Then there’s Ai Yamashita, whose only other credited game album is Square Enix’s Hanjuku Hero 4 in 2005. The rest come from a multitude of composers, from Masayoshi Soken (who would go on to compose the entire score for A Realm Reborn and the Heavensward expansion), to Square Enix mainstays Ryo Yamazaki and Tsuyoshi Sekito. Like the Final Fantasy titles of yore, Before Meteor is largely composed by series regular Nobuo Uematsu, who’s responsible for 74 of these 104 tracks. If you have a nice TV and sound system, it’s the perfect thing to sit back, watch, and listen to. Not only do we get all the music on a single disc, but we also get a cool multimedia presentation alongside said music with interactive menus and concept artwork slideshows. Instead of building a massive multi-CD box or, worse, chopping down some tracks to fit on a smaller-capacity format, Square Enix took the uncompromising approach of the large capacity of Blu-ray. There’s not a whole lot of music shipping on Blu-ray, so if you’re curious as to why Square Enix has been using the format, I think it’s largely the 6+ hour length of the album. Because unlike the game these songs were attached to, the music shouldn’t be forgotten. It was a long time coming, and while the timing was odd (given that A Realm Reborn would feature largely new music), it’s great that the original music by Uematsu and Co. In August 2013, two weeks before Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn was set to launch, the album Before Meteor was released - a Blu-ray disc containing 104 tracks, comprising all the music from the 1.0 release of the game. This release approach was a little perplexing, as there was no talk of a complete album on the horizon.
They didn’t contain every song in the game, but there were 55 tracks across the Field Tracks, Battle Tracks, and Eorzean Frontiers albums. XIV’s musical history is just as interesting, since when FFXIV 1.0 launched in 2010, it brought multiple mini soundtracks with it. However, FFXIV was released in bad shape, enough so that the game was torn down and rebuilt into the success story it has become. Typically, you see a game released, often alongside a soundtrack, and that’s the end of the story. Nothing about Square Enix’s MMORPG has been by the books. I find everything about Final Fantasy XIV’s life and development fascinating. 03 – Navigator’s Glory – The Theme of Limsa LominsaĠ9 – Born of the Boughs – The Theme of Gridaniaġ5 – The Twin Faces of Fate – The Theme of Ul’dah
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