Nobody Told Me FF8 Had Some of the BEST BOSS MUSIC in the Series

I'm having a blast discovering music from Final Fantasy 8 in this channel. Today we're listening to the FF8 final boss theme The Extreme. I didn't know this game had some of the best boss music in the series, but then again, what else would you expect from Nobuo Uematsu!
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[@DaviVasc]

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[@ConejoTeen]

Please check out Nier:Automata soundtrack 🙏

[@xeonaught6942]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/maGtqKyaZaZ4rKM Listen to the FF14 version its mental

[@LMMotoss]

The Extreme is a standout among the entire series and it's really crushing that so many people HAVEN'T played this game to the end

[@Theeight8b]

And it's a crime, that FF8 did not get FF7 reboot treatment.

[@morokal]

I played this game a LOT when I was younger, but since I never made it past Ultimecia's third phase, I just found out about this song a few days ago :(

[@gogdog52]

The cool thing about that FF8 boss theme containing the traditional battle rhythm is that it’s missing from the game until that final battle. He saved it until the very end.

[@SuperSaiyanMoses]

i was just bout to say that.

[@lynxcool555]

He did the same thing in 7 with Birth of God

[@pabloguzman8472]

naa its underneath the normal battle theme

[@gogdog52]

@@pabloguzman8472 there is a slower rhythm that is similar, but it’s not THE traditional rhythm, which is what appears in Ultimecias theme. It’s very intentional.

[@pabloguzman8472]

@@gogdog52 yea but if you dont mention that it is there on the normal battle songs you would think that those songs has anything to do with the motif

[@100foodreviews5]

Uematsu's favorite FF soundtrack is 9, but I think 8's is by far the best in the franchise has the best battle themes and comfy town themes

[@reallyshel]

Yeah ff8 is heavily understated for those i agree.

[@ninjificus]

fav game and soundtrack...might be biased but oh well

[@fmr1870]

I REALLY love that you pointed out the fact that on the second part of the theme Nobuo started with one of the signature intro he uses for almost every battle theme. As if he was saying "you might feel desperate at first, but don't be afraid, you shall fight this battle like any other, you know what to do". It's perfectly aligned with the central thematic of self-confidence and courage through out the character of Squall in this episode VIII.

[@neobullseye1]

So... At this point in the game, the main villain has essentially accomplished all they want to do. Reality itself is at the edge of destruction, with the main villain absorbing all of time and space into herself. This means that in a way, she *is* all of reality. This is why the sound keeps panning from left and right and back; the boss is quite literally all around you (even her model is so large that it warps around the party rather than just being in front of them), and you pretty much have already lost. Just to drive this point home, the first thing the final boss does is to set your entire party's HP to 1. However, this isn't the only reason why the music starts so sad; for as evil and malevolent the villain is, she's also very tragic, and she herself only did what she did out of despair. But that's not the end of it. This is a JRPG, and we are the heroes! We're going to save the world, the universe! The 'heroic' part of the music is timed to kick in shortly after your HP is set to 1, and probably roughly around the time you healed yourself up and are going on the counteroffensive. As for the 'odd time signatures' and key changes in general, well, again, the boss is absorbing time and space itself into herself, and is fought in an otherwise completely empty void. There is nothing stable around you, no floor, no stars, nothing. The only way you can hold yourself together at this point is pure willpower, and as such the music is both frantic and chaotic, yet also filled with determination (no, not the all-caps kind) and heroism.

[@Sticksnstones77]

Ultimecia had a reason for doing stuff? I remember in the first Dissidia game she had a unique item that implied some trauma or loss but... See, someone told me once that there actually is a backstory behind everything that happened in FF8, something about some goddess(?) and her dead knight? But since I didn't 100% the game and Ulti herself only has like... three lines in the whole game, I got to the end extremely confused about what was happening and just enjoyed all the wacky spectacle.

[@neobullseye1]

@@Sticksnstones77 First of all, keep in mind that everything a certain character in Discs 1 and 2 says is actually Ultimecia talking (I'm not naming that character to avoid spoilers for third people, but to anyone who has played the game, it should be obvious who that person is). Ultimecia has plenty of dialogue, it's just not obvious it's her at first. Anyway, short version, the entire game is one giant self-fulfilling prophecy. On Ultimecia's side, she is from a future where sorceresses are actively being hunted town and prosecuted. In response, she tries to do all the things she does in the game in an attempt to create a world where she and only she can survive (while it technically also allows her to rule this new world, it's a bit pointless to 'rule' over a world where nothing else can even exist). The problem is that this very action is what led to her prosecution in the first place; the combination of multiple Sorceresses trying to take over the world coupled with one that wants to destroy all of reality let to humanity becoming a lot more pro-active about things. Add in weird time travel shenanigans, and you end up with a villain who is a victim of both her own machinations and the way this universe works. The rest of the game follows similar logic. Squall's victory over Ultimecia and the subsequent events are what set his own past events in motion, and ultimately guarantees Ultimecia's defeat. FF8 is full of things like this: Ellone attempts to send people's minds into the past in an attempt to change the past, only to cause these very same events to fold out in the same fashion. Ultimecia tried to change the past to save herself, only to cause her own defeat. And since every point in time is the 'past' from a later point in time, it follows that you cannot change the future either. Ultimecia *will* rise and she *will* cause massive amounts of destruction, and nothing can possibly change this. In short, everyone in the entire game's universe is a victim of fate, forced to do those things they were destined to do.

[@shinigamimiroku3723]

​@@neobullseye1Which leads right back to the title theme, "Liberi Fatali" (Children of Fate).

[@alexmaganda5827]

It always bothered me that we never got to know what her ambition and motive is meh

[@anthonydenia6798]

@@Sticksnstones77 There is also some theories pointing that Ultimecia is Linoa having lost everything, hence why she is able to summon Griever, her knight, Squall. Pointing to the Liberi fatali, the tragic fate of 2 lover losing themselves and fighting in a neverending loop

[@xXEkoLogikoXx]

Uematsu's progger side really shows in FFVIII soundtrack. My favourite one in the series.

[@carlosriveraauthor]

The Extreme is a SPECTACULAR boss track. It pumps you up so much, and that piano theme fits the enemy so much, it's bewitching, and of course the boss is sorceress Ultimecia. The theme keeps rising, rising, rising, the drops back down. It's really cool.

[@kirra9524]

Ultimecia have one of the best theme for me. But honestly, the theme of her castle is also exceptionnel

[@jadenrivera9912]

This might just be my favorite Final Fantasy song of all time

[@DaviVasc]

Thank you for watching Jaden!

[@samfivedot]

One-Winged Angel gets all the attention, and for good reason, but I think this is actually my favorite Final Fantasy boss theme

[@AlexanderPR2]

Everything about FFVII is overrated. The Extreme is much better than One Winged Angel. The whole FFVIII OST is superior btw.

[@raulrojas9253]

@@AlexanderPR2 the only Good thing about 8 is literally the soundtrack and that's it. Ergo Why FF 8 should have had the remake instead

[@razielvalentine4076]

​@@raulrojas9253that's a bit of an exaggeration. I love FF8, and not even I can say it's perfect. But "the only good thing is the OST"? No, just no. FF7 is a game I don't like, yet I wouldn't dare say it's a bad game. A little overrated at that, but someone has to know when to recognise when something's good, despite personal preference.

[@reallyshel]

​@@razielvalentine4076FF7 and 8 are fantastic, for their own great reasons. They just feel different. Its hard to describe. But I do think ff8 has a slightly better overall soundtrack.

[@neezduts69420]

I've honestly given up choosing a favourite and I haven't even played them all 😂

[@ninjificus]

lol, was talking about how slow and calm it was at the beginning and I was just like, "just wait"....and then he paused it xD

[@liah1327]

To this day, The Extreme is my favorite FF boss track hands down. Nothing comes close for me. Granted this was my first FF and i was a wee 3rd grader, so it thoroughly blew my mind lol. The way the music swirls around your head when you have headphones on-OOH!! Goosebumps. :D Edit: I'd like to add, and I totally over thinking this, but I always felt the distinct straight 4's on the high hat/beat felt like a ticking from a clock. And it rapidly speeds up into the climax. Time is a HUGE part of FF8's story, and to me it felt like Ultemicia is trying to manipulate time in this battle.

[@2cents968]

You nail the emotional interpretation. Which not only shows what a great composer Uematsu is, but also how suited you are to this style of reaction/deconstruction video. Great stuff!

[@jiihankich]

i was legit in tears, you perfectly describe what i feel when listening to this. but then you breakdown the part at 16:37 which i would never notice because im not a musician and i never been so emotional by a game music in my whole life

[@AmeliaPond.]

I love FF8, always have and it’s underrated in IMO. Never understood why people hate on it. The grinding was dreadful but all of them were that way.

[@Aya_Albion]

I love FF8, too, but some of my friends say they don't like it much. They don't like the junction system and the "school/romance elements". 😅

[@AmeliaPond.]

@@Aya_Albion that’s funny. I actually enjoyed that and the goofy parts. Gave the game life for me. And honestly it’s typical story lines and behavior from a lot of your anime’s. So I still don’t get it, but each their own I suppose 😊

[@Arxane]

As someone who played FF8 a few years ago, I can answer why some people like myself don’t like the game. The junction system is certainly unique, but it incentives a kind of grinding that isn’t fun. Other FF games encourage grinding, sure, but at least you get the rewarding feeling of your character growing stronger with each level attained. The junction system, meanwhile, forces you to draw literally hundreds of magic spells from monsters to increase the stats of every party member, and at the same time incentivizes players to keep their level low to keep monsters from leveling up as well. So you have a game where leveling your characters with experience can hurt you, and the only way to really increase your stats is a boring play loop of drawing magic over and over and over while choosing to never actually use that magic because using it decreases characters stats and…ugh, it’s a mess of a system that sounds good in theory but doesn’t work in practice. As for the story…it’s not my cup of tea, but I don’t hate it as much as some people do. I do admit the whole group amnesia plot point was incredibly stupid, but I’ve seen worse story beats in other games. If you want to see true hatred for FF8, hunt down Spoony’s old review of the game…and even he took back all his criticisms because he found FF13 much, much worse in every regard.

[@AmeliaPond.]

@@Arxane Those are fair points. But I have felt that grind frustration with all the FF games. FF6 comes to mind the OG before the fixed the grinding need. You would spend hours and hours grinding to be able to fight and not die in certain areas. And junction system could have been better but it wasn’t a game changer for me. I still loved the game, and everyone has different ideas of what they want or like in a game. Thanks for your input.

[@nathank2289]

​@@ArxaneThe trick to FF8 is you DONT grind. It's the only FF that rewards you for thinking outside the box and playing pacifist. Turn the monsters into cards instead of killing them and mod the cards instead of drawing magic from them.

[@Satarack]

Final Fantasy 8 has many flaws but composition isn't one of them. The leitmotif for the witches is such a beautifully haunting melody that makes for some absolutely memorable scenes whenever it is heard. The time compression theme when the party travels to the distant future embodies time in a way that both relaxes and unnerves. Eyes on me is a lovely solo (even if the English lyrics are a little odd). Oh yeah, and the battle music kicks ass. The first time you hear Man with the Machine Gun you're like, "I don't know why everyone fell asleep or why I'm these soldiers now, but this song bops."

[@jamesflowers1295]

Force Your Way is a banger for the ages, especially The Black Mages cover

[@giovanniprovost]

FF8 has some insaneeeee boss music, even the regular boss theme is a BANGER

[@abeldiaz3877]

Indeed. And the man with the machine gun!

[@fredericklau5897]

I love Maybe I Am A Lion

[@techsoul5590]

This is the best breakdown I have heard of this track, I would love if you would do more FF8 songs. "Maybe I'm a Lion", "The Oath", "Man With The Machine Gun", "The Landing", "The Castle", "Fisherman's Horizon", "Silence and Motion" (last one because it is weird) are all good.

[@zetta8277]

Awesome to see you reacting to some of the older titles. You should give Seymour's boss theme from FFX a hear, it's one of the best in the series.

[@xXEkoLogikoXx]

Seymour is in FFX. BUT. Fight With Seymour is still one of the best Uematsu's work so far.

[@FreddyChoppins]

Fun fact! If you ever wondered why that track sounded so familiar, give "Assault of the Silver Dragons" from FFIX a listen. For YEARS I wondered why the final Seymour battle music sounded so familiar and couldn't place my finger on it because I naturally assumed it was using a melody from FFX.

[@Braig1]

“Man with the Machine Gun” Goat.

[@Manerick]

That's no the final boss

[@stratosky]

I really hope they remake this one with full orchestra. Personally I loved this one just as much as FF7. The music is incredible

[@diamondog2476]

This one and Dancing Mad are my favorite final boss themes in the series. I prefer themes that mostly sound disturbing and sad for the final boss. The first examples that made me like this kind of final boss themes are the "Final Cackletta" theme from Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga and the Elder Shroob battle theme from Mario & Luigi Partners in time (that one sounds SO creepy), both of which were composed by Yoko Shimomura. Maybe you would be interested in these themes as well. At least for me, they had a great impact as a child.

[@thepharmercy3139]

Davi "It's not very heroic....-----" Uematsu "hold my sake, i'm about to slap an ascending bass line on this nerd"

[@LightningDragonGamer]

The Extreme (FF8) All as One (FF16) Cycle's End (Guild Wars 2 E.O.D) are my all time favorite final boss themes. Would love to see a video on Cycle's End

Bro, I'm a fan of final fantasy and Nobuo and your analysis of the compositions hits right there, you capture the feelings perfectly. Love it.

[@Gigglebitten]

FF8 always had my favorite music in the series

[@guilhermecaiado5384]

Music in FF8 in general is great, Balamb Garden Theme is stuck forever in my soul.

[@shiftsync9988]

love the explanation of keywords. makes it easier to follow what's going on

[@viniciuslorenzini7195]

As far as epic final boss songs, I love the theme for the last battle of Epic Battle Fantasy 4, a track called Fallen Blood by Phyrnna, from overwhelming to heroic and fits the mood of the fight.

[@asr1el_d]

Hey! I just wanna thank you for doing this amazing work. I've been following you since your Hollow knight videos and watching your videos is my favourite method of listening to/discovering new video game soundtracks. Your commentary makes the music more interesting and I understand it better thanks to that. And because of my understanding of the music, it actually sounds better now! 😄 Looking for more videos 💛

[@Zach19883]

FF8 is up there with FF7 in terms of soundtrack. Recommend Premonition or The Legendary Beast if you want to dig into the soundtrack more

[@shinigamimiroku3723]

You really are missing out, not playing Final Fantasy VIII. Yes, the Junction System is rather divisive (although it's bloody easy to understand if you actually pay attention to what the game is saying), and I'll admit the romance elements aren't to everyone's taste (I definitely take it over Cloud's and Tifa's codependent "relationship" or the awkward tragicomedy that is Tidus' and Yuna's, though), but it's an absolutely amazing ride, and a big part of it is the music. "The Extreme" is just a small sample of Uematsu's genius when it comes to weaving music into the game itself, and while many other Final Fantasy games can boast similar feats I believe that VIII is his greatest example. I'm really glad that you enjoyed this song, and I hope you'll at least take the opportunity to check out the entire soundtrack in the future - if not the game itself.

[@XxguaxinimxX.]

Great video! I've never played FF8, too, but this does fit as a final boos theme!

[@destructorestelargalactico7345]

after so many years after last time I played the game... still the BSO of FF8 makes me feel almost like if where about to cry for something I can understand, because I´m not sad at all, but the music go inside and makes with my body whatever it wants

[@sobo089]

congrats to 100k. been here since you were under 10k. really love the evolution of your channel

[@strychnine7777]

10:40, you are right because Ultimacia rule all points of time simultaneously. When he creates music, it is always about background Story and Characters. So you really found it out by listening. 15:09, these kind of theme are used to post hard-core, metal, even symphonic metal as well... I actually love that, it's a chill bro!

[@EndlessInfinity1]

Soken does an *excellent* remake of it for FFXIV

[@ShakeyMac18]

Jesus Christ man. I've listened to this song more times than I can count, through more versions than I can remember, and I did not realize that little lick of the OG FF battle music was right at the end of the first transition. Very nice catch.

[@xXCaosmoSXx]

Only those people who loves FF8, talk about it - and yes, we are not so many.

[@PatrickYucanvas]

It’s always nice to hear my favorite music with you! Please do one with Castlevania - Rondo of blood: Bloodlines and Megaman and Forte - Museum Theme!

[@FURognar]

Everybody talks about FF7s soundtrack and it is classic but FF8 single handedly elevated videogame soundtracks to a whole new level.

[@mswynter1840]

I love this fight, it's music, and the music during the whole lead up through ultimecias castle. I'd just hang out there sometimes in disc 4 just to listen to it.

[@Aya_Albion]

Amazing video as always! I can't forget my senses that I felt when l listen to this for the first time. I felt the shivers and the quiet fear that gave me goosebumps at the beginning of the piece, and then my excitement surged as the battle themes from past FF series began to be played. Every time I listen to this piece, l realize again how much I love FF series and Nobuo Uematsu’s work. Thanks for the video, Davi!

[@hyst6081]

Ohhh shit I wasn't expecting this. This is my favorite FF boss theme!!

[@ciiiel08]

Interesting that you point out that battle motif. I hadn't noticed before But it's also used at the start of the standard battle music in FF9

[@second_second_]

i like your explanation, so deep. glad hearing from an expert

[@Sagara957]

Great as always. Thanks for this video. What about Primal Eyes by Yoko Shimomura?

[@stef96ify]

The pans changing intensity at the beginning, for some reason I always associated that to a clock quadrant floating in the void where the arrows spin quickly and endlessly

[@shiftsync9988]

14:10 this is interesting! I wondered how that sound was made. I didn't know about up-tempos before.

[@MagusDouken]

At the start of this track, when wearing my headphones, I always feel that opening part is actually swirling AROUND my head, not just back and forth, like an external onlooker examining you closely, while being unable to interact with it.

[@Justforvisit]

Another Suggestion: Final Fantasy IX - You're Not Alone The single handedly best track in the whole FF Franchise and pretty much a musical hallmark, the epitome of all what the good old classic Final Fantasy stands for.

[@ozdeveraux2082]

At the time of its composition Uematsu wasn’t entirely sure if he had the energy to compose FFIX (which was very deep into production at this time) he says he composed this with the idea that it would be his final boss battle theme and wanted to make it feel climatic not only for the game story but for his potential journey with the FF series

[@a-terrible-fate532]

as expected from the legend himself uematsu !

[@necrosadotor]

such cool enthusiasm

[@debbieheacock3332]

Awesome to be here listening with you!!! 😉😊🤗🫶🏻 the sound traveling is so cool! Mystical like… oh wow and now it builds!😊

[@mitchconnor3010]

I havent played ff8 in over a decade, but hearing the intro kick in @0:55 made me think of lucretia's cave or vincent in the shinra basement theme from ff7...?

[@TheScratcherStudios]

Not only Boss music. In my humble opinion, FFVIII has the best OST in all of FF. But I am surely also biased from nostalgia.

[@AnnMegFair]

was thinking of typing a big thing about what I love about this theme but all I ended up with was Another 8 Final Fantasy games later this is still my favourite final boss theme and I would choose it any day even over One Winged Angel and Dancing Mad. I really want Final Fantasy VIII to be given the same treatment VII got with a big fancy remake that tightens up the story, polishes the battle system and overhauls the entire thing. I will be old an grey and still tell anyone it should get a proper remake with the same hype VII got.

[@arturoaguilar6002]

6:10 Fun fact: that beat is at the start of the normal battle music in Final Fantasy I, III, IV, V, VI. (Oh, you said it. But it isn’t used in neither VII or VIII normal battle music) Also the final boss music in Final Fantasy IV uses panoramic sound too.

[@ProfBrunoClemente]

Omg, this song is just amazing!

[@coldReactive]

So one thing I'd like to see you some day do, is listen to works by Motoi Sakuraba. Sakuraba is a good composer that makes music for a number of niche RPG Serials, such as Golden Sun, Star Ocean, Valkyrie Profile and the like. However, probably the most interesting thing is when you take into account another composer's work, Noriyuki Iwadare, who does some of the remix music for Sakuraba's work on the modern titles for said serials. I'd also like to see your reaction to Tsuyoshi Sekito, who does the remixed/re-arranged music for remasters of Chrono Trigger (for the FMVs) and is in the group "The Black Mages." I've always been interested in composers who do faithful recreations like those, and it's interesting to see how well they recreate the style in their own way.

[@grimreapress8578]

My favorite boss theme from this game is honestly Maybe I'm a Lion. You should give that one a listen

[@dezheathen]

Happy you found this but this is one of the greatest games ever you need to play it

[@Cloudcolin]

The 4 chords near the end, it sounds like Chrono Trigger Battle 1 Theme !

[@danielramsey6141]

One piece of FF music he needs to Review is “the Mysterious Girl” from FF4. Which as a normal theme and a Battle Theme! Those two are like Night and Day, composed of the same core, but both have equal amounts of Dread. The Battle though…that has to be listened to! Shivers up the Spine!

[@Makuragio]

This boss them is absolutely awesome. And it was reorchestrated masterfully in FFXIV :)

[@why_4]

I hope you do Frostpunk next

[@FreddyChoppins]

Premonition, The Legendary Beast, Maybe I'm a Lion and The Extreme are all fantastic tracks that play during the final boss' various stages and I love all of them. FFVII, in my humble opinion, has the best boss themes in the series to this day. Even the regular boss music, Force Your Way, is a top-tier track. Absolutely fantastic stuff.

[@xeronic]

FFVIII, in my opinion, has the best Game soundtrack, period. It's so good. While the game is hit or miss, the music is the games strongest point. I highly recommend listening to the Piano collections if you can, especially Silence and motion. But battle tracks? Yeah, FF8 has some bangers, especially "The Man with the Machine Gun".

[@julienhyx94]

Hi! I love your feelings and explanations about songs. A little recommandation of an another videogame song if you didn't know it. Xenogears: Alpha and omega :)

[@pilotamurorei]

surprised you didnt notice that he uses some of the same chords and movements as the Jenova theme from ff7

[@mokane86]

8 had a lot of metal attitude on top of the regular teen angst. It had a heavy plot of sorrow and tragedy over the standard sadness. You’re never really rooting against the “enemy” in the same way as you do the common villain. There isn’t some monster mutate ultimate weapon excuse to make them fully evil unhuman. It’s just like the mistakes of people destined to their universal human error, and the price of power. Of course ubermagics turn it to a fight for all reality as usual, but it’s as much a “wish we could have saved you” vs “now it’s time to destroy you once and for all”. And the paradox nature of self fulfilling time travel maybe also makes it even more bittersweet.

[@joaocabaco9232]

wow the timing, i just restarted playing FF8 after giving up a handful of times cause i didn't like the junction system, really starting to enjoy it this time and i couldn't help but notice how hard the soundtrack goes sometimes!

[@silent596]

The junction system can really be difficult to wrap one's head around at first. But, thankfully, when you do figure it out its a quick and easy way to raise your stats. Only downside is that it makes magic effectively useless since you have to keep it to have higher stats. For when you get it that point (minor spoilers) When Rinoa unlocks the Angel Wings limit break. Keep Full-Life, Ultima, and Meteor junctions to HP, Spirit, and Vitality and no other spells in her inventory. It makes life so much easier.

[@thend4427]

Once you get the floating garden you can go to cactaur island to farm your GFs fast

[@phosphor112]

FF8 is my favorite OST with FF16 in second. Absolute bangers.

[@damaton]

FF8 is the only Final Fantasy i've played and it was great, it has its flaws and a lot of the FF community doesent like it but its great and I love this theme

[@morgasm35]

Have you ever reacted to one winged angel advent version from final fantasy VII?

[@TheReddinotimeforce]

The slow part in the beginning is the start of yhe battle when ultimexia making ger speech battle kore start when beat picks up

[@Celis.C]

I'm by no means knowledgeable about music, but I got some tubular bells vibes from the tunes near the end. Is there some similarity there?

[@yourweirdplant]

Final Fantasy always has the best boss music Also, please do Coalescence from Risk of Rain!!

[@kaseymathew1893]

I wonder what you would think of the OST from Hardspace Shipbreaker? It describes itself as "Laid-back Americana."

[@maybeimalioness]

The choral 'fithos lusec wecos vinosec' 4:28 is an anagram of 'succession of witches' with four letters left over, l-o-v-e. Uematsu often put little puzzles in his music, like the song of prayer from ffx.

[@thend4427]

What's the ffx puzzle?

[@maybeimalioness]

The hymn of the fayth prayer makes no sense until you write the lyrics down and read them vertically, it's in Japanese.

[@Manerick]

All the song from the final battle is epic

[@ItsKatsuragi]

There's something about this track that makes me go back and forth losing myself in every individual melody of the song, and I can't help but bounce between paying attention to each of them and I dont know which I want to stay on................. and then still, I'll jump back to paying attention to the whole, only to feel that it's greater than it's parts. It's incredibly climactic to me. FF VIII is filled with tracks that make you "feel" something without a single word. One of the tracks that absolutely makes me lose myself feeling something I can't explain is "Silence and Motion". And I don't know what I feel, but I know I lose myself in it. It's not a very good one for a video though. I wholeheartedly believe FF VIII is peak Uematsu. And if there's one man and a soundtrack that, without exaggeration, makes me feel sad - for not having any musical training - it is this guy and this OST.

[@Brainmelt427]

please do an analysis of ultrakills tracks

[@extphas]

この曲を初めて聞いた時に途中からFF7のリバースセフィロスのテーマである"Birth of a God"とそっくりで驚いてしまった。コードの盛り上げ方から本当に似てる

[@Durendal1]

If you love Uematsu's boss fight themes you NEED to check the OG FF7 boss themes (regular, jenova and One Winegd Angel) and the one from Lost Odyssey which is INSANE (Roar of the Departed Souls).

[@DaviVasc]

I've played FF7. I love all of these themes! A video on these tracks would be cool indeed.

[@Durendal1]

@@DaviVasc Well, I think reaction videos more interesting when the person is discovering it ! I would then strongly recommend the Lost Odyssey track. I'm telling you : it's a journey 😆 Thank you for answering my comment ! Best of luck with your channel !

[@AntonConstanti]

I want to hear an extended version of only the beginning not the heroic part

[@lukedodson3441]

No mention of that heavy bass riff?

[@meret4180]

Those of you who've played the game, did you know that the English localization ended up cutting out a lot of Ultimecia's dialogue? Most of it is minor, but her final monologue during her fight is particularly significant in the Japanese version. Here it is: “Have you remembered something? Something from your childhood A sensation The words from back then The emotions from back then As you become an adult You leave something behind, throw something away Time will not wait for you Even if you cling to it It slips away the instant you open your hands And…” I've read that the themes of the game are about impermanence and loss of childhood and loved ones. Everything ends, but Ultimecia could never bring herself to accept that. She fought till the end to assert her existence, but such a goal can only end in failure, much the same as how we can never return to our childhoods. This song captures a wide range of emotions remarkably well. The patron who requested this track has excellent taste.

[@peppercat1887]

Yeah, her speech to the masses in Deling is one of those things localization ruined. Its arguably the greatest piece of dialogue in the entire series.

[@leonlacroix2638]

Final fantasy 8 is STILL my favorite final fantasy game of the series. There's a few good songs to listen to

[@nguyentai5950]

you should also try " The castle " track of FFVIII.

[@yoboom21]

I highly recommend the final boss theme from World of Final Fantasy :) "World of Final Fantasy OST Final Boss Theme"

[@IvoryMadness.]

I'm not a musician, but I've heard the therm "modulation" before. Is modulation the same as a key change, or this is just a simplification of the concept?

[@zennvirus7980]

Modulation is moving from one key (or one chord) to next adjacent one, up or down, to change the tone of the music. Works like this: You have a low, ominous key for the beginning. This creates a "dark" tone in the music. (4:44 in this video, for comparison) Then, after a few beats, you move the key up once and the tone changes to a less dark, more hopeful tone (9:00). Or you have a happy, bright tone, and then you lower the key to turn it darker, more melancholic. As you can see in the two examples in the timestamps I give, the music... "raises", grows brighter. Pay attention to you left headphone/speaker, and you'll catch the increase in modulation. That's what Davi means when he says that there is a "story telling going on" in the music. That's what modulation is capable of. It can ramp up or lower the tension without having to change the rhythm. And it's not just the key changes, but the contrast created by them throughout the track. Same with the chords. 16:38, what Davi is explaining is another example of modulation. The "feel" of the chords can also be used to modulate the music and create that "back and fore". To sum it up: it's a planned change in tone, either by changing the keys or the chords, that increases or decreases the "feel" of the music.

[@IvoryMadness.]

@@zennvirus7980 Great commend, dude! That helped a lot! Thanks 👍👍

[@tonyyoung1991]

the piano part gives me some parasite eve vibe tho

[@desertchild17]

Some of the best OST period .

[@gilinf.2662]

ahhh, my childhood!!! the frustration after get my *ss kicked by a certain hidden BOSS still lingering...

[@lukedodson3441]

Those high hats seem like triplets

[@xidan8146]

May I interest you that this music, The Extreme, has also a version in Final Fantasy XIV.? 😊