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I guess this is just a hard piece to get right. They did use some kind of tools to replicate those industrial clangs, but the arrangement felt too fast and chaotic.
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Was really looking forward to Devil's Lab, which is one of my all-time favorite Uematsu songs (WHY do the Theatrhythm games keep ignoring this track!?), but it was underwhelming and disappointing. Also, the horns screwed up quite a few times, which was a running theme of the entire concert I'm afraid. Which is: absolutely wonderful, but still something I've already heard performed by an orchestra numerous times before. The entire Opera scene (from "Overture" to "Grand Finale?") was. Slam Shuffle was interesting because they used some kind of object to simulate the sound of rain (it looked like a cardboard tube filled with what sounded like sand or something granular in any case), which was a nice touch, but it got drowned out as soon as the instruments kicked in. Mystic Forest + Mystery Train combo is an obvious combo I guess, but it worked and it was wonderful. Seriously ALL of them were really well done, with some of my top favorites being Kefka, Cayenne, Gogo (believe it or not), and best of all Shadow, which was a delightfully minimalist piece using only a handful of instruments. ALL character themes were highlights of the show. The first two performances: Opening Theme (fortunately the venue had a massive pipe organ) + Tina, and Awakening + Colliery Nalsh were beautiful, but also slightly disappointing because of the harpist dropping way too many notes. I won't go into too much detail regarding each song, but here are some of my thoughts: Bad to introduce some of the main performers, which was quite nice. The prelude was actually used for the encore (good choice, as it is the final song on the album ((despite it being a damn PRELUDE))), and there was a short pre-concert performance of Johnny C.
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It was a pretty big venue (I'd actually been here before for a Dragon Quest IX concert) with around 1800 seats and most of the seats were filled.įrom what I could tell, most people were gamers/actual fans of the game as well, and not just people who had dropped in for a free concert (although I'm sure there were a few of those as well), and it was just nice to know that so many people came together to listen to a 3-hour performance of a 20-year-old video gameĪs you can see (if you bothered to count), only 59 of the 61 songs are on this play list.
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Here's a pic of the venue (sorry for the crappy iPhone quality):
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The fact that this was an amateur orchestra turned out to be pretty noticeable, as expected, but the overall performance was great and it was just, you know, a dream come true to hear the full FFVI soundtrack performed by an orchestra. I went with a couple of friends and we all came out with the same opinion: amazing show, despite obvious (and fairly numerous) slip-ups.