Kokoro is the ending credits theme to Xenosaga episode 1 recommendations Xenosaga Episode II OST - Yuki Kajiura "Sweet Song" (Ending credits song) Xenosaga Episode II OST - Fatal Fight (EPIC) Xenosaga Episode III OST - Yuki Kajiura "Maybe Tomorrow" (ending credits song) This song is the most bitter sweet send off to the Xenosaga franchise.....many of us wanted a remake/remaster for years but like the song says ..........maybe.....tomorrow...... Xenosaga franchise is the most underrated JRPG and for me Xenosaga 3 is in my top 5 video games of all time arguably number 1
They brought back this same singer from Xenogears and the first Xenosaga for the final song in the Xenoblade 3's dlc. So her vocals is with all three era's of the Xeno franchise.
If you liked this one, you NEED to hear Pain, also from Xenosaga. Speaking of Xenosaga... It's really an emotional roller coaster... This one is the credits for Xenosaga Episode 1, and this song is such melancholy if you've played the game because it means you finished the game and it's like you're weary but you don't want it to end.
Agh, I missed this somehow! Thank you for taking the time to get to all of my requests. This song has stuck with me for the past like 20 years. It was the incredible fusion of my favourite Celtic singer (Joanne Hogg from Iona (if you like these ballads, I HIGHLY recommend checking them out. Friendship's Door in particular is very relaxing and beautiful, and, as it happens, was one of my "sleep" songs) and my favourite Japanese composer. Something I never could have expected (I didn't realise they'd worked together before at the time). One of those songs that felt like it was made for me. I'm glad you enjoyed this one. Don't sweat how long it took to get to it. I know your list is as long as a human DNA strand. You were just about bang on for the timing. This came out in 2002. I very much miss this era of Mitsuda.
"Kokoro" is often translated as "heart", but it's more all-encompassing than that. Sort of just the sum total of one's thoughts, feelings, emotions, etc. Mind, body, spirit, soul, essence.
I'm so glad this showed up here! It's been a loooong itme since I've played the game, but this song still hits. I remember when you did Small Two of Pieces from Xenogears, that song reminded me of Kokoro and then I found out it was the same singer for both songs. And yeah this is the end credits theme.
Xenogears, Xenosaga, and Xenoblade are all games made under the creative direction of Tetsuya Takahashi. He and Yasonori Mitsuda have a good working relationship, and Mitsuda has often been brought on to write at least a few tracks for each game. Xenogears was made first in '98 under Squaresoft, but Takahashi left Square and the Saga games were made under Bandai Namco. Then his development team Monolith Soft were bought up by Nintendo, and made the 4 Xenoblade games. It's pretty neat to see when playing each of these games the subtle tributes and nods to the other works made under Takahashi's direction, but because of different companies owning the intellectual property rights to gears, saga, and blade respectively, none of the games can officially be directly related.
Cool, more Mitsuda, and catching a premiere at that. I remember this song from the first Xenosaga. It was first planned to be a massive 6-part story, but they were forced to make it down to 3 of them instead.
This song is ethereal and really set the mood goin into the Xenosaga series. It was my first time hearing Joanne Hogg's voice and she blew me away with her performance, a very unexpected but nostalgic hit right in the feels.
In the saga games you literally have several portions of the games where you jump into a sort of collective unconsciousness. All of the characters have a lot of pain and emotions inside that they are pushing down and unable to process or voice in their waking lives so I think the comparison to sleep is very on point! Thank you!
I don't remember if you have reacted to one before kokoro but literally every xeno game from Xenogears to Xenoblade 3 have a vocal song as their ending. It's almost always a love song too. As you have probably guessed, this is Xenosaga I's vocal ending.
Love this one! Love when he brings out the Uillean pipe the tune is so pretty and oh nooooo the lighter doesn't work 😂😂! The pitch sounds a bit weird in this vid maybe it's the compression 🤔. The first time I heard this I was shopping around best buy and it's like oop guess I got to get this game too 😂.
I keep mixing up Xenosaga and Xenogears, so I totally expected something else but this is good, too! That lighter, though, you've been looking forward to using it so much and then it doesn't work xD
Songs mentioned in this video; FFVIII - Eyes on me ruclips.net/video/HNefNLOHVYk/видео.html Legend of Dragoon - If you still believe ruclips.net/video/YPbUCOOZ_4k/видео.html Secret Garden - Sleepsong ruclips.net/video/T19_-ycPYjk/видео.html Ashley MacIsaac - Sleepy Maggie ruclips.net/video/bz4HtlbS5DI/видео.html
Xenogears, Saga, and Blade aren’t connected; but Takahashi did reuse a lot of his lore that didn’t get much coverage in Gears in Saga. So Saga feels like a spiritual successor. Blade is however its own thing entirely.
To expand on this a little: each one is different on the surface and absolutely do not share any story lines but what they essentially are is a different attempts at the same core principles and ideas. First two failed for various reasons, but Blade ended up being a success and definitely starts to evolve into one of the major JRPG series. And all of it in no small part thanks to Satoru Iwata believing in Monolith Soft back when Nintendo bought the studio.
Ehhh, I would say that given that Xenoblade 3 _absolutely_ brings Eternal Recurrance back very strongly into canon, and all the major Xenosaga elements in 2 including characters...I think it's back firmly in the realm of "for legal reasons this is not a sequel. We swear."
Lmao saying that Xenoblade's lore is disconnected is absurd. Blade adds some new concepts to the lore like Saga, which has big universe defining concepts that are not in Xenogears but it also mercilessly takes concepts from the older games too. Some of the biggest story elements are lifted straight up from gears and saga with some tweakings to fit the rest of the universe. The most obvious are the backstory for Xenoblade's Zohar which is literally a mix between the one in perfect works and the Xenosaga backstory we see on screen. The Trinity Processor and Aion have the same role as Deus/Omega, the Artifices are Diabolos. Klaus' experiment is a parallel to Grimoire Verum. Torna's plot is taken directly taken from Episode 4. The Fog King is a Gnosis that is only defeated after Shulk creates a bootleg Hilbert Effect for his sword. And then Xenoblade 3's plot is just a reimagined Xenogears where the main enemy is the Collective Unconscious and the Testaments from Xenosaga.
@@ghirahimlefabuleux8984 plus Eternal Recurrence, which itself was an in universe plot device for how saga could be "legally not a sequel" to gears is essentially brought up again in 3, and while not named explicitly, it's outcome is far less vague and theoretical in universe. And if I have a grasp on how it _mechanically_ works, would absolutely work between gears/saga/blade easily due to the Zohar itself.
Somewhere there's a timeline where Xenogears got the proper treatment it deserved, and wasn't splintered into half a dozen "spiritual successors" that have nothing to do with the story and characters that we all know and love. T_T Could never get into Xenosaga or Xenoblade for that reason. I'm just thinking the whole time "why not just make a proper continuation to Xenogears?", I don't care about these new characters, I want the original Xeno cast!
This song really sparks the imagination. Gotta keep that fire burning. It sucks that your attempt to lighten up the mood failed. It was kind of ember-assing.
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Kokoro is the ending credits theme to Xenosaga episode 1
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Xenosaga Episode II OST - Yuki Kajiura "Sweet Song" (Ending credits song)
Xenosaga Episode II OST - Fatal Fight (EPIC)
Xenosaga Episode III OST - Yuki Kajiura "Maybe Tomorrow" (ending credits song)
This song is the most bitter sweet send off to the Xenosaga franchise.....many of us wanted a remake/remaster for years but like the song says ..........maybe.....tomorrow......
Xenosaga franchise is the most underrated JRPG and for me Xenosaga 3 is in my top 5 video games of all time arguably number 1
I requested sweet song 👍 :D
They brought back this same singer from Xenogears and the first Xenosaga for the final song in the Xenoblade 3's dlc. So her vocals is with all three era's of the Xeno franchise.
If you liked this one, you NEED to hear Pain, also from Xenosaga.
Speaking of Xenosaga... It's really an emotional roller coaster... This one is the credits for Xenosaga Episode 1, and this song is such melancholy if you've played the game because it means you finished the game and it's like you're weary but you don't want it to end.
I can't believe we haven't gotten a Xenosaga remastered collection yet.
Agh, I missed this somehow! Thank you for taking the time to get to all of my requests. This song has stuck with me for the past like 20 years. It was the incredible fusion of my favourite Celtic singer (Joanne Hogg from Iona (if you like these ballads, I HIGHLY recommend checking them out. Friendship's Door in particular is very relaxing and beautiful, and, as it happens, was one of my "sleep" songs) and my favourite Japanese composer. Something I never could have expected (I didn't realise they'd worked together before at the time). One of those songs that felt like it was made for me.
I'm glad you enjoyed this one. Don't sweat how long it took to get to it. I know your list is as long as a human DNA strand. You were just about bang on for the timing. This came out in 2002. I very much miss this era of Mitsuda.
"Kokoro" is often translated as "heart", but it's more all-encompassing than that. Sort of just the sum total of one's thoughts, feelings, emotions, etc. Mind, body, spirit, soul, essence.
I'm so glad this showed up here! It's been a loooong itme since I've played the game, but this song still hits. I remember when you did Small Two of Pieces from Xenogears, that song reminded me of Kokoro and then I found out it was the same singer for both songs. And yeah this is the end credits theme.
Joanne Hogg
Xenogears, Xenosaga, and Xenoblade are all games made under the creative direction of Tetsuya Takahashi. He and Yasonori Mitsuda have a good working relationship, and Mitsuda has often been brought on to write at least a few tracks for each game. Xenogears was made first in '98 under Squaresoft, but Takahashi left Square and the Saga games were made under Bandai Namco. Then his development team Monolith Soft were bought up by Nintendo, and made the 4 Xenoblade games. It's pretty neat to see when playing each of these games the subtle tributes and nods to the other works made under Takahashi's direction, but because of different companies owning the intellectual property rights to gears, saga, and blade respectively, none of the games can officially be directly related.
Cool, more Mitsuda, and catching a premiere at that.
I remember this song from the first Xenosaga. It was first planned to be a massive 6-part story, but they were forced to make it down to 3 of them instead.
This song is ethereal and really set the mood goin into the Xenosaga series. It was my first time hearing Joanne Hogg's voice and she blew me away with her performance, a very unexpected but nostalgic hit right in the feels.
In the saga games you literally have several portions of the games where you jump into a sort of collective unconsciousness. All of the characters have a lot of pain and emotions inside that they are pushing down and unable to process or voice in their waking lives so I think the comparison to sleep is very on point!
Thank you!
Yes, one of my favorite song from the series.
Have you ever listened to One Night In Neo Kobe City from Snatcher?
I don't remember if you have reacted to one before kokoro but literally every xeno game from Xenogears to Xenoblade 3 have a vocal song as their ending. It's almost always a love song too. As you have probably guessed, this is Xenosaga I's vocal ending.
Love this one! Love when he brings out the Uillean pipe the tune is so pretty and oh nooooo the lighter doesn't work 😂😂! The pitch sounds a bit weird in this vid maybe it's the compression 🤔. The first time I heard this I was shopping around best buy and it's like oop guess I got to get this game too 😂.
I keep mixing up Xenosaga and Xenogears, so I totally expected something else but this is good, too!
That lighter, though, you've been looking forward to using it so much and then it doesn't work xD
It’s the thought that counts 🔥
Songs mentioned in this video;
FFVIII - Eyes on me
ruclips.net/video/HNefNLOHVYk/видео.html
Legend of Dragoon - If you still believe
ruclips.net/video/YPbUCOOZ_4k/видео.html
Secret Garden - Sleepsong
ruclips.net/video/T19_-ycPYjk/видео.html
Ashley MacIsaac - Sleepy Maggie
ruclips.net/video/bz4HtlbS5DI/видео.html
This gave me huge nightwish vibes, probably because of the instrument choice
Xenogears, Saga, and Blade aren’t connected; but Takahashi did reuse a lot of his lore that didn’t get much coverage in Gears in Saga. So Saga feels like a spiritual successor. Blade is however its own thing entirely.
To expand on this a little: each one is different on the surface and absolutely do not share any story lines but what they essentially are is a different attempts at the same core principles and ideas. First two failed for various reasons, but Blade ended up being a success and definitely starts to evolve into one of the major JRPG series. And all of it in no small part thanks to Satoru Iwata believing in Monolith Soft back when Nintendo bought the studio.
Ehhh, I would say that given that Xenoblade 3 _absolutely_ brings Eternal Recurrance back very strongly into canon, and all the major Xenosaga elements in 2 including characters...I think it's back firmly in the realm of "for legal reasons this is not a sequel. We swear."
Lmao saying that Xenoblade's lore is disconnected is absurd. Blade adds some new concepts to the lore like Saga, which has big universe defining concepts that are not in Xenogears but it also mercilessly takes concepts from the older games too.
Some of the biggest story elements are lifted straight up from gears and saga with some tweakings to fit the rest of the universe. The most obvious are the backstory for Xenoblade's Zohar which is literally a mix between the one in perfect works and the Xenosaga backstory we see on screen. The Trinity Processor and Aion have the same role as Deus/Omega, the Artifices are Diabolos. Klaus' experiment is a parallel to Grimoire Verum. Torna's plot is taken directly taken from Episode 4. The Fog King is a Gnosis that is only defeated after Shulk creates a bootleg Hilbert Effect for his sword. And then Xenoblade 3's plot is just a reimagined Xenogears where the main enemy is the Collective Unconscious and the Testaments from Xenosaga.
@@ghirahimlefabuleux8984 plus Eternal Recurrence, which itself was an in universe plot device for how saga could be "legally not a sequel" to gears is essentially brought up again in 3, and while not named explicitly, it's outcome is far less vague and theoretical in universe. And if I have a grasp on how it _mechanically_ works, would absolutely work between gears/saga/blade easily due to the Zohar itself.
Somewhere there's a timeline where Xenogears got the proper treatment it deserved, and wasn't splintered into half a dozen "spiritual successors" that have nothing to do with the story and characters that we all know and love. T_T Could never get into Xenosaga or Xenoblade for that reason. I'm just thinking the whole time "why not just make a proper continuation to Xenogears?", I don't care about these new characters, I want the original Xeno cast!
Licensing.
Gears is owned by square
Saga is owned by bandi-namco.
His own company owns Blade, by monilith.
Bamco pleeeeeeeeease bring back Xenosaga in some way 😭
Joanne
This song really sparks the imagination. Gotta keep that fire burning.
It sucks that your attempt to lighten up the mood failed. It was kind of ember-assing.
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😂😂😂