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Eyes on Final Fantasy

Ron M. Beisick | Calgary, AB, Canada | 03/03/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The past Final Fantasy games have brought tracks of music that easily took you to its place in the game, but none like the songs of Final Fantasy VIII. With its beautiful piano scores and wonderfully orchestrated versions of the game music, it can often bring you right into the mood of the scene. To listen to this piano collection of the Final Fantasy VIII tracks, and feel then as if really being in the unimaginable world of it all, makes it an amazing C-D sound track to listen too. If you liked the game, you will love this album!"

Wonderful

A. Fionda | UK | 11/18/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I loved the compositions from the game and I think Nobuo Uematsu is a great composer, fitting perfect music for perfect environments.

However, I could not abide the repetative synthesised instruments that accompanied the music on most occasions. I recently bought the original FF8, thinking they perhaps implemented real instruments..but no luck.

Then I saw this! Absolutely amazing... A single pianist plays 13 of the greatest FF8 tracks, with clever re-arrangements, you can listen to this, fully imersed in the Final Fantasy atmosphere. My highlight must be the card game theme, shuffle or boogie...an excellent take on the 12 bar blues. Anyway, yes, buy this! Also you get it in Japanese packaging...which is always good, for some bizarre reason the have a little plastic see-though sheath which the real case goes in...lovely."

Excellent arrangement of old favorites

Mark Lauer | Columbia, MO | 01/06/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Quite simply, this is some of the most relaxing piano music that I have heard in a long time. This cd takes music from the game that is related to love, exploration and ambience, and arranges it in piano form. No fast-paced battle music on this cd(which would be pretty hard to turn into piano anyway, so I'm not complaining). Some of my favorites are AMI(which includes the Balamb Garden theme), The Oath, Succession of Witches, and Find Your Way. All of them work very well as piano arrangements while still keeping the feel of the original. Every piece on this cd is good, though I question the descision that put a ragtime piece in as the last song. It just doesn't fit with the rest of the cd. And I don't think that the Triple Triad theme(Shuffle or Boogie) needed to be arranged(can we please all just pretend that the game never existed?).The game itself wasn't that great. But this cd is. A tad expensive, but if you like piano music, this is an excellent cd. Very good for playing while reading, doing homework, etc."