I guess the symbolism of Anima appearances, while FFX grotesque form due to desperation perverting the love of a mother to her son, FFXIV made it as the combination between madness, lunacy and divinity.
Gotta be honest, what sold me on this theme was when it played during the final boss of Vanaspati. In the context of what was happening in the story and the overall aesthetic of that boss, this theme took on a different feeling and I really felt like it was such a perfect fit for this expansions final boss theme.
I stopped (paused) playing FF14 in FEB earlier this year. But one of the lasting things I will always be grateful for from FF14 is that I got to listen to Masayoshi Soken's work. The guy is an incredible composer. This song, when it hits, and the whole team knows the incoming boss mechanics and everyone knows what to do - the boss dance becomes pure poetry while this plays!!! Great memories.
@@n-aera Honestly I liked then all never have said one over the other is better. Perhaps I just don't care abd actually enjoy the whole story in itself
Honestly I keep hearing people saying this and the midboss theme should be switched, and I really have to disagree. In a vacuum I do prefer the midboss theme, but that song's very much a 'this strong dude just came out of nowhere, now you're gonna get your shit rocked' sort of tune with its tense, uncertain strings and crazy guitar shredding - this one's a triumphant orchestra basically constantly belting out leitmotifs from both Footfalls and other songs on top of some pounding war drums, and to me it reads way more like a heroic 'you're at the final challenge, it's gonna be tough but you got this' song than the midboss theme. On top of just sounding fantastic, the music in Endwalker (and the rest of the game) tends to be really well designed in terms of fitting the context they're used in, and I'm not sure people give it enough credit in that regard.
Honestly, when I hear this, I instantly think of Ra'lah (The Final Mercy) or Amon's Shade. Not just because it's the song that plays during their fight, but it kinds makes for the perfect mood change. Like, the journey through both dungeons is sad or emotional, filled with lots of grief, but the ending boss song is like saying "that stuff won't make us despair. We'll beat the shit out of them first!"
I just did that dungeon a few days ago and that was the first boss I actually enjoyed fighting In a very long time, paired with this amazing music piece, It felt like a really harrowing experience and narrowly avoiding death so many times felt really empowering!
I love how this song speaks from different sources for different people. Some remember Meteion, some Vanaspati, but I remember Ktisis Hyperborea: Stars on high, fall as rain! Epic voice acting, truly.
I haven't reached the fight with Meteion, and part of me doesn't want to. I know it's inevitable, both in the story beat of "you can't stop it" and in my desire to reach the endgame. Knowing the tragedy that befalls her just breaks my heart.
THIS right here isn't just an XIV boss battle theme. It has all the makings a Final Fantasy boss theme as a whole: loud, dramatic, explosive start, intense notes and strong pace. The kind of song you only need to hear the first two notes to tell yourself "yep, boss battle". This one and Triumph from Stormblood are FF boss theme perfection
I don't know how mainstream or conflictual it is of an opinion, but shadowbringers is my favorite from a mile, it's so intense and dramatic! Everytime i hear it it's like the light weights down on us from the sky once more!
This song felt perfect to me, when fighting anima for the first time. The moment of transition into the alternate reality and the song suddenly changing tunes. Just perfect.
I was surprised that the "Eikon of Eikons" was a dungeon boss rather than a full-fledged trial, but of course, we had even BIGGER fish as trials for Endwalker
While I hear it might have been because of time constraints with the expac, I'd like to believe it's because we've become so much more powerful, so even Primals that would have been considered very powerful before (like the eikon of eikons or the Magus sisters who are freaking insane) are now are less threatening to us, but still dangerous, so there's the distinction between dungeon boss and actual trial. An Anima trial and a Magus sisters trial would have been really fun tho, imagine Anima's enrage actually being threatening or having to deal with Manusya Stop with more than 1 person getting frozen at the same time while dodging delta strikes.
@@adrianrandom3448 I can’t imagine it being time constraints, expacs have always historically had 3 trials and now that we know who those trials actually are for EW it could never have been anything else.
I think this is fitting for primals, as we're exiting the period where it still made sense for them to be trials (baring tremendously powerful ones like the two big old ones). The magus sisters were a dungeon boss for the same reason imo. Especially with the invention of the medallion protecting from ether corruption, primals will no longer be a major threat in the future. They can now be felled by any party of scions wearing the medallion.
This theme really turned from triumphant fanfare in the fight against Fandaniel, to a heroic take-down of Varis' primal-infused corpse, to terrifying, horrific music to back a desperate fight against a person's expiring aether consumed by despair, to convincing a terribly-depressed man to keep fighting for humanity, to fighting an incarnation of death and despair itself. Oh. and of course. LET THE CURTAINS _RISE_ FOR THE *MAIN ATTRACTION!*
"So, it comes to this. I've no wish to fight. But this time, I cannot yield. Though the world may think me a mad, desperate fool, I will hold fast to my conviction." *Song starts* The chills.
Agreed. Not sure how people are mixing up the musical themes on these, because they seem pretty obvious in terms of what kind of situation each song is supposed to apply to
Yoshi-P: So, we need a Dungeon End Boss theme. This probably isn't the most important piece of music in the expansion, so there's no need to go crazy. I mean, obviously we still want it to be good, but feel free to save your effort for the really big moments in the story, you know? Soken:
The reason this theme is perfect is because it's accurate for the gravity of the bosses of all the MSQ dungeons. EVERY single one of them could have been trials in their own right. But they couldn't be, because the actual trials of Endwalker were just THAT important. This expansion was insane
@@nataraja7471 That's sorta the point, Zodiark doesn't HAVE a personality. He's the totality of the souls sacrificed to him, like how Hydaelyn is Venat with no distinction.
@@nataraja7471 Oh, i'm just saying that most of what made Zodiark "Zodiark" was actually Elidibus. The primal itself just holds the power. Fighting true Zodiark (with Elidibus) probably would have been impossible to beat, seeing as Fandaniel never wanted to win in the first place and Elidibus wouldn't have held back at all. Elidibus managed to banish us to the rift without Zodiark's strength, imagine what he could do with the true primal lol
This is easily 1 of my top favorite tracks from all of FF14. Right alongside the special Battle of the 4 Fiends theme used for the Rubicante fight. It will be interesting to see how Dawntrail 1-ups Endwalker in boss themes.
The reveal of the Level 89 boss to this music was one of my favorite moments in Endwalker. You're even thrown off the scent of who to expect by the first two dungeon bosses.
I was really really confused with how much they hyped up anima and how it was appearantly no deal afterwards. Like nobody even mentions it. Full on expected anima to be the first trial.
@@Gloriankithsanus I think they were trying to dissuade or trick people by showing Anima a bunch so the first trial moment hit harder in terms of shock value, I'd say it worked and I enjoyed it
One of the rare boss theme which pushed me beyond my limit as tank. I remember Vanaspati dungeon : Starting with the dungeon's theme I was already feeling the adrenaline rush since the MSQ, after rushing as fast as I could in order to save the baby. When I finaly reached the dungeon, I was on the top of my spirit, and then this boss. I'm an average tank, doing all I can do in order to protect my fellow partners in every dungeon, but this time, I felt this battle a lot more personnal, like I was really risking my whole life in order to save everyone from the apocalypse. I used properly every knowledge and skills during this whole fight, on the edge everytime to mitigate at the right time. One dps got down, and at 15%, the other one got slayed too. It was only me and the healer, and damn what an awesome final fight it was. We won this fight, and I felt so proud when all my mates trully expressed their feelings about how well I played, specially the healer who said how good my timing was about mitigate. This extension and this ost made me felt better about myself as Gunbreaker and as a human being.
Even when the first time we hear this track is with the Magus Sisters, I always have in my mind the "Eikon of Eikons" moment for Anima when I hear this music.
My only complaint is they missed out on the chance to insert " Hymn of Fayth :Anima" somewhere in this dungeon. Instead of the usual Quest Complete tune I was thinking a Garlean choir rendition of that song would fit beautifully.
This song really grew on me. At first I thought it was kinda low tier boss music for FFXIV, but as I was playing through the xpac and doing my tome grind, I realized I was really jamming out to the song whenever that intro would start up. Now it's one of my favorites. Took a while to click I guess, but honestly, the best songs are kinda like that.
Similar to Ancient Shackles. It took really listening to that for all the good stuff to come out of it. And honestly, what better sort of song to prog endlessly to?
This is such a good song. The person who made this knows whats happening in the story - The choir singing in this represents the people (or worlds) crying for salvation. The piano represents the battle itself while the other instruments tell you how dire things are. Such a great piece!
Just some Garlemald arc thoughts. Honestly I loved the entire Garlemald arc. Not only because we finally got to go to the empire, but because of all of the somber and tragic tones. Also realizing that as horrible as the Garleans were and the terrible things they’d done. They too are just people. To be forced out of their homes and killed by their own. To see how far they’d fallen and just barely surviving, and even then, they still didn’t trust outsiders, they still held their pride no matter how badly it was tattered. As I played this arc and saw what had happened to Garlemald, I was thinking, “I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy” and they really drove that home when you see Varis’ corpse be infused with primal energy and pieces. Like, yes he died already, but even in the afterlife he was not allowed to rest just yet. This theme really captures the finality of the EW dungeons well, and it hit me really hard for me during this dungeon, especially when Garlemald had always been our enemy, but this victory was not a happy one. No, it left a much deeper impact than simply “Dungeon Complete! Way to go!”
The history of the peoples that were controlled by the Ascians has always been tragic and sad. As advanced as they were, their power was always something that only served their dark leaders' evil purposes. It is clear that being directed always in the wrong way will produce people of the worst possible kind in a nation and this will certainly cause the ruin of that same people.
First endwalker dungeon as a healer was ...a nice experience ... dodging all those are while maintaining everyone alive and myself was truly epic. A live being a healer and I love all the healer main mate out there :)
Yes he did deserve better. Betrayed by all of his family. From his Grandfather, to his cousins, to his country men, to his own damn son. And this his body was warped and defiled even after his death. He wasn't even let to rest.
@@GhostWulf70792 With what he did to his son, he 100 percent deserved what he got lol. That is for ruining Zenos’ life, and forcing him into this life which got himself unfulfilled.
@@diousthomas8878 Zenos was a prince of a conquering nation. It's not that Zenos did not enjoy conquering. It's that all of those who stood before him were nothing but weakling. He was unfulfilled until the Warrior of Light came along.
This one is a billion times better that the mid boss theme and I don't know why people keep favoring that one over this. This one really makes me feel like I'm end walking.
@@alexanderbassett2901 Stormbloods boss theme is situational. Against the first random dungeon boss? Nah. Against Zenos in Ala Migho? Then it works perfectly.
Can't help but feel a determination that those tales have at last made you strong to end what bars your way. No matter how crazy the fight gets, you can see things to the end.
Having to deal with the shit loads of AOE while keeping everyone alive in your very first run of the first dungeon with this music spilling in your ears you gonna have a very hard times is truly epic.
in one way, you gotta pity varis. he just wanted to follow in his grandfather's footsteps only to find out his grandfather would rather have him dead to repair what once were who after death comes back and annoys the hell out of him, then right before winning the war your people have been fighting for the last few decades, your own son kills you and together with his equally insane companion ends up using your corpse to summon a primal which enslaves the mind of almost all your citizens and even mutates a sizable chunk into unrecognizable and unsavable monsters, your entire home country falls to ruin and the destruction of your corpse is the event that signals an apocalypse its even more sad when taking into account that one line "I believe Emperor Varis is still alive and is calling out to us through the radio" when in reality, the radio is the only thing that saved them from varis call
I think this is like one of the most powerful themes it just lifts you up , throws you around and sobers you up to the seriousness of the fight. I started playing on ew, I love Hw”s but this one just makes you dig deep to beat the boss.
You can hear the peaceful ost in this boss one. Its really nice to mix the two together. Gives a sense of what u need to fight for and all. Ita a cute touch and I doubt a lot of people noticed.
I love this theme alot but for Anima specifically I wanted to hear a remix of either "Otherworld", "Challenge", or "Summoned Beast Battle" from FFX by The Primals. Maybe someday when we get a FFX Boss as a Trial.
I thinK you are the only comment referencing FFX. People know this is Seymour's mother? No one felt bad fighting it? Or the story in FF14 is not tied to FFX?
My one and only gripe with this song is that it isn’t used ENOUGH! I love the FF4 remix, but as of 6.4, this song only gets used in a total of eight boss battles (and one Hildebrand adventure) and as someone whose favorite boss music in the whole game is this song, that’s a travesty.
This absolutely fits so much better than the mid boss theme! Mid boss gives me he's tough but arrogant vibes, whereas this theme screams "finally fighting an equal" vibes
*Roma-Nyan : unleashes the Evil Spawn Transvestos.. the Abomination of Desolation..* _the quaking.. the visible Shooking.. tRuLy a BattLe oF tHe AgEs_ *All The Heroes Rushed To Purge iT's eViL mInioNs*
This theme is a banger, but curiously it did not leave as strong an impact on me as the dungeon boss theme of Heaveansward or Shadowbringers. And now that I write about this I can't even remember Stormblood' s dungeon boss theme.
I had that exact feeling lol it’s not even disrespecting Fromsoft ost; the games have awesome soundtracks, but Soken and the ffxiv team are just on a tier of their own
I originally thought this should have been switched. ...and then a fought a boss to it. Holy shit the rush. Zot doesn't mess around that first time through.
Just before they put us into the Tower of Babil dungeon, I started to get the feeling that Anima, the boss that the devs teased during the presentations, might actually be the dungeon boss and not the first trial. I still remember vividly how I entered the final floor and saw Anima at the other end and wondering what the first trial might actually be...
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"Its steps were light, and its gift was as painless as it was beautiful".
Having this banger blasting while dancing around during the Magus Sister fight was when I fell in love with this track.
I fell for it during the Anima fight. It just goes really well.
The way sometimes if you're lucky you can sync up 0:24 at the same time the three Magus Sisters power up is just.. *chef kiss*
YO SAME???
100%
this track almost makes up for me playing a mage the first time thru that dungeon...
No matter the universe, Anima is still being made from dead parents.
First dungeon final boss: triple fight with ALL the mechanics. That's how you know it's going to be a crazy expansion.
Anima was kinda…meh though. So easy compare to Magus sisters.
@@tuck295q everything is easy compared to the magus sisters.... though amon is a closed second.
@@tuck295q i unironically thought magus were easier than anima
Dodging like 12 different AoE’s at once while that piano part plays was a high moment for me lol
@@brainw0rn that maybe because you killed them in order. If you leave Cindurva (I think that is the eldest) she revives her sister
Be it in FFX or in FFXIV, Anima is still as nigtmarish as ever.
Fighting it on this track was sooooo epic ^^
I guess the symbolism of Anima appearances, while FFX grotesque form due to desperation perverting the love of a mother to her son, FFXIV made it as the combination between madness, lunacy and divinity.
Gotta be honest, what sold me on this theme was when it played during the final boss of Vanaspati. In the context of what was happening in the story and the overall aesthetic of that boss, this theme took on a different feeling and I really felt like it was such a perfect fit for this expansions final boss theme.
Me too!
The First Blasphemy: Svarbhanu
Fitting for it to look so much like the First Beast.
Not gonna lie but hearing the music while fighting Svarbhanu had me freaking *terrified* because of the context
Just the bosses name alongside this theme made it for me. The First Blasphemy... I mean come one, that's too badass.
I stopped (paused) playing FF14 in FEB earlier this year. But one of the lasting things I will always be grateful for from FF14 is that I got to listen to Masayoshi Soken's work. The guy is an incredible composer. This song, when it hits, and the whole team knows the incoming boss mechanics and everyone knows what to do - the boss dance becomes pure poetry while this plays!!! Great memories.
"Let the curtains RISE for the main attraction!"
Each final boss theme is more epic than the previous. x) How will 7.0 beat this one?
Soken finds a way
Idk I always thought ShB was below SBds
@@n-aera Honestly I liked then all never have said one over the other is better. Perhaps I just don't care abd actually enjoy the whole story in itself
@@n-aera Triumph just hits different. STORM OF BLOOOOD STORM OF BLOOOOOOOD
ShBs was fast worse than SBs or HWs.
Honestly I keep hearing people saying this and the midboss theme should be switched, and I really have to disagree. In a vacuum I do prefer the midboss theme, but that song's very much a 'this strong dude just came out of nowhere, now you're gonna get your shit rocked' sort of tune with its tense, uncertain strings and crazy guitar shredding - this one's a triumphant orchestra basically constantly belting out leitmotifs from both Footfalls and other songs on top of some pounding war drums, and to me it reads way more like a heroic 'you're at the final challenge, it's gonna be tough but you got this' song than the midboss theme. On top of just sounding fantastic, the music in Endwalker (and the rest of the game) tends to be really well designed in terms of fitting the context they're used in, and I'm not sure people give it enough credit in that regard.
Thanks for putting into words how I feel about this too
well said
Agree! It's a great climactic theme
Honestly, when I hear this, I instantly think of Ra'lah (The Final Mercy) or Amon's Shade. Not just because it's the song that plays during their fight, but it kinds makes for the perfect mood change. Like, the journey through both dungeons is sad or emotional, filled with lots of grief, but the ending boss song is like saying "that stuff won't make us despair. We'll beat the shit out of them first!"
love the voice of reason
Magus Sisters is such a great boss because of the pure, pants-wetting terror of watching cones and circles criss-cross the arena.
I just did that dungeon a few days ago and that was the first boss I actually enjoyed fighting In a very long time, paired with this amazing music piece, It felt like a really harrowing experience and narrowly avoiding death so many times felt really empowering!
I love how this song speaks from different sources for different people. Some remember Meteion, some Vanaspati, but I remember Ktisis Hyperborea: Stars on high, fall as rain! Epic voice acting, truly.
Flowing winds, pierce my foes!
GAH, What a boorish audience you are! Is still my favorite line in the expansion
I haven't reached the fight with Meteion, and part of me doesn't want to. I know it's inevitable, both in the story beat of "you can't stop it" and in my desire to reach the endgame. Knowing the tragedy that befalls her just breaks my heart.
Dead Ends for me
Only cause I keep running it for the minion and I *STILL* haven't gotten it >_
The Magus Sisters are what first spring to mind for me. Part of it's probably due to nostalgia reasons and being a pretty big fan of FFIV's story.
THIS right here isn't just an XIV boss battle theme. It has all the makings a Final Fantasy boss theme as a whole: loud, dramatic, explosive start, intense notes and strong pace. The kind of song you only need to hear the first two notes to tell yourself "yep, boss battle". This one and Triumph from Stormblood are FF boss theme perfection
Yes, this!
This finally feels like a proper boss battle theme worthy of Final Fantasy name!
Ha, those two tracks in particular are my favourite boss themes in FF14
It's kinda like the one from FF6, indeed the first few notes you know stuff is going to go down and it's awesome.
I don't know how mainstream or conflictual it is of an opinion, but shadowbringers is my favorite from a mile, it's so intense and dramatic! Everytime i hear it it's like the light weights down on us from the sky once more!
This truly felt like the world as we know was ending, and you had to fight the ever-increasing chaos from the Blasphemies. What a masterpiece.
“STREAMS OF AETHER, SURGE AS ONE!”
"Stars on high... FALL AS RAIN!"
"DANCING WINDS, PIERCE MY FOES!"
"Even when transformed...but I am not finished yet!"
This song felt perfect to me, when fighting anima for the first time. The moment of transition into the alternate reality and the song suddenly changing tunes. Just perfect.
I was surprised that the "Eikon of Eikons" was a dungeon boss rather than a full-fledged trial, but of course, we had even BIGGER fish as trials for Endwalker
Thats probably where the WoL is in this story “eh this guy? I can do it with 4”
While I hear it might have been because of time constraints with the expac, I'd like to believe it's because we've become so much more powerful, so even Primals that would have been considered very powerful before (like the eikon of eikons or the Magus sisters who are freaking insane) are now are less threatening to us, but still dangerous, so there's the distinction between dungeon boss and actual trial.
An Anima trial and a Magus sisters trial would have been really fun tho, imagine Anima's enrage actually being threatening or having to deal with Manusya Stop with more than 1 person getting frozen at the same time while dodging delta strikes.
@@adrianrandom3448 I can’t imagine it being time constraints, expacs have always historically had 3 trials and now that we know who those trials actually are for EW it could never have been anything else.
Yeah I thought this as well. For the role he played he should’ve been a trail fight.
I think this is fitting for primals, as we're exiting the period where it still made sense for them to be trials (baring tremendously powerful ones like the two big old ones). The magus sisters were a dungeon boss for the same reason imo. Especially with the invention of the medallion protecting from ether corruption, primals will no longer be a major threat in the future. They can now be felled by any party of scions wearing the medallion.
This theme really turned from triumphant fanfare in the fight against Fandaniel, to a heroic take-down of Varis' primal-infused corpse, to terrifying, horrific music to back a desperate fight against a person's expiring aether consumed by despair, to convincing a terribly-depressed man to keep fighting for humanity, to fighting an incarnation of death and despair itself.
Oh. and of course. LET THE CURTAINS _RISE_ FOR THE *MAIN ATTRACTION!*
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"So, it comes to this. I've no wish to fight. But this time, I cannot yield. Though the world may think me a mad, desperate fool, I will hold fast to my conviction."
*Song starts*
The chills.
I know right?! ❤
I legit forgot that Hermes said this and thought for a second that this was something Varis said. It would honestly apply to both of them.
@@saamjaza1742understandble, specially when hermes was just a forgetful villain, easilly the worst from the game. No wonder youd forget
@@Isaac31415Because he wasn't much of a villain is why. He is Frankenstein to Frankenstein's monster.
@@theandice8152 Oh, right, i forgot that in this community making genocides doesnt make someone a villain. Poor, poor hermes.
This is the perfect final boss theme. It absolutely does NOT need to be switched with the mid boss theme. They give completely different vibes
tbh the only reason people who think it should ever give is that they like the mid boss theme more
@@TheOnlyGBeast i prefer this way more mid boss theme is kinda meh to me
@@alexmaganda5827 honestly how I feel too, it's not bad but it's definitely not my favorite
@@juniper2788 Both of them are great, and its nice to get to hear each of them on every roulette.
Agreed. Not sure how people are mixing up the musical themes on these, because they seem pretty obvious in terms of what kind of situation each song is supposed to apply to
“Many faces I have worn, but this, is my favorite by far !!”
I like how Anima born in this similar to FFX. Seymour turned his mother into Anima just as Zenos turned Varis.
The fucking PLIN PLIN PLON PLIN PLON PLIN PLIN is so damn good god I love it and it gives me goosebumps haha
It always starts whenever the magus sisters do their first bullet hell move and it feels so crisp every time
You know shit just got real when the choir drops the EEEeeeEEE
Yoshi-P: So, we need a Dungeon End Boss theme. This probably isn't the most important piece of music in the expansion, so there's no need to go crazy. I mean, obviously we still want it to be good, but feel free to save your effort for the really big moments in the story, you know?
Soken:
Was not made by Soken. This track was by Daiki Ishikawa, and the Mid-boss theme by Takafumi Imamura.
Good
When I fought the Magus Sisters and heard this song, I knew I was in for a wild ride with Endwalker. Incredible.
The reason this theme is perfect is because it's accurate for the gravity of the bosses of all the MSQ dungeons. EVERY single one of them could have been trials in their own right.
But they couldn't be, because the actual trials of Endwalker were just THAT important. This expansion was insane
They did Zodiark real dirty, though, depriving him of a personality and voice lines of his own
@@nataraja7471 That's sorta the point, Zodiark doesn't HAVE a personality. He's the totality of the souls sacrificed to him, like how Hydaelyn is Venat with no distinction.
@@nataraja7471 We already fought his true personality (Elidibus). He was the previous heart of Zodiark
@@RemiusTheAwesome I know that, of course; I'm saying Zodiark deserved to be his own character, not a primal mech suit
@@nataraja7471 Oh, i'm just saying that most of what made Zodiark "Zodiark" was actually Elidibus. The primal itself just holds the power.
Fighting true Zodiark (with Elidibus) probably would have been impossible to beat, seeing as Fandaniel never wanted to win in the first place and Elidibus wouldn't have held back at all.
Elidibus managed to banish us to the rift without Zodiark's strength, imagine what he could do with the true primal lol
This is easily 1 of my top favorite tracks from all of FF14. Right alongside the special Battle of the 4 Fiends theme used for the Rubicante fight. It will be interesting to see how Dawntrail 1-ups Endwalker in boss themes.
The reveal of the Level 89 boss to this music was one of my favorite moments in Endwalker. You're even thrown off the scent of who to expect by the first two dungeon bosses.
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You were expecting Varis, but IT WAS ME, AMON
@@ParticleBomb Wish it was. :/
@@ParticleBomb amon…. gus 📮📮📮
@@ParticleBomb MANY FACES HAVE I WORN, BUT THIS IS MY FAVORITE BY FAR!
I was kinda frustrated when I saw Anima being a dungeon boss but, hey, what we had in the end was *pretty* good
I was really really confused with how much they hyped up anima and how it was appearantly no deal afterwards. Like nobody even mentions it. Full on expected anima to be the first trial.
@@Gloriankithsanus I think they were trying to dissuade or trick people by showing Anima a bunch so the first trial moment hit harder in terms of shock value, I'd say it worked and I enjoyed it
One of the rare boss theme which pushed me beyond my limit as tank.
I remember Vanaspati dungeon : Starting with the dungeon's theme I was already feeling the adrenaline rush since the MSQ, after rushing as fast as I could in order to save the baby. When I finaly reached the dungeon, I was on the top of my spirit, and then this boss.
I'm an average tank, doing all I can do in order to protect my fellow partners in every dungeon, but this time, I felt this battle a lot more personnal, like I was really risking my whole life in order to save everyone from the apocalypse.
I used properly every knowledge and skills during this whole fight, on the edge everytime to mitigate at the right time.
One dps got down, and at 15%, the other one got slayed too.
It was only me and the healer, and damn what an awesome final fight it was.
We won this fight, and I felt so proud when all my mates trully expressed their feelings about how well I played, specially the healer who said how good my timing was about mitigate.
This extension and this ost made me felt better about myself as Gunbreaker and as a human being.
I think Vanaspati was hardest dungeon of Endwalker.
Even when the first time we hear this track is with the Magus Sisters, I always have in my mind the "Eikon of Eikons" moment for Anima when I hear this music.
“Stars on high, FALL AS RAIN!”
"My, what a boorish audience you are!"
This was one of my favorite themes in endwalker.
My only complaint is they missed out on the chance to insert " Hymn of Fayth :Anima"
somewhere in this dungeon.
Instead of the usual Quest Complete tune I was thinking a Garlean choir rendition of that song would fit beautifully.
Yes. This boss theme is suitably 'apocalyptic' I think.
This theme gets me pumped up i don't even know what I'm doing but i feel like a god dodging all the mechanics.
This theme perfectly tells you that Etheirys is about to go to hell.
Boss fights in ff14 are so extremely satisfying. Just can't get that feeling anywhere else
THE CHAOS OF BEAUTIFUL TRIUMPH!!!!
Come, Warriors of Light! We dance to victory this day!
The first time this played I got so hyped I can't even tell you.
This song really grew on me. At first I thought it was kinda low tier boss music for FFXIV, but as I was playing through the xpac and doing my tome grind, I realized I was really jamming out to the song whenever that intro would start up. Now it's one of my favorites. Took a while to click I guess, but honestly, the best songs are kinda like that.
Only Trumph is better.
Similar to Ancient Shackles. It took really listening to that for all the good stuff to come out of it. And honestly, what better sort of song to prog endlessly to?
Doing this boss fight on the first week on release was an amazing feeling
Man it sure was
This theme makes it sound like we're racing against a clock and it's almost time. 😤
Let the curtains riiise for the main attraction! 😃
Many faces have I worn, but this one is by far my favorite!
"Many faces have I worn, but this is my favorite by far!"
"Let the curtain rise on the main attraction!"
I think they wanted to give us the feeling that if we lose the world ends and we all die, in the most epic way lol
This is such a good song. The person who made this knows whats happening in the story - The choir singing in this represents the people (or worlds) crying for salvation. The piano represents the battle itself while the other instruments tell you how dire things are. Such a great piece!
They did Anima so dirty relegating him to a dungeon boss. Should have been a trial or raid.
We had bigger fish to fry
@@Novdalunethey could’ve easily saved this for a FFX series raid or alliance (Yoshi refuses to touch that game for some reason)
@@DerekDirk-eb8djseems like he's starting to break out the references now, given that we have the pelupelu in DT
"So they created the kindest, most gentle of beasts."
The song that really just makes you crack your knuckles and say: "Here we go!"
Just some Garlemald arc thoughts.
Honestly I loved the entire Garlemald arc. Not only because we finally got to go to the empire, but because of all of the somber and tragic tones. Also realizing that as horrible as the Garleans were and the terrible things they’d done. They too are just people. To be forced out of their homes and killed by their own. To see how far they’d fallen and just barely surviving, and even then, they still didn’t trust outsiders, they still held their pride no matter how badly it was tattered. As I played this arc and saw what had happened to Garlemald, I was thinking, “I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy” and they really drove that home when you see Varis’ corpse be infused with primal energy and pieces. Like, yes he died already, but even in the afterlife he was not allowed to rest just yet. This theme really captures the finality of the EW dungeons well, and it hit me really hard for me during this dungeon, especially when Garlemald had always been our enemy, but this victory was not a happy one. No, it left a much deeper impact than simply “Dungeon Complete! Way to go!”
The history of the peoples that were controlled by the Ascians has always been tragic and sad.
As advanced as they were, their power was always something that only served their dark leaders' evil purposes.
It is clear that being directed always in the wrong way will produce people of the worst possible kind in a nation and this will certainly cause the ruin of that same people.
I been hearing the FF4 boss battle theme so much (thanks current Expert roulette) that I nearly forgot what THIS song sounded like!
Alas, Varis. When I said I wanted to fight you, *_THIS ISN'T WHAT I HAD IN MIND_* !!
“Many faces have I worn, but this one is my favorite by far!”
First endwalker dungeon as a healer was ...a nice experience ... dodging all those are while maintaining everyone alive and myself was truly epic. A live being a healer and I love all the healer main mate out there :)
Its so aggressive I luv it
Varis may have been an absolute bastard, but even he deserved better than what he got
Yes he did deserve better. Betrayed by all of his family. From his Grandfather, to his cousins, to his country men, to his own damn son. And this his body was warped and defiled even after his death. He wasn't even let to rest.
@@GhostWulf70792 With what he did to his son, he 100 percent deserved what he got lol.
That is for ruining Zenos’ life, and forcing him into this life which got himself unfulfilled.
@@diousthomas8878 Zenos was a prince of a conquering nation. It's not that Zenos did not enjoy conquering. It's that all of those who stood before him were nothing but weakling. He was unfulfilled until the Warrior of Light came along.
@@diousthomas8878 clueless
What? No he did not. He created his own downfall in the form of his poorly raised son and got what was coming to him tf.
This one is a billion times better that the mid boss theme and I don't know why people keep favoring that one over this. This one really makes me feel like I'm end walking.
This is some fantastic music for some end walking
both are good
Ey, I'm end walkin here!!!
“A roar tears at the fabric of reality”
My friend: “Bruh, my gamer, you need a breath mint”
This is literally the best boss battle theme in the entire history of this franchise.
It's a tie between this and the ShB one in my opinion. They're both good for different reasons
@@resdamalos I think stormbloods is the best but this has the best intro for sure
@@alexanderbassett2901 Stormbloods boss theme is situational. Against the first random dungeon boss? Nah.
Against Zenos in Ala Migho? Then it works perfectly.
@@terrariaarmy508 same with this one. Not every boss fits the theme. And the mini boss theme fits some of the final bosses. All situational
Still not as good as Stormblood's for me tbh
I LOVE this theme, it never fails to get me AMPED!! Let's goooooooo!! *hoovers the flat with increasing vigour*
"Dancing winds, pierce my foes!"
“That power that defeated Anima, it will be mine” - Seymour FFX
Ah yes. Anxiety: the boss song
Me: _Sees anima_
Me: Tidus sends his regards.
Can't help but feel a determination that those tales have at last made you strong to end what bars your way. No matter how crazy the fight gets, you can see things to the end.
That transition as the fabric of reality is torn though
MAGUS SISTERS REUNITE
This desperatly needs to be the song for Lunar Bahamut for those reaching the start of EW
Having to deal with the shit loads of AOE while keeping everyone alive in your very first run of the first dungeon with this music spilling in your ears you gonna have a very hard times is truly epic.
in one way, you gotta pity varis.
he just wanted to follow in his grandfather's footsteps only to find out his grandfather would rather have him dead to repair what once were who after death comes back and annoys the hell out of him, then right before winning the war your people have been fighting for the last few decades, your own son kills you and together with his equally insane companion ends up using your corpse to summon a primal which enslaves the mind of almost all your citizens and even mutates a sizable chunk into unrecognizable and unsavable monsters, your entire home country falls to ruin and the destruction of your corpse is the event that signals an apocalypse
its even more sad when taking into account that one line "I believe Emperor Varis is still alive and is calling out to us through the radio" when in reality, the radio is the only thing that saved them from varis call
This theme really adds to the chaos that endwalker bosses are. Things get so much crazier than dungeon runners are used to
that was a super poggers TBN to save the reaper's life during the magus sisters battle. much respect o7
I thought we couldn't get any better final dungeon themes after Shadowbringers but damn I was so wrong. This one slaps so hard
I think this is like one of the most powerful themes it just lifts you up , throws you around and sobers you up to the seriousness of the fight. I started playing on ew, I love Hw”s but this one just makes you dig deep to beat the boss.
You can hear the peaceful ost in this boss one. Its really nice to mix the two together. Gives a sense of what u need to fight for and all. Ita a cute touch and I doubt a lot of people noticed.
I like the remix of the ff4 boss song but they need to bring this one back those cowards.
Its SO good I want it back
Agreed
I love this theme alot but for Anima specifically I wanted to hear a remix of either "Otherworld", "Challenge", or "Summoned Beast Battle" from FFX by The Primals.
Maybe someday when we get a FFX Boss as a Trial.
I thinK you are the only comment referencing FFX. People know this is Seymour's mother? No one felt bad fighting it? Or the story in FF14 is not tied to FFX?
Its steps were light...
And its gift was as painless as it was beautiful...
My one and only gripe with this song is that it isn’t used ENOUGH!
I love the FF4 remix, but as of 6.4, this song only gets used in a total of eight boss battles (and one Hildebrand adventure) and as someone whose favorite boss music in the whole game is this song, that’s a travesty.
I really wanna hear a dope violin cover of this and the endwalker theme
This absolutely fits so much better than the mid boss theme! Mid boss gives me he's tough but arrogant vibes, whereas this theme screams "finally fighting an equal" vibes
I hope they make this into an extreme trial
Not got to Endwalker yet but now I can't wait for this fight. Anima is awesome
"Stars on high, fall as rain!"
"Streams of aether, surge as one!"
that final boss was so well voice acted
A perfect boss theme for some of the crazy-ass EW bosses.
It freaking sucks that Anima got subjected into a Dungeon Boss. But the song does do it some justice.
It does, but it did have to play third fiddle considering the circumstances surrounding it.
*Roma-Nyan : unleashes the Evil Spawn Transvestos.. the Abomination of Desolation..*
_the quaking.. the visible Shooking.. tRuLy a BattLe oF tHe AgEs_
*All The Heroes Rushed To Purge iT's eViL mInioNs*
This track hits hard, Love the piano riffs!
This theme is a banger, but curiously it did not leave as strong an impact on me as the dungeon boss theme of Heaveansward or Shadowbringers. And now that I write about this I can't even remember Stormblood' s dungeon boss theme.
Honestly how BGM in game so good. I thought soulsborne fromsoft was untouchable, but man how wrong i can be
I had that exact feeling lol it’s not even disrespecting Fromsoft ost; the games have awesome soundtracks, but Soken and the ffxiv team are just on a tier of their own
finally, l found this bgm name. Only other bgm can be compared to this is starved from 4v4
I originally thought this should have been switched.
...and then a fought a boss to it. Holy shit the rush. Zot doesn't mess around that first time through.
I will admit, when I saw Anima, I had a slight panic as i remember back on my FFX days.
Just before they put us into the Tower of Babil dungeon, I started to get the feeling that Anima, the boss that the devs teased during the presentations, might actually be the dungeon boss and not the first trial. I still remember vividly how I entered the final floor and saw Anima at the other end and wondering what the first trial might actually be...
i wish to have amnesia so i can feel the thrill again
i mean, i still feel it but the first time hits
Every time i here this im like "Bring it!!
miss it so badly
So badass 😌
Love that lvl85 boss that literally draco meteors you.