Gormotti Forest - Xenoblade Chronicles 2 OST [095]

[@anothergamer112]

How convenient that the cloud sea level never rose while Rex was unconscious or when the group camped out for the night :P

[@dugtrioramen]

But the sea level never rises on its own. You have to go to the inn and ask for a DEEP sleep.

[@ShockInazuma]

I think they would've been too high even with Gormott at it's lowest point

[@ronalddonais4164]

@@ShockInazuma The bottom area of gormott (the place where you first arrive into it) is not accessible when the cloud tide is high.

[@_nagazaki__]

Its fate

[@DanixMRs]

One explanation: *PLOT ARMOR*

[@davimendespimentel6849]

I never played the game, but this song is a masterpiece.

[@DomiKAV]

I was always thinking why this theme gives me a kind of romantic vibe... when i replayed the game recently, i noticed that when you visit this area for the first time, Rex and Pyra are alone in the forest. That's where it clicked for me. The atmosphere this game has, especially in the beginning until shit hits the fan at the end of chapter 3, are unmatched; Probably my favorit earlygame part of all time.

[@dermotmacflann]

This music actually reminded me of Makna Forest's music, but less warm/tropical.

[@galaxier3543]

Same, I love both themes very much :D

[@TheCldmstrsn]

Ya Macuna Woods is amazing

[@mattsodano6264]

I imagine it being uncomfortably humid down there.

[@cipher0334]

This song makes me reflect fondly back to the time in early game where I only had Rex, Nia and Tora in the party before everything kicked off in Uraya after THAT fight. I did everything in the game possible so I was nearing 40 hours before even reaching Mor Ardain so I got to know that party really well really quickly and this theme makes me think of them, but mostly about how much I like Tora. I remember initially disliking Tora for reasons which are obvious but I am genuinely surprised that this amazing game made me see how wrong it was to make that judgement based off first interactions. It's not even that I grew to like him. That would imply that his characters has annoying traits that I learnt to tolerate. After exploring and backtracking all over Gormott I began to understand Tora better through his quest lines, dialogue and such and realised how badly I had judged him without even giving him the chance. But the game showed me through its mechanics and overworld. Take the fact that Tora can't resonate with core crystals. If you're like me, then you often amassed maximum number of core crystals and thus, collected a fair few number of rare blades in early game and so you begin to switch between Rex and Nia a lot more, using their different blades and hearing their unique dialogue and completing their blade quests. All while this is happening Tora is taking the back seat because he's stuck with Poppy Alpha. Naturally, he's left out and more often than not, never really used as the first driver which you control. He doesn't get new dialogue with any other blades or any new quests but he does have dialogue with Rex and Nia's blades post battle and in quests. This plays so well into the narrative because Tora and Poppy later tell Rex how even though they struggle with not being true driver and blade like Rex and Pyra, that's their motivation to be as strong as possible and keep pushing to do better. Rex and Nia's bonds with their blades are something that Tora has to watch develop continuously as the player rolls new blades over and over again. And even though eventually Tora does technically get 'new' blades, he becomes the tank of the party, taking on the burden of knowing he can't be a true driver, and the literal burden of bearing the brunt of the damage when the player engages in battle. His character has so much depth to it and despite that it never truly takes the spotlight I really came to love Tora, valued him so much as a member of my party, and appreciate how well they were able to develop the character even with most of it not being the focal point.

[@Sackboy612]

Nice writeup

[@jellycore1316]

Wow. I think this has helped me understand him a bit better, too! Thank you very much! Have a lovely day/night, whoever's reading this~!

[@80sForever29]

Tora is my baby ♥️

[@roberte.ospeedwagon1464]

C H I L L M A N

[@victoraponte1200]

Great speech

[@MRP0E]

Still the most underrated song in the game

[@Manas-co8wl]

I've not played the game, but this song is so beautiful that the fact that it's underrated is either a crime or an indication that other bgms would be that much more beatiful

[@Xenokhaos]

@@Manas-co8wl Yeah, its the second one lmao this game has just too many masterpieces

[@guillaumehomier5038]

Me trying to open the chest... Pyra: -Calm your mind!

[@hernobleness]

Just got hit with the hardest nostalgia wave T.T

[@mattsodano6264]

Makes me think back to my first playthrough.

[@the1337fleet]

This track was honestly a factor in buying a Switch and this game (when I saw Etika play it). So peaceful and nostalgic...

[@AAA-vf2qr]

One of my many favorites in this game :-)

[@r.c.c.10]

True.

[@R.Sinnia]

:'[

[@StickySli]

R.I.P.

[@silverreaps6803]

rip

[@boredgoddesstori6635]

Currently replaying Xenoblade 2. When I got to this area again and heard this Track I was surprised. I completely forgot how good it was.

[@kimag3180]

I finally found it! I play nintendo mixes in my classroom throughout the day so my students and I can relax/concentrate better and when I heard this song, I just had to search the title! Such a peaceful song and serene. Makes me nostalgic for some reason.

[@moonadoo1006]

based

[@Manas-co8wl]

You're the teacher I never had

[@misszazia7866]

Walking with Pyra in this area when you’re at the Chapter 8 is just, indescribable.

[@_shadow_8793]

IKR, i just walked here when trying to 100% the game, just to hear this music and return to the warm feeling the atmosphere gave me

[@jtwk3400]

Idk why this song specifically makes me feel nostalgic for this game

[@beyondthesky2140]

this is one of those songs where when you first hear it in game you think "I've heard this somewhere before" but you actually haven't

[@oux3456]

Yeah it feels like forest of the nopon but actually isn't exactly similar , totally different, there's a part with some similar notes (1:22) but the rest it gives a cool false memory

[@Veogamer42]

So true! I've never played this game before, but when I heard this song in another youtube video I thought it sounded familiar, so I clicked on the link to the song in the description and it brought me here to my surprise.

[@aegistoby9319]

That heart 2 heart that was back at the start of the whole thing in gormott was actually perfect for saying like. Yep this is were are adventure started. And look where we are now

[@raihoushat.s9942]

I was so surprised when noticed that great cotte falls (Xenoblade3) includes this bgm.

[@theswagatron]

This gonna be the song breaks me a few years from now and i just break down crying remembering how amazing this game was. Already feels so nostalgic...

[@KairuHakubi]

i 'stalge hard for this part because it was when I first really knew this game was going to be wonderful. a bustling marketplace carried by a giant whale balloon and an ancient ship are both nice and all, but THIS place.. you've gotta have lands like this in your fantasy game.

[@superderpyduck6425]

I remember being impressed how beautiful this place was, then I found the rest of Gormott... I was very surprised... then URAYA "ok but surely it cant get any Bett-" LEFTHERIAN ARCHAPELLAGO "ok surely thats it... right?" ... ... _Radamanthus portal_

[@fnafgamer2469]

When I first played this game and heard this theme, I knew I was in for a special game.

[@jr.c.4250]

This really sounds like a song made for Xeno1 that made it into Xeno2 instead and I love it

[@mewithadele]

This is where the adventure with Pyra started

[@alepsycho]

This datamined version is incredibly beautiful

[@lucassmith3790]

This really feels like a xenoblade 1 song

[@64GamingMaster]

Refugee camp vibes

[@Shu_Utsugi1999]

@@64GamingMaster no les noto el parecido

[@theichytype]

Just found it through one of the Nintendo compilation music, definitely a hidden gem

[@maxluvscats]

i found it through a playlist too!! i dont play this game, but i absolutely love this track

[@molo3517]

@@maxluvscats you should listen to the other ost of the game if you haven’t already! Wonderful music to a wonderful game!

[@muchtartidakbahagia]

Never play the game because i aint a gamer, but this game has some of the most sweet melodies i've ever heard.

[@cyconical]

I can just feel the nostalgia this track will give me in the next 5 years

[@JackBlack-cc6rj]

Just begin playing this game, now in Chapter 3. This is my favorite song so far! Really want to go back to the point where only Pyra and Rex were wandering in that area...

[@bubhoward8642]

Felt this sometimes. The feeling can fade when u come back with a whole ass squad and have endgame breaking OP abilities and weapons xD

[@grimreapress8578]

My favorite song in the whole game.

[@dannyton8478]

this song so relaxing

[@LSJR3tr0]

It was December of 2017, I remember staying up late watching Etika play this on a stream, it was during a time where I was a freshmen in High School when it was still hard for me to obtain things that I wanted due to me not being about to obtain money eaisly at all, but when I heard this track for the first time on stream, I did everything I could to work towards things, and eventually got the game and a Switch for myself, also RIP Etika

[@isaiahthechristiangamer8716]

😔

[@stewboy69]

underrated gold and so relaxing and soothing. This is one of these songs I would listen to before I would go to bed.

[@liamgardner2985]

So underrated

[@adrozz2120]

Please, remind me to come back to this masterpiece

[@neverinstone]

CANNOT get over this tune. It's so pleasant to just sit and listen to it

[@bubhoward8642]

I wasnt doing too great mentally back when i got this game. When i reached this area i just wanted to stay here. Good music, good atmosphere

[@TypicalSergio23]

I was just reminded how good this track is 70 hours in because I accidentally fell into the forest from the plains loll

[@lacanm1554]

This is still my favorite gormott theme

[@definitelynotapervert5602]

This track gives off some serious PS2 JRPG vibes. I love it. It's just so beautiful, wondrous, and even kinda nostalgic. 😄

[@92058]

one of my favorites

[@92058]

It's so peaceful...

[@AstraProc]

This track and Torigoth night make me the most nostalgic for the game. This one because of how it plays right at the beginning of your journey, and the latter, of course, due to the great deal of time I spent hearing it as I was in town playing that arcade game for Poppi's equipment

[@CaboozledPie]

i don't know whether this'll make it into smash but i do hope it will

[@Tom-101]

"Here I come, ready Gormotti" - Nia

[@entruh4520]

ready or gormotti u mean

[@RebeccaETripp]

This is so beautiful! I had never heard any music from this series before today! Incredible! Me: "wait a minute... sounds almost like Yasunori Mitsuda!" *checks* "Well I'll be!!" Maybe this track is Manami Kiyota, though? :0

[@Renne308]

It’s a Kiyota! She did a ton of the area themes in the first game, and I think hers are pretty much the best of the batch.

[@an1hony28]

Love this song, it's so calm and nostalgic

[@ccmuii]

the best song of the game for myself

[@jdashow9037]

yeah i can hear parts of makna forest in this

[@Paulieee]

If I ever get married in my life, I want this to be my wedding dance song. Such an incredibly beautiful waltz ♥

[@aegistoby9319]

You and me both. In my opinion also one Last You

[@mmert138]

Lmao nobody marries you nerds!

[@Survi_LeRoi]

desde que escuché esta canción sabía que este juego sería una obra maestra y hermoso al mismo tiempo, I love ya Pyra :´)

[@snailcity9647]

this general... melody? can also be heard in The Abandoned City, as well as Spirit Crucible Elpys. it kinda makes sense you hear it there since those places have significance to Pyra/Mythra, but the reason they're significant is because of past events relating to Addam. in Gormotti Forest, it's where Rex starts his journey with Pyra/Mythra, so that might be why the melody is playing here. bUt ThAt'S jUsT a ThEoRy, A gAmE tHeOrY

[@haroldmccarty3977]

Melodies that are used in similar settings like this are called “motifs,” and I totally agree with you

[@Dundereshock]

love how the url says "OUCH"

[@imfineimfumo3475]

why can't we get a url that saiys "Aaaiiiiyah!"

[@sbrl]

@@imfineimfumo3475 Can't get the exclamation mark, but otherwise a 1-in-1152921504606846976 (1 quintillion) chance or so I think (11^64)

[@imfineimfumo3475]

i have been educated

[@TheActualMrLink]

It’s so soothing... :’)

[@bradzhang2195]

A comment in a different video mentioned how you could hear the breath of the flutist... Well here it is again 3:29 you're welcome

[@entruh4520]

Wow you're right

[@thisimagelooksslightlybett1020]

Was it B-Bum's comment?

[@thisimagelooksslightlybett1020]

And was it on Mor Ardain- roaming the wastes (night) ?

[@Gayd1]

I remember someone saying that in Uraya day too

[@KingPeuche]

I noticed this as well. Listening to this song 50000 times on repeat with headphones on, you notice things like this 😂

[@ederyahirleonflores9826]

i want play this at my weeding

[@icebear6757]

so good

[@lukajito1416]

Le jeu du siècle

[@r.c.c.10]

Wow, even better than Gormott.

[@NatureXwars]

Trickywi brought me here. I can very much appreciate great soundtracks despite me being completely alien to the Switch, & thus to this game series.

[@chrisrey0018]

Love it so much

[@pizzapoosta]

peak "im homeless now also wtf just happened" theme

[@gandie233]

EAR I CANM, REATY OR GORMOTTI

[@ramahermawan4598]

Oh, hi there, new Refugee Camp.

[@r.c.c.10]

Both are amazing.

[@Aerdou]

Rip to the goat #etika

[@companion_monke_gaming]

I adore this music😸

[@armakeen3576]

This one reminds me of Makna Forest in xc1

[@reyonXIII]

kinda fitting then that they're combined and remixed, along with Uraya, for the Great Cotte Falls

[@mikeydrago-dt8by]

I've only really just started this game too. Up to the beginning of chapter 3, and have done every side quest I could do on Gormott currently and well, this theme is my most favourite at the moment. Every time I hear it, I can't stop trying to whistle my most favourite part. My characters also are levels 19 and 21, and when you get the core crystals, I did after 20 common core crystals, finally get a Beast Blade. The randomiser is what I'm still figuring out. Is it literally endless possibilities for names of Blades, their elements and their skills? Also. By pure luck, I got a rare blade called Godfrey, with a common core crystal too. I also question this. Why are the enemies so hard to defeat, even when you are the same level. I've died like 10 times so far, and that particular unique monster Territorial Rotbart on the Plains of Gormott, I really hate. I mean. I get ambushed by Red Volff's because I'm exploring and stuff, and Territorial Rotbart literally passes by every time I try to fight them. Because it always took so long to defeat the three Volff's, Territorial Rotbart always one -shot me.

[@dichlorodiphenyltrichloroe4675]

Ready of Gormotti am I right

[@Tazerboy_10]

This song reminds me of Graffiti Kingdom...

[@ambermaebarton9412]

hearing this reprised in XC3 was bonkers

[@yzois]

AND its was in one of the best roaming tracks to boot.

[@molo3517]

Which ost is it ? I don’t remember hearing it

[@TheDarkThief692]

@@molo3517 The name of the OST is Great Cotte Falls Day in XC3

[@mr.redacted767]

Just wanted to stop by 3 months later and say fuck you for spoiling it. You published this comment literally less than a month after the game came out. Gfy

[@TheRebornExpert]

@@mr.redacted767 Your fault for looking through the comments when you haven't finished the game.

[@joaomarcos7545]

lindo

[@LittleVidds]

I can't find this track anywhere on Spotify :(

[@oux3456]

1:21 Makna Forest motiv ummm

[@wowzagh]

Makna who?

[@Dudester100]

Enya vibes

[@Chronicron]

Am I the only one who thinks that this sounds oddly familiar to Ashes of Dreams from NieR Replicant?

[@bathatcatflat]

This is Mario and Luigi music.

[@fel_7264]

Why is this song only used once, and in a forgettable area of the game

[@heroponoflegend3326]

I found it quite memorable since it's the first area you get to explore with Pyra. That, and the incredible music makes it fairly difficult NOT to remember it.

[@the1337fleet]

This is one of the most memorable places to me IMO. You're winding down from an intense climax of the previous chapter, where a bunch of things happened. You're getting to know your first teammates in a new adventure after surviving it. A renewed sense of peace and hope (and underboobs) washes over you. Nothing is really threatening here. The song is just the exquisite cherry on top to tie it all together :) I'd replay the game just to wander around here and observe all the foliage.

[@klorby9971]

I remember so vividly after the intense ending to the first chapter, I legitimately stood around for what was probably 30 minutes just admiring the scenery and letting the music loop. It gave me such a strong hit of nostalgia to hear this tune as a new adventure truly began, and getting to see for the first time how the very first party members played off each other as they ventured the gorgeous landscape. It’s one of the most memorable experiences I’ve had with any video game in a long time, can’t describe it with any better word than magical.

[@the1337fleet]

@@klorby9971 that's amazing, such a dream-like scenario

[@gamerprince-tl5hg]

@@the1337fleet Exactly why I love this track.