This time, the Final Fantasy XIV community has outdone itself, with over 1,000 players joining professional vocalists to perform a version of the harmonic ballad Close in the Distance, in honor of composer Masayoshi Soken, who was working on the game in time. recover from cancer.
Alex Mukala, a music producer who performs remastered and remixed versions of famous video game themes on his YouTube channel, organized 1,000 FFXIV gamers, professional vocalists, and special guests to record Soken’s song, which appears in the Final Fantasy XIV expansion. Endwalker. The musicians performed their individual solo pieces and sent them to Mukala, who arranged them into an exciting new choral version. You can listen to the full song and watch the attached video below.
In 2021, at the closing of the Final Fantasy XIV Digital Fan Fest, Masayoshi Soken, who is also working on the upcoming Final Fantasy XVI and previously composed music for the Drakengard series, announced that he had battled cancer his entire life throughout 2020. Working alongside Square-Enix executive Naoki Yoshida during his seven-month hospital stay, Soken wrote the breakthrough song for the Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers expansion titled To The Edge.
“I didn’t want to just sit around and do nothing, like Yoshida-san and our CEO,” Soken explained at Fan Fest 2021. “So they thought we could have a special arrangement while he was in the hospital. Seeing the reaction of all the players in the world helped me beat this cancer.”
Mukala hopes to use the community version of Close in the Distance to raise money for charity, explaining that every time fans watch the video, they are “doing their part to make a positive impact”.
“In honor of the history of Soken”, they write“I will do my best to monetize this video for good charities.”
Source : PC Gamesn
