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That women's story is a roller coaster.
That first bit…i can't unhear Soken playing it on otomatone tbh. It's forever ruined for me so I'm just laughing remembering that.
I still recommend listening to the in game one. The final song is a banger with a band playing it. A little different vibe to this but still as powerful imo
"Close in the Distance", "Hopeful Dynamis", and "Flow". Three songs from FFXIV: Endwalker that will have you feeling EVERYTHING
Oh my god, this is an amazing medley!!
Great review as usual. Might I suggest reacting to Unchanging, Everchanging from FFXIV. Knowing your love of piano, I guarantee you'll love it.
I also love the French horn
She's Mlss.UndeRsToOd
Yotsuya best FFXIV character
I hadn't heard this before, it's beautiful! Though I do think the rock version in game is also really good. It's a great workout song
This represents well the tragic story of a character who suffered, lost everything, regained what she lost and went mad from it, then achieved her upmost wish before dying. A tragic story of betrayals. Jesse, you really need to play FF14. If you really come to 14, come play on Leviathan.
My heart still aches just listening to this gorgeous theme. Without any context to the story, you can clearly tell what it's about. Amazing work by those artists.
Pleaseeee do flow 😭 the feels
I cannot believe that I was today years old when I realized the opening to Lunacy was a modulation on the Yanxia day theme. I've been playing this game for how many years now and I only just caught this???
“I wonder… was the fruit as sweet… as he remembered..?” – my tears shed for her, one last time..
It's still grievous.
I was praying to the very last moment we could do something for her.
But she chose revenge but could at least take with her what she hated most.
sigh The fight was such a mercy-killing :/
It really is amazing how so much can be conveyed through just the music and have others understand it, even with barely any context. And this is coming from someone with the full context lol
"Lunacy" and "Wayward Daughter" had a much different feel here than in the in-game version.
Yotsuyu's entire theme is betrayal. She was betrayed by her family and sold into slavery at a young age, betrayed and cast aside by the empire, and then in a way, betrayed by herself into believing she could have a new lease on life.
When we defeated her at Doma, she got a pretty thorough case of amnesia and despite the doubt and testing of others, it seemed like she had for sure lost the memories of Yotsuyu and became the innocent Tsuyu. But her brother and parents saw fit to goad her into regaining her memories in order to serve the Empire's ends, triggering the return of her hatred and spite, despite what she wanted.
The treasure that Asahi (her brother) bestowed upon her was a mirror charged with spiritual energy that fed on this resurgence of anger and hatred and sorrow at the loss of what could have been a new life for her, transforming her into Tsukuyomi and sealing her fate as an avatar of spite and hatred. A tragic character and one of my favorites in the game because of it.
But yeah, check out the original version of Wayward Daughter if you haven't yet, its really good. One of my favorite boss themes.
One of the biggest bops from all of FFXIV. Totally agree with your point about it being a "musical story" about the character – That's something I've always loved about FFXIV – they're so good about relating songs to characters musically!
I WISH we could have more renditions like this in game but the dude has to crank out songs every 4 months so I don't blame them for not going full on production value with the music (its still awesome regardless, often times even better than orchestra).
The way you can feel out the central themes of the story without any context is always impressive!
I could be misremembering some things, but her story is basically that her parents died when she was young and so she was sent to live with a cousin, but that family treated her horribly and eventually sold her into prostitution as a young girl where she of course experienced the worst of humanity. Then she started working as a spy, was noticed by the prince of the invading empire for her powerful hatred of her people who had so mistreated her, was elevated to a position basically running the region. We 'defeat' her but the castle collapses and she ends up losing her memories and becoming rather childlike. Her cousin also got caught up in working for the empire occupying their homeland and after finding out her current condition, pretends to care about her, but is secretly trying to get her to remember herself. Finally after he sets her up to run into his parents while she was out on a walk and just regaining her memories and deciding to let go of the past hatred, she gets yelled at by them and says screw it and kills them and falls back to evil. The cousin tricks her into becoming a primal, Tsukiyomi, that we kill. Luckily she manages to take down the awful cousin with her last breath of power before she dies. Hers is a story of tragedy and pain.
Yotsuyo's (the woman) story is something I couldn't really appreciate until much later. She was a tyrant who had a life full of abuse and she looses her memory and experiences kindness for the first time, by the man she was cruel to before no less. She gets the chance to start over, but she was stuck in such a cycle she could not allow herself to be happy. Tsukuyomi is her "final stage" when she transforms into a primal, which is pretty much a death sentence for a normal person. It's the name of the japanese god of the moon and her design reflects that, along with sporting some bunny ears cause according to japanese mythology there are bunnies on the moon pounding mochi 🙂 In the fight against her there's a transition phase where you have to fight off all the people who abused her throughout her life and even when the one man who had faith in her comes to her protection, she denied it. I can appreciate her story even though I did not like her that much as a character. You should listen to the ingame version of her themes, Nightbloom, Lunacy and Wayward Daughter, in sequence cause it just perfectly encapsulates her story.
Ah Yotsuyu, a flower that grew in the mud and bloomed like the full moon.
But as our best friend once said: "in these fleeting moments… a spark… blinding, brilliant. Gone… too soon."
Her story is really really complicated, and honestly she was one of the first that really hit me in FF that had me feeling bad for killing the bad guy. She was so well written and honestly she deserved redemption.
Of all the Primal/Boss fights in 14, This one is up there. Definately one of the top 5, if not top 3.
"I feel bad for her" is more or less the theme for her, Yotsuyu's, story. But she was the antagonist of the 2nd expansion of the game.
Shes a character who had a really bad hand of cards in life and really just kept getting into more and more shit until she broke from it all.
We meet her after she broke and she causes a lot of trouble for the MCs in the story but eventually ends up in a place of almost atonement and regret.
But then she breaks for good and becomes "Tsukuyomi, Goddess of the Moon", goes hard and then ties up all her loose ends in the end.
The Boss fight that she "Tsukuyomi" and these songs takes place is one of my favorite fights as you fight through her life during the boss.
I hope you're living your best life brother don't always get to watch yer stuff but you're a cool dood.
Yotsuyu is a very well-written character imo.
She shows us that even those with the purest of hearts can be turned into monsters, when influenced by the world around them.