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We’re taking on our first song from this classic Capcom RPG series: The Battle Begins from Breath of Fire!

Not to be confused with Let the Battles Begin! from that other game. You know the one. There’s no permission for these battles.

Originally, this is a really cool battle theme, but to me it suffered from one major problem: it has a rather abrupt loop point… like it almost feels like the song is unfinished. Enter this arrangement!

I moved the final section of the original loop back a little bit to let the first couple of sections after the intro play again (with a slightly altered strings melody the second time), then brought that final section back but added a lot more to it, which makes this feel like a far more complete song now.

Plus you know, the usual GaMetal shenanigans.

I know there are some diehard classic BoF fans out there that’d like to see me return to this series, fear not. I’m aware I at least need to do something from BoF 2 or 3. In time, friends! 🙂