Distant Worlds Baltimore

They did pretty well with the screen and game footage. There were a few things I thought they could have put up at certain points because I'm a nerd like that, but still it was pretty good and got the crowd to laugh a lot - often at the graphics of early FFs. Though when they played Don't Be Afraid, they showed a bit of Squall, Zell, and Seifer on that first mission talking with that dog that keeps parking, then they run off. (No music, so all you hear are the footsteps), and then they run around a bit until the battle transition comes up and the orchestra jumps right into it.

A little before that I think, Arnie was talking and started saying "As I was looking over our play list, I came across a song and wondered 'Why don't we do this? Its short, but iconic'. So I think we got it down and we'll just do real quick and I guess we'll just call it the Final Fantasy Victory Theme." And then he turned around and the orchestra just the 5 second fanfare to big cheers and then he continued to talking.

They also showed the E3 FFXIV trailer and a video message from Uematsu which was funny. Also the video during Swing de Chocobo was hilarious, looped footage of Boko running back and forth and they kept zooming closer and closer in. They also rewound and looped some Chocobo-running in FFX to make it look like dancing (why they didn't play the Chocobos dancing in VII I have no idea). The FFVI opera was also amazing, although they left the screen black for a lot of it and I thought they could have shown a lot more of the in-game opera.

FFVIII had a big presence for whatever reason, with 5 tracks played. Not a bad thing, just interesting when games like IX and X only got 1. The concert ended with Terra's Theme which I was happy about since its my favorite main/world map theme in the series, and they overlayed the credits to the concert on the opening scene of the Magitek Armors walking through the snow.

So he leaves and we all stand and clap and then he comes back out saying, "You've been a great audience so I guess we can do one more for you. ...And you know what it's gonna be." He spun around to, of course, the opening drums to One-Winged Angel to a deafening cheer, seriously, I was amazed, lol. About 30 seconds in, Sephiroth appears on screen to even more cheers. It was the scene, out of VII, where he walks up and tears the Jenova statue thing off. As it zooms into Jenova's head it transitions in the new version of the scene and shows Advent Children clips for most of the song. As it ends it shows AC's Sephiroth walking in the fire and slowly transitions back into FF7's version as he turns and walks away. Very very cool.