Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Music Analysis (Part 1: Main Menu & Interlude)

My first impressions and analysis of the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth soundtrack, specifically the opening chapter called Interlude.
There are no spoilers for Rebirth, unless you consider the opening ten minutes of Rebirth a spoiler.
Here is a link to the playlist with the following episodes:
• Final Fantasy VII Rebi...
If you enjoy this, check out my multi part, exhaustive breakdown of the many musical themes in Final Fantasy XVI: • Final Fantasy XVI Musi...

[@AcappellaGamer]

Omg this is kind of content I need . I think you should do the Rebirth music analysis over Remake - it’s more topical right now and would love to hear all your thoughts. Might help grow your channel more so as well. You are very adept with your descriptions and know your composers! When you said “Improbable victory” my whole brain lit up. Very well put ! Thanks for the great video 😊 (also I agree with that Aeriths theme in minor being a bit too much as well haha)

[@patrickrainville]

Thank you very much for the kind words of encouragement, fellow Xenogears enthusiast!! I'm glad the video resonated with you. This video was a lot of fun to make, and certainly required less prep work than my XVI and eventual Remake videos, so you are right, I probably should make more of these :) I am playing through Rebirth at an absolutely glacial pace, so expect my output to be quite so slow, but my next planned video is a similar sort of analysis/first impressions of the music from chapter 1 of Rebirth. Please stay tuned, and subscribe if you haven't! These vids get so few views so I really want to make sure the folks who are into them actually get to see them! ❤

[@benoplustee]

dude these are always awesome but the keyboard cat easter egg was fucking amazing lolol

[@patrickrainville]

thank you xD

[@shreedin]

Love your breakdown of what goes into a signature Hamauzu track. His style is recognizable and listening to you describe what elements make it so put a smile on my face!

[@patrickrainville]

Thank you! Yes, he's certainly got a lot of tells haha.

[@algd26]

I needed this! Can't wait to watch the rest later :)

[@patrickrainville]

Thank you! Hope it was insightful!

[@watchfanservice]

good stuff man, sure this channel will blow up soon

[@patrickrainville]

Thank you! I appreciate the vote of confidence, truly. Episode 2 should be up early next week!

[@SuperWisemon]

This is so damn good, thank you for making this!

[@patrickrainville]

My pleasure, Super Wisemon!

[@sojh17]

Yesss MOAR analysis

[@patrickrainville]

Thank you for always commenting on my vids, sojh17!!! 🙏❤ I really appreciate it.

[@sojh17]

Hell yeah, man! I appreciate your analysis! Very recently (well after your first two videos), I've started to learn piano/music theory with the aim to understand composition to the point I can use create some simple stuff for my own projects. And videos like yours have absolutely helped to fan that curiosity into what a particular thing can make you feel a certain way and what tools/techniques may have been used. Not to say that they'd be any less enjoyable even if I just wanted to appreciate the art more comprehensively, too!

[@patrickrainville]

@@sojh17 Wow, that's fantastic news! Very happy to hear that. What sorts of projects do you work on?

[@sojh17]

It's all just personal projects. But my comfort zone is doing drawing/painting and dabbling in simple animations here and there (no walk cycles or facial expressions or anything). Over the past year or two I've gotten more competent in blender which has put in my head all the innumerable ways I can tie textures/lights/objects etc to sound. So I started thinking about just fx but then why stop there? I guess the creative urge has turned to me wanting to find how many layers of like, emphasis or intention I can put on an idea. And while I don't aspire to write any grand symphonies or anything, the idea that I can find a way to reinforce the tone or emotion of visuals to make them that much more potent is fascinating to me. Especially when learning more about all the ways music can both tell a story on its own and reinforce so dramatically any visuals it is crafted to fit with. Sorry I get very rambly about this stuff, but TLDR: Some lightly animated 3d semi-still-life scenes and we'll see where it goes from there.

[@patrickrainville]

That sounds pretty awesome. Wishing you all the best with it!