Faraway Promise
Faraway Promise | |
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Composer(s) | Yasunori Mitsuda |
Length | 1:52 |
Used in | Xenogears |
Other versions | SMALL TWO OF PIECES ~Broken Shards~ Möbius A Distant Promise - Piano Version - SMALL TWO OF PIECES - Orchestral Version - Wind from the Valley - A Distant Promise Small Two of Pieces -Screeching Shards- (20th Anniversary) A Distant Promise (Music Box Version) |
Faraway Promise (called A Distant Promise on the Revival disc, the in-game jukebox in Shevat, and Xenogears Vinyl - SHINKAKU -) is Disc 1, Track 6 on the Xenogears Original Soundtrack, Track 6 on the Xenogears Original Soundtrack Revival Disc -the first and the last-, and Track 5 of the B-Side of the first disc of Xenogears Vinyl - SHINKAKU -. It is one of the tracks playable in the Nortune jukebox (under the option 'Requiem'), as well as the Shevat jukebox.
SMALL TWO OF PIECES ~Broken Shards~ (and, by extension, Möbius, SMALL TWO OF PIECES - Orchestral Version -, and Small Two of Pieces -Screeching Shards- (20th Anniversary)) are vocal remixes of this track. In addition, Dark Daybreak, In A Dark Slumber..., and Wings all use a motif taken from this track's melody at 1:03. The track was remixed for the Xenogears 20th Anniversary Concert -The Beginning and the End- as the second part of Wind from the Valley - A Distant Promise, in addition to the versions mentioned below.
It plays as the music in the following cutscenes:
- Fei listens to the music box constructed by Kim. (Here, the music plays in-universe.)
- Fei momentarily sees a flashback of him as a child playing with his mother after falling in battle near the Kislev border.
- Rico remembers scenes from his young life after entering Kaiser Sigmund's room.
- Fei and Elly have a heart-to-heart while adrift at sea in Aquvy.
- Fei and Elly talk about the former being frozen in carbonite after the destruction of Etrenank.
- Lacan tells Sophia he needs to get more paint to finish the latter's portrait (flashback, Lacan's perspective).
- Lacan tells Sophia he needs to get more paint to finish the latter's portrait (flashback, Sophia's perspective).
- Fei regains the memories from previous Contacts of the various incarnations of Elly dying, telling him to live each time.
A Distant Promise - Piano Version -[edit]
A Distant Promise - Piano Version - | |
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Composer(s) | Yasunori Mitsuda |
Length | 2:14 |
Used in | Xenogears |
A Distant Promise - Piano Version - (called A Distant Promise -Piano Version- on Xenogears Vinyl - SHINKAKU -) is a remix of Faraway Promise. It is Track 14 on the -MYTH- The Xenogears Orchestral Album CD (it was not included on the vinyl release), and was also included as Track 5 of the B-Side of the second disc of Xenogears Vinyl - SHINKAKU -.
Album notes[edit]
- Album notes written by Yasunori Mitsuda. No official translation exists.
Original text
シタン先生の家のオルゴールで奏でられていた楽曲をピアノ アレンジしてみました。 音色が変わるだけで楽曲の雰囲気も 幾分変わるものですね。 この曲はゲーム開発でも最後の方 に作った楽曲なので、 (SMALL TWO OF PIECESは早い 段階で出来ていましたが、オルゴールバージョンとして作っ たのは最後の方なので) この曲を聞くと走馬燈のように、色 々な場面が甦ってきます。 ゼノギアスのアルバムの最後を飾 る楽曲として相応しいのではないでしょうか。
Unofficial translation
This is a piano arrangement of the song played on Dr. Citan’s home organ. With shifts in tone and vibe, the atmosphere undergoes a subtle change. This particular song, featured in the game's concluding scene (with "SMALL OF TWO PIECES" finalized during development, leaving the organ version for last), invokes a sensation akin to peering through a revolving door, witnessing an endless reel of past scenes unfold before you. It serves as a fitting finale to the Xenogears album.
A Distant Promise (Music Box Version)[edit]
A Distant Promise (Music Box Version) | |
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Composer(s) | Yasunori Mitsuda |
Length | 3:45 |
Used in | Xenogears |
A Distant Promise (Music Box Version) is a remix of Faraway Promise performed at the end of the Xenogears 20th Anniversary Concert -The Beginning and the End-, and is the 25th and final track on the associated Blu-Ray disc. It was played on an actual music box which was specially-constructed for the concert.