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[pel1300]

I was listening to the main theme of FFV on youtube, and one of the comments said "This soundtrack was really inspired by the NeverEnding Story". I immediately thought "Yeah...sounds kind of like that adventure them when they are flying". So I googled it and found other people have noticed this as well.

Turns out there are more FF songs that sound a lot like The NeverEnding Story soundtrack:

FF Main theme:

NeverEnding Story the Auryn:


FFVII The Turks theme:

NeverEnding STory Swamp of Sadness:


FFV Ahead on Our Way:

Neverending Story flight theme:



Really surprised I never noticed this until now considering I loved both soundtracks as a kid (watched NeverEnding Story on VHS when I Was like 5 and started playing FF on SNES around 1992).

 

[HoodWinked]

ya surprising amount of well known stuff out of japan is heavily inspired/plagirized

Yuzo Koshiro


Yoko Kano


MGS

 

[pel1300]

ya surprising amount of well known stuff out of japan is heavily inspired/plagirized

Yuzo Koshiro


Yoko Kano


MGS

Good lord...a youtube comment on that Yoko Kanno vid pointed out how a song of hers called "Face On" (Wolf's Rain 2003) sounds the same as Craig Armstrong's "Finding Beautify" - one of my favorite songs.

I looked up the Wolf's Rain song and it's almost identical, especially at the 1:10 mark onward. Wow.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

A lot of iconic game tracks are heavily “inspired“ by other stuff to the point of borderline plagiarism. When I finally watched Top Gun (1986) and heard the credits song, I was like “holy shit that’s Ken’s Theme!”
Kondo, Uematsu, Koshiro, Shimomura, Mitsuda - all of the greatest Japanese VGM composers heavily borrowed from other tracks one way or the other. The real problem is how much this affects your enjoyment of the tracks once you know this. Is the music any less good because it’s clearly taken from another song? I don’t think so.

Good catch here, btw. I saw The Neverending Story several times before I got into gaming and way before I could play the FF games, so by the time I listened to the games’s music, my memory of the film’s music had long faded away.