OH, SO CLOSE!
When I was first listening to it, I thought this had BRILLIANT potential.
I am a Sephiroth worshipper, and I was all ready to hack the news media's sites and slip this into a supposedly "live" video... and then the vocals came.
T_T
These vocals were okay... but they echoed the slightest bit too much, or at least, the instruments were not loud enough to cover the echoes up as they did in the other versions. And that made all the difference.
As well, they were much too loud, nor did they match the 8-bit feel of all this.
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((General translations, may not be literal))
Estuans interius, ira vehementi.
Burning inside with violent anger.
Sors immanis et inanis.
Fate, monstrous and empty.
Veni, veni, venias, ne me mori facias.
Come, come, O come, do not let me die.
Gloriosa... Generosa...
Glorious... Noble...
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The veni, veni, venias part is overlapped with Gloriosa-Generosa sopranos in the original version. And they are not here. *cries*
If only the vocals were done better... =(