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Revolutions (From "Final Fantasy XIV") · Nobuo Uematsu
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That's why the music in Final Fantasy XIV is so impactful....you picked up on the major plot elements that happen in that expansion without game knowledge in just the 3 - 4 minutes of the song and it's lyrics.
The man in armor is named Zenos yae Galvus, Prince of Garlemald & potential heir, & Viceroy that rules the conquered nation of Ala Mhigo. He is... Summed up in a word. Combatsexual.
@@Redblaze27 Maybe don't attach a potentially spoiler comment to mine. People might get into the game through this vid alone.
@@Redblaze27 Thank you, kindly.
Right, good point.
Sorry.
Should keep discussion purely within specific video context.
BFF
Rich really has left an imprint on this community lmao
Definitely the most underrated of the FFXIV credits music, and while I don't like it as much as Dragonsong, it's still fantastic and thematically fulfilling. In context, it's the song after a war for an oppressed people that has been under conquered rule since... well, for years before we got to actually save them, hearing and seeing fleeing refugees' stories of their destroyed homeland. And finally uprooting that tyranny did feel so satisfying, even if it isn't THE best part of FFXIV's narrative.
This song is really underrated from the FF14 ending themes in my opinion, as the other songs hit much more in the feels with the story that ended with each expansion - but I really like Revolutions!
Especially "One mother's pride is another mother's sorrow" is so true and so much pain ♥
That line hammers home so much about FF14 in a nutshell. As a huge fan of Ogre Battle, Stormblood and this piece of music in particular never fails to make me tear up.
@@dangerwarg9682 Have to agree with this. The Revolutions trailers came out before Stormblood's launch and I thought it was setting the stage more for what the team had suggested "starting a revolution in a land that isn't sure it wants one" I was expecting more of the conflicting sides of war and more focus on the rank and file in the Garlemald forces and how their families are no less proud than those fighting for their freedom. I was expecting a much more conflicted tale based on the song.
@@ninjafoxgamesgeekery4555 I experienced everything you just described in Stormblood. Some things were more subtle, like how Garlemald isn't of one mind. While we didn't get to see it, the Popularis were that push for reform in Garlean policy. Doma's people sure as Hell came across as "a nation that isn't sure it wants a revolution." Everything I read from your comment brought moment after moment back from Stormblood.
@@crazy13alex The elements and moments are there, I just meant I expected it more central than it was.
@@ninjafoxgamesgeekery4555 Ah, I see. When reading it, I assumed you meant that none of that was featured. And yeah, some things could have worked better if they were more focused.
“One mother’s pride is another mother’s sorrow. Their tiers both soak the lands that they love”
Like gets me choked up every time, especially growing up in a family where my dad and many relatives were in the military. They’d go off and you may never know if you’d ever see them again
Susan Calloway is one of my favorite recurring singers in the FF franchise. Every time I hear her voice, it tugs on my heartstrings and makes me just close my eyes and listen to her and the message she's trying to give.
Sing a song of dawn
Dawn, the day reborn
Breathe deep of the dawn before the storm
This hearth
This home
Wrested forth from tired fingers
Bathed in blood
And sealed in stone
Souls scarred
Twelvefold
Beckoned by the bells of vengeance
Spirits bold
A lover lost
A family torn
A solemn pyre raised to rouse the slumb'ring heavens
Fire in your eyes
Fire in your hearts
Steeled as you sound the horns of war
Yet know the cost
For who shall mourn
When light is quenched that another might burn brighter?
Let not the rays
Of justice blind
E'er trust in grace and she shall guide
Soft is the breeze that can set a petal free
And yet 'tis the storm that doth see the petal soar
High o'er the trees in the throes of Liberty
'Til unstirring skies consign her to memory
One kingdom's fall is another kingdom's freedom
One sovereign's war is another sovereign's peace
One mother's pride is another mother's sorrow
Their tears both soak the land that they love
Two lives
Two swords
Given in to shadowed whispers
Wicked words
Pray tell me true-
Doth louder toll
A rival's cry
Or the oaths that spur her onward?
Your time is come
A choice bestown
Tonight, for unsung sins atone
This night, you need not walk alone
Koji probably wrote the lyrics to this. You've heard him singing in a couple other ones, but as he's normally the localization lead, so writing song lyrics in English is also in his wheelhouse.
All of those moods you mentioned are part of it. The Stormblood expansion is at its heart about two peoples who have been living under imperial oppression for over a generation, and thematically focuses a lot on their downtroddenness and how many of the people are hesitant to join the resistance because they've experienced a failed rebellion and being crushed. But obviously being a video game we do rally them together and successfully rise up. The expansion itself is probably the most mixed as far as reception goes, thematically it's great, but it's suffered from pacing issues and probably just them being overly ambitious. I think they could have done the idea justice if they had the budget they do now.
I will say that 2nd hand I've heard from players who have seen oppressive regimes in their real lives, that the portrayal in game of people's willingness to accept oppression for the sake of survival really resonated with their real world experiences, which I think says a lot about the care the developers took in their portrayals.
The reception varies a lot based on where you grew up yeah, the themes hit really hard for some people more than others. And i think in the context of a *japanese company* managing to write it with genuine authenticity to it, it's particularly impressive.
Ala Mhigo was only recently under imperial oppression. Prior to that they were ruled by Gaius van Baelsar. Calling him an oppressor is insulting to the character.
But yes Zenos is an asshole.
@@pezdispencer113 Gaius was an oppressor, in the same way that the Romans were oppressors to the peoples they conquered. The fact that he believed he was doing the right thing does not absolve him of that. I believe you're referring to his character development in Shadowbringers, but even then he acknowledged the wrongs he committed in spite of his intentions. An ultimatum of "join us or die" is 100% oppression, regardless of how well he treated those that joined.
@@pezdispencer113 Gaius van Baelsar was just the previous Imperial caretaker. He wasn't as outright nasty as Zenos, but he was still a conqueror, and the various things the Empire does to subjugate conquered territories (like conscripting its citizens to seize territory elsewhere) were set in motion under his watch. The Ala Mhigans haven't really had *good* governance for quite a while.
@@shurhaian Agree with this, just wanted to add, before Gaius they had the Mad King who uh. Definitely earned his title. We literally don't even know the last time the Ala Mhigans had a ruler who wasn't absolute scum... something something corrupts absolutely
"Tonight you need not walk alone"
That still hits me hard. Shivers every single time.
this plays during the credits of stormblood, an expansion about 2 nations (ala mhigo and doma) winning back their freedom from 20 and 25 years respectively of garlean rule. you probably get that drummer boy vibe from the song because the expansion is very political. the resistances of 2 nations are waging war against their oppressors to drive them out of their homes. the blond is the main focal point of the ala mhigan side, being the daughter of the former leader coming back home with her friends (player character in main pcs) to fight for "liberty or death". the samurai with a black ponytail is the current leader of doma, taking over after the battles due to his father the previous leader dying from a failed revolution before the start of the story.
If you want more Susan Calloway performances she has provided vocals for versions of other FF tracks at the "Distant Worlds" live orchestral concerts.
Specifically
"Memoro de la Ŝtono ~ Distant Worlds (FFXI)" from Distant Worlds
"Suteki da ne (FFX)" and "A Place to Call Home - Melodies of Life (FFIX)" from Distant Worlds II
"Kiss Me Good-Bye (FFXII)" from Distant Worlds III
There is also a version of "Answers" on Distant Worlds III and a version of "Dragonsong" on Distant Worlds IV recorded at the concerts.
It’s a song steeped in the revolutions of two countries and often her voice is representative of Hydaelyn (the Mother Crystal - lots of history with her but think of a present god-like being who helped to set you on the path of being the Warrior of Light). So when you think of everything being said as in this mother crystal’s voice it puts a whole other layer on top of the meaning.
She really hammered the whole vibe of an uprising in her voice.
One kingdom's fall is another kingdom's freedom
One sovereign's war is another sovereign's peace
One mother's pride is another mother's sorrow
Their tears both soak the land that they love
This part hits me so hard. This is storytelling through musical lyrics. Revolution may seem the weakest compared to Answers and Dragonsong, but it fits perfectly to the theme of Stormblood in which we liberated two nations from decades of oppression and colonization. You are right that the song has mixed of tones (not sure if I phrase it correctly) since it tries to reflect the duality of war. And that's why this song is so good.
My opinion as to why it hits differently is cos answers and dragonsong are sung from hydaelyns perspective, this isnt
@@bahumut01 Good point
@@bahumut01 I allways envisioned Ysaile/Shiva singing Dragonsong... and for Revolutions propably Lyse?!
Japan, for obvious reasons, has a VERY different perception of war compared to North America, especially the US
They were the battleground. They lost innocent children. They feel the sorrow and loss of war more directly from their shared trauma. So it makes sense something like this would come from that culture
Your face of utter peace and love for music. I can’t get enough of that. 😭🙏🏼
You are correct in saying this is not used in combat, portions of it are cut up and put into cutscenes without the vocals. One of the most iconic parts being at 2:00, but without vocals.
After hundreds (maybe thousands) hours of playing FFXIV, I'm still amazed by the soundtrack, can't wait for Endwalker to come out to get tons of new songs.
I'd really like to see you listening to Divinity Original Sin 2 Ost, but I just can't choose which one to recommend first.
"Mead, Gold and Blood", "DOS2 - Main Theme" or "The Queen's High Seas", pick whatever you want.
Yes pls, DOS2 has such a good soundtrack, some songs even have 4 variations and which one plays depends on what instrument you choose for yourself at the beginning.
Oooooooo, I remember Celtic Women and them doing Scarborough Fair. Your comparison is actually great. As for the song Revolutions, it was played in FFXIV but primarily in the end credits for Stormblood. I actually bought the song off the Mogstation so I could have it play in my in game apartment.
That song could easily have headlined in Les Misérables. Even the substance would have fit. And, if you step back and listen closely, it has a very Broadway flavor to it.
That my favorite side character on the horn at the beginning!
I don't think of this as one of my fav's but it still gives me chills. Love it.
Oh I giggled when you said Scarborough Fair was done by simon & garfunkel originally. It's hundreds of years old - it's a variant of the Elfin Knight, hence the impossible tasks. Anyway, you may already know this but just wanted to mention it haha. I think the oldest version we have is from the 1600s! Such a great song.
I actually didn't know it went that far back! Thanks for telling me :)
The character whose name you asked is the player character. He is the stand in for your character in official media and is considered the "canonical" version of the player character.
I forgot how good this song is until I heard it again here.
As always love your reactions, not only the FF ones (want more yakuza plz)
Also, speaking of FFXIV you reacted to the endwalker theme, but with the release trailer in the background. Now you can find a version with just the song if you want to update that reaction. Personally I would love that but it's just a comment on my end
I'd like to suggest that you one day listen to Azim Steppe BGM - Drowning in the Horizon. The Azim Steppe was included in the footage for this one and I remember when I first stepped foot there I've been stunned by the music.
The first zone I turned off mount BGM to just bask in the zone's vibe
"Scarborough Fair" is like 400 years old.
And once again, you nailed the emotion of the song, specifically it being "mixed".
Having had the pleasure to hear Calloway sing Answers live. She does have a great voice.
It's the main theme of the expansion, Stormblood. It's used as both trailer and intro music. Each game has an attached theme. In chronological order, A Realm Reborn (Answers), Heavensward (Dragonsong), Stormblood (Revolutions), Shadowbringers (...um...think it's also Shadowbringers) and now Endwalker (Not sure which theme is the main one yet, might be Forge Ahead, or Higher o' Higher?). As for this one, staying spoiler-free, the Garlean Empire, since the start of FFXIV, has already invaded and taken over multiple nations. What you see in the video for Answers is a major battle where the Eorzean Alliance fights together in a desperate battle to repel the Empire. Then, as you also saw, everything goes sideways. Later, Stormblood involves multiple conquered provinces attempting to throw off Imperial occupation and attempt to regain their freedom, hence this song, Revolutions.
Yeah it's the black sheep of the FFXIV main themes. I actually especially love the instrumental version of this one. Uematsu has some amazing work throughout FFXIV, especially in 1.0. Answers is still amazing.
Revolutions is kind of the less-known gem. You only hear the full song at the end credits of Stormblood, otherwise the player hears the instrumentals all throughout Stormblood, but not the same way Dragonsong was for Heavensward.
Revolutions is a favorite of mine because of just how hard it hits after you go through the events of Stormblood, the lyrics really resounding with the lessons the warrior of light (and player) witness and go through.
Thank you for the video!~
For me this song has a vibe that tends to remind me of les miserables, even before keeping in mind Stormblood and the song in particular are about revolution.
You should also check out "The Measure of our Reach". It's from the same expansion and it may be difficult to keep yourself from standing up and doing a salute pose
tldr; Stormblood is amazing, just as amazing as the other expasions in my opinion and none is greater than the other.
Honestly I really, really loved the entirety of Stormblood. A lotta people like to compare all the expansions to eachother, but I kinda feel they're all telling such vastly different stories and tales it's almost hard to compare? They're all exceptionally amazing in many, many ways. I'd probably have to go through the stories again to come up with some negatives but I can't really think of much or anything that I disliked about any of the expansions.
To me, it's impossible to choose which is "best" because they're all insanely great stories being told and in different ways from one another that also get tied together almost seemlessly.
Anyways, thanks for reading the wall of text if you did. My rant is over and I appreciate your time.
(stormblood end of dungeon song Triumph is awesome and you should watch that, it's short and very energetic *I think is the right way to word it*)
The way i see it is between HW and StB the big difference is in the themes of HW just being more popular with the incredibly romantic view of things, StB is a lot more... down to the ground, it tackles things that aren't that pretty to a lot of people, maybe hitting a bit too close to home at times.
Thanks xd!
Songs mentioned in this video;
Celtic Woman - Scarborough Fair
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Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair
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Should react to fanfest 2021 primals live version of a long fall. koji fox a few other Devs do a meme dance(dances from the game) related to the song.
Yo, Jesse, while you're at it there's a version of Scarborough Fair sung by Japanese singer with a name "KOKIA" that you should check out. It's very entrancing.
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@@RaveSault Dude, that was amazing
@@JessesAuditorium Anytime, brutha. Anytime.
Have you heard the version by Dan Avidan and the Super Guitar Bros? The video clip is a tear jerker.
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Thank you so much for this! It is an underrated song especially because of the expansion being the least appreciated among the community, but the music is still outstanding as always and is echoed throughout the expansion in many leitmotifs. By the way the cool guy in the armor you asked about is Zenos! :)
I think someone probably already said so, but glad you're listening to all these tracks before someone goes about requesting Footfalls because it references all these expansion tracks in it and definitely echoes the story all these tracks have into it. Can't wait to see you react to that eventually!
2:38 That is the Player Character, they dressed ther PC to look like the stand in for the PC used in trailers.
Unimaginably under appreciated song its like stormblood itself, its overshadowed by heavensward and shadowbringers this song overshadowed but its just so damn good and not frequently heard
This Song really gives off the message for me, that Peace can be found, but you have to try
Yes! The song go through different moods like people go through their struggles and lyrics makes perfect image of duality of war and things. There is pain, sadness, loss, silence, tension and then, building a hope and determination. Song is vastly underrated due to how few times it shows in game compring to other major themes (some people hear it fully first time in credits, if they won't skip them), so people often don't even know about it ^^"
Onoes, you listened to the short version... The long version is 7min long, but never found it on youtube sadly... It's on spotify in the Stormblood album though! It has more musical variations.
The militaristic drum patterns is kind of a signature in Uematsu's works and is recurring in a lot of his pieces when it's about war themes and conflicts. His main them for Lost Odyssey is very similar in essence, but perhaps more melancholic (also, Fire Above the Battle, short normal battle theme but just his best one). I strongly suggest Lost Odyssey in general for that I do think it's one of the best underrated works of Uematsu.
"That guy" is Zenos the Arch Villain in the story.
Its sound like 2 people or group of people who just have to fight even if they have feeling for eachother or dont really want to do it but they just have to.
I just finished Stormblood MSQ (main story) few days ago and heard this first time at end of it 😭 So pretty and hits always my feels like does Hw and ARR ending songs 💕🎶 I'm glad you like it ✨
Susan Calloway sings the songs that will get most FFXIV players crying. This, Answers, Dragonsong... they all have a whirlwind of emotion behind them, even more so with the context. I still maintain that Answers is not just one of the best VGM tracks but one of the best tracks every written/performed.
I'd like to recommend you a couple, since you said you love choir a couple times in your videos! :
From the heavens, Final Omega's Theme
Weight of the world (prelude version) (this is actually a crossover between Nier and FF and it sounds fantastic)
And lastly, even tho it has no choir, I'd recommend you to check, even if you don't wanna do a video about it since it can get long, the Epic of Alexander BGM, it's technically the same songs as the Alexander raids, but much, much more polished. It's night and day, you won't regret it. Specially Moebius.
PS: Completely random but, have you ever heard of Diablo Swing Orchestra? I feel like this band would be RIGHT up your alley.
i have not but I'll take note 🙂
@@JessesAuditorium Great! I feel that since you like so many genres, you 'll enjoy this band very much. :D
That song was the ending of Stormblood.
That song embodies the entire expansion
Underappreciated song! Mostly because it doesn't get played much in the game but it's still a 10/10 like Answers and Dragonsong
Celtic Women's Scarborough Fair is great. Totally approve.
Song from the best expansion so far
This guy looks like he'd enjoy RuneScape's 'The Glory of Combat', with full quality, on Yann's channel.
I think the reason this song isn't recommended more by the community is just it doesn't quite have the emotional gutpunch that most of the other Main themes do from the game. Each of the other expansions had a direct connection to the main character, where as Stormblood was more at a step removed with it being more focused on the in-game war, instead of the WoL's more personal journeys in the other expansions.
That said the lyrics and emotion of the song are spot on to the whole feeling of the story during that expansions and you basically hit every feeling on the head for what the main story beats are. Sadness and grief, Happines and relief and a sense of victory. It's basically the theme to an ending of a great war.
I always felt like this song would fit well into something like Les Miserables.
Very underrated song. Probably not requested more because, while still very good, it lacks something when compared to answers and dragonsong. This song and video is the launch trailer to the expansion stormblood, which is also a lesser praised expansion, which doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of ffxiv because it's still a really good expansion.
I just wanna say I love your use of 3rd Strike music in the background of your videos, one of the best OSTs of all time imo
Edit: also this song is super underrated, huge victim of Heavensward syndrome
3rd strike ost is amazing! Although this a remix from the SF4 version!
Song isn't requested much because it's the Stormblood main theme, and Stormblood is the awkward middle child expansion. Not bad, it's got some of the best BGM and fights imo, but it's definitely a mixed bag. There's a lot going on, but that's not exactly a great thing in this case..
And yes, the song fits. There's a lot of ups and downs and one big thing is that in war, frankly, nobody wins. The expansion as a whole is about liberation, so.. Lotta war.
The song plays during the credits, so what you're seeing is bits of most cutscenes in the expansion. Same as Dragonsong.
Look at Beauty's Wicked Wiles for a solid example of how Stormblood has some of the best BGM imo. Probably isn't up your alley on a personal level, but it's still an excellent song, and the themes are incredibly obvious and very clearly rooted while also getting their unique flair.
Alternatively, look up To The Heavens. That's also Stormblood and is on the POLAR OPPOSITE of the coin. That song floors me every time.
So as far as I know, all the major expansion themes (answers, dragonsong war, revolutions) were made by the legendary nobuo uematsu. So they have a grander and more classical feel.
But since shadowbringers, soken stepped up and composed the main theme, as well as the endwalker main theme. So you can kinda hear the difference between the 2 styles of the composers.
I didn't like Revolutions as much as Dragonsong or Answers at first, but it is epic in its own way and it grew on me. It really captures the journey of Stormblood and what the characters went through.
Someone show him the Endwalker Singles that recently released on UA-cam.
He's already reacted to the version with trailer SFX, but I'm curious, because there's a lot more to be heard in the background when the audio doesn't need to be balanced with a trailer's sound effects.
Here are a few awesome tracks from FF14 to check out:
Unbending Steel
Fiend
Beauty's Wicked Wiles
What Angel Wakes Me
Ultima (weapons theme)
Heroes (Thordan's theme)
To what i remember the song came out after the story of Stormblood had finished and wasn never in during game play and was more to recap on events of the expansion.
The music also really sets the mood of how a Revolution was happening of the people who were held prisoner of their homeland to serve a evil power and how you gather people to liberate and reclaim their homelands
I like this song but I always keep expecting it to really pop off into a combat track. It's beautiful, but I appreciate the melody being used in combat themes as well
OMG Finally a Revolutions React ?! NOW IT'S MY TIME TO SHINE. You got to understand, it's my all time favorite expension theme ♥ (which doesn't mean I dislike the others oc.)
Seems like some people already gave you some pointers about it, my addition would be to tell you that we actually got the reveal of this video clip A MONTH before the release. So it was some kind of trailer (just like dragonsong with Heavensward), you can see footage from the 1rst part of Stormblood, and it gave us time to listen and listen again. So when the expension finally released, we could truly enjoy the moments when it's used on the background (as an instrumental version) and BY THE TWELVE it hits me every time.
Also, since she was not feeling well while they worked on the next expension, it is (for now) the last time we were blessed with Susan Calloway's voice.
A part of me hopes she was well enough to surprise us with an appearance in Endwalker's OST. It'd be fitting for the woman who sang us out of 1.0 to be there for the finale of that segment of the story. Though it's still fitting to have JCM back after being Raubhan for 2.0.
I notice you haven't reacted to "The Measure of Our Reach" and "The Measure of His Reach", which are both from the same FFXIV expansion and form the backbones of the expansion's musical material. They only play once each, but the theme serves as the leitmotif for the conquered nation of Ala Mhigo that is liberated at the end of the expansion (when "Revolutions" plays). Neither is that interesting on its own, but I like the musical storytelling implied by contrasting them.
Well, I was about to go to sleep since it's 12:59 AM. However, it looks like your video premiered 58 minutes ago. So I'm not going to sleep
You did the Endwalker them a bit ago but it wasn't officially released at the time so you watched the full trailer, the actual theme was released a few days ago so will you be doing a...redo? of it since you can listen to it without all of the sound effects and voice overs now?
I'm unsure! But i keep being told lol ^_^
This performed by Floor Jansen....damn
Others have probably already explained it, but what you watched and listened to was essentially the ending of the Main-Story from the Stormblood Expansion of FF14. So yeah, it wasn't exactly gameplay, but the scenes you saw, ALL of them, were actual in-game cutscenes as we see them in the game from the main story quests (minus the obligatory ending-credits color filter, of course).
Could you do Ruby weapon?
"There's no talking while Susan Calloway is singing" Well then you should check Distant Worlds from FFXI, the song that at least for me summarizes the magic of any MMO.
Has anyone requested you to react to "tomorrow and tomorrow"?
yup! i think its coming next month
@@JessesAuditorium For that one I recommend either disabling the video or at least warning about heavy spoilers... The official music video for it does have a spoiler alert in the beginning but I thought it's best to mention about it separately. The video is basically reminiscing about the most emotional moments of the expansion, so it is full of spoilers.
Most new players probably wouldn't have enough context for all the clips in it for it to matter too much but it's better to be safe than sorry. It may take easily 100-200h or more to reach that far in the game and the Shadowbringers story is where big portions of the previous story sections' mysteries are revealed and resolved. (Not to mention, as you probably have noticed time and again, FFXIV players protect the story and new players experiencing it rather ferociously... :D )
That was my character’s soulmate. And probably the most divisive character in the game. With the exception of a small minority, players either hate him with every fiber of their being, or like me completely love him.
Personally, I think calling him “combat sexual” is a huge discredit to his character. He was born a prince, but he was completely alone as a child. His mother died shortly after he was born, his father never had time for him, and his servants were basically robots. He was never allowed a childhood, never allowed to experience innocence and joy.
When he was 14, he got a new sword tutor, a man from an imperial province whose family was being held hostage in order to secure his cooperation. The tutor used the daily sessions as a “beat up the spoiled prince” time, using a technique that Zenos, as a Garlean, physically couldn’t use. Of course, that didn’t stop Zenos, who saw this as a challenge to rise to meet. He studied the technique every day, researched it, and even risked his life to force his body to cooperate and unleash it. This outraged the tutor, who then attempted to kill him, and Zenos triumphed. But then he realized there was no joy or glory in such an unfair fight, and for the next twelve years yearned for a worthy foe to clash with. Then he met the player character and found that opponent. Their “final” clash was the first and only time in his life that he felt truly happy, and it was so overwhelming that he killed himself in order to never lose that feeling.
Of course thanks to his great-grandfather’s meddling and a series of experiments he had performed on himself, his soul didn’t stay away very long.
*Slaps desk* THANK YOU. The whole combatsexual thing upsets me so much because it's such a diminished understanding of his character.
Some people might dismiss him as a simple 2 dimensional villain, but as in character wise, he is definitely a complex character.
I'm strongly in the camp that says he's complex and doesn't like the Combatsexual term. When you hear him speak in cutscenes... he's clearly the smartest person in the room. I like to think of the fact there are 3 types of conflict: Man vs. Man, Man vs. Self, and Man vs. Nature (using Man as a generic term for person here.) Zenos represents Man vs. Nature as at this point, he sees himself as a beast and using beastial metaphors and his blades Storm and Swell reflect his nature as an unstable natural force. He doesn't need reason to make his choices. And when you see his back story, you see why he is the way he is. He is deprived of his humanity. He seeks to gain any feeling of humanity he can get through combat. But though he is an unreasonable force... he's still very calculated and intelligent. Listen to him speculate about the nature of Shinryu and the Echo/Resonant. Listen to him talk about his views on someone who fled from combat (whom he respects) vs. the Commander who never went to battle to begin with (no respect). There's a lot going on with Zenos people don't think about and gloss over. In the monologue before Shinryu... there's a LOT of important information to think about.
Please react to the Final Omega boss :D it’s really epic!
A crab i missed, oh well...
well since you reacted to answers, dragonsong and revolutions...that leaves only tomorrow and tomorrow 👀 the video is spoiler heavy though
Probably my favorite song about war, video game or otherwise. This expansion gets a lot of hate, mostly for its pacing, but the story and theme were pretty awesome.
Please react to Persona 4 Almighty
So, when are you gonna start playing FF14? :) I guarantee you can fit it into your schedule.
its such a shame that only this song is bought with actual money out of Answers Dragonsong Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Flow. im not opposed to giving Square the money, its just the precedent was not set and Dyes in the game can at least be gotten by ingame means for the right amount of time
Its the theme of Stormblood, and plays during the credits.
Probably wasn't requested as much because because Stormblood is considered the weakest link of the game.
Yet it still managed to be an absolute banger, especially the patch story.
@@xiuhwho Yeah, everything past 4.0 is gold. The base campaign refuses to take a moment to breath.
@@Redblaze27 the weakest link is also really good hahaha
This Communitys opinions sometimes are just pure garbage. Sb beats hw in every way, especially on the characters side
Part of the reason i think it wasn't requested as much is the expansion is really good don't get me wrong but isn't as good as the others song aside.
This is imo my least favorite main theme out of all FFXIV expansions. That doesn't make it bad of course, it just felt pretty similar back then, of course with a entirely different theme than the other two etc but still.
With Shadowbringers they switched it up which REALLY fits the entire expansion because of it's different setting and overall very different mood, so it would've been cool if they maybe combined that style with Susan Calloway for Endwalker, since it's the finale of the current saga, but the Endwalker main theme is, of course, already really good too.
Funny enough, this is the weakest of the three current expansions to FF14. It's still head-and-shoulders above the competition, and the soundtrack is INCREDIBLE, it just gets fewer requests because of the mild cognitive funk surrounding it lol