Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu has confirmed he'll be back with a main theme for the final part of the Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy.
13.03.2024 - 17:37 / gamesradar.com / Nobuo Uematsu / Naoki Hamaguchi / Hirun Cryer
Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu has revealed he struggled with composing Sephiroth's now-iconic theme tune, One Winged Angel.
In the conversation with NewsPicks on YouTube just below, Uematsu recalls how he struggled to compose One Winged Angel and could only ponder Sephiroth for weeks at a time. "One Winged Angel was a song that I struggled with, actually. Every morning, I would go to work and think about Sephiroth and write something, about three or four musical phrases. And then I'd call it a day," Uematsu says (via a translation by @aitaikimochi on Twitter).
"And then I'd repeat it the next day: go to the office in the morning, think about Sephiroth the entire time, and write some more music," Uematsu continues. "After two or three weeks, I had a lot of different musical phrases to choose from, and I was able to figure out how to piece it together, for example choosing which melodies came first and so on. It was really tough to write this song, but it was very fun," the composer adds.
The good news is that, after several weeks of struggling to piece the song together, One Winged Angel has since become an iconic track for the Final Fantasy series at large. Uematsu's theme song for Sephiroth has become synonymous with the character himself, and has even extended beyond the series itself, appearing as a powerful Keyblade in the Kingdom Hearts series.
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