Can we talk about just how badass Louisoix is? The guy sacrificed himself to both shatter a planet destroying meteor, and one shot Bahamut simultaneously, after saving the Warrior of Light. What a legend
Louisox's sacrfice was noble and he was a great man but he was still just a man. Coils of Bahumut goes into how he did none of that alone and why he isn't someone to idolize or worship.
U ain’t lying lol. I was just about to say. I just started playing in April and just finished Endwalker MSQ going into patch content and man this song gets me teared up a bit. I can’t imagine what it was like to actually experience all this from launch of 1.0 and seeing the sky change and stuff then servers literally shutdown and the cutscene plays basically showing what happens. They turned a potential flop into a masterpiece transition/rebound with how they handled 1.0 to 2.0
"Tell us why given life, we are meant to die, helpless in our cries" "Thy life is a riddle, to bear rapture and sorrow To listen, to suffer, to entrust unto tomorrow" "In one fleeting moment, from the Land doth life flow Yet in one fleeting moment, for anew it doth grow In the same fleeting moment thou must live, die, and know" I'm astounded. Bravo Square. Endwalker and the Hydaelyn-Zodiark arc are masterpieces.
@@IPITYTHEFOOLZ there's a happy medium here, my dude. Did they have the entire Endwalker plot and everything leading up to it planned out in 1.0, with the Ascians being Amaurotines and Hydaelyn being one of them and the Endsinger and all of that? No, probably not. CBU3 probably used the lyrics and thematic aspects of Answers, and weaved a story around it after they took the reins over to make ARR. I wouldn't exactly call that a "retcon", and even if I did, it certainly wouldn't be "dumb" of them. Honestly, considering the disaster than 1.0 was, do you REALLY think the original writers of 1.0 had a better direction to take the story to contextualize Answers? Sorry, hard pass on that. Quit going out of your way to be a contrarian, it doesn't make you smart or interesting.
@@Stickarms99 I've never played 1.0 but as far as I know it being a disaster had nothing to do with its story. I just think taking something and twisting it a bit to fit with endwalker is not that impressive. Just feels like pandering to me so people can soy out over how they planned this from the beginning!!
I just got to the end of the level 87 quest "Thou Must Live, Die, and Know". First of all, that cutscene was the first time we heard this FULL version of Answers in-game. Second, YOU CAN'T JUST PULL A LINE OF THE LYRICS FOR THE QUEST NAME!! Third, *OH GODS WHERE DOES IT GO FROM HERE?!* Edit: I've seen where it goes and I hurt.....
@@grandoblivion5268 when the song was written it was thought it was about bahamut and his children, but with endwalker they recontextualize the song in the live die and know cinematic at the end of the 5th zone in endwalker, i would go into more detail but thats 100% spoilers and i dont want to spoil anything for sprouts or people who plan on returning but have not =).
@@RX93Custom They've been recontextualizing this song ever since Heavensward, if you look for the details throughout the Main Quest Story. And that's what makes it such a powerful piece of this game, from start to current end, and such a magnificent story.
I know Endwalker reveals a deeper meaning to these lyrics, but I always found the sentiment of "you've got your life, live your best one in honour of those behind you and the sake of those after you" fairly straightforward to begin with. It's the most elaborate "you got this, soldier" I've ever heard.
I'm certain all of Endwalker was written with this viewpoint in mind, but yes if there was ever a song to encompass all of FFXIV it would be Answers giving exactly that one line
This song sentiment is the embodiment of most of the msq story tbh. And at the same time the development team wish for their game’s community. They encourage people to help new players and support sprouts 🌱 all the way. I love how these lyrics got turned into this amazing story experience but in an essence it’s also a message of being a good veteran player to newer players as well. 😊
"Thou must live, die, and know" Venat's words when she sundered everything...Geez, there is so much to unpack with that, both hope and menace at the same time.
This song turns me into a full dynamis despair blasphemy and at the same time gives me hope for my own existence and purpose. I have ascended. A Masterpiece of emotional art.
*What I remember about the fall of Dalamud, is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of Operation: Meteor, our Free Company was discreetly transferred back to Carteneau. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts we'd survive, any private thoughts of running? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the Aetheryte trip, not when the order to charge came down, and not when we saw Bahamut break free. Not a word.* - Unknown Edit: I posted this comment after a spark of inspiration, shortly after beating the Coils of Bahamut raid series, finding out the truth about what happened. I'd only been playing the game a couple months up to that point, and since then I've long beaten Endwalker. My only regret: Not playing it sooner. Happy 10th anniversary, FFXIV.
Having just recently lost my mom to cancer, this song hits on an entire new level. To live is to suffer, but to suffer is to live. Rest well mom, see you in the ethereal sea.
To live is not to suffer; you must bear it, learn lessons and pass it on to tomorrow. Just like they say in the song. You are what she beared life's suffering for, hope you are living up to it.
It's so nuts how there's absolutely no way they had everything planned out for what Hydaelyn's ultimate goal was when they wrote this song, meaning it's entirely possible that her entire reason for doing what she did for the reasons that she did it were reverse-engineered based on the lyrics of this song just to make it that much more impactful when it's actually revealed.
This is undeniably what happened. It is unfathomable to think otherwise. Uematsu wrote this song before 2.0 was even out. Ishikawa is an absolute genius of storytelling
@@Chris-iw1ep The woman who wrote the storyline for both Shadowbringer & Endwalker wasn't the same person who wrote ARR, HW, or Stormblood. I'm pretty sure she wrote the plot for Endwalker after Shadowbringer was finished, and possibly didn't start until Heavensward, since her first notable contribution to XIV is the Dark Knight questline. Since the storylines for all of XIV were written by different people until Shadowbringer, there's very little chance that The Final Days were something they'd thought of before then (there's no way they had the idea in even 1.0, when the song was written for that story's conclusion, since even the original ideas they had for the Ascians' plans were scrapped by the time Heavensward came around).
@@Chris-iw1ep answers was written by nobuo uematsu before 2.0 even came out, do you really think that ishikawa, who had just been added to the writing staff at that point, was working with uematsu to write this song?
*EDIT: Spoilers for the MSQ of FFXIV* She gave us a hint. "Hear, feel, think". She knew we could only defeat Meteion if we struggled, yet collected memories of the hopes of the people of Etheirys by hearing their words, share their feelings and know their thoughts. Hear, feel think she told us when sending us on our journey. Meteion asked every civilization these questions: " I want to hear your words, share your feelings, know your thoughts." Hear, feel, think. Bloody genius.
Hear.. the song of creations end. Feel.. the sorrow at hope's demise. Think.. and find your way in the darkness. it was even in the song all along, Suffer (Feel) Promise (think) witness (teach) Reason (Hear) this song hits so differently after finishing endwalker.
@@AnthroTsuneon its is massive spoilers for the entire game. But basically with out spoiling the entire story, Meteion is a sad scared little bird girl who is destroying the multiverse and the final boss of a ten year long story.
@@darschpugs4690 So there's other worlds.. Do we end up going there or is it just an excuse for the crossover events? Kinda figuring now I shouldn't have trusted the ARR video's comments not to have spoilers outside of ARR
@@AnthroTsuneon the cross over events have nothing to do with the story, you can happily ignore them as nothing more than fan service. But yes, you will travel to an alternate world in an expansion and that is all i will say on the matter due to major spoilers associated with it.
Calloway sounds so motherly, i think she perfectly fits the role of Hydaelyn. I can't help to sob every time the "walk free" line starts. Then the last chorus "Thy life is a riddle..." absolutely destroys me. Such powerful lyrics and such an amazing delivery. A masterpiece.
@@theshadowherself Answers - Reprise: Used for moments as impactful as Bahamut was This full version of Answers plays (as of lvl 87 quest in EW, I'm not done yet) exactly once and it's in the 2nd of 3 cutscenes in the quest "Thou Must Live, Die, and Know". Just having the full song by itself is nuts since FF14 is very strict on when it brings up previous songs from its own plot, but to use the final line of the lyrics is something not even the expansion title quests have done. This is level 87, 2/3 of the way through the expansion. I am hyped and terrified from where stuff goes from here. I'm a massive lore nerd, seeing these callbacks to previous bits of the game gets me going especially because they have established they don't do so lightly. Every song has a reason, and besides the expansion themes Answers is the rarest of all to make appearances but it is also the only one that crosses expansions. They use it knowing full well the weight of lore it carries.
@@theshadowherself Now I wonder if it was cannon that a woman and her orchestra just started singing off in the distance while everyone else was fighting.
You all probably noticed this, but when Susan and the choir said "Answer together" that's when they both start singing together. It's like Hydaelyn and mankind are finally agreement.
As someone who just ended ARR, this song hits HARD. And reading the comments, I'm gonna get hit HARDER later down the line, so... BRING IT ON, HEAVENSWARD!!
part of me wants to be able to play them again as it was the first time. FFXIV is a wonderful journey....a catharsis that truly purify your soul with all kind of emotions.
This is without a doubt Nobuo Uematsus magnum opus. I cannot help but get chocked up whenever the power balad part starts up. It just leaves me utterly entranced the whole way through every time I listen to it.
7:18 - "A conjunction has begun to form; an intertwining of your time and mine. When you truly understand what is at stake, and your journey has prepared you to surmount the insurmountable... Then shall I honor the promise made in another time. Another age."
Only after playing Endwalker did I finally understood the lyrics. Brings tears to my eyes almost every time now, especially the final verse, and it's final lyrics: "In the same fleeting moment, Thou must Live, Die, And know." It sums up ones life perfectly. Our lives are but a fleeting moment, and in that fleeting moment, we must live and die, and know the answer to the question
@@vespi57 I began therapy at the same time I began playing FFXIV and I can honestly say it was one of the things that has helped me improve. When that lvl 87 quest sequence played in game, I wept like a baby. It was as if I finally understood why I'm alive. For some reason, looking at life and all the things worth living for has become so much easier. Alas, I still have mental health issues and a game can't cure depression, but a fun combination of therapy, medication and FFXIV has improved my life significantly.
I heard somewhere that Natsuko Ishikawa, as she rose up the writer ranks on the dev team, recommended they change the origins of the Ascians. Considering what the Ascians said and did in ARR and Heavensward, compared to how they acted later, I'm inclined to believe that. As such, it seems that they might have based Hydaelyn's motives off this song, rather than the other way around. Either that, or Her originally planned intentions weren't too different from what they ended up being revealed as.
The depth of this last message is deeply profound and incredibly spiritual. We are asleep for a tiny, mad moment, a single infinitesimal blip in which not one note from Heaven's song was missed, yet in that non-time we ate from the tree of the knowledge of life and death, of contrast, of opposites, of Love and not love - and we saw, we heard, we felt, and we learned. There is only Love and Light.
I love the new meaning this song takes after Endwalker. Meteion wanted to know why we live. And why is that life destined to have strife. Venat’s answer is that the strife is what makes life worth living. If we don’t get sad/angry how can we know when we are happy. Something that does not just apply to our characters, but in real life as well.
"One race discarded all things that led to sorrow, hoping to leave only joy. They found that joy lost its savour in the absence of sorrow, and gave up on the future. And themselves." ~ Meteion, on the fate of The Plenty. It floors me just HOW CLOSE Meteion actually came to the answer to the existential question that she had been burdened with when she found the people of The Plenty. If she had interpreted it differently, maybe she wouldn't have fallen into despair.
@Shadethewolfy Okay, but have you considered that that didn't make any sense? These people can solve literally every problem they have, to the point of literally abolishing suffering, but they can't invent a recreational challenge for themselves? It's ridiculous. They didn't die because happiness requires sadness, they died because they were too stupid to invent video games.
I just finish Endwalker, this song hit so differently after seeing and understanding everything, 10 years later we though we understood the meaning of the song but we were far away from truth, it's really emotional and such genius from devs team, what a masterpiece
People have probably already recognised this, but the fact that Answers and every expansions main theme, besides Stormblood, uses the exact same chord progression. Such a small and subtle detail, they really were teasing us this entire time.
This is THE version of the song. I Like them all: That Chinese live version; the anniversary concert; the Distant worlds one; the in game version; the like 5 most viewed covers. But this is the greatest imo
To embrace death is to learn to live life. If you suffer you're still learning. I am not mired by doubt. Witness. Feel. Suffer. Think. Observation is the key. Slow down. Don't rush through life.
Its amazing how ten years ago this song was just something that would play in the background while i was getting ready to log in to now an absolute powerhouse of emotions every time i hear it. The planning and storytelling of this series has just been absolutely phenomenal
These lyrics have ALWAYS permeated the entirety of FF14. The story has always been about the struggle to live, and finding reasons for doing so. A core theme of the game primarily deals with the fight against authoritarian forces from the Imperials to Ishgard's diocese to the Monetarists, the drive to fight for a better world instead of rolling over and accepting a present that might be safer for you personally but one that both robs you of true agency and endangers those less fortunate than you. In all of these cases the player is constantly challenged by people who are suffering from complacency, whether you're trying to convince the Monetarists to accept refugees or the people of Yangxia to rise up and fight. Even the Tribes go with this theme, as Primals undoubtedly make their lives WORSE but often represent a comparatively simple solution to the colonialism of the City States. ShB pushes this up a notch by actually demanding that YOU make this choice too. Emet Selch offers you a place at his side in what would be a genuinely utopian new world, offers to essentially make you an honorary member of what is quantifiably a superior race. The player is expected to reject this, not because he's wrong - by all metrics the Ancients were just a more ideal existence - but because we're being asked to value all life, to not join him in appointing ourselves as a judge of who deserves life and who doesn't, to value the diversity of existences and experiences and cultures as more important than trying to quantify life into a formula. EW finally personifies this with Hermes and Meteion, but the game asked us the question long before Venat spelled it out directly. The Tribes and their Primals, the lowbornes and the dragons, the people of Ala Mhigo and Othard, the list goes on. We were constantly, CONSTANTLY finding peoples' answers for living. But the actual answers, the reasons, didn't matter. 'Hear, Feel, Think' doesn't refer to WHAT people are hearing, or feeling, or thinking; it's referring to the fact that they *do* and that's all that should matter. Your answer isn't what you say, your answer is the fact you seek one. The ones who suffer are the ones who stop seeking.
That is a downright beautiful explanation of the themes of ff14 leading up to endwalker. And I honestly wish I had noticed almost any of these themes before i finished EW...
@@althelor Thanks for the kind words. And you're fine. You felt, you heard, you thought, and in the end you found your answer. The time doesn't matter.
I attended one of the distant worlds concerts where this song made one of its first appearances. Not many people heard this song or about Susan Callaway, and around the same time, FFXIV was rebooted. The part towards the end of the song around 6:13, where "answer together" happens, there was a long pause that's not really included in the versions we hear online and everyone in the crowd thought the song was over and began a standing ovation. I was like no, it's not over, what are y'all doing! My fiance was like shhhh just let it keep going. Susan continued the rest of the song and people were in absolute shock and awe. By the end of the song, the crowd absolutely loved it. To this day one of the best songs I've ever gotten the pleasure to hear in person.
i went to the one in orlando were Susan made an appearance and the same thing happened there, a long drawn out pause where people started cheering, and kept it up through the end of the song.
Having never played Final Fantasy XIV I can feel the emotion in this song and coupled with the Armageddon scene that comes with it holy hell that's powerful
Oh, do try the game, it's absolutely amazing! True masterwork both with gameplay, immersion and soundtracks. I started playing in April and haven't looked back, I absolutely love the game! Just finished Endwalker the other day. I liked A Realm Reborn, was slightly confused in Heavensward, absolutely loved Stormblood, was amazed by Shadowbringers and Endwalker completely blew my mind (in a good way)
@@tiborvenancio6443 I just felt the story was odd in much of Heavensward, and I also didn’t like the horrible church music in some instances nor was I a fan of the dungeons in Heavensward. For me Heavensward was probably more of a grind than ARR, while I truly enjoyed Stormblood when I got there, especially when being over in the Far East. But with Heavensward the only parts I really liked was Dragonsong (yes, I did cry when it started playing) and the Hildibrand quest line. I’m also no fan of cold weather so I guess that plays a role as well, Ishgard is just not a favorite place of mine (plus the awful music in the cathedral and some other places)
If you don't know since you haven't played the game, this song is LITERALLY just the beginning. Like, one of the opening cutscenes beginning. It goes so much further later on if you ever decide to give ffxiv a chance
A damn good song. Perhaps one day I can lay down my arms and truly rest, but that is not soon. No matter how hard and painful things get, we have to keep going. For those we lost. For those we can yet save.
crazy to feel that there was a whole story and adventure before this baked into the current one, honestly more stories need to do something like that, where the entire prologue feels like the climax to a different crazy story you barely missed. One of the most interesting things about ARR is how it feels like you come into play a bit too late to save the day the first time, yet youre ready to help pick up the pieces now that you are here, instead of simply reinforcing a status quo that was there before the start of the game.
Just finished ARR tonight... I didn't care much for the song, but when the credits started rolling? Oh boy. Now I regret underestimating such a banger of a track and the meaning behind it. Judging the rest of the comments... I have a feeling things will hit even more harder. Here's to me playing HW soon, and if I have the time and money, the rest of the expansions
Me, back then when I wasn't playing FFXIV and didn't know anything: Why am I crying? Me, after finishing EW years later after listening to this for first time: I guess, I will never stop crying now. It's a 100% crying rate.
You heard the song, felt the emotions, and now after much thinking, you know why it brings a tear to your eyes. "Welcome home!" - Tataru (Damn you Tataru, why does such an innocent phrase makes my eyes leak so?!?)
This song has always moved me to tears. I was fortunate enough to see Susan Calloway perform this live, and just dont have words for the feelings I felt.
"Even now, I remember standing there. Locked in a moment where the sky is aflame. Where stars fall as tears, and screams darken the seas. Where resignation rots the trees... Such is the lament of they who have gone before. The song of they who tried and failed to create a better world. The song of the end..."
Answers def feels like the song is about the ancients. All the sacrificed souls and Hydaelyn singing about their story, they’ve been trying to warn us since ARR and we all missed the clues. 😱
That is why foreshadowing is such a fantastic plot device. You can miss it at first because you don't have the knowledge you need to see it. This is why I'm so replaying the game.
The line "our souls have been torn and our bodies forsaken" in particular is still wild to me in how it describes exactly what happened to the Ancients as a result of the Sundering
I haven't played into Heavensward yet, but even as it stands now, these lyrics are _extremely_ heavy and pack a lot of existential emotion into it. All the people going, "Man, this just used to be a fun little diddy before Endwalker" makes me wonder just wtf is in store for me.
I don't think I've cared for any characters in any story as much as I care for the Scions, Hydelyn, and my own WoL. This song just makes me feel all of the emotions from ARR to Endwalker all at once. It's crazy to think I tried this game twice a long time ago, starting as a Lancer both times, then quit a few days later. Then, about a year ago, I got bored and rolled a thaumaturge and here I am 500 hours later. My weekends feel wasted if I don't play 14 now.
Just finished ARR earlier today and i can't wait to continue the journey after work. I've been told by many that it only gets better and I personally enjoyed ARR. It really ramps up near the end after a slow burn. This song slaps on another level, i can only imagine how I'll feel coming back to this once I've caught up to current story. I feel lucky to experience this journey in one go and not be waiting for an expansion release.
Something curious about the long string of present-tense verbs at 2:49 is that they don't feel like commands someone is demanding of others. They feel like emotes. As if you could just put a / in front of each one and it tells the story of what happened in the wake of the Calamity.
I just saw Uematsu in Bruxelles two days ago. He played a few of his old songs in 16bit on the keyboard and his band followed. It was something I will tell to my grandchildren. I saw the man live who created this masterpiece of a song. I still cannot comphrehend what happend.
I am a new player that started playing FF14 a month ago. I will try to describe how impactful this song keeps getting as I get through expansions (beware of first time impressions) FIRST TIME: I enjoy cinematics, my heart can't help but melt when i see any that is at least good. SO THIS ONE WAS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. I felt that FF14 was going to be an unique adventure, even tho I was skeptical about enjoying the game in the early levels. BEFORE HEAVENSWARD: What the actual FFF******************* HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WATCH THIS AFTER WHAT HAPPENED I have decided to listen to the song at least once while logging into the game. It took me a month to get to finish ARR. I can't even describe what I am feeling. Time will tell, so does the story which is, at this potion, quite unpredictable. Wish me luck!
Didn't play ARR but song still shook me. I just went to Distant Worlds (FF orchestra) and they actually had Susan Calloway live in person to sing this and she killed it. Topped even one Winged angel as performance of the night
@LilT2o00 You mean you haven't played XIV at all? If not, there's a free trial that runs all the way to level 60, through the end of Heavensward if you want to try it out. 😁
that last part how they say "know" at the very end, its so....i dont even have the words for it, the only way i can describe it is its like i can feel the echoes of the past, especially having been there and all the friends i made gone since then and those that remained grew distant over time, now i find myself mostly a lone wanderer, i wont lie i dont even hang around the social areas anymore. Not that there's anything wrong with it but it feels so different to then and everytime i hear the outro its a whole different feeling of nostalgia, like ive genuinely lost something but yet having finished this arc now, i rlly do feel like im moving on to something fresh again like when i first started all those years ago, i just wish some of the ppl i knew then were still around :'>
This song has been with me from the beginning to the end from stepping off that cart in Ul’dah on the day of a parade to see a Goobbue break loose and run amok to the final hours of watching a dragon lay waste to the world I traveled for the longest time To wake up in a forest outside Limsa a mark of my travels firm on the back of my neck Through many adventures and trials facing what some would call a limit only to break it time and time again A steady walk to the end to understand the reason why I walk The very avatar of despair felled the rivalry comes to a bittersweet end And still I walk to find the Answers. This song has been with me since the beginning and it will stay til the end.
I come back to this song time and time again, to think of better times, to enjoy the music, to just have a piece of peace. However, you put a lot of effort into making a compelling video to go along with the song. This, I feel is very cool. Thanks for that, man. This will probably be my default every time I'll come back to this song. Cheers!
This is why I absolutely love FFXIV's writing, it keeps retcons to the absolute minimum in favour of recontextualising previous events. This was written when Endwalker wasn't even a concept yet it feels like it was written with Endwalker in mind.
hell, if you wanna go even further, it even recontextualizes the 1.0 cinematic trailer too 6.0 spoilers ----------- derplander gets a vision after the garlean flagship crashes, that being the seal being broken at silvertear lake, and if you’ll notice the green-ish, transparent image of the primals shooting off is *very* similar to the primals shooting off and powering the Ragnarok. while its obvious this vision was meant to be part of the 1.0 story, it now instead works as a vision of the future.
Wow, I love this song! And the way you present the lyrics here is fabulous - SO MANY places don't give you enough in advance so you can *actually* sing along - fabulous job!
To think that this is a game! And the love and effort put into the music and game as a whole. True masterpiece, honestly. And this song! Once you love it, you will always love it. It's hauntingly powerful and beautiful.
WOW I love Louisoix. What a great mage who becomes a Primal and defeats Bahamut. This was an epic fight. I just love his endearing smile as he crosses over to immortality. So many awesome messages here. THE BEST FF song and vid ever.
I'm brand new to FF14 and when this cinematic played when I logged in my second time(on the free trial), I was absolutely floored and stunned. How had I not played this game at all before?
I didn’t pay much attention to this song at first cause you know gotta move on to the next expansion but this song does set the tone for the rest of your journey through. Finding answers, realizing your meaning and purpose and so on. Life is an endless journey of questions and answers and more questions.
There is an incantation in Elden Ring called Elden Stars and it is like casting a spell version of Bahamut flying around with those things flying with it. A goddess named Marika also has a mark burned in her eyes that looks similar to the sun Bahamut emerges from. Idk if the creator of fromsoft gets inspiration from other games or if maybe there is a group of friends on a similar wave in these studios, but I notice lots of cross game references will be similarly themed.
i just finished Endwalker and this song hits very different now. At the start of my ffxiv journey this song was for me a "cool song" and now the best song ever made😭😭😭
As someone whos never played 14 this song still resonates within me at a deeper level...its almost scary yea it brings me hope for the future...this is why i love music with a passion.
I’ve gone all these, years, without knowing there was more to the cs before the wol arrives “elsewhere”. Louie didn’t die after he teleported them!?!! I couldn’t breathe the entire second part of that. I’ve never had a video game effect me so much.
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No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise!
Henceforth he shall walk
The nature of a deity is to make judgements upon the actions of mortals, cursed they are for they shan't ever truly understand them.
@@azatheeverchosen7615 dude that quote is fucking raw
Henceforth, he shall walk!
Blizzard, every single wow expac
Can we talk about just how badass Louisoix is? The guy sacrificed himself to both shatter a planet destroying meteor, and one shot Bahamut simultaneously, after saving the Warrior of Light. What a legend
Well it's not a meteor. That's Teraflare, which is essentially just a literal crap ton of Aether bundled up into a massive mini sun
@@terrariaarmy508 ... isn't that more impressive than a Meteor?
@@krayte5120 It is
Louisox's sacrfice was noble and he was a great man but he was still just a man. Coils of Bahumut goes into how he did none of that alone and why he isn't someone to idolize or worship.
Louisoix is the original one punch man.
Listening to Answers after finishing ARR: ok, this is a pretty epic song, cool
Listening to Answers after finishing Endwalker: *sobs uncontrollably*
i haven't cried this hard in years, and i only just finished sharlayan in endwalker
U ain’t lying lol. I was just about to say. I just started playing in April and just finished Endwalker MSQ going into patch content and man this song gets me teared up a bit. I can’t imagine what it was like to actually experience all this from launch of 1.0 and seeing the sky change and stuff then servers literally shutdown and the cutscene plays basically showing what happens. They turned a potential flop into a masterpiece transition/rebound with how they handled 1.0 to 2.0
@@Dbeastlygamer95hehe I just started endwalker yesterday . Started playing 14 around when dawn trail came out .
"Tell us why given life, we are meant to die, helpless in our cries"
"Thy life is a riddle, to bear rapture and sorrow
To listen, to suffer, to entrust unto tomorrow"
"In one fleeting moment, from the Land doth life flow
Yet in one fleeting moment, for anew it doth grow
In the same fleeting moment thou must live, die, and know"
I'm astounded. Bravo Square. Endwalker and the Hydaelyn-Zodiark arc are masterpieces.
It's amazing how they created this song for 1.0 death and they gave us understanding these words very, very later in time in endwalker
@@Ethera55 its not really amazing. They reconned the meaning of this song. Its pretty dumb if anything
@@IPITYTHEFOOLZ there's a happy medium here, my dude. Did they have the entire Endwalker plot and everything leading up to it planned out in 1.0, with the Ascians being Amaurotines and Hydaelyn being one of them and the Endsinger and all of that? No, probably not. CBU3 probably used the lyrics and thematic aspects of Answers, and weaved a story around it after they took the reins over to make ARR. I wouldn't exactly call that a "retcon", and even if I did, it certainly wouldn't be "dumb" of them. Honestly, considering the disaster than 1.0 was, do you REALLY think the original writers of 1.0 had a better direction to take the story to contextualize Answers?
Sorry, hard pass on that. Quit going out of your way to be a contrarian, it doesn't make you smart or interesting.
@@Stickarms99 i dont get why you're being rude to me
@@Stickarms99 I've never played 1.0 but as far as I know it being a disaster had nothing to do with its story. I just think taking something and twisting it a bit to fit with endwalker is not that impressive. Just feels like pandering to me so people can soy out over how they planned this from the beginning!!
This song when I started playing: This is nice
This song after finishing Endwalker: MAH HEART HURTS
Oh god. This song already chokes me up as it is. Now I'm afraid to finish Endwalker, i'm not sure my heart can handle it Lol.
@@shikyo88 all our hearts ceased to work in the process of END, from sadness and happiness
Sounds like I need to finish END. I'm at the lvl 87 dungeon
That's probably a good time to visit a cardiologist.
I just got to the end of the level 87 quest "Thou Must Live, Die, and Know".
First of all, that cutscene was the first time we heard this FULL version of Answers in-game.
Second, YOU CAN'T JUST PULL A LINE OF THE LYRICS FOR THE QUEST NAME!!
Third, *OH GODS WHERE DOES IT GO FROM HERE?!*
Edit: I've seen where it goes and I hurt.....
After going through Arr till the end of endwalker just wow the meaning of the song was just crazy
Wym?
@@grandoblivion5268 when the song was written it was thought it was about bahamut and his children, but with endwalker they recontextualize the song in the live die and know cinematic at the end of the 5th zone in endwalker, i would go into more detail but thats 100% spoilers and i dont want to spoil anything for sprouts or people who plan on returning but have not =).
@@RX93Custom forever walk in the Light!
@@RX93Custom They've been recontextualizing this song ever since Heavensward, if you look for the details throughout the Main Quest Story. And that's what makes it such a powerful piece of this game, from start to current end, and such a magnificent story.
Forge ahead 💕
I know Endwalker reveals a deeper meaning to these lyrics, but I always found the sentiment of "you've got your life, live your best one in honour of those behind you and the sake of those after you" fairly straightforward to begin with. It's the most elaborate "you got this, soldier" I've ever heard.
I'm certain all of Endwalker was written with this viewpoint in mind, but yes if there was ever a song to encompass all of FFXIV it would be Answers giving exactly that one line
Yeah, pretty much.
Just want to point out those behind you and those after you are the same thing. You mean those before you and those after you?
This song sentiment is the embodiment of most of the msq story tbh. And at the same time the development team wish for their game’s community. They encourage people to help new players and support sprouts 🌱 all the way. I love how these lyrics got turned into this amazing story experience but in an essence it’s also a message of being a good veteran player to newer players as well. 😊
Those interpretations were made before Endwalker, it just became more evident.
"Thou must live, die, and know" Venat's words when she sundered everything...Geez, there is so much to unpack with that, both hope and menace at the same time.
This song turns me into a full dynamis despair blasphemy and at the same time gives me hope for my own existence and purpose. I have ascended. A Masterpiece of emotional art.
*What I remember about the fall of Dalamud, is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of Operation: Meteor, our Free Company was discreetly transferred back to Carteneau. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts we'd survive, any private thoughts of running? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the Aetheryte trip, not when the order to charge came down, and not when we saw Bahamut break free. Not a word.* - Unknown
Edit: I posted this comment after a spark of inspiration, shortly after beating the Coils of Bahamut raid series, finding out the truth about what happened. I'd only been playing the game a couple months up to that point, and since then I've long beaten Endwalker. My only regret: Not playing it sooner.
Happy 10th anniversary, FFXIV.
Huh, a Star Wars Battlefield 2 reference?
_"A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one."_
@@whisperingshadowXI an extremely welcome surprise.
Ayo 501st Journal! Love the original Battlefront 2.
You- my friend - are a legend.
You should have been at The Gyhmlit Dark. It was quite the Battlefront, Too
Having just recently lost my mom to cancer, this song hits on an entire new level.
To live is to suffer, but to suffer is to live.
Rest well mom, see you in the ethereal sea.
Sending you love and strength warrior of light ✨️
cringe
It's not cringe that's not nice! Someone just lost their mother!
To live is not to suffer; you must bear it, learn lessons and pass it on to tomorrow. Just like they say in the song.
You are what she beared life's suffering for, hope you are living up to it.
@@ShawnMadeInUSAif anything is cringe, it’s you being an edge lord.
It's so nuts how there's absolutely no way they had everything planned out for what Hydaelyn's ultimate goal was when they wrote this song, meaning it's entirely possible that her entire reason for doing what she did for the reasons that she did it were reverse-engineered based on the lyrics of this song just to make it that much more impactful when it's actually revealed.
This is undeniably what happened. It is unfathomable to think otherwise. Uematsu wrote this song before 2.0 was even out. Ishikawa is an absolute genius of storytelling
what? it's entirely possible that it was planned this way from the start. why wouldn't it be?
@@Chris-iw1ep The woman who wrote the storyline for both Shadowbringer & Endwalker wasn't the same person who wrote ARR, HW, or Stormblood. I'm pretty sure she wrote the plot for Endwalker after Shadowbringer was finished, and possibly didn't start until Heavensward, since her first notable contribution to XIV is the Dark Knight questline. Since the storylines for all of XIV were written by different people until Shadowbringer, there's very little chance that The Final Days were something they'd thought of before then (there's no way they had the idea in even 1.0, when the song was written for that story's conclusion, since even the original ideas they had for the Ascians' plans were scrapped by the time Heavensward came around).
@@Chris-iw1ep answers was written by nobuo uematsu before 2.0 even came out, do you really think that ishikawa, who had just been added to the writing staff at that point, was working with uematsu to write this song?
i'm ok with this
*EDIT: Spoilers for the MSQ of FFXIV*
She gave us a hint. "Hear, feel, think".
She knew we could only defeat Meteion if we struggled, yet collected memories of the hopes of the people of Etheirys by hearing their words, share their feelings and know their thoughts. Hear, feel think she told us when sending us on our journey.
Meteion asked every civilization these questions: " I want to hear your words, share your feelings, know your thoughts."
Hear, feel, think.
Bloody genius.
Hear.. the song of creations end.
Feel.. the sorrow at hope's demise.
Think.. and find your way in the darkness.
it was even in the song all along, Suffer (Feel) Promise (think) witness (teach) Reason (Hear)
this song hits so differently after finishing endwalker.
I am not far in the story yet, just wanted to look up the opening song. Who/what is a Meteion and why are we defeating them?
@@AnthroTsuneon its is massive spoilers for the entire game. But basically with out spoiling the entire story, Meteion is a sad scared little bird girl who is destroying the multiverse and the final boss of a ten year long story.
@@darschpugs4690 So there's other worlds.. Do we end up going there or is it just an excuse for the crossover events? Kinda figuring now I shouldn't have trusted the ARR video's comments not to have spoilers outside of ARR
@@AnthroTsuneon the cross over events have nothing to do with the story, you can happily ignore them as nothing more than fan service. But yes, you will travel to an alternate world in an expansion and that is all i will say on the matter due to major spoilers associated with it.
Calloway sounds so motherly, i think she perfectly fits the role of Hydaelyn. I can't help to sob every time the "walk free" line starts. Then the last chorus "Thy life is a riddle..." absolutely destroys me. Such powerful lyrics and such an amazing delivery. A masterpiece.
**song starts playing at key moments** NO STOP WAIT MY FEELS!
And whenever they play the distorted version from the last minutes of 1.0, you know things are getting serious.
@@theshadowherself Answers - Reprise: Used for moments as impactful as Bahamut was
This full version of Answers plays (as of lvl 87 quest in EW, I'm not done yet) exactly once and it's in the 2nd of 3 cutscenes in the quest "Thou Must Live, Die, and Know". Just having the full song by itself is nuts since FF14 is very strict on when it brings up previous songs from its own plot, but to use the final line of the lyrics is something not even the expansion title quests have done.
This is level 87, 2/3 of the way through the expansion. I am hyped and terrified from where stuff goes from here. I'm a massive lore nerd, seeing these callbacks to previous bits of the game gets me going especially because they have established they don't do so lightly. Every song has a reason, and besides the expansion themes Answers is the rarest of all to make appearances but it is also the only one that crosses expansions. They use it knowing full well the weight of lore it carries.
No, hear, feel, (cry), think. Hope this helps
@@theshadowherself Now I wonder if it was cannon that a woman and her orchestra just started singing off in the distance while everyone else was fighting.
You all probably noticed this, but when Susan and the choir said "Answer together" that's when they both start singing together. It's like Hydaelyn and mankind are finally agreement.
As someone who just ended ARR, this song hits HARD. And reading the comments, I'm gonna get hit HARDER later down the line, so... BRING IT ON, HEAVENSWARD!!
2 months later...and I hope your journey so far has been good! ;3
another 2 months later, and I hope that your journey has also been good so far.
part of me wants to be able to play them again as it was the first time. FFXIV is a wonderful journey....a catharsis that truly purify your soul with all kind of emotions.
Oh, my sweet summer child. You will cry in Endwalker. Embrace it. Enjoy your journey.
@@Trelior I believe they've caught up by this point.
It's been almost 8 months.
This is without a doubt Nobuo Uematsus magnum opus. I cannot help but get chocked up whenever the power balad part starts up. It just leaves me utterly entranced the whole way through every time I listen to it.
Listening to this masterpiece in this chaotic and unsure times is an experience....
This game will forever hold a place in my heart because of its amazing music. Barely played in 5 years but listen to this everyday
6:17 I love this transition so much, and I can't really explain why
7:18 - "A conjunction has begun to form; an intertwining of your time and mine. When you truly understand what is at stake, and your journey has prepared you to surmount the insurmountable... Then shall I honor the promise made in another time. Another age."
ARR: woah cool song. war sucks.
ShB: oh my god I finally understand the lyrics.
EW: OH MY GOD STOP, MY FUCKING HEART
Only after playing Endwalker did I finally understood the lyrics. Brings tears to my eyes almost every time now, especially the final verse, and it's final lyrics: "In the same fleeting moment, Thou must Live, Die, And know." It sums up ones life perfectly. Our lives are but a fleeting moment, and in that fleeting moment, we must live and die, and know the answer to the question
The last level 87 quest is called Thou Must Live, Die and Know..
@@mangalover0149 Indeed, and the name of that quest comes from that last line
@@vespi57 I began therapy at the same time I began playing FFXIV and I can honestly say it was one of the things that has helped me improve. When that lvl 87 quest sequence played in game, I wept like a baby.
It was as if I finally understood why I'm alive. For some reason, looking at life and all the things worth living for has become so much easier. Alas, I still have mental health issues and a game can't cure depression, but a fun combination of therapy, medication and FFXIV has improved my life significantly.
I heard somewhere that Natsuko Ishikawa, as she rose up the writer ranks on the dev team, recommended they change the origins of the Ascians. Considering what the Ascians said and did in ARR and Heavensward, compared to how they acted later, I'm inclined to believe that. As such, it seems that they might have based Hydaelyn's motives off this song, rather than the other way around. Either that, or Her originally planned intentions weren't too different from what they ended up being revealed as.
The depth of this last message is deeply profound and incredibly spiritual.
We are asleep for a tiny, mad moment, a single infinitesimal blip in which not one note from Heaven's song was missed, yet in that non-time we ate from the tree of the knowledge of life and death, of contrast, of opposites, of Love and not love - and we saw, we heard, we felt, and we learned.
There is only Love and Light.
I love the new meaning this song takes after Endwalker. Meteion wanted to know why we live. And why is that life destined to have strife. Venat’s answer is that the strife is what makes life worth living. If we don’t get sad/angry how can we know when we are happy. Something that does not just apply to our characters, but in real life as well.
"One race discarded all things that led to sorrow, hoping to leave only joy. They found that joy lost its savour in the absence of sorrow, and gave up on the future. And themselves." ~ Meteion, on the fate of The Plenty.
It floors me just HOW CLOSE Meteion actually came to the answer to the existential question that she had been burdened with when she found the people of The Plenty. If she had interpreted it differently, maybe she wouldn't have fallen into despair.
@Shadethewolfy Okay, but have you considered that that didn't make any sense?
These people can solve literally every problem they have, to the point of literally abolishing suffering, but they can't invent a recreational challenge for themselves? It's ridiculous. They didn't die because happiness requires sadness, they died because they were too stupid to invent video games.
I just finish Endwalker, this song hit so differently after seeing and understanding everything, 10 years later we though we understood the meaning of the song but we were far away from truth, it's really emotional and such genius from devs team, what a masterpiece
People have probably already recognised this, but the fact that Answers and every expansions main theme, besides Stormblood, uses the exact same chord progression. Such a small and subtle detail, they really were teasing us this entire time.
This is THE version of the song. I Like them all: That Chinese live version; the anniversary concert; the Distant worlds one; the in game version; the like 5 most viewed covers. But this is the greatest imo
To embrace death is to learn to live life. If you suffer you're still learning. I am not mired by doubt. Witness. Feel. Suffer. Think.
Observation is the key. Slow down. Don't rush through life.
almost 5 months after finishing endwalker this song still brings me to tears, it's just a master piece
Its amazing how ten years ago this song was just something that would play in the background while i was getting ready to log in to now an absolute powerhouse of emotions every time i hear it. The planning and storytelling of this series has just been absolutely phenomenal
These lyrics have ALWAYS permeated the entirety of FF14. The story has always been about the struggle to live, and finding reasons for doing so.
A core theme of the game primarily deals with the fight against authoritarian forces from the Imperials to Ishgard's diocese to the Monetarists, the drive to fight for a better world instead of rolling over and accepting a present that might be safer for you personally but one that both robs you of true agency and endangers those less fortunate than you. In all of these cases the player is constantly challenged by people who are suffering from complacency, whether you're trying to convince the Monetarists to accept refugees or the people of Yangxia to rise up and fight. Even the Tribes go with this theme, as Primals undoubtedly make their lives WORSE but often represent a comparatively simple solution to the colonialism of the City States.
ShB pushes this up a notch by actually demanding that YOU make this choice too. Emet Selch offers you a place at his side in what would be a genuinely utopian new world, offers to essentially make you an honorary member of what is quantifiably a superior race. The player is expected to reject this, not because he's wrong - by all metrics the Ancients were just a more ideal existence - but because we're being asked to value all life, to not join him in appointing ourselves as a judge of who deserves life and who doesn't, to value the diversity of existences and experiences and cultures as more important than trying to quantify life into a formula.
EW finally personifies this with Hermes and Meteion, but the game asked us the question long before Venat spelled it out directly. The Tribes and their Primals, the lowbornes and the dragons, the people of Ala Mhigo and Othard, the list goes on. We were constantly, CONSTANTLY finding peoples' answers for living. But the actual answers, the reasons, didn't matter.
'Hear, Feel, Think' doesn't refer to WHAT people are hearing, or feeling, or thinking; it's referring to the fact that they *do* and that's all that should matter. Your answer isn't what you say, your answer is the fact you seek one. The ones who suffer are the ones who stop seeking.
Your comment did not ease the emotional impact this song has on my poor helpless heart, lol. They did an amazing job with this song.
@@shikyo88 Thanks! I'm a writer so I'm always happy to heap on some emotional damage. :p
That is a downright beautiful explanation of the themes of ff14 leading up to endwalker. And I honestly wish I had noticed almost any of these themes before i finished EW...
@@althelor Thanks for the kind words. And you're fine. You felt, you heard, you thought, and in the end you found your answer. The time doesn't matter.
@@imptwins reading cause you emotional damage. lamao
I attended one of the distant worlds concerts where this song made one of its first appearances. Not many people heard this song or about Susan Callaway, and around the same time, FFXIV was rebooted. The part towards the end of the song around 6:13, where "answer together" happens, there was a long pause that's not really included in the versions we hear online and everyone in the crowd thought the song was over and began a standing ovation. I was like no, it's not over, what are y'all doing! My fiance was like shhhh just let it keep going. Susan continued the rest of the song and people were in absolute shock and awe. By the end of the song, the crowd absolutely loved it. To this day one of the best songs I've ever gotten the pleasure to hear in person.
i went to the one in orlando were Susan made an appearance and the same thing happened there, a long drawn out pause where people started cheering, and kept it up through the end of the song.
Having never played Final Fantasy XIV I can feel the emotion in this song and coupled with the Armageddon scene that comes with it holy hell that's powerful
Extremely powerful. Makes me cry everytime, for real.
Oh, do try the game, it's absolutely amazing! True masterwork both with gameplay, immersion and soundtracks. I started playing in April and haven't looked back, I absolutely love the game! Just finished Endwalker the other day. I liked A Realm Reborn, was slightly confused in Heavensward, absolutely loved Stormblood, was amazed by Shadowbringers and Endwalker completely blew my mind (in a good way)
@@ReyOfLight why were you confused by Heavensward? and im glad someone else loved Stormblood, it's so underrated!
@@tiborvenancio6443 I just felt the story was odd in much of Heavensward, and I also didn’t like the horrible church music in some instances nor was I a fan of the dungeons in Heavensward. For me Heavensward was probably more of a grind than ARR, while I truly enjoyed Stormblood when I got there, especially when being over in the Far East.
But with Heavensward the only parts I really liked was Dragonsong (yes, I did cry when it started playing) and the Hildibrand quest line. I’m also no fan of cold weather so I guess that plays a role as well, Ishgard is just not a favorite place of mine (plus the awful music in the cathedral and some other places)
If you don't know since you haven't played the game, this song is LITERALLY just the beginning. Like, one of the opening cutscenes beginning. It goes so much further later on if you ever decide to give ffxiv a chance
I know this is a reupload, but is this still the support group for post-endwalker feels?
I'm sure someone else will talk about the foreshadowing and all, so I'm just gonna say I love how much parts of this sound like a hymn
Noticing that Venat says “Roam” in the chanting sections the most out of all of the words.
She was Azem.
A damn good song. Perhaps one day I can lay down my arms and truly rest, but that is not soon. No matter how hard and painful things get, we have to keep going. For those we lost. For those we can yet save.
Anytime I need a good cry, this surely gets the job done.
song that makes me want to fall to my knees and start screaming and weeping until i can barely breathe because it goes so fucking hard
crazy to feel that there was a whole story and adventure before this baked into the current one, honestly more stories need to do something like that, where the entire prologue feels like the climax to a different crazy story you barely missed. One of the most interesting things about ARR is how it feels like you come into play a bit too late to save the day the first time, yet youre ready to help pick up the pieces now that you are here, instead of simply reinforcing a status quo that was there before the start of the game.
Just finished ARR tonight... I didn't care much for the song, but when the credits started rolling? Oh boy. Now I regret underestimating such a banger of a track and the meaning behind it. Judging the rest of the comments... I have a feeling things will hit even more harder. Here's to me playing HW soon, and if I have the time and money, the rest of the expansions
Please please, update your thoughts on this song once you have hopefully played through Endwalker
Here during the 2024 Rising event. Still so heartfelt after all this time.
One of the most powerful songs to come out of any videogame ever, imo. Near instant tears every time.
Me, back then when I wasn't playing FFXIV and didn't know anything: Why am I crying?
Me, after finishing EW years later after listening to this for first time: I guess, I will never stop crying now. It's a 100% crying rate.
You heard the song, felt the emotions, and now after much thinking, you know why it brings a tear to your eyes.
"Welcome home!" - Tataru (Damn you Tataru, why does such an innocent phrase makes my eyes leak so?!?)
The Indomitable human spirit vs the cruel indifference of the universe
Still gives me shivers every time 🥲
This song has always moved me to tears. I was fortunate enough to see Susan Calloway perform this live, and just dont have words for the feelings I felt.
"Even now, I remember standing there. Locked in a moment where the sky is aflame. Where stars fall as tears, and screams darken the seas.
Where resignation rots the trees...
Such is the lament of they who have gone before.
The song of they who tried and failed to create a better world. The song of the end..."
I'm already speechless every time as soon as I'm half into the song.
this song does not require you to play the game whatsoever, it has an intrinsic resonance with all things
I'm just here for my weekly reminder of what an effing masterpiece this game has become
Answers def feels like the song is about the ancients. All the sacrificed souls and Hydaelyn singing about their story, they’ve been trying to warn us since ARR and we all missed the clues. 😱
That is why foreshadowing is such a fantastic plot device. You can miss it at first because you don't have the knowledge you need to see it. This is why I'm so replaying the game.
The line "our souls have been torn and our bodies forsaken" in particular is still wild to me in how it describes exactly what happened to the Ancients as a result of the Sundering
"Now open your eyes while our plight is repeated" feels like drawing a parallel between The Final Days and The Calamity.
@@tuesdaynext7370 I thought that part was about Ardbert's party during Shadowbringers, now it makes the "our plight is repeated" more literal.
bro this song never gets old no matter how old ffxiv gets
Still one of the most powerful odes I've ever listened to. I wonder how many years I can continue to enjoy it.
I haven't played into Heavensward yet, but even as it stands now, these lyrics are _extremely_ heavy and pack a lot of existential emotion into it. All the people going, "Man, this just used to be a fun little diddy before Endwalker" makes me wonder just wtf is in store for me.
Same
peak storytelling
nothing less
How'd Endwalker go?
After all these years, we finally answered the call.
I said it when ARR released, and I'll say it again even harder after EW - this song is a masterpiece
I don't think I've cared for any characters in any story as much as I care for the Scions, Hydelyn, and my own WoL. This song just makes me feel all of the emotions from ARR to Endwalker all at once.
It's crazy to think I tried this game twice a long time ago, starting as a Lancer both times, then quit a few days later. Then, about a year ago, I got bored and rolled a thaumaturge and here I am 500 hours later. My weekends feel wasted if I don't play 14 now.
Song never fails to make me shed a tear, this whole game is just beautiful
We are amazing, flawed, beautiful, complicated, marvelous intersections of experience, time, and space.
Just finished ARR earlier today and i can't wait to continue the journey after work. I've been told by many that it only gets better and I personally enjoyed ARR. It really ramps up near the end after a slow burn. This song slaps on another level, i can only imagine how I'll feel coming back to this once I've caught up to current story. I feel lucky to experience this journey in one go and not be waiting for an expansion release.
How's your journey so far ?
I never played this game, but the somg made me cry for some reason
I played ff14 only for a brief few days , a few years back , but I just recently found out how cool the sound track is 👍
all this time we look for an answer, and the answer is in this song
"There was never a single answer."
Almost 10 years later, this still makes me cry like a lot
Something curious about the long string of present-tense verbs at 2:49 is that they don't feel like commands someone is demanding of others. They feel like emotes. As if you could just put a / in front of each one and it tells the story of what happened in the wake of the Calamity.
A song so awesome they wrote a story to go with it.
I just saw Uematsu in Bruxelles two days ago. He played a few of his old songs in 16bit on the keyboard and his band followed. It was something I will tell to my grandchildren. I saw the man live who created this masterpiece of a song. I still cannot comphrehend what happend.
I am a new player that started playing FF14 a month ago. I will try to describe how impactful this song keeps getting as I get through expansions (beware of first time impressions)
FIRST TIME: I enjoy cinematics, my heart can't help but melt when i see any that is at least good. SO THIS ONE WAS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. I felt that FF14 was going to be an unique adventure, even tho I was skeptical about enjoying the game in the early levels.
BEFORE HEAVENSWARD: What the actual FFF******************* HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WATCH THIS AFTER WHAT HAPPENED I have decided to listen to the song at least once while logging into the game.
It took me a month to get to finish ARR. I can't even describe what I am feeling. Time will tell, so does the story which is, at this potion, quite unpredictable.
Wish me luck!
Good luck warrior of light
Good luck, you're in for something special.
It just gets better and better. I recently finished Endwalker and oh, man... I cry every time I listen to this song now. 😭
Didn't play ARR but song still shook me. I just went to Distant Worlds (FF orchestra) and they actually had Susan Calloway live in person to sing this and she killed it. Topped even one Winged angel as performance of the night
@LilT2o00 You mean you haven't played XIV at all? If not, there's a free trial that runs all the way to level 60, through the end of Heavensward if you want to try it out. 😁
5:40 always makes me burst out in tears as I see the scene with Hydaelyns walk 😥
Saw Susan Calloway perform this live last night, Goddamn was it amazing.
Just got to "that" cut scene in EndWalker.
And my god does this song only hit deeper now
that last part how they say "know" at the very end, its so....i dont even have the words for it, the only way i can describe it is its like i can feel the echoes of the past, especially having been there and all the friends i made gone since then and those that remained grew distant over time, now i find myself mostly a lone wanderer, i wont lie i dont even hang around the social areas anymore. Not that there's anything wrong with it but it feels so different to then and everytime i hear the outro its a whole different feeling of nostalgia, like ive genuinely lost something but yet having finished this arc now, i rlly do feel like im moving on to something fresh again like when i first started all those years ago, i just wish some of the ppl i knew then were still around :'>
This song has been with me from the beginning to the end from stepping off that cart in Ul’dah on the day of a parade to see a Goobbue break loose and run amok
to the final hours of watching a dragon lay waste to the world I traveled for the longest time
To wake up in a forest outside Limsa a mark of my travels firm on the back of my neck
Through many adventures and trials facing what some would call a limit only to break it time and time again
A steady walk to the end to understand the reason why I walk
The very avatar of despair felled the rivalry comes to a bittersweet end
And still I walk to find the Answers.
This song has been with me since the beginning and it will stay til the end.
I come back to this song time and time again, to think of better times, to enjoy the music, to just have a piece of peace. However, you put a lot of effort into making a compelling video to go along with the song. This, I feel is very cool. Thanks for that, man. This will probably be my default every time I'll come back to this song.
Cheers!
No longer shall man have wings to bear him toward paradise. Now, he must walk.
This song will never fail to make me cry rivers
WHOMEVER wrote the lyrics is a GENUIS !
Official credit goes to Yaeko Sato and Koji Fox.
@@the_exegete Wrong i made them
As someone who has just finished rrb and hw, slowly but surely approaching the end, i see endwalker is gonna hit different when i get to it.
Fuck man, we've come so far.
Oh man this song gives goosebumps Everytime I hear it
This is why I absolutely love FFXIV's writing, it keeps retcons to the absolute minimum in favour of recontextualising previous events. This was written when Endwalker wasn't even a concept yet it feels like it was written with Endwalker in mind.
hell, if you wanna go even further, it even recontextualizes the 1.0 cinematic trailer too
6.0 spoilers -----------
derplander gets a vision after the garlean flagship crashes, that being the seal being broken at silvertear lake, and if you’ll notice the green-ish, transparent image of the primals shooting off is *very* similar to the primals shooting off and powering the Ragnarok. while its obvious this vision was meant to be part of the 1.0 story, it now instead works as a vision of the future.
Wow, I love this song! And the way you present the lyrics here is fabulous - SO MANY places don't give you enough in advance so you can *actually* sing along - fabulous job!
Man this song is so powerful. Makes me tear up hearing it all the time.
this theme song is absolutely gigantic
To think that this is a game! And the love and effort put into the music and game as a whole. True masterpiece, honestly. And this song! Once you love it, you will always love it. It's hauntingly powerful and beautiful.
WOW I love Louisoix. What a great mage who becomes a Primal and defeats Bahamut. This was an epic fight. I just love his endearing smile as he crosses over to immortality. So many awesome messages here. THE BEST FF song and vid ever.
I'm brand new to FF14 and when this cinematic played when I logged in my second time(on the free trial), I was absolutely floored and stunned. How had I not played this game at all before?
Same here, I went from resisting ffxiv to full heartedly embracing it. I wish I got to experience the 1.0 shutdown, one of my many regrets in life.
"No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise, Henceforth he shall walk!"
Gods i love that saying. Sorry for ever doubting ya Venat ;w;
She literally committed genocide.
This song still makes me cry
Best video game song ever created.
I didn’t pay much attention to this song at first cause you know gotta move on to the next expansion but this song does set the tone for the rest of your journey through. Finding answers, realizing your meaning and purpose and so on. Life is an endless journey of questions and answers and more questions.
The lyrics just hit with some emotional meaning. It can be felt even without playing this game.
This song makes me cry everytime I hear it
This song hits WAY different after Elpis. Walk Free indeed, after all man no longer has wings, he must walk.
There is an incantation in Elden Ring called Elden Stars and it is like casting a spell version of Bahamut flying around with those things flying with it. A goddess named Marika also has a mark burned in her eyes that looks similar to the sun Bahamut emerges from. Idk if the creator of fromsoft gets inspiration from other games or if maybe there is a group of friends on a similar wave in these studios, but I notice lots of cross game references will be similarly themed.
i just finished Endwalker and this song hits very different now. At the start of my ffxiv journey this song was for me a "cool song" and now the best song ever made😭😭😭
As someone whos never played 14 this song still resonates within me at a deeper level...its almost scary yea it brings me hope for the future...this is why i love music with a passion.
I’ve gone all these, years, without knowing there was more to the cs before the wol arrives “elsewhere”. Louie didn’t die after he teleported them!?!! I couldn’t breathe the entire second part of that. I’ve never had a video game effect me so much.
go check out the binding coils of bahamut for more :3