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This song is really underrated from the FF14 ending themes in my opinion, as the other songs hit much more in the feels with the story that ended with each expansion – but I really like Revolutions!
Especially "One mother's pride is another mother's sorrow" is so true and so much pain ♥
Thanks xd!
Songs mentioned in this video;
Celtic Woman – Scarborough Fair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiZJP_XLmrQ
Simon & Garfunkel – Scarborough Fair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ccgk8PXz64
After hundreds (maybe thousands) hours of playing FFXIV, I'm still amazed by the soundtrack, can't wait for Endwalker to come out to get tons of new songs.
I'd really like to see you listening to Divinity Original Sin 2 Ost, but I just can't choose which one to recommend first.
"Mead, Gold and Blood", "DOS2 – Main Theme" or "The Queen's High Seas", pick whatever you want.
All of those moods you mentioned are part of it. The Stormblood expansion is at its heart about two peoples who have been living under imperial oppression for over a generation, and thematically focuses a lot on their downtroddenness and how many of the people are hesitant to join the resistance because they've experienced a failed rebellion and being crushed. But obviously being a video game we do rally them together and successfully rise up. The expansion itself is probably the most mixed as far as reception goes, thematically it's great, but it's suffered from pacing issues and probably just them being overly ambitious. I think they could have done the idea justice if they had the budget they do now.
I will say that 2nd hand I've heard from players who have seen oppressive regimes in their real lives, that the portrayal in game of people's willingness to accept oppression for the sake of survival really resonated with their real world experiences, which I think says a lot about the care the developers took in their portrayals.
The man in armor is named Zenos yae Galvus, Prince of Garlemald & potential heir, & Viceroy that rules the conquered nation of Ala Mhigo. He is… Summed up in a word. Combatsexual.
Its the theme of Stormblood, and plays during the credits.
Probably wasn't requested as much because because Stormblood is considered the weakest link of the game.
Please react to Persona 4 Almighty
She really hammered the whole vibe of an uprising in her voice.
Thank you so much for this! It is an underrated song especially because of the expansion being the least appreciated among the community, but the music is still outstanding as always and is echoed throughout the expansion in many leitmotifs. By the way the cool guy in the armor you asked about is Zenos! 🙂
I think someone probably already said so, but glad you're listening to all these tracks before someone goes about requesting Footfalls because it references all these expansion tracks in it and definitely echoes the story all these tracks have into it. Can't wait to see you react to that eventually!
A crab i missed, oh well…
this plays during the credits of stormblood, an expansion about 2 nations (ala mhigo and doma) winning back their freedom from 20 and 25 years respectively of garlean rule. you probably get that drummer boy vibe from the song because the expansion is very political. the resistances of 2 nations are waging war against their oppressors to drive them out of their homes. the blond is the main focal point of the ala mhigan side, being the daughter of the former leader coming back home with her friends (player character in main pcs) to fight for "liberty or death". the samurai with a black ponytail is the current leader of doma, taking over after the battles due to his father the previous leader dying from a failed revolution before the start of the story.
Song from the best expansion so far
I forgot how good this song is until I heard it again here.
As always love your reactions, not only the FF ones (want more yakuza plz)
Also, speaking of FFXIV you reacted to the endwalker theme, but with the release trailer in the background. Now you can find a version with just the song if you want to update that reaction. Personally I would love that but it's just a comment on my end
Has anyone requested you to react to "tomorrow and tomorrow"?
Well, I was about to go to sleep since it's 12:59 AM. However, it looks like your video premiered 58 minutes ago. So I'm not going to sleep
Its sound like 2 people or group of people who just have to fight even if they have feeling for eachother or dont really want to do it but they just have to.
For me this song has a vibe that tends to remind me of les miserables, even before keeping in mind Stormblood and the song in particular are about revolution.
You should also check out "The Measure of our Reach". It's from the same expansion and it may be difficult to keep yourself from standing up and doing a salute pose
I always felt like this song would fit well into something like Les Miserables.
Someone show him the Endwalker Singles that recently released on YouTube.
Definitely the most underrated of the FFXIV credits music, and while I don't like it as much as Dragonsong, it's still fantastic and thematically fulfilling. In context, it's the song after a war for an oppressed people that has been under conquered rule since… well, for years before we got to actually save them, hearing and seeing fleeing refugees' stories of their destroyed homeland. And finally uprooting that tyranny did feel so satisfying, even if it isn't THE best part of FFXIV's narrative.
I'd like to suggest that you one day listen to Azim Steppe BGM – Drowning in the Horizon. The Azim Steppe was included in the footage for this one and I remember when I first stepped foot there I've been stunned by the music.
"Tonight you need not walk alone"
That still hits me hard. Shivers every single time.
2:30 Zenos. The emperor's son. He lives and breaths violence.
Please react to the Final Omega boss 😀 it’s really epic!
Onoes, you listened to the short version… The long version is 7min long, but never found it on youtube sadly… It's on spotify in the Stormblood album though! It has more musical variations.
The militaristic drum patterns is kind of a signature in Uematsu's works and is recurring in a lot of his pieces when it's about war themes and conflicts. His main them for Lost Odyssey is very similar in essence, but perhaps more melancholic (also, Fire Above the Battle, short normal battle theme but just his best one). I strongly suggest Lost Odyssey in general for that I do think it's one of the best underrated works of Uematsu.
There's a longer version of this on Spotify, there's a whimsical middle section to bridge the two parts. You should check it out.
OMG Finally a Revolutions React ?! NOW IT'S MY TIME TO SHINE. You got to understand, it's my all time favorite expension theme ♥ (which doesn't mean I dislike the others oc.)
Seems like some people already gave you some pointers about it, my addition would be to tell you that we actually got the reveal of this video clip A MONTH before the release. So it was some kind of trailer (just like dragonsong with Heavensward), you can see footage from the 1rst part of Stormblood, and it gave us time to listen and listen again. So when the expension finally released, we could truly enjoy the moments when it's used on the background (as an instrumental version) and BY THE TWELVE it hits me every time.
Also, since she was not feeling well while they worked on the next expension, it is (for now) the last time we were blessed with Susan Calloway's voice.
Others have probably already explained it, but what you watched and listened to was essentially the ending of the Main-Story from the Stormblood Expansion of FF14. So yeah, it wasn't exactly gameplay, but the scenes you saw, ALL of them, were actual in-game cutscenes as we see them in the game from the main story quests (minus the obligatory ending-credits color filter, of course).
Yeah it's the black sheep of the FFXIV main themes. I actually especially love the instrumental version of this one. Uematsu has some amazing work throughout FFXIV, especially in 1.0. Answers is still amazing.
Stormblood is easily Final Fantasy 14's worst expansion. It is for reasons mostly excised by Shadowbringers, the expansion after Stormblood. Reasons such as borking over 8 classes in the game, among other things. Anyways…
Stormblood's story and music have its share of shortcomings. The main theme which is motifed to no end was so, very repetitive, short and meatless, very little was done with the theme outside of what had already been done. Where as with Heavensward and Shadowbringer it was the complete opposite. Before you know it, it gets comical thinking of the theme placing at many key moments of the story. Why? Let's just say for an epic theme, there isn't a whole lot of epicness going on most of the time. Pacing. Wheels spinning. That feeling of things taking too long because we still got a whole ass 2nd act. Then it's rushing to the end while attempting to emulate the pacing and issues it's had in the first 3/4s of the story. And more. It just doesn't hit hard.
Much of which does this song no favors. And when compared to Answers, Dragonsong or even Tommorrow Tommorrow? Blown out of the water easily. But you wanna know the BIGGEST reason why Revolutions isn't requested much?
Because it feels so disconnected from the rest of the game. Even though there is another version of this song that places frequently in the events of Stormblood. Or rather, it should have been played sooner, even if in segments.
well since you reacted to answers, dragonsong and revolutions…that leaves only tomorrow and tomorrow 👀 the video is spoiler heavy though
Very underrated song. Probably not requested more because, while still very good, it lacks something when compared to answers and dragonsong. This song and video is the launch trailer to the expansion stormblood, which is also a lesser praised expansion, which doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of ffxiv because it's still a really good expansion.
That song was the ending of Stormblood.
That song embodies the entire expansion
Yes! The song go through different moods like people go through their struggles and lyrics makes perfect image of duality of war and things. There is pain, sadness, loss, silence, tension and then, building a hope and determination. Song is vastly underrated due to how few times it shows in game compring to other major themes (some people hear it fully first time in credits, if they won't skip them), so people often don't even know about it ^^"
That was my character’s soulmate. And probably the most divisive character in the game. With the exception of a small minority, players either hate him with every fiber of their being, or like me completely love him.
Personally, I think calling him “combat sexual” is a huge discredit to his character. He was born a prince, but he was completely alone as a child. His mother died shortly after he was born, his father never had time for him, and his servants were basically robots. He was never allowed a childhood, never allowed to experience innocence and joy.
When he was 14, he got a new sword tutor, a man from an imperial province whose family was being held hostage in order to secure his cooperation. The tutor used the daily sessions as a “beat up the spoiled prince” time, using a technique that Zenos, as a Garlean, physically couldn’t use. Of course, that didn’t stop Zenos, who saw this as a challenge to rise to meet. He studied the technique every day, researched it, and even risked his life to force his body to cooperate and unleash it. This outraged the tutor, who then attempted to kill him, and Zenos triumphed. But then he realized there was no joy or glory in such an unfair fight, and for the next twelve years yearned for a worthy foe to clash with. Then he met the player character and found that opponent. Their “final” clash was the first and only time in his life that he felt truly happy, and it was so overwhelming that he killed himself in order to never lose that feeling.
Of course thanks to his great-grandfather’s meddling and a series of experiments he had performed on himself, his soul didn’t stay away very long.
This is imo my least favorite main theme out of all FFXIV expansions. That doesn't make it bad of course, it just felt pretty similar back then, of course with a entirely different theme than the other two etc but still.
With Shadowbringers they switched it up which REALLY fits the entire expansion because of it's different setting and overall very different mood, so it would've been cool if they maybe combined that style with Susan Calloway for Endwalker, since it's the finale of the current saga, but the Endwalker main theme is, of course, already really good too.
"That guy" is Zenos the Arch Villain in the story.
If you want more Susan Calloway performances she has provided vocals for versions of other FF tracks at the "Distant Worlds" live orchestral concerts.
Specifically
"Memoro de la Ŝtono ~ Distant Worlds (FFXI)" from Distant Worlds
"Suteki da ne (FFX)" and "A Place to Call Home – Melodies of Life (FFIX)" from Distant Worlds II
"Kiss Me Good-Bye (FFXII)" from Distant Worlds III
There is also a version of "Answers" on Distant Worlds III and a version of "Dragonsong" on Distant Worlds IV recorded at the concerts.
I like this song but I always keep expecting it to really pop off into a combat track. It's beautiful, but I appreciate the melody being used in combat themes as well
This guy looks like he'd enjoy RuneScape's 'The Glory of Combat', with full quality, on Yann's channel.
Koji probably wrote the lyrics to this. You've heard him singing in a couple other ones, but as he's normally the localization lead, so writing song lyrics in English is also in his wheelhouse.
tldr; Stormblood is amazing, just as amazing as the other expasions in my opinion and none is greater than the other.
Honestly I really, really loved the entirety of Stormblood. A lotta people like to compare all the expansions to eachother, but I kinda feel they're all telling such vastly different stories and tales it's almost hard to compare? They're all exceptionally amazing in many, many ways. I'd probably have to go through the stories again to come up with some negatives but I can't really think of much or anything that I disliked about any of the expansions.
To me, it's impossible to choose which is "best" because they're all insanely great stories being told and in different ways from one another that also get tied together almost seemlessly.
Anyways, thanks for reading the wall of text if you did. My rant is over and I appreciate your time.
(stormblood end of dungeon song Triumph is awesome and you should watch that, it's short and very energetic *I think is the right way to word it*)
"There's no talking while Susan Calloway is singing" Well then you should check Distant Worlds from FFXI, the song that at least for me summarizes the magic of any MMO.
One kingdom's fall is another kingdom's freedom
One sovereign's war is another sovereign's peace
One mother's pride is another mother's sorrow
Their tears both soak the land that they love
This part hits me so hard. This is storytelling through musical lyrics. Revolution may seem the weakest compared to Answers and Dragonsong, but it fits perfectly to the theme of Stormblood in which we liberated two nations from decades of oppression and colonization. You are right that the song has mixed of tones (not sure if I phrase it correctly) since it tries to reflect the duality of war. And that's why this song is so good.