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Discussion and play-along of classic games, with perspectives from both long-time fans and a brand new player.

Show is on twitter at @OGPlusCast.  Hosts are @HamletEJ, @healiocentric, and @Ghostcrawler.

Bumper audio from Balance and Ruin.  Header art from Lusipurr. Views expressed here are personal and do not represent Blizzard Entertainment or Riot Games.

Apr 24, 2017

Though we have completed the game at this point, we shift topics for one episode before our conclusion.  We have guest Nathaniel Chapman on to discuss the music of Final Fantasy 6 with us.  Topics include leitmotif, Final Fantasy battle music, the differences between NES- and SNES-era musical technology, and the game's climactic piece Dancing Mad.

In our next episode in two weeks, we will conclude our discussion on Final Fantasy 6 with Kefka's Tower and our overall thoughts on the game, and we will also announce our next game!

As always, you can keep up with any developments on our twitter.

 

Links relating to this episode:

Full FF6 OST, for reference

Bird singing Chocobo theme

Related to our discussion of Shadow's theme, the Balance and Ruin reinterpretation "A Fistful of Nickels"

Dancing Mad, OST version

Dancing Mad, Black Mages

Michelangelo's Pietà, and the composition of the third statue fight

Examples of Kefka sequence in SNES version, with elegant transitions between the four movements of Dancing Mad, and in Steam/iOS version, with abrupt cuts after every phase.

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