 In late 2005 was announced Gackt's involvement with the "Final Fantasy VII" franchise, for a Square Enix PlayStation 2 video game "", released on January 26, 2006.Gackt composed and performed two theme songs for the game, "Longing" and "Redemption", and were released as a single, separately from the games's original soundtrack, but were included in its release a month later.For the game's ending theme, "Redemption", the staff originally planned for it to be a ballad, but Gackt decided to make it a rock song instead.