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Final Fantasy Music on iTunes

Posted by Zonk on from the japanese-love dept.

Final Fantasy Online Warcry has the news that iTunes is now carrying Final Fantasy scores and music from the Black Mages. Square Enix has a listing of all of their iTunes offerings, which includes music from FFI - FFXI, a live concert offering, and two albums by the Black Mages (Nobuo Uematsu's rock band).

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  1. cool by rritterson · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Final Fantasy VI (3 in the US) still rates as my favorite game of all time. No game before or since has actually caused me to dream about the characters.

    Even hearing the 30-second previews on iTunes brings back memories of that bastard kefka, that fucking octopus who always screwed things up and spending hours hoping I could keep general leo alive.

    My only complaint is that the versions for download are direct releases from the SNES cart. Why couldn't they orchestrate them instead of using the 8-bit sound system?

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  2. Rediculous pricing by inio · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is a great move, but the pricing scheme is ridiculous. For most of the games, you'd end up paying half of the game's original retail price just to get the soundtrack. That's unacceptable when you take into account that most of the music was written for and preformed by a Z80.

    1. Re:Rediculous pricing by 2nd+Post! · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Doesn't that imply that the music is worth approximately half the game's retail price?

      Perhaps to you the music is worth less than that, but to me (and others who have purchased game music) the soundtrack is worth MORE than the game, once you've played the game.

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    2. Re:Rediculous pricing by metalligoth · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It's a steal. The local Japanese store here in the Ann Arbor area sells some of these albums for $40. On iTunes they only want $25.

    3. Re:Rediculous pricing by Blondie-Wan · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Well, it's the same with movies, of course. A fairly typical movie DVD might sell at lots of outlets for about $20, and its soundtrack album CD might be anywhere from half to three quarters of that. I know of a number of movies for which the DVD of the movie is cheaper than the soundtrack CD.

  3. Not in Canada yet? by mh101 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So, when's this going to end up on the Canadian iTMS, I wonder?

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