So I have started playing Blue Fields from Final Fantasy with my piano teacher this week, and I while I haven’t played the game research suggests that Blue Fields is the overworld theme for FF VIII. With this in mind, I’m very curious if there’s any meaning or symbolism behind the name Blue Fields as a track name.
The wiki is not very helpful here, as it just says that BF is considered to be unofficially the main theme of FFVIII, despite Nobuo Umematsu stating this is not the case.
In addition, screenshots seem to show the grass to be green with a notable absence of e.g. blue flowers.
Is anyone aware of any lore behind the name of this track at all?
Specifically, I mean this track: ost, piano collections.
Many thanks :D –An avid Final Fantasy music fan
I was hoping to see the kanji for the name, as many things we would call green in English are blue in Japanese (a number of languages do this or the opposite). For example, Japanese traffic lights have ‘go’ referred to as ‘blue signal’. However, the OST list from their website for FFVIII has all English titles :/
https://www.jp.square-enix.com/music/lineup/item/SQEX-20067.html
This is because it’s not been until recently that the Japanese have started using a word for the colour green—“midori”—which itself is purely a descriptive word rather than a word for. They had only ever had a single, shared word for both green and blue—“Ao”—so green was always thought of a shade of blue (and I can see why).
The chances are is that the English translation for Blue Fields is either a mistake by using literal translation, or intentionally done so to keep that language reference/descriptor.
It looks like this is one of those things that never had names in Japanese to begin with (at least not externally). Most of the packaging for the OST is in English. Here’s another example.
