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i wish they'd make an FF6 anime but when they'd get to the opera house they dedicate an entire episode to the draco and maria opera and instead of being accurate to the game it's the full uncut version of the song complete with narration with little to no cutaways like the show completely stops dead in it's tracks for that one singular episode and becomes a full adaption of the opera
I’ll never not ask this: why couldn’t Celes join in the fight? Ostensibly because she needed to stay in character as Maria. But c’mon.
This is Dissidia’s hidden “promise scene” hint~
GIF #1 shows the actual dialog of the “promise scene”. GIF #2 shows the very beginning of Terra’s story where she stares at the stars. GIF #3 shows the end where the camera pans up towards the stars.
What’s weird about this is that, although Cloud appears later on, this is the very beginning of Terra’s story.
There is nothing in this scene that makes mention of any stars, nor are stars important in FF6 excluding probably what is written in the FF6 Opera...
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English (SNES):
“I’m the darkness, you’re the stars. Our love is brighter than the sun.” “Must I forget you? Our solemn promise?
Japanese:
“That star falling in the sky...I think is you. That unwanted vow, shall I exchange it?”
Italian:
“In times of sadness, in times of pain, I think of you, my star.”
French:
“He is the star that shines from afar, In the endless darkness. Day and night, I think of no other than him, of my morning star...”
German:
“In hopeless, dark hours, I glance at the heavens. The star that stands there, shines and never fades. It's your heartwarming gaze.”
Spanish:
“Renewing promises.”
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I guess it connects to how the beginning of the original FF7 is just...stars. It’s easy to realize that Cloud was cut from FF6, but it’s not so easy to know what the story would have been if he was kept in (or even his old name for that matter).
If you want to know more, check the scenes with Leslie in the FF7 Remake. Oh, and this song.
~Translations can be found here~
A Stage Reborn OST - The Story of Maria & Draco (Trailer)
Even though Wanderer’s been mostly offline due to the inability to reliably run games (namely, FFXIV Stormblood,) he has not ceased working.
Please enjoy this piece of original FF-inspired music made by A Stage Reborn that you will hear featured later on in our trailer for The Story of Maria & Draco coming live this fall on Final Fantasy XIV! (Still working on the music for the 2017 events part II trailer.)
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Some Celes Sprite Redraws
It occurred to me that I have a lot of Opera themed stuff. This was the first time I put everything together in one photo. I'M NOT OBSESSED These items are all available right now in my Such Good Birds Etsy shop. And starting in late Nov 2021, I'll move all my FF6 items over to the new etsy shop, The Phoenix Cave.
FF7′s Mysterious Tree
In FF7 when one first enters the Corel Mountains there is a strange tree and the shining sun before reaching the mako reactor. The song “Holding My Thoughts In My Heart” plays here and seems to reach a high point when Cloud reaches the tree. Once Cloud leaves this area and finds the mako reactor, the music and mood change drastically.
My gut tells me there is some connection to this tree and sun to Crono’s resurrection (”return”) in Chrono Trigger.
The tree in Chrono Trigger is also on a cliff and has a sun shining on it from above. Before Crono gets resurrected a solar eclipse happens and the tree lights up almost as if it has lights wrapped around it.
In Before Crisis there is a lit tree, and a person there gives a description as to why it’s lit.
“The theme of this year’s display is “Undying Love”. Every one of these lights represents someone’s love for another on the Planet. As well as the wish for both that love and the Planet to last forever.”
This dialog in Before Crisis happens a chapter after the main character meets Cloud. In this chapter Rude is given a love story with a character named Chelsea.
It’s notable then that instead of something nice for Cloud to see after passing the tree, the music immediately changes to Mako Reactor music, completely derailing the moment. Mako reactors don’t make the planet last forever! It makes it seem like FF7 is Cloud’s purgatory...if that’s the symbol they’re trying to allude to.
This story in Chrono Trigger is like the resolution for the FF6 Opera after Maria waited endlessly for Draco to return, or the end of Loveless where the guy goes away for a long time and returns, finding the woman waiting for him.
“Of course...I’ll come back to you even if you don’t promise to wait. I’ll return knowing you’ll be here.” - Cid recalling the end of Loveless at the end of FF7
“Come what may, I won’t age a day. I’ll wait for you, always...” - FF6 Opera, English SNES version
I had always, ALWAYS felt that there was something to this moment in FF7. It just felt too emotionally charged for just being “a place where the main character climbs a steep surface”.
"We...we were all waiting for you to come back. You can't...don't ever leave us like that again!” - Marle
Isn’t it strange how the scene in Chrono Trigger is presented? Crono died, yet it’s more like he “just left and then returned”. I’m pretty certain this is another veiled FF6 Opera moment (it’s not only FF8 that got these).
Here is the scene from Chrono Trigger.
You should take a look at the translations of the FF6 Opera, especially if you’re interested in the FF7 Remake.
The wind blowing sound you hear from this Chrono Trigger scene is used in FF7. When FF7 was in development for 2-3 months on SNES, development shifted to Chrono Trigger, and it got FF7′s SNES assets. Marle and Mireille from the FF7 Remake are old woman representations of Marle and Lucca (obviously, they’re there for a reason).
Spent the other day doing product photography. Finished with a very messy workspace. I don't always pull out a bunch of products and look at them all together. I thought it was kind of a pretty mess though, with the flowers and shiny things and all.
