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Alpha (the little chocobo) was created by Omega in its search for perfection after Omega traveled for thousands of years across space- losing track of its homeworld in the process, thus Omega came "From The Heavens". I believe that the meaning of "Torn From The Heavens" is the rebirth of XIV after the ending of 1.0 in which a moon was pulled out of the sky to destroy the land essentially. As for the meaning of the FF Prelude…(this is entirely my opinion on it) to me the prelude represents new beginnings, the birth of heroes and legendary tales.. and the fight with Omega can certainly fit this idea.
The songs used in From The Heavens: FF Prelude, Torn From The Heavens and The Maker's Ruin (this track is the other triumphant and upbeat melody that is 100% Warrior of Light's theme)… original music is used to weave all 3 of the above tracks together into the whole song.
Omega is a reoccurring super boss in the Final Fantasy series. It usually takes the form of a ancient combat robot or a kaiju. FF14's Omega is an extraterrestrial evolving combat AI that will not only change it's tactics but it's body. All in it's endless pursuit to become the strongest being in existence.
Hello World is the name of a complicated mechanic during that fight. You have to read a damn dissertation complete with diagrams to understand the mechanics of it. If i remember correctly the order of events can unfold in different ways so you kind of have to watch other party members to know what you are supposed to do. And after knowing what to do you have to be lucky enough to pull it off and hope everyone else did too
12:46 this is the Eorzean Symphony version, which is an actual orchestra and choir. The orginal for O12S was done part with live instruments but a vocaloid choir.
The Eorzean Symphony has lyrics written by the lead translator. The Eorzean Symphony tracks are used in the Ultimate fights, so it appeared in game in "The Omega Protocol".
The first version of the song, as per usual with some of the older orchestral choir tracks, used synthesized vocals that don't really say anything. Then later they record a version of the song with an actual orchestra and choir, and it usually is played in-game in a much harder version of the fight that gets released. That version has lyrics written and sung for it.
I don't think the Prelude is calling back to anything, it's just a VERY recognizable FF motif – more recognizable than the main theme of Final Fantasy – and they realized that placing it inside of big fights is a great way to immediately hook us in emotionally. We know that song from decades of playing the series, so we have a visceral reaction when it shows up.
The Orchestral version is a live recording. Sometimes the live orchestral versions or Primals versions are used in game.
Omega is one of my favorite characters in the game. It's a super death machine following its programming, but it was once a flesh and blood person, and Omega itself isn't entirely sure what it is anymore. It has crashed on our alien (to Omega) planet and lain dormant for millennia, before being awoken by bad guys. And while following its programming – to kill kill kill – it has a separate motivation… it thinks that by doing so, it will be able to somehow go back home. It thinks it can go back to its home planet in the heavens.. but its civilization died a long, long time ago. The tragedy of Omega is that it still remembers (maybe – it isn't clear how much of its memories are memories and how much is programming) its past and believes it can go back.
I never realized how much the opening sounds like a Nier song
Thank you for doing the FFXIV reacts. There are a lot of cross overs from other FF games in FFXIV so you will see bosses from across the spectrum as well as remakes of old FF music as well, such as the battle on big bridge from the Hildibrand quest line came from FFV where you fight Gilgamesh on both. There are also a few instances where Soken has taken two to three other songs and blended them together into one for a specific fight, the Long Fall in the Twinning, and To The Edge from the Seat of Sacrifice as call back to what has happened with the story. The chocobo you are seeing is Alpha and was a creation of Omega for the players to interact with as a pull into the trials. From the heavens is a reference to where Omega came from, space.
Recently did a mount farm for the mount from this fight. I was one of the lucky few to get it as we ran out of time. Hearing the music in the proper context was awesome
For a little context, Omega is a nigh omnipotent machine that can travel between dimensions and manipulate matter, and its prime directive is to evolve and get even more powerful. The raid series goes through various bosses Omega recreates from "other dimensions" (ie other FF games). The chocobo Alpha is from a spinoff game series called Chocobo's Dungeon, in which Omega also appears. This Omega created Alpha because it wanted to study the apparently weak chocobo to find out how it could possibly defeat another incarnation of itself.
Pretty much the feeling is correct that this is two songs in one, see, the song is played over the final battle with Omega weapon, who at that point has studied your character exhaustively and is now attempting to recreate itself as basically a clone of you to become more powerful.
So on one side of the song is a perverted Omega version of your theme as the warrior of light (aka, torn from the heavens) on the other is the pure version of the theme, signifying you fighting back against Omega despite the odds being against you.
its funny how he asked about when it was looping was when it looped
it never gets old ever!!! XD
Our group fought this piece for something like 8 months before we got the clear and the OST never got old to me haha
The boss got very old.
"Why does he look like Cid?" Because that's Cid Garlond, chief engineer or Garlond Ironworks! The two who rode in on the dragon at the end also have familiar names! 😁
"I'm more interested in the visuals" seems you have to finally start playing FF xIv so you know what's going on there 😉
Yep I really love this one for combining Torn from the Heavens with Maker's Ruin.
On a side note I hope someone requests city or zone themes at some point. I do love the game's battle music but those are super good too.
Actually my favourite one
What a banger
I love this song, All this song is a dialog between Us, Warrior of Light, Hero of this world ( Torn from the Heaven is our theme) and Omega's who tries to understand us, mimic us without managing to.
I love it, such a strong meaning in the song alone.
The prelude theme is the title screen music from the original FF1 for the NES, composed by Nobuo Uematsu, and has been part of the title theme, among other themes, in virtually every FF game since. It's heard on the character select screen in FF14. Typically, when it's added into a boss fight, it's a bit of an audio meme meant to embody heroism; in ff14, it typically crops up when the fight in question is a 'do or die' kind of world-ending situation – the final boss of an expansion, raid, or alliance story, usually.
They also throw it in when they just wanna up the badass factor.
The part that starts at 3:48, where is that from? Not talking about the prelude notes, but the vocal melody. I never played FFXIV but I'm 100% sure I heard that melody somewhere else. This is driving me crazy.
Sadly "Hello World" is not a funny message but the start of one of the worst / hardest mechanics in the game 😀
Why does he look like Cid? Cause he is, they love to make Cid a reoccuring character.
"I wonder when the loop will happen"
The loop: just happened 3second ago
That was funny 😆💙
No but seriously, this OST goes so fucking hard, I've yet to be blown away the same yet (and this fight was from 5 years ago). Even without the meaning behind the melodies (that everyone has already explained, thanks everyone!!) anyone can see how much of an insane battle ost it is. So raw, so powerful. But WITH context? It's shivers all the way for 10mins+
Alpha is best Chocobo. All praise Alpha!
I've seen people say that this is WoL theme but i would say that it's Omega's instead. You kinda hear the desperation in one part of the soundtrack. And when you finally get the Omicron story from EW you can kind of understand where the desperation to succeed, to defeat the WoL comes from.
It was so funny when you said "why does he look like Cid" and then Cid pops out of Alpha's head (the chocobo's name) lol
Jesse be like "why the hell is there a baby chocobo running in space?" and you realise this game doesn't make any sense from an external point of view ^^.
"Looks like a fever dream'
You just explained the entirety of FF14.
What's going on? You're gonna have to play it 😂.
Many people would like to feed :p
Omega Weapon is Omega, and as a machine boss its fight literally does have a Hello World phase. The variations are likely due to one being for the Ultimate version of the fight versus the original Savage mode. The chocobo I think is actually a reference to the FF5 chocobo friend of Bartz, but basically he's an ally in our fight against Omega. To demonstrate solidarity, he 'joins' the engineering company founded by Cid, but I won't say much more about his role in the conflict. Oh, but I will say that his name is Alpha. Alpha vs Omega.
Well, technically this is not from the Omega Protocol ultimate, but from the 12th turn of Omega. The version that plays in the Omega Protocol is a studio improved version of a live performance of the Orchestra eorzea, so whilst it is the same song, it does sound a bit different due to it being a live performance.
Also pretty funny how he wonders when the loop happens at the exact same moment it happens :'>
Omega, as in the Omega you fight in FF14 comes from FF5. Omega weapon has appeared in other games but are not really related to the FF5 Omega. When it comes to the prelude I think you would have to ask Soken and Nobue for that one. When it comes to Nier and Weight of the World I think they added it just to make it into a distinct Final Fantasy version, it's an easy thing to add just to make it feel very Final Fantasy.
Hello World is the name of one of mechanics/boss attacks ;p
Some people thinks that torn from the heaven is the warrior of light's theme (our character). That explains why it sounds in really important moments or when you're fighting against someone who's trying to use your same power (like in the case of Omega who tries to imitate your skills).
The reason a lot of the XIV OST uploads are so long partially has to do with SquareEnix's content guidelines, which requires that music uploads have to be accompanied by gameplay.
Thus a lot of uploaders find it simplest to just upload the song alongside footage of the content it featured in, which in lot of these cases is the entire boss fight or phase of it.
To get into what the actuall frick happend in this fights is kinda hard as it heavily borrows from older Final Fantasys and also includes FF XIV specific things.
Its an actuall blast to expierience and initself more of a reason to play the game
As for the First fight and why it didn´t end
It´s an so called "Ultimate" Fight those are fights specificaly designed to be as hard as possible and are basically the absolute endgame in PvE each fight consists of many phases including many bosses in one go (for example in the Ultima weapon Ultimate fight you have to battle against Titan,Ifrit,Garuda and Ultima Weapon) Omega afaik skips that and has only its final form netting an extremly long healthbar. Each Ultimate takes quiet some time to kill with routhly 15min of gameplay were every member needs to carry their weight and a single mistake can wipe the party if unlucky leading to having to repeat the whole battle
Omega comes from FF5. He also appeared in FF11, FF12, FF13-2 as a DLC boss encounter, and of course FF14. It also shows up as a cameo in some of the remakes of the older FF games and in most of the cross-over games. Omega and Gilgamesh (also from FF5) have basically void-transportation powers, which is why they so commonly show up in cross-over games.
The original From the Heavens was arranged by Yoshitaka Suzuki and Soken. I think you've listened to quite a few of Suzuki's works and this just screams his style. The original isn't quite "orchestral" because it wasn't recorded using an actual orchestra. I believe there were no real instruments used, and even the "chorus" vocals were generated using software. The orchestral version (actual orchestra) was orchestrated by Sachiko Miyano, one of if not the best orchestrator.
Hey, I just finished TOP a few days ago. Good timing.
To answer some of your questions:
1. Prelude tends to play in songs when you're having an epic battle or something epic is happening in the scene. Also sometimes if it just sounds good in the song; Soken really likes the Prelude, after all it's just so iconic.
2. Torn from the Heavens came first, heard several times back in A Realm Reborn; meanwhile From the Heavens is heard in Stormblood(this fight however, is the Ultimate difficulty version, which is kind of like a medley of fights, and that came out somewhat recently in Endwalker), it's called "From the Heavens" because Omega is a combat AI from another world, a world of machine life that once upon a time was weak, then they started to "evolve" and ever since their only goal is to become the strongest by conquering everything in their path. Omega followed the Dragon Midgarsormr(the one you said you recognize, although the Dragon you see here is not the same but that other dragon's brother) back to our world when Midgardsormr was fleeing his world after the Omicrons(Omega's race) invaded their world and made it uninhabitable.
3. The Chocobo was a basically familiar created by Omega, his name is Alpha(he's the bestest boy), and he tries his best to help us in the long string of fights posed to us by Omega, finally fighting Omega itself when it deems us worthy enough of a challenge. Alpha is not strong, but his strength of will and character really shine through. Because the Garlond Ironworks(Cid's company) is in charge of the investigation of Omega, they make Alpha an honorary employee and as such give him the Ironworks outfit(which Alpha is very proud of).
4. Omega and Omega Weapon are one and the same technically in this case. Originally Omega was one of many many Omega Weapon combat frames; however now that he's the last of his kind he has taken on the persona of Omega(Alpha being the beginning, Omega being the last, he's the last of his kind).
5. If you're wondering about the female version, Omega takes on our form in an attempt to understand us and figure out how we can fight beyond our "maximum specifications" and win fights we should have no chance of winning. Also, pretty sure they just wanted a Waifu version of Omega for all those that like to make anything and everything a Waifu or Husbando.
P.S. When my Free Company(guild) refers to Omega M and Omega F we call them Bowie and Bowie F because they kinda resemble David Bowie.
Am I crazy or has no one requested Byakko's theme yet?
You listen to 2nd phase of the song first then 1st phase the second time. Hehe
That's why it was probably confusing.
Hey Jesse, you are the best! Greetings from a fan in Brazil!
I still can't support the channel the way it deserves, but I want to make a request, Etrian Odyssey IV – Faith is My Pillar
Superb song.
When it comes to FFXIV, the ones you usually hear are the ones in the game, while the "Orchestral" ones have been arranged for live performance, usually by the Eorzean Symphony.
The second video showed you more of the story of the series while the first showed you the actual last fight. This raid series has a lot of chameos from different final fantasy games, brought together by the big robot Omega, as a free-for-all battle to determine the strongest being in the universe (which Omega then plans to fight so it can improve itself.) We, the player, start by running into Alpha (the "baby" chocobo) who was sent by Omega to draw in contestants. Throughout the series, we and Alpha bond and work together to triumph over obstacles and eventually win, to the confusion and frustration of Omega.
According to my understanding, 2nd one is original version in the final encouter to our alien visiting charactor OMEGA, a faithful fighting machine following the order to conquere the universe. It describes the story how we awake OMEGA, fight him/her, and make he/she evolve the consciousness, trying to have the heart – the only element we vulnerable creature to beat him/her. But he/she failed in the fight, cuz he/she threw it away him/herself in the long journey of everlasting time chasing the dragon to our star avoid self-destruction due to the agony. ( the chapter in stormblood era )
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and in endwalker, we figured out he/she escape the death of the final form in the fight and shifted into a machinary doll, questioning us the nature of the heart. He/she didn't have the answer yet, but he/she decided to continue the journey against the order of self-termination of the mother star due to despair and lost of purpose. Which is just a good start of having his/her heart.
And the first one is a imaginary fight ( a IF story ) to fight OMEGA if he/she had another answer in our last fight, and grew stronger.
I'm sure somebody probably told you, but the first version of the song was from the final boss fight of the Omega raid story (but only on savage mode, it doesn't play in the normal version of the fight).
The Orchestral version is from the "Ultimate" version of that fight called "The Omega Protocol". It plays during one part of the fight, out of about 7 phases in an 18+ minute high difficulty slugfest. They tend to like bringing back orchestral or remixed versions of older boss themes when they release Ultimate versions based on those fights.
The footage with the small chocobo is just footage the uploader used from the original raid story, which really does look bizarre out of context, that story was actually pretty good overall.
That aside, From The heavens is probably my favorite track in all of FF14 and I still go back to listen to it.