i dont know if i wanna ask but can you react to dusttrust phase 3? i would love you to react to it!

I'm very glad you enjoyed this piece of music, this game Final Fantasy 14 has done so much in the world of music I'd recommend even more from the series. personally I vote for Footfalls or close the distance, but anything from that game especially in recent years is fantastic. 100% in love with this reaction by the way. keep up the great work!

You should do XIV's Endwalker - Footfalls! plz

​@quicknugg you guys might want to check if he's done footfalls already before you recommend it lol, besides in the balance is better

Bold of u to assume we aren't here already.

this is just another huge rabbit hole

You may accept this fate, or defy it, but you cannot deny it.

We’ve arrived

@@ultraboy971 :)

We are here!

The second meaning wasn't even a concept when this song was written. It was shoehorned into meaning something with the song after the fact. It's like hearing a song on the radio and applying it to whatever your current situation in life that you're going through, is.

@@VaultArchive72incorrect. The devs actually wrote Endwalker to fit with the song, not the other way around.

Or you could say the second meaning was a tree that grew out of the first meaning. The whole game has had a chance to grow over time with the song always being an element. The “our souls have been torn” certainly gained a new meaning. I wonder how it felt to hear it in Endwalker for those who went through the end of 1.0 with that playing as overworld music?

@@VaultArchive72 This game is always written with lots of open ends that are developed later. It's not a crystalline entity made once ten years ago in its entirety and doled out in small increments. It gets written on the way, like any MMO, but unlike many others, it's always looking forward and back unto itself, to leave breadcrumbs for the future and to pick up those threads later and weave them. No, the second meaning didn't exist when it was first written. It was resignified later. This is a good thing.

@@VaultArchive72 That's a bit disingenuous. Shoehorning meaning that wasn't planned in advance is more like when the GOT TV series tried to make Melissandre's comment about Arya closing many different-colored eyes "green eyes, brown eyes...blue eyes" to make it seem prophetic that she kills the Night King instead of Jon. The showrunners literally admitted they just made that up to fit later on. There was no plan back then. Answers, however, wasn't penned with an idea in mind and then changed later to fit something unrelated. It was open-ended, and invitation to learn more, and then we got Answers Reprise at the very end of the story, retelling the story of our characters in a grand finale that tied it all together. It's a motif, one that the game revisits time and again to connect it all.

Thank you. I cry. Every. Single. Time.

Bro fucking same, this song makes me fucking weep.

Ngl. Listening to those ending lyrics. I never realized fully how much they fit with the end of the story. Like it's literally as if they knew exactly what they were going to write 10 years before it happened.

@@TNTspaz They have mentioned that they didn't have all this fully planned out, so instead I would say that the writers did a phenomenal job of taking the pieces that were already placed down and making it fit into a story that felt like they had planned from the very beginning. I do feel like that is an even far greater achievement too. Hearing Answers especially in Shadowbringers and then in Endwalker and hearing the lyrics and coming to understand them more and more felt really good.

Any dislikes on this video are probably people who missed the like button because their eyes were too wet

For reference, since that scene 10 years later, I literally can't hear this song without crying. It was this good of a moment.

@@NibelungJ i'm out of that phase but that was me for some months after endwalker too xD

Seeing a particular cutscene in Endwalker (you know the one!) while this is in the background and the lyrics are lining up so well… WOW. I have no idea if they planned that far ahead or were just clever enough to mold things to fit the song, but either way, it was fantastic.

@@madpolitico we know almost for sure that they did not play this before shadowbringers! They took these super lame villains, the ascians and made them incredibly layered and complex RETROACTIVELY! It's so cool.

Agreed. It's one of the best video game stories I've ever seen. I started playing a few months before Endwalker released, so basically I played through the whole story in one go. It was incredible, and the music at various points was way better than I expected from a MMO.

And the fact that it has a version of it for the fight with Hydaelyn called "Your Answer" i must say i was truly crying during the first few times i was fighting her, having played the game since 2.0...

"No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. Henceforth, he shall walk."

@@evandavis5223 And by walking he will become stronger. by being weaker individually they will become stronger collectively!

​@@evandavis5223Such an incredible line. 😭

​@@evandavis5223I teared up just reading that 😭

Think this the theatrythmn version on the 3ds... haven't seen it on switch one yet

I agree, the trailer adds so much to the emotion. Bahamut's roar really sells "you're screwed"

100% agree, This is an ok version, but the original cut scene version really really adds more impact. The live Distant Worlds version is also stunning

as someone that came in to this game at 2.0 ARR and heard this anytime i went afk and with the trailer, i 1000% percent agree. without the background noises it doesnt hit home . but it still a amazing ost and i love it. FFXIV music is soooo good. i listen to it on its own alot.

The sound design in the full flame of truth video for this is fucking phenomenal

Lol trying to type through my tears but I wanna let you know how much I appreciate you o’ stranger on the internet. I am beyond words and overjoyed to share these feelings and experiences with you. I’m so glad this “game” exists and that it’s …just… I don’t know. The words are gone. God I love it and what the creators have given us. Thank you Yoshi P and team.

This game is free therapy of the best kind.

I know it sounds cringe to some people but I had the same epiphany as you. The game taught me about the things that are worth living for, and I was really down bad back then. It probably saved me tbh

I'm glad this comment resonated with people, but I want to caution people that it's not that this game cured my depression or something, that's not how that works. But it DID change my perspective from "I wouldn't mind if a truck hit me rn" to "Actually, I probably would mind a bit." Even among deepest despair, my friends, there can be joy. Good luck out there.

@@veradrost9654 excellent disclaimer 👍✨

Soken is a treasure. Because of him..... We all know La Hee! ;)

"His genre is 'Yes'. Perfect 😂

So very much this! Uematsu is a master and Soken is a gift. The music is a HUGE part of why I play FFXIV. (I'm stealing the 'genre is "yes"' line, btw, too good :D)

All I gotta say is "LA-HEE!!"

This :D .. Genre: 'Yes' ... its perfect :D

"From that temptation...I sunder us."

Literally one of the best writing in the last decade. The fact they made this song 10 years before they even knew where they were taking the story and incorporated it into one of the greatest moments in media blows my mind still.

That scene gave me the chills. It gave Answers suddenly a different context.

It's incredible how biblical this track actually is..

That whole cutscene was amazing and made her my favourite Final Fantasy character. Well, she's tied with Zenos.

I went through the comments to make sure someone had named her as the singer. Such an amazing voice!

And now after Endwalker it stirs up emotions even more in a new way.

@@mccoyrj452 Extraordinarily so

@@mccoyrj452 I just started down the End Walker path and with the main story I'm like why did I see it heading this way. It make me feel kind of like Sherlock Holmes from the BBC TV series where you see it coming and you like they are going to do this. Then you get the cutscene showing what you knew was going to happen then they throw in one little twist. Then your like there is always one thing just like Sherlock.I figured the whole thing was just the result of the fight between Hydalin and Zerg, or however you spell his name sorry, I called it a fight between mommy and daddy. Daddy took the Ashians and Mommy took the rest. Did not figure them to be the first and oldest Summoned Primals, should have from the fact that they are being praied to all the time but you know hind sight and all.

And i feel like its so with most of the games story, sure there is plot and its fictional story. Its open ended, the player feels, hears, seeks and finds answers. Probably their own answers and so it shall be. Its amazing song in so many ways, but there were circumstances that lead to its existance. Tldr i agree, i just really appreciate the whole package. Also i remember i listened to this song way before i even knew of ff14's existance and yes i was mesmerised. And in my experience it just got amplified when i got into the game and saw the cutscene years after hearing the song alone. (Maybe i am just biased for fantasy worlds)

All FF has a dark side. It wouldn't be proper writing without it. But Ishikawa turned out to be a bloody master at it. From the DRK quest line, which is just psychotherapy, to Shadowbringers and Endwalker, there's not been an FF that has been so dedicated to not just telling a story and teaching hard truths, but also to provide hope, meaning, therapy and even ... Answers.

I'm seeing a lack of "And Love You Shall Find," "In the Balance" and... *ahem* "La Hee."

I legitimately like Civilisations (aka La-Hee). And don’t forget A Long Fall (from The Twinning). Although some of my favourite tracks are The Warrens (Snowcloak) and A Land Long Dead (The Burn).

@@TheWickedWizardOfOz1Don't forget "Close in the Distance."

​@@ConManAUCivilisations was my most listened to song on Spotify in 2022. So I'm there with you.

You know...la hee?​@@TheWickedWizardOfOz1

Big Endwalker spoilers: It makes it really cool when you think about it in the context of: We got the Answers before the game had even launched. We've had them the whole time, from the very beginning. Endwalker was the journey of us finally coming to understand the question.

It's true

Every. Time.

@@aelithmackinnon8656 I know I do. I am a grown ass man, nearly 40, this song murders me every. single. time.

every.single.time

Uematsu didn't directly work on that much music in XIV but DEFINITELY left his mark on the legacy of the game. So much of the OST is just references or arrangements of his previous works, and Answers gets referenced constantly in Endwalker. The man, the myth, the legend.

@@ZephWraen I think they said that in reference to Answers which was composed buy Uematsu

@@sehrverrueckt3358 yeah, I know Uematsu composed Answers. I was just mentioning how much of his legacy is respected in XIV's OST. I was agreeing with their comment.

@@ZephWraen My misunderstanding then, carry on.

Uematsu paved the road so Soken could run

This is at 69 likes. Out of respect, i will not like. Nice.

@@agntzeroness You're getting popcorn? I'm getting tissues bro

Don't forget the tissues

The cutscene in Endwalker where this song plays hits me harder than I think anything I've ever experienced in a game. It's such wonderful storytelling.

@@SomeCallMeAku "We will find our way, Venat"

OMG right in the feels! @@rosariofloridia6882

I'm a notorious skipper - last scenes I actually watched were the story bits of the coils like 10 years ago - I do love the song though - do I need to play the whole endwalker story to get what the comments here are talking about, or is there one cutscene I could go watch and "get it"?

I see what you did there.

Flow is beautiful but I think it hits harder when you know about Answers and understand the context. That 10-year later callback is why it makes so many people cry. Edit: and, of course, Amanda's vocals are absolutely insane (Flow).

Man. Listening to this gave me the same chills I had in that part in Endwalker.

Tahnk you for posting this. it is the same thing I was going to post and say.

@@guzhenn This wasn't Amanda. This was susan calloway. Amanda replaced her.

Shadowbringers.

To The Edge

Footfalls was reacted to first saddly lol plus this song has been copy struck before.

bro i watched this video and it made me not wanna listen to the ff xiv soundtrack

​@@JButterZJIf this makes you not want to hear the rest, then you probably shouldn't. The game isn't for everyone. But check back in 20 years and you might get it.

Mom (Hydaelyn) was everything I ever wanted out of a MMO Christ analogue.

​@@highlyeducatedtruckerOh, same. She's in my top three favourite characters of FFXIV.

Absolutely chilling.

Such a powerful line

I would recommend the free trial up to Shadowbringers. ARR or 2.0 as he puts it is a slow burn, but that's because there's an entire world with fleshed out characters to build. Everyone is willing to help, so don't be afraid to ask. You might find a few assholes, but they're rare. The music is ok in ARR but once you get to Heavensward, the music and writing start to sparkle. And it just gets better. They give you a good long while to decide if you want to buy the game or not.

Absolutely!

"our souls soaked in sin..."

Always wish I had gotten into the game earlier than I did. I know 1.0 was a mess, but going from that to where it is now had to be a pretty interesting experience.

@@AIopekis 1.0 got better as Yoshi P. took over technical issues aside. But I was there at Cartenau when the servers shut down on 1.0 that battle was somethin else.

Yes was going to comment the same! The live version cuts you even harder! Susan Calloway has some real pipes on her.

For real, I think I’ve been in it for about a month now, and hitting this song at the end of ARR had me openly sobbing. The way the chant is delivered, I instinctively reflect on tragedy after tragedy that people have dragged themselves through in recent years. It’s one of the few pieces ‘about humanity’ that’s felt honest to me, and not oversimplified. On top of that, I first heard Spiral in Palace of the Dead. Instantly mesmerized by it. Once I hit this song, I realized Spiral is a techno remix of Answers, which just made me love both songs more. Why did I avoid this game for so long?

It kind of is. without context just watching the cinematic it feels like Hydaelyn (The woman) is speaking to us, the characters being killed in the war between the Empire and Eorzean alliance, and the dragon which got released (Bahamut). but after you start the game the song changes it's meanings, especially in Shadowbringers where you first find out more about how the world was before our time. before the time of what the cinematic portrayed. We then start hearing this song as the call from the original people who lived before, crying out for help, crying in misery and pain with Hydaelyn as the voice for it all, but with Endwalker... With Endwalker we found out the whole truth, of what happened, and how even if her own people would scorn her, even with them all dying in hatred of her, she had to do what she did to ensure there would be a tomorrow to fight for. And before we got to this, we had to fight her kin (Ascians, the original occupants of the Planet) and why? to live. to die. to know. which is what in the end of the song is said. Ascians all just wanted to live, to know everything, why they had to suffer for us to come and take their place while all they wanted was to go back to living as they had. And in the end the last of them we fought, not as a real enemy. but as someone who had been there with us the whole journey, guiding, helping us. We gave our answer to Hydaelyn and showed her that what she did was not in vain, and that we were strong enough to take the mantle of responsibility now. Not too unalike how a mother becomes old and its now the children whos job it is to propel us to the future whatever it may be. At the end of it all, we got to finally end the threat to the planet, we got the revenge for Ascians who had died in what they thought would be in vain, and we survived. In a poetic way it's all just a story of Humanity, from our infant stages to adulthood and now we are the ones with the reins to guide the next generations. Some quotes that sticks with me ever since Endwalker that all still in a poetic way all come from the same concept that Answers showed us back in the end of 1.0 -A quest to find your purpose, knowing your end is assured. To find the strength to continue when all strength has left you. To find joy even as darkness descends...and amidst deepest despair, light everlasting. -So let there be no way back. From that temptation I sunder us. No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. Henceforth, he shall walk. And of course both Hydaelyn and Zenos's quotes. -“Has your journey been good? Has it been worthwhile?” -Hydealyn/Venat -"Was this life a gift? or a burden?" -Zenos It's all a matter of perspective for everybody. for many of us even today are like Ascians who cling to what they know, not being able to see a better future because they might not get to live to see it. but in all of that darkness and misery, and only there we might find light everlasting. a beautiful conclusion to the story of Realm reborn.