When listening to this piece, I always imagine a tranquil Japanese town in peacetime. Black ships start rolling in the background, and the landscape begins to change frame by frame: telegraph wires appear, new buildings rise and old dissapear, railway is being constructed and shops are filled with foreign goods. By the time black ships roll by, there stands the same town, just as peaceful and tranquil, but modern and westernised.
Westernized. More like civilized. Gosh I wish I could have been a European in the late 19th century participating in stuff like forcing Japan open, bring Qing China to its knees, or the scramble for Africa.
This song really captures the epic feeling that one is standing on the threshold of taking part in and the creating of events that will not only change your future but that of a whole country for better or worse. Personally I found it to be perfect for the music playing during when you pick which clan you'll be leading for the single player campaign. I've only ever finished FOS single player campaign with the Satsuma clan and even that took me 3 hard fought tries to pull off. I confess having beat the plain Shogun 2 beforehand with Oda I felt a bit overconfident the first time I started FOS and I paid for it dearly. New infantry units and the new tactics they required to use effectively aside FOS adds lot of game changing features I had not expect to encounter. For example, unlike in plain Shogun 2 where you can pretty much ignore sea trade routes and get by pretty well using inland resources, FOS makes sea trade almost vital. This means unlike in plain Shogun 2, having a powerful navy was no longer a trivial matter. At least in FOS I didn't have to worry about the Shogun spreading lies about me to all other clans be they friend or foe and thus having the whole country turn against my clan just because I fairly nabbed more provinces then the Shogun liked me to have even if it was through only because I was winning a clan war I was forced into by another clan.
+TheRougeSky Naval supremacy is the key to victory in that game, since you depend on trade with the western powers. I try to get Ironclads and Iron plating as soon as possible, and I recommend you build your fleets with 2 frigates, 2 Ironclads, and 3 Kasugas. and I try to have no less than 5 fleets. Use your corvettes for blockades (or raiding, if they have coastal artillery) while your bigger ships bombard the coastal settlements and mop up any small fleets (if any) lingering around in open waters. Also, if you have a full fleet, you can call down 4 bombardments during battles with 44 shells per volley. It makes storming well defended castles a lot easier. Not to mention bombarding your enemy's settlements on the campaign map is a good way to keep the pressure on during the winter months.
I was thinking about this song and how it captures the feel of the boshin war and thinking about how transformative of an era it was. That everyone knew their society was on the cusp of irreversible change, for better or worse, but didnt know exactly how that would take form Then i realized, shit, WE are living in such an era. Technology and culture is rapidly changing by the decade with new forms of warfare and tech and AI emerging.. ladies and gents.. stay safe out there. You almost certainly will witness the world change unrecognizably if you live to old age. We might even live to find out about aliens one day.. and WE will be products of an ignorant bygone past.
Don't think it's physically possible for them to be able to outdo what they've already done in Shogun 2. Even if they tried, it'll probably just be a rehash of what we've already seen, except with *slightly* better graphics, filled with DLCs, and filled with other problems they'll have to fix.
I'd take a Shogun 2 remastered with Intel Graphics support. It looks fugly on my laptop b/c my graphics card isn't recognized. Otherwise I love the game.
When listening to this piece, I always imagine a tranquil Japanese town in peacetime. Black ships start rolling in the background, and the landscape begins to change frame by frame: telegraph wires appear, new buildings rise and old dissapear, railway is being constructed and shops are filled with foreign goods. By the time black ships roll by, there stands the same town, just as peaceful and tranquil, but modern and westernised.
Ebb and Flow indeed
Westernized. More like civilized. Gosh I wish I could have been a European in the late 19th century participating in stuff like forcing Japan open, bring Qing China to its knees, or the scramble for Africa.
Who else opened the fall of the samurai campaign menu to listen to this music? It's so good.
I do that a lot; open FotS and just quietly listen to this song before playing. It's quite a song, to say the least
One here haha
Yep with selecting the faction that I'm in mood to play
Captures the Boshin war and the fall of the samurai perfectly. Well done Jeff.
Hail for Britain support to Imperial Army!
Everytime I listen to this I remember your comment because it's completely true
Then almost 80 years after the Boshin War, Japan and Britain became enemies in SEA
I was there I can confirm👍
Bravo Jeff!
Love how Jeff van Dyck mixes traditional Japanese and Western styles and instruments. Fits the period.
Jeff van Dyck is a straight up legend. _How_ does one man make so much amazing music?
people hate history they will never get the feels we get
This song really captures the epic feeling that one is standing on the threshold of taking part in and the creating of events that will not only change your future but that of a whole country for better or worse.
Personally I found it to be perfect for the music playing during when you pick which clan you'll be leading for the single player campaign. I've only ever finished FOS single player campaign with the Satsuma clan and even that took me 3 hard fought tries to pull off.
I confess having beat the plain Shogun 2 beforehand with Oda I felt a bit overconfident the first time I started FOS and I paid for it dearly.
New infantry units and the new tactics they required to use effectively aside FOS adds lot of game changing features I had not expect to encounter.
For example, unlike in plain Shogun 2 where you can pretty much ignore sea trade routes and get by pretty well using inland resources, FOS makes sea trade almost vital. This means unlike in plain Shogun 2, having a powerful navy was no longer a trivial matter.
At least in FOS I didn't have to worry about the Shogun spreading lies about me to all other clans be they friend or foe and thus having the whole country turn against my clan just because I fairly nabbed more provinces then the Shogun liked me to have even if it was through only because I was winning a clan war I was forced into by another clan.
+TheRougeSky
Naval supremacy is the key to victory in that game, since you depend on trade with the western powers. I try to get Ironclads and Iron plating as soon as possible, and I recommend you build your fleets with 2 frigates, 2 Ironclads, and 3 Kasugas. and I try to have no less than 5 fleets. Use your corvettes for blockades (or raiding, if they have coastal artillery) while your bigger ships bombard the coastal settlements and mop up any small fleets (if any) lingering around in open waters.
Also, if you have a full fleet, you can call down 4 bombardments during battles with 44 shells per volley. It makes storming well defended castles a lot easier. Not to mention bombarding your enemy's settlements on the campaign map is a good way to keep the pressure on during the winter months.
Jeff van Dyck always create good music, entire "Total War" serie have amazing music thanks to him
I was thinking about this song and how it captures the feel of the boshin war and thinking about how transformative of an era it was. That everyone knew their society was on the cusp of irreversible change, for better or worse, but didnt know exactly how that would take form
Then i realized, shit, WE are living in such an era. Technology and culture is rapidly changing by the decade with new forms of warfare and tech and AI emerging.. ladies and gents.. stay safe out there. You almost certainly will witness the world change unrecognizably if you live to old age. We might even live to find out about aliens one day.. and WE will be products of an ignorant bygone past.
one of my favorite fots soundtracks!
The peace interrupted by war drums, sounding the troops to war.
This is possibly the best total war soundtrack, Fall of the Samurai is just awesome!
First song i think of when japan and modernisation come to mind.
Such a lovely music
You are such a talented man Jeff van Dyck, thanks for these masterpieces
My favorite.
I hear this tune playing amidst the rising tensions between Canada’s various provinces right now.
Canada's various provinces??? What is going on in Canada?
@@capacopkilla123 Not various , its just those so called French province being loud and mad about English language being introduced into them.
What gaijin disliked this?
Ilya Popkov ，😂
Traditionalist rebels, probably.
Shrinidhi Ghatpande nah I am pretty sure they are white supremacists who think asian advancement in technology took away their jobs lol 😂
Shrinidhi Ghatpande and isn’t this series all about asian ‘stealing’ tech.
Epic...
Who is here in 2019??
Hell, I'm here in the waning days of 2020
Hell, I'm here in the waning days of 2021
Hell, I'm here in the waning days of 2022
Hell, I'm here in the waning days of 2023
@@yoonho0619Me too
Ah, I love the smell of black powder in the morning.
my name is jeff
van dyck
You're welcome :)
That's bad, but i think it should be somewhere in the game data too.
good
This could be a theme for Co-Alligned US/Japan
2nd best song :D
u ppl can feel it? shogun 3 will come
+endOsS1 They will probably fuck it up so much that I will commit seppuku. (Still playing this game)
+endOsS1 Unless it has Jeff Van Dyck composing, no thanks. It will probably just be a soulless DLC fest without any art or immersion like Rome 2.
Don't think it's physically possible for them to be able to outdo what they've already done in Shogun 2. Even if they tried, it'll probably just be a rehash of what we've already seen, except with *slightly* better graphics, filled with DLCs, and filled with other problems they'll have to fix.
I'd take a Shogun 2 remastered with Intel Graphics support. It looks fugly on my laptop b/c my graphics card isn't recognized. Otherwise I love the game.
If they do a Shogun 3 sometime, maybe they can add Korea and parts of China as areas to expand upon.
Funny that the Ten Commandents were written in Aramaic, the only time were God truly wrote something for himself.
Fixed^^
Whats 1st?
Richard Beddow disliked this.
Stop with this
lol uncle samurai
lol wat?
Learn English.