UGH, just TRY not to cry listening to Final Fantasy XIV's Hopeful Dynamis..
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- This is one of my absolute favorite pieces from Endwalker - the sad joy, the reflective emotions, it's sublime in its simplicity.
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MAJOR spoilers here for the endwalker finale.
"A flower. Yes. Upon your return, I will gift you a beautiful flower"
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That's the line that always breaks me. It's impossible not to cry at this because of this scene.
You sir, are banned for offensively making members of the community cry!
Take the fine, repent and reevaluate how you quote the game in the future!
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@@legomaple legit got a pavlovian response and teared up the moment I hear the piano
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I think it's the Julus scene that I associate this track the most. When Julus took a sip of the warm soup and the Resistance Delegate who was talking to him said "It's the little things that make life worth living, don't you think?", I bawled. Still one of my favorite scenes in EW and this track will always make me feel warm and hopeful.
Same! God, that scene destroyed me...
That one hit different bc all the sudden it was even closer to something in real life, not saying the more fantastical aspects don't make me cry, its just a different cry
ah yes. One of the best scene in EW for me.
Th moment he let his guard down and allowed himself to..... rest
and it all just hits him all at once and he lets go.
I'm right there with you.😢
I played through the whole game twice; it still got me the second time round.
For me, that scene was so moving because to me, that was the moment that Jullus realized that he wanted to live - the moment he rediscovered how to hope.
It’s impossible not to cry. The minute the piano starts I tear up.
It's so touching
I get shivers every time Emet Selch snaps and that field of flowers blooms on the dead ground of Ultima Thule.
😢 that part just broke me
Flow is more than just one of the key leitmotifs of Endwalker in this moment. It's indicative of the path we've traveled, a cycle that has placed us in a similar role to the one who guided us.
Flow is the music we associate with Hydaelyn/Venat, alongside Answers. (Which is appropriately what her final theme is a derivation of.) We hear it during our visions of her and during much of the time we spend one on one with her in Elpis, reminding us of how she guides us, nurtures us as her chosen Warriors of Light.
We do much the same for Meteon. We tend to her and guide her during our times alone with her in Elpis. We try to understand her, support her, acting almost as an older sibling or even a parent, like Venat has done for us.
We do the same throughout the Ultima Thule alongside the Scions. Again and again they try to make her see the error in her thinking, that existence and life aren't hopeless and pointless, but through self sacrifice and appeals to logic that work for adults. It's only in the moment you show, that penultimate attempt to make her understand before we face the Endsinger, when every one of our friends has given their all to try and make her see, that we finally have our chance.
And we use love. Understanding. A gesture of meaningful kindness, fulfilling the promise from Hermes that she held onto for however many thousands of years without realizing it in the dark and cold place she was in. Only when we do that, only when we realize we're not just dealing with another harbinger of doom but a child who tragically had her innocence ripped away, are we finally able to get through. It takes you, the player, who has been through so much to make it to this point, to guide her and help her see in the exact same way Hydaelyn guided us.
It's a beautiful and brilliant bit of storytelling. Endwalker at its very best.
That's... actually impressively thought out. We start out very like meteon, simply looking for adventure and fun, but it spirals so much further once venat gets involved. The difference is Hermes made her and set her loose without proper guidance through her sisters mental link to find his own answer, while venat guides and protects us through those first stumbling steps as we find our own will and path...and then we take our experience and tech meteon in the very short time we have before it all goes wrong and then teach her where she got it wrong. How very interesting that the wol becomes a parental figure right as we meet the woman who became hydalen face to face...and what a mirror it is to how things could have gone given how beyond human the warrior is even without a blessing.
Endwalker music is just so powerful, as someone who was going through a very rough depressive episode they really helped me by capturing Hope and the strength to carry on through music.
I. Love. FFXIV.
"Know this my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world.
To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever.
'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end.
You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair
...but do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is.
Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade."
I... I needed this one so much. And I cry just reading it.. :)
Aaahhh yeah, me too. I had to wait to play Endwalker because I was in residential treatment when it released.
As someone who has been struggling with depression for years, this expansion and shadowbringers made me cry multiple times.
The themes are so damn good. The story enhanced it massively
High notes generally register in our ape brains as something small. It's fascinating how biology and instincts often interact with music to create feelings.
Right?
We're wired for music. We have used it for thousands of years. Music is in our DNA. Even if you say you don't like it. Music can break you down to the most basic emotions.
I really like how it's a rendition of Flow, and you get the chorus at some point and given the words of the chorus...
"Deep, dark, far away, I have heard your voice, weighed your every choice
Now our hands join round the meaning you sought
I'll catch your tears, quench your fears with joy til you near the shore
Where in time, all shall as hope be reborn, ah"
Man... why does ff always have bangers and such soulful pieces? It honestly feels like 14's music has the widest range, from mournful tracks to the vibrant battle themes, they all stir the soul, man.
Honestly this is the very reason why this game is so fricking loved by so many people. Its the epicness, the amazing views. The beautifull music and the communal acceptance of the player base
Soken fell to music during his fight with cancer, he was already amazing but he wrote his experience with fear and hope into every note for endwalker
This song and Flow never fail to make me tear up. The writers, animators, and OST teams created one of the most soul-rending experiences I've had in a game in years, and I am damn grateful for it.
A streamer picked out that it sounds very similar to His Theme. It evokes those same emotions of sadness and joy, The fear and meleancholy of loss. The swelling happiness of love. Hopeful Dynamis plays when there is a small glimmer of light that pierces the darkness of all the despair around us. The soup scene with Julus, this scene with Meteion. They are both heart wrenchingly sad and overwhelmingly filled with light and hope at the same time. This is what I would call Soken's truest masterpiece.
I still hear the "a flower" dialogue whenever I hear this song. Makes me tear up everytime. I don't think I'll ever replace the starbird as my minion...
PS: Whenever I try to sing Flow alongside Dynamis I start choking up hard lol
I want the minion so bad for my summoner class (:-:)
God this moment of endwalker really got to me. After crying so much already to Close In the Distance playing while going through the walk alone to hearing this.... It's really the biggest double whammy I've felt in any game I've played 🥺
Yes, no stops for the emotional train 😢
Yes, no stops for the emotional train 😢
"Meteion. Though I gave you these wings to soar the heavens, I did not teach you how to walk the earth. So loath was I to bind another living being." 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Ah, there it is. That stinging in my nose when the strings come in, the memories flooding back as the music swells, my eyes growing heavy with tears. FFXIV is therapy.
Not gonna lie.... The Leitmotif of Flow is like... the most evil thing Soken has composed.
When it just starts... the tears just flow.
Depending on the person the amount of tears decrease or increase. Depends highly on what things you have gone trough yourself
The Music, the animations, the scenario... Everything is perfect during that moment and it's why i'm crying at the moment. That purity, just a moment where the time stop and everything seems so peaceful and our character can finally breath. Thank you Marco for remind me that moment of the mainquest
Mate you and probably a million others beenn bawling their eyes out
I love the little forshadowing in the very first scene this song is playing, when Nidhana is explaining the concept of akasha to us
I still love how, upon her return she would be gifted a beautiful flower. And we gifted her a whole field to show that despair has no sway anymore
"in the course of your long journey, you will learn from those you meet." The camera pans to us. I took this direction as how the WoL has similarly grown by learning from others. To walk, run, and so much more.
We started as nothing more than humble adventurers and became the Champion of Eythieris with the help of everyone we met on the way
"Can you hear me?" From those words first spoken with a joyful expression to the last spoken from someone whos heart has been shattered I knew I would never forget our cute bird child who I went to the end of the universe not to stop but to save.
When Meteion takes that deep breath in when you tell her to "come with us" always breaks my heart.
For me this song brings back memories from the past 10 years of playing ff14, its been my sanctuary away from hard times in my life and will continue to be.
I was already tearing up at the build up but then the segment where it just reminds me so much of Amaurot, of our first look at Old Sharlyan, meeting everyone in Elpis, the people of Garamuld finally working with the rest of Eitherys....this SONG. It's the ultimate payoff and we all need a damn hug.
When those strings come in, they sound to me like the sun breaking over the horizon after a dark night of uncertainty. The uncertainty turns to hope and suddenly, there is light, serene and pure, rising high. That ostinato is so good and gives it such a wonderful texture and I love how there's a harp in there doubling it. It's such a stunning piece of music.
I will always know this music, I (re) learnt to read sheet music and had to slightly modify it to turn it into a music box feed as a gift to my G/F for our 3rd anniversary.
God knows how many times I listened to it in trying to get her 'orchestration roll' correct, it is part of me now.
I love you Rebecca.
this piece along with Emet telling meteion that the Elpis flowers were proof that hope wasn't lost always brings me to tears and then when the scions all come back and the music swells i just start bawling.
Like you, this music came at a time in my life, I had just lost my mother, but I could not cry at the time because I took care of her for years... But I cried all the tears of my body on the end of this FFXIV Endwalker the emotion was too strong, in addition to the accumulation of the loss of my mother ...
It's something you can't hold back and luckily there is hope and beautiful things in this world because I could have very well lost myself and had a depression because it was so sudden.
That's why I will never forget this musical theme.
Thank you so much for sharing. This song and it's iterations made me deeply emotional every time I heard them.
That part with just the strings feel like a hug to me. Admittedly a lot of the emotion of this song comes from hearing parts of Flow for me. The lyrics of Flow and how they connect to this moment brings a lot to it for me.
The use of Flow here is us delivering our answer, Hydaelyn's answer, to Meteion in this vulnerable moment ehere she opens up again and starts listening.
Playing through the end portion of the game was rough already.
Doing a repeated playthrough and getting hit with Hopeful Dynamis in every zone is another level. This track goes so hard.
This is truly a masterpiece! I see it as a strong reminder for us that even after all of our losses, pain and suffering, there is still hope and future for us - for the WOL, for the player. That we're not alone and we're loved. And this is fantastic. Endwalker's finale is so strong that I can't hold back tears when I see it. And I'm so grateful to all people responsible for creating this story
Thank you for saying that. My family recently lost a member and I'm still having days where I wonder why I keep going, but it's because they loved me that I still keep going because that love still leaves ripples in my life and always will, and through how those ripples affect me they impact other people I interact with.... giving them a future even if they aren't here to see it. I needed to hear that.
@@00yiggdrasill00 I'm sorry for your loss. Life doesn't always give us a choice but to hold on and endure, our losses are among such situations. I truly hope you can heal with time and remember that no matter what, those you love will stay with you, even if they're gone, while you remember them. I learned this too recently, and it's not easy to accept, but it has to be done. Be strong, my friend. I wish the best for you.
@@rae5774 thank you. Yeah that's the lesson I need to remember and be reminded of, that they aren't completely gone, that the life they lived mattered on some level. Some days are easier than others but I'm doing much better then I was a week ago.
Exactly, no matter how much you lose, you have to keep going. Live for those who are gone. Live for yourself and for those yet to come.
:) for it is us right now who shape the future for others
@@00yiggdrasill00 all the hugs for you friend
Remember, remember they once lived 😊
Truly one of my favorite tracks from the game. Each note is punctuated by this feeling of innocence and loss, love and hope. It's like it takes you to this feeling of longing for a place that feels like home, but you can never go back. But you can move forward with that home in your heart.
Every time I hear this song or rewatch the cutscenes/playthrough it always hits hard.
This song to me, is like a warm, comforting blanket. Something that is always there to comfort me, where I feel I can let my guard down and just be vulnerable.
'Upon your return, I will gift you a beautiful flower.' She was given a garden and it broke us all
"Meteion, tho I gave these wing to sore the heavens, I did not teach you how to walk the earth, So loathe was I to bind another living being.
On the course of your long journey, you will learn from those you meet, learn to walk and run, and so much more.
A flower... yes upon your return I shall gift you a beautiful flower."
there’s really no better song to encapsulate the… changing of hands of Flow. First, it’s Hydaelyn’s message to us. It’s what we need to hear. Then, it’s our message to Meteion. It’s what she needs to hear. Her and the hundreds of dead civilizations she’s gathered.
Man this Song what a masterpiece its just not possible to hold tears back when hearing this!
No matter how many times I hear this theme it will always bring tears to my eyes with it's beauty and power! Shadowbringers and Endwalker both got me through a couple really rough periods of my life. I still come back to this track every time I need a good cathartic cry. Soken you are an absolute genius!
Me clicking the video (nodding with an idea I know the song well and will not be overly moved), piano starts and I'm crying fully until the end. It is the hope, everlasting. It is unconditional love. It is the little things. It is the pain of letting go with a joy of having loved and experienced all this.
I haven't p[layed FFXIV but just listennig to this song, this song is beautiful I have always loved music but watching your videos has made me love music more and understand music more to where I want to hear songs like this i havent heard before so I can have that experience of hearing it for a first time and not having context but just getting to appreciate this music. the part at 5:08 where it builds up and more instruments start playing gave me goosebumps, I haven't played this game but i can tell If i did at this part of the story I would most defintly cry. Love your vids man like I said these videos have given me a higher appreciation of music and has made me think more about music and the ways music can convey different things so keep up the awsome work man, thank you.
This really was the perfect piece of music to help wrap up the decade long story. It really did bring back all the memories over the past ten years and made you feel every moment
We had to separate Meteion from Twitter to save her. This music is one big hug and I just lost a dear pet today, so I think everything is going to drive me to tears. God bless you- if you have friends/family/pets [that can be] HUG THEM. Tell them they are loved.
Sending a big big hug. I know it's not easy
@@MarcoMeatball thank you.
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Deep, dark, far away I have heard your voice, weighed your every choice
Now our hands join round the meaning you sought
I'll catch your tears, quench your fears with joy til you near the shore
Where in time, all shall as hope be reborn
I don't know that any other song has encapsulated letting go of pain, grief, loss, or depression better. The little touches make so much impact, such as the violins rising up and the light but determined snare drum indicating the barely present but returning urge to fight through it all. Magnificent.
This song wrecks me every time. There are so many moments in EW where this song just enhances them and brings them to this whole other level. It's a real shame there is nothing in Wuktrail that comes close to this.
"Come with us Metion"
Fun Fact: Because the ancients are HUGE compared to your typical Eorzean, Meteion would technically be around 8ft tall, the talons on her feet being about the size of your hand... Just food for thought :P
Jesus
@@MarcoMeatball there was someone that put their models in the Inn in gridania(down from the aetheryte) and venat was as tall as the roof, barely fit in the room even, very tall woman
I heard this start to play during the Lopporit Sworn rank quest and started tearing up, turning into actual bawling when the former Counselingway started pouring their heart out and crying to.
Thank you Soken for always making me cry
I never really got into FF14's soundtrack too much, but this was definitely a good introduction to it. Thanks as always for showing us how beautiful music can be, Marco.
Glad to hear it!
Gods, this track absolutely destroys me each and every time I hear it. It truly elicits the belief that things can be better. In the depths of despair lies a glimmer of hope that swells with the music. I love it so much.
Things that would make my day, hearing your voice singing along with these songs. I really wanna feel your emotion and your storytelling for musics
I love this music so much and I like your interpretation!
Both me and my Warrior of Light (Boone) were on the verge of breaking down here - the music really sells it.
When the music went from the swelling strings, back to the quiet piano, in that climactic scene when we "call them back to your side," tears just started flowing.
I don't know literally anything about FFXIV but every song that I've heard from it has hit so hard it felt like I played through the whole game and cared for it as if I was always there.
Its amazing how Soken was able to produce music that both has important context in the game but will also hold great significance for someone who has never played FF14 either. he had a vision he wanted to be seen by all players and non-players alike and he knocked it out of the park.
Thank you for this, Marco. This piece of music I feel...Inspires hope as it should, but at the same time tells you 'Everything will be alright.'
Nice, been waiting for this one! While this song was perfect for this scene, it also worked so well in some of the other scenes earlier in the expansion (Jullus receiving hot soup by his former enemy, for example). Your follow up to this should be Neath Dark Waters, the Scions & Sinners arrangement. As Hopeful Dynamis worked so well to emphasize purity and hopefulness, Neath Dark Waters worked so well at emphasizing melancholy.
Something that always stands out to me in songs portraying innocence, like this one and especially His Theme from Undertale is that chiming sound (I'm nowhere near a musician so I'm not sure what it is). It never fails to remind me of a music box or a mobile hanging over a baby's crib playing a lullaby.
The images are so powerful in this. Gentle words of support. A hand, warm and soft, touching your cheek, maybe wiping a tear away. A steady march together before finally sending you on your way, on your own but not alone.
I love ff14 music so much ! Every ost hook you in and you can feel and understand its meaning just by listening to it. Some of them even gives you feelings that you never experienced before i think.
Anytime I hear this song, I start tearing up. This whole scene, the song, the journey.
It's an innocent tentative lullaby followed by a warm supportive reassuring hug leading to a blissful joint strong hope leading back to the lullaby that now seems more happy and wistful from the journey
It's been over a year and i've listened to this masterpiece dozens of times since. I still tear up. Every. Single. Time. 😭
I have watched many people go through the MSQ. Not once have I gone through the Meteion scene and not teared up when the piano hits... not once.
Even during her final fight, Meteion is essentially a scared child, raging against a thing that terrifies her to her core.
In the last phase, her moves become less of a planned attack and more of her flailing against a thing she can't stop, again, like a child.
The fact that fight has to many emotional highs and lows is no joke a roller coaster.
It was VERY DIFFICULT to do the following content because I kept tearing up.
First video in the morning 😭 never lose hope
This music broke me so hard after the entire expansion. Its so beautifull and its meaning is just amazing
The fraking elpis flower. The tears at that part.
Endwalker really really hit me in the feels and didn't let up the entire time. A huge part of that was the music, the payoff for playing through the story wouldn't be what it is without the music. Honestly the music is what originally drew me to FFXIV in the first place, and I've been pleasantly surprised as time has gone on, I've teared up, I've felt pumped up. When that perfect music hits at an emotional point in the game you really CAN'T help but cry.
Cry Everytime. It's ok little anxiety bird, life sucks but we'll get through this together.
Please do a video about Theme of Love from Final Fantasy IV. It's one of the most beautiful songs of the franchise and yet it's so underappreciated. Theme of Love needs more love from people!!!
I love this song so much ;u; great analysis!
you felt this more when you know the content of this game it will hit you harder
Damn, this gets the tears blastin every time.
Just 8 secs and i cry :(
The first three notes reminded me immediately of Undertale's theme, and now I can never not think of Undertale whenever I hear this song, on top of the emotionally charged experience I was already having with Endwalker. I encourage you to go back and see what I mean, maybe it will become even more special to you. :)
this song always gets me RIGHT in the heart
I love when you talk about FF14 songs. Hopeful Dynamis is rough to listen to without tearing up at least.
This is such a powerful track to match such a powerful scene.
It reminds me so much of Hopes and Dreams from Undertale. And I say that with the utmost adoration for both tracks.
His Theme too
Same response for me whenever I hear any of the myriad versions of Answers.
Really makes me tear up both on the inside and on the outside.
What's the meme from Brooklyn Nine-Nine? I've only known Meteion for a day and a half and if anything happened to her I'd kill everyone on this star then myself?
Summary of the entire expansion right there.
Masterful song, full of hope and new beginning
Damnit I wasn’t ready to get emotional right during my lunch break at work
I just can only describe this piece of one word
"Its beautiful"
Thats from me and this music make me remind of undertale music its so similar moment about flower and end of journey yet a beautiful send off
i clicked on this video thinking "which track is this?" and then a second in immediately welled up. wickedly emotional piece LOL
LOL ben
I'm so glad you decided to react to this. Though I suppose screenie should be endwalker spoilers XD, I AGREE it's so hard to stop lol even if it repeats x)
I do love that scene and yes I love what you said at the beginning about our blue little birb really hurting, really suffering. I remember always tearing up no matter who was reacting to the scene... I can't wait when I get to this part again on my alt haha
Not sure if you've already reacted to it, but "The Best is Yet to Come" from MGS 1 is amazing too. It'd also be thematically appropriate since St Patrick's day is soon and the song is sang entirely in the Irish language, Gaelige.
It is so inredible beatyful. Tears are inevitable, everytime.
If you have a big heart it's easy to get hurt but don't give in to despair for there is hope
Truly one of the greatest moments i've had in gaming, period. Been playing since the SNES and honestly this whole expansion is at least top 2 for me, if not the premier spot. FFXIV as a whole definitely takes it for me (I'm a big story guy so be understanding :P). I love this game. It's truly special. A lot of people wouldn't give it a ten but I would give it higher.
One of the best parts of any videogame I have ever experienced.
If you haven't listened to it before, I highly recommend Mikey O'Neil's rendition of Hopeful Dynamis on their channel of the same name. It's just as good if not, I dare say, better than the in game version.
I love your videos Marco.
Seen most so far, but I sadly can't watch this one yet.
Recently (as in, 45 days ago) picked up FFXIV for reals, and I am slowly working my way through it, currently sitting in the "Post-MSQ" bit of Stormblood.
I will return and watch this, as well as your other FFXIV videos, when they are no longer spoiler territory for me. :)
I always hear "Oh, but just you wait, it gets better later", and every time I respond with "BUT IT'S ALREADY SO GOOD THO?!"
Have a good day, see you in the next vid, perhaps. :)
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also thank you :)
I wonder how they got on
there is an "undertale" vibe at the begining.
I cannot not cry to this, goddamn it ;-;