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One of my favorite tracks from the game! Hype to see your reaction
Oh my lord, I am so Excited she is my favorite Eikon and has my favorite music! I can't wait!
Oooh I love this song! Can't wait to watch this!
The story of this song is super tragic. Basically the lyrics tell the story of a daughter who lost her father in a war and the mother becomes abusive as a result. She prays to the goddess Sophia for help and her goddess says that to achieve equilibrium and tranquility in her heart she must balance things out by killing her mother. Afterwards, she is even more distraught and Sophia tells her that to restore equilibrium in her heart she needs to kill herself instead, leaving "the empty hearth down by the sea". Sophia doesnt aim to be good or bad but when there is too much goodness in the world, she will restore balance by inciting atrocities, or vice versa.
The most beautiful song about a suicide murder I’ve ever heard.
There is some kind of Lore behind the Lyrics. I think it went like this: there was once a Family. The father got killed in a war. The mother couldnt handle the loss and began hurting her daughter. The daughter in her deepest despair prayed to Sophia and received a response. Sophia, fixated on restoring Equilibrium, told the daughter to kill her mother, which she did. After that the daughter stood on a seaside cliff. Sophia still sensed Equilibrium not restored and told the daughter to throw herself into the sea to finally restore it.
The end.
Listen to boku no pico ost
i know itll take a bit to get to it but i just sent in a request for a cover of a video game song, change it up a bit but the cover is better then the original, i think ull love it.
When the pretty song is about the effects of war, domestic abuse, and murder/suicide for the will of the goddess. Soken and Koji are mad geniuses. I appreciate you deciphering the context on your own by the way, you really feel that haunting melody even without the explanation.
I'm pretty sure Koji admitted that he wrote the lyrics for this song in like 2 hours in order to meet a deadline, and I must say he did a damn well job especially in such a short time frame!
I hope we see FF7 One Winged Angel the Advent Children version some day 🙂
Using an Equaliser on vocals for a song about Equilibrium, we see that clever little touch there Soken
Easily my favorite theme from FF. I played it throughout HS EVERY DAY on the way to school
With most people speaking of needing context, you're probably right. You don't need it. What's worth consideration are musical motifs and how they play into the song. The musical pieces can and do stand on their own, but for example Tsukuyomi's themes are amazing, but knowing that it works Revolutions & Triumph (Which itself is a variation of the Garlean/Ala Mhigan anthem) into it? That Lunacy is Gates of the Moon & Hien's Theme? That Wayward Daughter is itself a rock mix of A Father's Pride, the (Day) theme of Yanxia? And that all of these play into the story of the character embroiled in the center of this? That just takes it from "These are great tracks" to "Soken might just be a god."
I believe this is the song that Koji wrote the lyrics for in like 3 hours or something ridiculous.
This track plays in the second and final phase of the Sophia trial.
The first phase theme is (I believe) called "Battle to the Death." It's the first phase track for Sephirot and Zurvan as well. These three make up The Warring Triad both from FFVI and FFXIV. This theme is a direct remix of a FFVI track of the same name.
Sophia is easily my favorite trial in the game. Her major gimmick is dropping meteors onto the scales to the left and right of the arena. The arena tilts to the side with more meteors and the players slide to that edge. If they're too close, they fall off to their death.
In the harder Extreme version, there's a second, heavier meteor type (it's blue), and you have to quickly check to see which side will have more weight as well as the difference between the sides in weight. Not only can you fall off if you're on the wrong side, but if it's a lighter tilt and you went too far to the opposite edge, you might not slide enough and get punished for it by the floating head (The "Daughter") firing a high damaging beam that also increases all additional damage you take for 2 minutes.
I would like to recommend my favourite FFXIV OST: Kainé (Final Fantasy Main Theme Version). Since you reacted to both Nier: Automata and FFXIV musik already. The soundtrack is from the Nier-crossover event in FFXIV.
This song was not part of a phase.
Most of what you reacted to is a boss fight theme, but if you want a real change of pace I suggest Gangos Theme, or Civilization (Raktika Greatwood theme), both an ambient OST and both amazing .
Another something new to go along with this. FF14 – Lakshmi's Theme – Beauty's Wicked Wiles …. This game gives you so much breadth of genre of music! It's amazing
Congrats on 10k subs bud!
a great musical piece can passed the emotional message with the music alone, I believed.
The vocalist is Ayumi Murata, one of the developers for the game and the vocalist on a number of FFXIV songs, including "Oblivion" (Shiva's Theme).
Funfact about Equilibrium, they composed it in only 2 hours
There’s a band that plays ff14 songs called scions and sinners just something to check out
Also, not a patreon supporter, but Lakshmi's theme is great, would greatly recommend.
this was sung by ayumi murata, part of the localization team and was the same person who sang Oblivion, the first shiva theme.
I have a thousand hours in this game and I never heard this track before. lol
I am once again recommending Wayward Daughter from ff14
when they speak of phases, its the phase of the fight. a lot of battles in this game have a beginning phase (fight) and then a transition into a second phase (fight). the first phase typically isnt really much to think about, especially in trials, since theres usually some unifying theme that plays, like with Sophia/Sephirot/Zurvan, you have the original FF6 battle theme being played during the first portion of the fight then a mid fight transition into part 2 that plays the primals theme. dont always need the first part for context since its rarely attributed to the primal, its a song that ties it into the quest chain or expansion.
These Patreon requests have been on point, damn