Man, I was listening to this for the first time and asked my FC, “WHY DID THEY HAVE TO GO SO HARD????” It’s so damn good!

Doomers listening to a happy song play in their favorite game that for once isn't catering to their feelings of inescapable depression and existential turmoil:

I know I'm not alone in feeling the whiplash when this song first played! lmao Going back and listening to it though I really do like it! Such a shame that none of the times that it's used really struck a nerve for me personally, though...

Words fail to describe this. I couldnt speak when I first saw it, and I understood those who looked at true art and the feelings they felt, the splendor of true art. And thus, I also realize the gravity of what we are to do to this place.

This has such Kingdom hearts vibes

Fuck the haters, I love it. Holding my hands into the air like I'm at the Church of WoL every time this pops on.

This theme has such a strong positive vibe! Kinda makes me want to build a bomb train equipped with mobile rail guns and ram it into an alternate world futuristic fortress

This was one time I was glad that I got DPS queue... plenty of time to enjoy the song before going in :D

dawntrail was so bad im still in shock, what happened to the amazing team that brought us SHB and EW?

This is like jarringly bad. It doesn't matter how well composed it is.

Rare miss for the FFXIV soundtrack. This one is just not good at all.

fuck the haters, good song, good expac, good game.

I think they choose really poor part of the song for the first in-game appearance (during the end of the coronation), the moment felt so cheap with the chorus playing. But listening to this now, I find it pretty enjoyable. Another hopefull peice of art from Soken. Idk why I felt such rejection during credits and msq, but I really wasn't happy with how story was presented in general, so that might be the case.

This song sounds like it's from South Park

God damn this expansion was hot ass. It's like they wanted some happy go lucky Disney expansion but botched it hard. It's both paced poorly and ends up too high stakes anyway.

This song is absolutely beautiful, another wonderful piece by Soken!

I thought this was "Oil Spill" from Bob's Burgers at the start there. And then it turns into "This is Me" from the Greatest Showman. What was Soken on? D:

The final dungeon themes just don't miss in this game. Very cool.

So nice to have a theme with woodwinds at the forefront in FFXIV 🥹

Its sung in a very broadway manner vs hollywood pop musical. Its not for everyone, I personally like it.

the dissonance of the vocals is so jarring

Fuck y'all I liked it :P It's no flow, but it's a good listen & was used well.

When you first hear it :) When you last hear it :'(

Holy shit its like listening to the Devil May Cry 5 soundtrack.

4:18 yea I just heard this for the first time and had to find this lol gives Lion King vibes big time (also for the Sonic heads…does this remind you of the Sonic Rush song Raisin’ Me Up?)

BANGER!

jesus christ this is garbage

Reminds me of Fire Emblem map theme

Hey got to give a shout out for not putting anything that could be a spoiler in the thumbnail, very much appreciated!

Ijbol as the kids say. This is fucking awful 😂😂😂

guess a singer who could stay on pitch was out of the budget this time

Disney Presents.......Final Fantasy xIv: Dawntrail! Coming soon to a theater near you! 😃

1:14 when it drops.

This was the first expansion I didn’t sit and enjoy the credits to.. I very much enjoyed the msq story, not hating on it, regardless of what few issues I do have with it. But imo, and I’m sorry to anyone that loves this song - but this is the biggest piece of dogshit.

i'm absolutely a sucker for this kind of song. love it

This expansion did an amazing job of helping me realize that Stormblood wasn’t that bad after all.

I genuinely cannot see why people hate this song, it fits the expansion's theme to a T.

Y'all saw a trailer with a cat eating a taco and you're mad about the game's content. Soken, He always gives me hope and happiness with his music. A man who's gone through some really tough personal battles, and he's here telling us all to smile.

i thought my pc was crashing when i heard the 0:15 in game

Cringe manifested in song form

disney crap

The expansion about understanding, respect and community ends with an uplifting, hopeful chorus song. Perfect.

If "nostalgia" has a theme, this is it, capturing both the warm fuzzies you feel thinking about bygone times, underlined with the melancholy of knowing you can never really have it back.

I admit this song threw me the first time I heard it but after a few listens I have to say i really like it. Definitely feels like it embodies the tone of the expansion.

Sounds like something I’d hear on Broadway…

What is this Disney sounding dog shit? FFXIV is ruined.

Can people not cap. The song is mixed badly and the vocal performance is not the best take they could've recorded, the woman is fighting for her life on some of these notes. It COULD maybe be a good song but its definitely not used that well in the MSQ and is pretty bad for the standard of the music we expect for not just a credits song but the game in general.

I can completely get being surprised by the track, because it is very different to what we've had in the past, but for me it wasn't in a bad way, and I have found myself liking it more and more as i go 😊 I also loved the train montage 😆

This song is awful, so offtune, it’s a nightmare. Where’s Amanda????😭😭😭

The main vocals are a little weird but besides that I don't get the hate for the song at all. Everyone just says "its a Disney movie song" but I don't get why that's bad. I think FF players just expect every main expac vocal theme to be a sad aria like Flow or Dragonsong.