This 12 months’s Royal Edinburgh Army Tattoo, the musical and navy efficiency going down in Scotland, featured Last Fantasy 7’s anti-military opening mission theme.
As reported by Eurogamer, the efficiency featured the ironic rendition of composer Nobuo Uematsu’s Opening – Bombing Mission, which is performed within the unique Last Fantasy 7 as the sport’s protagonists arrive to explode an power reactor.
The tune is clearly anti-military, given the sport is about combating towards the evil megacorporation Shinra and its navy group Soldier. The clip was shared on Reddit by Roshi20, and whereas many within the feedback expressed their pleasure at listening to the long-lasting tune, the irony wasn’t misplaced both.
“Army marching band enjoying a tune referred to as Bombing Run from a recreation the place terrorists bomb a navy set up. Ironic,” mentioned one consumer. “Nonetheless, that is cool.” One other added: “Thematically this is unnecessary, and but who cares. Epic.”
Last Fantasy 7’s protagonist Cloud really takes half in a navy parade later within the recreation, a bit that ought to seem within the subsequent a part of the Remake trilogy.
Half two, formally referred to as Rebirth, is because of launch in early 2024 and followers are already noticing references to the unique recreation in its advertising and marketing. A prolonged trailer from Summer time Recreation Fest gave followers their first correct take a look at the sport in a 12 months and got here on the finish of per week’s value of typically insightful however extra typically weird Q&A posts from Sq. Enix.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.
