Solution Nine Theme "Starless Skyline" - FFXIV OST

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[@celanis7164]

Lofi beats to send the retainers back to work to.

[@donnyyasu2764]

I'm the Warrior of Light, and this is my favorite song on the Citade- Solution Nine.

[@ArchieGamez]

LOL ikr, it feels like Citadel especially Mass Effect 3 DLC....

[@scaper12123]

He says of every damn song in Dawntrail. (Not incorrectly, I assure you)

[@UltimegaSeven]

Its funny cause I know this isnt Soken. Its his other guy that made the raid songs for Eden. He gave him full control over a futuristic town and he understood the assignment. Our music team ballin

[@MarakamiSG]

Soken really be like: "here's the main leitmotif I composed lol, go crazy sound team."

[@omensoffate]

@@MarakamiSGyet everyone will credit soken for every song on this game 😂

[@geek593]

You can tell it's not Soken because it's bland modern lofi electronic hip hop beats that could have shown up in anything.

[@cathyas3749]

@@geek593 you can say this about literally any genre of music ever man

[@ageishyena3035]

@@geek593 this. He wouldn't sully his fingers with nor let his music team near such crap.

[@Anuca]

Yeah imma need an apartment here asap.

[@XcessiveNinja17]

as long as they're as big as the one we got to see in MSQ, and have a skyline view

[@Dragon359]

I'm torn between Tuliyolal and Solution 9 for the best views in the game.

[@ohlawd6763]

I was so let down that there WASNT apartments here, and I dont even like housing stuff 😂

[@dadigg4820]

there are some npcs are living there and they got really nice view and furniture! i wish we can get the same or better ones

[@misanthropiclusion]

please YoshiP is crying

[@Forren236]

They got some Phantasy Star in my Final Fantasy..

[@Voidgear1]

Exactly my thought! With all the shops together in the colony and you took your sister Lumia around in the colony…

[@Forren236]

@@Voidgear1 Clyez City? I can hear that.

[@ScreechingFennec]

That was my thinking when I first got here too

[@Voidgear1]

@@ScreechingFennec I'm so glad I'm not alone. I really miss PSU. :)

[@ulaladiva]

Super chill Pioneer 2 vibes

[@NeFlorence]

The best Endgame Hub in the entire game imo

[@Wishmaster787]

The only endgame hub I don't like is Rhalgr's Reach, that place sucks.

[@teckard8202]

Only thing I dislike is no market board, but I can sacrifice that for an amazing place like this

[@pyrix]

@@teckard8202 There never is a marketboard in the second city.

[@zebadicaagain9735]

@@Wishmaster787tbh that’s actually my favourite endgame hub XD

[@Wishmaster787]

@@zebadicaagain9735 Fair enough

[@mr.incredibilis8722]

After going through Living Memory, I can say that Solution Nine is just, such an amazing place. While Living Memory is where those long gone would live in an eternal good memory, Solution Nine is a real place, with real people, eating real food, playing real games, drinking with friends, buying furniture for their homes, taking their bikes and cars for a spin along Electrope highways, and after all is said and done, a place where people can live and die happy to have lived a good life, especially after the Regulators become less common, and death becomes a normal and accepted part of life again, it makes Solution Nine look more alive and vibrant than Living Memory ever was, because it's not just a thin sheen of colour and nostalgia over a cold steel shell, it's a living, breathing, changing city, and that's always gonna be better than some fairytale wonderland.

[@shadowthehedgehog181]

imo, Solution 9 is the true 6th zone. I see Living Memory more as a 7th or Epilogue zone. Seeing from that pov makes losing LM more bearable

[@RobertoVillegas-vincent404]

For sure. I’m guessing that’s why you had the food scene parallels in both and showing you had to fake it in Living Memory. I look forward to the post expansion content to see how life changes in Solution Nine and maybe see a few random NPCs from the area in the other towns.

[@Reaper1722]

I'm sure it'll be a hard transition though. You see how scared an anxious most Alexandrians get without their Regulators. I imagine it won't be easy to give that aspect of their life up.

[@mr.incredibilis8722]

@@Reaper1722 I'm sure a bunch of the post-story content will be focused around helping the alexandrians integrate into the rest of the societies around them, including helping them destigmatize death. and probably some of the Arcadion raids will be focused around it as well, seeing as the whole thing is to help the Alexandrians feel better and look forward to a new future.

[@098Xzibit]

I will never afk in limsa again. Enough said.

[@blannk]

🧢🧢🧢

[@Megabigfox]

Wish one day we can have world transfer in all other cities.

[@teckard8202]

Only thing I wished is a MB. (DT spoilers ahead) Makes sense world building wise at first but once it's all over, there should be one installed

[@098Xzibit]

@@teckard8202 100% agree, I have absolutely NO idea why square insists on this approach, it's like that every expansion. 2nd city where you get gear etc. NEVER had a market board. Rhalgr? Eulmore? So many cool cities but no MB. It's a shame here especially because it would make this hub literally perfect.

[@ArceusShaymin]

​@@098Xzibit Because it gives people a reason to occupy both cities instead of the populace primarily leaving one vacant when they finish MSQ. That way, the beginning town is still bustling with people even for new players that get here towards the end of the 7.x patches. People will logically always flow through the second city always because the tomestone and scrip vendors are there, but the Market Board being in the first city ensures that people will be around it well into the postgame. Personally, I'd prefer if inns were in both cities since having inns doesn't really disrupt this flow of people traffic like Market Boards and currency vendors do.

[@tanhongyi7180]

The first town that had me exploring around with HUD toggled off the whole time. Solution Nine is just that mesmerizing.

[@animegirl5163]

this theme is called - Starless Skyline-

[@rainermartin8260]

need 1-hour lofi crafting cat girl version

[@jonamar3965]

Its really not the same without the ambient noise of crafters at the Nexus Arcade.

[@eric2082]

Solution 9 Housing District PLEASE!!!❤

[@NeFlorence]

I want this but also refute this because it's just gonna get ruined by people slapping on the Kugane and Paissa houses

[@Deep40000]

I can understand why they dont do S9 housing, vibe clashes hard with current outside features so they have to make external feature specific stuff for s9...but at least apartments soon, please!

[@Yokai_Yuri]

@@Deep40000 The appartments is almost confirmed. They didn't need to create a S9 "residential district" with an NPC in the lobby's counter to greet you. Yeah, it's planeed and I am saving every single gil to get an appartment.

[@dagetheevil1]

It should be more expensive to live here imo. The interior is freaking massive​@@Yokai_Yuri

[@MrKanooe]

@@NeFlorence Simple, only enable appartements in solution 9.

[@harishyqchy]

Never expected to hear 808s in an FFXIV song

[@AzureDrive]

stepping into Solution 9 and seeing the shops gave me a similar feeling to stepping into New Babbage for the first time in Star Citizen.

[@pyropulseyt]

Random Star Citizen reference. You're rigt tho.

[@TactiSmolKoko]

star citiscam 😂

[@jameslitz9819]

God I love this type of fantasy. Futuristic looking utopia's, I'm glad XIV has been going in this direction. Makes me so curious as to what the other shards are like now that we know what this one is capable of.

[@Abyss0fDelta]

I really like the vibe of this track. Really fits the futuristic utopia that solution 9 strives to be. That said, i hope they still play the S9 trailer music somewhere. Maybe that will be the Arcadian lobby music?

[@hetzahellshock3939]

I really want the S9 Trailer music haha, the part at 18 seconds is so good.

[@BloodlustParadox]

Which part? ​@@hetzahellshock3939

[@gbtygfvyg]

I'm thinking they moved that to the Arcadion. I was so surprised to hear this instead of what we heard in the trailer but in a good.

[@KutsukiTsukiyo]

The Lakeland music in the Lakeland trailer was moved to The Grand Cosmos so I'm sure the Solution 9 music will be used elsewhere.

[@petrus9067]

Yeah i love that theme. I really hope it's from the raids!

[@AkiiaTM]

This gives such strong PSO lobby vibes, it's amazing

[@ltmuffler3482]

The whole zone gave me PSU lobby vibes like nothing else. It felt more Phantasy Star than PSO2NGS does XD

[@DulcisAzure]

@@ltmuffler3482 My thoughts too!

[@MegaDarkness5000]

I miss base PSO2

[@retokazene5085]

Is it bad that it makes me almost instinctively look for where the salon is? Also Clotho

[@laurenw2767]

@@ltmuffler3482 I was a huge fan of old PSO, and Universe especially, so Solution 9 and its surroundings left me feeling some pretty wonderful nostalgia.

[@Kortexx611]

I can't quite place why but this theme makes me feel kinda sad. It sounds so...mournful?

[@smward87]

If you haven't gotten there in the story yet, you'll find out why it makes you feel that way.

[@justcallmescott6421]

its like a mix of pop and crystarium music

[@justcallmescott6421]

or somewhere in the past expansion I cant remember is it the tempest? I definitely heard the notes from somewhere else

[@Aethereality]

It sounds like a Close in the Distance remix of some sort.

[@JBoehmGames]

@@justcallmescott6421 The motifs are from "Dawntrail" and "Smile," but atmospherically in the backing tracks it does reference "'Neath Dark Waters" in the instrumentation and atmosphere it strives for. It's a poppy, catchy lobby tune, but behind it all there is an indescribable somberness that picks away at your brain the more you listen to it.

[@sweepingtime]

This place is probably my favourite in terms of scenery. I’d love to live there.

[@DjinnCrimsora]

What sucks so hard is that, cuz it's the trade hub for the expansion, we stand no chance of getting even apartments here...

[@converser]

FFXIII-2 Academia

[@turbo6328]

Alright SE, i'm going to need some Solution 9 housing real quick.

[@nekuronee]

Very much brings me back to pso2

[@flashqm8291]

I cried entering this place. Cried twice, actually. Myself and the whole community waited a full year to see Solution Nine, and by god is it a magical area. Can’t wait to spend the next two years gearing and leveling here. Not to mention The Arcadion.

[@dadigg4820]

I'm totally in love with this lofi hiphop beats vibe, just changed my home point to solution nine lol

[@thehermit8618]

Sounds so chill and yet theres this ever so slight pang of sadness to it

[@MapleLunii]

My brain is going to need a lot of time to get used to this place simply existing lol Banger theme though

[@NoName1462]

thought i'd feel that way but im already used to it and don't mind it, i actually feel like it fits and looks the part more than the pictomancer abilities /shrug

[@ladyopheliagames]

Listen - I don't care what peeps say about the story or the location -- Soken is still on top with the music & you can't deny that.

[@ltmuffler3482]

Oh for sure. This expansion has great music (when they aren't constantly reusing old tracks), and the locations are gorgeous. 10/10. I just think the msq is worse than ARR XD

[@laerwen]

@@ltmuffler3482 You're wrong, but ok.

[@genisxz3894]

@@ltmuffler3482 It may not be Shadowbringers or Endwalker level, but there's no way anyone thinks this expansion is as dull as ARR.

[@courtgame]

Story Is great to me

[@Shear666]

I liked the Story. It doesn't reach the Highs of ShB or EW but those are some of the best in MMO Gaming to begin with so I say it's the Silver to their Platinum.

[@Lu.Guang.Hearst]

This gave me vibes from World of Final Fantasy - Nine Wood Hills

[@xenorayy]

It fits the vibe perfectly, what an incredible place,

[@altansipdrae2759]

Idk why people want the trailer music for a lobby, lobby are supposed to be relaxed, trailer music is a bop but fits a dungeon way more

[@Veddea]

Exactly.

[@PetarBladeStrok]

I'm just sad that we didn't get that theme at all... It's such a bop.

[@altansipdrae2759]

@@PetarBladeStrok uh... what? Does the Vanguard dungeon not exist?

[@keshxiv]

@@altansipdrae2759 that theme isn't remotely close to the solution 9 theme that played during fanfest

[@Vesperwow]

I genuinely think I could listen to this for the rest of my life and not get sick of it

[@MarkTheLeo]

I didn't know I was playing Phantasy Star Online 2.

[@lamkiba3094]

Neon and chill retro, this is the solution I expected

[@bawlzyreviews465]

I love how much of a vibe this is. Reminds me of the chill Persona 3 & 5 tunes. REALLY curious to see how crazy the Arcadion and raid themes are gonna be.

[@NebulaOak]

I would say more Phantasy Star Online.

[@Overdoseplus]

every video ever "omg persona vibes"

[@OminousBagel]

@@Overdoseplus Didn't you know? Persona invented music!

[@AhriVedercii]

this fits the social hub vibe but i wish it was the one from the trailer

[@283leis]

Honestly I kind of wish we could see just how big this place actually is

[@Twocoolman115]

Hopefully we have a dungeon here where we can go into the buildings and explore the rooftops, see just how much there is to the city.

[@rizzy9000]

this slaps so hard

[@relaxxed_]

I wasn't sure how to feel about solution 9 when I saw the trailer, but it's now honestly my favorite endgame hub of all time, maybe even my favorite city

[@kogato_2056]

Perfect for chill and sleep.😊

[@Shizaho]

I cant stop listening to this???

[@Rotomoo]

i love this place.

[@ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind]

Making one of the main HUB cities Cyberpunk Aesthetics and then adding Lofi is just awesome.

[@Rhiannercakes]

I've been falling asleep to Lofi recently, and yeah. I think this is my favourite settlement music now.

[@zell6423]

I really feel like that they'll have an instanced apartment district. Like make it where it already comes with appliances but we can add little things too it.

[@stallionsLP]

Ragnarok Online called, it wanted its lost music back.

[@Xaivius]

This definitely has 'cyber Prontera' vibes and I love it!

[@AllMyJalens]

Don’t threaten me with a great time. iRO and private servers till I die.

[@Sheat101]

I felt the same when I heard the OST the first time! Fits right into Ragnarok Online.

[@Oppurtunafish]

Yup I also found the restored firmament music to have an RO vibe. Wouldn't surprise me if they were the same composer

[@Trodzia]

Loving it! Getting strong Mirror's Edge Catalyst vibes from it ^^

[@Salty_Neko]

Perfect song to craft to

[@debatinghealer]

Welcome to Phantasy Star Universe/Online, shame you can't take the limsa out of people would be so sick to have this and new city be the main hubs but alas they both lack some NPCs and Merchants

[@Gexon1000]

Don't forget Star Ocean, i mean is like a Phantasy Star Online

[@soulholders]

Give it some time, there are people who started on Friday that haven't made it this far yet, let alone the people just starting the expansion today.

[@PrincessTwilightdash]

@@soulholdersI mean technically Rad-ah-Han is a secondary hub area so this might be the next one

[@Wishmaster787]

​@@soulholdersAlso you don't reach this zone until level 97 whereas Limsa can be accessed by anyone after level 15

[@dagetheevil1]

I think they messed up not putting a marker board here. It would've given people wayyyyyy more reason to hang out here. Literally one of the only important things missing

[@papasfritas3853]

Reached this place yesterday ❤❤❤

[@Blorppio]

This town has that Phantasy Star Online 2 future tech town vibe and its so awesome and I'm here for it.

[@RaphaelDDL]

I can't shake the feeling that the music beats 1:14 to 1:32 reminds me of "Ragnarok Online OST 08: Theme of Prontera" ( 0:50 ) and that the lofi part at 2:03 to 2:28 sounds just like "Leslie Wai - Paradigm" music (that was used in "孔明の罠 - Kaizo Trap" where the girlfriend is trying to save guy taken by videogame animation)

[@CecilyThanador]

This is easily one of the biggest and grandest city in the game so far. The view when you get inside and see these massive skyscrapers all around you is just stunning. Does it fit into the world? Is the clean sci-fi-aesthethic fitting for the game? I could not say but it does nothing to not making your mouth drop.

[@NekkoBlue]

We’ve had Allagan stuff since ARR, sci-fi stuff in this game is nothing new lol

[@CecilyThanador]

​@@NekkoBlue Personally I don't mind Solution 9. I think it's a great place and will be amazing for a variety of screenshots. However, I have read a lot of comments from people who very much disliked it and I can fully understand why. There's a pretty hefty difference between the weird arcane-magitech of the Allagans and the more classic science-fiction-style of Solution 9. We don't know about the day to day life in the Allagan Empire, but there is an aesthetic clash. The Allagans had always this weird barely comprehensible tech, in Solution 9 you find laptops, holographic TVs and people running around with their coffee cups and let's not forget the drone bikes or the straight up nightclub. Hell you can find a guy doing a job application test in the government sector. As I said I don't mind it. In fact give me all the clothes the NPCs are wearing. Give me the option for their replicator-thing on their head. Give me the nightclub vibes. But, I can fully see why some people do not like Solution 9. Which is why I phrased the comment as I did: Some might not like it, but there's no denying that Solution 9 is easily the grandest city in the game so far.

[@ittlenanzo7744]

​@@NekkoBlueeven with the stuff the allagans had this feels more advanced than what they had but it still fits in to me

[@DigitalCoffee08]

I was unsure about it when they first announced it, but it actually ended up working very well, lore-wise. No spoilers but I think they handled it elegantly.

[@idleeidolon]

"is the clean sci-fi-aesthetic fitting" .... FF has always been about the intersection between technology and magic. either you have a fantasy world unearthing ancient magitek technology, or you have a modern world using and manufacturing magic. play more final fantasy.

[@boat02]

I can feel the 24/7 air conditioning of Sol9 through this music, complete with hypoallergenic filters and a tightly regulated humidity for optimal comfort.

[@ubernerd08]

for some reason I'm really reminded of the Ape Escape soundtrack with this one. brings back good memories

[@scarface51393]

CBU 3 dropping the hottest new single track yoshi take the mic ❤ also to add if you haven’t explored the apartments you probably should I’m pretty sure we’re getting housing here

[@SuperSilver253]

Gotta love close in the distance medley throw in there

[@stsars13]

*plays this while working*

[@vinny4765]

Uvi is the goat

[@PrayLuna]

Carrying the torch Mekkah dee would be proud

[@jeniffer7799]

SOLUTION 9 HOUSING WHEN?

[@moonbunnychan]

The beat sounds like somebody digging rhythmically with a shovel.

[@toastee5421]

kinda bummed that there's no night theme but I guess this city never sleeps?

[@ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind]

The NPC in the trash container is my favourite part of -Night City- I mean Solution 9

[@Argodyne]

Why is this theme sooo damn good??!! :_)

[@cordeliacentauri1737]

Ohhh yeah that lofi beat.

[@SMaster777]

My WoL Lore has her clan being in tune with lightning as an element to an extreme measure, to a point of Ramuh recognizing her as one of her clan, and giving her a small lightning blessing ((the Ramuh glowing weapons)) after his trial. Suffice to say, this? As soon as Nami walked in here, to a town where lightning can do literally everything, her immediate reaction was more or less "...This is where I'm retiring once my adventuring days are done."

[@shoulderpyro]

*proceeds to get rejected at the immigration bureau for not taking non-natives in*

[@joedirt8870]

Literally how I felt pulling up riding Ixion the lighting steed, and my summoner dressed in purple

[@XanAtaraxia]

I am a big sucker for sci-fi mixes in fantasy games. This stuff reminds me of Star Ocean games and Phantasy Star games and it’s my favorite two things to mix; fantasy and sci-fi I love this area and never wanna leave it

[@brandohernandez9991]

Good boy Salmon! You found a new home, how’s your journey? Rough? You lost any friends along the way? That’s okay you’re master are proud you till today. You lived a long life!

[@wilsonsreign]

I don’t know why there isn’t an extended version of this on KZbin yet.

[@ReenaKate]

I just got to Solution 9 and I absolutely love it, my new place to afk 😊

[@toothfairy7765]

Yuh.

[@kirja9674]

o god where are we (i really love the music though)

[@Theigzorn]

since when is the "SBC Glocken" from gungale in final fantasy XD..... i love it.

[@ORANGE200_]

M'etro B'oomin make it boom

[@ElainaMaruyama]

This is my favourite place in the game. My FC house can burn for all I care now.

[@MBunn-uf1we]

feels like walking through a SecondLife Mall.

[@twilightgryphon]

Apartments and a housing district in Solution Nine when, Yoshi P?

[@viridiangreen2457]

What?? And the theme that sounds in the trailer of solution nine?

[@warriorofdawn876]

I think we can expect that to show up in the Arcadion.

[@kharnael]

it's the dungeon theme

[@kfchero2]

Welcome to uhh… Night City

[@rafagd]

It'd be kinda funny if they added housing here, but it was just the apartments, no wards

[@2CrowStudios]

"So it's gonna be forever Or it's gonna go down in flames" Love that the opening notes sound like Blank Space by Tswift 😂

[@AzureBalmung200]

Star ocean vibes

[@kaseyj979]

Futuristic Elysion vibes here. Needs some cyber grebuloffs right quick.

[@magnainsomnia]

I wonder if people who hate "Smile" hates this too. Smile is such a good song and gets so much hate

[@Adol3]

Smile is a good piece of music, however SE's placement of the track in particular parts of the MSQ feels incredibly off and borderline jarring. It had some good placement at times, but it felt overused.

[@foti3445]

kenny loggins dancing in the dark

[@lilylilaha]

If they're planning on another player housing place, I hope it's here

[@armin9105]

I really love the theme but in the teaser the theme is different i dont know if they changed it or if it will be heard somewhere else

[@xerohope2102]

Imagine if houseing and apartments were here.

[@AlchemisticXL77]

Phantasy Star online V2 Dreamcast lolol

[@edenyubari299]

they done gave sokken fl studio

[@josephpiscitelli8053]

Now all I need is a griddy emote

[@drfloorpills]

I swear there’s the same instrument samples as in Phantasy Star Online used here.

[@cadillacmonique8809]

I'm not sure, but this song kinda reminds me of the Amaurot one. It's like a variation of it or something.

[@smward87]

There's a reason for that.

[@GriffinTheDark]

This song is so good. On an unrelated note, anyone have a spare air wheeler mount? 😅

[@mizzdojaplayz]

This is giving PSO2NGS and Mirroria from Tower of Fantasy vibes

[@Aluranae]

Between Tuliyollai and this, the main 3 cities are about to look *really* empty come the break period between patches now.

[@NoName1462]

Limsa will never be empty. Even outside of the degenerate stuff, it's the most QoL city. The Market Board is the shortest distance away from the aetheryte from any other city and the retainer bell is right next to the board allowing you to keep standing still while browsing either one, not to mention that Limsa's aetheryte gives you the World Transfer options. New cities do not have the World Transfer options.

[@sam.246]

Academia from XIII-2 but purple

[@alolanjojo8153]

Welcome to phantasy star online

[@BubwayDurfer]

Masayoshi Soken did an amazing work for dawntrail holy shit every soundtrack is a banger

[@SnthwaveSunset]

[Slams credit card on counter] imma need that solution 9 apt! Imma need that apt! Also this ir vanguard should have been the wheeler mount song

[@RangaMasterRace]

So, when do we get to fight The Witness?