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So, I got the latest issue of Neo this morning. It was the 2010 preview issue and I came across a small boxout talking about Final Fantasy XIII.
They're using a song sung by Leona Lewis as the theme song.
D8
I know I'm fairly late to the party on this one with this being announced back in November of this year. But I still feel the need to comment on this. The theme song for this game has gone through some changes. Originally the theme song and much of the rest of the score for the game was announced as being composed by company veteran Nobuo Uematsu. However, the task was reassigned to Dirge of Cerberus' composer and Final Fantasy X co-composer Masashi Hamauzu. The theme song was originally a song called Kimi ga Irukara featuring vocals by Sayuri Sugawara. I've listened to this theme song and it feels like a Final Fantasy theme through and through to me, complete with wishy washy lyrics sung in mostly Japanese with a bit of English thrown in for good measure. I don't love this song but it feels like a Final Fantasy theme to me. Now, as for the Leona Lewis track they've chosen to replace it, My Hands...uh...it's a Leona Lewis track. :/
I can understand that sometimes elements of a game are scrapped and replaced. I can understand that sometimes changes need to be made for the localisation (I.E. censoring nudity on a certain sprite in Final Fantasy VI). What I can't get my head around is why they've picked this particular song to replace the original. Especially seeing as My Hands is sung entirely in English and the audience this game will initially be exposed to is Japanese. I would've thought they'd have used Kimi ga Irukara for the Japanese release and possibly My Hands for the European and North American release. But then, one would've thought that, after nearly two decades of releases in the west, the franchise would've built a name for itself and would be able to get away with a theme song sung in Japanese (which is exactly what it did with Final Fantasy X's theme song Suteki Da Ne). However, when a game has been released in the west with an English version of the theme song, it's usually been the original Japanese singer whose sung it (Angela Aki singing Kiss Me Goodbye in Final Fantasy XII). Even when they've picked a different singer to sing the theme song for the European and North American releases it's always been only a translation of the Japanese version of the theme song into English (Final Fantasy X-2's theme songs sung by Kumi Koda on the Japanese release and Jade Villalon on the North American and European release) So it has been the same theme song but just in a different language. So...I'm a little confused as to why they picked an entirely different song this time around...
But anyway, at this current point in time it remains unclear as to whether or not the original song will still be included in the North American and European release. So I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens. The game is set to be released in the West on March 9th 2010, having already been released in Japan on the 17th of this month and subsequently getting a near-perfect 39/40 from Famitsū Magazine...Regardless of which theme song they choose I, personally, still have high hopes for this game.
Right, I'm off to have some good, clean fun this New Years Eve. See ya next year! 8D
They're using a song sung by Leona Lewis as the theme song.
D8
I know I'm fairly late to the party on this one with this being announced back in November of this year. But I still feel the need to comment on this. The theme song for this game has gone through some changes. Originally the theme song and much of the rest of the score for the game was announced as being composed by company veteran Nobuo Uematsu. However, the task was reassigned to Dirge of Cerberus' composer and Final Fantasy X co-composer Masashi Hamauzu. The theme song was originally a song called Kimi ga Irukara featuring vocals by Sayuri Sugawara. I've listened to this theme song and it feels like a Final Fantasy theme through and through to me, complete with wishy washy lyrics sung in mostly Japanese with a bit of English thrown in for good measure. I don't love this song but it feels like a Final Fantasy theme to me. Now, as for the Leona Lewis track they've chosen to replace it, My Hands...uh...it's a Leona Lewis track. :/
I can understand that sometimes elements of a game are scrapped and replaced. I can understand that sometimes changes need to be made for the localisation (I.E. censoring nudity on a certain sprite in Final Fantasy VI). What I can't get my head around is why they've picked this particular song to replace the original. Especially seeing as My Hands is sung entirely in English and the audience this game will initially be exposed to is Japanese. I would've thought they'd have used Kimi ga Irukara for the Japanese release and possibly My Hands for the European and North American release. But then, one would've thought that, after nearly two decades of releases in the west, the franchise would've built a name for itself and would be able to get away with a theme song sung in Japanese (which is exactly what it did with Final Fantasy X's theme song Suteki Da Ne). However, when a game has been released in the west with an English version of the theme song, it's usually been the original Japanese singer whose sung it (Angela Aki singing Kiss Me Goodbye in Final Fantasy XII). Even when they've picked a different singer to sing the theme song for the European and North American releases it's always been only a translation of the Japanese version of the theme song into English (Final Fantasy X-2's theme songs sung by Kumi Koda on the Japanese release and Jade Villalon on the North American and European release) So it has been the same theme song but just in a different language. So...I'm a little confused as to why they picked an entirely different song this time around...
But anyway, at this current point in time it remains unclear as to whether or not the original song will still be included in the North American and European release. So I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens. The game is set to be released in the West on March 9th 2010, having already been released in Japan on the 17th of this month and subsequently getting a near-perfect 39/40 from Famitsū Magazine...Regardless of which theme song they choose I, personally, still have high hopes for this game.
Right, I'm off to have some good, clean fun this New Years Eve. See ya next year! 8D