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The music of a Fire Emblem 4 remake


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How do you think Intelligent Systems should handle the music in a Fire Emblem 4 remake ?

For the track "Beloved One" would you like a male voice or a female voice or both? It could be wonderful if the voice were Sigurd's or Deirdre's one.

For chapter 5's music I'd like an organ and a choir. I've seen a remastered version of this track on YouTube, it used both and it was quite good.

 

So what do you think 

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On 7/2/2022 at 9:09 PM, AnonymousSpeed said:

I don't know, man. I kinda liked the original Gaiden's soundtrack more than Shadow of Valentia's, so maybe they should just play the original Super Famicom tracks.

Being able to switch between "Classic" and "Modern" tracks would be the best of both worlds, no? I love the original compositions, but wouldn't mind hearing them redone with a live orchestra, or just modern instrumentation. Of course, if they introduce wholly new tracks (i.e. "Lord of a Dead empire" in SoV), it creates a predicament. Do they...

A) "Demake" the new music into a "Classic" version;

B) Play the new track, even for those with "Classic" selected; or

C) Substitute an existing old-school track from elsewhere in the game?

(A) is my favorite, although it'd also be the highest-effort. Assuming they wouldn't want to put the work in for (A), I'd prefer (C) to (B). Switching from a 16-bit arrangement to something full-on orchestral would be rather jarring.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Part of my hesitancy with a potential FE4 remake is that the music is kind of inevitably not going to get it right. So many special little sounds and effects that will be drowned out in an epic opera redo.

I just think back to the Demons' Souls remake where all of the music was, for the most part, remarkably faithful to the original tracks but with a grander scale and more epic instrumentation -- and it totally killed the vibe put forward by the original, leaving this kind of uneven and artificial feel to the game (especially considering the painstaking efforts taken to recreate most of the mechanics).

I don't know how the FE4 remake would be handled, but if they dare to touch the soundtrack they better significantly alter the rest of the game to match.

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