audio CD)

Wonderful gameplay, enthralling story, and an amazing soundtrack. That's Final Fantasy IV. The music for this game is some of the best that's come from Nobuo Uematsu. That's quite a compliment, if you consider the SNES' less-than-spectacular sound output capabilities.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well, seems good to me!, September 22, 2001

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Kim Sanderhoff (Korea) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Final Fantasy IV: Official Soundtrack Music from Final Fantasy Chronicles (Audio CD)

I was not sure what I would think about this album at first, because this was the first time I bought a soundtrack before I actually played the game... and usually it means alot if you can relive the gaming experience through the music or not. But it turned out however that the music has good quality in it's own right. After listening to the music of FF 7 8 and 9 for ages it was nice to hear some new and fresh tunes. The music still sounds like gaming music to a certain degree but it sure as hell is good gaming music!

Of course there will always be tracks that you never ever listen too and these kind of tracks are also present in this cd collection... and at times it can be a little bit annoying that some af the tracks remind too much of eachoters...and the voices sound rather annoying too but still, the overall quality is still very good!

Seems that the power of the playstation 2 made it possible to use better instruments but the funny thing is that the length of the tracks seems to have shortened a little bit, why?!... the playstation 2 have plenty of space for long tunes...oh well!

The maintheme is japanese but sounds really beautiful, I can't wait until the english translation... and I'm sure that if you play the game first you will enjoy the music even more!

A great soundtrack but FF 8 is still my favorite!