If you already didn't know, Squaresoft makes the *best* role-playing games in the world. If you havn't played them yet, you should. Here are some of my favorite artwork and music, mostly from Final Fantasy III, my favorite game. Even if you haven't ever played these games, or don't like them (how couldn't you?), you should still check out the art and music. It is all very beautiful.
Most of the art is from The UnOfficial Squaresoft Homepage. The music I have gotten from all over the web, but the best Squaresoft sound page I have encountered is Impresario's Sounds of Squaresoft. You should go to both of these pages.
Celes, Sword Drawn, ready for battle
Edgar in Colorful, Royal Clothing
Edgar in Armor, with Sword on Shoulder
Terra Morphing into Esper-Very Cool!
Terra resting on Magi-Tech Armor-Big, but worth it.
Terra overlooking city on Magi-Tech Armor
Here is some of my favorite Squaresoft music. Unless specified, all of the music here is from Final Fantasy III. If you have the patience and hard drive space, I suggest downloading the digital samples over the MIDI ones, because they are much higher in quality. The MIDI ones, however, are only a few K, and download in a few seconds. The Digital ones are about a Meg at most, and take a lot longer to download. If there is both a MIDI file and a Digital file, download the MIDI first to see if you like it. If you really like it, then you can dowmload the larger one.
These files are in .WAV format. Cant Download these, blame Dragonfire. I got these from: Impresario's Sounds of Squaresoft and Impresario got them from the Video Game Music Archive on Dragonfire. You can also go there Impresario's download other musics. I have only included a some here.
Final Fantasy III Digital Tunes:
Memories of Daryl-A lovely, solemn, menancholy peice. I just love this song, and you will too. It's my favorite out of all of these. Only 354K! Please download me!
Forever Rachel-A wonderful, wonderful song. My second favorite.
Solemn Throne-Another very touching peice.
Gogo Theme-An upbeat theme, with a jazzy twist. Very nice.
Draco-Suspenceful orcestra music with lots of strings
Flute Solo-A beautiful flute solo from the oprea house senario. Very good on loop.
Atma Weapon-Exciting battle music from when you face the Atma Beast.
Dancing in the Opera House-Nice waltz music from the opera house dancing scene.
Crazy Old Man Theme-Anytime someone a little bit insane comes into the game, this silly music plays.
Phantom Train-The Phantom Train music alternates from intense to peaceful many times for a nice effect.
Snow Walk-The inchanting introduction to Final Fantasy III
Zozo Theme-A cool, rock/jazz theme for a city of crime.
Techno de Chocobo-The Chocobo music from Final Fantasty III. A "must have" for all Chocobo fans.
Chrono Trigger Digital Music
Queen Zeal-Erie, sinister music for an evil Queen.
Spekkio-Happy music! 'nuff said.
The Magical Kingdom of Zeal-A mystical theme for a mystical place.
Algetty-Song of strange discovery and adventuring.
Magus-Royal sinister boss music for a unque character.
The Darklich-This is from Secret of Mana. Really cool techno stuff.
Dark Lich-From Secret of Mana, this is the coolest MIDI I have. Download it now. It's only 2K (like most MIDI files).
Kefka music, piano only-This is great backround music. Very nice.
Underwater Palace Remix-A remix of a cool Chrono Trigger song, better then the original, but not too deviant.
Classic Chocobo-From Final Fantasy II.
FF3 Chocobo-The best MIDI Chocobo music I have.
Hell Chocobo-Hardcore Chocobo music (not really).
Macarena Chocobo-For you Marcarena fans (whom should be shot).
50's Chocobo-Give the familiar theme a "Doo-wah" feel.
Polka Chocobo-Uhh...polka Chocobo music.
Phantom Forest-Music from the Phantom Forest. Very nicely done.
Memories of Daryl MIDI-Good still, but do yourself a favor and get the digital version.
Forever Rachel-Another lovely one. Check out the digital one if you like this.
Gogo Theme-A happy, funny and upbeat song.
Kefka's Tower-A sinister march.
Main theme-FF3's main theme. Very nice.
Esper Seal-The Espers are loose! Sounds of chaos and confusion.
Umaro's Theme-Clownish antics music, done very well.
Zozo music-A cool, rock/jazz theme for a city of crime.
Zozo music enhanced-A larger, better mix of the same song. Rivals the digital version.
Figaro Castle, piano only-Very nice, magestic music.
Town Theme-Very happy, cheery music.
Upper Forest-Strange music with lots of out-of-key flutes.
Music-Well, it's music alright.
Crono Theme-The hero's theme, very nicely done.
Crono Theme 2-Same theme, not done as well.
1000A.D.-Very good, some of my favorite music in the game.
Ending Music-It's the ending music, quite beautiful.
Mystic-Mystical music, often played around that weird blue thing that is always sleeping.
Underwater palace 2-Not as good as the one in my Top Three list, but still good.
Janus-A good song
Epilouge-Chrono Trigger's
Squaresoft Music
Digital Music
MIDI Music
MIDI music isn't quite as good as digital music, but it's a hundred times smaller. These are in .ZIP format, which makes it a pain for me, but saves you a lot of download time. Arn't I nice guy? Most of these are only a few K, so download 'em like crazy. If you want the whole pack of them, just email me, and I'll send them along.Top Three MIDIs
Chocobo Music MIDIs
Final Fantasy III MIDIs
Secret of Mana MIDIs
Chrono Trigger MIDIs
Final Fantasy II MIDIs
Dread-Suspensful music. Very good.
Evil-When evil strikes...
Prelude-Classic Final Fantasy tune.
FF2 Theme-Final Fantasy II's unforgettible, magestic theme.
That's it for now, I'll be putting up more stuff as I go along. If you would like to see some specific things, just email me, and I'll try to put it up. I have TONS of stuff, and access to even more.
Doug Hargrave (huladog@midwest.net)
