14 minutes • March 28, 2018
"Dearly Beloved II" is our second version of Shimomura's iconic "Dearly Beloved" melody, following the one we first created in LIGHT. For DARKNESS, we decided to write a theme and variations of all the different "Dearly Beloved" arrangements that we've been given throughout the games, melded together in a way that tracked the history of the series. Of note: every single character in Kingdom Hearts is quoted somewhere throughout this piece in some form—we thought it might be fun to hide them around! You may also notice an additional original melody that we often paired with "Dearly Beloved" in order to help link the arrangement together as a cohesive whole. Thank you for listening to DARKNESS; we hope you enjoyed the stories we told in the various tracks throughout this collection!
Appears on Project Destati: DARKNESS
| SHIMOMURA YOKO | Composer | |
| WALT DISNEY MUSIC COMPANY | Original Publisher |
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