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don't apologize for going "music nut", you have interesting things to say
I've been enjoying all the FFXIV videos you've been putting out. I hope you do Equilibrium (Sophia's Theme) soon!
I just did a binge of your reactions. Mostly to the FFXIV ones haha. But I am surprised that Brute Justice’s theme hasn’t been done yet! It’s probably my fave boss theme in the whole game so I hope you’ll eventually get around to it! Great reactions and looking forward for more 😁
There is a bit of footsteps in the snow in the song which is the Phase 1 original Shiva song. But yeah, the whole extended song like this for Return to Oblivion isn't heard unless you progress the Savage difficulty fight The normal mode usually ends too early. There are even some songs you never hear when you get drops into a new phase in savage fights. That is a big reason for doing the harder end game raiding. Just to get the awesome music when you complete a phase and it transitions and you get an epic drop into the new part of the fight.
Ah I love these videos man, keep em coming. As an avid fan of FF14, hearing someone who's obviously well-versed in music dissect these songs is amazing.
If you want to take a break from FF14, I highly recommend 2 songs from Oblivian's Pillars of Eternity series. It's an underrated RPG game, similar playstyle to Baldur's Gate, with some killer fantasy music. Sadly, no guitar riffs, but the violin and piano pieces Justin Bell wrote are phenomenal.
2 songs I really love:
Pillars of Eternity 2: Prologue
Pillars of Eternity 2: Eothas
I'm glad you listened to this, and the original Oblivion.
hey make maybe you can next time make a reaction to the FFXIV Theme What Angel wakes me it´s one of my faworits XD
you should react to ( The Extreme ) from ffxiv it's amazing
I'd recommend "To the Edge" from Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers. Best remix of the expansion theme, and its a cool boss theme.
I literally have like a million tabs open for JUST your FFXIV reactions! The music is insane. I also personally loved this over the first Oblivion. They definitely went for a different feel with this one for sure!
And dude, I know this isn't a really popular series, but if you could ever react to a song from the JRPG series The Legend of Heroes: Trails, it would make my day. You'd find that perhaps a decent number of your fans are into it! I'm sure this isn't requested maybe at all, but man. That series has some certified bangers. Off the top of my head, there's Great Power, Phantasmal Blaze, Atrocious Raid (Super Arrange Version), Belief (Super Arrange Version), Exceed!, Severe Blow, and Blue Destination from Trails of Cold Steel I&II. There's also the Ys series from the same developer that also is no slouch. A particular track that I keep going back to over and over again is called Hope Alive from Ys VIII.
Is nobody going to tell him that the channel he's watching these songs on always loops them once? I love their videos, and any song I search up I'm usually eager to listen to twice, but that might not be the case for our reactor here
What's going on with the lyrics and the game: I'm not going to explain the Eden story line, but it takes place after saving a world from a Flood of Light and the fact you needed to become the Warrior of Darkness to restore night to the world that was on the edge of ruin from everlasting light. This story line takes place in the aftermath, and one of your companions, Ryne, chooses to embody Shiva to help you release Ice Aether, the last of the 6 elements, to restore balance to the lost sections of the world. The Lyrics echo Ysalye's perspective from taking a primal in, and despite having immunity to the corrupting influences, the Primal's try to take over. Ysayle's version was created based on her belief's of a myth of the original Shiva, who was the love of the white dragon of the first brood, Hrasevelgar. When you summon the Heritors, the Primals you use to restore the world of Norvrandt, each one is impacted by your own experiences from all the battles after. Ryne looses control when she takes on Shiva, and is constantly oscillating between her role as the Oracle of Light, The Ice Maiden Shiva, and Shiva's role as the love of Hraesvelgar. She becomes a danger as her combination of Ice, Light, and Dragon powers could reignite the Flood of Light. With the help of Gaia, Oracle of Darkness, you manage to help her regain control and defeat her to restore Ice Aether to finish the balancing job.
So there's a lot of lore behind this song, and it's gonna contain a few spoilers because this song comes about basically at the current point in the game. (5.3)
OKAY, so to understand this song, just understand that when someone performs a summoning, usually it's an incredibly dangerous thing.
Not only does it bring forth a Primal that is directly connected to the emotions and will of the summoners, but they have a tendency whether intentional or not to completely mind control anyone nearby because of the raw power of the aether they produce. They essentially overwrite people's natural spirit into one that is wholly dedicated to the Primal.
However, Shiva is the exception. The original Shiva was a woman who was the lover of a dragon, and brought their peoples together for the first time. She begged her lover to consume her before she died of old age, so that they could be merged souls forever afterwards. The story inspired a woman named Iceheart to later attempt to summon her out of faith in the original Saint Shiva. She was summoned out of pure faith, belief, and love and she wasn't summoned externally, but directly summoned into a person as a living vessel.
Iceheart plays a big part in the story, both as the incarnation of Saint Shiva, and a great sinner whose actions caused the deaths of many people. Finally she is killed by falling to her death in a desperate attempt to protect us. Hence the "Falling too far for the fear to embrace me" lyric. In-game we still tend to think of Iceheart as one of our true companions, even despite her sins.
The person in the video is trying to repeat the summoning of Shiva like Iceheart did. However she's also the Oracle of Light, someone directly tied to a different Primal known as Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal. She's innately aspected towards light. Ice and Light are fairly close together in the philosophy of the game, but it's very hard to maintain control of a summoning normally, let alone incarnating one Primal while tied to another. On top of all that it's using our memories of Iceheart to do it, which colors the experience greatly.
All of that is to explain a few of the lyrics, and the mechanics on display in this fight. There are THREE people inhabiting one body for this. Saint Shiva, who was intentionally summoned, Hydaelyn who is already a part of the summoner, and Ryne, the summoner herself. That's why we get so many vocal distortions.
The summoner is constantly switching between Ice and Light because she's fighting to maintain control of herself, while also embodying multiple entities that are all actively trying to control the ritual she's performing. Tip too far, and she'll kill everyone in the room (and probably continent).
"Turn the light on" is the Light entity trying to be released, and basically bleach all of existence into a blank white nothingness. Most of the other lyrics are Iceheart as the vessel of Shiva. However, a few interspersed are Ryne's thoughts, such as "How long will I wait to open my wings?" because she's functionally a child who has had her entire life derailed by Hydaelyn's choosing her.
There's a HECK of a lot of story going on in this song, and that's on top of a funky as hell beat.
Technically there is a soft rap in this song and it also repeated
"She looks deadly."
Bruh, if you'd know…
Wayward Daughter is another one he needs to react to!!!
damn I don't remember this song at all, what a banger!
Yes, Soken is a madman for this one, I mean, only the instrumental and the lyrics tells the lore of the fight, the fight itself tell his lore and the lore himself hit even harder because it has always more
The theme for Ultima Thule from FFXIV: Endwalker is extremely emotional, you should hear it at least once.
One of the best FFXIV soundtracks 🙂
So, I'm coming back to this months later for the first time after actually doing this fight and the remark you made about the vocals feeling kinda mixed "away" as it were feels… narratively significant. (Spoilers for the Eden raids and all incoming)
So the fight has a lot going on with it from a narrative standpoint as a character you've known and seen grow into her own attempts to command the power of a god to help revitalize what is effectively a dead world, but… quickly finds herself in over her head. So while you're fighting to keep the power of said god from causing a second apocalypse, she's fighting to try and regain control, which I feel is kinda perfectly encapsulated with how the vocals kinda swim in and out of the focus of the song as if struggling to stay afloat.
"Please let's end this on a high note"
Me, out loud: OH YOU'RE GONNA GET SOME HIGH NOTES
I originally skipped on this because it contains heavy spoilers for Eden Runs. But I really loved – just about all Eden fights and the songs.
This has always been such an absolute banger of a track. This, Locus, and End of the Unknown from Puppet's Bunker I could totally see some DJ putting them on the turntable at a club and the place just rocking the fuck out SO hard.
Yooo ATB was one of my first favorite DJs back in the day. Nice dude!
The lyrics are so haunting yet the pace of the track is soo good, just a really well done song one of the best in ff14.
Jesse: "let's end this on a high note"
RtO: "high note, you say? How many do you want?"
"Well it's nothing like the original oblivion".
Nope it's exactly the same, just like you remember it. Definitely just the same song.
Until I watched this video, I didn't realize that that merger in the cutscene happened, which is actually super important to the context of this fight. I was too busy trying to not die to the boss's actually fairly difficult mechanics haha.
This is the song you'd play to save me from vecna
Your not forced to shit down. Get up bro and dance xD
I will never get over that the music is literally the forces trying to…Spoiler
Do a double possession were she has Shiva in her and Shiva has light taking them.