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Upon reading the comments, I'm absolutely floored that I somehow caught the emotion of the song when my mind was completely adrift.
Thank you for the insights, comments, subs, likes… it's all kinda overwhelming to me.
If you wanted to know what I was referring to, here's a short video briefly talking about the situation.
Thanks for sharing this with me <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWxdlsiZaSc
I love how deep the meaning in FFXIV music is…even to those that maybe not play it. Its amazing <3
Okay I know this is a real oldie but maybe try out King's Quest vi's "Girl in the Tower"(1992) it's basically the grandpappy song to all modern game ballads(there was a documentary that it was the first in game power ballad that even got shipped to radio stations and had a music video)
Some themes you may find interesting that I can think of is "The Queen Awakens" (Delubrum Reginaie's Final Boss' Theme) and "The Wrath of the Harrier" (Diablo Armament's Theme). "Shadows Withal" (Akaedemia Anyder's theme) could be a really nice change of pace too, "From the Dragon's Wake" (Seiryu's Theme), "Sunrise" (Suzaku's Theme), "Rise" (Alexander Prime's Theme) WITH timestops, those are like half the charm (to the point they are done live when Soken plays with his band, The Primals) too
Had a big stupid smile on my face when you picked up on the theme of the song being a new beginning.
one pretty awesome boss theme I would love to see you do is "Fiend" for the boss Sephirot (Completely unrelated to FFVII Sephiroth). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9f44iJftVM
To add to what others have said, Answers is basically a prayer from people that are facing their inevitable ending asking their creator why, the female is the voice of the goddess answering and basically easing them into their fate. It's very emotional for players since it captures the main motif of the game and even more to the 1.0 players that are canonically survivors of the calamity. You pretty much nailed the emotion in it.
I never get tired of hearing Answers, and this is the first time I read all the lyrics, really love the existenciallism of it.
I was thinking, it might be interesting to see you react to a song from Genshin Impact, the music really is one of it's stronger parts, but I don't know which on to suggest, I guess if anyone has a suggestion you can leave it under this comment.
It blows me away how exactly you picked up on the exactitude of the theme and spirit of the song. And I feel you on the ending/beginning you mentioned you're going through. I went through something similar just over three years ago. Nearly ended up homeless and got some unexpected help to put me back on my feet. And now I'm flourishing. I hope the same is/will be true for you, man. You seem like a genuinely good guy.
And, to plug it again, Insatiable from XIV. I'd be very interested to hear your insights, seeing how good you are at picking up the soul of a song, even coming to it blind.
Great video, as always.
While I am a big fan of FFXIV music and hope you keep listening to more of it I’d also recommend some Music from Warhammer games.
The Imperial Guard theme from Dawn of War I and Noosphere from Mechanicum are two I think you’d really like.
Another great reaction. As stated you nailed the feeling of the song, which means two things. 1) the song is a success in transmitting the feelings it's supposed to. 2) you know your music to be able to pickup on the feelings and the fact that it resonates with you on s personal level elevates this even more.
This song and Dragonsong were composed by Uematsu, the now retired main composer of the final fantasy franchise. As a franchise FF has lots of great songs. Some of the most famous and my personal favourites after XIV are "One Winged Angel" and "Dancing Mad", my wife loves "Eyes on Me". So those are some recommendations from more FF titles
I could tell it made you emotional actually, it's the eyes, they always tell even when we try or cannot show it.
As for the song itself, others have given the out of game context, so here are my two cents on the song itself; The words Susan calloway sing are – at least based on how i see it – those of the Mother Crystal Hydaelyn, basically what amounts to capital g God in ff14. they are words of warning, words of teaching, words of sorrow.. words of hope. So hear. Feel. Think. as she asks all of us to do in our first meeting.
Forgive the wall of context text.
Now for abridged In game context: Aether, the very lifeblood of the world, had been leaving areas, entering Dalamud (the big meteor thing) and causing life itself to stop working properly. (essentially, i could go deeper, but hey, let's keep it to that.)
The Warriors of light, players of the 1.0 version of the game, had thought they stopped dalamud when they removed the machine calling it, but alas, there was nothing to stop it at this point, doom was coming.
A man from the scholar nation of Sharleyan had a solution however, to do what amounts to a hail mary, Summoning the very gods the people believe in (The crystal being sort of like a high god, separate from the others. if that makes it easier to understand) to try to stop the doom that was on it's way, hindering a similar event to what this world had seen many a time, an age ending Calamity.
The attempt almost succeded, gathering the very aether offered in supplication to those gods into one great binding spell; but it's power was not great enough to stop a furious beyond belief and powered up to the max Elder primal: Bahamut. (The most powerful summon in many older ff games)
He began a Calamity, washing the world in fire. The man, Louisoix Leveilleur, used some of the power from the failed spell to send the warriors of light into a rift outside time; to sleep until the world needed them, in the process, making everyone forget their faces, names and so on. This is where the original ends (at least as the events here are concerned)
What follows is spoilers for the raid Coils of Bahamut… but then again, this is the full cutscene… sooooooo.
What actually occurred, as is shown in this, the full cutscene; is that praying for deliverance from the calamity, for eorzea… Louisoix pulled into himself all the power that was left from the binding spell, throwing himself at Bahamut in a fury and filled with determination to end the calamity before it really began. Somehow, with visions of a great phoenix in the skies, he managed to mortally wound the great dragon, causing the Aether stored within it to return to the realm; and so most did; but not all.
For in the final moments..
For the rest, see more about coils of bahamut, i ain't gonna spoil all of it.
That was such an amazing reaction and an absolute spot-on analysis of the emotional stakes of the song that you gained this guy's subscription from that alone.
So for context about spcifically the lyrics, we in XIV are champion to Hydaelyn's–the goddess here represented by the female vocalist–will. Embroiled in war and calamity, the chorus (or the people who worship her) begin to doubt their role in her design and lose purpose. She spends the first half of the song attempting to persuade them to "walk free" that their tribulations and victories be their own, which is met with mild conviction.
It's in the second half that the roles are reversed; Hydaelyn now speaks and acts through chosen mortals, i.e. the player and the few others who can communicate with her directly. These people are active in the conflict of Hydaelyn's subjects and experience the same suffering. It's only in response to this mutual experience that the people propagate Hydaelyn's teachings, and, finally singing in unison, Hydaelyn and her people reach their answer together.
The intent of this song is sort of analogous to the situation at Square Enix surrounding XIV. 1.0 launched in the sorry state it did because the devs thought they understood the player experience without regard for precedent or external input. 2.0 was successful because Yoshi-P, who understood the MMO experience having grown up playing them, forged a line of communication between the dev team and the players, which has only grown stronger through the years and is absolutely what's allowed the game to flourish.
I agree that the song is a rollercoaster, especially for the players of the game, mainly because this song signifies the end of 1.0 and the start of what we have now.
Tho on a different note, since you probably want to know the full range of music that we have in the game you should listen to "Ink long dry".
Said song is "just" BGM in a dungeon… a dungeon that is a gigantic Library.
I also think that the song "Heavensward" would be nice for you.
God's bless you sir.
After hearing about what's been going on in your life recently and the way that this song resonated you, the only thing that makes sense to recommend next is "Tomorrow and Tomorrow". Hope it'll help to raise your spirits a bit higher.
hey it's ya boi uhhh random person on the internet saying again you should check out voracity by myth and roid
I always got the vibe of this song as a funeral dirge.
Also, not that I expect you to do it, lol, but my recommendations would be The Oath from FFVIII and/or You Are Not Alone from FFIX … some of my favorite songs! <3
My favorite FFXIV story track is Tomorrow and Tomorrow from the latest expansion. It's not quite as grand as Answers but it always punches me in the gut
For whatever it's worth, you earned my sub.
Nice reaction for this epic moment of history of this game.
I have a few propose for next reactions like music from Trials [like Garuda and Shinryu which u watched earlier]
1. Sephirot theme [second phase] named "Fiend" – u can find version with lyrics on youtube.
2. Sophia theme [very tragic motive] named "Equilibrium".
3. Ramuh theme "Thunder Rolls" [as remix on shadowsbringers he heave a new silly version "Eden Ramuh" named "Twice Stricken" [some hard remix [try if u like electronic music xD]
4. Its from Raid Alexander and song is named "Locus", all Alexander BGM are great and funny but Locus have most of all fans from Alexanders songs. [second is "Metal" in a tie with "Rise" xD]
5. Nice for u as a guitarist will be one from raids Omega Theme named "eScape".
6. Its from Trials theme of Lakshmi named "Beauty's Wicked Wiles" – nice light song 🙂
7. This time 3 songs because they are for the same "primal" Themes of Shiva first "Footsteps in the Snow" [its a 1 phase of boss] next "Obvilion" [old version its a 2 phase of Shiva on old 50lvl trial] and new [from shadowbringers] "Return to Obvilion" – i have strange feeling u will like them all xD.
8. Ravana Theme – its a Trial boss with nice song in second phase named "Unbending Steel".
9. Leviathan Theme named "Through the Maelstrom" – its have nice guitar rythm.
10. If u wasn't see take a Titan Theme – he have a few them but best are "Under the Weight" and from Eden version – u can find it as "Eden's Gate: Titan's Theme".
In FFXIV from that 10 years of game we have something like 50-80 great songs and BGM, which is super hard choose only 1-2 for recommendations – sorry xD
BTW in FFXIV we have nice part of NieR songs bc in FFXIV are crossover raids based on NieR series.
Edit – i forgot to mention "Edda's Theme" but its mainly for players because story about one small healer is really cruel and dark.
Sorry for my broken english, its not my native.
It's best that you did the version with lyrics so you can understand what's being said, but fyi the song isn't synced to the cinematic in that video. If you find the original cinematic from the official FFXIV youtube it's synced up and the timings are impeccable (i think the lyric version is off by about 6 seconds or so from what I remember.
In my personal headcanon, during the wait for Endwalker my main character had a baby. She sings this song to him as a lullaby.
For another FF, I think you would enjoy Hollow from the FF7 Remake. Also J-E-N-O-V-A from 7 followed by J-E-N-O-V-A Quickening from the Remake. Then 7 also has the classic One-Winged Angel (there a a ton of different versions of that as well, and they’re all fantastic.)
If you don’t know Final Fantasy, I’m guessing you also don’t know Kingdom Hearts. From that series I recommend Rage Awakened, Destati, Dark Impetus (aka L’Impeto Oscuro), Darkness of the Unknown (aka L’Oscurita del’Ignoto), Forza del Male, Forza Finale…and those are just boss themes. So much good music in that series.
You may not play ffxiv, but you are now one of us. You've heard, you've witnessed, you've felt what we have. We're glad you got to experience this!
Some people: "I don't feel anything when I listen to music."
Answers: "Excuse me, allow me to introduce myself."
Many find their emotions on this song because it was the end of 1.0 as you've been told but this song kills me for an entirely different reason.
This song is basically humanity struggling and asking their god why are they doing all this why is life pain and suffering. And the response is that such a question's answer is one we find collectively by seeing, feeling and thinking, hell, by living. Your purpose is one you can only find yourself with help of those around you.
Hence "Answer together"