Four songs in the soundtrack include vocals by Mina Sakai, an artist whom Hamauzu works as a producer for. Hamauzu had previously worked with the orchestra on his album Vielen Dank, released in 2007. The score features some recordings by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, arranged by Yoshihisa Hirano, Toshiyuki Oomori and Kunihito Shiina. Despite this, he did not compose the music specifically to "break from the series' past", but rather focused it on the game as it was presented. As the game was intended to be a conscious departure from the staples of previous Final Fantasy games, Hamauzu was not constrained in keeping the music in line with previous soundtracks from the series. The first track that he composed was "Blinded by Light", as one of the promotional pieces it was based on the director Motomu Toriyama's vision of the game as a mixture of fantasy and near-future, as the storyline for the game had not yet been finalized. When he began the bulk of the composition, he started by composing the motifs he wanted to use, rather than any particular piece. īesides some pieces he did for promotional events in 20, Hamauzu began composing the soundtrack in Autumn 2008 and finished it around one year later. He tried to match each piece and theme to his sense of the narrative and characters involved in the scenes that they would be played in, and feels that being the sole composer for the project allowed him to ensure that the overall direction of the soundtrack was consistent. Hamauzu described the soundtrack in the liner notes for the soundtrack album as comprising multiple genres of music so that the player would not get tired of it, while also using several motifs so as to tie the varying pieces together particularly in grouping the themes from the Cocoon and Pulse areas in the game. Game producer Yoshinori Kitase chose Hamauzu because he felt that Hamauzu would be the best for the job as he was composing an orchestral-based soundtrack then for Dirge of Cerberus and the Final Fantasy XIII team wanted that style for the game.
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The game was the first main-series Final Fantasy game not to include any compositions by original series composer Nobuo Uematsu although he was originally announced to compose the main theme of the game, this role was taken over by Hamauzu after Uematsu signed on to compose the soundtrack to Final Fantasy XIV. His previous work on the series was as a co-composer for Final Fantasy X and as the main composer for Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII. Masashi Hamauzu composed the game's soundtrack. Music from the game was played at a live orchestral concert in Stockholm, Sweden, and was added to the permanent rotation of the international Distant Worlds concert series, while tracks from the piano album have been played in concerts in Japan and Paris. The "Piano" album's reception was split between critics who felt that the tracks did not deviate enough from the original pieces and those who felt that the straightforward arrangements were sophisticated. The "Plus" album received weaker reviews, primarily due to its perceived lack of tracks that were significantly different from those in the original soundtrack album, while "Kimi ga Iru Kara" was considered bland and disappointing. The soundtrack received good reviews from critics, who felt that it was Hamauzu's best work to date and an excellent mix of material and genres which took the series' music in a new direction. The theme song for the Japanese version of the game, " Kimi ga Iru Kara" ( 君がいるから, "Because You're Here"), was released as a single by For Life Music in 2009.
An album of arranged pieces from the soundtrack, Final Fantasy XIII Original Soundtrack -PLUS-, was also released by Square Enix in 2010, as was an album of piano arrangements, Piano Collection Final Fantasy XIII. Selections from the soundtrack have been released on two gramophone record albums, W/F: Music from Final Fantasy XIII and W/F: Music from Final Fantasy XIII Gentle Reveries, both in 2010 by Square Enix. The main soundtrack album, Final Fantasy XIII Original Soundtrack, was released on four Compact Discs in 2010 by Square Enix, the developers and producers of the game.
Music from the game has been released in several albums. Former regular series composer Nobuo Uematsu did not contribute any pieces to the soundtrack. The music of the video game Final Fantasy XIII was composed by Masashi Hamauzu.
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