@@R-XI_Sulla Honestly, as much as people hate the League Ending for maintaining the Very Bad Status Quo, and probably letting Humanity die... I gotta say, Wynne D. Fanchon isn't wrong about the fact about you killing People, because you're still killing people, no matter how many justifications and layers you put in it, its intentionally vague for a reason. But whether or not you think its the right choice is up to you as the Player.
@@dooggo-1402 ORCA ending mentioning sick infants feebly coughing in the arms of their despairing mothers may as well tell one that regardless of opening the way to space to save humanity, one no doubt is letting a certain chunk suffer with a number dying to Kojima radiation.
The reason why I like Armored Core For Answer when I don't even play it is because of the narrative. You choose your own mission, you choose what you want to become. A monster, a killer, a gleeming hope for all. It's not about giving someone your resolve, but to find your own resolve. Your own *Answer.*
That’s what the entire armoured core series and the ravens that pilot it have always represented. You as an individual, your free will as an individual and the choices you have to make. And ultimately the consequences you face for such choices.
@@user-lq2nu6cn7y you're right. loved that part of Last Raven - you start out the game as an absolute nobody, and through your actions and allegiances in the events unfolding, you become a key player in how humanity will evolve beyond the crisis it has found itself in.
i just love fromsoft's ability to tell the story of the nobody. im quite sure that most fromsoft protags are just some random ass people in the bigger picture, hell i remember in armored core 3. we are just a random mercenary fighting just for the money, yet in the end we freed humanity from the rouge ai . even as nobodies, they fight the odds and topple giants, leaving a trail of legacy behind their every action. it empowers everyday people just go out and make a change. i think its a beautiful message fromsoft made.
What makes your story of nobody point even more prominent is that in Silent Line, the sequel, there's only a single mention of the Raven that took down the Controller and effectively started a new age for humanity before it's right back to corporate warfare.
And anatolias merc is beautiful too He lost his home and life (Being an Raven and the nest) but found an place he was accepted and begun to help in the best way he could Finding friends, helping his home, finding his love Only for his friend to take it all away The same friend who didn't want to do this but didn't had any other choice cause he would loose the reason he fights to begin with So they came to line ark An place.wich embraced them with open arms and thankfull for their help. Only to see it corrupt too again.
This track always feels like a bittersweet victory, winning at a great cost. "Is this the answer you've chosen?" It feels as much like an epitaph as it does an introduction
Hmm. You hear this at the title screen, the start of the game. The second you decided to pilot Strayed was the second that the fate of the world was going to be determined by one person. Because that's what you do. However it's up to you on how you Answer the question of what this fate will be.
This version also includes the outro at the beginning and after the outro plays, you return to the menu to begin again. Something horrifying and poetic about that
After playing my first Armored Core game (VI) about a week ago now...I get it. I really do. It has genuinely been one of the best games I've ever played in my entire life and I wouldn't change anything about it.
Glad you loved it, my only complaint about ACVI is that there really wasn't a whole lot of memorable tracks. 4, For Answer, and V and Verdict Day all had a lot of songs that I can start humming or singing without even thinking about it, while ACVI's just sounded... good... It was there, and fit the mood, but it didn't stick out or allow itself to be very memorable.
@@lunafrost6992 Imo I'll never forget VIs music, ever. Lol. But then again I'm a bit of an emotional wreck at the moment and this song made me cry so Idk what to tell you haha.
@@lunafrost6992Rusted Pride is probably the best song from AC6. 4, FA, V and VD have songs that are in regular rotation for me. Rusted Pride is kinda the only one from 6 that made the cut for my playlists.
Ah yes, For Answer The dramatic and tragic tale of the nameless no-one, forced to bear the mantle of deciding the ultimatum that, for better or for worse, sets in stone the future of humankind. All because he was good at his job. "Is this your answer? Then so be it." That menu music has a completely different meaning, hearing it play after finishing your first run of the game. Such a stellar track.
Even so, it gives humanity a chance to live once more. What happens next lies in the future of ravens, flying across the despairing void, the destructive fire, and an uncertain hope.
Despite how brutally oppressive that existential feeling of dread, that nothing you do will matter, in the entire series (and even in FromSoft's entire library), there is always that one persistent and indomitable that never leaves us: Hope There is always hope, no matter how bleak things may be, hope for a better future, hope for a meaning that you may even make yourself.
this to me gives me the feeling of what I want, to be a nomad roaming the wastes occasionally having 1 on 1 fights living off of what I can get and sell while still having the comforts of a family and home to go back to.
2:09 somehow it feels like you are sacrificing your life to buy time for the survival of your comrades, you let them escape whilst you remain and fight till your last breath.
There’s rarely a just choice or an obvious solution to some of the more complex questions in life. However, it is your right to choose your own answer, even more so when you have the strength and conviction to make that possibility a reality. For better or worse,the pursuit is what it means to be human. What’s the correct answer? Oh my young raven that’s the best part! Go find your flame and you’ll find it, I promise. But please, do try to learn from our mistakes. The old generation cannot build the new era…
I think a lot about this mix and a lot about Mecha as a genre. Mecha are ultimately immense engines of war; they are built on the suffering and destruction of countless people... but they're also works of art. Their pilots tune them to perfection, give them names, and love them as an extension of themselves. It's a second body for many pilots, tuned to their exact preferences. The machine can sometimes have a mind of its own, but that's rarely the case, and when it does happen? It's usually in symbiosis with its user. Giant robots or not, humans are stupid, boorish, headstrong, and destructive... but also capable of great acts of hope, kindness, and love. Humans pour time and effort into the things and people they love, but they also can be capable of manipulating both to terrible effect. They pour time and love into their weapons of war, but then turn around to use them for terrible deeds. I'm not entirely sure what I'm trying to say, but it's nice to write it down somewhere, in a niche little corner of the internet I'll find years from now. Cheers.
"Even after his defeat in the hands of Strayed, Anatolia's Mercenary is still out there, with his own purpose to fight. For he is a survivor, someone who is always moving on the surface."
@@lunafrost6992 at most the piano in the ayre phase 2 transition is pretty reminiscent of someone is always moving on the surface and stargazer is about as classic armored core as well can get
1200+ hours playing just ACFA over the last 15 years and never appreciated the soundtrack as much as this video make me does. All the memories of this game, and of my life coming flowing in. Well done.
Glad you love it. I'm excited to see what music ACVI has in store for us all. It's sounded super interested, but I hope we get some tracks similar to Someone Is Always Moving on the Surface.
What I'd give for a bundled 4/For Answer Remaster, It's even more amazing that For Answer still has active online. Thank you for this Lynx, The intro was hauntingly beautiful before the flawless translation.
It's been too long since I last heard these soundtrack... The prayer I always do for the answers, it reminded me back of what I was, what I had hoped, what was lost, and now I remember... What I prayed for... For Answer. ... Thanks, I hope you got your answers too in this life, good luck and may we meet again someday, somewhere, accompanied with our own Core.
Out of all the songs from For Answer, Someone Is Always Moving on the Surface manages to hit a certain emotional string that goes beyond the fun in piloting a mech and whatever horrors come from the machines of AC pilots emitting a deadly radiation. Also as an aside, the song manages to hit a string well in having a sort of hope that I couldn't resist playing it in another game that have that sort of moment for a hopeful future unless one went with an option of complete destruction.
Armored Core 6 was my first, and what brought me here. Never touched the older ones. Even so, this song manages to capture how it felt at the end of all 3 endings, knowing there was nothing left for me to do on Rubicon, that my journey was over. It was... Bittersweet. Honestly one of the best games I've played. I didn't think I'd like AC, but I was so wrong. I'm glad I gave it a chance - AC6 is my favorite game now. I've never known the older games. Never played them. I think it's time to change that. EDIT: I'm now almost done with my first playthrough of For Answer and learned more about the even older ones, and that confirms it. AC is my new favorite series, and I love FA.
armored core 3 was my first ac and fromsoft game, played it when i was like 6 years old lol. really glad armored core is back and bringing new people to the franchise, it's such a staple of my childhood and ac6 is a great addition to the series
Literaly zero endings in For Answers are anything but bittersweet at most. ORCA ending is arguably the best and its still bloody sad as all hell. Even if Strayed decides to bring down the Cradels to destroy the assault cells and give humanity a chance to escape to space. Millions will persih before the first ships are even constructed. Then it will be much like before the assault cells. Corporations exploiting mankind to colonize and secure resources before their competitors.
"Let's see how far they can fly on a Raven's wings..." Thank you FromSoft for an amazing series, over 20 years of my life I can say that they're one of, if not the best devs. "I'll be right behind you, you can chew me out on the otherside"
I like to think that this is after math of a next battle and you’re the only one moving with your boosters on keeping you afloat, but the the ones who have been felled greet the fish that loves them forever
The music always made you feel like you had to be the answer and you were the only one who could do it. The music puts in an emotional state of being. The power and feelings you'd get were incredible! I hope fire of rubicon is no different. Armored core has and will always be my favorite game
You could argue that Someone is Always Moving was the originator of the ‘sad, piano boss theme’ that would become a staple of the Souls series. But this track is very, very different. Gwyn, Vendrick, Soul of Cinder, the Elden Beast; despite the depressing nature of their themes, there is a romantic element to be found in each of them. There’s no such romanticism to be found in this track; it’s cold, encroaching and relentless. The staccato, rapid-fire piano notes hang in a void, not even resting on the hollow bed created by the dour choir and overwhelming alarm-like violin. It’s empty and unstoppable. It’s a death march. I always think of Someone is Always Moving within the context of its use during the League Path because of this; the meaningless finality conveyed in the track is a perfect fit for the death of hope present in that ending. Thermidor, who has been slaving away as Omer’s lapdog for ten long years in order to carry out Rayleonard’s final wish, watches everything he has worked to achieve crumble right before his eyes. Humanity will never reach the stars, and his masters’ legacy has been crushed for good. Strayed and Wynn D., in preventing mass genocide, have doomed themselves to be hunted by the League until the end of their days, assuming they did not already die in Arteria Cranium. Their sacrifice is romantic, but the fate they’ve wrought upon themselves is anything but. And if the ORCA route is anything to go by, the Kojima Pollution emitted by the Cradles is destined to one day reach the orbit and bring about the complete end of humanity. In trying to save the world, all you really did is kill everyone- either because you didn’t have the full picture, or you genuinely believe this is the best route for humanity to go. And that’s what Someone is Always Moving screams to me: you are an active participant in your own demise. You are fighting wholeheartedly for a hollow victory.
While I'm not one to say someone is wrong about something, I do wish to share my own perspective of the song. Someone is Always Moving on the Surface is a hauntingly beautiful track, one of deep sorrow, but one contrasted by a fierce amount of hope. The title of the song itself speaks to this, as no matter how desolate the world has become, no matter how much everything seems lost, there is someone out there, ever moving towards their goal. To me, the song shines best as defiant hope in the face of tragedy. The Defend Arteria Cranium version of this track which brings out the heaviness of both of its included tracks only further emphasizes this to me. I think it's interesting how two people can hear the same track but come to differing conclusions as to its meaning.
Some of you are coming here for the first time. Some of us have been here so long we never knew this day would come. The future isnt ours. The rest is up to you.
There must be some reason I keep getting back up, even though I know it won't mean anything in the end. What is it? Is it hope? Is it madness? Boredom? Maybe it's all of them.
I want to imagine a scene where it shows a desert. slowly growing plants and the sky having a slight blue tint it then pans to the side slowly to a building with a lot of flora it then it gets covered and transitions into a view into said building where we see a NEXT with flora all over it except the core and weapons where it slowly turns into dust then an explosion with another transition. now the NEXT is fighting but not on earth somewhere else they are loving freely as if the Kojima reactor no longer has such consequences it flew high and then it fades and we see Earth with some greenery and a beautiful ocean and the camera slowly backs up and we see a satellite and we see a reactor of sorts powering up end
Somewhat a very bittersweet yet beautiful description of something that sounds like either an alternate ending or timeline should you free humanity from their prison of both the satellite cannons guarding the orbit and life returning to earth after so much destruction, life endured and returned
I never really played armored even though I knew of it and when I first heard this song I thought it was weird but around ac6 got announced I listen to this one more time and yeah I get it, both this and steel haze rusted pride made understand why these were the type of music that was in the game
I truly do love the more emotional songs in armored core. I wish we got more things like remember and attack on spirit of motherwill. Admittedly I was really hoping for a least some elements of Someone is Always Moving on the Surface in ACVI, but tiss was sadly not the case.
@@lunafrost6992 well songs from ac6 aren’t the same as them (I’ve been listening to the songs now for a long time) it actually does gets something from me like contract with you and unbreakable mostly because of the environment your in, it’s a broken world where ACs are fighting left and right and in some cases it’s just ai machines your fighting not human, they give me that dystopia vibe with a semblance of being human in between though it could be me being biased since this is my first ac game
@@skylordomage5795 ACVI definitely goes for a more synthwavey almost cyberpunk feel most of the time. I just wish the songs had more passionate vocals mixed the intense beats, or more somber and emotional tracks throughout similar to set the sunset and outro. Armored Core For Answer did an excellent job at portraying the depressing atmosphere of a ruined world, with corporations fighting over the remnants of whatever's left.
@@lunafrost6992 man I really want to try for answer, but on the note of the music ac6 there was someone who described it perfectly, the music is what most likely 621 is thinking since he’s augmented human so since he’s mostly like goo brain in the ac it gives the feeling that your more like a machine then human, when I hear more of for answers music it more human then machine unlike that of ac6
@@skylordomage5795 I agree with that, most For Answer songs are far more human. Also if you have a PC you could always play the emulator for For Answer.
Seeing that Kota Hoshino remade some older tracks for ACVI OST disc 3, 4 answer for example, I find it real oversight that he didn't revive this track...
Yeah, it kind of feels a bit odd that this track wasn't remade while The Answer was (which somewhat makes sense) but I feel Someone is always moving on the surface is THE song for 4 Answer
I agree, while AC6's OST was good, it wasn't as great as other games in the franchise, especially For Answer. Then again, it really is hard to top something like the masterpiece of For Answer's soundtrack.
@@lunafrost6992 the third ending for For Answer, you can get it after you do a new game plus, join orca, and then beat all the orca matches. It unlocks two secret missions which, when completed, give the secret ending.
@@Azure9577 Set the sunset wasn't in the original, I definitely know that much. While it's quite nice, its not the song I wanted to use or was in the original
I probably should shouldn't I. I love Armored Core, but my life has been a bit busy. I'm super excited for the upcoming game, already preordered the collector's edition. I plan to make some renditions of stuff of that game's music in the future. I guess I could try covering more things in general, but I'm not sure. Do you have anything specific that you'd like to see?
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"and mankind was free to dream, floating above the clouds. Is this your *Answer?* ....so be it."
Yeah, if you didn't choose the based ending then maybe
"To treasure a life... is that something to laugh at? ... E-everything is twisted... you, this world... all of it."
@@R-XI_Sulla Honestly, as much as people hate the League Ending for maintaining the Very Bad Status Quo, and probably letting Humanity die...
I gotta say, Wynne D. Fanchon isn't wrong about the fact about you killing People, because you're still killing people, no matter how many justifications and layers you put in it, its intentionally vague for a reason. But whether or not you think its the right choice is up to you as the Player.
@@dooggo-1402 ORCA ending mentioning sick infants feebly coughing in the arms of their despairing mothers may as well tell one that regardless of opening the way to space to save humanity, one no doubt is letting a certain chunk suffer with a number dying to Kojima radiation.
For me I had to listen to "Heh... Lap dog..." for about 30 times in a row
The reason why I like Armored Core For Answer when I don't even play it is because of the narrative. You choose your own mission, you choose what you want to become. A monster, a killer, a gleeming hope for all. It's not about giving someone your resolve, but to find your own resolve. Your own *Answer.*
That’s what the entire armoured core series and the ravens that pilot it have always represented. You as an individual, your free will as an individual and the choices you have to make. And ultimately the consequences you face for such choices.
@@user-lq2nu6cn7y you're right. loved that part of Last Raven - you start out the game as an absolute nobody, and through your actions and allegiances in the events unfolding, you become a key player in how humanity will evolve beyond the crisis it has found itself in.
i just love fromsoft's ability to tell the story of the nobody. im quite sure that most fromsoft protags are just some random ass people in the bigger picture, hell i remember in armored core 3. we are just a random mercenary fighting just for the money, yet in the end we freed humanity from the rouge ai . even as nobodies, they fight the odds and topple giants, leaving a trail of legacy behind their every action. it empowers everyday people just go out and make a change. i think its a beautiful message fromsoft made.
zero to hero stories are just some of the best
What makes your story of nobody point even more prominent is that in Silent Line, the sequel, there's only a single mention of the Raven that took down the Controller and effectively started a new age for humanity before it's right back to corporate warfare.
And anatolias merc is beautiful too
He lost his home and life (Being an Raven and the nest) but found an place he was accepted and begun to help in the best way he could
Finding friends, helping his home, finding his love
Only for his friend to take it all away
The same friend who didn't want to do this but didn't had any other choice cause he would loose the reason he fights to begin with
So they came to line ark
An place.wich embraced them with open arms and thankfull for their help. Only to see it corrupt too again.
They were not ordinary people in anything but status.
and if you are in strangereal just say Mobius One to any Erusean
This track always feels like a bittersweet victory, winning at a great cost. "Is this the answer you've chosen?" It feels as much like an epitaph as it does an introduction
Hmm. You hear this at the title screen, the start of the game. The second you decided to pilot Strayed was the second that the fate of the world was going to be determined by one person. Because that's what you do. However it's up to you on how you Answer the question of what this fate will be.
This version also includes the outro at the beginning and after the outro plays, you return to the menu to begin again. Something horrifying and poetic about that
And no matter which ending you pick, people that aren't AC pilots are going to die one way or another from the answer you've chosen.
Because once you walk down the path to your answer...
There is no turning back.
fromsoft's music carries so much emotion, across their entire library of games their music legitimately makes me cry at times
After playing my first Armored Core game (VI) about a week ago now...I get it.
I really do. It has genuinely been one of the best games I've ever played in my entire life and I wouldn't change anything about it.
Glad you loved it, my only complaint about ACVI is that there really wasn't a whole lot of memorable tracks. 4, For Answer, and V and Verdict Day all had a lot of songs that I can start humming or singing without even thinking about it, while ACVI's just sounded... good... It was there, and fit the mood, but it didn't stick out or allow itself to be very memorable.
@@lunafrost6992 Imo I'll never forget VIs music, ever. Lol. But then again I'm a bit of an emotional wreck at the moment and this song made me cry so Idk what to tell you haha.
@@vulpesrosarum4795Walter’s speech in his ending made me really feel something strong I’ll tell you what. Haven’t gotten ending 3 yet though.
@@lunafrost6992Rusted Pride is probably the best song from AC6. 4, FA, V and VD have songs that are in regular rotation for me. Rusted Pride is kinda the only one from 6 that made the cut for my playlists.
Same dude I'm still grinding tho I'm on chapter 4 first playthrough
Ah yes, For Answer
The dramatic and tragic tale of the nameless no-one, forced to bear the mantle of deciding the ultimatum that, for better or for worse, sets in stone the future of humankind. All because he was good at his job.
"Is this your answer? Then so be it."
That menu music has a completely different meaning, hearing it play after finishing your first run of the game. Such a stellar track.
ORCA was the short answer to a problem that was impossible to solve
Yep. Even as humanity left behind a world polluted with radiation, they brought war with them to the stars.
Even so, it gives humanity a chance to live once more. What happens next lies in the future of ravens, flying across the despairing void, the destructive fire, and an uncertain hope.
Despite how brutally oppressive that existential feeling of dread, that nothing you do will matter, in the entire series (and even in FromSoft's entire library), there is always that one persistent and indomitable that never leaves us: Hope
There is always hope, no matter how bleak things may be, hope for a better future, hope for a meaning that you may even make yourself.
Not after my little field trip with Old King...
this to me gives me the feeling of what I want, to be a nomad roaming the wastes occasionally having 1 on 1 fights living off of what I can get and sell while still having the comforts of a family and home to go back to.
this track feels like: even the biggest W cost someone else's suffering
I always love hearing what this track makes people think of.
lmao what a way to put it
you forgot the IN after the W
whats a W? aside from a letter
2:09 somehow it feels like you are sacrificing your life to buy time for the survival of your comrades, you let them escape whilst you remain and fight till your last breath.
There’s rarely a just choice or an obvious solution to some of the more complex questions in life.
However, it is your right to choose your own answer, even more so when you have the strength and conviction to make that possibility a reality.
For better or worse,the pursuit is what it means to be human.
What’s the correct answer? Oh my young raven that’s the best part! Go find your flame and you’ll find it, I promise. But please, do try to learn from our mistakes.
The old generation cannot build the new era…
I think a lot about this mix and a lot about Mecha as a genre.
Mecha are ultimately immense engines of war; they are built on the suffering and destruction of countless people... but they're also works of art. Their pilots tune them to perfection, give them names, and love them as an extension of themselves. It's a second body for many pilots, tuned to their exact preferences. The machine can sometimes have a mind of its own, but that's rarely the case, and when it does happen? It's usually in symbiosis with its user.
Giant robots or not, humans are stupid, boorish, headstrong, and destructive... but also capable of great acts of hope, kindness, and love. Humans pour time and effort into the things and people they love, but they also can be capable of manipulating both to terrible effect. They pour time and love into their weapons of war, but then turn around to use them for terrible deeds.
I'm not entirely sure what I'm trying to say, but it's nice to write it down somewhere, in a niche little corner of the internet I'll find years from now. Cheers.
I never played an armored core game yet but this song makes me think about my dog who passed not to long ago this song is just beautiful
I'm sorry for your loss, I'm glad you are able to find beauty in this bitter sweet song
@@lunafrost6992 I just lost my dog today.... and... I feel you.
Just lost my dog today too, hope you are ok now man.
I'm all good now man thanks and sorry for the loss, both of you guys. I hope the best for you both
@@bitabitesalty5164 Thank you, glad to hear you are okay now. Have a great rest of the week
This art is so beautiful...
And this remix... NEXTs truely we're gods and demons on the battlefield
Glad you like it, I hope to see you on the battlefield someday, fellow Lynx
i accidentally opened it twice with a few seconds delay, but it still sounds beautiful XD
"Even after his defeat in the hands of Strayed, Anatolia's Mercenary is still out there, with his own purpose to fight. For he is a survivor, someone who is always moving on the surface."
There are some killer tracks in AC6 but nothing tops this
Was a little bummed out we didnt get any callbacks to other armored core songs
@@lunafrost6992 theres a slight hint in phase 2.5 of alllmind, at one point you can hear shape memory alloy if you listen closely
@@deadeus5248 Might have to try giving it a listen then.
@@lunafrost6992 at most the piano in the ayre phase 2 transition is pretty reminiscent of someone is always moving on the surface and stargazer is about as classic armored core as well can get
Steel haze is basically in a day of AC 6@@lunafrost6992
1200+ hours playing just ACFA over the last 15 years and never appreciated the soundtrack as much as this video make me does. All the memories of this game, and of my life coming flowing in. Well done.
Glad you love it. I'm excited to see what music ACVI has in store for us all. It's sounded super interested, but I hope we get some tracks similar to Someone Is Always Moving on the Surface.
What I'd give for a bundled 4/For Answer Remaster, It's even more amazing that For Answer still has active online.
Thank you for this Lynx, The intro was hauntingly beautiful before the flawless translation.
Glad I was able to give ya something solid to enjoy. May we meet on the battlefields of Armored Core VI fellow Lynx
geuninely feel that is AC6 does well, we may get just that. I have hope in my heart. Pray. For Answer,
It's been too long since I last heard these soundtrack... The prayer I always do for the answers, it reminded me back of what I was, what I had hoped, what was lost, and now I remember... What I prayed for... For Answer.
...
Thanks, I hope you got your answers too in this life, good luck and may we meet again someday, somewhere, accompanied with our own Core.
「そして人は揺り籠で空を飛び続けるか…」
4シリーズは人類が滅びゆく未来がすぐそこまで迫ってるから、他のシリーズよりも哀愁漂ってるのがまたいいですよね
The depressing and melancholy atmosphere are definitely fitting. Yet you can't deny that there is some level of hope to it all
Out of all the songs from For Answer, Someone Is Always Moving on the Surface manages to hit a certain emotional string that goes beyond the fun in piloting a mech and whatever horrors come from the machines of AC pilots emitting a deadly radiation. Also as an aside, the song manages to hit a string well in having a sort of hope that I couldn't resist playing it in another game that have that sort of moment for a hopeful future unless one went with an option of complete destruction.
Armored Core 6 was my first, and what brought me here. Never touched the older ones. Even so, this song manages to capture how it felt at the end of all 3 endings, knowing there was nothing left for me to do on Rubicon, that my journey was over. It was... Bittersweet. Honestly one of the best games I've played. I didn't think I'd like AC, but I was so wrong. I'm glad I gave it a chance - AC6 is my favorite game now.
I've never known the older games. Never played them.
I think it's time to change that.
EDIT: I'm now almost done with my first playthrough of For Answer and learned more about the even older ones, and that confirms it. AC is my new favorite series, and I love FA.
armored core 3 was my first ac and fromsoft game, played it when i was like 6 years old lol. really glad armored core is back and bringing new people to the franchise, it's such a staple of my childhood and ac6 is a great addition to the series
brooo, i remember that mix, thanks for this. these tracks just go so well together, but man, that piano will always stick with me.
Glad you enjoy it ^w^, I've missed the old mix for awhile, and since no one else was making, figured I would lol
thank you we love u
This is really well done!
Suprised I've never seen this done before, since these tracks pretty much belong together
I'm really glad you like it ^w^
Literaly zero endings in For Answers are anything but bittersweet at most. ORCA ending is arguably the best and its still bloody sad as all hell. Even if Strayed decides to bring down the Cradels to destroy the assault cells and give humanity a chance to escape to space. Millions will persih before the first ships are even constructed. Then it will be much like before the assault cells. Corporations exploiting mankind to colonize and secure resources before their competitors.
"Let's see how far they can fly on a Raven's wings..."
Thank you FromSoft for an amazing series, over 20 years of my life I can say that they're one of, if not the best devs.
"I'll be right behind you, you can chew me out on the otherside"
I like to think that this is after math of a next battle and you’re the only one moving with your boosters on keeping you afloat, but the the ones who have been felled greet the fish that loves them forever
I do quite love Goodbye Thinker as well lol
The music always made you feel like you had to be the answer and you were the only one who could do it. The music puts in an emotional state of being. The power and feelings you'd get were incredible! I hope fire of rubicon is no different. Armored core has and will always be my favorite game
Me too, I really hope Armored Core VI gives us those amazing feelings that both of the 4th gen games did. For Answer was basically perfection
Is that your answer, so be it.
You could argue that Someone is Always Moving was the originator of the ‘sad, piano boss theme’ that would become a staple of the Souls series. But this track is very, very different. Gwyn, Vendrick, Soul of Cinder, the Elden Beast; despite the depressing nature of their themes, there is a romantic element to be found in each of them.
There’s no such romanticism to be found in this track; it’s cold, encroaching and relentless. The staccato, rapid-fire piano notes hang in a void, not even resting on the hollow bed created by the dour choir and overwhelming alarm-like violin. It’s empty and unstoppable.
It’s a death march.
I always think of Someone is Always Moving within the context of its use during the League Path because of this; the meaningless finality conveyed in the track is a perfect fit for the death of hope present in that ending.
Thermidor, who has been slaving away as Omer’s lapdog for ten long years in order to carry out Rayleonard’s final wish, watches everything he has worked to achieve crumble right before his eyes. Humanity will never reach the stars, and his masters’ legacy has been crushed for good.
Strayed and Wynn D., in preventing mass genocide, have doomed themselves to be hunted by the League until the end of their days, assuming they did not already die in Arteria Cranium. Their sacrifice is romantic, but the fate they’ve wrought upon themselves is anything but.
And if the ORCA route is anything to go by, the Kojima Pollution emitted by the Cradles is destined to one day reach the orbit and bring about the complete end of humanity. In trying to save the world, all you really did is kill everyone- either because you didn’t have the full picture, or you genuinely believe this is the best route for humanity to go.
And that’s what Someone is Always Moving screams to me: you are an active participant in your own demise. You are fighting wholeheartedly for a hollow victory.
While I'm not one to say someone is wrong about something, I do wish to share my own perspective of the song. Someone is Always Moving on the Surface is a hauntingly beautiful track, one of deep sorrow, but one contrasted by a fierce amount of hope. The title of the song itself speaks to this, as no matter how desolate the world has become, no matter how much everything seems lost, there is someone out there, ever moving towards their goal.
To me, the song shines best as defiant hope in the face of tragedy. The Defend Arteria Cranium version of this track which brings out the heaviness of both of its included tracks only further emphasizes this to me.
I think it's interesting how two people can hear the same track but come to differing conclusions as to its meaning.
almost got me in tears
Some of you are coming here for the first time. Some of us have been here so long we never knew this day would come.
The future isnt ours. The rest is up to you.
How peaceful the first 2 parts are.
Very nice mix. Brings both pieces together extremely well.
Glad you enjoy it ^w^
The song of a raven who wanders the fields of battle trying to find out who they are.
What painting a NEXT in the Hangar feels like
thank you for putting this mix together !
Glad that you enjoy it ^w^
Armored Core 6, just a few days away. Get yourself ready, Raven.
There must be some reason I keep getting back up, even though I know it won't mean anything in the end.
What is it? Is it hope? Is it madness? Boredom?
Maybe it's all of them.
Thank you for this, fellow Lynx...
My pleasure, glad you enjoy it
Goosebumps
This is the most beautiful song I've ever heard
The Píano always gets me hard into the soul in a bittersweet way
I want to imagine a scene where it shows a desert. slowly growing plants and the sky having a slight blue tint
it then pans to the side slowly to a building with a lot of flora
it then it gets covered and transitions into a view into said building where we see a NEXT with flora all over it except the core and weapons where it slowly turns into dust
then an explosion with another transition. now the NEXT is fighting but not on earth
somewhere else
they are loving freely as if the Kojima reactor no longer has such consequences
it flew high
and then it fades and we see Earth with some greenery and a beautiful ocean and the camera slowly backs up and we see a satellite and we see a reactor of sorts powering up
end
Somewhat a very bittersweet yet beautiful description of something that sounds like either an alternate ending or timeline should you free humanity from their prison of both the satellite cannons guarding the orbit and life returning to earth after so much destruction, life endured and returned
@minecraftender8105 my view was the reactor meant another start to a war
over kojima? maybe
Whoops, I guess I got carried away with my interpretation
I never really played armored even though I knew of it and when I first heard this song I thought it was weird but around ac6 got announced I listen to this one more time and yeah I get it, both this and steel haze rusted pride made understand why these were the type of music that was in the game
I truly do love the more emotional songs in armored core. I wish we got more things like remember and attack on spirit of motherwill. Admittedly I was really hoping for a least some elements of Someone is Always Moving on the Surface in ACVI, but tiss was sadly not the case.
@@lunafrost6992 well songs from ac6 aren’t the same as them (I’ve been listening to the songs now for a long time) it actually does gets something from me like contract with you and unbreakable mostly because of the environment your in, it’s a broken world where ACs are fighting left and right and in some cases it’s just ai machines your fighting not human, they give me that dystopia vibe with a semblance of being human in between though it could be me being biased since this is my first ac game
@@skylordomage5795 ACVI definitely goes for a more synthwavey almost cyberpunk feel most of the time. I just wish the songs had more passionate vocals mixed the intense beats, or more somber and emotional tracks throughout similar to set the sunset and outro. Armored Core For Answer did an excellent job at portraying the depressing atmosphere of a ruined world, with corporations fighting over the remnants of whatever's left.
@@lunafrost6992 man I really want to try for answer, but on the note of the music ac6 there was someone who described it perfectly, the music is what most likely 621 is thinking since he’s augmented human so since he’s mostly like goo brain in the ac it gives the feeling that your more like a machine then human, when I hear more of for answers music it more human then machine unlike that of ac6
@@skylordomage5795 I agree with that, most For Answer songs are far more human. Also if you have a PC you could always play the emulator for For Answer.
god I hope AC6s ost is as good as 4As
Beautiful. love this game & theme so much, fantastic work 🥲🥲🥲
I'm glad that you enjoy it ^w^
LONG LIVE ARMORED CORE LONG LIVE THE RAVENS!
Can't wait to see you on the battlefield, from Lynx to Raven
i love this song so much it was amazing just like the game its from
Glad you love it ^w^
@@lunafrost6992 i really hope armored core 6 has an amazing soundtrack like this one
@@admiralkaede Me too, the trailer definitely gives me high hopes for at least some interesting stuff
@@lunafrost6992 mega hype
Absolutely my fave song of the ACFA…! *Cheff Kiss*
I listened to this in the shower last night while high as fuck, it was An Experience
damn this hits
precious music
そして人は、ゆりかごで空を飛び続ける…か。お前の答えだ、私はそれで構わないさ。
man i would love a remake for this game imaging this game with better graphics, larger in scale it would be amazing
Absolutely, lots of benefits from improved render distance
@@lunafrost6992 fr man
I forgot... HOW DID I FORGET THIS EXISTS???
Cause ya didnt Remember on your mechanized memories
Thanks for reuploading this "extended" mix!
Possibly the only track I could ever like more than Rusty’s theme
Like the wallpaper
Glad you like it ^w^
so good
Seeing that Kota Hoshino remade some older tracks for ACVI OST disc 3, 4 answer for example, I find it real oversight that he didn't revive this track...
Yeah, it kind of feels a bit odd that this track wasn't remade while The Answer was (which somewhat makes sense) but I feel Someone is always moving on the surface is THE song for 4 Answer
barely played For Answer but I've played 4 and 6. this really hits the feels especially 3:10 . feel like ac6 didn't nearly have as good of an ost.
I agree, while AC6's OST was good, it wasn't as great as other games in the franchise, especially For Answer. Then again, it really is hard to top something like the masterpiece of For Answer's soundtrack.
I agree@@lunafrost6992
@@lunafrost6992 I agree. can you please tell me where I can find that wallpaper. would really like it as my desktop.
My best tip is to search up "White Glint on Water Wallpaper" @@So98902
thanks!@@lunafrost6992
Oh my God...
Liked it that much?
The art is gorgeous, can i get that on a poster somewhere?
You might be able to, but I'm sadly not sure
I'll look around the internet then, maybe I'll get lucky
Always moving on the surface? Yeah at mach 7.
The battlefield come soon......
言ってみたかっただけ。英文的にあってるかは知らないです…
wow
This song hits different after the secret ending
What do you mean? You have my curiosity.
@@lunafrost6992 the third ending for For Answer, you can get it after you do a new game plus, join orca, and then beat all the orca matches. It unlocks two secret missions which, when completed, give the secret ending.
I hated that when I got all three endings, that was the end of it
is 100million the answer?
I believe youre still missing one track.
really? It's the same length so i'm not sure where it would be. Which one am I missing?
@@lunafrost6992 I think it is "Set the Sunset" which has the same piano track.
@@zorn2017 Ill have to look into it then
@@lunafrost6992 I agree set the sunset is actually kinda better than someone is always moving on the surface
@@Azure9577 Set the sunset wasn't in the original, I definitely know that much. While it's quite nice, its not the song I wanted to use or was in the original
Source of the picture used?
I unfortunately don't have a source, just look up armored core white glint. Should be somewhere in there.
Amazing art, who drew it?
Sadly don't know
Are you planning to do more Armored Core content now the new game is coming out soon?
I probably should shouldn't I. I love Armored Core, but my life has been a bit busy. I'm super excited for the upcoming game, already preordered the collector's edition. I plan to make some renditions of stuff of that game's music in the future. I guess I could try covering more things in general, but I'm not sure. Do you have anything specific that you'd like to see?