If memory serves me right, I had asked Square Enix’s Izumi Tsukushi and Akio Shiraishi to release the music from The After Years as some sort of bonus release. Well, they’ve done just that, and while fans who picked up the Final Fantasy IV Complete Collection limited edition are surely happy, fans abroad who will likely never get their hands on the album are more than distraught.
Beyond just offering a few tracks from the game, the disc contains all of the music Junya Nakano wrote for The After Years along with selections from the original soundtrack, and even a few bonuses. Oh, and of course there’s Masashi Hamauzu’s arrangement of the opening theme.
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