"Music is a mysterious thing. Sometimes it makes people remember things they do not expect. Many thoughts, feelings, memories... things almost forgotten... Regardless of whether the listener desires to remember or not." - Citan Uzuki Man, Xenogears is such a great experience.
Two things to mention: This song started the tradition of JRPGs having a ballad with vocals as the ending/credits music. Xenogears was Mitsuda's second work; he had already written a ballad as the ending theme for Chrono Trigger, which was his first work, but there were no vocals due to it being on the SNES. You mention lullabies and music boxes: the same melodies (intro, verse, chorus) in Small Two of Pieces are in a music box song called Faraway Promise, which plays a few times throughout Xenogears. When you get to the end, that song you know well gets fleshed out into its full version. This is an incredibly powerful musical technique which has been used in many of the best game soundtracks, from Undertale to Breath of the Wild.
This song is played during the ending credits and is definitely in the vein of Hollywood movies at the time having the radio friendly credits music. It's interesting that you mention Celine Dion as this song was recorded in 1996 - actually one year before Titanic came out
Actually I read that Yasunori Mitsuda knew that Titanic would be coming out the next year and anticipated its popularity and its focus on Irish folk music. So he decided to also center Xenogears soundtrack on similar music. And in fact the woman who sang this song (Joanne Hogg) is a Northern Irish singer. And I believe this song was indeed inspired by Celine Dion (who again Mitsuda knew would be singing on Titanic)
@Decidueye6 Mitsuda did compose the Xenogears and Xenosaga 1 OST, while the OST for Xenosaga 2 & 3 were made by Yuki Kajiura Shimomura did some Xenoblade 1 songs (such as the Main theme Theme and Unfinished business) along with ACE+ and Manami Kiyota, while Mitsuda did only the credits theme (Beyond the Sky), then on Xenoblade 2 were ACE, Manami Kiyota, Yasonuri Mitsuda and Kenji Hiramatsu, and in 3 it was the same team as 2 plus some other composers Note: ACE is a duo comprised of Tomori Kudo and Hiroyo Yamanaka, and ACE+ is when Kenji Hiramatsu is also part of the group, so in Xenoblade 1 they worked together as ACE+ and in 2 & 3 they worked separately
Ah yes, my favorite videogame of all time. The Grandaddy of the entire Xeno series. Xenosaga's music wouldn't exist if Yasunori Mitsuda didn't pour his blood, sweat and tears (and I mean literally, look at interviews he did in the aftermath of XG) into writing this soundtrack. And yeah, you're spot on. There's only one other vocal track with Joanna Hogg's vocals in XG, and one in Xenosaga Episode 1 (which is also the ending theme for that game) and pretty much started the tradition of vocal tracks ending Xeno games. The other songs in the soundtrack, which I'm intimately familiar with, are mostly Celtic-inspired. There's a LOT of choral tracks in the game as well, given the theme of Gnosticism and religion in the game (not really spoiling anything here, Tetsuya Takahashi, the director and his wife Soraya Saga, the scenario writer, put their interests in psychology and religion in the forefront of the game). But yeah, here's a bit of info about Xenogears...it started out as a proposal for Final Fantasy VII. But it was rejected because of the super-heavy religious and psychological themes. It was given the green light and a small budget though, and was started as a separate project. Funny how a rejected FFVII proposal spawned two different game series under two different publishers and yet have stayed with pretty much a majority of their original team intact, AND kept true to the themes of Xenogears after all these years.
The thing about the guitar solo sounding raw or unpolished is very interesting, because this song is kind of about a profound love between two very deeply flawed individuals. There's a lot of humanity in Xenogears. Small Two (of) Pieces most likely refers to these two characters being just two shards of the shattered mirror mentioned in the lyrics. Two small parts of humanity, sharing a grand destiny.
@@AutumnSteven Ellie could also be one since she's the other half Hawa, she and Fei are the only ones to be ever reborn and be in love. So the mirror was fixed finally when they resolved their inner turmoil and the fate of tragic deaths
Love this song but Ive felt that guitar solo was thrown in there last minute by a guy whos been playing for a year. It doesnt sound good. Took me out of the song
For those who love Joanne's vocal in this song, check out her band, Iona! It's an Irish Christian rock-folk band with great songs such as Open Sky, Wave After Wave, and Castlerigg!
The songs from this era of gaming are just one of the reasons why these were called the 'Golden Age of JRPGs. This one is just beautiful and it plays at the end so the payoff to it - you REMEMBER the emotions you felt during the entire game at the poignant scenes. This song made you look back on the journey you just completed, all the emotions crashing down on you and then it gently points the player towards the future - your future.
There is an awesome moment in the Xenogears 20th aniversary concert (shame it's been taken down from youtube) where they transition dirrectly from "Flight" into "Wings", and the guitar players just go wild and start jumping. It was a beautiful moment to watch and hear.
Yasunori Mitsuda is also the composer for Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Xenosaga Episode 1, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Xenogears is developed by the same developers as Xenosaga and Xenoblade. Monolith Soft. They were still part of Square when they developed Xenogears but broke off and formed their own studio because they didn't like how restrictive Square was.
Every xeno game has a song like this at the end and I’m surprised that this is your first one you get to hear. Definitely a top 3 for ending songs in the series. Also I didn’t see anyone mention, but Xenogears was originally going to be ff7. Xenogears ending up being too dark when going through the script and was made into its own game.
@@kristijanEX Here is a quick list of some dark parts of Xenogear’s with no context. Xenogears is in a post-apocalyptic future marked by multiple wars, holocausts and genocides. The world of Xenogears can also be considered a dystopia. Examples of dystopic elements include corrupt governments, corruption of church and religion, religion being forced onto people, religion halting scientific progress and advancement on the basis of "blasphemy against God", child molestation by priests, child prostitution and sex trafficking, brainwashing and mind control, propaganda, war, torture, slavery, wealth inequality, rampant speciesism and racism, biological experimentation, records of history being destroyed or twisted (resulting in a bloodstained historic recurrence), etc. I got this from the Xenogear’s wiki.
@@kristijanEX Not as Dark as Xenogears. We're talking calculated mass genocide to revive something similar to yet different from Jenova, using a religion to control the masses and use them as parts for reviving this thing and recycling anything that couldn't be used as parts into food that gets fed to the masses under the banner of said religion.
No way, this is one of my favorites songs ever, especially for such a masterpiece of a game. Best story in any video game imo, and the music is what brings it to life
@@RetroMediaRoom to be fair, I can understand frustration with the game. The random encounters are too much and the navigation can be hell. But otherwise it's legendary
@@RetroMediaRoom No, but it was a group from Squaresoft who pitched it as the very first idea for FFVII. Deemed too dark and controversial for the FF audience, Squaresoft allowed them to break off and take the project on. A project admittedly far too ambitious and which gobbled time, energy, and funds. And even past the imperfect and incomplete final product it was, the story somehow transcended this. It's why to this day, I think it is most deserving of a remake. At the same time, I'd dread it. But wow! What a masterpiece in the rough.
There’s the part where the guitar is shredding and then at some point, it all matches up again and goes softly into that harp. There is a theme among these Xenogears songs that where multiple parts say hello, go hard on their own and then meet back up to be part of the whole again. Did you do “we the wounded” or “omen” from Xenogears as a review? All that aside, Bahamut Lagoon vibes came through to me on your review segment. You should give that a listen for fun.
OMG no way finally some Xenogears. So many good choices... I can't recall any of the song names, but among the best are the airship theme and Shevat (the flying city) god there is just so much orchestral goodness in this game. One of my favorite games of all time too, but then that's to be expected of Hiromichi Tanaka :) (sucks he's retired, but FF11 goes on without him) EDITL: OH NICE this is the ending theme, the vocalized version of the flight music. Yes, love this song. EDIT: Explaining the meaning of the song is complicated, the whole plot of the game is LOADED with Christian allegories etc. but what you want to take away, is that the game was written by Tetsuya Takahashi, who worked on Chrono Trigger and then later left to start up Monolith Soft, the makers of all the Xenogames (The Saga games were originally meant to continue Gears, as it was meant to be a 7 part story and gears is part 4 but SQEX were jerks about the license). And the Xenoblade franchise is just their latest universe they've made. In the most literal sense, Xeno means alien I believe and that's kind of the point as there is always an otherworldly theme to these games (none of them ever take place on Earth, but many reference Earth and/or are post-Earth stories) Sorry for the long post/multiple edits.
The whole soundtrack is actually amazing-- I really suggest checking out "Bonds of Sea and Fire" which is enough of a favorite song of mine that I had it played at my wedding, and "June Mermaid". The whole soundtrack is very heavily celtic-style and just gorgeous.
Maybe it's nostalgia, or maybe it's because of how I felt at the end of Xenogears, but this song always makes me tear up a little. Notably there is one other song in the OST with this singer, "Stars of Tears", but I don't think it actually made it into the game, though it is very lovely. One of the other tracks from Xenogears that always stands out in my mind, with a real World music vibe, is "Dazil, City of Burning Sands". Really made me stop and listen when I first heard it.
I was 13 when I first played this game and it shaped my point of view of the world growing up, especially religion. I'm 34 now, and this game still reminds me that we don't need a god to tell us that we must do good, but we only need ourselves and proper understanding what it means to keep on living.
My first wife and I named our daughter after Elly. Elehaym Sophia. She was the perfect lil bean, I miss them both horribly. When Elly was 2 months old, she passed away (SIDS) 2 weeks later my beloved Samantha took her life. Every time I hear the music from Gears, my heart breaks and a small part of me joins my family. In 2024, Elly would have been 24. It doesn't get easier. it gets harder. Sam's family wouldn't give me any pictures of her, (It's complicated, and too much to type here) and I can't see her face when I close my eyes anymore. I can't remember my soulmate's face. I am a monster
I wish you find inner peace. I have dealt this past year with emptiness and loneliness, but I know deep down that there must be something to believe in, to suffer and to fight for. That is what Mr Tetsuya Takahashi has taught me through his games. May God be with you my friend.
Xeno means Tetsuya Takahashi's game. Him and his wife wrote up an enormous universe with xenogears, and since then, all the Xeno series have been loosely connected as different parts of that universe
One of my favorite ending songs of all time. Xenogears came out in early 1998, published by Square Enix, developed by a subdivision which would later make themselves independent as Monolith Soft. So it was one of the earliest games to have a fully sung song in the credits period. And then it was such a banger. The whole soundtrack is really good, but nothing like this of course. FFVII, which released about a year earlier with a far larger budget, had a track with choir singing, Sephiroth's theme, but that was nothing like this. Monolith Soft later went on with Namco, later Bandai Namco making the Xenosaga trilogy, which is another one of my favorites, but sadly it never got that mass appeal it deserved and such story-heavy video games never got much attention in the west back then. During the development of the third and last game in the trilogy (greatest game ever made on PS2), they got bought by Nintendo. And while I was a little sad about no more chances for more Xenosaga, Nintendo gave them the safety and freedom they needed. And to honor Takahashi's lifework, Nintendo even divided to name his next big franchise Xeno-something again. Namely Xenoblade. The three franchises Xenogears, Xenosaga and Xenoblade are connected in an interesting way. First of all they are owned by different publishers each, Square Enix, Bandai Namco and Nintendo. So legally they can't be connected. Luckily, Bandai Namco and Nintendo work together enough to let some cross-over happen. So there are names and characters like KOS-MOS (cyborg lady in my avatar) appearing in Xenoblade. But there is also a deeper connection. Xenogears is a plot within a story happening over the course of 10.000 years, happening in an even bigger universe. And Xenosaga is something like a parts prequel, parts continuation, parts reboot within that universe and characters can re-appear under different names. And it's a bit similar with Xenoblade. Two years ago in 2020, Square Enix held a big Xenoblade concert in Japan. Sadly I can't find any videos of it online, because Square Enix wants to sell it on Blu-ray. But in that convert Joanna Hogg also performed Small Two of Pieces again and it was awesome. She sang the "bro~ken mirror" part from deep to high instead of the high start and it sounded extra special. And it was just really special to hear her sing it after more than 20 years later. Edit: The game has a lot of themes, terms and philosophies of Carl Jung most of all but also Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud to pop culture references to Neon Genesis Evangelion or even Soylent Green. But maybe the biggest theme in it is the metaphor or a broken mirror. The idea that something is broken and in pieces is a central thing in many aspects of the game's story.
I love the vocalist Joanne Hogg. She also performed the two songs for Xenosaga Episode 1 and is a frequent collaborator of Yasunori Mitsuda. Outside of her VGM music, she was the lead singer of Irish gospel group Iona.
A song in a very similar style, composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, and vocals by very talented female singers, has become a kind of hallmark for Xeno-series ending themes (with a few exceptions)
Nice! Joanne the singer inspired me to write a track for a fantasy inspired album I was writing in 2020. Btw there's a version of this song with an orchestra, I think you'd be blown away by that version even more. She has a progressive rock band called Iona
The bass is a Ned Steinberger Electric Upright fretless bass (It's like a modern version of a double bass) being played by Hitoshi Watanabe, an amazing studio musician who basically popped in and laid down amazing tracks on video game and anime music for decades starting from the early 90's. I think I'm the only person who is a fan of his, it's rare to see anyone mention his amazing bass playing. He recently started putting out youtube videos of him playing on a different fretless showing off his skills again. He also is a master of various folk stringed instruments and has contributed to multiple soundtracks and albums in the same way for those respectively. If you search "Hitoshi Watanabe Arr. N S Double Bass" on youtube you will hear the same tone.
If you enjoy lullabies you're in for a treat with Xenogears. Faraway Promise, June Mermaid and the treasure which cannot be stolen all come to mind. Not to say that it doesn't have it's darker tracks as well
What's funny is in searching for what you were talking about I found a "Sleep Song" by Graham Nash, that's a straight beautiful song unfortunately buried in 1971, similar to what you were describing. It was rather convincing, forcing me to double check. Found the actual song. lol Definitely a good comparison. Suprised I hadn't seen this video until now. I'm always on the look out for your Xeno content, and this is arguably a contender for my favorite Xeno song if we're going off of just the quality of it. Around top 3 or so when considering some deep connections I have with Xenoblades 1 and 2's music. Basically their ending songs, which this is one of as well. Always absolutely beautiful. Glad you get to at least hear them if you can't experience them. Xeno is more relevant to me than as just a game. I've seen a person I care about who loved Xenoblade kill themselves for example, someone who also greatly respected the series' music, and there are occasions where I can't help but cry over that memory uncontrollably after listening to those blade ending songs as I'm reminded of them. There's this one quote in Xenogears "Music is a mysterious thing. Sometimes it makes people remember things they do not expect. Many thoughts, feelings, memories... things almost forgotten... Regardless of whether the listener desires to remember or not." Which rings incredibly true. Very self conscious inclusion. This one on the other hand is more so untainted by that. It's still definitely melancholic, but after seeing the intense work of the creators reflected in it, along with how far they've come as they've pushed on and endured through their "ups and down" to accomplish their position in modern gaming, I can't help but be incredibly inspired. Xeno reminds me I want to live. I want to make something as beautiful and humanly complex as these wonderful people have blessed me with. They truly are passion filled games. I probably wouldn't be here without this kind of art, and I wish my friend could've stayed around to experience what else humanity has to offer in the future. I want to be a part of that future. To inspire the next generation like me who needs something like this to give them reason, so they don't suffer the same fate. Tearing up just writing this man. This song allows me to experience that bliss. What the end of that tunnel could look like after I've finished penning my own journey. The guitar hits so god damn hard man. Every instrument. The vocalist is perfect. Serene. Like you said, human.
The Xenogears soundtrack is one of the most diverse soundtrack of many 90's, Golden Era RPGS. The sheer volume of cultures and necessary music to go with made me go and buy the 2 Disc OST. No longer in print within a very short timeframe and completely worth the purchase.
I hope you react to Shevat, the Wind is Calling and The One Who's Torn Apart from this very same game. Xenogears's OST is one of the masterpieces Yasunori Mitsuda made in his golden years
This was beautiful. I haven't gotten to play Xenogears and have only heard a couple songs. This one was new to me. I can only imagine the feelings hearing it in-game after everything. It definitely reminded me of Kokoro from Xenosaga 1 which I also highly recommend.
If you have a PS3 or a Vita, you can still get the game digitally via the network store-the process is just annoying. First, you have to go to Sony’s website and create a special security code on your PlayStation network device management page. Then, you can log into your PS account on the old console using the special code. BE SURE TO CLICK THE REMEMBER ME BUTTON. This way, you won’t have to keep getting new codes to access the store. From there, you have to load your digital wallet-but you can’t do it on a vita or PS3. Instead, you have to do it on your PS4 or buy a PS network gift card. It’s a whole process. But the game is well worth the hassle. Besides, being able to play it on a handheld is nice. On the other hand, you could just sail the high seas and use an emulator, matey.
Had to come back to this, since I just finished Xenogears for the first time yesterday. Incredible game, and I didn't realize quite how much the game touched me until I got this song on the credits and started tearing up. My only regret is not playing the game more when I owned it as a kid. So many themes and plot aspects resonated with me, and to know I had the game for my entire life and never pushed beyond the early game for over 20 years? I'm ashamed of younger me. I am just glad I got to pick it up and enjoy it as an adult. Better late that never haha
Brings back so many memories, that moment when you see Elly and Fei descending in Weltal with the sunset, then que the song. Such a satisfying and earned ending. But personally, I love Dancing Stars in the Night Sky more than this one.
I took my time getting around to Xenogears, but it quickly became one of my favorites. The game has a lot of great relaxing tracks like "Shevat the Wind is calling" and "October Mermaid" and the vocal parts of "Blazing Knights" make it one of the most memorable battle tracks in any JRPG I've ever played. If you're curious about the relationship between the "Xeno" games, its fascinating to look into as they're all games headed up by Tetsuya Takahashi.
This particular game had ambitions greater than it was able to show. If had sold just a hundred thousand more copies, we'd be talking about Xenogears 2 and 3 and 4. But Square's ultimatum was "sell 1 million copies or else" and well, then they split off after Chrono Cross and the devs created Monolith Soft.
Which is frustrating because not only was it still one of the most successful JRPGs on the PS1 but had it released in Europe it easily would have sold over that amount. And ultimately we can blame Final Fantasy Spirits Within, Square wanted to devote more assets to that project (big mistake as it was a costly failure) so the next Xenogears which was actually initially approved was scrapped.
There are a few tracks I recommend (whenever the interest hits ya of course) from the video game, Transformers Devastation. Insecticons Shockwave Soundwave. However, if just one, then I wholeheartedly recommend Shockwave. It's a fantastic track!
I have never played Xenogears, I haven't even seen how the game looks like, but I'm completely crazy about the soundtrack since a friend sent me this song through IRC over 20 years ago.
This soundtrack is possibly the best game OST of all time. Fragments of the melody from this song are used in several other songs in the soundtrack, but there are plenty of awesome melodies everywhere in the OST. I recommend checking out "My Village is Number One", "Ship of Regret and Sleep", "Flight", "Shevat, the Wind is Calling" (has a similar feel to a Chrono Trigger song you listened to), "Singing of the Gentle Wind".
Cloud sings this song in FF7 when he's hallucinating, but since the translation team didn't know what he was talking about, they just made some stuff up.
There's another vocal song in the soundtrack, called Stars of Tears, being a vocal version of the overworld music. It's a lot more upbeat compared to this lullaby one
Here's a fun fact. Speaking of Final Fantasy, FF7 promoted Xenogears in the game when Cloud was in the clinic sick and ifyou talked to Cloud he says Xenogais. Xenogears came out a year later. Originally it was a pitch to be the next Final Fantasy game but the didn't think it would be a hit.
Star of Tears is pretty close. If i'm not mistaken, there is a whole remix album of celtic music arrangements for the rest of the OST. The "Xeno" thing means "Alien", and Xenogears basically means alien machine.
this is the single one game that needs remake so badly, omg. This game is so huge that developers dind't even managed to finish it and it took a whole second CD to put rest content on it in (almost) text format. The story alone is worth a several movies. And has on of the best OST out there. "shevat the wind is calling" , "the one who is torn apart" (try to guess what is happened there by only listening the song) just to name a few.
Xenogears soundtrack are great. The battle theme "Stage of Death" is one of my favourite battle theme that I keep coming back to. And Shevat's theme "Shevat The Wind is Calling" is just... oof!
I have a few suggestions for songs to react to, from a cult classic of a game; Total Annihilation. The songs are "Fire and Ice", "Attack!!!", "Green Forest" and "Where Am I".
This song is played during the end credits yes, with lyrics. But, this song without lyrics is the "theme" to the game, it plays at several points, important points, through the game.
So I don't have the link on hand, but in an interview for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 it was stated that Xeno is nothing more than a trademark that indicates that it's a Tetsuya Takahashi game. Xenogears was the first Xeno game so idk if Xeno actually means something for this game specifically.
Now that Elden Ring is out I feel compelled to recommend you to listen to some of the boss themes. Below I'll have a few of my favourites, SPOILERS for boss names of course so don't look if you don't want to know the names of some bosses. - - - - - - - - - - - Godrick the Grafted Godfrey the First Elden Lord God Devouring Serpent Dragonlord Placidusax The Final Battle dudewhereismyspoon has uploaded all of the soundtracks to a playlist for all to enjoy. ^^
Definitely not a new game - Great call on covering it though. Xenogears was something special, and it's a shame that it wouldn't really do well if it were remade. I thought it was funny when you mentioned the sunlight/field of flowers thing at 2:39 though. There were some really dark things covered in Xenogears, including the near total elimination of sentient life across the planet. Seeing so many changes to the world, the utter destruction of all those towns and cities visited up to that point, and so on... Brutal. Also, "She sounds like an Angel" at 6:52 so much closer than you probably realize.
I only played this a bit years ago. Couldn't get past the beginning as the game proved to be quite hard at the time and I have no idea whether I played it wrong or something. So I got frustrated with this game and stopped playing it. I still have it, though, so I might give it a retry.
This song is the denouement of ten thousand years of fighting fate and suffering to get your happy ending, even if it means spitting in the face of God and every power in the world. "Forget fate. We have no fate but what we make for ourselves."
They made a music video of this in 1998 that actually made MTV in Japan. If you deep dive this song enough on UA-cam, you'll find it. People will call this game obscure, and I cannot emphasize how far that was from the truth at the time.
So one of my favorite songs by xenogears is knight of fire please react to it Also xenogears is related to xenosaga I think but there not connected to xenoblade
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"Music is a mysterious thing. Sometimes it makes people remember things they do not expect. Many thoughts, feelings, memories... things almost forgotten... Regardless of whether the listener desires to remember or not." - Citan Uzuki
Man, Xenogears is such a great experience.
Citan legend lol
Citan was deep. Dude needs his own book haha!
Citan also tricked his friends into cannibalism
Two things to mention:
This song started the tradition of JRPGs having a ballad with vocals as the ending/credits music. Xenogears was Mitsuda's second work; he had already written a ballad as the ending theme for Chrono Trigger, which was his first work, but there were no vocals due to it being on the SNES.
You mention lullabies and music boxes: the same melodies (intro, verse, chorus) in Small Two of Pieces are in a music box song called Faraway Promise, which plays a few times throughout Xenogears. When you get to the end, that song you know well gets fleshed out into its full version. This is an incredibly powerful musical technique which has been used in many of the best game soundtracks, from Undertale to Breath of the Wild.
FF9 did that too. So much emotion when it all comes together.
This song is played during the ending credits and is definitely in the vein of Hollywood movies at the time having the radio friendly credits music. It's interesting that you mention Celine Dion as this song was recorded in 1996 - actually one year before Titanic came out
Celine Dion copied this.
Actually I read that Yasunori Mitsuda knew that Titanic would be coming out the next year and anticipated its popularity and its focus on Irish folk music. So he decided to also center Xenogears soundtrack on similar music. And in fact the woman who sang this song (Joanne Hogg) is a Northern Irish singer.
And I believe this song was indeed inspired by Celine Dion (who again Mitsuda knew would be singing on Titanic)
Holy! That’s insane! Haha!
Fun fact: Same composer as Chrono Trigger and some Xenoblade tracks; Yasunori Mitsuda, a GOD in the industry
And on top of that: Xenoblade 1 has a very similar song called Beyond the Sky that ALSO has Celine Dion vibes ahsgfdhgasfd
@Alexander Lawrence its yoko shimamura not mitsuda lol
@Decidueye6 Mitsuda did compose the Xenogears and Xenosaga 1 OST, while the OST for Xenosaga 2 & 3 were made by Yuki Kajiura
Shimomura did some Xenoblade 1 songs (such as the Main theme Theme and Unfinished business) along with ACE+ and Manami Kiyota, while Mitsuda did only the credits theme (Beyond the Sky), then on Xenoblade 2 were ACE, Manami Kiyota, Yasonuri Mitsuda and Kenji Hiramatsu, and in 3 it was the same team as 2 plus some other composers
Note: ACE is a duo comprised of Tomori Kudo and Hiroyo Yamanaka, and ACE+ is when Kenji Hiramatsu is also part of the group, so in Xenoblade 1 they worked together as ACE+ and in 2 & 3 they worked separately
Ah yes, my favorite videogame of all time. The Grandaddy of the entire Xeno series. Xenosaga's music wouldn't exist if Yasunori Mitsuda didn't pour his blood, sweat and tears (and I mean literally, look at interviews he did in the aftermath of XG) into writing this soundtrack.
And yeah, you're spot on. There's only one other vocal track with Joanna Hogg's vocals in XG, and one in Xenosaga Episode 1 (which is also the ending theme for that game) and pretty much started the tradition of vocal tracks ending Xeno games. The other songs in the soundtrack, which I'm intimately familiar with, are mostly Celtic-inspired. There's a LOT of choral tracks in the game as well, given the theme of Gnosticism and religion in the game (not really spoiling anything here, Tetsuya Takahashi, the director and his wife Soraya Saga, the scenario writer, put their interests in psychology and religion in the forefront of the game).
But yeah, here's a bit of info about Xenogears...it started out as a proposal for Final Fantasy VII. But it was rejected because of the super-heavy religious and psychological themes. It was given the green light and a small budget though, and was started as a separate project. Funny how a rejected FFVII proposal spawned two different game series under two different publishers and yet have stayed with pretty much a majority of their original team intact, AND kept true to the themes of Xenogears after all these years.
God, I can literally talk for hours about Xenogears. It's just grabbed me since getting it as a birthday gift way back when it was released.
I come here after Xenoblade 3 Future Redeemed
The thing about the guitar solo sounding raw or unpolished is very interesting, because this song is kind of about a profound love between two very deeply flawed individuals. There's a lot of humanity in Xenogears.
Small Two (of) Pieces most likely refers to these two characters being just two shards of the shattered mirror mentioned in the lyrics. Two small parts of humanity, sharing a grand destiny.
That’s interesting. I always thought the broken mirror was Fei himself specifically.
@@AutumnSteven Ellie could also be one since she's the other half Hawa, she and Fei are the only ones to be ever reborn and be in love.
So the mirror was fixed finally when they resolved their inner turmoil and the fate of tragic deaths
Love this song but Ive felt that guitar solo was thrown in there last minute by a guy whos been playing for a year. It doesnt sound good. Took me out of the song
For those who love Joanne's vocal in this song, check out her band, Iona! It's an Irish Christian rock-folk band with great songs such as Open Sky, Wave After Wave, and Castlerigg!
The songs from this era of gaming are just one of the reasons why these were called the 'Golden Age of JRPGs. This one is just beautiful and it plays at the end so the payoff to it - you REMEMBER the emotions you felt during the entire game at the poignant scenes. This song made you look back on the journey you just completed, all the emotions crashing down on you and then it gently points the player towards the future - your future.
One of the best songs from a video game I ever heard.
There is an awesome moment in the Xenogears 20th aniversary concert (shame it's been taken down from youtube) where they transition dirrectly from "Flight" into "Wings", and the guitar players just go wild and start jumping. It was a beautiful moment to watch and hear.
That moment was wild, I loved how into it they got, especially the guy shredding that guitar.
Can buy Blu-ray to watch
@@mmosmit's back on youtube
Anything that has to do with Xeno and was sung by Joanne Hogg is gold.
Yasunori Mitsuda is also the composer for Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Xenosaga Episode 1, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Xenogears is developed by the same developers as Xenosaga and Xenoblade. Monolith Soft. They were still part of Square when they developed Xenogears but broke off and formed their own studio because they didn't like how restrictive Square was.
Every xeno game has a song like this at the end and I’m surprised that this is your first one you get to hear. Definitely a top 3 for ending songs in the series.
Also I didn’t see anyone mention, but Xenogears was originally going to be ff7. Xenogears ending up being too dark when going through the script and was made into its own game.
I mean I never played Xenogears, but FF7 wasn't dark ?
@Marxrit thanks for the spoilers.
@@kristijanEX Here is a quick list of some dark parts of Xenogear’s with no context.
Xenogears is in a post-apocalyptic future marked by multiple wars, holocausts and genocides. The world of Xenogears can also be considered a dystopia. Examples of dystopic elements include corrupt governments, corruption of church and religion, religion being forced onto people, religion halting scientific progress and advancement on the basis of "blasphemy against God", child molestation by priests, child prostitution and sex trafficking, brainwashing and mind control, propaganda, war, torture, slavery, wealth inequality, rampant speciesism and racism, biological experimentation, records of history being destroyed or twisted (resulting in a bloodstained historic recurrence), etc.
I got this from the Xenogear’s wiki.
@@kristijanEX Not as Dark as Xenogears. We're talking calculated mass genocide to revive something similar to yet different from Jenova, using a religion to control the masses and use them as parts for reviving this thing and recycling anything that couldn't be used as parts into food that gets fed to the masses under the banner of said religion.
@@kristijanEX gears is super dark
No way, this is one of my favorites songs ever, especially for such a masterpiece of a game. Best story in any video game imo, and the music is what brings it to life
I saw a prominent streamer talking trash about Xenogears and it pissed me off, this game is an absolute classic, nihilistic people can shove it.
@@RetroMediaRoom to be fair, I can understand frustration with the game. The random encounters are too much and the navigation can be hell. But otherwise it's legendary
@@dugtrioramen Oh yeah, it's for sure not a perfect game.
@@RetroMediaRoom No, but it was a group from Squaresoft who pitched it as the very first idea for FFVII. Deemed too dark and controversial for the FF audience, Squaresoft allowed them to break off and take the project on. A project admittedly far too ambitious and which gobbled time, energy, and funds. And even past the imperfect and incomplete final product it was, the story somehow transcended this. It's why to this day, I think it is most deserving of a remake. At the same time, I'd dread it. But wow! What a masterpiece in the rough.
There’s the part where the guitar is shredding and then at some point, it all matches up again and goes softly into that harp.
There is a theme among these Xenogears songs that where multiple parts say hello, go hard on their own and then meet back up to be part of the whole again.
Did you do “we the wounded” or “omen” from Xenogears as a review?
All that aside, Bahamut Lagoon vibes came through to me on your review segment.
You should give that a listen for fun.
OMG no way finally some Xenogears.
So many good choices... I can't recall any of the song names, but among the best are the airship theme and Shevat (the flying city) god there is just so much orchestral goodness in this game.
One of my favorite games of all time too, but then that's to be expected of Hiromichi Tanaka :) (sucks he's retired, but FF11 goes on without him)
EDITL: OH NICE this is the ending theme, the vocalized version of the flight music. Yes, love this song.
EDIT: Explaining the meaning of the song is complicated, the whole plot of the game is LOADED with Christian allegories etc. but what you want to take away, is that the game was written by Tetsuya Takahashi, who worked on Chrono Trigger and then later left to start up Monolith Soft, the makers of all the Xenogames (The Saga games were originally meant to continue Gears, as it was meant to be a 7 part story and gears is part 4 but SQEX were jerks about the license). And the Xenoblade franchise is just their latest universe they've made. In the most literal sense, Xeno means alien I believe and that's kind of the point as there is always an otherworldly theme to these games (none of them ever take place on Earth, but many reference Earth and/or are post-Earth stories)
Sorry for the long post/multiple edits.
The whole soundtrack is actually amazing-- I really suggest checking out "Bonds of Sea and Fire" which is enough of a favorite song of mine that I had it played at my wedding, and "June Mermaid". The whole soundtrack is very heavily celtic-style and just gorgeous.
I await the Xenogears playthrough!
I recommend checking out "Creid," an album of Xenogears music (by Mitsuda & co) with a distinctively Irish/Celtic bent to it.
Xenogears, xenosaga, xenoblade, what a beautiful saga. I love it
Maybe it's nostalgia, or maybe it's because of how I felt at the end of Xenogears, but this song always makes me tear up a little.
Notably there is one other song in the OST with this singer, "Stars of Tears", but I don't think it actually made it into the game, though it is very lovely.
One of the other tracks from Xenogears that always stands out in my mind, with a real World music vibe, is "Dazil, City of Burning Sands". Really made me stop and listen when I first heard it.
"Star of Tears" is a vocal version of the overworld theme, which is in the game.
I still have my disc copy of Xenogears 😁
I was 13 when I first played this game and it shaped my point of view of the world growing up, especially religion. I'm 34 now, and this game still reminds me that we don't need a god to tell us that we must do good, but we only need ourselves and proper understanding what it means to keep on living.
My first wife and I named our daughter after Elly. Elehaym Sophia. She was the perfect lil bean, I miss them both horribly.
When Elly was 2 months old, she passed away (SIDS) 2 weeks later my beloved Samantha took her life.
Every time I hear the music from Gears, my heart breaks and a small part of me joins my family.
In 2024, Elly would have been 24. It doesn't get easier. it gets harder. Sam's family wouldn't give me any pictures of her, (It's complicated, and too much to type here) and I can't see her face when I close my eyes anymore. I can't remember my soulmate's face. I am a monster
I wish you find inner peace. I have dealt this past year with emptiness and loneliness, but I know deep down that there must be something to believe in, to suffer and to fight for. That is what Mr Tetsuya Takahashi has taught me through his games.
May God be with you my friend.
@@xabizuazo6710 the USA no inner peace. Both deaths happened because I ignored signs. I owe a debt of 2 lives, and only have one I can pay with.
this game brings wild memories. what a game. .
"I just have a feeling the rest of the soundtrack isn't like that" the famous last words
So glad Jesse recommended Secret Garden. I’m in love with them now.
Xeno means Tetsuya Takahashi's game. Him and his wife wrote up an enormous universe with xenogears, and since then, all the Xeno series have been loosely connected as different parts of that universe
I really would love more Xenogears reactions! One of the best JRPG ever made. 👊🏻
Same here. THe 90s jrpgs had such fantastic music. Probably the best.
One of my favorite ending songs of all time.
Xenogears came out in early 1998, published by Square Enix, developed by a subdivision which would later make themselves independent as Monolith Soft. So it was one of the earliest games to have a fully sung song in the credits period. And then it was such a banger. The whole soundtrack is really good, but nothing like this of course. FFVII, which released about a year earlier with a far larger budget, had a track with choir singing, Sephiroth's theme, but that was nothing like this. Monolith Soft later went on with Namco, later Bandai Namco making the Xenosaga trilogy, which is another one of my favorites, but sadly it never got that mass appeal it deserved and such story-heavy video games never got much attention in the west back then. During the development of the third and last game in the trilogy (greatest game ever made on PS2), they got bought by Nintendo. And while I was a little sad about no more chances for more Xenosaga, Nintendo gave them the safety and freedom they needed. And to honor Takahashi's lifework, Nintendo even divided to name his next big franchise Xeno-something again. Namely Xenoblade.
The three franchises Xenogears, Xenosaga and Xenoblade are connected in an interesting way. First of all they are owned by different publishers each, Square Enix, Bandai Namco and Nintendo. So legally they can't be connected. Luckily, Bandai Namco and Nintendo work together enough to let some cross-over happen. So there are names and characters like KOS-MOS (cyborg lady in my avatar) appearing in Xenoblade. But there is also a deeper connection. Xenogears is a plot within a story happening over the course of 10.000 years, happening in an even bigger universe. And Xenosaga is something like a parts prequel, parts continuation, parts reboot within that universe and characters can re-appear under different names. And it's a bit similar with Xenoblade.
Two years ago in 2020, Square Enix held a big Xenoblade concert in Japan. Sadly I can't find any videos of it online, because Square Enix wants to sell it on Blu-ray. But in that convert Joanna Hogg also performed Small Two of Pieces again and it was awesome. She sang the "bro~ken mirror" part from deep to high instead of the high start and it sounded extra special. And it was just really special to hear her sing it after more than 20 years later.
Edit: The game has a lot of themes, terms and philosophies of Carl Jung most of all but also Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud to pop culture references to Neon Genesis Evangelion or even Soylent Green. But maybe the biggest theme in it is the metaphor or a broken mirror. The idea that something is broken and in pieces is a central thing in many aspects of the game's story.
I love the vocalist Joanne Hogg. She also performed the two songs for Xenosaga Episode 1 and is a frequent collaborator of Yasunori Mitsuda. Outside of her VGM music, she was the lead singer of Irish gospel group Iona.
Aw heck, was she the one who sang Kokoro? No wonder this song made me think of it, between same singer, composer and a Xeno game.
A song in a very similar style, composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, and vocals by very talented female singers, has become a kind of hallmark for Xeno-series ending themes (with a few exceptions)
Nice! Joanne the singer inspired me to write a track for a fantasy inspired album I was writing in 2020. Btw there's a version of this song with an orchestra, I think you'd be blown away by that version even more.
She has a progressive rock band called Iona
The bass is a Ned Steinberger Electric Upright fretless bass (It's like a modern version of a double bass) being played by Hitoshi Watanabe, an amazing studio musician who basically popped in and laid down amazing tracks on video game and anime music for decades starting from the early 90's. I think I'm the only person who is a fan of his, it's rare to see anyone mention his amazing bass playing. He recently started putting out youtube videos of him playing on a different fretless showing off his skills again. He also is a master of various folk stringed instruments and has contributed to multiple soundtracks and albums in the same way for those respectively.
If you search "Hitoshi Watanabe Arr. N S Double Bass" on youtube you will hear the same tone.
If you enjoy lullabies you're in for a treat with Xenogears. Faraway Promise, June Mermaid and the treasure which cannot be stolen all come to mind. Not to say that it doesn't have it's darker tracks as well
Heck those are all Mitsuda tracks
What's funny is in searching for what you were talking about I found a "Sleep Song" by Graham Nash, that's a straight beautiful song unfortunately buried in 1971, similar to what you were describing. It was rather convincing, forcing me to double check. Found the actual song. lol Definitely a good comparison.
Suprised I hadn't seen this video until now.
I'm always on the look out for your Xeno content, and this is arguably a contender for my favorite Xeno song if we're going off of just the quality of it.
Around top 3 or so when considering some deep connections I have with Xenoblades 1 and 2's music.
Basically their ending songs, which this is one of as well. Always absolutely beautiful. Glad you get to at least hear them if you can't experience them.
Xeno is more relevant to me than as just a game. I've seen a person I care about who loved Xenoblade kill themselves for example, someone who also greatly respected the series' music, and there are occasions where I can't help but cry over that memory uncontrollably after listening to those blade ending songs as I'm reminded of them.
There's this one quote in Xenogears "Music is a mysterious thing. Sometimes it makes people remember things they do not expect. Many thoughts, feelings, memories... things almost forgotten... Regardless of whether the listener desires to remember or not." Which rings incredibly true. Very self conscious inclusion.
This one on the other hand is more so untainted by that. It's still definitely melancholic, but after seeing the intense work of the creators reflected in it, along with how far they've come as they've pushed on and endured through their "ups and down" to accomplish their position in modern gaming, I can't help but be incredibly inspired.
Xeno reminds me I want to live.
I want to make something as beautiful and humanly complex as these wonderful people have blessed me with. They truly are passion filled games.
I probably wouldn't be here without this kind of art, and I wish my friend could've stayed around to experience what else humanity has to offer in the future.
I want to be a part of that future. To inspire the next generation like me who needs something like this to give them reason, so they don't suffer the same fate.
Tearing up just writing this man.
This song allows me to experience that bliss. What the end of that tunnel could look like after I've finished penning my own journey.
The guitar hits so god damn hard man. Every instrument. The vocalist is perfect. Serene. Like you said, human.
The Xenogears soundtrack is one of the most diverse soundtrack of many 90's, Golden Era RPGS. The sheer volume of cultures and necessary music to go with made me go and buy the 2 Disc OST. No longer in print within a very short timeframe and completely worth the purchase.
I hope you react to Shevat, the Wind is Calling and The One Who's Torn Apart from this very same game. Xenogears's OST is one of the masterpieces Yasunori Mitsuda made in his golden years
This was beautiful. I haven't gotten to play Xenogears and have only heard a couple songs. This one was new to me. I can only imagine the feelings hearing it in-game after everything. It definitely reminded me of Kokoro from Xenosaga 1 which I also highly recommend.
If you have a PS3 or a Vita, you can still get the game digitally via the network store-the process is just annoying.
First, you have to go to Sony’s website and create a special security code on your PlayStation network device management page.
Then, you can log into your PS account on the old console using the special code. BE SURE TO CLICK THE REMEMBER ME BUTTON. This way, you won’t have to keep getting new codes to access the store.
From there, you have to load your digital wallet-but you can’t do it on a vita or PS3. Instead, you have to do it on your PS4 or buy a PS network gift card.
It’s a whole process. But the game is well worth the hassle. Besides, being able to play it on a handheld is nice.
On the other hand, you could just sail the high seas and use an emulator, matey.
If there is one constant with the Xeno games it's how epic the music is. The team at Monolith Soft know how to move you.
Had to come back to this, since I just finished Xenogears for the first time yesterday.
Incredible game, and I didn't realize quite how much the game touched me until I got this song on the credits and started tearing up.
My only regret is not playing the game more when I owned it as a kid. So many themes and plot aspects resonated with me, and to know I had the game for my entire life and never pushed beyond the early game for over 20 years? I'm ashamed of younger me.
I am just glad I got to pick it up and enjoy it as an adult. Better late that never haha
Yasunori Mitsuda is such an amazing and unique producer, he has an special intimate album "Creid" with versions of his original tracks from Xenogears.
Finally someone reacts to the Xenogears ending theme song Small of Two Pieces! =D. One of my top favorite games of all times.
That ending made me cry.
Brings back so many memories, that moment when you see Elly and Fei descending in Weltal with the sunset, then que the song. Such a satisfying and earned ending. But personally, I love Dancing Stars in the Night Sky more than this one.
I took my time getting around to Xenogears, but it quickly became one of my favorites. The game has a lot of great relaxing tracks like "Shevat the Wind is calling" and "October Mermaid" and the vocal parts of "Blazing Knights" make it one of the most memorable battle tracks in any JRPG I've ever played.
If you're curious about the relationship between the "Xeno" games, its fascinating to look into as they're all games headed up by Tetsuya Takahashi.
Wow, nice piece of music.
I'm a huge Xenoblade fan, time to be a Xenosaga too.
Going to continue hoping you get to check out Hell March and Brain Freeze from the Command and Conquer remastered soundtrack at some point.
This particular game had ambitions greater than it was able to show. If had sold just a hundred thousand more copies, we'd be talking about Xenogears 2 and 3 and 4. But Square's ultimatum was "sell 1 million copies or else" and well, then they split off after Chrono Cross and the devs created Monolith Soft.
Which is frustrating because not only was it still one of the most successful JRPGs on the PS1 but had it released in Europe it easily would have sold over that amount. And ultimately we can blame Final Fantasy Spirits Within, Square wanted to devote more assets to that project (big mistake as it was a costly failure) so the next Xenogears which was actually initially approved was scrapped.
Listening to this song is like slipping into a time machine. In a different age, this song woulda been played during a slow skate.
It is crazy to think how different the reception to video game music and video games was in the 90s.
There are a few tracks I recommend (whenever the interest hits ya of course) from the video game, Transformers Devastation.
Insecticons
Shockwave
Soundwave.
However, if just one, then I wholeheartedly recommend Shockwave. It's a fantastic track!
Just recently I remembered Kokoro from Xenosaga Episode I...how curious, good music.
I bought the soundtrack of this game only because of this song. It's so beautiful... actually on my top 5 of the best love songs.
To this day I cannot stop for
Feeling huge emotions listening to this song
I have never played Xenogears, I haven't even seen how the game looks like, but I'm completely crazy about the soundtrack since a friend sent me this song through IRC over 20 years ago.
The theme of this plays several times in the game without lyrics. Mostly around ely
Song mentioned in this video;
Secret Garden - Sleepsong
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Funfact, on the xenogears soundtrack there is a song called (spring) lullaby
This soundtrack is possibly the best game OST of all time. Fragments of the melody from this song are used in several other songs in the soundtrack, but there are plenty of awesome melodies everywhere in the OST. I recommend checking out "My Village is Number One", "Ship of Regret and Sleep", "Flight", "Shevat, the Wind is Calling" (has a similar feel to a Chrono Trigger song you listened to), "Singing of the Gentle Wind".
Cloud sings this song in FF7 when he's hallucinating, but since the translation team didn't know what he was talking about, they just made some stuff up.
Oh wow!
imagine tie in with FF7 and XG that would be insane
Let's gooooo Xenogears! Yasunori Mitsuda does not disappoint
xenogears is the original man, those other games are pale imitations
some things to look for you've pointed out for me there, thank you.
Insane production values for a 1998 videogame soundtrack. BTW, Joanne Hogg actually has an album of lullabies titled, 'Raphael's Journey'.
There's another vocal song in the soundtrack, called Stars of Tears, being a vocal version of the overworld music. It's a lot more upbeat compared to this lullaby one
Haven't seen this game in decades. All I remember now is a giant robot that knew kung fu and everyone was butt naked by the end.
There are several versions of Sleep Song, but Secret Garden is best known for it.
You need to play this game - it has the most ambitious and epic story in the history of video games
Here's a fun fact. Speaking of Final Fantasy, FF7 promoted Xenogears in the game when Cloud was in the clinic sick and ifyou talked to Cloud he says Xenogais. Xenogears came out a year later. Originally it was a pitch to be the next Final Fantasy game but the didn't think it would be a hit.
Yeah Xenogears!! saludos desde Costa Rica
Star of Tears is pretty close.
If i'm not mistaken, there is a whole remix album of celtic music arrangements for the rest of the OST.
The "Xeno" thing means "Alien", and Xenogears basically means alien machine.
this is the single one game that needs remake so badly, omg. This game is so huge that developers dind't even managed to finish it and it took a whole second CD to put rest content on it in (almost) text format. The story alone is worth a several movies. And has on of the best OST out there.
"shevat the wind is calling" , "the one who is torn apart" (try to guess what is happened there by only listening the song) just to name a few.
Xenogears soundtrack are great. The battle theme "Stage of Death" is one of my favourite battle theme that I keep coming back to. And Shevat's theme "Shevat The Wind is Calling" is just... oof!
I have a few suggestions for songs to react to, from a cult classic of a game; Total Annihilation. The songs are "Fire and Ice", "Attack!!!", "Green Forest" and "Where Am I".
If people haven’t made it clear you should know that xenoblade, xenogears, and xenosaga are made by the same people and they are loosely connected
this is the original xeno
This song is played during the end credits yes, with lyrics. But, this song without lyrics is the "theme" to the game, it plays at several points, important points, through the game.
I've always preferred the midi version of this, the version most people use when playing the piano (my favorite instrument)
If you haven't already. The Ace Combat 5 Unsung War Ragriz song is a beautiful one to listen to.
Thank you
So I don't have the link on hand, but in an interview for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 it was stated that Xeno is nothing more than a trademark that indicates that it's a Tetsuya Takahashi game. Xenogears was the first Xeno game so idk if Xeno actually means something for this game specifically.
Now that Elden Ring is out I feel compelled to recommend you to listen to some of the boss themes. Below I'll have a few of my favourites, SPOILERS for boss names of course so don't look if you don't want to know the names of some bosses.
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Godrick the Grafted
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dudewhereismyspoon has uploaded all of the soundtracks to a playlist for all to enjoy. ^^
If you like Secret Garden. Play Prayer, it my favourite from the group
Definitely not a new game - Great call on covering it though. Xenogears was something special, and it's a shame that it wouldn't really do well if it were remade.
I thought it was funny when you mentioned the sunlight/field of flowers thing at 2:39 though. There were some really dark things covered in Xenogears, including the near total elimination of sentient life across the planet. Seeing so many changes to the world, the utter destruction of all those towns and cities visited up to that point, and so on... Brutal.
Also, "She sounds like an Angel" at 6:52 so much closer than you probably realize.
ah... another mecha classic.. arguably one of the best Mecha RPG back in the 90's hahaha
I only played this a bit years ago. Couldn't get past the beginning as the game proved to be quite hard at the time and I have no idea whether I played it wrong or something. So I got frustrated with this game and stopped playing it. I still have it, though, so I might give it a retry.
you should also try listening to all of it's game soundtracks...also, try Legend of Dragoon ost...
This song is the denouement of ten thousand years of fighting fate and suffering to get your happy ending, even if it means spitting in the face of God and every power in the world.
"Forget fate. We have no fate but what we make for ourselves."
They made a music video of this in 1998 that actually made MTV in Japan. If you deep dive this song enough on UA-cam, you'll find it. People will call this game obscure, and I cannot emphasize how far that was from the truth at the time.
Hello! 私は日本人です。初めてコメントします。白騎士物語のfly! my Bluebirdという曲のリアクションをしてほしいです。私の好きな曲です！バイオリンバージョンもあるのでぜひ聞いてみてほしいです。
I will try, thank you :D
ゼノブレイド2黄金の国イーラのエンディングテーマ「A moment of Eternity」をリアクションして欲しいです
Try to listen to 46-:ri9 from Xenoblade X
Light from the Netherworld next please!
So one of my favorite songs by xenogears is knight of fire please react to it
Also xenogears is related to xenosaga I think but there not connected to xenoblade
First time I heard solo part I little confused. But I know Mitsuda can't do something wrong
I saw the word gear and got my hopes up. When will Guilty Gear make it's return?!
You should play this. Small of two pieces.
Edit: it's not one of THOSE songs.
i dont have a patreon how do i request a song without making myself an account there? thanks in advance
Hello, there's also Paypal. All that info is in my descriptions
Please Square Enix, Remaster this game similar to Chrono Cross remaster.
"Cus pearl Harbour sucked, and i miss you."