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this was one of the most visually enthralling boss fights in the game when it came out. I RENDER UP MY ALL!! voice acted as the music peaked with the incredibly flashy visuals.
this is a pretty emotional song for me, and for Soken too, seeing as how he wrote this while in hospital fighting cancer at the time. as a bit of a remix of Shadowbringers, and has since had it's own remixed remix…in Endwalker, and that ticking clock in the background makes my hair stand on end!
What's happening in this song?
Nothing…just my tears.
Moar FF14! 😬
Time to Cat JAAAAAAAAAAAAM
it would be interesting to hear your take on Hiroyuki Sawano, I believe Re:Creators ost(and it's 2 opening songs) and the Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway movie ost (XI, the name of the song is xi, it's my favorite :P) are big representatives of his characteristic sound (I guess in my ignorance I would describe it as having a cold, metallic, synthetic, futuristic quality but it's not lifeless, it got like some air or breathing to it that is more reminiscent of a fresh breeze on a rainy afternoon, night cold but not dead cold, I find it enjoyable and interesting but I'm unable to properly put it into words)
YOOO my goat vgm track
the part about the song being a reflection of Soken and his battle with cancer is one that many players have felt as well. in the in game lore side of things, the song represents the lives of an ancient peoples lost to memory and the desire of one of those ancients to bring back those lives even if it means destroying worlds to do so and for the particular boss this plays for, their desire is magnified by orders of magnitude by the souls of those that sacrificed themselves in the name of salvation. this isn't simply a good vs evil situation and you can't help but feel sorry for them.
Yeah I can only imagine his headspace writing this. The height of Japan's covid outbreak, no visitors and battling stomach cancer that was being hidden from a significant amount of his coworkers.
This is a song emphasize battling death and despair, making moral conflicts, in the ridge of broken body, mind even memories, thoughout unimagiable eras. In one hand, the villian (character of the song) tried to erase the world to save his own people, for he is the last of them; and the other hand, our hero, as his lesser succesor, defied the uncomparable strength and will, to defend our own and proved us worthy. An battle for duty, for pride, and for hope.
The tic-tac effect is a special trick. It is both nostalgic due to the background setting, and warning as if the last moment is chasing. Maybe it is hidden in all the scores and chords, but we players of the game are very aware of it.
A battle not of Light and Darkness, but one of two soul striving to save the people they love. One has nothing left to lose and everything to gain from this battle, while the other has nothing to gain, but everything to lose. This song isn't just for our foe, its for us as well.
I physically cannot listen to To the Edge without tearing up. It means so much to the players, the characters and Soken himself.
You know, to answer the question in the thumbnail? No, no he was very much NOT ok when he wrote this.
Good stuff <33
Heyya ! @AtlasBenighted
Thank you so much for the reaction n breakdown, which I greatly appreciate it.
So this track comes into Patch 5.3 of FFXIV: Shadowbringers during a certain trial, which thematically and quietly literally fits with what’s going on.
It’s like a push, telling you to not give up whilst being on the edge, when what’s against you seems it’ll really win and it’s hopeless, and all odds are in favour of it…
But yet again, the track strongly emphasises to not give up there just yet, to keep kicking, fighting n screaming to see it through.
A lot of what you took to interpret with your tinfoil hat 🤣 was actually quiet abreast with what the theme’s meaning is. I’d add there is a lot of dualism and subtext that is also referring to the composer himself living “To the Edge”, at the time, and he’d kick it all out to push himself n everyone alongside forward, and be damned if he didn’t.
Not sure if this was a bit of passionate rambling but I hope I got the point across in a semblance 😭
I’m sure the others here can also add a lot more to the track’s meaning and more.
I very much appreciate it again for the reaction n breakdown, take care y’all ! ❤