In August 2013, two weeks before Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn was set to launch, the album Before Meteor was released - a Blu-ray disc containing 104 tracks, comprising all the music from the 1.0 release of the game. This release approach was a little perplexing, as there was no talk of a complete album on the horizon.
They didn’t contain every song in the game, but there were 55 tracks across the Field Tracks, Battle Tracks, and Eorzean Frontiers albums.
XIV’s musical history is just as interesting, since when FFXIV 1.0 launched in 2010, it brought multiple mini soundtracks with it. However, FFXIV was released in bad shape, enough so that the game was torn down and rebuilt into the success story it has become. Typically, you see a game released, often alongside a soundtrack, and that’s the end of the story. Nothing about Square Enix’s MMORPG has been by the books.
I find everything about Final Fantasy XIV’s life and development fascinating. 03 – Navigator’s Glory – The Theme of Limsa LominsaĠ9 – Born of the Boughs – The Theme of Gridaniaġ5 – The Twin Faces of Fate – The Theme of Ul’dah
