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You're gonna get swarmed with FFXIV requests now lol. Not that it's a bad thing, Nobuo and Soken are geniuses.
The female singer does a lot of work for FF14. I highly recommend another FF14 song called Flow. Very beautiful. Well worth a listen.
The song by itself is great but the foley and other sound effects from the original video really enhances the song, in my opinion. The dragon roar, the shields hitting each other, the giant fire ball getting closer, everything. The song is also altered a bit to fit with the drops in the original cinematic, so I can understand why, as a musical analysis channel, you would prefer to breakdown the pure song version, but you do miss a bit of the impact the original cinematic has.
Man, this is one of my absolute favorite songs. I struggle to actively listen to it, without being almost moved to tears. Nobuo Uematsu is an absolute master of his craft.
There is so much about this song that I adore that I can't put it all into words, but I just love its deep connection to the game. The story of A Realm Reborn, of the development, that is, less so the one of the actual game, is one of my favorite stories, and this song just represents it so beautifully.
The men's choir at the start is the people of Eorzea, begging for answers, wondering why they have to suffer so, and then the rest of the song is sung by Hydaelyn, the Goddess of Eorzea. It's such an interesting song, since you start playing the game, and you have that song in mind, and slowly connect things to it, and then the game goes on and on, and it actually gets recontextualized a few times. Especially towards the end of Shadowbringers and then in that one scene from Endwalker, which is one of my favorite scenes out there, due to this song.
What a beautiful piece of music. Thank you for your perspective on it.
If you liked this I would suggest checking out "Fear not this Night" from Guild Wars 2
Hey drum listen to it will be your fault its apart of undertale when u hack in the game u will meet with vhs sans so please listen to it it sounds amazing
It's a very brooding and powerful song but Answers is definitely one of my favorites from FFXIV
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I would love for you to react to all the My Hero Academia Openings! They are a class above most in my opinion! (Bonus Points if you can go with the full original songs rather than the shorter opening versions)
This song was always pretty heavy, even back in A Realm Reborn. That said, what they did with it in Endwalker…. wow, just wow. They made this song just so much more impactful with the added context.
It would be amazing if you decide to react to ffxv soundtrack
The fact this song was 10 years old and the way it was utilised in the most recent expansion is actually peak. Ff14 has an amazing story
Prepare for more FF14 song requests!
Thing with FF14 music, a lot of these pieces are specific to events in the story and carry an emotional connection for those that play and experienced that moment which makes the music even more so meaningful.
People said FFXIV players are cult members. Look at that, isn't that beautiful?
This piece is context immortalized. It came with a cutscene that played when the servers for the game's original launch shut down. Narratively, it was the Bad End and an Armageddon the player characters had failed to prevent. But the context of the lyrics changed with the most recent expansion as a result of new insights about the setting and its origin. It was a prayer to Hydaelin asking why life was suffering, and interestingly enough, a decade later, you actually get the answer in the game's storyline.
Which one was it that Soken-san composed while in the hospital?
"In the same fleeting moment, thou must live, die, and know". I absolutely love that line so much, it's such a perfectly ominous yet thought-provoking line to end such an intense piece of music with.
One thing I really love about Answers (along with a lot of other music from FFXIV, for that matter), is that you don't really need any lore or story context to be able to appreciate their lyrics. They're open-ended enough to where a person who knows nothing about Final Fantasy can listen to it and interpret meaning behind them. The lyrics play more into the themes and morals behind the game's story, rather than the specifics of the story itself.
You can figure out without any prior knowledge that this song is a lament of life itself. The suffering that it necessarily includes, the death that it inevitably ends with, and questioning the reason or point behind all of it. Why do we even live if our lives are destined from the start for suffering and death? The name "Answers" is not referring to the song actually answering these questions; it's the people of a world demanding answers from whatever higher power may or may not even be listening, and finding none of the answers they beg for.
FFXIV seems pretty lighthearted and whimsical from the outside, but it tackles a lot more dark and heavy themes than you'd probably expect.
This is the song/trailer that first got me into FF14 in the first place. Susan Calloway's performance of both Answers and Dragonsong are enough to move one to tears. As a long time fan of Nobuo Uematsu, he really hit this one out of the park; I'm a huge fan of electric organ used well and Nobuo is a madlad with the electric organ in several of his compositions.
Huge ff14 fan, tears each time lkl
Here we go! Time for the community to find you and let the music from XIV absolutely shatter your expectations. Loved the react.
This song gives me the chills every time. So good!
I never noticed how good the organ is in this
You have no idea what kind of beacon you just lit, hahaha. There’s a whole fandom about to break down your door looming. Myself included!
Names you’ll see are Nobuo Uematsu and Masayoshi Soken a bunch with this one.
It's one of those songs where you listen to it and you're like, this is amazing, then you beat the game and now you cry every time you hear it.
I have always seen Answers as a cry to a mother, first the children are crying out for help with a world they don't understand, the mother answers them and gives them the nurturing they need to grow. They then start to grow and learn to live, the mother encouraging them and then the children have grown into their own and can stand side by side with her. Finally they grow old and think back on their life and take up the mantle to keep that cycle alive for those who come next. Such a beautiful song that perfectly captured the rebirth the game was about to go through.
I thought it was Answers from 86
such an incredible song, it never fails to make me emotional.
if you wanted to do another ffxiv song, there's a…. sequel, i guess you could call it, to answers called Your Answer.
It might seems like a lot but if you do go deeper into the Final Fantasy 14 rabbit hole, Footsteps in the Snow, Oblivion and Return to Oblivion are really good and should be lumped together
Throw wide the gates for the FFXIV community.
When do we get the twinning
I answer the call
This song has an insane amount of meaning for the FF14 community. Not only was it used at the end of 1.0 and for the intro trailer of ARR, it was recontextualized in one of the hardest hitting cutscenes I've seen in the game 10 years later in the expansion that concludes the story started in 1.0.
This song never fails to give me goosebumps and make me cry
Oh god, here comes the FFXIV community 😂 Glad to see you cover this, because the music in this game is AMAZING! Would be great to see your reaction to works by Soken who is absolutely amazing
The FFXIV OST is a can of worms that no one on music reaction Youtube is prepared to open. Uematsu's torch for this game was passed to Masayoshi Soken, a man who takes every genre of music as a challenge to surmount. His genre is "Yes." Uematsu you've got orchestral pieces and rock pieces. Off the top of my head, Soken's work on FFXIV includes those, punk, ska, electronic, metal, industrial, surfer rock, what I can only describe as 'whimsical Disney music', hip hop and probably a ton of other genres I'm forgetting. Every content drop for this game is a treat not just for the story that comes with it, but because we're always unwrapping a mystery box of "What has Soken decided this thing's theme should be?" He writes one of the game's most beautiful and powerful pieces while in the hospital with cancer, ad then at Fanfest after he recovers, he runs up on stage with an otamatone and then sings one of the game's songs so horrendously off key that another of the game's composers who was playing piano for this has her chin attempt to withdraw into her neck out of horror. The man is a chaotic mad genius.