Final Fantasy VI Opera with real voice in English

[Freshrock]

Eeee that was sick!!!

[OmniOmegaKiller]

@Freshrock Eeee that was sick YOUR SELF just go to your hiphop & rap damn you. what you know about art be the way have you ever heard the full this song if NOT than damn you again

[KaosuStudios]

It's well done no doubt, but the voice doesn't match the character what so ever.

[AVGN4life1]

Ponies brought me here.

[iankof90]

2 people have no taste.

[wantpussyinclub]

i really came in my pants

[TheMandarinxx]

Two people has no soul

[Blizaros]

Okay...I've never played FF VI, I know NOTHING about the story, I have no clue of the story of all the characters and I'm almost crying. I can barely imagine how it must be for the players.

[nalaiscool99]

Cue: Standing Ovation. Bow to Audience. Exit stage left.

[landlifter]

this is a nice piece for a wedding or a funeral...either way, it's a nice piece!!

[graviron]

FF VI... the best FF yet...for me, that is...:)

[ZhaneAugustine]

Well done Celes....

[JuanMamaril]

This should have been how then Squaresoft did the opera scene when they re-released FFVI for the PSOne!

[TheAnderman]

Goosebumps!

[RuggedSavior]

Whenever I'm stuck at the opera scene in the game, I watch this video to help me.

[nasur86]

how is this disliked i think this is the best part in the game.

[CaptObviousX]

this song makes me cry, reminding me my youth's love

[MixedAddict]

STANDING OVATION!!!!!! :D

[TheAllbis]

I would buy whatever gimicky Move Kinetic overpriced gadget...Just to play a remade version of this...I mean COME ON!

[kaindarkwind]

I sort of wish the lyrics were the SNES ones....otherwise awesome.

[TheEmoticonMaster]

Imagine this in a 3DS remake

[breakspirit]

This video is the single greatest thing ever made.

[Turtlesauron]

I had never thought games to be art until I played Final Fantasy VI. This... is amazing. It gives me emotion that I could never feel otherwise. Thank you for posting this.

[TheDarkchild1980]

The ending gives me goosebumps

[LaufenbergMusic]

@TheDarkchild1980 i was about to type that in as well.

[TheDarkchild1980]

@LaufenbergMusic Awesome ain't it!?

[purplesmurf85]

All these years later and it's still so beautiful and touching, I still shed a tear when I hear it =')

[Sorvea]

This voice sounds like Elvera Lerner from Second Life

[asteroidrules]

This voice sounds more like the SNES version, in the GBA remake her voice was higher pitched which to me sounded better. Still a great song.

[SailorBalance]

This is how I imagined Celes' sounded back in 1994. I'd just sing along with her and imagine my voice sounded that epic.

[IrishVagrant]

1 person is clearly Ultros.

[Link504]

@IrishVagrant Okay, that made me lol, while I was crying from the epicness

[asteroidrules]

@IrishVagrant And the other is kefka.

[Rivalee]

Oh,goddess... this song is so beautiful.

[cloudraven]

@Str8Murder You let poor Cid die man? ha! that is murder! I did feel Gen Leo's death though, that was quite touching. On the other hand, I am also a big fan of ff7 and I furiously beat that piece of Jenova after Aeris death. Try Crisis Core, they develop her character a bit more.

[fheisk]

@cloudraven "this was taken from the snes version so I could apply filters and make the image look nicer."

Ha! Filter like what, interpolation (bilinear)? I'd rather look at the unaltered pixels than that shit. Looks like a blurry mess. Learn to Super2xSAI

And both SNES and GBA emulators (at least the most popular ones) have a variety of much better filters than your blur-all-adjacent-pixels bullshit.

[cloudraven]

@fheisk Thanks! Point taken. When did this v ideo GBA emulators didn't support Super2xSAI. Actually that video has S2XSAI enabled in ZSnes. The problem was that youtube reduced the screen resolution drastically, and kinda looks like nearest neighbor. I now removed that part from the description.

The thing was that I wrote the description before actually uploading it. I will eventually upload a full version of this with the whole opera scene

[TheTraveler12]

@cloudraven its better when there are no words.. just the sound

[Str8Murder]

Celes is just an amazing character, as are all the FF6 cast. I never could get Aeris as thought her completely dull and unmemorable. When she died I was like "meh.". When Cid here died though, my heart broke for Celes.

[Str8Murder]

God I miss the days when Square made games like FF4 and FF6. FF7 and 8 were travesties and set an example in rpgs that you could get away with terrible plot and character development, which is why most all rpgs within the last decade suck so much.

[iamthepkmmaster]

@Str8Murder except FF9 kicking ass

[genericusername1221]

OMG I had no idea that this had vocals. This is fuckin awesome! I was searching for a kate the great version and found this.

[LunDruid]

There should be a full-length opera of this.

[HDorochimaru]

could you give me a mp3 link. i don't have the money for the one you provided

[soraevens]

Absolutely beautiful, really makes me wish they would remake this game just for this to be epicly sung like that.

[goglespit]

Proving once again that everything in this game is epic even if it was not actually in the game

[darkspirit14]

I pictured Celes to be kinda young with a young voice. Not this 30 year old opera voice. Still amazing though.

[cloudraven]

@darkspirit14 It's funny you mention it. The singer for this version is Stephanie Woodling. She definitely looks young. I think she is a good Celes.

[DennisQLy]

@darkspirit14 It's pretty normal for a young women to have a voice like this (well, opera singers, of course).

[jr2nd]

nicely done

[cloudraven]

@Jrogo2010 Good idea. I added a download link to the description of the video.

[woper93]

the 1 person that disliked this is kefka vessel

[kyuutouryuu]

i like more the 16 bits version xD.

[Jrogo2010]

WHY IS THERE NOT A DOWNLOAD LOL

[cloudraven]

@deltron121 Ah poor Quistis. She kind of gets left behind in the Squall Rinoa thing and ends up being just the big sis. She is a genius and really good looking, but no one really took her seriously.

[tetsuokun]

Battle hardened magitek knight, with a spirit as pure as snow.

[OXG2221]

They Should Remake this Game ... For the generations to come ... i want it to my children =")

[IPITYTHEFOOLZ]

Meh FFVI is alright.

[IPITYTHEFOOLZ]

@IPITYTHEFOOLZ No it's really damn good.

[omgplis]

In my personal opinion FF6 was or is the only game that all characters storylines make sense I mean Celes, Luke, Cyan, Terra, Sabin and Edgar, Shadow even Gau storys are prety epic I don't know when squereSOFT yes I say SQUARESOFT turn all emo... I miss it :(

[Yamauta]

Celes' storyline is arguably the most heartbreaking storyline in the Final Fantasy Sagas... The only final fantasy girl to outrank Aerith in my book.. (and that's pretty hard to pull off.)

[cloudraven]

@Yamauta If only Celes had a voice. Truly beautiful storyline I agree, but everything ends well for her. I think Yuna's is pretty heartbreaking as well, but I like Celes as a character much better.

[Yamauta]

@cloudraven Yuna's story was more of like a child coming of age and figuring out that the world really and truely does suck... it wasn't until X-2 that she became the games embodiment of hope. Celes, on the other hand, had nothing but trial and tragedy... and it wasn't until all hope was lost that she regained everything. I think that's why I don't like Yuna so much... everything was handed to her bit by bit.. Celes had to find it after it was torn from her hands.

[cloudraven]

@Yamauta I Agree. I like how in a world full of despair she finds her reason and her hope.

[emazinglyemi]

@cloudraven I think that's the main message of the game - finding hope among nothingness, love transcends all, blah blah blah.

Damn, this is a fine ass game. x3

[deltron121]

@cloudraven

Ha, it's funny you mention it because Aerith,Yuna and Celes were my picks as well although Quistis is by far my favourite character in FF History.

[SonicHiro15]

@Yamauta Aerith is a living plot device. Its not hard to outrank that.

Though I do agree with Celes having one of the most heartbreaking storylines in any FF.

[pillowpants1984]

I think the new lyrics are superior except for the final verse. The SNES lyrics are much more somber and tearjerking.

[ariolo00]

This is by far the most beautiful song I've ever heard.

[emscott32]

This is the most beautiful song ever...makes me cry because nobou says of a love so beautiful and this song describes all the emotion of love.

[NativeFemale206]

The fact that the Original SNES Version of the translation was really bad was the reason they remade the translation in the Finaru Fantaji VI for the Game Boy.

[DustFoxHun]

I'm just crying :'(

[SuperChrisSixtyFour]

I'm not liking the fact that's not the actual lyrics...I'd almost say this is a butchery of the real song.

[cloudraven]

@SuperChrisSixtyFour The original SNES translation was supposed to be poor. The lyrics for dear friends / distant worlds concerts were taken from the GBA translation which is a bit more faithful to the japanese original. I also have nostalgic feelings for the original, but I have to accept that this translation is pretty good.

[Toccaif331]

3ds remake..........prease?

[diivdax15]

It's too beautiful, it made me cry.

[Kynero00]

I love this scene so much. Very epic! And Celes is so beautiful....

[sephirothvalentine12]

Celes can SING! DAMN!

[suddenndeath9]

clap clap clap clap clap :)

[twilightwindwaker]

I didn't know that someone actually sung this song. I like the song but I expected the singer to have a nicer voice but then again I don't really listen to opera music. I didn't know the ending had a second singer.

[cloudraven]

@twilightwindwaker The singer has to be a soprano, but other than that, there are many that have interpreted this song in English. There is an official one for the Italian version (Svetla Krasteva), and another one for the japanese version but I don't know her name. Check the distant worlds or grand finale CDs for other singers doing it.

The ending in the game does not have a second singer, in this case the guys doing the voices for Ralse and Draco also sing here.

[nosgothgbr]

Thought I had already faved this :/ FAV!

Awesome vid :3

[floy948]

i love this song... and i am currently playing this in my gba sp . . .

locke x celes forever.... X333

[Tunacaitsith]

you know its weird the lyrics I'm hearing are not the lyrics from the original game...

[halenite]

@Tunacaitsith These are the lyrics from the Game Boy Advance version (which is closer to the actual japanese than the original SNES release of this game)

[Alexeiyeah]

Nobuo Uematsu... I freanking love you.

[ada198765]

could ur make FF6 remake ?? plz

[jmac1686]

This makes me want a PS3 remake! OMG this scene done full blown CGI holy shiz

[cloudraven]

@jmac1686 At this point I would even settle for a DS remake... but a PS3 remake would be incredible

[violink4swords]

@cloudraven they did 3 and 4 DS so probably 5 then 6.

besides, the way 6's party system works, some cutscenes would probably have different versions if they voice act like in 4, this could make things take even longer unless they just do like what was done with Chrono Trigger so 5 would be easiest to make for DS with its set party

[cloudraven]

@violink4swords They can do that with only real time graphics then like in FF3 DS or port it to something more powerful like xbox/ps3/wii. 3 and 4 for DS worked pretty well indeed.

What they did with chrono trigger barely counts, it has been done already with 5 and 6 in ff chronicles and anthologies in the PSX and for GBA. I think they can do a real remake like those for the DS.

[ShinrinCole]

@cloudraven there's not gonna be a DS port of 5 and 6, though they are possibly looking into a 3DS version. the DS doesn't have enough space for 3d version of both games apparently.

[Masterheart]

@cloudraven Agreed, I would also like all characters redisgned by Amano and no Nomura

[StephensStuff]

@jmac1686 Remeber that ff7 cgi demonstration? They should have done this along with it.

[TheDorkSide777]

@jmac1686 The true masterpiece of this scene is how it was accomplished back then with limited technology. Final Fantasy 6 was a game years ahead of its time, and IMO, surpasses FF 7 in every single way. I just want the GBA remake to use the original freaking lyrics and I will be satisfied.

[ironback]

@jmac1686 That would be really cool, but now that they have lost the original maker of the game, they don't really have the right to remake his work, at least in my opinion.

[nerolace]

@jmac1686 that would be the best thing ever!

[browncoatkevin]

@jmac1686

I can see it in my mind... the camera would be used for maximum drama, and the dance section in the middle could be a "press X here" microgame to add twirls or flourishes (it would have to move Celes on its own, though), and failing bad enough would be what makes her late to the top (to keep that failure in)... even with 3DS/PSP graphics, it would be a visual feast well worth it. Extra bonus points if it's VA'd like this, triply so if the Japanese audio is there as well.

[Jukka70]

@jmac1686 I've been wishing for a full blown CGI updated version ever since playstation 2 came out, but now with 3, OMG this would be so worth it. And like you said, this scene alone would make buying the game again worth it, not to mention it was one of the best ones written story wise and what had to be figured out.

[xRocketzFighterx]

@jmac1686

Oh good lord I would cry a river if this happens, I don't care how the remake is done I want to see that, were getting close to a FF6 remake, FF5 is curently beeing made for the 3DS.

[NLAdorax]

These lyrics DO fit with the music itself better, though...I'm not sure which I prefer, though. They're both good!

[kushiro07]

i actually always wronged the lyrics in games. hahaha. but when i heard it.. it was so lovely song. i wish it has a 3d version of The Opera with real voice sung by Celes!

[UndeadSpider]

Lol I seriously struggle to pay attention to the video... xD its hilarious lol, i love it. brilliant xD

[legendaryhero90]

OMG!

i think i just jizzed....

[Edierne]

marvelous!! this is the first time I listen to this version! I simply love this part! is the best! simply breath taking!

[DaSurreal1da]

I have been humming this theme for almost 15 years and i have almost every version of the FF6 soundtrack and I have NEVER heard this version. You cannot know what this means to me, Thank you....and I love how you synced it up with the original cinema. WOW

[cloudraven]

Thanks! Yeah! I remember the first time I heard this version.

This is from the dear friends concert series, it was recorded from the stockholm one.

Right now the distant worlds concert featuring this song is touring. Trust me, hearing this live is mind blowing! The next one is in Chicago on Dec 12, and Nobuo will be there!! If you have the chance to go don't miss it.

[oosaf]

Very much like my video lol. Glad to see others had the same idea.

[cloudraven]

After leaving from the Distant Worlds concert it just felt right to do something like this

[oosaf]

Did they perform this song at that concert?

[cloudraven]

Yes, it was beautiful and Nobuo Uematsu was there too!

Nice! you did both scenes, good job!

[oosaf]

Thank you, but I'm envious you were able to see it live lol. I'm trying to do the whole opera but I'm finding it quite challenging. The live performance flow a little differently than the scene in the game. By any chane do you know if there were any dvds of the concert?

[cloudraven]

It would be awesome to do the whole thing, but it will definitely take some effort to mix and match all the different pieces into it.

There are no official DVDs as far as I know, but try typing this in the search box in youtube

"Distant Worlds: Opera - Maria and Draco" the second hit is the one I attended to (in Seattle).

[oosaf]

Not only that, they never finish the opera in the game lol

[cloudraven]

Yeah, no Ultros here ;)

[oosaf]

exactly, but i'll think of something

[knightsintodreams]

did he throw fish? he threw this plastic fish to the audience in the concert in seattle. it was...strange, i figured i simply wasn't privvy to the joke. he was 8 seats down from me X3 these two business-looking men were FLIPPING out in front of me, it was awesome. nobuo turns everyone into dorks!!

[blitzmichael2]

I love this

[cloudraven]

The lyrics are from the new GBA version and I did the capture from the SNES one. But I can try to capture from the GBA version next. Thanks for watching

The singers name is Stephanie Woodling (Maria), and I agree she has a beautiful voice.

[Janiqua]

Wait... so was she separated from Draco, or did Draco die?

[cloudraven]

Yeah, she was separated from Draco. In the next scene Draco appears to take Maria back, he fights prince Ralse (who is keeping her and wants to marry her) and of course he wins.

In the game the opera is interrupted halfway and something funny happens though.

[SPS148669]

This is how great the the 64 bit, 3d, surround, lossless d SNES sound chip is!

[Mormegil2009]

I have to say that this song brings me back to a time when i used to care about life, Final Fantasy has always been a series of videogames that inspire people to actually feel something. Sad really that most people dont do that anymore. Still i consider this as a MASTERPIECE.

[Dagahaug]

well said! A masterpiece it truly is.