Reacting To Video Game Music! | FFXIV & Pulse Remix – Sunrise



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24 thoughts on “Reacting To Video Game Music! | FFXIV & Pulse Remix – Sunrise”

  1. The remixers on Pulse are basically the same regular music team of FFXIV: Soken, Daiki Ishikawa and Takafumi Imamura. This one was done by Imamura, a few of his in-game tracks have already featured on this channel (Twice Stricken, The Black Wolf Stalks Again, Landslide)

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  2. This is still one of my most favorite bossfight tracks ♥The mix between something more rock/metal and then traditional Japanese melody lines and instruments are just the stuff I love most! The part at 4:13 and 4:29 (and earlier) is what sold this song for me when I did Suzaku for the first time! (For those, who also like that, check out UNDEAD CORPORATION's 紅染の鬼が哭く album :D)
    It's always interesting to get to know the Pulse remix songs through you as I'm not a big fan of that style of music – but at least getting to know them is amazing 😀 Rise is not connected to this song in anyway but I look very much forward to the day it comes on this channel 😀

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  3. To me, the right music enhances the experience. It draws you into the events and helps focus you on it. That said – there are bosses in FFXIV I've almost died too because the music has me shaking with excitement 😀

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  4. The Pulse album is pretty much an EDM remix album. I would go insane (in a good way) if I heard it in club irl (not that I go to clubs normally, but I'd make an exception)

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  5. The Taiko drums really complete the original song during a certain segment and the 'Monk Chanting" enhances the melody (the part in english)
    A genuine nicely flowing song the original is. And with the story portion of the four lords about Suzaku the song becomes more understandable.
    One of the more popular tracks of the four lords but i still think 'From the Dragon's Wake' (seriyu's theme) is much better.

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  6. So the story of Suzaku in FF14 is that she is a fire bird who had attained immortal life. She and three others had become an adventuring party with a heroic warrior named Tenzen.

    In the process, Suzaku fell in love with Tenzen, however being a bird there was little she could do to consumate her love.

    But, tragically, while she was an immortal bird, Tenzen was not, and he died as all men do in the end. To add a tragic twist, she eventually learned how to take on a humanoid form, and learned the secret of ressurection, much like a phoenix. So she's tortured by the knowledge that she'd learned how to be with Tenzen and save his life only after he died.

    So the vocals themselves in the song are set up where the male singer is singing Tenzen promising to one day be with her again in another life, whereas the female vocals are her dealing with her grief.

    Also something to note: The shrike flute used in the song is traditionally associated with Suzaku, the Vermillion Bird in japanese custom.

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  7. It’s so weird hearing this without the voice lines, 90% of this fight is just her crying over the music lmao
    Great reaction though! Would love to see more FFXIV music on your channel, they have such a wide range of great songs, esp after Endwalker dropped a couple more bangers

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  8. My favorite boss track in the game (and you already know how much competition there is for that)! The bassline really makes it for me. Fun note about the Pulse version, you can actually buy it and a few other Pulse songs in game to play in your house.

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  9. Usually FF music distracts you from your frustrations… i guess haha… and pumps you up for the fight or immerses you into the scenario.

    FF music affects your "soul" making it… … relaxed? compatible? immersed? to the game and the events you are experiencing.

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  10. This song is sung by the lead singer of Fripside which is a popular jpop/video game/anime band in Japan. That singer is also one of the VAs for the Japanese version of FFXIV.

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  11. Every Pulse song is indeed a more electronic/edm version of the song, but they are all different types. Like one is electro-swing, "Oblivion" (one you reacted to) I don't even know how to describe, it is like very distorted and intentionally weird sounding. There is also a dubstep remix of one, and some others that I don't even know the genre of beyond just electronic/edm, but most of them are a distinctly different type of that music.

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  12. Yay, Pulse Album <3 I'm so glad you listened to them back to back for the full experience. Pulse is so good to jam to, but in the context of it playing in the background of the game, the originals tend to fit the atmosphere better.
    Yeah, it was Japanese. The vast majority of the songs (which are the same in all language versions of the game) are in English, but there's a few in Japanese (mainly the fights based on Japanese mythology, like Suzaku here) and there's also a song (Thunder Rolls, which also has a Pulse version) that has some lyrics in an in-game-universe language (Sylphic).
    As mentioned by others, Rise is unrelated other than also being in 14, but is also remixed on Pulse as well.

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