Lyrics up, The road that we walk Is lost in the flood Here proud angels bathe in Their wages of blood At this, the world's end, do we cast off tomorrow (x2) We fall (x7)
I love this boss theme the most, the Heavensward boss theme made us felt like we are fighting formidable foes. Stormbloods theme gave the feeling of us fighting for revolution and freedom. Whereas Shadowbringers theme gives the desperate feeling that we are fighting to survive and live to see another day
Well said. It also has sort of an alien feel to it as well, which worked so well being you were transported against your will to this hostile, destitute, and blizzaro foreign world where anything synonymous to light was evil.
I'm not a fan of the synth'd up lyrics, but otherwise I like this theme quite a lot. I think Triumph from SB is still my favorite dungeon boss music, but it's a bit short. It's so short it could practically be on an SNES cart!
@DwarvishPasty Try as you might, your quest to destroy us weebs will prove futile. We are an ever-growing hive mind that will consume the world. Resist as you please, you too will be one of us soon enough.
@@xenostrider I honestly don't know how I feel about it? Like it sounds nice but... Stormbloods boss theme would have me feeling a rush, you know? I just don't feel anything for this one.
Its more about post apocalyptic survival than overcoming overwhelming odds, which gives stbs a more grandoise flair. I enjoy stbs more but this one is still also great
The moment you realize that, yes the song is about desperation but furthermore... it is also about all the worlds that rejoined. "We fall" is repeated 7 times, at the start we are 7 times rejoined. All of those planets had an element flood that pushed itself to the rejoining. So "the road we walk is lost in the flood" also applies to them.
@Southern Shinobi There are 6 elements in XIV. Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Lightning, Ice. Light and Dark are primal forces rather than elemental. Voidsent come from the fallen 13th shard, which was tipped too far to darkness before a calamity could be triggered on the Source. Bahamut's rampage was a Dark aligned calamity, since every element was heavily tipped towards activity which we call Astral, but is actually Darkness. The Light Calamity would've been the last one required to complete the Ardor and resurrect Zodiark.
Something really cool in the remixes of Shadowbringers is how different versions place a different tone/emphasis on different parts of Shadowbringers. In The Dying Gasp boss fight, for example, when you go into the last phase there is a huge emphasis on the part where the lyrics repeat "The End" several times, like the music is literally announcing it is the end/climax of the 5.0 MSQ. On the subject of "We Fall", there is a large emphasis on those notes in the Crystarium day theme but with such positivity that I feel like the music is inverting it to say "We rise".
@@Salt_Mage Bahamut was fire-aligned, the Light Calamity would've turned the Garlean's Black Rose into an apocalyptic 8th Umbral Calamity, because Light is all about stillness and stagnation, Black Rose worked by halting a person's internal flows of aether, so suffused with Light from the dying First, would have been way more powerful than intended. The Thinning of the Aether seen worldwide in the 4.X MSQ was the first clue a reflection of the Source was being overrun with Light. You are right in that the Ascians tipped the 13th towards darkness without creating an apocalyptic event on the Source to be empowered by Dark-aligned aether, and so the 13th became the Void. A Calamity on the Source creates a crack in the barrier between it and the Reflections, which is what allows the aether from element- or aspect-overwhelmed Reflections to flow back to it, thus magnifying said Calamity *of the same element or aspect*. Without a Calamity to break the barrier, the aether from an overwhelmed Reflection can't go anywhere, but the Void/13th is the only time that happened, so we don't know what would happen in a similar situation with a reflection overwhelmed with only a single element but no Source Calamity.
Holminster is the dungeon i keep requeuing, cause it's the first dungeon that I went in and felt like "Oh dang I really need to save these people." and this boss theme at the end makes the world seems so dark and cruel, like instead of fighting for the freedom and liberation of a people like in stormblood , we're just fighting to survive, to save what's left of an already crippled world.
I should have felt like this. But I was a tank, more importantly one who liked having fun, so all I felt was "ALPHINAUD, HEAL ME, _FUCK"_ don't even know if I really have it in me to continue after that.
@@StarshadowMelody I know this is a bit late but Uriander does the work of healer very nicely . I don’t know ,I did this campaign for the first time, as Gunbreaker and went with Uriander when he appears for the second dungeon and onwards and did the job better than an average healer player for me.
@@StarshadowMelody Very late reply, but apparently Alphinaud prioritises healing Alisaie when they're both in your party, so yeah, take Urianger next time and you'll be fine XD.
@@BlackDracorex That cheeky bastard lol. There's a lot of interesting Trust companion 'quirks' that go right alongside their character and I find it amazing. I noticed them during the Lakelord fight where he summons the bridge/chasm phase. Minfilia slowly tiptoes across it commenting that she's scared of falling (it is GIGA slow; phase was done before she reached the first bend). Thancred 'ninja smokebombs' across and chastises Minfilia for taking so long. Alisaie sprints across without pause. Alphinaud apparently starts walking slow, but as he gets more courageous he goes faster across it. Urianger just walks across the void like it isn't even there commenting that he cares not for illusions, lol.
This game does much and more with peoples' emotions. When *that* popped up? My blood turned to ice. Nothing in this game has EVER been more instantly terrifying.
Im not gonna lie... I actually kinda wish that was an actual boss fight. When the music came on I felt the familiar hype in my head of like "Oh yeah, BOSS TIME!" And then he fell, and then I had a laugh and a sad. It was a very confusing day.
@@Skijaramaz , if anything, I was disappointed we couldn't just beat the crap out of him instead of resorting to "Wicked white, we killed him!" tactics.
I absolutely lost it when I saw that. Funniest moment in any Hildebrand questline imo. Although part of me wishes we got a meme solo instance where we fought him.
Honestly, I love this theme so much. I've actually caught myself humming it at work at times. Great job to the music department with this expansion's soundtrack and thanks for the upload!
I just finished ShadowBringers and when you play as Thancred and this banger is playing in the background, you feel every emotion Thancred has at that point. Anger, sadness, the will to protect. This song is perfect!
"Wanna see me push my aether to the brink of nothingness and almost kill myself in the process?" "Wanna see me do it again?" "...Wanna see me somehow go even further than that?"
that was the first time I paid any attention to the song and honestly yeah. Of course, being a FFXIV song with lyrics, you can't tell what half of them are just by listening to it, but you just _know_ that it has some deep meaning
There's nothing in the Bible describing angels forms save for a couple lines, and they describe them as either formless, or preferring to take the form of humans. Not grotesque abominations.
To be honest i really like it, this is in perfect harmony with the theme of this expansion. It's as if we are struggling to survive, yet we've got the power to be able to. It has this epic, desperate tone, to kill or to be killed. On another side, it's as if you're now on equal footstep with the being in front of you. Anyway, i really love it !
I agree Heavensward did it better. Heck, I even feel like this boss battle is the weakest. "Answers" got the "trying to survive" theme better (tho in Answer's case, it's a world-ending song). I just don't sense any urgency while listening to it, and especially not the feeling of wanting to punch a boss in the face
@@tjongdavid1921 that's because that isn't what this expansion is about. They're trying to evoke a feeling of sadness, longing, struggle, and someberness, which Soken absolutely nails. This is a world in which the success of heroes was the path to ruin. Their saviors regarded as villains a century later. The monsters we face, sin eaters, are originally the living people of this world, every one you kill is killing a native of the First, and Lightwardens especially, most if not all were other heroes that defeated the previous, before that selfsame light corrupted them. There is no glory or celebration in what we have to do here.
I really can't understand why most people are saying this is a weak boss theme. Tbh, it's perfect. It suits the ambient and story of this expansion. We're basically falling of our title of WoL to that of a Warrior of Darkness to save the world from light in general.
Boss theme and Holminster Switch have some pretty good themes. I think this expansion’s soundtrack is doing a lot better than Stormblood already. Then again, I just don’t like Japanese-style music
its always be people's preference imo, you just cant simply force people to like whatever you like... i personally like this theme and i cant decide which boss theme is my fav because all of them are equally good. but i understand if some other doesnt like it, its valid.
I personally think this one is weak because I don't sense any urgency in it. I feel like just listening to an ordinary somber, sad song, and so it doesn't make me feel pumped to punch the boss in the face (or stab them thousands of times). Them playing around in low notes only doesn't help at all. In comparison, Heavensward, eventhough had similar somber, sad song as it's theme (Dragonsong), we can still sense the urgency in the boss battle from the variety in melody; the higher-pitched tones helped with pumping up our adrenaline
@@DiogoJ1 Incorrect. Insofar as the game's terminology is concerned, the Sin Eaters /are/ holy. Light/Astral affinity IS what "Holy" means in this game. Evil is a relative concept. The reason the Sin Eaters wish to purge all life is for the sin of imperfection - one might legitimately say, then, that it is good, no? Perhaps your character is evil for opposing them and clinging to an imperfect life? Therefore, how can you say, with certainty, they're unholy and evil?
@@Newsandjy No, they aren't holy, they are light elemental, and corrupt light at that. If they were holy, they wouldn't even attack the warrior of light in the first place, since he's a servant of the holiest of all. There's nothing sinfull about being imperfect, only about doing evil. Many innocents died at the sin eaters, like Alisaie's friend. She did nothing wrong but was killed all the same. No. My character is righteous for opposing them. They are beasts no better than Lavos who consume all they touch, to destroy them is the right thing to do. Any imperfections one may have don't deserve death. Sineaters, despite their name, they don't care about sin, they only care about aether and consuming as much as possible of it, no matter who they kill. They are eldritch abominations who need to be put down for they are a threat to both good and evil people. I can say with certainty, because they kill innocents and because Hydaelyn helps opposing them, who may or not may be a primal, but still righteous all the same.
Soon as I heard this fighting this boss gave me a reminiscent vibe of FF8 battle theme. The intro part. First thing that popped in my mind when it started. And this is a fantastic theme.
oh so there are people who played ff8 and notice the same time as soon as i heard this theme i thought of ff8 but then again gunbreaker was brought into to this so i understood why.
Me: *Trying to keep up with Alisaie as she sprints across the bridge* Also me *WE FAAAAAAAAALL! I FAAAAAAALL!! I FAAAAAAAALLL again* oh npcs beat mechanic without me? Nice!
How many years have come and gone since that day? How many years have I waited for this moment? For the one that stood alone against the storm? For the one they called... The Warrior of Light?
This tragedy, greater even that the Seventh Umbral Calamity...*Must* be undone. If history is to be unwritten... Let it *be* unwritten. Become what you must. Become the Warrior of Darkness.
I know we have our own taste and opinions.those who do not like it must have just skipped over all the MSQ.this song clearly fits shadowbringers and is congruent with the worlds situation.I get inspired to music like this.
And it actually makes you want to defeat the boss so it doesnt create any more sin eaters. It kind of pumps you into killing this, because of everyone that has because of such beasts.
"Those who skipped over the MSQ." They're playing the wrong MMO if they did. I'm not even trying to be rude or anything; different people have different preferences in Story-Gameplay balance, and 14 is much heavier on the story compared to the raw gameplay of many other MMOs. There's nothing wrong with having a preference and I'm not making fun of anyone who prefers to just play. It's just that over the years I've noticed a difference in core demographic between the story lover and the story hater, and I think there's something to be said for having games for everyone to enjoy.
Siara Levy ...or you know they could just not care for the style lmao like I loved the MSQ and it’s tied with HW as my favorite FF story period at this point but I loathe the use of autotune and found it jarring to the point it was breaking my immersion. Autotune anything makes me think of T-Pain shit from 2000s and just instantly dates the track.
Leafia Barrett that’s what I’m loving about it. I’m not very far into the MSQ and won’t spoil anything, but this expansion so far has darker themes.... pun intended 😂
For me, it has Nightmare Fuel galore. The scene were we saw how a person gets transformed into a Sin Eater? I actually felt queasy after that for a while.
This song has a bit of wistful longing about it, like someone who's been sad a long time and is starting to fight back. I suppose that hope is this expansion's theme where hotbloodedness was last time's.
This theme does an amazing job at capturing the tone and atmosphere of ShB storyline. It carries a heavy weight of what's happening, and I love it. There is no glory in ShB. It's a sad storyline where there is only the struggle for survival against an ever consuming primordial light and saving anyone we can, as well as those yet to be saved... It's so damn amazing.
lmao this was my first reaction when viewing this video as well. I did the dungeon with real people, and holy shit, did you see those NPCs IMMEDIATELY go to the linear stack marker. WILD. Or breaking the chain ?? Yeah, I died there because my party members... didn't see the chain ? I don't know man. I'm sure ALISAIE AND LYNA would fucking have.
Considering those NPCs are programed to know exactly what the mechanics are and execute them almost perfectly is the only reason why they are better then people right now.
@@aliciafraser1835 Exactly. I did this dungeon with 4 random ppl on a blind run. It was alright. We got caught offguard on the first left/right rotation but that's all.
Playing Dark Knight for this expansion just feels right. Especially given what Fray teaches you - you can't save everyone. You just have to save who you can
As many said before, I love the feelings this theme invokes. Other boss music is badass or scary, but this right here really makes you feel the existential threat these beings represent. It genuinly made me feel dread, when I first encountered the Lightwardens.
One of the best ost's of all fcking time !!! soken is a genius... it's so deep, you can literally feel the weight of beeing THE _Warrior of Darkness_ ❤🛐
By far one of my favorite songs from Shadowbringers. Just got a new pair of headphones and with the bass amplification my whole body is just shivering from the bass at the beginning...holy crap.
🎶The road that we walk Is lost in the flood Here proud angels bathe in Their wages of blood At this, the world’s end, do we cast off tomorrow🎶 Definitely my favorite part. Gets me fucking hyped every time.
This is such an incredible boss theme - I was standing there listening to it in awe. Just when I think Soken's done something incredible, he gives us wonderful pieces like this.
I personally find this to be my favorite. The feeling of hopelessness and then revving into a harder rift though not as powerful still felt like a life or death battle. Honestly it was amazing during tessleens fight. Realizing you have to fight something that use to be a friend after watching them transform into a mindless creature.
which is why I love shonen anime, it does the same thing. like watching Bleach and right before a stare down and all seems lost... suddenly you hear the first few notes of Ichigo's theme start to play... Oh, shit is about to get real.
It's alright to feel just know that you have no choice but to fight as a hero so unleash all your power and energy into your weapon and strike at this part of the song
I am loving the whole idea of making 'light' evil and darkness good. Its seems like a really simple flip but they made it work. For some reason when it comes to the story I have this widespread tension that someone 'good' we bought hook line and sinker is going to turn out to be evil later on.
@@neiloch it's less about making darkness good and more about having a balance. The whole theme is that both sides of the spectrum are dangerous if tipped on its scale.
That is what happened to me. I heard this song before playing the expansion and was like 'eh it's ok I guess. Kinda weird and a little off-putting' Then played the first dungeon got to this boss and was like ' OMG this song is ducking awesome'. Now I love it.
I don't know why but there's just something about this song that resonates really strongly with me on a subconscious emotional level. It's epic but tragic, and overall just really moving to the point where it's almost distracting trying to play the fight because I just want to listen to it.
It’s funny how usually around 1:15 is when the boss is getting ready for a mechanic that adds to the rising of the song, then when it goes “We Fall” we’re literally dodging the mechanics
This boss looks like venom fused with a nobody. But this expansion has been awesome and i love how it shows the horrible reality of all those who die outside of the knowledge of your character. The death and despair has always been there weve just been blind to it for the most part
I love this soundtrack, immediately a new favorite as I progress through Shadowbringers (new player). I just did a specific part of a story with a specific fight and hearing this during the whole thing, stressful as it was, was very inspiring. It's so well done, I'm so impressed by it.
Everyone have the right to like or dislike what they want, but as an expert musician I can say this theme objectively fits the expansion and it's a great theme, the composition is not as repetitive as sb boss theme, I think this is on pair with hw boss theme.
To me this song resonates between desperation and mystery, since very quickly into the storyline you are told that the steaks are even higher than before, because now you know you must stop Urianger's vision of the future from coming to pass
This boss and this part of the story signifies the arrival of the warrior of darkness after seeing the horrors of the lightwarden in Kholusia and ESPECIALLY in Amh araeng they had no choice but to pick up the greatsword.
Initially I didn't really take to liking this song. But given time with it I've learned to appreciate it for what it is. My interpretation is that of desperation. Considering that the world of the First has fallen to the hands of the Sin Eaters with no hope, no resolve, no future overall. Just a world on the brink of falling to light. And the only hope for this world is us. We might be backed into a corner in this strange and mysterious world but like a wild animal we will fight for our right to survive. That's just how I see it.
It's hard to even find the right words. This is SO good, and it's just THE REGULAR BOSS THEME. Shadowbringers has stepped up EVERYTHING, so unexpectedly, so tragically, so gorgeously.
I like how the theme sounds like the world is already ruined but there's still some people fighting. We know that basically is just us with the scions tho
Whenever I hear this in-game, I have the biggest goddamn smile on my face. Is it weird that I slam my fist on the table in time with the words every time he sings “WE FAAAAALLL!” or nah?
After listening a fair amount to this and finishing Shadowbringers I realized that this theme uses lyrics from Who Brings Shadow, the best bits from it at that, teased from the very first dungeon of the expansion.. I adore this OST so much
Lyrics up,
The road that we walk
Is lost in the flood
Here proud angels bathe in
Their wages of blood
At this, the world's end, do we cast off tomorrow (x2)
We fall (x7)
Doing Zodiark work. Thanks
Omg given the story so far... these lyrics are so fitting
hoes mad (x24)
how did you understood the lyrics. i can't even perceive the words in the song
@@Nikrard saw the lyrics for the shadowvringers trailer was up on developer blog, listened and read along to get lyrics
I love this boss theme the most, the Heavensward boss theme made us felt like we are fighting formidable foes. Stormbloods theme gave the feeling of us fighting for revolution and freedom. Whereas Shadowbringers theme gives the desperate feeling that we are fighting to survive and live to see another day
Couldn't say it better myself!
Well said. It also has sort of an alien feel to it as well, which worked so well being you were transported against your will to this hostile, destitute, and blizzaro foreign world where anything synonymous to light was evil.
I'm not a fan of the synth'd up lyrics, but otherwise I like this theme quite a lot. I think Triumph from SB is still my favorite dungeon boss music, but it's a bit short. It's so short it could practically be on an SNES cart!
@@ZincZXzinx haha good one mark.
That was a nice interpretation. Mine leaned more towards the epic powerful threat level these beings represent.
When you're jamming to the boss theme so hard that you don't notice the boss about to punch you in the face.
I got punched so hard I flew to the other side of the map.
AND HERE COMES A GIANT FIST! ~The boss
*Charges up with one fist ready to one shot you*
How is 8.2 relevant to this?
@DwarvishPasty Try as you might, your quest to destroy us weebs will prove futile. We are an ever-growing hive mind that will consume the world. Resist as you please, you too will be one of us soon enough.
Absoluetly loved it when it played during Thancred's Duty.
Thancred, the only man that would choose a mana based job when he has none
@@Walt_Raleigh The only thing bigger than his defensive stats is his massive fucking balls for it.
@@Walt_Raleighand still make it work somehow 😂
me in stormblood: "I honestly don't know how they're gonna top this dungeon boss theme"
me in shadowbringers: "WE FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL" x7
Honestly i love the song.. but does not feel like a boss theme at all
100 percent agree with you there Gordon
@@xenostrider I think it does an amazing job of instantly increasing the tension
@@xenostrider I honestly don't know how I feel about it? Like it sounds nice but... Stormbloods boss theme would have me feeling a rush, you know? I just don't feel anything for this one.
Its more about post apocalyptic survival than overcoming overwhelming odds, which gives stbs a more grandoise flair. I enjoy stbs more but this one is still also great
The moment you realize that, yes the song is about desperation but furthermore... it is also about all the worlds that rejoined. "We fall" is repeated 7 times, at the start we are 7 times rejoined. All of those planets had an element flood that pushed itself to the rejoining. So "the road we walk is lost in the flood" also applies to them.
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And then the WoL shows up and says, "We stand."
@Southern Shinobi There are 6 elements in XIV. Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Lightning, Ice. Light and Dark are primal forces rather than elemental.
Voidsent come from the fallen 13th shard, which was tipped too far to darkness before a calamity could be triggered on the Source. Bahamut's rampage was a Dark aligned calamity, since every element was heavily tipped towards activity which we call Astral, but is actually Darkness.
The Light Calamity would've been the last one required to complete the Ardor and resurrect Zodiark.
Something really cool in the remixes of Shadowbringers is how different versions place a different tone/emphasis on different parts of Shadowbringers.
In The Dying Gasp boss fight, for example, when you go into the last phase there is a huge emphasis on the part where the lyrics repeat "The End" several times, like the music is literally announcing it is the end/climax of the 5.0 MSQ. On the subject of "We Fall", there is a large emphasis on those notes in the Crystarium day theme but with such positivity that I feel like the music is inverting it to say "We rise".
@@Salt_Mage Bahamut was fire-aligned, the Light Calamity would've turned the Garlean's Black Rose into an apocalyptic 8th Umbral Calamity, because Light is all about stillness and stagnation, Black Rose worked by halting a person's internal flows of aether, so suffused with Light from the dying First, would have been way more powerful than intended. The Thinning of the Aether seen worldwide in the 4.X MSQ was the first clue a reflection of the Source was being overrun with Light. You are right in that the Ascians tipped the 13th towards darkness without creating an apocalyptic event on the Source to be empowered by Dark-aligned aether, and so the 13th became the Void. A Calamity on the Source creates a crack in the barrier between it and the Reflections, which is what allows the aether from element- or aspect-overwhelmed Reflections to flow back to it, thus magnifying said Calamity *of the same element or aspect*. Without a Calamity to break the barrier, the aether from an overwhelmed Reflection can't go anywhere, but the Void/13th is the only time that happened, so we don't know what would happen in a similar situation with a reflection overwhelmed with only a single element but no Source Calamity.
F for Tesleen.
Hated how well written and likeable she is yet man she didnt deserve it :(
@@ArchieGamez :(
Don't you mean sword?
This makes me sad :(.
I'm glad we got to give her peace and kill the Sin Eater that did this to her
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Nothing is more hype then when this starts to play during a certain solo duty.
Which one do you think of? Like what level is it?
Legit, it was long and annoying, but damn it was so good.
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YOU CAN DO IT THANCRED!!!
Yeah I know exactly what you're talking about I loved that section it was very touching story wise.
@@Zeledon838 "No another step! Your fight is with me!"
Just did that one yesterday. Knew it was powerful moment when the theme started up.
The Ost of this expansion is mind-blowing. The composer is a genius!
Everything that masayoshi soken makes is phenomenal. Have you ever heard the moggle mog theme, or pa-paya? Magnum opuses tbh.
No combat theme is trash
Michael Rivers indeed they are all awesome
Zoey Redacted he didn’t make the mog song, along with every other 1.0 song those were made by uematsu which he is a legend of a composer himself
@@andyraven8638 They are talking about Good King Mog's theme you fucking knob.
Holminster is the dungeon i keep requeuing, cause it's the first dungeon that I went in and felt like "Oh dang I really need to save these people." and this boss theme at the end makes the world seems so dark and cruel, like instead of fighting for the freedom and liberation of a people like in stormblood , we're just fighting to survive, to save what's left of an already crippled world.
I should have felt like this. But I was a tank, more importantly one who liked having fun, so all I felt was "ALPHINAUD, HEAL ME, _FUCK"_
don't even know if I really have it in me to continue after that.
@@StarshadowMelody I know this is a bit late but Uriander does the work of healer very nicely . I don’t know ,I did this campaign for the first time, as Gunbreaker and went with Uriander when he appears for the second dungeon and onwards and did the job better than an average healer player for me.
@@StarshadowMelody Very late reply, but apparently Alphinaud prioritises healing Alisaie when they're both in your party, so yeah, take Urianger next time and you'll be fine XD.
I did the same thing. Was rushing to get to the boss for this song.
@@BlackDracorex That cheeky bastard lol. There's a lot of interesting Trust companion 'quirks' that go right alongside their character and I find it amazing.
I noticed them during the Lakelord fight where he summons the bridge/chasm phase.
Minfilia slowly tiptoes across it commenting that she's scared of falling (it is GIGA slow; phase was done before she reached the first bend).
Thancred 'ninja smokebombs' across and chastises Minfilia for taking so long.
Alisaie sprints across without pause.
Alphinaud apparently starts walking slow, but as he gets more courageous he goes faster across it.
Urianger just walks across the void like it isn't even there commenting that he cares not for illusions, lol.
LIGHTWARDEN
THE FORGIVEN GENTLEMAN
The Gentleman of Light (SAVAGE)
This game does much and more with peoples' emotions.
When *that* popped up? My blood turned to ice.
Nothing in this game has EVER been more instantly terrifying.
Im not gonna lie... I actually kinda wish that was an actual boss fight. When the music came on I felt the familiar hype in my head of like "Oh yeah, BOSS TIME!"
And then he fell, and then I had a laugh and a sad. It was a very confusing day.
@@Skijaramaz , if anything, I was disappointed we couldn't just beat the crap out of him instead of resorting to "Wicked white, we killed him!" tactics.
I absolutely lost it when I saw that. Funniest moment in any Hildebrand questline imo. Although part of me wishes we got a meme solo instance where we fought him.
Honestly, I love this theme so much. I've actually caught myself humming it at work at times. Great job to the music department with this expansion's soundtrack and thanks for the upload!
Yoooo same
Same :D
Same.
Same here. Amen!
Me all day at work. I do phlebotomy for a blood bank.
I just finished ShadowBringers and when you play as Thancred and this banger is playing in the background, you feel every emotion Thancred has at that point. Anger, sadness, the will to protect. This song is perfect!
And when it cuts out when using the Duty Action… it was a really good sequence
That duty took me 30 mins xD but I loved it I insisted on doing it at normal lvl
"Wanna see me push my aether to the brink of nothingness and almost kill myself in the process?"
"Wanna see me do it again?"
"...Wanna see me somehow go even further than that?"
that was the first time I paid any attention to the song and honestly yeah. Of course, being a FFXIV song with lyrics, you can't tell what half of them are just by listening to it, but you just _know_ that it has some deep meaning
The Official name for it is Insatiable. You can obtain this in The Dungeons of Lyhe Ghiah aka new map portals for 80.
Name seems pretty accurate imo.
Bless you for this info.
You, my friend, are a God! Thank you for the info
Thank you! 💞
That feel when fighting Biblically accurate angels
*One of many forms of angels.
I'd recommend you to play bayonetta if you wanna fight biblically inspired angels
Me like booby angels
@@l.frozenfox9098 This game, Bayonetta, and Shin Megami Tensei has my favorite interpretation of angels.
There's nothing in the Bible describing angels forms save for a couple lines, and they describe them as either formless, or preferring to take the form of humans. Not grotesque abominations.
To be honest i really like it, this is in perfect harmony with the theme of this expansion. It's as if we are struggling to survive, yet we've got the power to be able to. It has this epic, desperate tone, to kill or to be killed. On another side, it's as if you're now on equal footstep with the being in front of you. Anyway, i really love it !
@@MisteRRYouTuby no, no it didn't, by far
@@MisteRRYouTuby Sorry but it didn't, even stormblood's boss theme was better then heavensward...
I agree Heavensward did it better. Heck, I even feel like this boss battle is the weakest. "Answers" got the "trying to survive" theme better (tho in Answer's case, it's a world-ending song). I just don't sense any urgency while listening to it, and especially not the feeling of wanting to punch a boss in the face
@@tjongdavid1921 that's because that isn't what this expansion is about. They're trying to evoke a feeling of sadness, longing, struggle, and someberness, which Soken absolutely nails. This is a world in which the success of heroes was the path to ruin. Their saviors regarded as villains a century later. The monsters we face, sin eaters, are originally the living people of this world, every one you kill is killing a native of the First, and Lightwardens especially, most if not all were other heroes that defeated the previous, before that selfsame light corrupted them. There is no glory or celebration in what we have to do here.
@@SqualI42 "There is no glory or celebration in what we have to do here". Ah, I think I see the point there
I really can't understand why most people are saying this is a weak boss theme. Tbh, it's perfect. It suits the ambient and story of this expansion. We're basically falling of our title of WoL to that of a Warrior of Darkness to save the world from light in general.
Anyone who says its weak gas no taste. Also everyone I've run the first dungeon with so far goes wide with awe at the song.
Boss theme and Holminster Switch have some pretty good themes. I think this expansion’s soundtrack is doing a lot better than Stormblood already. Then again, I just don’t like Japanese-style music
its always be people's preference imo, you just cant simply force people to like whatever you like...
i personally like this theme and i cant decide which boss theme is my fav because all of them are equally good.
but i understand if some other doesnt like it, its valid.
I personally think this one is weak because I don't sense any urgency in it. I feel like just listening to an ordinary somber, sad song, and so it doesn't make me feel pumped to punch the boss in the face (or stab them thousands of times). Them playing around in low notes only doesn't help at all. In comparison, Heavensward, eventhough had similar somber, sad song as it's theme (Dragonsong), we can still sense the urgency in the boss battle from the variety in melody; the higher-pitched tones helped with pumping up our adrenaline
@@tjongdavid1921 For me its completely the contrary, other themes dont reach the highs of wanting me to punch things as this
What’s truly horrifying is that horrific creature was once a person. We shouldn’t just fear the dark. We need to also fear the light.
Both light and dark are able to conceal when they are in excess. Neither are to be feared, but kept in balance.
You missed the point of the story, balance is required, to much of one or the other is doom for everyone.
KnightLight I miss wrote what I meant. Shouldn’t fear just the dark, but also the light
@@Darksaviour Ah I get you, yes both can be very frightening
Besides, Cecil balanced light and darkness together in his heart after IV: The After Years
Man, I'm gonna miss this in Endwalker. Here's to another banger!
Same dude... I loved leveling my jobs in the dungeons. Still got like maybe 4 left to get to 80
@@dragumkirisute1998 Don't worry, you'll get to hear it while leveling Reaper and Sage when Endwalker drops at least.
@@chazon1780 actually since they already replaced it you can't hear it without the insatiable orch roll now
@@Mr061678 they didn't replace the final boss themes of dungeons
@@Mr061678 This is the endboss theme, not the midboss theme
I will forever associate this song with kicking ass at Peggle.
We beat a children's pachinko game!
We beat the fucking lobster!
Claude didn't see it coming
FINAL CHAMPION
___________________
THE LOBSTER
Have you ever heard something so beautiful that it brought tears to your eyes?
yes and that was donkey kong country 2 stickerbrush symphony
Everyday.
literally everything Final Fantasy ♥️
@@soundwave8560 and then brawl remixed it with acoustic guitars and violins and made me cry again a decade later
His Theme.
But yes, this too.
Welcome to Shadowbringers, where holy zombies want to eat your life energy.
If they are zombies and beings of pure evil at that, then they aren't holy in the first place. They are light elemental, but not holy.
XIV meets Hollows.
@@DiogoJ1 Incorrect.
Insofar as the game's terminology is concerned, the Sin Eaters /are/ holy.
Light/Astral affinity IS what "Holy" means in this game.
Evil is a relative concept. The reason the Sin Eaters wish to purge all life is for the sin of imperfection - one might legitimately say, then, that it is good, no? Perhaps your character is evil for opposing them and clinging to an imperfect life? Therefore, how can you say, with certainty, they're unholy and evil?
@@Newsandjy No, they aren't holy, they are light elemental, and corrupt light at that. If they were holy, they wouldn't even attack the warrior of light in the first place, since he's a servant of the holiest of all.
There's nothing sinfull about being imperfect, only about doing evil. Many innocents died at the sin eaters, like Alisaie's friend. She did nothing wrong but was killed all the same.
No. My character is righteous for opposing them. They are beasts no better than Lavos who consume all they touch, to destroy them is the right thing to do. Any imperfections one may have don't deserve death. Sineaters, despite their name, they don't care about sin, they only care about aether and consuming as much as possible of it, no matter who they kill.
They are eldritch abominations who need to be put down for they are a threat to both good and evil people.
I can say with certainty, because they kill innocents and because Hydaelyn helps opposing them, who may or not may be a primal, but still righteous all the same.
@@Newsandjy Well, asside from that Light is /Umbral/ affinity.
You know you play a totally different game once you reach Shadowbringers just by listening to the fire OST.
Soon as I heard this fighting this boss gave me a reminiscent vibe of FF8 battle theme. The intro part. First thing that popped in my mind when it started. And this is a fantastic theme.
I caught that too, wonder why theres quite a few FF8 references in shadowbringers, bcz of the gunblade?
@@matc1995
I think it's because of the Eden Raid personally.
Or to promote the ff8 remake
oh so there are people who played ff8 and notice the same time as soon as i heard this theme i thought of ff8 but then again gunbreaker was brought into to this so i understood why.
@@issdenpudding16 Don't jinx it!
We fall
> falls from the Don Mheg bridge mechanic
Me every time. It only gets worse because my analog stick is drifting.
Omg this
Me: *Trying to keep up with Alisaie as she sprints across the bridge*
Also me *WE FAAAAAAAAALL! I FAAAAAAALL!! I FAAAAAAAALLL again* oh npcs beat mechanic without me? Nice!
I laugh at this part every time. Never fails one of the randoms sprints past as another falls off. And its always in tune.
@@agidyne9676 and then watch the mechanic is over while the OoL and alphy are tip toeing across.
Actually got goose-bumps the first time I heard this playing XIV.
POV: You've played through Matoya's Relic for the 5th time for your Tombstones this week
just do 2 hunt trains to cap tombstones... around the same amount of time as doing 2 dungeons.
LOL
*tomb*
AND STILL BANGING MY HEAD!!
The only moment of relief in this dungeon : when the atrocious music get replaced with the amazing boss theme
How many years have come and gone since that day?
How many years have I waited for this moment?
For the one that stood alone against the storm?
For the one they called... The Warrior of Light?
This tragedy, greater even that the Seventh Umbral Calamity...*Must* be undone.
If history is to be unwritten...
Let it *be* unwritten. Become what you must.
Become the Warrior of Darkness.
What sayest master yshtola? We can accept fate or defy it but we can not deny it.
"Deny? I am not wont to run from my troubles."
Honestly this is my favorite boss theme of the entire game.
I know we have our own taste and opinions.those who do not like it must have just skipped over all the MSQ.this song clearly fits shadowbringers and is congruent with the worlds situation.I get inspired to music like this.
I feel the same way the music for this patch is just so amazing. It really enhances the game and makes you feel like your in the game yourself.
And it actually makes you want to defeat the boss so it doesnt create any more sin eaters.
It kind of pumps you into killing this, because of everyone that has because of such beasts.
@@crosssquirrel4293 i just beat the main story today and it's amazing
"Those who skipped over the MSQ." They're playing the wrong MMO if they did.
I'm not even trying to be rude or anything; different people have different preferences in Story-Gameplay balance, and 14 is much heavier on the story compared to the raw gameplay of many other MMOs. There's nothing wrong with having a preference and I'm not making fun of anyone who prefers to just play. It's just that over the years I've noticed a difference in core demographic between the story lover and the story hater, and I think there's something to be said for having games for everyone to enjoy.
Siara Levy ...or you know they could just not care for the style lmao like I loved the MSQ and it’s tied with HW as my favorite FF story period at this point but I loathe the use of autotune and found it jarring to the point it was breaking my immersion. Autotune anything makes me think of T-Pain shit from 2000s and just instantly dates the track.
Is it just me, or have the bosses become more frightening in Shadowbringers
It's because you don't normally see angels depicted as demons in media, so it looks very unnerving.
@@Nick_Whiskey They are terrifying and also amazing. I'm so into ShB.
Shadowbringers has been actively horrifying in a few places.
Leafia Barrett that’s what I’m loving about it. I’m not very far into the MSQ and won’t spoil anything, but this expansion so far has darker themes.... pun intended 😂
For me, it has Nightmare Fuel galore. The scene were we saw how a person gets transformed into a Sin Eater? I actually felt queasy after that for a while.
The opening of that song always reminds me of my childhood battles of FF8. Love it.
I was greatly amused fighting a very well-dressed frog to this music
This song has a bit of wistful longing about it, like someone who's been sad a long time and is starting to fight back.
I suppose that hope is this expansion's theme where hotbloodedness was last time's.
This theme does an amazing job at capturing the tone and atmosphere of ShB storyline. It carries a heavy weight of what's happening, and I love it. There is no glory in ShB. It's a sad storyline where there is only the struggle for survival against an ever consuming primordial light and saving anyone we can, as well as those yet to be saved... It's so damn amazing.
that moment when NPC's do better job in boss mechanics than random people in your party...
Or Healer NPC dies and no one can rez... 😂
lmao this was my first reaction when viewing this video as well. I did the dungeon with real people, and holy shit, did you see those NPCs IMMEDIATELY go to the linear stack marker. WILD. Or breaking the chain ?? Yeah, I died there because my party members... didn't see the chain ? I don't know man. I'm sure ALISAIE AND LYNA would fucking have.
Wow you guys have some bad luck in df lol
Considering those NPCs are programed to know exactly what the mechanics are and execute them almost perfectly is the only reason why they are better then people right now.
@@aliciafraser1835 Exactly. I did this dungeon with 4 random ppl on a blind run. It was alright. We got caught offguard on the first left/right rotation but that's all.
Playing Dark Knight for this expansion just feels right. Especially given what Fray teaches you - you can't save everyone. You just have to save who you can
Considering the writer behind the DRK questline wrote the main plot for this expac, it tracks.
I’m also going through this with a DRK lol
"Stop them, damn you! I don't care what it takes!"
As many said before, I love the feelings this theme invokes. Other boss music is badass or scary, but this right here really makes you feel the existential threat these beings represent. It genuinly made me feel dread, when I first encountered the Lightwardens.
One of the best ost's of all fcking time !!!
soken is a genius... it's so deep, you can literally feel the weight of beeing THE _Warrior of Darkness_ ❤🛐
Yes!
The OST for this expansion has been one home run after another.
Out of all the boss dungeon themes, still my favourite one. Idk what it is, but it scratches that itch that even Endwalker couldn’t top.
By far one of my favorite songs from Shadowbringers. Just got a new pair of headphones and with the bass amplification my whole body is just shivering from the bass at the beginning...holy crap.
🎶The road that we walk
Is lost in the flood
Here proud angels bathe in
Their wages of blood
At this, the world’s end, do we cast off tomorrow🎶
Definitely my favorite part. Gets me fucking hyped every time.
This is such an incredible boss theme - I was standing there listening to it in awe. Just when I think Soken's done something incredible, he gives us wonderful pieces like this.
I personally find this to be my favorite. The feeling of hopelessness and then revving into a harder rift though not as powerful still felt like a life or death battle. Honestly it was amazing during tessleens fight. Realizing you have to fight something that use to be a friend after watching them transform into a mindless creature.
I still think this is the best boss theme.
Better than EndWalker
Everytime I hear this music in game I think oh shit something is about to go down.
which is why I love shonen anime, it does the same thing. like watching Bleach and right before a stare down and all seems lost... suddenly you hear the first few notes of Ichigo's theme start to play... Oh, shit is about to get real.
FF XIV is so extra with all their dungeon and boss themes, I LOVE IT
*The Forgiven Gentleman*
As I walk around with the title "The Insatiable" on everywhere I go, I give a little chuckle every time this song kicks in.
That's adorable!
This theme was really made with the final boss in the last dungeon. 1:03 actually nearly brought me to tears.
It's alright to feel just know that you have no choice but to fight as a hero so unleash all your power and energy into your weapon and strike at this part of the song
Dude soken... is a genius
@@MisteRRYouTuby good argument
@@Ruin_Lance I believe he meant he's not a genius, but a god.
Shadowbringer remains as the besttt expansion. It feels like nothing before or after it is a masterpiece without equal!!!!
I say the same for EW
i love these angelic monsters. there something so beautiful and horrifying about them
I am loving the whole idea of making 'light' evil and darkness good. Its seems like a really simple flip but they made it work. For some reason when it comes to the story I have this widespread tension that someone 'good' we bought hook line and sinker is going to turn out to be evil later on.
bruh, go play bayonetta
@@neiloch it's less about making darkness good and more about having a balance. The whole theme is that both sides of the spectrum are dangerous if tipped on its scale.
The adrenaline rush when you hear this song… wow.
I always tear up in a happy way when that piano solo kicks in
Shadowbringers still has the best end-dungeon boss theme to date.
Absolutely
This theme is so good especially when hitting steps with dancer the sound effect for the steps make it sound even better 🖤
For people who say this is a weak boss theme, trust me you gonna love this theme during some MSQ instances.
That is what happened to me. I heard this song before playing the expansion and was like 'eh it's ok I guess. Kinda weird and a little off-putting' Then played the first dungeon got to this boss and was like ' OMG this song is ducking awesome'. Now I love it.
Ranjit ;)
When i saw the exarch going in the dungeon before us i had to hold in my tears.
He's not afraid, at all, of giving his life for his people
This song gives me chills every single time
When I first walked into this bossfight I got mad chills ShB really blew everything outa the water
Best boss theme ever to me.
Suspense, meaning, and atmosphere gives me a drive to succeed in the actual game.
I love each boss theme in each expansion has a very VERY different feeling
Great boss theme, there are so many effective parts in it. I love the drop where there's just slow piano, man that really hits
Don't you love it when it slows down and those chords that playing
the intro is similar to FF8's battle theme after that, it's a whole new thing! love it!
I don't know why but there's just something about this song that resonates really strongly with me on a subconscious emotional level. It's epic but tragic, and overall just really moving to the point where it's almost distracting trying to play the fight because I just want to listen to it.
This will forever be my favourite boss theme in the game
soken...... maybe he is GENIUS.....
@@MisteRRYouTuby Get a life, and don't rain in other people's parade...
@@MisteRRYouTuby Yea ok, but Soken is a genius anyway.
Michael Rivers idk about lazy.There’s still a good amount of excellent themes in SB.Personally I think Soken’s getting better with every expansion.
@@MisteRRYouTuby That's a nice opinion you got there, it would be a shame if most people disagreed with you, uh oh...
Haters hate on.....songs fuckin great
2023 still the best dungeon final boss theme, both in visual, aestethic is really match with the SHB.
It’s funny how usually around 1:15 is when the boss is getting ready for a mechanic that adds to the rising of the song, then when it goes “We Fall” we’re literally dodging the mechanics
HOW CAN ENDWALKER TOP THIS? SEE ME FALL 2021
Game has exceeded everyone's expectations 3 times already.
You still have doubts?
@@arctris9380 I DO BECAUSE THE MUSIC HASN'T BEEN 10/10 ON YEARS SHB WAS 14/10
Timing your atk/dps with "We Fall" feels awesome
I loved this song, always got my psyched for a bossfight, It wasn't over the top but it was enough to get you into it.
0:02 when the boss stepped on a piece of lego
Lol
Amazing track. I can't get enough of it.
I absolutely love this theme music. It's so amazing!
Man all the battle theme in ff14 is so amazing fighting while these music plays jus keep my adrenaline pumping
What you are hearing here is a wonderful passing of the torch from Nobuo to Soken. He did an AMAZING job with SHB.
Just love how the bass just explodes all over your body, especially if you're wearing headphones.
It was a really welcome surprise to hear this at the floor 99 boss in Eureka Orthos.
God damn this is so good. Best boss theme yet
This boss looks like venom fused with a nobody.
But this expansion has been awesome and i love how it shows the horrible reality of all those who die outside of the knowledge of your character. The death and despair has always been there weve just been blind to it for the most part
So... Anti-Venom? That is a character in marvel.
@@OM3GA-Z3RO not exactly i mean close but its head is the same shape as a nobody's but the tongue and body resemble that of venom/anti-venom
I love this soundtrack, immediately a new favorite as I progress through Shadowbringers (new player). I just did a specific part of a story with a specific fight and hearing this during the whole thing, stressful as it was, was very inspiring. It's so well done, I'm so impressed by it.
Everyone have the right to like or dislike what they want, but as an expert musician I can say this theme objectively fits the expansion and it's a great theme, the composition is not as repetitive as sb boss theme, I think this is on pair with hw boss theme.
I just wish it was longer to be honest.
Noticed this, all the dungeon boss lightwardens have names referring to love. Philia, Eros and Storge.
And their attacks are all named after torture devices.
@@seafishie5246 *THUMBSCREW*
@Seafishie I... did not realize this at all. Mind just got blown.
Been listening to this on repeat while working. So awesome!!
To me this song resonates between desperation and mystery, since very quickly into the storyline you are told that the steaks are even higher than before, because now you know you must stop Urianger's vision of the future from coming to pass
This boss and this part of the story signifies the arrival of the warrior of darkness after seeing the horrors of the lightwarden in Kholusia and ESPECIALLY in Amh araeng they had no choice but to pick up the greatsword.
Initially I didn't really take to liking this song. But given time with it I've learned to appreciate it for what it is.
My interpretation is that of desperation. Considering that the world of the First has fallen to the hands of the Sin Eaters with no hope, no resolve, no future overall. Just a world on the brink of falling to light. And the only hope for this world is us. We might be backed into a corner in this strange and mysterious world but like a wild animal we will fight for our right to survive.
That's just how I see it.
Looks at description, game is Tera
SOMEONE GET HILDIBRAND TO INVESTIGATE THIS
That was strange
*gives reassuring thumbs up*
It's hard to even find the right words. This is SO good, and it's just THE REGULAR BOSS THEME.
Shadowbringers has stepped up EVERYTHING, so unexpectedly, so tragically, so gorgeously.
I like how the theme sounds like the world is already ruined but there's still some people fighting.
We know that basically is just us with the scions tho
Whenever I hear this in-game, I have the biggest goddamn smile on my face. Is it weird that I slam my fist on the table in time with the words every time he sings “WE FAAAAALLL!” or nah?
After listening a fair amount to this and finishing Shadowbringers I realized that this theme uses lyrics from Who Brings Shadow, the best bits from it at that, teased from the very first dungeon of the expansion.. I adore this OST so much
When I hear this song, it’s pumps me up. Warrior of darkness!!
"Not another step!! Your fight is with ME!!!"
i love thancred so much