your drumming is so clean my guy

The Heavensward Leitmotif is the best. I can't get enough of it no matter which track it appears in...

Okay but the Stormblood part tho'. Those lyrics have no right to hit so far when the original version is nowhere near strong.

As someone currently halfway through HW 3.0, I agree... but the transition to STORM OF BLOOD is the hypest part.

Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.

A TEST OF YOUR REFLEXES

It’s mine for the taking

SHOW ME YOUR VAUNTED FORTITUDE

@@chaos_blue1089 AHHH MY SOUL HOW IT BURNS!!

@@kaltadesmon I KNOW YOU FEEL IT TOO, THE INFERNO SWELLING WITHIN YOU. *Enshroud noises* COME! LET ALL CREATION BE CONSUMED BY OUR RAVENOUS FERVOR!

Its a song that represents your journey. I love it.

Its really incredible to me that Yoshi-P managed to craft a game that has kept me engaged and enthralled for the better part of a decade, even more incredible that Soken has crafted accompanying music that can make a grown man well up. There is so much nostalgia and emotional resonance in the songs, they immediately take you back to that moment, the sadness of it, the triumph, Soken is to be protected, cherished.

@@FullBitGamer as someone who couldn't get into XXFIV during the Stormblood days I'm so glad I gave the game another chance. I picked a different starting class, took as much time to progress as possible, forced myself to pay attention to the ARR story and I'm super happy that not only I got the experience I wanted all along, but didn't go for a story skip to get to the "good" part. The only moment that didn't work for me was the G'raha reveal, and that only happened because I hated Crystal Tower so I blanked everything around it out of my memory. Had I skipped ahead, none of the big moments would have worked. And yes, as a music weeb I got what I wanted too. ShB best.

@@DrkRyu im still stuck in ARR, i wonder if this "my lazyness" in ARR were the thing that hapens either because ARR were not that interesting and too long to build up, Yoshi-P team especially story team needs to retconned events hapened in Pre-ARR that "while Pre-ARR is cannon you dont need to know it to enjoy the story" in somewhat rushed and branstormed way, wich in turns made ARR story somewhat unintersting and possibly something you guys also experienced back then

@@ShiroCh_IDnope. 1.0 story is important and still VERY prevalent throughout all expansions. Learning the 1.0 story and lore made my experience so much better

YESSSSSSSSS

Something real nice about the lead singer of the architects backing you up while you kill the icon of sin, despair edition

Yeah, there's no way it was not. There's no escape from the Waking Sands.

Pray return to the waking sands

@@RSQuinn No. Nope, that's it, I'm going fishing.

@@kereminde the boat to the waking sands is next to the ocean fishing thing

theres so many tie ins that are just so well placed its like pokemon you gotta find em all but you probably never will

Pls do elaborate (non player, but a fan)

@@diostone6975 it’s the lyrics that play when you boot into the game (at the moment) So many people were playing endwalker at launch the severs couldn’t handle it and people were constantly crashing for weeks. On top of that every time you logged in you were put in a queue with thousands of other players, waiting literal hours for enough people to have left the game in order to be let in yourself. If you heard those lyrics you were likely a few hours away from being able to play the game.

@@diostone6975 When Endwalker released, for roughly...two weeks and a little more I'd say the queue times were absolutely broken. Not unbearably long, that's typical of MMO releases no matter how big or small they stay. The queues were so massive, they revealed a long-standing bug in the queueing process that was spaghetti code from back in 1.0: Error 2002. Staying in a long queue was much much much more susceptible to packet loss from the queue's server since it was different from the actual game server and much weaker as a result. So you'd get a queue position of thousands of people long, get close to the end, or even literally at 1, the game error's you out and automatically closes itself preventing you from getting back on quickly to retain your position. As such, for really closer to a month, countless people had to hear that opening title screen bit (read: that specific lyric of this theme but slower and more somber) over. And over. And over. And over again. Yoshi-P's team wasn't sure if it was player connections at first until they realized the old 1.0 bug and managed to fix it, leading to the queues becoming far more manageable almost overnight and the queues have since normalized since thousands of people have already beaten the main story and don't need to rush to avoid spoilers anymore. Plus there now being an Oceanic Data Center, players of that region don't have to use NA/EU/JP space anymore. tl;dr: Hilarious connection issues made everyone listen to that lyric a million times before the queues were able to settle down.

Ah i see, so it's a pain in hilarious meaning... Thanks for the info

Alternatively, "tales of loss and wine and grapes"

Thanks so much for watching! :D

Just normal, this song so good

i must say for me it's a tie between Footfalls and To The Edge aswell.. both are such a bangers

For me it's between Oblivion, With Hearts Aligned and Return to Oblivion

Same!

I played every FF game including spinoffs (and even the very obscure ones too) and I highly agree. This song is just on another whole level.

if we look at the production staff it can be seen why - so much talent and money went into it, whereas typically, each single track in an OST isn't put together with that kind of budget. When I play Kingdom Hearts for example I'm amazed how there's LISTS of songs I utterly adore that were almost solely put together by one person. (Yôko Shimomura) "Architects" are great, I still vividly remember the first time I heard them

I hope you are enjoying your journey so far, and there is so much great stuff lined up for you in both MSQ and side raid content. The path continues to glow brightly with each foot step.

@@LazyVanny I am indeed, thank you! :D

yeah sadly dodging spoilers is like a test of your reflexes...

@@FaceFish9 SHOW ME YOUR VAUNTED FORTITUDE.

@@LazyVanny Ah, my soul... how it burns!

This expansion hits hard. I teared up at least 5 or so times playing through it XD

@@The8BitDrummer same!

Gotta give *some* credit to Uematsu for the Heavensward and Stormblood parts

@@taco_senseiAnd Sam Carter for the awesome heavy vocals

Mine for the taking

I HAVE YOU!

Do not tell me your life's fire is already spent!

Fuck yeah man! I’d love that!

He did a loong time ago when heavensward was the current expac. But for some reason the vod was removed. Probably copyright

@@andrewtimothy9792 Sadge

Funny you say that, it's actually the name of a certain location in FFXIV

@@spearsage the north of the walking sand in vesper bay ye