I think this is my favorite theme I’ve heard so far in Dawntrail. Just completed the first trial. Can’t wait to keep hearing more music!
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I got massive NieR: Replicant vibes from this piece. I love it.
Great commentary, as always! I really enjoyed the night theme in this zone too. I think I've fallen asleep to it multiple times now lol… I find it quite relaxing.
An interesting thing here, listening to this theme more closely as you broke it down now and as I wasn't having my own gameplay actively distracting me, I almost hear some similar note progressions to Chrono Trigger's Zeal theme, and the instrumentation here is somewhat similar to that as well. I wonder if that was deliberate.
The music in Dawntrail is just pure bliss man, love your reactions/analysis videos and the love you share for it. You should definitely check out the new raid themes from the Arcadion! ''Give It All'' is one of the coolest tracks I've heard in a while.
Bright and youthful like the Pelupelu, but also a little somber and reflective like the Yok Huy in the mountains up above. Dawntrail has some of FFXIV's best music.
You know why this theme feels like home? It's because large parts of it are quoted verbatim from Endwalker's "Spoken Without End", which plays mostly when you're with your Scion friends in the Baldesion Annex. The flutes at 3:33 are quoting Spoken Without End almost exactly. This is genius, because your experience with this music is that you have previously heard it only in an entirely safe space. Of COURSE it feels warm and gentle and embracing. What a way to carry themes forward between expansions!
Ah yes, Dawntrail's area themes is just so beautiful and relax to listen to – which, given that this is a new area/expansion that we're going to, it kinda makes sense…Speaking of Dawntrail, I'd love to see your reaction to the Vanguard Dungeon theme; it's one of my favorite in this expansion, and I enjoyed jamming along to that song!
The pan pipes and the melody remind me so much of ICO.
this is definitely one of my favourites from the expansion. the night version only adds to the feeling of an embrace as well 🙂
The first time I heard it I thought I was hearing a rendition of "el condor pasa" which just shows how much care and respect they put on their approach. Questing and wandering around the zone really felt homey and familiar, very comfy.
I think the flutes are trying to emulate the sound and warm of a traditional instrument in South America, the Siku.
If you love this one, you're gonna love Skyruin which is this theme but more epic.
Listening to it here I just noticed the nod to Eternal Wind with the chord progression at 6:30. This piece makes me feel things!
I love this vid. This is probably my favorite area in Dawntrail though there are many really good ones.
The composition is so lovely it really reminds of older FF games. It's like a "flight" song where you can now travel where the wind blows you
i came all the way from an obscure game, from roblox, that is high quality
to tell you to listen to the ost
BECAUSE IT SLAPS
(phighting ost)
if you dont know what song choose porcelian fantasy
It’s one of the best zones in the whole game. There’s so much feeling there and I recommend doing all the Yok Huy side quests to understand why.
4:12 Could be a guitar, but it sounds like a mandolin to my untrained ear.
Dawntrail's OST is absolutely GOATED. The zones are so rich with culture, sights, and sound design that it's simply peak Final Fantasy. I love it all!
Breathtaking music, it’s the first really big impression the expansion left on me
There are two tribes in the area. The giants in high mountains believe people are not truely ceased until forgotten. So they craved stone monuments instead of graves, even before people take last breath.
I spent hours in Urqopacha just mining, because I enjoyed that day theme so much. It's just so… warm, cozy, majestic, like the music is wrapping a warm wool scarf around your neck and patting you on the head on your way. Possibly one of the best mountain zones I've witnessed in games because of it.
DT have some of the most insane music so far. I thought end walker or shb was insane. But all the region in DT make me feel like I am going on an adventure.
I like Heritage Found day ost
Pls, react to the new song of Yu-peng chen Infinite Cloister of Flowers and Sins. Reminds me a lot Fontaine.
This is my new Azim steppes or Yanxia, aka, Place i love to AFK in, and just enjoy the sounds, the music of this zone.
Such such a chill place.
Explore this area with bike. Not flying, it's so glorious ❤
I am not sure why but this theme makes me extremely nostalgic for like, Yasunori Mitsuda's soundtracks of the SNES era RPGs.
Music and content design are peak in DT. They really shine. Sadly the story suffered greatly and Wuk Lamat is also a big minus. 🙁
The music in this entire expansion to me has a very traditional rpg feel to it, I dunno what it is but something separates it from the previous expansions
me at first: urqopacha? like "hill/mountain land"? like the Andes mountains?
[sees alpaca]: oh yeah definitely haha,
I've never played this game so I didn't know they had a region like this, very cool. While it doesn't sound much like music of the Andes region other than the doubling of the flute (at least to me) it is quite beautiful.
Day 4 of asking you to listen to Azure Arbitrator from the Trails series.
Think the night time piano theme for Urchopacha is incredible too can loop for ages its so good. Such a great zone.
This zone is one of the most beautiful places they've ever made in XIV. The sheer majesty of that landscape – and then that soaring music? It's all so breathtaking.
Dawntrail has soooo many incredible tracks!
all the zones are insanely beautiful, but Urqo with it's vistas, and green, and that beautiful mountain is probably the best, or at least number 2
absolutely fantastic area. it was stunning beyond words!!
almost sounds like it was composed by Yasunori Mistsuda, as if it could be from Chrono Trigger or Xenogears
Viedeo 3 of asking you to listen to the Overworld Theme of "The Legend Of Zelda Spirit Tracks"
This is hands-down my FAVORITE Dawntrail zone, and it's REALLY hard to beat Shaaloani (the first part anyway). I just love mountain zones so much. Kun-Lai Summit in WoW, based off of Nepal and Tibet, was a non-skippable zone for me no matter how many times I leveled just because of the music and the scenery, and XIV has topped it with its Andes-inspired Urqopacha. The pipes in the music are perfect, and the VISTAS. <3 I cannot wait to spend more time there with the inevitable Pelupelu tribe quests.
The part at 6:35 gives me Terranigma vibes, especially when listening to this orchestral cover of that game's ending theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWvPD8LXpuc&list=PLa9f67KdDUPoOg5VQzM0Fi6GqA59YPwiKs&t=202
Nier replicant wants it soundtrack back
dawntrail has definitely been my favorite set of new zones in a while. nice lived in places compared to the series of crisis hotspots we've passed through since shadowbringers it seems