The Color of the Summer Sky

February 28, 2021

The Color of the Summer Sky is the fastest paced and merriest of all of Square’s contemporary town themes. It plays into the motif of bright, breezy villages along the rustic path. Happy, hummable themes such as this one went out of style shortly after the time of Secret of Mana, and it shows in the remake.  They adapted the tune for this era with a more uniform approach to the sound and no shortage of in your face digital percussion. Like Together Always, it’s in line with reusable, nonspecific approaches, but I’m not sure it’s best for the situation. And like other remake tracks with this approach, the original theme gets pushed into the background like they’re too embarrassed that it was there in the first place. The first YouTube commenter said it best—“what were they thinking”?