This expansion went from Road to El Dorado to Cyperpunk really quick.

going from flow to this is some fucking crazy whiplash

Circle of life ahh song

i thought this was a song from The Greatest Showman lol

This is going to be a very decisive song. I don't think its BAD, but having it play during the train montage was tonal whiplash.

While its a bit jarring at first I do like the choice for a group chourus to fit the expansions themes of community and culture

The festive parts feel like an old Disney Movie Song...which isn't necessarily a bad thing for an Ending Theme

Had some trouble with the vocals at the start, felt the singer was kinda struggling ? But it's growing on me tbh. Not as good as the two previous ones, but nice nonetheless.

Am I the only one who thinks an instrumental version of this would've been perfect for the last zone after you beat the MSQ?

I thought this was "Oil Spill" from Bob's Burgers at the start there. And then it turns into "This is Me" from the Greatest Showman. What was Soken on? D:

I burst out laughing every time 2:03 popped off during the MSQ, it was just really weird to hear lol

It reminds me of the Pokemon movie themes. It’s oddly nostalgic…

Anyone manage to pry the lyrics out of this?

should be wuk lamat standing on the rock at this point

We are in Etheirys supercycle bois. Enjoy the ride for the next years to come

High school musical x FFXIV let's go

the dissonance of the vocals is so jarring

Intresting no one mentioned that the theme of Solution 9 is a remix of this. You can kinda interpret this a Sphene being the lead female vocals whike the crowds answering her are the living ppl of solution 9. They even sing "our nation will carry on"

I LOVE Adele Dazeem!

This expansion was good yall are just mean

dawntrail was so bad im still in shock, what happened to the amazing team that brought us SHB and EW?

This is like jarringly bad. It doesn't matter how well composed it is.

Love the "song at the end of a newer Disney movie" vibes this has.

I like that the music direction was wildly different and I feel this tune growing on me, but I will admit, coming off the coattails of EW, I will say I was hoping from something a bit different. That being said the expansion makes up for it with some other great tracks.

I'm far from hating DT's story but holy shit this song is psychotic man lol... Every time it popped up it just made me laugh my ass off. That fuckin train cutscene was literally a Disney Channel movie ahh montage man. I kneel.

4:39 Just imagine what's around the bend (maybe) (Magic or mischief? Gods forfend!) Endless marvels, myst'ries, newfound friends (Wilder than wildest dreams portend)

the vocal style is certainly a choice. the ends of all her notes sound offtune

I was hoping to see the part of the mix from the trailer get made into a full ost, the part with the lyrics "just imagine what's around the bend"

Alexandria's legacy will carry on in the hearts of those who yet live.

Hope it was worth it hermes

4:18 yea I just heard this for the first time and had to find this lol gives Lion King vibes big time (also for the Sonic heads…does this remind you of the Sonic Rush song Raisin’ Me Up?)

This song felt so out of place when it played for the first time

Definitely not my favorite expansion theme, but the energy is perfect for the beginning of a new era

This song felt really weird at first but the more I listen to it the more it grows on me. Not sold for the choice during the msq, still feels not deserved? A bit not fitting? Gonna replay it soon and see how it feels again.

I dont really get the hate for this song. I dig it. To me it represents the heart of FFXIV as a whole and made me feel a lot and the train scene was fun. It's not flow but it never promised to be. It's different, it's fun, and I will gladly listen to it along with the many other amazing music this game has given me over the last 10 years! :)

This reminds me about the type of bangers we got from FF13-2

A bit too Disney for my taste. The song itself is fine, but i couldnt bear it being paired with the train montage 😂

it is much better in isolation

This song is so Disney its crazy haha

lol

The main vocals are a little weird but besides that I don't get the hate for the song at all. Everyone just says "its a Disney movie song" but I don't get why that's bad. I think FF players just expect every main expac vocal theme to be a sad aria like Flow or Dragonsong.

i'm absolutely a sucker for this kind of song. love it

This theme does a great job representing what this expansion is about,and I adore it for that.

The expansion about understanding, respect and community ends with an uplifting, hopeful chorus song. Perfect.

Its ok decently good song, i can see its not everone cup of tea but it grows on ya abit

I wasn't a fan at first but I've warmed up to it a lot after a few listens This upload is missing the last few minutes though for some reason, which are actually my favorite part

i can't with 5:00, shit sends me to another dimension

fuck the haters, good song, good expac, good game.

Do we know the singer? I want feel like AKINO reprised her role but I can’t let my boss get to me

Soken honey... never cook like this again

This song is similar to the Tokyo disneyland anniversary song. Happy vibes

I eagerly await the Achen and Keiko cover on the next arrangement album. Love the vision on this song but the vocal performance is very weak.

It sounds like a christian worship song lmao

this song is really good but Im kinda dissapointed we didnt get a full version of the song that plays in the pictomancer reveal part of the trailer I LOVED those synths

Its giving church vibes. We are giving praise to our favourite mother hydaelyn

This song sounds like what I expect a parody of this song to sound like.

Can people not cap. The song is mixed badly and the vocal performance is not the best take they could've recorded, the woman is fighting for her life on some of these notes. It COULD maybe be a good song but its definitely not used that well in the MSQ and is pretty bad for the standard of the music we expect for not just a credits song but the game in general.

Honestly, the real problem with the song are the vocals. They're too disney and gospel like. Just the melody with a more mellow set of vocals would have worked much better.

Dawntrail MSQ defenders will try to claim this song is perfect and was not comically out of place whatsoever in any of the scenes it played in, or try to claim it being comically out of place was the point all along because this is supposed to be the fun vacation expansion.

I actually kinda am happy this was the ending theme, for one because it was so different to that of all the other expansions that were all very much in similiar style, so having this for the start of a new journey is fine, EXSPECIALLY at least for me because this expansion was not about the WoL really, like we were never before quite as much in a background support role as we were here for Wuk Lamat, so for me this was truely her Expansion and for her that theme kinda fits, with her ideology of happiness and also her more positive outlook on life and death Explanation for the Wuk Lamat thing: Normally even if expansion like stormblood with lyse had front and center characters it was always the WoL who had to defeat the big enemies, so it was alone the WoL and people supporting the WoL in some way that drove the main story In comparrison in dawntrail is that we never truely did anything meaningful without Wuk Lamat being front and center, like all the feats were her ideas and understanding the people or us supporting her, the fights she always was there even in the none trust trial and lastly we were quite often litterally told to stand aside and let her do what only she as the leader should do, which for me is fine simply because power scaling wise the wol is a monster for the writers i guess exspecially if you want to start the next arc in a way where you do not want to have our enemy and the stakes be something that power wise is stronger than despair personafied, sonce staring slower lets you build up a story once again BUT i also understand if people are kinda dissapointed with the player taking such a beackseat in comparrison to pretty much all the other expansions and did not enjoy being forced to be the support this time since it is a self insert MMO which normally does put the players in the main active roles

Damn this is terrible lol

It's the gospel worship song!

I guess im the only one who really liked this song???

Fuck y'all I liked it :P It's no flow, but it's a good listen & was used well.

Im not feeling it

I had to come and watch a KZfaq video to try and actually hear this song. I swear to god I can barely hear the vocalist over the sound of her breathing and like... tongue smacking sounds. It's so fucking weird lmao. The song itself in theory could be good but the mixing is so strange. I'm so sorry Soken but this isn't your best work.

Why didn’t Amanda sing ? What is this song 😭 it sounds messed up tbh

Its sung in a very broadway manner vs hollywood pop musical. Its not for everyone, I personally like it.

I'm not going to sit here and pretend this is a good track, it sounds like shit. Every other track in DT is really incredible though.

I only really like the last minute of this song... that is a shame.. it's too busy and the lyrics are just incomprehensible, It's got a very "off" feeling compared to previous expansion songs like Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Flow, I will say it's better than the stormblood song, But Dragonsong will always be the best of all these

I think DT is my second favorite FFXIV expansion.

The sturcture of the music is fantastic especially the harmony part, but I feel like the singer's tone is kind of sharp and tight(and a bit disorder) whenever she's soloing like does she the same singer from SHB and EW I just kind of feel like the quality doesnt match with the pre credit themes

Rare miss for the FFXIV soundtrack. This one is just not good at all.

I really don't understand where all the hate for the expansion comes from. It's not the strongest but it's still an enjoyable story and I felt it kept pace well enough. I suppose people will whine just to whine.

People mean to this expansion while they forget that THIS is a build-up story expansion after the long and depressed and hopeful 5 saga expansions end. Please, you cannot top the Endwalker-saga with just one expansion.

I think this is the first time i sadly am not a fan, like choir is fine but the moment the singer sings alone its really grating on the ears, her voice is so high pitched its really bothering me

this song is so bad i fucking cant

What the fuck were they thinking? Were they even thinking?

The last part of this song is heavenly

God damn this expansion was hot ass. It's like they wanted some happy go lucky Disney expansion but botched it hard. It's both paced poorly and ends up too high stakes anyway.

This theme was SO unexpected and I was obsessed from the moment I first heard it midway through msq. The music has consistently just gotten better and better every expansion. Soken is absolutely brilliant!

This song sounds like it's from South Park

I know a lot of people are torn on this, but I think the OST fits. The not so subtle message of the final zone (at least to me) is about letting go of the past and learning to move on/how it's okay to let go, and this song invokes the imagery of a "new day" or a rising sun, which fits into that perfectly. That, and the imagery also doubles as an "and now that this storm has passed, we can look forward to the future (next patches)."

Phil Collins aaa theme. And I'm here for it.

This expansion was really good and I cant wait for a few years when the next one comes out and people are shitting on that one and talking about how good this one was.

Beat it last night finding out that it's immensely hated? What is there to hate it was amazing the whole way through it's no shadowbringer end Walker big stakes or whatever but like okay? We literally just finished the main Arc this is essentially the start of a completely new story . Is that what people hate about it?

I guess we know where the Balan Wonderworld team ended up in SquareEnix lol.

I can’t listen to this without just sobbing uncontrollably

The MSQ's big song is proportionate to the quality of the writing. Dragonsong and Heavensward, Tomorrow and Tomorrow & Shadowbringers, Flow and Endwalker... this and dawntrail? AHHAahAHAHAahAHAHh

I liked this song. Even through it was kinda weird, but happy songs at the end of a expansion is always good.

Ijbol as the kids say. This is fucking awful 😂😂😂

I understand Meteion now

I think I would've liked this song more if any of the moments that it played at were earned.

Good god, even autotune couldn't save this sht

I can completely get being surprised by the track, because it is very different to what we've had in the past, but for me it wasn't in a bad way, and I have found myself liking it more and more as i go 😊 I also loved the train montage 😆

I admit this song threw me the first time I heard it but after a few listens I have to say i really like it. Definitely feels like it embodies the tone of the expansion.

Some parts of this song have too many syllables, too quickly. Like take a breath, folks! The big ensemble chorus parts are hype though.

This song is awful, so offtune, it’s a nightmare. Where’s Amanda????😭😭😭

guess a singer who could stay on pitch was out of the budget this time

I just love so much how you can hear the "Close in the distance" theme in this one. Every new journey builds upon a legacy we lived through. No memories are forgotten. We are who we are because we are formed by everything we live through