FFVII Mako Reactor Remake

[@danielgettinger8383]

If there was any indication that the producers of the remake didn't "get" FFVII, it was their rendition of this song. It totally missed the oppressive, persistent, industrial feel; not to mention the solemnity of entire scene In the first Act and the otherworldliness that was Mako. But you captured it. Good job!

[@reganvryer818]

Fucking thank you. The remake lost something in its new arrangements. Very little was memorable. Not everything needs to be orchestrated.

[@danielthemangrande]

This is the haunt that the ff7 remake version was missing, the feeling that you've just got into the deep end and there's only one way out.

[@R0ck3tM4n13]

Honestly, if a producer ever took this one and mixed it together with the slower tempo and thundering low end of the Remake version, I would faint from joy

[@kblargh]

Best version of this song. I'm sorry to see you haven't made a remix in three years now, sir.

[@skinMissle]

Out of ALL the FF7 soundtrack "remakes" out there in KZbin land I think YOU have captured the real spirit of FF7, it really does the original tracks justice. Have you thought about remaking the whole soundtrack? Great work man!

[@ArceoRenix]

This one beats all Mako Reactor Remastered or Remakes, There is a feeling of urgency for once... It is almost an indescribable feeling. Its as if you are there observing the chaos they bring with sucking the Planet's life away, then you realize, there must be something you can do to stop it, but you must hurry, or your very home will be a wasteland. You did an Excellent Job on this beautiful Masterpiece. You brought the feeling of something new.

[@BffWithDEATH]

Oh man! you perfectly captured the the sinister emotion of Mako Reactor

[@LeviR34]

This is absolutely what the song should sound like in todays time. Thank you for taking the time to make this.

[@ExorGT]

I have to say you've awakened and brought new life to many treasured memories with the FF series. It's truly been a pleasure listening to your amazing re-orchestrations. Please keep up the great work!

[@MalcolmRobinsonMusic]

What a perfect remake! Everything just sounds right and matches the feeling of the original, but with a much richer, fuller sound. The choir samples could be a little better, but it's not bad especially considering it was made in 2012. I actually prefer straight remakes like these to the more interpretive and experimental genre-changing remixes that are out there. Anyway, great job!

[@LtCdrXander]

Agreed! Love your stuff, especially the Chrono Trigger album. I think the quiet, almost muffled choir samples make for an isolated or claustrophobic feel which I think fits for the mako reactor

[@jrossiterI3]

Just discovering BitSymphony, have one thing to say. Wow! Just Wow. These remake songs sound amazing, exactly how the FFVII remake soundtrack should sound like, just the slightest of change from the original with a crisp HD sound. Keep up the amazing work and thanks for the uploads.

[@Psy1402]

This is probably the best remake of this on this site.

[@loszhor]

BitSymphony, remaking FF7 before it was cool!

[@HarryBillyBobGeorge]

YES. THIS IS IT. THIS IS WHAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO SOUND LIKE. I LOVE YOU.

[@fearfulharmonycddrama6216]

When finally someone reachs the Earth core *music plays*

[@TheCrimsonKodiak]

+Hitlervania's Bizarre adventure WRYYY I imagine Judgment Day would be playing since that's technically where the final boss is located.

[@briandoehring8296]

Yolo😂❤I'm drenched in mako!

[@b9003063]

Meanwhile,Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center of North Korea.

[@Stedman75]

Still nothing has topped this.

[@TheTerranAstronaut]

I think, a new challenger has finally appeared....10 years later.

[@valder8423]

@@TheTerranAstronaut ?

[@TheTerranAstronaut]

@@valder8423 I'd be the challenger, as I did a total overhaul of the mako theme myself, and I'm big on keeping the remake faithful to the original as well :). This one's good and better than most of 'em, don't get me wrong...but there's quite a few things I didn't especially like about it...

[@SpoonfishLee]

Wow, I must say you're the best on youtube in the game music remake category by far! Great remakes and consistent quality!

[@nautilustpartyvgm2973]

I really like this, as a person who does FFVII remixes myself, I think this is spot on. :)

[@MalcolmRobinsonMusic]

Totally agree! As a person who does SNES-era Final Fantasy orchestrations, I have the exact same feeling. It's spot on.

[@Lukenix]

bro me too, as a person who remasters FFXV songs, i gotta say this is spot on

[@nautilustpartyvgm2973]

Bro, as a person who remixes remixers remixing their remixes, I gotta say this is spot on. (Sorry couldn't resist.)

[@MalcolmRobinsonMusic]

Nautilus T Party As a fellow remixer who posted a comment in this thread of comments by remixers who think this remix is spot on, I must say your comment is spot on!

[@Lukenix]

bro, as someone who is not actually a remixer of any form of final fantasy ost, but merely a commenter who wants to continue this chain of people saying they're remixers who find this remix spot on, i must say this whole ordeal is spot on.

[@ChipNoir]

This sends shivers up my spine the way the first time I heard this play in the game, all those years ago.

[@mingri1941]

A nice theme for working in factories!!!

[@aiden_lucas]

Splendid, just splendid! Keep up the good work and create more nostalgia-songs :D

[@NobodyInTheVoid]

The nostalgia is hitting me in waves...

[@GieniMan]

Wow, this is insane. You have a talent, my friend.

[@sleeps_alm08]

This is perfect. Enough said.

[@danielcowart1875]

I'm gonna cry. You are absolutely fantastic.

[@yonesobi]

Congrats so much close to the ORIGINAL 😎

[@hamzilla2801]

10/10 yet again. I hope Square Enix hires ya to do the music in all their stuff.... almost want to hear you redo a Zelda overworld theme!!!

[@Pellkot]

One day i will become a dictator....

[@RobertSmith-gn2he]

Rufus, is that you?

[@MichaelAKim-rp8sm]

GYAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA

[@Igbear]

KYAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA

[@LightbeamVideos]

Wow, wow, wow, makes me thrill ! I remember when I played this moments many years ago. Merci :-)

[@Stedman75]

100% perfect

[@NarcolepticProphet]

Best music for the best game....ever...period.

[@TheRealLink]

Beautiful!

[@Strifelike93]

Very nice work! Wow ;)

[@rulho]

Awesome, nice work. =)

[@SMABackup]

Very nice remake mate.

[@NexusBaum]

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! :D Super COOL :)

[@EpicWingmanXIII]

Awesome

[@ygf1463]

I love this!

[@Soldano999]

OK i just wrote on anothe rtrack that the orchestrated thing did nothig for me. Well n this case it blows my mind. I guess in some songs it's more appropriate than others. Some of them sounded just fine the way they were. This is Incredible. Unbelievable. Incredibelievable. I put the sound up and my relatively good speaker went screaming. The echo is perfect and the drumms / Bass is huge, the voices are deep and omg i need to stop.

[@Petey0707]

oh my god, this is perfect.

[@tttc]

This is great.

[@Kiblen_Koblek]

You awesome - as always! =)

[@sasca854]

This is what it should've sounded like in the remake. The orchestral version that they used instead does not properly convey a dystopian techno-punk atmosphere.

[@Bubbadroid6502]

I believe both are good in their own ways, like the new orchestrated version feels much more haunting and like the planet is dying. While this version feels a lot more like it’s about the reactor itself.

[@shelbyherring92]

@@Bubbadroid6502 I agree. Each version offers a different atmosphere and ambience.

[@st.michaelthearchangel7774]

Nice intro! :)

[@Yojimbo711]

Amazing.

[@scarface51393]

Its a really awesome remake

[@akirastark5645]

So heavy !

[@SurrealNights]

Another awesome remake. With the atmosphere you captured in this song, I would be curious how you would handle songs like the theme in the Iifa Tree or the Evil Mist's Rebirth from FFIX.

[@JeromeKProd]

Very good !

[@24LionHearts]

Sephiroth: My mother's name is... Jenova. *chuckles* Why am I telling you this?

[@Alatrist01]

This one sounds good :)

[@anthonydavis8790]

hey mate, sounds great. is it possible to use this in a ff7 game I'm making in rpg maker mv, its non commercial so no money from making it but will put you in the credits? :) thankyou

[@marcocampa94]

Goddamn mutated monsters!

[@iconicquote]

Amazing Subbed.

[@rattenfangervonhameln9627]

Hey, can i use this for a hip hop Beat?

[@BackpackDimension]

Just a quick question about donations. I have donated but i was wondering about how to get your music files. Are they sent automatically after a couple of days or do you have to send them out yourself? Love all your music,thanks!

[@christianpires216]

Ive listened to a music yesterday called (sinoa caves, forever dilated) and i got the feeling it was almost the same but the intro was way darker the music is awesome

[@megaboss8140]

The piano sounds softer than it should, but everything else sounds great.

[@GT2bullet]

If SE finally decides to release a FF7 remake for the PS4 i DEMAND they use your remakes on the soundtrack! Please remake "main theme" after listening to all the remakes, i have faith!

[@gigimava]

100% hit.

[@jessahrens8917]

It's really cool, but one thing that people seem to always get wrong with the FFVII remakes or any final fantasy remakes is the synths, the original synth has a much less rounded sound and has a slight mix of rough strings to it, really gives it that edge, I think that kind of thing really puts me off when it comes to remakes.

[@stoffni]

Says remake, not copy XD

[@fearfulharmonycddrama6216]

_last reactor visited:_ Dec 7th 2017 11:37 p.m_

[@RedusSeptimus]

To me it sounds very close to the original, with a stronger beat, but it's very subtle. Not bad, although I'm used to more extravagant remakes :)

[@nukedude1451]

When you walk into school on exam day

[@korybant8409]

The mix is wrong. Some voices are far too quiet. Also, the chorus effect on the piano is essential and should be included. ..right?

[@reykennedy5716]

Kory Bant it's there. may be harder for you to hear based on your speakers or equalizer

[@NarcolepticProphet]

This should be Americas New national anthem we are Shinra

[@NietrTM]

Nah think about it, Russia would be Shinra. So much corruption and nuclear waste.

[@Versudan]

Honestly, I prefer your version more for study and work. The original is a little bit too jarring to be good 'calm but focused' music. Your remake has softened the harsher sounds to the perfect level. :)

[@Kerrogann]

This remake is perfect ! Except for the voices, they sound too similar to the original, and too artificial, but hey, I guess you don't have a whole choir at your disposal, so it's easily forgivable ^^

[@AceOfSages]

Little by little the reactor will drain out all of the life and that'll be that. I don't care.

[@TheHrebo]

not interested :D

[@raymonddallaire653]

Sounds alot like original to me...not that's a bad thing heheh :)

[@donemerson699]

Neo Mako

[@Dragongod41]

If SE actually took the time to remake FF7 i'd finally have an incentive to get a PS4

[@nanitesal1578]

They aren't. They can't. And they won't. SE will not deliver what the fans want, and it will be watered down to pander to non-experienced players. If the people want a new FF7 game, then it's up to the people to make that game.

[@RatedRY]

Zack Ableton You should wait until you've played & completed XV... with how much effort square's putting behind that game, through their own efforts in development, nearing 10 years trying to perfect everything & interacting with the fans taking their input into consideration I think we really have a winner here. Imagine ff7 with the graphics of XV? Shouldn't be that hard to do, considering XV is a fantasy based on reality like 7. As for the battle system... that's a tough 1, as much as I love the original if it had a battle system like XV I wouldn't be averse to it. I personally think that, technical limitations aside something like out of XV is what they would've originally wanted in VII. Hmm... I don't know man, but regardless of if it were an action rpg or turn based I would still love it.

[@nanitesal1578]

Well.... considering the demo *just* came out....

[@RatedRY]

Zack Ableton I'm hoping that means you changed your mind..............

[@nanitesal1578]

unoder So far XV is impressive. However I remain skeptical not because of what SE has currently done, but because of what SE has become. And it worries me. Companies like From Software don't pander to public opinion and focus only on making the best games they know how. This has never changed about them. SE, on the other hand, has been exposed to the void, tainted by something unspeakable that can only be invalidated through hard trial and the test of time. The face that created FF7 is not the same one that is creating XV.

[@dellefranz]

They should have used this version in the demo. The purely orchestral dynamic theme they use in the game is too weak compared to the original and this version. The ominous electric synth gives a sense of heavy machinery being present, in a heavy, omnipresent and unforgiving tone, especially with the church bells that gives a hinting sensation of, say, funerals. As if this huge machinery called the Mako Reactor is killing everyone and everything with it's mere humongous and tumorous presence on the planet. It's just there, doing it's thing, like a huge cancer it keeps producing without care for anything, it just is, and it's horrible because we know what its presence means. In the demo the church bells are replaced with smooth piano sounds, which is more relieving than unnerving, and that, from a musical perspective with respect to the message of the story, completely misses the point.

[@Bubbadroid6502]

Maybe they’ll give the option for the original soundtrack like the RE2 remake did

[@dellefranz]

@@Bubbadroid6502 hmm maybe. It could be a nice feature at least. I have gotten the original Soundtrack for RE2 because it actually does add a whole lot to the experience. Sure without it, the game feels very much like a modern horror game, which is awesome and I can totally appreciate the game for what it is on it's own merits. The game is really really good. But the original soundtrack just makes it hit home and acknowledge itself as a proper remake with love and care put into it and similarly love and care for the fans. And it was just a simple touch.

[@aaronfarley93]

Not my favourite remake you have done, But still awesome. At 0:54 it sounds too much like the original.

[@reuben5012]

Tip - Don't add intros to music videos.

[@Ragitsu]

Tip: Don't complain when you're getting awesomeness for free.

[@Hakaishi00]

I love this but i love the original more.because it got more feel to it.now if just the original one got that chorus voice must be really epic

[@GamingAnomaly]

+Hakaishi00 I can't agree with you there. This one to me has more....Of a feel for depravity, lost hope, and the struggle that the world is undergoing due to the Mako Reactors. I'm sure this is probably close to what it will sound like in the Final Fantasy VII Remake if Nobuo Uematsu has anything to do with it.

[@Hakaishi00]

Still love the original one because it got more feel.this remake just make whats low in the original go high.but still love both.

[@Hakaishi00]

And i love this one too.it isnt bad

[@Hakaishi00]

@@GamingAnomaly now i can explain much better why i love the original, the atmospherical feeling here is tondown, and you dont feel that creepy vibe in this remix. the FF7 mako reactor have much more stronger feeling to it, though this remix is way better than FF7 remake of mako reactor ost on the PS4. basically this remix is tondown version of the atmospherical feeling to it, and it didnt make like you have to be careful of your surrounding.