List of Final Fantasy references in A Realm Reborn

[Deafinition]

Sorry to necropost but I've been looking through music references and I've found that some sound very familiar but weren't listed anywhere that I could find and would like to add to the list when I can. I didn't want to start a new thread since this list is already pretty extensive. If anyone else caught any music callbacks to earlier games in the franchise, I'd love to see them.

Here's the one I found recently. The music that plays during the airship cutscene when you're first able to board the airship is the same (albeit more fully orchestrated) song as the FFVIII ending theme.

FFXIV Airship Theme
FFVII Ending Theme

[Enkidoh]

Sorry to necropost but I've been looking through music references and I've found that some sound very familiar but weren't listed anywhere that I could find and would like to add to the list when I can. I didn't want to start a new thread since this list is already pretty extensive. If anyone else caught any music callbacks to earlier games in the franchise, I'd love to see them.

Here's the one I found recently. The music that plays during the airship cutscene when you're first able to board the airship is the same (albeit more fully orchestrated) song as the FFVIII ending theme.

FFXIV Airship Theme
FFVII Ending Theme

That's already been mentioned - that track is the 'Final Fantasy' theme that appears in one form or another in pretty much every FF title (except FFII and FFXIII), usually either at the start of the game or the ending. It actually first appeared in the very first FF game on the NES in 1987 when the player first crossed the bridge out of Corneria, so it's definitely far older than FFVII.

Also there were actually two versions of this track appearing in FFXIV - the 'original' version was by Nobuo Uematsu from the version 1.0 OST and was known as Opening Theme on the FFXIV 1.0 OST album such as Before Meteor (in FFXIV 1.0 it played on the character creation screen, and in FFXIV ARR it plays at the very end in the ending credits, during the listing of Legacy Campaign players). As well, there is also the 'new' version you mentioned which was remixed by Masayoshi Soken for ARR, known as A World Apart on the FFXIV ARR OST album.

[Deafinition]

Woops! And that hyperlink was suppose to say FFVIII, not FFVII. I haven't played the earlier FF games since I was a child so my memory of the music in them is pretty shoddy. I'll keep an ear out for any others, though, as I think there may be more that we're missing.

[MomomiMomi]

Sorry to necropost but I've been looking through music references and I've found that some sound very familiar but weren't listed anywhere that I could find and would like to add to the list when I can. I didn't want to start a new thread since this list is already pretty extensive. If anyone else caught any music callbacks to earlier games in the franchise, I'd love to see them.

Here's the one I found recently. The music that plays during the airship cutscene when you're first able to board the airship is the same (albeit more fully orchestrated) song as the FFVIII ending theme.

FFXIV Airship Theme
FFVII Ending Theme

You mean this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq3nJb5SW9I

[Deafinition]

You mean this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq3nJb5SW9I

That would be it! Kind of embarrassing that I missed that fact. When I kept seeing "Main Theme" I was mistaking it for the Prelude.

[MomomiMomi]

That would be it! Kind of embarrassing that I missed that fact. When I kept seeing "Main Theme" I was mistaking it for the Prelude.

Usually called (and appropriately used as) Prologue I believe. When your journey officially begins. As Enkidoh mentioned, it makes an appearance in most of them in some form. I think Prelude might be a bit more common though.