COMPOSER reacts 😲 to FINAL FANTASY XIV: SHADOWBRINGERS OST Shadowbringers Main Theme

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Never heard of this before, but my eyes have been opened on how good of a soundtrack this is

[@n-aera]

At this point I've accepted your presence in every video i watch as a part of my life

[@mhk6943]

Aha so you have proven that you are not omniscient when you said you never heard of this one

[@idrinkrawmilk554]

At this point, I’m just gonna guess you’re like 50 people using the same account

[@Falco-Lombardi]

How are you actually everywhere

[@Patcheresu]

kinda annoyed they chose the most spoilerific video for it but by all means, check out the music for XIV, there are many songs that are designed to be both enjoyable boss themes and standalone rock singles like "Locus" "Metal" "Rise" "eScape" "Wayward Daughter" "Amatsu Kaze" and more.

[@SenneWMichiels]

I played through all of FF14 in a little under 2 months not too long ago. I liked ARR & HW (free trial content) a lot thus I bought the game. And yes it's like everyone always says, it gets even better!

[@rtbear674]

Just passed the 5.0 myself few days back. the music inserted perfectly in the scene. after finishing those battle, I proceeded to watch a lot of content creator reactions during that scene in the white space.... Hell yeah! let's do it! satisfying af.

[@Controvi]

@@rtbear674 i finished 5.55 yesterday but the ending of 5.0 made me cry when the guitar started at the amazing moment

[@CelsiusPT]

If you haven't finished Shadowbringers, don't watch the accompanying video. It spoils every major plot point xD

[@kalzhae]

well if you listen to the lyrics of every trailer so far you basically spoil yourself some plot points, the endwalker one have so pretty fun one and people speculate a lots about them

[@CelsiusPT]

@@kalzhae not really because there's no context for the lyrics. Now after you know the story and then listen to lyrics that's when you can make all the connections. The video literal spoils the end of the story

[@DirtyCiv]

ima be honest, even after watching all trailers before playing the game, you are so out of touch, that you really won't understand anything, or know anyone, until you actually start playing that expac, then you watch it again and you're like "holy-"

[@dunkadumma4619]

This was a song I listened to on repeat for awhile until I heard To The Edge, definitely my favorite song from the game

[@saintgeekSG]

And then i heard endwalker's theme...

[@nodot17]

Its still wayward daughter for me but these are good

[@xis3397]

True words

[@asteri8299]

the game is too story based for the trial to include more current content. part of the appeal of the game is the characters you grow attached to as you play through the game, a trial would be pretty much worthless if it just threw you into current content with no context of who the main npcs are, why they travel with you, and why they are so important. It would be bland and confusing. Its like picking up a book series but starting with the last book, you'll have no idea where you are.

[@AtlasBenighted]

Good point

[@Controvi]

Also the trailer was something else. Not just the music or visuals but also the story part of it. I won't say anything but it completely messed up idea of what was coming XD I just finished SHB yesterday btw XD. And you are sooooo right. The feeling I have now, after 600 hours in the game, its like real life. You look back at the insignificant moments in life and feel thankful and proud for having done those now. At the time you felt like it was a chore. Now I'm the same in the game. I'm looking back at all the more insignificant parts of walking from quest to quest and think "but I did that. I basically lived in this world and did that myself. I was the one to send message X to person A." and sometimes those people come back 300 hours later XD

[@JB-ci8fc]

I'd say your interpretation about the lyrics is mostly accurate, though you would admittedly need more context to understand the full meaning behind them. The other parts of the lyrics also have meaning behind them as well, I'm actually a bit surprised that you didn't delve on those. Also, a fun little fact: the string section is a remix of a track from FF4 called Eternal Wind, so you're not wrong about it being like a Final Fantasy song.

[@kreeon3739]

Eternal Wind is from Final Fantasy 3

[@JB-ci8fc]

@@kreeon3739 Yeah, I noticed that typo a bit too late.

[@johnhorn1042]

I always interpreted the lyrics as being sung from the antagonists point of view. Especially after the revelations later in the story about the ascians origins.

[@Rc3651]

The part with the violin that you said sounded very Final Fantasy is actually an orchestral rendition of the Final Fantasy 3 track "Eternal Winds" by Nobuo Uematsu. That's probably why it sounds so traditionally FF :)

[@SeralyneYT]

The main theme of the expansion can essentially be boiled down into: "Light, Dark, it doesn't matter. What matters is how you use it". It's about the duality between the two, not to mentoin the balance. It kind of holds a 3-way shared main theme (officially 2 way) of the expansion. There's this and "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", which takes the solo singer from the beginning and simply runs with it. The premise of Shadowbringers essentially revolves around the player character (The Warrior of Light) needing to become the Warrior of Darkness. I would honestly have preferred if you had used the trailer version of the song, even though it has dialogue, because it links a lot more of it together. I would personally add "Neath Dark Waters" as a third unofficial main theme (the specific variation of that track, known as "To The Edge"), given the duality between Light and Darkness, given how closely it ties into the main antagonist of the overall story-arc since the beginning of the game. As for the violin solo, this was essentially a cover embedded into the song. It was Final Fantasy 3's overworld theme, "Eternal Wind". The main significance here is that the plotline revolves around the Crystal Tower, which was originally introduced in that game.

[@jannemakela8107]

It is really hard to make trial work on latter part of the game cause its so heavily story driven. Spoilers would be unavoidable basically

[@AtlasBenighted]

That's a good point mate

[@ugxsan]

It’s the unfortunate reality of the game. The onboarding experience is rough. The story-driven nature means you can’t just hook people with late game content. The fact they’re constantly making new content makes it difficult to go back and fix old content and as a result, the first sixty or so hours will always be a massive hurdle for new players.

[@MrKanooe]

Actualy , there is some sort of following for two parts of this song, The first one, called Tomorrow and Tomorrow follow that lyrical song. and the second one, the battle one Called Invicible. Basicaly this tract is a composition of three : Tomorrow and Tomorrow first , then Who Brings Shadow , then Eternal wind, then returning to Who Brings Shadow. It's a superb mach up for that Cinematic ost.

[@TheAlzack]

Eternal winds, not wings

[@MrKanooe]

@@TheAlzack I have fat fingers :,)

[@Zephhi]

@@TheAlzack Eternal Wind*

[@KiddoBestBoi]

Zero my love...

[@muchbows7648]

3:30 i see where you are coming from and i understand the importance and picking up new players, but ARR sets up so much stuff that is important in the latest expansion that skipping it would just not do it justice and you would not have the same feelings and emotional attachments to all of the characters. Tl:dr ARR is a pain to get thru but its worth it.

[@AtlasBenighted]

Yes, I understand is a story driven game. I want the game to do better in attracting players, it deserves it

[@muchbows7648]

@@AtlasBenighted totally second that sentiment. I dont know when you played but the base story got a small rework where they deleted quite a few fetch quests, it is still very slow drip feed from 1-50, but it got better and i dont think they plan on shorting it even more. The only hope a lot of people in the community have is that after endwalker new players can skip the entire Hydaelyn & Zodiark Arc.

[@tuirennlp6341]

I dont know if someone said it here, but 40h is only ARR. If u get in HW u become a walking ADD for the Game. The Music is awsome, it Hits the feels All the time, it works Perfect with the Bosses and Modes of the World.

[@TheWickedWizardOfOz1]

Yeah, I would have quit if ARR was all I got on the free trial. But HW (and the lead-up to HW, with the refugee crisis stuff) turned me from "booooored" to "THIS IS AWESOME AND I LOVE ALL OF IT!"

[@haruthecorgi7477]

The string section was the ovrworld map theme from ff3. It was a great surprise. Watching the opening credits with the music will make more sense.

[@PokyAOZ]

Ye, it's "eternal wind" from ff3, one of the top ost of the game.

[@hlonghi]

9:10 that part always gets me. The nostalgia hits so god damn HARD. Can't wait to see the full original soundtrack from FFXIV Endwalker.

[@radiantcat540]

I love how he starts nodding along as soon as the guitar starts. I had the same reaction first time I heard this and tbh I think everyone I've seen hearing this song for the first time does this too.

[@Leviirus2]

That's some pretty heavy spoilers in the video at the top right Edit: if you read your comments, I honestly think you should reupload without the accompanying video. It literally spoils the ending of the expansion and I know if I hadn't finished it already, this would have been infuriating. I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that.

[@bart6821]

Yeah as others have said the accompanying video has spoilers for the most recent FFXIV expansion. Just starting the new expansion would give you enough context for this to be spoilers. The Shadowbringers trailer would've been better in that context than this, its the same song so it would sync perfectly. I don't know if you can re-edit with that b-roll, or put a disclaimer in, but that would be helpful.

[@Defixio.]

the ff14 sountrack, shadwobrings in particular is so good. the main theme, the long fall (the twinning), to the edge, just...so many good songs. easy to listen to. a lot of them play into one another. toward the end of the expansion, songs start to blend. it's great.

[@mar5362]

Oh boi the vid had spoilers, if you're like me and haven't finished shadowbringers look away from the visuals in the reaction!

[@InnoMori]

Dude the story is so deep. I love it so much...

[@Kaggii]

You know this man has to react to 'To the edge' now.

[@madqueen_2262]

I haven't play FFXIV and now I want to play it....

[@Kujamon]

It's so good! And free too until late game, so defnitely a good idea to try it.

[@madqueen_2262]

@@Kujamon I played the 7 remake recently, I loved it! I am definitely going to play this one too!!! Thank you!

[@Kujamon]

@@madqueen_2262 I haven't played FF7 remake, but it does look wonderful too!

[@madqueen_2262]

@@Kujamon It is, once you have the time and the chance I suggest to do not miss it! 🙂

[@Kujamon]

@@madqueen_2262 Definitely. I've added it to my long list of games to try, haha.

[@Diaily]

It shows how amazing Final Fantasy music is they have been making brilliant works back in 1987. Also if your ever so lucky to get a ticket to their live concerts the Orchestra world tours.

[@epicadventureturtle1363]

Same dude also sings RULES OF NATURE. What a chad.

[@shinjiaragaki3031]

Oh no, Emet, my tears.

[@Gwydion_Wolf]

5:47 .... damn goosebumps.. every, single, time...... that rift comes into play........ it just causes all the memories from the years of playing FFXIV and the years of experiencing its story to come forward..... every... fricken... time.... ;-;

[@PetarBladeStrok]

Please do much much more FFXIV music. FFXIV's music is SO versatile and absolutely mindblowing! BTW. why didn't you watch the trailer ? Song is same but without spoilers. This video is full of HUGE spoilers. BTW FFXIV doesn't get amazing until the first expansion. First 50ish hours and ARR in general is just the set up.

[@Masenken]

Gotta stop saying that. ARR was great on its own. Yes it's utterly eclipsed by the following expansions, but it's still good in its own right.

[@L4v3]

Yeah. I didn't watch the video, because I haven't finished the story yet. The trailer is so good so there's no reason to show us a spoiler video from the end of the story...

[@Zephhi]

@@Masenken For real. It doesn’t compare to them but it’s not bad

[@PetarBladeStrok]

@@Masenken I actually loved ARR but most people don't like it. That's why I said.

[@Masenken]

@@PetarBladeStrok and that's what I find odd. Not you specifically, but I don't recall much of anyone complaining about the story at the time. But when Heavensward came out and everyone saw how it blew ARR out of the water, suddenly they no longer liked it. Take the early works of Brandon Sanderson. They were good books, but obviously amateurish. Then came the steady progression in quality throughout the Mistborn series, and you can see how the quality of his writing started up explode among the fanbase. Now people deride Elantris and Warbreaker as bad, even though they were good though that he was able to keep writing, but everyone universally agrees that compared to Mistborn and The Stormlight Archives, yeah they're objectively not as good, but they didn't make them BAD books, just easily outshone by what came after. And that's what we have with ARR post HW and beyond. ARR was good, but it was obvious they were trying to find their voice, and then HW nailed it and they ran away with it from there

[@garnix5042]

I was waiting for this reaction!

[@teamshow5256]

Day 7 of asking for you to react to Requiem of silence from Re:zero starting life in another world. Composed by Kenichiro Suehiro, I don’t know if you’ve reacted to one of his songs before but honestly this OST is a masterpiece. To give some context on the series as a whole, the mc has been given a return by death ability in a new world he’s been transported to. He is forced into situations beyond his limits and has to watch his friends he’s made along the way on his journey die in horrible ways. It’s honestly quite similar to Berserk where the mc Subaru is struggling against the odds stacked against him and has to make his way out without giving up

[@tuck295q]

second this

[@segafan2437]

my suggestion would have been "Brute Justice mode", because it is an incredible mix of instruments and unexpected sounds that merge and blend into a hyperactive bouncy rythm

[@seekittycat]

Ff14 is sooo 90s rock I think it's why it brings me to my childhood which is exactly when I played the most final fantasy 😊.

[@Vonajex]

Yessss the FFXIV music beginsssss

[@knowngorilla8745]

I literally just finished shadowbringers 30 minutes ago and this popped up in my recommended lol

[@cerealboxantagonist]

You could interpret the world itself as an entity and rain being its tears. Thinking of a place like Burmecia of FF9, which is a city of eternal rain, maybe something could have happened in the lore of the place where the world itself would grieve and weep eternally over the event. I wouldn't put it past JRPGs to have that kind of lore.

[@VendettaSoundtracks]

To anyone who liked this song, I'd encourage you to jump into the FFXIV soundtrack as a whole. Even the ambient songs are phenomenal. There's also a ton of official remix albums (Scions & Sinners, Pulse & more) that are equally as amazing. Here's a couple of tracks I can recommend (though note, many of the videos contain spoilers, so if you plan to play, don't actually watch the videos, just listen). *NOTE:* Tracks separated with "/" are essentially all parts of the same scenario, usually a boss fight. They are different tracks, but designed to trigger during different phases, so I recommend listening to them one after the other: • Dragonsong • Answers (End of an Era/Reprise Version) • Heavensward • Crimson Sunset • Neath Dark Waters • Fallen Angel • Thunder Rolls • Thunder Rolls (Eden Ramuh Version) • Thunder Rolls (Pulse Remix) • Locus • Rise • Rise (Pulse Remix) • Endwalker (Short Theme - the full version hasn't been released yet) • A Long Fall (PRIMALS Version) • To The Edge • Sunrise • Sunrise (Pulse Remix) • Equilibrium • Unbending Steel • What Angels Wake Me • Footsteps in the Snow/Oblivion • Return to Oblivion • Torn from the Heavens • Shadows Withal • The Queen Awakens • Thordan's Reign • Moebius (Orchestral Version) • Triumph • Civilizations • Nightbloom/Lunacy/Wayward Daughter • Insanity • Insatiable There's a lot more, but those listed constitute some of my absolute favourites.

[@Lemon_Force]

You should check out anything from the final fantasy pixel remasters! Uematsu came out of retirement and was given a full orchestra to give his true vision, unburdened by technological restraints, of the iconic classic soundtracks of ff 1-6

[@twiztedbuddha]

Please please please listen to Deep Stone Lullaby from the Destiny 2: Beyond Light OST. It's honestly the most beautiful song in the franchise imo

[@Redblaze27]

A lot of the lyrics are basically coded, one could say. Aside from the lore bombs Shadowbringers brings, there is a portion of the game where a verse or two is spent indirectly referencing the other expansion: "Forged in fury, tempered in ice" for example refers to Ishgard from Heavensward, which is located to the frigid north and worships Halone, the Fury.

[@brunohenriqueazevedoborges5490]

9:07 just a commentary here, this part here is call back to a melody from FF3, called Eternal Wind, since the story of Shadowbringers takes A LOT from the core concepts of the story of FFIII.

[@ilakya]

Pretty sure you play the old free trial. Current free trial is up to level 60 with the content include the first expansion. That could be hundreds of hours worth of free content and most people got hooked at the end of Heavensward. The male vocal is Jason Charles Miller. I'm sure I don't have to describe him. The female vocal is Susan Calloway who's safe to say that she's the main vocalist of FFXIV. The violin solo part is the old FFIII music called Eternal Wind.

[@AtlasBenighted]

I played a couple months ago, it's the new trial. Also, I'm not willing to put 100s of hours to potentially get hooked at the end of it.

[@XenoSamurai]

While I am happy you're reacting to this song, I think you should have used a video with no scenes from the game as this was very spoilery for people who haven't played Shadowbringers.

[@raisylvaine8398]

I’d argue that the cutscenes can also add necessary context for the lyrics, since they do refer to the in game events quite directly

[@XenoSamurai]

@@raisylvaine8398 Didn't think I'd be coming back to this 2 years later lol. I'd still argue that a spoiler warning should be used at least.

[@TGMMargaret]

I've been waiting for this

[@nerminded2447]

idk if anyone will see this now, but the new free trial now extends to the first full expansion, heavenward and up to level 60.

[@ronsenburg3498]

Your reacts of FFXIV and Shingeki OST are pretty good

[@rubhan94]

Just startes playing the games some weeks ago and finished Heavensward yesterday. Throughout the journey I really thought it would be interesting to hear your thoughts and breakdown of the Heavensward trailer song.

[@ShiroNekoDen]

The string section is a reprisal of eternal wind from final fantasy III.

[@menosay1912]

The trial is fine as is. It is currently a huge amount of content for free.

[@snonyabeeswax]

dude you dont know what your talking about heavensward doesnt feel dated at all ,all older content is still pretty relevant to the game. heavensward is where the story starts to really ramp up by level 60 most people typically probably are hooked.

[@7moody771]

HW looks dated af what are you on about

[@fruchtkuchengesicht]

@@7moody771 cap

[@7moody771]

@@fruchtkuchengesicht okay ps3 era lmao

[@fruchtkuchengesicht]

@@7moody771 cap era lmao

[@nke1]

Even if you already watched Avatar. I really want you to listen and breakdown "The Last Agni Kai". Thank you for your content. Really like it😁

[@July-gj1st]

Lmao, you've never played the game but you were able to discern a major plot point from the lyrics, you are really good. This shows how good Soken is as well btw.

[@mhicorivera7802]

that voilin solo is actually a song from final fantasy 3 eternal winds

[@ZhaoYun16]

If you haven't played through Shadowbringers do not watch the accompanying video as it's literally the ending of that expansion :'D

[@AR-bj5et]

Day 17 of requesting House of Sacred Remains from Castlevania: Lament of Innocence. Beautifully atmospheric level track and one of my fave's from video games in general. It'd be awesome to hear what you think of it.

[@Vovi-Knight]

home!!!!!, riding home!!!!

[@MissKashira]

I am once again amazed at how much you correctly predicted based on lyrics alone. That was actually three songs smooshed together for the trailer. The song with the lyrics is Who Brings Shadow and it's an interesting question because while our character serves light and the enemy serves darkness, this expansion a flood of light corrupted a world threatening to destroy it, so we brought darkness back to their world to save them. And that theme extends to the conflict because *SPOILERS* the goddess of light broke the world into 14 pieces and our species was created from that act, but the guy we're fighting, his species was destroyed by that act, so he's trying to put the world back together to restore his species and we're trying to stop him because it would require killing us to get his people's parts back because that's what we're made of. So it begs the question who is the good guy here, he's attempting to create a world without suffering or sorrow and we're trying to stop him because it would mean our extinction. It's more like a real life conflict where no one is totally in the right or totally in the wrong and there isn't really a way to make everyone happy. I think part of the lack of threat in the song is we don't want to fight this guy, we know in his position we'd be trying to save our species too. But we also can't let him kill millions of people and wipe out our species to possibly save his own. He has his duty and we have ours. And I think Who Brings Shadow perfectly encapsulates the feeling of that faceoff.

[@barachiel212]

Don't worry about not liking the game. The base game "A Realm Reborn" is kind of like the endurance test that weeds out players. You have to just grit and bear it until you get to the first expansion, Heavensward, and suddenly *BOOM* Its like night and fucking day. Part of the reason for this is a change of voice-acting studios, from Los Angeles to London. You basically go from a bunch of anime voice actors treating like this any other cheesy animated series, to a group of up-and-coming British thespians who treat the script like Lord of the Rings. Sadly, I've never considered "just keep playing it gets better" to be a particularly compelling argument to justify it. I personally gave up on the game TWICE before finally making it over that massive hurdel, sometime during the life of the 2nd expansion, Stormblood. Just boosting through it doesn't work, because this isn't a game. Its a bloody book series, and while the first book suuuuuuuuucks, its required reading so the other novels (ie expansions) work, and each expansion builds on the events of the last, so you've got this huge unfolding story. The Shadowbringers expansion works as well as it does because of an almost MCU-style buildup of lore, character arcs, and plot twists. To go back to my Lord of the Rings example, earlier, basically ARR is the Silmarilion, and you HAVE to read it for the Hobbit and the other books to make sense. EDIT: Last edit, I swear. Something most people don't mention is the the song "Shadowbringers", is actually a melding of multiple tracks on the soundtrack. The first bit with the female vocals is "Tomorrow and Tomorrow." The violin section is "Eternal Winds." The bulk of the song is "Who Brings Shadow", one of two tracks that make up the final boss fight of the 5.0 patch. The other track is "Invincible" which is an instrumental symphony version (with choir for vocals).

[@infoverflow5559]

React to Endwalker theme song "Footfalls" please :)

[@Loalder]

Niiiiiiiice final fantasy XIV I love this game so much, please you need to react to final fantasy XIV's "Answers" song, if not only the song, the cinematic too "a realm reborn end of an era" , it's incredible probably my favorite cinematic.

[@user-uv4wn2xx7o]

8:13 the best era

[@tufcat92]

I don't know why people don't use hungrychad's videos. He even has lyrics set up and usually turns off the hud so there's less distraction on screen

[@l1ghtjok3s66]

If he reads the requiem of silence donating I'ma start screaming respectively 😤🙌

[@l1ghtjok3s66]

Donation*

[@teamshow5256]

What why??

[@l1ghtjok3s66]

​@@teamshow5256 it's fire lol

[@teamshow5256]

My man 🤝

[@Carsu12]

Your interpretation is probably very close to what most people thought was going to happen wgen first trailer dropped

[@Soulbane90]

Love the FF3 parts of this song.

[@Irimu_]

I'm amazed that even here people won't shut up about spoilers...

[@miratsukibo8428]

Hola, ya hace un tiempo que no te veo, cosas de la vida ya volveré :)

[@a3oo3ah]

Ooh dont miss the expansion after A Realm Reborn… it’s amazing.

[@sadi5713]

So whats the music genre for the FFXIV Soundtrack? - YES

[@ramirius145]

Another soul that can't get through A Realm Reborn. Sadge

[@BrienneofDarth]

There's so much music from this game I would recommend you check out. But then, it does have the longest video game soundtrack in the world.

[@estefaniac.1011]

Unfortunately, for the free trial, they can't really make people skip to later expansions by default because they're trying to tell a bunch of storylines that are interconnected and if you're lacking all context, how will you be invested in what's going on? Different from other games, what matters in XIV is experiencing the journey, not rushing to the destination.

[@AtlasBenighted]

I understand that. But some people might not care about the story and want to engage in late game gameplay, and thats fine

[@SynysterFiction]

The message of the lyrics I believe is better conveyed through the official trailer. I think you'd like it better with that context.

[@Alvanal]

Bad choice of video to go with the song. The theme song with video spoilers from the end. Wasn't well thought out.

[@beardeddevil6269]

Because of how important the story is the game I don't think they could change the way the trail works currently you play all the way up to lvl 60 and play through the first expansion.

[@doubleh3978]

i swear this time the pixeled image looked like gehrman, it seemed to good to be true...

[@themetronomian7239]

MORE FF music!? WooooHOOOO!!

[@Anharie]

i know you mentioned that you couldnt get into it, i agree it is rough, but we have a saying. you either quit in a realm reborn, or you become a walking advertisement for the game. your breakdown of the lyrics was missing context. the context is the game.the music is great by itself, but the soundtrack is elevated by the game's story.

[@CorrupTed666ersdg]

Genius

[@Defixio.]

you're right about the core game being not 'as good' as the current expansions. i wish they would clean that up more. revoice, compact some of the storytelling, remove a little fetch. it would help a ton because the first expansion (many hours in) heavensward is SO GOOD but you have to slog through launch material which is hard for folks, and it's unreasonable to ask people to play 30+ hours they don't enjoy for it to get good.

[@LiunUK]

they already did that, they removed 30 fetch quests from the realm reborn msq

[@nastycrimeboy9138]

I wished they fixed up early game English voice acting too, in the end I just played on jp for consistent good voice work.

[@SuikodenGR]

As someone with close to 10k hours since 2.0 release, I highly recommend try to continue at ur pace. It gets better to the point of Ear Orgasim...not kidding

[@OmegaEnvych]

I've seen message that it would be hard to give most current content, but here's thing that makes Final Fantasy different from, let's say, WOW. As far as I know, WOW didn't really had any overarching story for long time and many other MMOs basically have different stories for the main game and expansions so players can give a try to either of them. Final Fantasy doesn't work like that. It's a singular continuous story that gets the player from start, when you're nobody and doing menial jobs like "kill 3 squirrels and 5 mushrooms" and goes up to the paragon level of power where quests are "Hey, go, summon and slay six elemental deities to restore the world". In this case game also heavily develops on previous content, like in your dialogues with characters you can quote lines, said by other characters. And other elements. So jumping to most recent content would be like starting a heavily story-driven TV show from season 1 and half-way in quickly jumping to season 5 without watching all other 3,5 season content. (imagine watching Expanse in that way for all those who watched it) Regarding lyrics breakdown: This was an interesting take and without having any context it does seems logical. It is, in this case, wrong, but it was fun to listen to a theory on what it could be. I will put story (or at least my own abridged breakdown of it up to Shadowbringers) below to spoilers as I find it VERY fascinating and fun. Regarding music - yep, Soken does love his rock, metal, nu metal, classic etc. etc. He even had a bit of a problem with group Powerman 5000 - this song "Fiend" that plays during fight against Sephirot sounds VERY similar to When Worlds Collide. Then there's theme "Figments" which plays in Dohn Mheg dungeon. It's VERY inspired by Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" ballet. This guy can really take what was already there and then repurpose it and add his own fleur to the song. Literally - soundtrack in FFXIV at the beginning is competent and nice, but later it becomes SO much better... Well, like everything with the game. MASSIVE Spoilers ahead, including lore behind Ascians. If you didn't played Shadowbringers and want to play it through, and you get triggered by spoiler material, PLEASE DO NOT READ, I warned you! In the beginning there was one world and one species of powerful beings who could manifest everything from their aether by just thinking about it. They lived in prosperity and their culture was based in benevolence and sharing with one another. People didn't have too much individuality in their style and creations because having something for youself and not sharing was considered a bad behavior. Then world was shattered by a calamity. People from all over the world were affected by awful destruction. Some of the citizens of the city of Amaurot came to solution. They sacrificed half of their population to summon a powerful creature that would save them from destruction. That creature was known as Zodiark. Zodiark did save the world, but he also took people of Amaurot under his control and turned his followers into slaves. Part of people left decided to stop Zodiark and they Summoned their own god, named Hydaelyn. She struck Zodiark down and struck him so hard that she basically split world into 14 pieces - 13 shards and the prime shard, known as The Source. Same happened with most of the population - they, body and soul were split apart. They were split by races, bodies, etc. each with their own imperfections. Only few original people survived and are know in this age as the Ascians. One of these Ascians, known as Emet Selch, found a way to restore world back to what it was. But it required unthinkable thing - destroy a shard world and crate an elemental Catastrophe in the Source. This catastrophe would be known as Umbral Calamity. Currently, world have survived seven Umbral Calamities, one of them was a massive earthquake that shattered continents and destroyed once very powerful technology of Allagan Empire, ending Third Astral Era and a great flood has destroyed unique culture of Mhachi mages, ending Fifth Astral Era. The last Umbral Calamity happened just a few years ago, when Garlean Empire summoned lesser moon Dalamud to fall onto lands of Eorzea, releasing Primal Bahamut that was bound inside of it (That was the Seventh Umbral Calamity we can see in FFXIV A Realm Reborn trailer). This has ended Sixth Astral Era, however, due to events told in the Flames of Truth (A video at the end of Coils of Bahamut Raid), most of the population was saved from awful events and Seventh Umbral Era took only five years and now world lives in the Seventh Astral Era. This lead Emet Selch to orchestrate Eight Umbral Calamity - in the Source he would use a gas named Black Rose that would stop flow of aether in all living beings that would breath it, which would be a terrible catastrophe. At the same time the First Shard would be engulfed in Light, stopping all the aether there. However, a hundred years prior to these events in the First (and several months/years in the Source) a woman named Minfilia became an Oracle of Light and used her powers to save land of the First, known as Norvrandt from the Flood of light that was caused by Warriors of Light. After that a man, who goes by the name "Crystal Exarch" summoned Warrior of Light (Player Character) and his/her friends to the First to help him to stop the Flood of light. At some point, one of mandatory story quests in the FFXIV is a Crystal Tower Raid, that involved young man G'raha Tia uncovering his past with Crystal Tower in the Source and inheriting it. G'raha then seals the tower and himself into it, after saying his gratitude towards Warrior of Light and Cid Garlond who became his most trustworthy friends. During this story we get to know, that in reality, Crystal Tower from the First is, in fact, Crystal Tower from the Source's future. Crystal Exarch is, in fact, G'raha Tia. To live long enough, he merged with Crystal Tower and later, through years after Eight Umbral Calamity he worked with Cid and his children to utilize power of primal Alexander to travel back in time to the past and to the First. His plan was for Warrior of Light to become Warrior of Darkness, absorb the Light of the monsters, known as Sin Eaters in the First and then, absorb that Aether from Warrior of Darkness, flee into interdimensional void and die there. However, this plan was stopped by Emet Selch, who had innate knowledge of the Allagan technology and didn't want this to happen. He wounded G'raha Tia and took him with himself to the reconstruction of Amaurot, where he confronted Warrior of Darkness and fought them as Hades. He ultimately lost and Light was weakened in the First, while in the Source Zenos yae Galvus killed his father and virtually halted creation of Black Rose. This in turn saved the world from the Eight Umbral Calamity... For now.

[@MurakumoMFF]

Please react to Judgement Day (INST) Dragalia Lost

[@hpalpha7323]

Shadowbringers is extremely good

[@prawn1717]

After this, I’d HIGHLY recommend listening to “To the Edge”, it’s a wonderful follow up and the composer wrote the song while undergoing chemotherapy which makes it hit even harder.

[@ellamir1979]

You should listen to the latest music. No spoilers. And written while battling cancer.

[@zStarrrr]

Has he done the twinning

[@kaansaka2483]

Hey maybe you could react to the Resident Evil 2 Remake: Super Tyrant Theme. It is not the longest and most versatile theme but still very energetic which hypes you. Good vid as always!

[@inaki8014]

We need the bravely default 2 final boss theme reaction :0

[@youtubewanderer3347]

Maybe I should play FFXIV, i stoped at FFX because I kind of had more interesting games to play and I heard that is not very good. But this ost is awesome. Well, is no surprise in the end, Final Fantasy always had good ost.

[@ellamir1979]

Too late for 11, 12 has cool npc instructions (& there’s a recent remake), skip 13, 13-2 and 13-3 lol. 14 has reminiscences of a lot of the older games so if you played all others you can enjoy the subtext :) if not, i hope you like stories, it’s a slow build to an amazing plot and old content is still playable.

[@pelcha09]

I dare you to hear Soken's tracks on FFXIV. It will be a point of no return for you + you'll get us FFXIV players to come out the woodworking by default. Suggestion and request: FFXIV - INNOCENCE ✌️

[@alexandregiaccheri]

FFXIV is one of those sad cases of "it gets better" :/ Unfortunately, asking someone to play something for 120+ hours and pay attention to the story (which has terrible pacing) is just too much. I love XIV to death but I understand why a lot of people can't get into it ^^ Also, if someone recommends a song from XIV soundtrack, it's probably an amazing song xD it's pretty hard to go wrong with this one p.p.s. I still need the Soken Edition La Hee Orchestration Roll :v

[@vkh1405]

HEY, ΛTLΛS. REACT TO A VIDEO CALLED: "VELKHANA TO AT MEDLEY - MONSTER HUNTER WORLD: ICEBORNE." I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT...!

[@wishheart]

you should check out the heavensward one as well!

[@MuraCasardis]

I think you could put a spoiler alert to your reaction. The original video you're listening to and watching even has a spoiler alert.

[@Mi2Lethal]

React to Lady Maria Soundtrack from Bloodborne!

[@xis3397]

Good job for the lyrics but you need to reach the final part to truly understand it. Shadowbringer is about a world in a state of despair, so the main leitmotiv need to feel like that, on the other hand, endwalker is probably about hope and we can allready feel it in the main theme.

[@Eframa66]

This is 3rd video i came across that reacts to this song and instead of using trailer (although yes it contains the speech and is bit shorter) you use clip from game that is very climax of the story and require playing the story to understand what is going on, Combined with trailer tho it may get more clearer on meaning as its more curated experience for non players ^^ You was not off on the meaning but also completely missed the mark as it is more layered and nuanced That said Thank You for the reaction it was very interesting take especially with going trough the music and genre influences you spotted in there * -*

[@Leonid_Power]

could you try out some of Elfensjon albums ?

[@Tackleberry61]

They couldn't offer the current content under a trial. They do want people to pay for a sub.

[@airmatt8806]

I can see your argument with the trail and I am sorry that it wasn't for you. My only counter is that FFXIV is heavily story based and it would be really difficult to get to the level cap that you are suggesting. I do have to agree with you that it is dated, if it helps having a friend or two to go through it makes the game way enjoyable.

[@ronioksanen3183]

I am more surprised where the hell did he find this heavy spoiler video for a song compared all version there is.