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81) Final Fantasy X - To Zanarkand
Series rank: 6 of 7
https://youtu.be/h-0G_FI61a8
Composer: Nobuo Uematsu
Score: 8.4/10 (Excellent)
VGMC History: VGMC 1 (Lost R5 to Dream of a Shore Bordering Another World)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/h-0G_FI61a8?t=8

Finally (no pun intended), our first main series FF rep falls! Ahhhh what a dark piano sound! It really helps set the mood.. kind of a feeling of barrenness and longing. Great top line at 0:08-0:25! The feelings that the music activatesvery nice. Its a cool way to explore harmonically until we get back to the tonic at 0:25. The music then gets, regretfully, relatively generic for a bit (a nice minor 2nd rub in there), until 0:49 when the previous melody from the beginning re-emerges beautiful! At 1:15 we get a new beautiful melody with more harmonic stuff I like. Im liking the last chord, how it turns to major at the very last moment, as if the music is trying to say there is still one glimmer of hope! I feel a bit let down by the stereotypical FF-Prelude-ish bottom line movement (nothing against the FF Prelude itself) thats used all the time in B-grade new age piano music, but at least its not fatal. But, oh, MAN I LOVE HOW DARK THAT PIANO IS. (it probably gains almost a full point just because of that)

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