LogFAQs > #979913057

disagree, I think it's great as a hiking track (the battle edit, while also good, not so much). Maybe biased from first experiencing it in-game but when I hear it now it makes me think of nature, coniferous trees, sunny days with clear blue skies. It makes me think of the promotional image with the party members overlooking the vast landscape of forests and mountains.

also the reason I'm popping back in here is I just got there on the OST and I'm pretty annoyed! Every so often on Remake OST they had a tendency to include cutscene (or whatever) buildup/denouement as part of a song. Beginning of Hell House and ending of Valkyrie were the worst travesties of that for me & my battle theme playlist, which I still listened to occasionally for the years afterwards even right up to Rebirth's release.

Now maybe Rebirth is doing that "unrelated music at beginning/end of a track" thing too but I haven't noticed until now, because I was waiting to hear this song in particular as arguably a top 5 song in the game for me. The official track is 4:35 in length but the first 54 seconds are crap buildup, I assume from the cutscene when you first reach the mountain. Unfuckingbelievable.

The crap buildup runs so long that you don't even hear the actual song on the official OST preview which ends after 45 seconds, feel free to compare it to the actual song embedded at post 261: https://www.jp.square-enix.com/music/sem/page/FF7rebirth/ost/assets/audio/Disc3-10.mp3

When I make my Rebirth battle theme playlist I am going to edit and cut out those first 54 seconds, damn. Super annoying.