One listen which I sort of threw myself into. Perhaps not as much as I should have or would have liked, but it was far more so than in recent times.

Other than knowing this is used in a game, I have no context for this song, and I think that helped. Sometimes it doesn’t, but here it did. I was mostly able to switch off and be more honest with my writing, so to speak. What I wrote is representative; perhaps not in the most accurate way, but it is representative of the song.

Mitsuto Suzuki’s (鈴木光人) “Meeting You” (“あなたに会えて”) is from the soundtrack for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Original Soundtrack. The soundtrack is comprised of compositions from Masashi Hamauzu (浜渦 正志), Naoshi Mizuta (水田 直志) and  Mitsuto Suzuki.

I hope you enjoy.

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Something sentimental and, perhaps, wistful, drifts upon keys playing into the air. They seem to fill and gently flow as the melody plays out, and seemingly an anchoring of lower notes creates some sort of approaching offness. Gradually the keys seem to move closer to the ground before taking off with greater thrust.

Perhaps thrust isn’t the best way to describe it, but it certainly is a reaching outward, and the dramatic expansion continues on before another thud on the ground which seems to more things into another perspective… almost. They come to an end that seems fitting.

Strings now come in whilst something pulses behind. It pulses gently, and this seems to further look into sentimentality, but with something else behind it. Maybe a sense of violence; it is hard to tell. It is thin and singular, yet full.

Those strings disappear and that pulsing comes a little more forward. Keys return and seem to move with the background, and then strings return and it all congeals and seems to rise, or reach outward once more, and this grand richness of drama and emotion comes forward, seemingly about to explode. The strings then disappear, the keys seem to shimmer away and the pulsing which reveals itself as something less so and more smooth lingers on as some bright memory. Something rumbles for a moment, then what is left moves to silence and the song ends.