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Consider purchasing the albums at the official store!: © SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All rights reserved. Chapters: 0:00 – Open Sky 3:10 - Bee My Honey 7:21 – Give It All 13:17 - Morrow's Might 17:45 - Bygone Serenity 21:26 - Starless Skyline 24:43 - It's Showtime 30:16 – Burning Souls 32:51 - Queen Eternal Theme 36:20 – Seeking Purpose 40:36 – Blade’s Exaltation 42:56 – The Skyruin 46:32 – Court Jesters (Dawntrail) 48:19 – Of Glittering Wings 50:56 - Ceruleum Smoke at High Noon 54:08 - Urqopacha (Night Theme) 56:47 – Yak T’el (Night Theme) 1:00:57 – A Trail Unending 1:06:27 - MSQ Event Theme #9 1:08:13 – Kozama’uka (Night Theme) 1:11:25 - Earthen Sky Hideout 1:13:35 - MSQ Theme #5 1:16:36 - Dawntrail The music for the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV was composed by Nobuo Uematsu, a regular contributor to the music of the Final Fantasy series. Several other composers including Masayoshi Soken and Naoshi Mizuta contributed music for updates to the game. The music for the game's reboot, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, and subsequent expansions, is compiled of a collection of original and remixed songs by numerous composers, namely Uematsu, Soken, as well as others including guest composers such as Okabe of the NIER series. Soken was the sound director for both releases of the game. Music from both releases of the game has been released in several albums. A pair of mini-albums containing a handful of selected tracks from XIV, Final Fantasy XIV: Battle Tracks and Final Fantasy XIV: Field Tracks, were released by Square Enix in 2010 when XIV first launched. A soundtrack album titled Final Fantasy XIV - Eorzean Frontiers, containing most of the music that had been released by that point for XIV, was digitally released in 2012. A final soundtrack album for the original release of the game, Before Meteor: Final Fantasy XIV Original Soundtrack, was released in 2013 just before the launch of A Realm Reborn, and contains all of the music that was composed for XIV throughout its lifetime. The latest soundtrack album, Shadowbringers: Final Fantasy XIV Original Soundtrack, was released in 2019. This album contains the music for the third expansion, Shadowbringers, and music from the previous expansion, Stormblood, that was added to the game via patches after the release of that expansion's soundtrack. The soundtracks for both releases of the game were well received by critics. Uematsu's mix of orchestral and rock tracks for XIV were praised, though the delayed release of a full album drew criticism. Soken's work on A Realm Reborn, including both his original tracks as well as themes carried over from XIV and previous Final Fantasy games, were heavily praised by reviewers for the game. Music from the initial release of the game has been played in the international Distant Worlds Final Fantasy concert series, and books of sheet music for piano arrangements of music from the game have been produced. The massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) Final Fantasy XIV was released in two versions: the original (live between 2010 and 2012), and its remake (Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, live since 2013). The music for XIV was composed by Nobuo Uematsu, who was the lead composer for the first ten main Final Fantasy games and a contributor to the Final Fantasy XI and XII soundtracks.[1] Over the two years that XIV was active, several updates were made to the game, which included additional music composed by Masayoshi Soken, Naoshi Mizuta, Tsuyoshi Sekito and Ryo Yamazaki.[2] XIV was poorly received, and despite the updates, Square Enix decided to take the game offline for a time, and relaunch it with a new development team under a new name.[3] Soken, the sound director for both releases, composed the soundtrack to A Realm Reborn.[4] Prior to agreeing to create XIV's score, Uematsu had already planned to compose “Kimi ga Iru Kara“, the theme song for Final Fantasy XIII. Wanting him to fully focus on XIV, Square Enix asked XIII's main composer Masashi Hamauzu to write the song instead. Thus, XIII was the first main-series Final Fantasy game soundtrack to not include Uematsu's work.[5]
