ReMix: Final Fantasy VI 'Ruined Skies'
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- Game: Final Fantasy VI (Square, 1994, SNES)
- ReMixer(s): Orkybash
- Composer(s): Nobuo Uematsu
- Song(s): 'Searching for Friends'
- Posted: 2002-08-24, evaluated by the judges
Some really interesting submissions lately, from established artists that are branching out in new directions or at the least being a bit riskier with their ReMixes - a great and needed thing, methinks. Not that there's anything wrong with producing a series of fantastic, high-quality mixes with a certain "consistency" about them, but there comes a time when injecting a little more experimentation is a good idea. While this mix sounds like Orky's others, to a certain extent, I'd have a hard time calling it that way if I didn't know ahead of time. It's not any single element that's changed, more the overall feel. Beginning with 80's saw-synth octaves, OB brings in a cool electro-acoustic drum pattern with all-important synth chirp hits adding a lot of motion and rhythmic intricacy. A very deep synth bass stays out of the way for the most part, but is appropriately menacing, whilst choir piano and a very muted, close sound (like a louder but muffled piano) takes a stab at the melody, followed by flute. At 2'27" there's a break + cello solo, with the bass doing double-hits on the choral chord changes underneath. Then, somewhat unexpectedly, electric guitar picks the main melody back up. Guitar is decent but not balls-to-the-walls, i.e. it's a *little* thin and lacking presence, but it only sticks around for a short while, after which we get a more extended break with ambient wind and a soft electric piano solo. At 6'07" we've got time for one more pick-up with the drums, and a "tricky" ending I enjoyed quite a bit. For some reason, this mix just feels a little different - it's not Orkybash's best work, but it's fresh and held my interest for six minutes, which is pretty dern respectable. Check it out.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the On the other hand, this ReMix is a perfect inversion: the same blend, but with the sorrowful part dominant. It just works, and this is one of my favourite OC ReMixes. I can find little to fault, and overall I love it. I agree in parts and fragments with some of the existing comments, but I lack the will to read every single one to see if I totally agree with any.
- Sorceror Nobody on July 21, 2009
Things were clicking pretty well until the piano, which seemed too dry and lonely up there. The supporting synth that came in next on the right side was kindof ugly, but the backing beats and synths held down the fort. The lead guitar sound was weak too.
Overall a great concept, with a really great arrangement, and mostly pulled off soundscape, but the leads needed a lot more care put into them with modulation and velocity. The backing track sounded alive, but the leads were totally dead sounding.
- OA on March 27, 2009
Still, its good, gothic, and ambient. One can pick out the tension underlying the mix. Bittersweetfully sorrowful yet purposeful.
I like this; there seems to be a lot going on here.
- 42 on January 26, 2009
talk over the situation or something like it, but when it all continues, it gets more seriouse, like they have decided to stop the madman and bring peace and love and creditscrolls to everybody.
That´s what I think anyway. Nice work orky! :mrgreen:
- Bummerdude on September 19, 2005
:nicework:
- redchlorine on June 7, 2005
One of the very few song's I've known was a favorite after only hearing it once.
Slow synthetic blend. Ruined Skies indeed.
--NeΩ
- NeOmega on January 14, 2005
- PancakeHero on October 7, 2004
It's pretty good, but I have three major complaints:
Alot of it sounds as though the notes and rhythms are in place but lacking emotional touches, leading most instruments to sound like a synth when they shouldn't. This is fine for the backbeat and bass, but an orchestra and such should not sound so processed. The piece sounds, except for the high quality of some samples, as though it could have come straight out of the game. Maybe that effect is intentional.
There isn't enough build-up before changes. We go through so many bars of [i]this[/i] and then move on to so many bars of [i]this[/i] with a very quick transition thrown in here and there. This aids in causing a repetitive feeling in the remix. This feeling may be purposeful considering a steady dance beat drives most of the song.
Some of the solo instruments, be it because of the synth-like sound or what is played is rather mundane, are not convincing. This is sort of a restating of point #1: the piece needs more emotion in instrumentation. The piano is especially boring.
Overall, the remix is a good piece that is definitely listenable. It just doesn't sound quite finished or engage the listener enough.
- scionick on July 18, 2004
And then there's the end,.. with that final note. I'm hangen', I really am! It feel like you've built up a great thing and then plopped it down in our laps! Great song, but I think a really strong ending would have suited it! Keep it up! ;)
- Kujila on November 23, 2003
And not by a little, by a lot.
Not that it was a bad track or anything, but after a few times through I found myself thinking "okay, now for the next track, an...okay theres more..."
Okay, personally...when you play it first time through on the piano, it...it SCREAMS to be grander. Maybe playing it on a lower octave as well or giving it some extra reverb or something...it sounds empty.
Second time round...
I quite enjoy the flute instrument used, also the distorted violin. They work pretty good and I'd rather the remix was much shorter and carried on these two, with backing by the electric guitar, which plays the third time round.
I love this guitar...it sounds a little...high I guess, at times anyways and could do with being lower.
The sine wave that plays on its own with the strings and backing synths I could have done without...and it doesnt get much better when the violin comes in and pretty much drowns it out.
And the ending!
¿What happened to the ending?
It would have been so much better if you'd have let that final piano note just ride out over few seconds instead of stopping dead.
Overall I like the piece though...I just think it could have been so much better.
- Eccles on July 1, 2003
it makes all the difference, trust me. your hardcore/progressive style is something to be admired and i respect the fact that you add it to FF music, Orkybash. the Mood of this song r0x0rz
pick up Orkybash’s Final Fantasy VII - Doomed World and Seiken Densetsu 3 - Few Paths Forbidden for more
- DeryckAK on March 21, 2003
- Landon on October 7, 2002
- orkybash on September 10, 2002
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