WARNING! ENTRY CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR FINAL FANTASY IX. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Final Fantasy IX was released in July 7, 2000 in Japan as the final installment of the series on the original Play Station and in opinion of some - myself included - the best one of the series.

Returning to the classical fantasy themed feeling in contrast of previous two installments, this 4 Disc game is stuffed with shout-out and nostalgia

from series previous games, and yet manages to create it's own unique feeling. The part of this was of course thanks to game fantastic soundtrack. It was the last score made exclusively by Nobuo Uematsu - at last until Final Fantasy XIV came out. If you don't know who Mr. Nobuo is then remember his name, for he will be mentioned often in this blog.

Anyway, Uematsu ended up working over the music for almost a year - a rather long time compared too amount it took for FF IX two predecessors. But it's no wonder if total number of tracks in-game is staggering 140, some of them heard only once during the gameplay. Even more impressively, Uematsu accentually composed 160 tracks. The twenty of them however, wasn't included because of disc space restrictions.

Luckily enough, todays piece

Our score is played when our merry band in the purist of the answers and the main villain - Kuja - travels literally to the whole another world (no, not that one), starting Disc 3 final events. This slow, melancholic and yet mysterious melody accompanies the party and the players for short time on the over world map, around 15 minutes at best after which it isn't heard even again which is a shame. Still it's certainly memorable and it only adds to it's alien feeling.

Song: Terra

Game: Final Fantasy IX

Composer: Nobuo Uematsu

Included in the Original Soundtrack: Yes

Well that would be all for the first entry. Stay tuned for tomorrow, for some platforming fun!