A thing to remember: If you look at the map of Western Thanalan, “The Footfalls” is the name of the path leading to Vesper Bay, location of the Waking Sands, original headquarters of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn.
On it's own the song is incredible, but if you have the mindset of someone who's played the game, this is an ballad of epic proportions of the adventure you've taken up until this point which is why it's my favorite theme.
Its really incredible to me that Yoshi-P managed to craft a game that has kept me engaged and enthralled for the better part of a decade, even more incredible that Soken has crafted accompanying music that can make a grown man well up. There is so much nostalgia and emotional resonance in the songs, they immediately take you back to that moment, the sadness of it, the triumph, Soken is to be protected, cherished.
@@FullBitGamer as someone who couldn't get into XXFIV during the Stormblood days I'm so glad I gave the game another chance. I picked a different starting class, took as much time to progress as possible, forced myself to pay attention to the ARR story and I'm super happy that not only I got the experience I wanted all along, but didn't go for a story skip to get to the "good" part. The only moment that didn't work for me was the G'raha reveal, and that only happened because I hated Crystal Tower so I blanked everything around it out of my memory. Had I skipped ahead, none of the big moments would have worked. And yes, as a music weeb I got what I wanted too. ShB best.
@@DrkRyu im still stuck in ARR, i wonder if this "my lazyness" in ARR were the thing that hapens either because ARR were not that interesting and too long to build up, Yoshi-P team especially story team needs to retconned events hapened in Pre-ARR that "while Pre-ARR is cannon you dont need to know it to enjoy the story" in somewhat rushed and branstormed way, wich in turns made ARR story somewhat unintersting and possibly something you guys also experienced back then
@@ShiroCh_IDnope. 1.0 story is important and still VERY prevalent throughout all expansions. Learning the 1.0 story and lore made my experience so much better
There's a nice little tie-in in the name as well; the name of the subregion where the Waking Sands is located is The Footfalls. I don't know for sure that it was an intentional callback, but it seems very likely.
Footfalls may just edge To The Edge out as my favorite song from XIV. Being the culmination of the journey we as the Warriors of Light have walked, the stories we have forged, and the passion of seeing the journey to it's end. I cannot wait to see what Newfound Adventure we seek as our next journey and where it takes us as walk in the light and the shadows :)
Those who didn't play Endwalker right on release in December 2021 will never know why "tales of loss and fire and faith" causes more pain than the entire story combined.
@@diostone6975 it’s the lyrics that play when you boot into the game (at the moment) So many people were playing endwalker at launch the severs couldn’t handle it and people were constantly crashing for weeks. On top of that every time you logged in you were put in a queue with thousands of other players, waiting literal hours for enough people to have left the game in order to be let in yourself. If you heard those lyrics you were likely a few hours away from being able to play the game.
@@diostone6975 When Endwalker released, for roughly...two weeks and a little more I'd say the queue times were absolutely broken. Not unbearably long, that's typical of MMO releases no matter how big or small they stay. The queues were so massive, they revealed a long-standing bug in the queueing process that was spaghetti code from back in 1.0: Error 2002. Staying in a long queue was much much much more susceptible to packet loss from the queue's server since it was different from the actual game server and much weaker as a result. So you'd get a queue position of thousands of people long, get close to the end, or even literally at 1, the game error's you out and automatically closes itself preventing you from getting back on quickly to retain your position. As such, for really closer to a month, countless people had to hear that opening title screen bit (read: that specific lyric of this theme but slower and more somber) over. And over. And over. And over again. Yoshi-P's team wasn't sure if it was player connections at first until they realized the old 1.0 bug and managed to fix it, leading to the queues becoming far more manageable almost overnight and the queues have since normalized since thousands of people have already beaten the main story and don't need to rush to avoid spoilers anymore. Plus there now being an Oceanic Data Center, players of that region don't have to use NA/EU/JP space anymore. tl;dr: Hilarious connection issues made everyone listen to that lyric a million times before the queues were able to settle down.
This song never fails to give me chills and make me tear up haha! Just hearing the song transition from expansion to expansion is just simply amazing! The long journey from A Realm Reborn, all the way to the end of Endwalker, were filled with ups and downs, but every step was nothing short of brilliant! It's a slow start, but I'm excited to see where our journey takes us during our stay in Dawntrail!
if we look at the production staff it can be seen why - so much talent and money went into it, whereas typically, each single track in an OST isn't put together with that kind of budget. When I play Kingdom Hearts for example I'm amazed how there's LISTS of songs I utterly adore that were almost solely put together by one person. (Yôko Shimomura) "Architects" are great, I still vividly remember the first time I heard them
I've only reached the end of Heavensward so far on my journey, but it's impossible to not have heard this song, even trying to avoid spoilers at all places, heh. It was a lot of fun to listen to it with your addition here, thank you! =D
I hope you are enjoying your journey so far, and there is so much great stuff lined up for you in both MSQ and side raid content. The path continues to glow brightly with each foot step.
I for one hope that I can keep my promise of adventure to Hermes. And I also did not want to separate from Zenos, being the ever-constant reason to keep a weapon sharpened and being the ever patient 'friend', but it makes sense for things to turn out the way they did. I shall miss our bouts, and that strange yet endearing bond we had.
こんにちは！ I'll use translation from here Simply put, it's a song request It's a song called NEO WINGS by SOUND HOLIC. I want you to remix it If you don't like it, you don't have to do it, but I want you to do it if you can!
The Heavensward part is my favorite XD
your drumming is so clean my guy
The Heavensward Leitmotif is the best. I can't get enough of it no matter which track it appears in...
Okay but the Stormblood part tho'. Those lyrics have no right to hit so far when the original version is nowhere near strong.
As someone currently halfway through HW 3.0, I agree... but the transition to STORM OF BLOOD is the hypest part.
Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.
10/10 This song really makes you feel like testing your reflexes
A TEST OF YOUR REFLEXES
It’s mine for the taking
SHOW ME YOUR VAUNTED FORTITUDE
@@chaos_blue1089 AHHH MY SOUL HOW IT BURNS!!
@@kaltadesmon I KNOW YOU FEEL IT TOO, THE INFERNO SWELLING WITHIN YOU.
*Enshroud noises*
COME! LET ALL CREATION BE CONSUMED BY OUR RAVENOUS FERVOR!
A thing to remember: If you look at the map of Western Thanalan, “The Footfalls” is the name of the path leading to Vesper Bay, location of the Waking Sands, original headquarters of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn.
On it's own the song is incredible, but if you have the mindset of someone who's played the game, this is an ballad of epic proportions of the adventure you've taken up until this point which is why it's my favorite theme.
Its a song that represents your journey. I love it.
Its really incredible to me that Yoshi-P managed to craft a game that has kept me engaged and enthralled for the better part of a decade, even more incredible that Soken has crafted accompanying music that can make a grown man well up. There is so much nostalgia and emotional resonance in the songs, they immediately take you back to that moment, the sadness of it, the triumph, Soken is to be protected, cherished.
@@FullBitGamer as someone who couldn't get into XXFIV during the Stormblood days I'm so glad I gave the game another chance. I picked a different starting class, took as much time to progress as possible, forced myself to pay attention to the ARR story and I'm super happy that not only I got the experience I wanted all along, but didn't go for a story skip to get to the "good" part.
The only moment that didn't work for me was the G'raha reveal, and that only happened because I hated Crystal Tower so I blanked everything around it out of my memory. Had I skipped ahead, none of the big moments would have worked.
And yes, as a music weeb I got what I wanted too. ShB best.
@@DrkRyu im still stuck in ARR, i wonder if this "my lazyness" in ARR were the thing that hapens either because ARR were not that interesting and too long to build up, Yoshi-P team especially story team needs to retconned events hapened in Pre-ARR that "while Pre-ARR is cannon you dont need to know it to enjoy the story" in somewhat rushed and branstormed way, wich in turns made ARR story somewhat unintersting and possibly something you guys also experienced back then
@@ShiroCh_IDnope. 1.0 story is important and still VERY prevalent throughout all expansions. Learning the 1.0 story and lore made my experience so much better
Every time I hear Sam Carter come in on that Stormblood part, gah it is so good!
YESSSSSSSSS
Something real nice about the lead singer of the architects backing you up while you kill the icon of sin, despair edition
Absolutely freakin love it how you went with 150% passion and sing along! Love your energy man!
Thanks so much for watching! :D
Just normal, this song so good
There's a nice little tie-in in the name as well; the name of the subregion where the Waking Sands is located is The Footfalls. I don't know for sure that it was an intentional callback, but it seems very likely.
Yeah, there's no way it was not. There's no escape from the Waking Sands.
Pray return to the waking sands
@@RSQuinn No. Nope, that's it, I'm going fishing.
@@kereminde the boat to the waking sands is next to the ocean fishing thing
theres so many tie ins that are just so well placed its like pokemon you gotta find em all but you probably never will
Dudes energy is so infectious, biggest smile on my face
かっこよすぎる…！
I'm japanese HIKASEN!!!
I love you!!! crazy!!! amazing!!!
Footfalls may just edge To The Edge out as my favorite song from XIV. Being the culmination of the journey we as the Warriors of Light have walked, the stories we have forged, and the passion of seeing the journey to it's end. I cannot wait to see what Newfound Adventure we seek as our next journey and where it takes us as walk in the light and the shadows :)
For me it's between Oblivion, With Hearts Aligned and Return to Oblivion
This didn't age well😂
DT story sucks so hard
@@k0shachiya_myata to each there own, I really enjoyed Dawntrail.
1:48 That part is absolute chaos and I love it. Truly send chills to my spine. 🤩
Those who didn't play Endwalker right on release in December 2021 will never know why "tales of loss and fire and faith" causes more pain than the entire story combined.
Pls do elaborate (non player, but a fan)
@@diostone6975 it’s the lyrics that play when you boot into the game (at the moment)
So many people were playing endwalker at launch the severs couldn’t handle it and people were constantly crashing for weeks. On top of that every time you logged in you were put in a queue with thousands of other players, waiting literal hours for enough people to have left the game in order to be let in yourself. If you heard those lyrics you were likely a few hours away from being able to play the game.
@@diostone6975 When Endwalker released, for roughly...two weeks and a little more I'd say the queue times were absolutely broken. Not unbearably long, that's typical of MMO releases no matter how big or small they stay.
The queues were so massive, they revealed a long-standing bug in the queueing process that was spaghetti code from back in 1.0: Error 2002. Staying in a long queue was much much much more susceptible to packet loss from the queue's server since it was different from the actual game server and much weaker as a result. So you'd get a queue position of thousands of people long, get close to the end, or even literally at 1, the game error's you out and automatically closes itself preventing you from getting back on quickly to retain your position.
As such, for really closer to a month, countless people had to hear that opening title screen bit (read: that specific lyric of this theme but slower and more somber) over. And over. And over. And over again. Yoshi-P's team wasn't sure if it was player connections at first until they realized the old 1.0 bug and managed to fix it, leading to the queues becoming far more manageable almost overnight and the queues have since normalized since thousands of people have already beaten the main story and don't need to rush to avoid spoilers anymore. Plus there now being an Oceanic Data Center, players of that region don't have to use NA/EU/JP space anymore.
tl;dr: Hilarious connection issues made everyone listen to that lyric a million times before the queues were able to settle down.
Ah i see, so it's a pain in hilarious meaning... Thanks for the info
Alternatively, "tales of loss and wine and grapes"
This song never fails to give me chills and make me tear up haha! Just hearing the song transition from expansion to expansion is just simply amazing! The long journey from A Realm Reborn, all the way to the end of Endwalker, were filled with ups and downs, but every step was nothing short of brilliant! It's a slow start, but I'm excited to see where our journey takes us during our stay in Dawntrail!
Song gets me pumped. Its really hard not to tear up during the Sharlayan song of hope part every time though for....reasons. Awesome drumming cover X3
Same!
It's a very emotional piece of music as it, but with hindsight you know exactly what the lyrics are referring to and it makes you feel things
Absolutely epic song.
The final boss track from the new 24man raid is awesome as well.
I’m just gonna be completeLy honest.
Probably the greatest song in Final Fantasy
And you made it even better!!
I played every FF game including spinoffs (and even the very obscure ones too) and I highly agree. This song is just on another whole level.
if we look at the production staff it can be seen why - so much talent and money went into it, whereas typically, each single track in an OST isn't put together with that kind of budget.
When I play Kingdom Hearts for example I'm amazed how there's LISTS of songs I utterly adore that were almost solely put together by one person. (Yôko Shimomura) "Architects" are great, I still vividly remember the first time I heard them
I never would have guessed that the secret to making the Stormblood lyrics amazing is just putting them into a punk style.
The fabric of our star began to fray…
Bro I just found this today and I can see that you REALLY feeling it! Thank you for doing this nice drum man ♥
The pure unbridled joy this man has while playing this absolute banger of a song.
God, it gives me chills.
Endwalker was so great, i think i experienced every emotion from the begining to end.
I've only reached the end of Heavensward so far on my journey, but it's impossible to not have heard this song, even trying to avoid spoilers at all places, heh.
It was a lot of fun to listen to it with your addition here, thank you! =D
I hope you are enjoying your journey so far, and there is so much great stuff lined up for you in both MSQ and side raid content.
The path continues to glow brightly with each foot step.
@@LazyVanny I am indeed, thank you! :D
@Kimi Timoskainen SHOW ME YOUR VAUNTED FORTITUDE.
i love watching drummers with passion
No I don't tear up at the female vocals point every time this song comes on >_>
oh man i wasn't expecting to tear up again listening to this ;-;
This expansion hits hard. I teared up at least 5 or so times playing through it XD
@@The8BitDrummer same!
I love your energy so much throughout all of it and I was singing along!
you are the best drummer
Thank you for playing this song.
ugghhh hearing you jam out to this song IS SO SATISFYING
I for one hope that I can keep my promise of adventure to Hermes.
And I also did not want to separate from Zenos, being the ever-constant reason to keep a weapon sharpened and being the ever patient 'friend', but it makes sense for things to turn out the way they did. I shall miss our bouts, and that strange yet endearing bond we had.
I love the whole thing OMG, amazing cover.
Ohhh the youtube cover is out! Thanks for the cover!
This is a JAM man.
"Why is that song so good?!"
Soken. Just.....Soken.
Gotta give *some* credit to Uematsu for the Heavensward and Stormblood parts
@@taco_senseiAnd Sam Carter for the awesome heavy vocals
The Big Cheese sends his regards.
omg i love this song and i was just waiting for you to do a cover for this, now that its here im happy xD
i cry everytime i hear this song, without fail.
purely amazing song and play!!!!!
Perfect!
the stormblood part is so impressed
You have a new subscriber, amazing performance
oh my god... i waited soo long for this... finally!
it was so great to see you do a non meme song. Seeing your talent is great!!!!
Absolutely amazing
A test of your reflexes!
Mine for the taking
I HAVE YOU!
Do not tell me your life's fire is already spent!
Liked and subscribed !
Cool bro!! LOVE IT 😍
So cleaaannn~ ❤
endwalker officially has the best trailer song (in my opinion)
HE FINALLY DID THIS SONG!!!
Thank you.
You're so good bro... your 'higher o higher' part makes me want to go kill some birds
actual fire
FORGE AHEAD
Epic
I can't believe you haven't done Metal: Brute Justice Mode.
Fuck yeah man! I’d love that!
He did a loong time ago when heavensward was the current expac. But for some reason the vod was removed. Probably copyright
@@andrewtimothy9792 Sadge
best song ever
Footfalls sounds like an obscure landmark in a video game.
Funny you say that, it's actually the name of a certain location in FFXIV
@@spearsage the north of the walking sand in vesper bay ye
Soken is a Musical primal
*FORGE AHEAD!!*
🔥🔥
I wish that I could focus on the drum sound and music
Is there any version of drum cover without any sound?
Someone needs to make Soken see this.
Best moment 4:00
YAYYYY 😄
какая умничка .so beautiful...
Im curious, what is Jerord's favorite job in 14? :o
あれ？！ドラマーニキもヒカセン！？
Please, do any song from Legend of Dragoon!
Where Lalafell!
Songs are not ALLOWED to go this hard. You looked like you were having the time of your life belting along. :3
day 2 of asking jerod to play the doom eternal song called 264bpm
こんにちは！
I'll use translation from here
Simply put, it's a song request
It's a song called NEO WINGS by SOUND HOLIC.
I want you to remix it
If you don't like it, you don't have to do it, but I want you to do it if you can!
Wouldve been better if the streamer didnt talk over it.
SING BOI SING!!!