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Best way to put it is its both a theme of all the themes and of the main bosses. We will hear it at the story climax and credits so its a very introspective piece
Most people are saying its only Trailer music but it's also used as the theme for the first phase of the final boss
Definitely worth watching it with the trailer for the visuals. Feel like its one of those packaged with either the ideologies of the story it's a part of or by the footage that accompanies it.
This music was designed to be the backdrop to the trailer for Shadowbringers. I think it would be worth it to watch that to get a recontextualization for the music. It really is one half to the whole.
Reminded me of a Dragonsdogma song
Youve opened pandoras box now by listening to ffxiv music, it is an incredible soundtrack all the way through with some bangers. Soken is an incredible composer.
Another great spng to listen to is Endwalker – Footfalls. It has something like 6 different sections to it, the main/opening, Heavensward, Stormblood, main 2, Shadowbringers, and Finale and all are strung together in a way that both reminds you of your journey and prepares you for the journey ahead.
Soken is a great composer but because he up until recently composed mostly for an MMORPG, a lot of his music, and music from this game is contextual, experimental, and varied. I honestly don't expect people who haven't played the game or aren't super into this sound to love the song, but I think most who play the game appreciate it more.
Not calling Soken a bad composer by any stretch, but even from his score in FFXVI he definitely leans heavily into one type of sound, and when experimenting often goes full rock. People who like that sound are gonna love it, but I can definitely see those who don't like it as much. I hate when people treat Soken like this untouchable god, he's human too, and not every one of his tracks will land.
The main themes for each of the Final Fantasy 14 expansions tend to have a couple of stylistically different segments because they're played over the main trailers and have to match the wildly varying visuals. My favorite is Footfalls, the Endwalker theme since it actually revisits the themes from the previous expansions over its entire song.
IMO it's the worst of all the FFXIV expansion title themes for the exact reasons you listed. The song never really felt like it was going anywhere.
Yes the music is in service of the visuals of the Shadowbringers game trailer. Why it can seem disjointed without context.
This piece was written to fit the Shadowbringers trailer, and honestly listening to it without watching the trailer is only experiencing part of the music. Every part of the song has a cinematic purpose that cannot be understood otherwise.
It felt disjointed because it's designed to go with the trailer if anything. The visuals play with the music a lot
There is another version of this song that cuts out the FF4 Eternal Wind segment entirely (the violin dominated part) that's used for the final boss of the main campaign just to make it feel less disjointed with the fight (although it still feels a bit off but it's traditional with the game to have the trailer music for the final boss
Watch the Cinematic that goes with it.
If you like the intro you'll like the song "Tomorrow and Tomorrow". It has the same intro and keeps the same vocalist throughout the song. It's a stunningly beautiful and deep song about preserving the memories of those who've died. If you like "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" you'll really like "Flow" which is about your soul flowing into the afterlife, which is represented as a vast and dark ocean, where you rest until it's time to reincarnate. Each of the memories of your life are like individual rain drops, coming together to form a river, flowing into the afterlife.
love this! although i think watching it with the trailer hits more, even if the viewer doesnt know whats happening, it all feels so epic. but i understand this is a music channel so its all good!
Please do "dragonsong" or "to the edge", both from FFXIV, they are amazing
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Answers is still my favorite FFXIV opening theme. It's so impactful and emotional.
Yeah there's a few different mixes of this song. The audio balance is different in game, soundtrack, tailer, etc. There's also a live band version which doesn't have the choir. This version is primarily in the trailer. In game, it doesn't have the choir and violins
This track goes along with the opening cinematic for Shadowbringers. The very beginning of the song borrows the opening vocalist from a track called Tomorrow and Tomorrow. At about 5:18 ish where you hear the violin and cello, that is a call back to FFIII and a song called Eternal Winds. Soken does a lot of call backs to previous FF games. He does this several times for Endwalker – Footfalls where he calls back to the previous expansion for FFXIV. All of the individual tracks that Soken wrote for FFXIV are really dependent on context from the game. They are super well written but each on kinda fits to a specific scene or area.
FF14 has so many great songs.
It's fair not feeling that extra bit that gives you the feeling of not hitting the high for all the build up. Not having that context is important too. Like everyone else is saying, its a medley used for the trailer. Basically sets up the leitmotifs we'd be hearing for the next 2 years.
Id like to add that this expansion "Shadowbringers" took the main character to an '*alternate world*' (for lack of interest in spoiling any story points) so some of these motifs or themes are plays on the original pieces from earlier expansions. Its very well crafted when put into the context of the story and very hard to explain specific parts without spoiling something for some players. lolol
Soken is a bloody GENIUS! All the music in FFXIV always perfectly match the scenes in which they play during. It evokes soo much emotion from the player, me included Q_Q
"Find the flame" final fantasy xvi uff epic
Well, if you react to one.. that's enough for us in the 14 community to push the entire OST on you 😂😁
the FFXIV ARR intro, has imo the best intro music.. (but the Shadowbringers expansion from a story perspective, is the best..)
You should try out Answers, the main theme of the base game.
One thing to note is that a group of the developers of the game including the composer Soken play these songs as a band called the "Primals" live at the fan events and live concerts which is awesome.
The full song plays along with the games cinematic trailer for the expansion also named Shadowbringers.
However the song is combination of 2 others, one being called Tomorrow And Tomorrow and Eternal Wind (which this song itself is a montage of Final Fantasy IV) with the remaining being Shadowbringers itself.
As you play the expansion, you will often hear smaller motifs of the song in the background music but the song itself wont play until the characters encounters the boss of the main expansions story.
Watch the trailer itself, it is worth the time on its own. (all of them are)
In this expansion of FF14, possible spoilers by the way, you're fighting these enemies called sin eaters that can attack normal people and transform them into sin eaters. The world was covered in light, in this thing called the flood mentioned in the lyrics . There is no darkness at night time. You're fighting to bring things back into balance and rid the world of sin eaters. Your character is the only one who can make this happen. There's more to it but I wanted to keep it as simple as possible.
the intro is a different vibe because it belongs to an entierly different song, called tomorrow and tomorrow thats entirely sung by the female vocalist and has that same intro, its used here to be an introductory piece that then leads into the main song
TBH shadow bringers pairs well with the actual trailer, than by itself, as the entire song is paced to accentuate the trailer, and moments there in.
I think if you react to another one of ff14s intros songs you should listen with the video in order for things to make a little more sense.