Final Fantasy IV Fan Archives

The Celtic Moon CD contains music from the game Final Fantasy IV played by an Irish band. All tracks composed by Nobuo Uematsu, arranged by Marie Bhreatcach.

Tracks list	also known as
1. The Prelude	~ FF Crystal Theme
2. Prologue	~ Final Fantasy
3. Chocobo-Chocobo	~ Chocobo theme
4. Into the Darkness	~ Cave theme
5. Main Theme from Final Fantasy IV	~ Map theme
6. Welcome to Our Town!	~ Town theme
7. Theme of Love	~ Rosa's theme
8. Melody of Lute	~ Edward's theme
9. Parom & Polom	~ Palom & Porom
10. Giotto, The Great King	~ Castle of Dwarves
11. Dancing Calcobrena	~ Calbrena theme
12. Mystic Mysidia	~ Mysidia Town theme
13. Rydia	~ Rydia's theme [!]
14. Illusionary World	~ Summonned Monsters
15. Troian Beauty	~ Toroia Town theme

Review:
The first thing that strikes with Final Fantasy IV - Celtic Moon's sound is that it was never intended to sound much like the game... The harmonics are there, but the rendition is really more celtic than orchestral, which will feel fresh and different to hardcore fans, but newcomers may feel lost at the change of setting. All tracks have been heavily enhanced with new segments, rating from decent to very good depending on the songs, although in some cases they tend to break with the feel that is expected out of a certain song, making the CD sound like a party soundtrack at times...

The Final Fantasy IV soundtrack still is, to my opinion, the best soundtrack in the series, therefore I will state once that the music is wonderful and then stick to the actual rendition of it. The music is wonderful. There. About the rendition, there is very little that can be said about any track that does not apply to the whole disc, so here's just the few specifics I can come up with: Track 4 was made into some kind of a waltz; track 7 has a nice new intro; track 13 is a blast.

This is not a CD for everyone, but if you've loved the FFIV CD the way I did, or if you want to complete your collection, you could actually do much worse.