Searching for Friends - FFVI Pixel Remastered

With Falcon, I think we just might have a chance. Now we'll be able to get to the top of Kefka's tower. If we land up there, we should be able to get inside to launch our assault. And we'll be able to look for the rest of our friends! -- Let's search for our friends. They are scattered around the world but we can finally find them all. Combining our strength, we can defeat Kefka and bring peace to the world.

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[dancarr]

First time hearing this song with the Falcon rising to the skies, best part of the game

[Yeebo__]

I love this version because it keeps the original theme, but it goes so fucking hard. "The world has ended... but we're not done and neither is the world."

[sektorispiar]

I remember falling in love with this song the first time I heard it as a kid (SNES), and fearing that it was just a one-time incidental cue that would end when I landed the airship. I dreaded that possibility, so I just hovered there for several minutes just listening to it.

Imagine my elation to discover it had become the new overworld music!

[ace-trainer-aj]

Hearing this after getting the Falcon, it gives that feeling of hope that Celes and the others desperately needed at that moment.

[poshko]

They really stayed true to the original. Didn’t mess with the tempo. Kept many of the original instruments. Excellently done.

[DarthAlphaTheGreat]

The music changed from the ruined world to this is the most beautiful and well done tone transition in video game.

[TheChannel]

I must be getting soft in my old age because this is making me cry. Great video!

[天上天下-oy]

オーケストラのとこで胸にドーーンと来るモノがある…。

これからも精一杯生きて行こう。

[DerBear]

This song...is Hope: this is the characters each experiencing their own trials and tribulations and eventually coming to a resolution:
Terra learning what love is by having the strength to fight for the orphans of Mobliz; Locke finally being set free of his guilt over losing Rachel and owning his feelings for Celes, who in turn comes to realize she isn't truly alone in the world; Cyan overcoming the loss of his family and liege and becoming a stronger person while still retaining the memory of their love and respect; Setzer taking the chance to allow himself to figuratively and literally find himself a pair of wings to fly bestowed upon him from a dearly departed friend; Strago and Relm, who each lose hope or struggle to find new hope respectively, being reunited; Mog, the last Moogle of Narshe, choosing to help take on the maniac responsible. I could go on and on, but we'd be here all day if I did...
The point being: This song is rekindling the flame within to help brighten a now darkened world in desperate need, this is you picking up the pieces and fixing what Kefka destroyed. I love this song so much, it IS Final Fantasy 6 encapsulated in song form.

[pinkfluffycute]

i didnt know the title and so i hummed it to the audio search.. worked like a charm 😭 loving this ost so much

[Hellworth]

1:20 is the cherry of the top of any final fantasy pixel remaster musics, so powerful and magical!

[mcihay]

I can imagine Celes, Edgar, Sabin, and Sedgar playing the initial instruments.

But as the piece goes on, the more friends they find, more instruments are added.

Edit: Lol. Must've been tired to mix Setzer and Edgar. But yeah. point stands. I'll leave my mistake cause I'm an idiot and it's funny.

[josephdecesare]

I just reached this part of the game for the first time, my goodness the remaster did not need to go this hard but I'm so glad they did

[williamsanborn]

This version of this piece is one of the most beautiful official arrangements of video game music I’ve ever heard. Most of the Pixel Remaster’s soundtrack too! 🥹

[Keycil]

I keep coming back to this. It's so incredibly good. FF3 PR had me with Eternal Wind but then this one came around and took the top spot for overworld themes in FF.

[BottledPoe]

I like how some of the original sounds are still in this

[DippNDots]

The world has been scorched into a barren landscape, you've lost everyone, not knowing if they're alive or dead, Cid, your closest thing to a father, might have also just died if you're bad at catching fish, you brave the harsh sea on a raft to get to mainland, only to find Kefka's tower looming above the horizon. The monument to your failures.

Then you find Sabin and save a boy from a burning house, as the flames die out a small spark of hope finds it way into your heart. You find Terra, but she doesn't join you, her fight is for a group of children now with no one else to protect them. She feels powerless, having been unable to prevent the world's ruin. But maybe here she has some control.

Then you see Edgar, except he pretends to not know you or his brother. You follow him as he breaks into his own castle. You fend off a monster with him and stop anyone else from getting hurt. The brothers reunite, and that spark of hope grows to a flame. Then in a pub you find Setzer. The four of you enter into a tomb, the tomb dedicated to his lover. As it progresses you learn of Setzer's loss, his pain, the same trauma that each of your fellow adventurers share. Pain and loss, no control, fighting to retain a piece of their former selves in the present.

This is a harsh world, where people hurt each other and evil has won. Then Setzer recounts the determination of his lost love, her spirit, and you are filled with a solemn inspiration. The flame becomes a fire, and as the minor scale notes begin to ascend, you feel the pain in each note, you feel the hope in each interval. And the airship ascends with those notes. The visual of hope and freedom, without discounting the pain and loss. It's time to find your friends. It's time to make the world right. It's time for good to prevail.

[리코디언수쌤]

음침한 음악이 끝나고 팔콘이 바다위로 떠오르는 장면과 함께 이 음악이 시작되면 심장이 강하게 뛴답니다~

[MegamanNG]

Why does this make me cry... I swear it.

[CelestialKingLeo]

Glad to see that still captured the essence of this song in the remaster. I figured this was always a song of hope and I'm glad it's still there.