Omega is such a timeless part of Final Fantasy XIV and it’s amazing to hear it get its moment in the spotlight in Ffxiv. Not only that but this song absolutely slaps. This video is a breakdown of certain vocalism, lyrics, and pontificating over what the point of Omega is and what Omega might be searching for.
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yo 11 seconds ago!
I kept mixing up From the Heavens and torn from the heavens lmfao.
Never clicked on a notification so fast. I love, LOVE From the Heavens so much, O12S was such a difficult encounter for my fc (looking at you fondamental synergy and hello world) even at 80 but eventually we did it and I remember that moment fondly.
Absolutely love this song, thankyou for covering it!
have you ever listened to final fantasy10 (not 10/2, definitely not 10/2)
song of prayer
it basically has only one song but every one of the summons sings it
shiva is my favorite, but i think you would like yojimbo
and then there is bahamut
This doesn’t sound like the version with the lyrics. The Eorzean Symphony version has the lyrics. From the Heavens use the choir generated chanting. However your insight is still good.
Earliest time I’ve caught these great videos, love to see fresh insight on this games music.
Remember folks, the OG track was created for an entirely optional raid, for an entirely optional difficulty.
You played the correct footage for that song. The one where they split into male and female is another great version (called 'heartless') that acts as a good intro into From the Heavens. You only hear From the heavens in the savage version, after about a 6 minute 1st phase with M/F where they are constantly trying to replicate what makes you so powerful as a party to beat you. When they can't seem to figure it out they then try and put everything they've learned together and create the "ultimate" form. That super bombastic intro happens at the same time they merge to create "Final Omega." The whole fight with omega is incredible as they are trying to learn what makes us so strong, but as a machine they can't.
The last animated shorts of honkai impact 3rd (part 1) was released today. Can you react to it and it's song.
https://youtu.be/VeWCBissZy8
You displayed the second phase of the raid, which is correct. The theme of the first phase is titled Heartless.
Love your cover of the song as always! on a little side note, I was wondering if you would ever check out music from The game Library of Ruina
The game has some really wonderful songs like Children of the city, Gone angels, And then it is heard no more, and String theroacy etc etc. with a super unique style that I haven’t really found in any other games
I feel like Libary of Ruina really flies under the radar for having such wonderful a banger (and emotionally damaging ) soundtrack…so here I am recommending it!
In this song I hear hope and goodness confronting dread and despair, in a constant back and forth. I really love it.
This just has me more determined to find a group to do all the older Savage tiers with, this music is stunning
In development or Japanese version, the Omega M/F fight was referred to as "Adam and Eve," so the lyrics call on that motif. The pain of enlightenment and Omega's development of it's own personality combined with the loneliness of the seemingly infinite empty space between the Dragonstar and Hydaelyn.
The Adam and Eve motifs muddle it all up in my opinion, but the final bit about Ascension makes it clear to me that Omega needed to fulfill its mission to eliminate the dragons (and us who bested Shinryu) so it could feel resolved to finally eScape.
10:23 omega is a machine, the version of omega we are fighting is essentially running into errors because it can't comprehend why the WOL is so strong even after he's tried emulating us, this whole fight is omega trying to resolve logical errors in the data he's observing and his own programming. The hello world text is a common troubleshooting method in programing, you print to screen hello world and you know that if you see it show up, then the error is after the print to screen command.
you bring a whole new meaning to liking these fights when you explain why the song is doing certain sounds helps me understand why raiders get hype so much they put it into us with the music and then when you clear the song is there to guild you to victory
love your videos! you gotta do the follow up to the Invincible track you did from WoW. Arthas, my son. I believe it's called.
Even though we are intially told that Omega was an Allagan weapon, we learn during the raid that it's not, that Allagans only found it and took control of it. Further in we learn that Omega is actually not just a weapon. It's an evolving interdimensional being that seeks out powerful enemies for the sake of learning their strenght and then enhancing itself with the same strength.
As I said, it's interdimensional, the Omega in every Final Fantasy game is this same one, visiting that world to grow stronger with the end goal of becoming the strongest.
And Omega finds the ultimate foe in Warrior of Light of FF14. It pits WoL against the simulacrum of strongest beings of every world that it has visited and through observation tries to determine the source of your strenght. Until it decides to face you by itself believing it has the answer to defeat you. And fails. Upon it's failure, it's confused, can't believe it's loss. And upon hearing the words of your comrades decides that your strenght comes from companions and so it splits itself into two to make a companion out of itself and takes you on one last time as Omega F and Omega M.
There's more to Omega's story and motivations that you find out in Endwalker.
Internal screaming at the realization that Warrior of Light’s theme was mixed in there all along!
It is tragic how Omega is basically struck with homesickness for its homeworld, but the only way to get enough strength to return would require it to have a heart and emotions that would make it possible for Omega to overcome impossible odds.
This on the otherhand also means that Omega is trapped on Eorzea forever, as it not having a heart results in Omega not being strong enough, while with it it can't make the journey since a human "heart" would not be able to endure the lonely void of space for such a long time.
For some reason that part at 8:24 reminded me of Pharos Sirius theme and I love it lol
the absolute goat of the ost from the best raid series in the game. I'm having so much fun with top right now. The orchestral version they used in the fight is even better.
Im so so so happy you covered this!!
Omega is my favorite raid series. It's all about Omega seeking improvement and at first it doesn't believe in you. You're weak, small, fragile, but despite the apparent odds you beat everything you're pitted against. They(I dont think omega even has a gender) take such interest in you thag when you want to back out they threaten the defenseless ppl of the world who wouldn't be able to defend themselves like you can. The experiments must continue.
Finally, when there's nothing left to fight Omega steps in. You're winning. Confused by that, they take the form of Omega-M/F, mimicking your weakness to understand your strength. This is where the narrative branches.
In normal mode you defeat Omega here, and Alpha, the friendly chocobo creation(which I believe is based on chocobo dungeon) comforts Omega in their final moments, where they say that Alpha has become so much like us without even fighting. Cid then tells Omega that if instead of fighting us they walked with us they might have acheived the evolution they seeked.
In savage, Omega notices thag strategy is also not working and switches up into a distorted amalgamation of human and machine, Final Omega, the one on the footage in this video. It's become erratic and barely capable of speech, throwing all its might at you. To me the track represents the clash of the culmination of all of Omega's experiments and evolution against you, and we are evenly matched. Both what I consider Omega's theme and the WoL's theme take turns in a call and response, unrelenting, forging ahead. At later point the melodies sound tired, exhausted after all this incredibly tense fight, but both unwilling to give up, both absolute on their resolve. Ultimately, the WoL comes out on top, no bittersweet talk after the fight. Omega is completely spent, there is nothing left.
The ultimate follows the same narrative as savags until you're about to defeat Final Omega, but this time there's something different. Omega's resolve seems to surpass that of a machine. There's emotion. They detect and even say out loud that the amount of energy they are releasing is breaking them apart. You can even see it too, bits and pieces flying off into the ground, their footing getting unsteady. But that doesn't matter, they WILL defeat you, they HAVE to. At what seems to be the end of that struggle and Omega's body should have completely fallen apart and destroyed in a spectectular explosion… Omega-M/F are back somehow… changed… empowered with something mysterious. They… feel… they don't just act determined, they FEEL determined. At what should have been its final moments, Omega develops emotions, Omega discovers dynamis. And that's when they finally understand, THIS is why you're so powerful despite the odds. After the hardest phase in any boss in the game, we reach a situation similar to the end of normal mode. Omega is defeated, but still conscious. Alpha walks up to Omega, but this time they understand it, they have become like us, just like Alpha. (I'm not entirely sure why but) Alpha joins with Omega. Where in savage they first line used to be "I am the Omega. I am the Alpha." They now say "I am the Omega. I walk with the Alpha", just like Cid suggested, and just like how Alpha and the miniature OMG did in the epilogue of the normal raids. There is no more "Omega theme". The track that plays is an orchestral version of Torn From the Heavens. This is the part where I can barely play because I'm on the brink of tears.
TL;DR I love this game and I love Omega so much, ty for covering this track
could you listen to intersteller
It's so funny to see Marco getting distracted singing the lyrics 🤣
Dont worry you have the correct imagery. The Fight with the M and F Omegas has an also good track called Heartless. Its essentially a more heroic, less 'alien' version of From the Heavens without vocals.
I recommend vid on another much loved and greta track from FFXIV, "Civilization's" aka Lahee
Spoiler to Endwalker bellow.
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Omega was actually created by the Allagans.
At the end of Endwalker we get a little peek into their backstory, Omegas species were once oppressed, weak organics who gained strength through cybernetics and then started using their strength to dominate those around them, and those that succeeded found themselves still under assault as the Omacrons seek to study their strength and integrate it into their own now mechanical species.
They eventually found a way to upload themselves into machines but didn't realize in doing so, they gave up on all emotion's and anything that made them connected to life, they used this power to spread out into the universe where they dominated and exterminated life from worlds that could not repel them.
Omega is a vanguard unit sent to Etherys for that very purpose, but it was captured by the Allagans before it could bein its task.
While it slept a malfunction happened and its species went extinct.
Once freed it tried to contact the Omacrons and call in an invasion but was met with silence in return so instead, after its fight with Shinaru, began studying us to seek the source of our strength and dominate.
It just didn't count on the Warrior of light, an anomaly that pushed it too the limits of its computing power, it realizes after we defeat its war platform form that the Omacrons giving up their organic nature likely limited them in how far they can develop themselves, the Male and Female Omega are its answer, trying to mimic us in hopes of developing the strength we contain for itself.
What you se in this video , this fight is the retelling, its the Warrior of Light telling the Wandering Minstrel about their experience, and him adding a new chapter to make the story even more exciting for his audience, a chapter in which Omega wasn't destroyed in the M/F fight and begins to malfunction, its lashing out and raging as glitches start building up in its code, its the dying gasp of a sentient computer that's just been unplugged and is rapidly fading to darkness, it raging that it cannot accomplish the one task it was set by the master controller (Stigma-1/Sir), Find a world and dominate it.
Hello World is the moment its code becomes too corrupted to properly operate.
Its basically a Blue screen of Death that can fight to prevent restart lol.
Through its defeat it gains something it didn't know it wanted, freedom. The last remaining fragment's of Omegas core coding, its essence escapes into a model made of itself by the Ironworks, the function so limited that Omega became an observer instead of a conqueror and with one of its creations, Alpha it finds itself traveling the world and through that starts gaining an understanding, and finally it learns of the Omacrons fate, showing about as much emotion as a machine but also signs or growth.
Just did the original raid once so far, but i very much love the omega music. It gives me goose bumps.