Final Fantasy 6 Composer Explains Why Vocals Were Added to Opera Scene In Pixel Remaster
Square Enix's Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series of games have been a surprising and delightful way to re-experience some of the first entries in the franchise. These Pixel Remasters update the first six games of the franchise, giving them stellar new pixel art work that are more faithful to the originals, add quality-of-life improvements, and even update the game's original music too. The last entry in this series of remasters, Final Fantasy 6 Pixel Remaster, was released a few days ago to the joy of fans on both Steam and mobile devices.
Plenty of changes also went into the Pixel Remaster of Final Fantasy 6, while other parts were retained from the original. For example, Sabin's incredible Phantom Train Suplex feat has been retained like the original, to a more faithfully translated version of the story that omits the censorship from the SNES release. However, one of the biggest changes made to the game is one of its most iconic scenes, the opera with party member Celes.
Final Fantasy 6 Pixel Remaster Makes Bizarre Change
Final Fantasy 6's opera scene has been radically changed where it would be more akin to Square Enix's other 2D-HD titles like Octopath Traveler. The scene now also features vocals, with voice recordings in seven different languages. In a new video from Square Enix that featured veteran composer Nobuo Uematsu, he pitched that since the original version didn't have vocals, it'd be nice if the Pixel Remaster did. He explained that this idea was suggested «half-jokingly» and that he believed that was initially impossible.
Uematsu however had the support of fellow co-director Yoshinori Kitase, where he explained that he helped actualize Uematsu's idea. Upon Uematsu receiving the data for all seven voice
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