Xenosaga may not be the same series as Xenoblade, but the two are closer than some would think. Xenosaga is a spiritual successor to Xenogears on the PS1, which was made by Squaresoft. The developers of the game wanted more creative freedom than Square was giving them, so they left the company to form Monolith Soft. They then worked with Namco to make the Xenosaga trilogy on PS2, before being bought by Nintendo to create Xenoblade. All three series have a lot of similarities in their stories and design while still standing on their own. Xenosaga has even crossed over directly with Xenoblade, with the character KOS-MOS appearing in Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
Random Fact Xenogears was originally designed to be one of the potential Stories for Final Fantasy 7, with a whole series worth of connecting stories roughly mapped out to create one mega saga, however it was seen as a little too dark for what they were planning for and had a lot of deep roots in religion to construct it's story which can still be very clearly seen in what later became Xenogears even after being toned down. Pretty crazy to think though we could've gotten a completely different FF7 potentially leading to an entirely different Xenosaga (one of the pieces of that mega saga mentioned earlier) and likely leading to Xenoblade as it's successor series never having a place to be made in the same way, as well would've had Fei being a Gaming Icon instead of Cloud... 🤔😂
@@-libertyprimev1-902 I know. I think it was also considered to be a Chrono Trigger sequel before it became it's own thing, which was meant to be a part of this big, 6 game long series, but that didn't work out. I think we can safely say that Xeno as a whole has been through a lot of interesting stuff.
@@totalradlad yeah I usually see that mentioned with the FF7 fact but don't really know anything about Chrono Trigger or Chrono Cross so I just leave it out incase I explain something incorrectly.
@Xenomaniac Xenosaga is no question a prequel to Xenogears, but Xenoblade having any singular universe connection to either is pure speculation. (Actually due to some things in Xenoblade it's almost certain they're in a separate Timeline/Universe, but in the same Multiverse)
If you enjoyed this, you should seriously look up 'Kalafina.' It's the 'project/band' that Kajiura put together. It's split up now, but several of the members were present in this studio version of Godsibb. Kajiura is the writer/producer and usually also on the piano in these live performances. I've been a fan of hers for well over a decade now... For those that don't know, the vast majority of Kajiura's songs are sung in her own made up language(which us fans tend to call 'Kajiuran'), which combines Japanese, Latin, and a couple others, with the end goal of using her singers voices' as an instrument. That's why she combines sounds from different languages in her vocals.
@LittleAl016 I don't believe so no Kalafina was Kajiuras project... and mostly had 3 main vocalists... Keiko, Wakana, and Hikaru. They had support from some others that Kajiura worked with previously but those were the main 4.
Xenosaga is sadly an underappreciated IP with fantastic OSTs. I imagine there are many sleeper fans out there who would bolt upright upon hearing that the trilogy got a remaster or even just a re-release of some kind on a modern platform. Please take our money, god damn it!
I have to wonder whether SE plans to remake/remaster Xenogears at some point given their recent focus on bringing back older titles. Maybe if that ends well, the "not worth it" Xenosaga remaster would be reconsidered.
The thing is I doubt Square wants to touch Xenogears without Takahashi being involved. As for Xenosaga, there's a possibility that Bandai Namco is going to reconsider it after the recent success of Xenoblade. They may have their eyes on 3's numbers. Then again, Xenosaga is quite different, so the appeal isn't quite the same.
Unfortunately a remaster of the series was already denied :/ I learned about it last year and it was rejected because it wasnt seen as worth it because of how poorly the series did in the past (thank their god awful marketing for that even though this series is incredible)
@@omegacloud222 Yep, god awful marketing and availability. Considering Europe only ever got Episode 2. And it's not exactly easy to garner new fans with how expensive Episode 3 is. Even a simple HD remaster with a wide release wouldn't take much work and easily make profit.
The women from See-Saw, Fiction Junction and Kalafina are absolute Legends. Any song, anytime and you will find a masterpiece. They are truly a treat to listen to.
Xenosaga Episode III's soundtrack is what got me into Yuki Kajiura in the first place. Godsibb and Promised Pain were boss music tracks that really stuck out to me back then. Kajiura has become quite the renowned composer as of late, but Xenosaga II and III are a couple of her very few videogames she has composed for. Her music is powerful. FICTIONJUNCTION is the name of the band in the video.
The whole Xenosaga II soundtrack was full of great tunes. Fatal Fight (Jin & Margulis), Communication Breakdown, Here She Comes, Sweet Song, it’s a lot of awesome in one soundtrack.
I'm so happy that the live version is requested because seeing the ladies in action while singing is still my most favorite thing ♥ But Kajiura Yuki has also been my favorite composer before Revo came into my life, so I'm happiness all over, although I didn't know that this track was composed for a game! I never noticed that Keiko was missing in this song, whoops ... but this live had four singers in total! And since most of the other songs are from anime, I absolutely recommend you checking out the rest if you have the time :3
Yuki Kajiura is a legend in the anime music industry. Sadly, Xenosaga is her only video game credit but she's well-known in the anime space for her beautiful harmonic compositions, even being responsible for scores for some big series like Madoka Magica, Sword Art Online or Demon Slayer. If you're willing to dip your toes in her OSTs, some good recs would be 'Mezame' from Mai-Hime, 'A Shadow' and 'Everytime You Kissed Me' from Pandora Hearts, 'Thanatos' from Kara no Kyoukai, 'Open Your Heart' and 'In The Land of Twilight Under The Moon' from .hack//Sign, 'Hear Our Prayers' and 'A Song of Storm and Fire' from Tsubasa Chronicles.
If a Yuki Kujiura track is playing, its pretty much 100% that the tone of the game or anime series is dark. She can do silly or emotional songs too but songs like this are what make her recognizable. The type of music she does doesn't fit snugly into one genre or another.
Yuki Kajiura is an astounding composer, who did an excellent job on many things like Sword Art Online, Noir (my personal favorite), and Madoka Magica; her magnum opus, however, is the soundtrack to the original series of .Hack//Sign. Her command of strings, and ability to blend orchestral strings, tribal chanting (called "Kajuiran" by some fans) that almost seems to be a leitmotif to her music, and electric guitars and/or electronica is magical. The song "We Have To Defeat It" from Sword Art Online came on when friends were watching it, and I looked at a friend with a visible question mark over my head. He responded, "You can tell this is a Yuki Kajiura soundtrack." Her sound is unique.
Kajiura Yuki is one of my favorite composers and her band "Kalafina" is still one of my favorites even though they broke up a few years ago (apparently due to corporate meddling but needs further citation). Very sad that I wasn't as much as a fan when they they preformed at Anime Expo 2014 so I never got to see them live in person. But, if you want to hear similar stuff live, a cursory search of "kalafina live" on RUclips gives a bunch of results from their past concerts.
Same here! Absolutely love Kalafina and miss them so much... From beautiful ballads such as Sapphire and Seventh Heaven to epic songs such as Red Moon and Yami no Uta, they can do it all! Not to mention how diverse their music is, incorporating arabic/eastern influences as in Te to Te Me to Me and Usumurasaki, japanese influences as in Hyakka Ryouran and Hoshi no Utai, folk as in Marchen and Moonfesta and even techno as in Magnolia and Signal.
Ever since listening to this song and seeing HOW MUCH people love this franchise I have begun waiting for this series to return, just like everyone else! IT DESERVES TO RETURN!!!!!!
Thanks for reviewing this. I had no idea it existed and ended up spending most of this morning listening to what looks like an entire live DVD of this group's performance. Pretty unique stuff. Also for some reason I'm really digging the way these drums sound, which is something I don't normally notice.
Xenosaga is a spiritual successor to Xenogears, and now Xenoblade is a spiritual successor to Xenosaga. All three series share plenty of thematic and visual elements, and they are all headed by director Tetsuya Takahashi. Xenogears, Xenosaga Episode 1 and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and 3 are all headed by Yasunori Mitsuda as lead composer (sole for Gears and Saga 1), so his music has basically been the sound of the entire series so far, either following his epic Celtic style like Yuki Kaijura, ACE+, Kenji Hiramatsu and Manami have in subsequent games. Chronices X is the exception because its composer is Hiroyuki Sawano, more known for his sweeping orchestral and electronic soundtracks for Anime. Then there's the main game composer for Episode 2, but no one talks about memorable tracks from that game aside from Kaijura's contributions, TBH. In this case, Yuki Kaijura takes over composer duties for Xenosaga Episode 2's cutscenes and the entirety of Episode 3. Godsibb is a boss battle theme against one of the main antagonists of Episode 3, and it's so fitting for the particular boss.
i havent gotten this far in xenosaga yet, but i love how i could Immediately tell this was a yuki kajiura song. she's the first composer i think i ever really started recognising and following in media, and her work is So Good.
I totally requested a Xenosaga II song and I can't wait for you to hear it :D. Kajiura Yuki to me is the queen of a full warm sound, so many layers in her music but so clean. The lyrics are just a made up language Kajiura uses in all her music it's her signature. She always try to sample real instruments.
Yuki Kajiura is one of my favorite composers. She works mostly on anime and I have physical CDs for lots of them. I couldn't believe it when they announced she would be the main composer for the Xenosaga 2 and 3 games. Xenogears -> Xenosaga -> Xenoblade are part of the same ethos and are spiritual successors, developed by the same team at different companies. Her elaborate orchestral themes and violin solos are simply AMAZING.
The xeno series always goes hard with music. Hopefully you get to hear some other good xeno songs soon like promised pain, dark dawn, fatal fight, omen, awakening, etc.
Xenogears came first, then Xenosaga, then Xenoblade. They're under the same meta series and by the same creators, but are isolated enough as the rights are split between different companies, Square Enix, Bandai Namco, and Nintendo respectively
Pretty new here and first time commenter, though I've been going through catching up on several vides. It's great to see some Xenosaga love! Yuki Kajiura does really cool stuff. If I recall correctly she was one of the composers for Xenosaga II and the sole composer for Xenosaga III. Hope to see more :D
Oh wow. Didn't think Xenosaga would make it. Very good game. I love xenosaga! I wish they would remake it or at least remaster it Also the lady playing the piano is Yuki Kjiura. She's a music composer/musician. Most of her well known music are from games and anime The group is known as FictionJunction. They have been singing for Kajiura since 2006 (I think)
The "band" fictionjunction is a little odd, in that the only constant member is the producer yuki kajiura, who migrates from project to project, rolling up all these absurd talents into a beautiful operatic fusion drumnbass electronica katamari, and then starts over when she thinks some part of her process gets stale. Her early work was the crisp meaty center of so many early 2000's amvs, it's a little crazy. Big mover/shaker. Thank God she quit her IT job for this.
You mentioned you liked the production, so I say all this to bring to the fore that her production is very much the point of her doing this (besides making money haha). She gathers up a bunch of talent, learns as much about how to mix them into something utterly unique, and then hucks them into the sky like a greek constellation. Between fictionjunction and kalafina, so much of anime and games music's sound today can be traced right back to her personal drive to improve.
This 🔥. I think this is the first Xenosaga video you have. One way to describe the Xenosaga Trilogy whether it be the games themselves or just the music is "space opera"
ngl, seeing you cover a xenosaga music gets me crying. i loved this series a lot when i was a kid and i lost my trilogy copy long ago and seeing this pop up in my recommendations just makes me nostalgic. this series got me listening to yuki kajiura music. she's such an awesome composer.
Oh wow ths is my groove man. Xenosaga was my childhood . Btw Kajiura Yuki is the composer of this song and is pretty much the mastermind of FictionJuntion and Kalafina. The singers are Yuriko, Kaori and Joey(subbing for wakana). Keiko is the 4th member but this song doesn't have bass parts so she ain't here. edit. Just had to comment about that "they're made to sing with each other" comment. That's the genius of the composer man. I'd admit some of their members still lack solo singing skills but when they sing a kajiura arangement, they suddenly sound like goddesses.
The band/group is called FictionJunction, led by Yuki Kajiura. They've worked on many games and anime soundtracks together and you should totally react to more of their stuff.
Yuki Kajiura writes specifically for her vocalists and they're speaking a language often referred to as Kajiurese, which is a made up language to give vocals to a track without detracting from the music because you're focusing on the lyrics. Yuki Kajiura does music for a lot of games and even a few anime including Sword Art Online and Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicle
Xenosaga was Monolithsoft's first IP and then later they went on to make Xenoblade. Xenogears was the inspiration for the later games in the Xeno series, and their relation is that Tetsuya Takahashi is the director (usually)
Yuki Kaijura is a legendary composer. She did the soundtrack for the .hack, Noir, Sword Art and Fate series. Her songs have a very paticular sound. She also formed a group called Kalafina...which may be who youre listening too here.
The composer of this song i believe did both Xenosaga 2 and 3 soundtracks and did work for the anime Sword Art Online from which "luminous sword" and "swordland" come to mind (both having having a heavier remix named "light your sword " and "gunland" respectively for the second season ost), violins and singers are more prominent in the original iterations of the songs than the latter remixes. I don't know if anime ost is viable but if not, at least give a try to those two songs in your spare time.
For some very strange reason the very beginning made me think of the classic Visitors miniseries theme. I have no idea why. Also... this made me remember I have yet to actually play the Xenosaga trilogy. ... Too many games... too many games...
Xenosaga is in fact a Monolithsoft game series, just as Xenoblade and Xenogears (sort of) are. And they all share themes, design elements, and some degree of underlying lore and cosmology though Xenogears, Xenosaga, and Xenoblade are all from under different ownership. Each series references the prior heavily. Xenogears from when Takahashi (creator of Monolithsoft) worked for Squaresoft, Xenosaga from when Monolithsoft was owned by Namco, and Xenoblade now that Monolithsoft is owned by Nintendo.
The creator of Xenoblade both did, in the past, Xenogear and Xenosaga. Also, speaking about Xenoblade, check out Zanza theme from Xenoblade 1 OST. You can really hear the similarities between Zanza theme to this song. You'll hear that Zanza theme is perhaps influenced by Godsibb theme. Their both great!
Hey there, if you’re interested I would recommend checking out the Calamity Mod ost at some point. It has a very niche community unfortunately so a good chunk of people either don’t hear of it very often or are put off by the fact that it accompanies a mod. Despite that though the amount of work that the author put into it for a (relatively) small community is pretty crazy. Regardless of what happens though keep up the great work!
Underrated series, own the soundtrack for ep 1. Violin is always a fav in ost. I recommand giving the Atelier Series a listen. Xenogears-Xenoblade-Xenosaga is the universe meta order.
Xenosaga is amazing, I wish it got more love than it does. Also, yes, Xenosaga is related to Xenogears and Xenoblade. Same director, but all different companies. Xenogears > Squaresoft/Square Enix Xenosaga > Namco/Bandai Namco Xenoblade > Nintendo Not all of the games have the same composer, but the Xenosaga series has had Yasunori Mitsuda (Episode I), Shinji Hosoe (Episode II, in game soundtrack), and Yuki Kajiura (Episode II cutscene songs, and the whole Episode III soundtrack) as the composers. If you haven't played Xenosaga, you should do so. It's such an underrated series. Not even its owners love it as much as the fans do. *Glaring at Bandai Namco intensely.* edit: also, here's the version that was for the game itself. ruclips.net/video/VjPWTEtuv74/видео.html edit (2): 12:28 You said "Xenogears godsibb" lol, I doubt it was intentional tho but it was a funny thing I noticed
Xenosaga, as well as Xenogears arent directly connected to Xenoblade, but they share the same creator, and characters from Saga made cameos in Blade 2, and there's a nod to the other games in the story of 2. Also Square-Enix (Xenogears) and Bandai-Namco (Xenosaga) collaborated with Monolith on Xenoblade 2.
At some point Xenosaga were supposed to be the prequel to Xenogears because Xenogears is episode 5. And there's supposed to be 6 episodes in total. I don't know when the plan change but some rumors said it was changed on the development of 2 or 3. Another speculation is also the 6 episode plan were scrapped when the team that now Monolith Soft left Square-Enix. Also, Kajiura Yuki is one of my favorite composer. I mever realized that Godsibb is Xenosaga's song
A Xenogears product was in development, we don't know if it was going to be one of the prequels or the ending episode, or if it was even going to be a game as the series was proposed to potentially be a multimedia franchise. What we do know is it was killed because Square wanted to put more resources into Final Fantasy The Spirits Within.
A comment late, Very late. But I don't know what you all think about this 8 time pose to get back very powerfuly with a full layering. Edit : Also the live performance of every Yuki Kajiura related are the ones with the most quality.
If you want more Xenosaga, I suggest Xenosaga 2's "Fatal Fight", used in a cinematic, by the same composer. ruclips.net/video/YtA-iLt2rgw/видео.html There's also a Xenosage 3 version which is used for a special boss battle. ruclips.net/video/IOuWFGrsDJE/видео.html The one in 2 is the original. It's still in my VGM playlist after all the years I've known it.
God i miss Xenosaga so much. Such an underappreciated series because of awful marketing. Xenosaga 1 and 3 are such insanely good games. Xenosaga 2 unfortunately killed any chance of the series seeing huge success because of how horrendously bad the global market was and how bad the gameplay was compared to 1 and 3 (because 2 was given to another person to work on.) But Xenosaga 1 and 3 were just in another class of their own. The music is absolutely bonechilling across the series and hits the themes of the story perfectly.
Xenosaga III is in my top 5 games of all time Those who played it know its one of the GOATS Fun Fact Yuki Kajiura made up the lyrics its not a real language
Xenosaga and Xenoblade have the same developers, but not the same composers. Except for Yasunori Mitsuda, who composed for Xenosaga 1 and Xenoblade 2 and 3.
Xenosaga is in fact not related to Xenoblade! It is a very old rpg series that was made on PS2, and maybe the third was on PS3 but I could be wrong. Xenosaga has a very interesting story, and such cool characters. It was one of the harder rpg's with a turn-based batte system at the time, enemies were no push-overs. But yeah, entirely its own thing!
It should be mentioned that both series are by the same studio and director. Though, despite some similarities, the composer Yuki Kajiura wasn't involved in Xenoblade. Yasunori Matsuda was the main composer of Xenoblade and Xenogears.
In my case it was also funny cause I've never heard this song before and didn't know who was the composer but right from the start the vocals reminded me of Kara no Kyoukai and of course it was Kajiura! :D
It is related, but not directly connected. It obviously stands on it's own and the story has nothing to do with Xenoblade and Xenogears, but they're definitely related and have many similarities (and have even crossed over from time to time).
Sorry, minor correction;
The background song while I'm talking is
Gunbound - Metropolis
it's super rare for Xenosaga to get ANY love, attention, or respect
AGREED
Xenosaga may not be the same series as Xenoblade, but the two are closer than some would think. Xenosaga is a spiritual successor to Xenogears on the PS1, which was made by Squaresoft. The developers of the game wanted more creative freedom than Square was giving them, so they left the company to form Monolith Soft. They then worked with Namco to make the Xenosaga trilogy on PS2, before being bought by Nintendo to create Xenoblade. All three series have a lot of similarities in their stories and design while still standing on their own. Xenosaga has even crossed over directly with Xenoblade, with the character KOS-MOS appearing in Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
Random Fact Xenogears was originally designed to be one of the potential Stories for Final Fantasy 7, with a whole series worth of connecting stories roughly mapped out to create one mega saga, however it was seen as a little too dark for what they were planning for and had a lot of deep roots in religion to construct it's story which can still be very clearly seen in what later became Xenogears even after being toned down.
Pretty crazy to think though we could've gotten a completely different FF7 potentially leading to an entirely different Xenosaga (one of the pieces of that mega saga mentioned earlier) and likely leading to Xenoblade as it's successor series never having a place to be made in the same way, as well would've had Fei being a Gaming Icon instead of Cloud... 🤔😂
@@-libertyprimev1-902 I know. I think it was also considered to be a Chrono Trigger sequel before it became it's own thing, which was meant to be a part of this big, 6 game long series, but that didn't work out. I think we can safely say that Xeno as a whole has been through a lot of interesting stuff.
@@totalradlad yeah I usually see that mentioned with the FF7 fact but don't really know anything about Chrono Trigger or Chrono Cross so I just leave it out incase I explain something incorrectly.
@@-libertyprimev1-902 Makes sense.
@Xenomaniac Xenosaga is no question a prequel to Xenogears, but Xenoblade having any singular universe connection to either is pure speculation. (Actually due to some things in Xenoblade it's almost certain they're in a separate Timeline/Universe, but in the same Multiverse)
If you enjoyed this, you should seriously look up 'Kalafina.' It's the 'project/band' that Kajiura put together. It's split up now, but several of the members were present in this studio version of Godsibb. Kajiura is the writer/producer and usually also on the piano in these live performances. I've been a fan of hers for well over a decade now...
For those that don't know, the vast majority of Kajiura's songs are sung in her own made up language(which us fans tend to call 'Kajiuran'), which combines Japanese, Latin, and a couple others, with the end goal of using her singers voices' as an instrument. That's why she combines sounds from different languages in her vocals.
Was Minami Kiyota a part of that band?
@LittleAl016 I don't believe so no
Kalafina was Kajiuras project... and mostly had 3 main vocalists... Keiko, Wakana, and Hikaru. They had support from some others that Kajiura worked with previously but those were the main 4.
@@Krescentwolf Just asking because she does something similar with her songs, even going as far as to sing the vocals herself.
Xenosaga is sadly an underappreciated IP with fantastic OSTs. I imagine there are many sleeper fans out there who would bolt upright upon hearing that the trilogy got a remaster or even just a re-release of some kind on a modern platform. Please take our money, god damn it!
I have to wonder whether SE plans to remake/remaster Xenogears at some point given their recent focus on bringing back older titles. Maybe if that ends well, the "not worth it" Xenosaga remaster would be reconsidered.
The thing is I doubt Square wants to touch Xenogears without Takahashi being involved. As for Xenosaga, there's a possibility that Bandai Namco is going to reconsider it after the recent success of Xenoblade. They may have their eyes on 3's numbers. Then again, Xenosaga is quite different, so the appeal isn't quite the same.
Unfortunately a remaster of the series was already denied :/ I learned about it last year and it was rejected because it wasnt seen as worth it because of how poorly the series did in the past (thank their god awful marketing for that even though this series is incredible)
Every year I live in hope for a Xenosaga remaster :
@@omegacloud222 Yep, god awful marketing and availability. Considering Europe only ever got Episode 2. And it's not exactly easy to garner new fans with how expensive Episode 3 is. Even a simple HD remaster with a wide release wouldn't take much work and easily make profit.
The women from See-Saw, Fiction Junction and Kalafina are absolute Legends. Any song, anytime and you will find a masterpiece. They are truly a treat to listen to.
Xenosaga Episode III's soundtrack is what got me into Yuki Kajiura in the first place. Godsibb and Promised Pain were boss music tracks that really stuck out to me back then. Kajiura has become quite the renowned composer as of late, but Xenosaga II and III are a couple of her very few videogames she has composed for. Her music is powerful. FICTIONJUNCTION is the name of the band in the video.
The whole Xenosaga II soundtrack was full of great tunes. Fatal Fight (Jin & Margulis), Communication Breakdown, Here She Comes, Sweet Song, it’s a lot of awesome in one soundtrack.
I'm so happy that the live version is requested because seeing the ladies in action while singing is still my most favorite thing ♥
But Kajiura Yuki has also been my favorite composer before Revo came into my life, so I'm happiness all over, although I didn't know that this track was composed for a game!
I never noticed that Keiko was missing in this song, whoops ... but this live had four singers in total! And since most of the other songs are from anime, I absolutely recommend you checking out the rest if you have the time :3
In an older live from 2008 I think there was 5 singers, Eri Ito was a guest + Keiko and Wakana in the lineup, that's my favorite version
Yuki Kajiura is a legend in the anime music industry. Sadly, Xenosaga is her only video game credit but she's well-known in the anime space for her beautiful harmonic compositions, even being responsible for scores for some big series like Madoka Magica, Sword Art Online or Demon Slayer. If you're willing to dip your toes in her OSTs, some good recs would be 'Mezame' from Mai-Hime, 'A Shadow' and 'Everytime You Kissed Me' from Pandora Hearts, 'Thanatos' from Kara no Kyoukai, 'Open Your Heart' and 'In The Land of Twilight Under The Moon' from .hack//Sign, 'Hear Our Prayers' and 'A Song of Storm and Fire' from Tsubasa Chronicles.
If a Yuki Kujiura track is playing, its pretty much 100% that the tone of the game or anime series is dark. She can do silly or emotional songs too but songs like this are what make her recognizable. The type of music she does doesn't fit snugly into one genre or another.
she can bring a drumset to a ballroom dance and make it work (nightmare ballet)
Yuki Kajiura is an astounding composer, who did an excellent job on many things like Sword Art Online, Noir (my personal favorite), and Madoka Magica; her magnum opus, however, is the soundtrack to the original series of .Hack//Sign.
Her command of strings, and ability to blend orchestral strings, tribal chanting (called "Kajuiran" by some fans) that almost seems to be a leitmotif to her music, and electric guitars and/or electronica is magical.
The song "We Have To Defeat It" from Sword Art Online came on when friends were watching it, and I looked at a friend with a visible question mark over my head. He responded, "You can tell this is a Yuki Kajiura soundtrack." Her sound is unique.
Kajiura Yuki is one of my favorite composers and her band "Kalafina" is still one of my favorites even though they broke up a few years ago (apparently due to corporate meddling but needs further citation). Very sad that I wasn't as much as a fan when they they preformed at Anime Expo 2014 so I never got to see them live in person. But, if you want to hear similar stuff live, a cursory search of "kalafina live" on RUclips gives a bunch of results from their past concerts.
Same here! Absolutely love Kalafina and miss them so much... From beautiful ballads such as Sapphire and Seventh Heaven to epic songs such as Red Moon and Yami no Uta, they can do it all! Not to mention how diverse their music is, incorporating arabic/eastern influences as in Te to Te Me to Me and Usumurasaki, japanese influences as in Hyakka Ryouran and Hoshi no Utai, folk as in Marchen and Moonfesta and even techno as in Magnolia and Signal.
Yuki Kajiura, the composer and the pianist, has live concerts of her osts in different animes such as this.
Oh, harmonized vocals and violins are Kajiura's thing. Her songs are extremely recognizable. Oh and the chaos language.
The Xenosaga games were indeed made by the same studio as the Xenoblade games, Monolith Soft
Ever since listening to this song and seeing HOW MUCH people love this franchise
I have begun waiting for this series to return, just like everyone else!
IT DESERVES TO RETURN!!!!!!
Thanks for reviewing this. I had no idea it existed and ended up spending most of this morning listening to what looks like an entire live DVD of this group's performance. Pretty unique stuff. Also for some reason I'm really digging the way these drums sound, which is something I don't normally notice.
Xenosaga is a spiritual successor to Xenogears, and now Xenoblade is a spiritual successor to Xenosaga. All three series share plenty of thematic and visual elements, and they are all headed by director Tetsuya Takahashi.
Xenogears, Xenosaga Episode 1 and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and 3 are all headed by Yasunori Mitsuda as lead composer (sole for Gears and Saga 1), so his music has basically been the sound of the entire series so far, either following his epic Celtic style like Yuki Kaijura, ACE+, Kenji Hiramatsu and Manami have in subsequent games. Chronices X is the exception because its composer is Hiroyuki Sawano, more known for his sweeping orchestral and electronic soundtracks for Anime.
Then there's the main game composer for Episode 2, but no one talks about memorable tracks from that game aside from Kaijura's contributions, TBH.
In this case, Yuki Kaijura takes over composer duties for Xenosaga Episode 2's cutscenes and the entirety of Episode 3. Godsibb is a boss battle theme against one of the main antagonists of Episode 3, and it's so fitting for the particular boss.
I'm so glad godsibb was covered, it's such a brilliant song.
Yes, Yuki Kaijura is one of my Favorite Musicians, she loves Vilolins and Guitars 😊
i havent gotten this far in xenosaga yet, but i love how i could Immediately tell this was a yuki kajiura song. she's the first composer i think i ever really started recognising and following in media, and her work is So Good.
I totally requested a Xenosaga II song and I can't wait for you to hear it :D. Kajiura Yuki to me is the queen of a full warm sound, so many layers in her music but so clean. The lyrics are just a made up language Kajiura uses in all her music it's her signature. She always try to sample real instruments.
Yuki Kajiura is one of my favorite composers. She works mostly on anime and I have physical CDs for lots of them. I couldn't believe it when they announced she would be the main composer for the Xenosaga 2 and 3 games. Xenogears -> Xenosaga -> Xenoblade are part of the same ethos and are spiritual successors, developed by the same team at different companies.
Her elaborate orchestral themes and violin solos are simply AMAZING.
Kajiura Yuki and her girls are totally fire! Every soundtrack she touches becomes a legend.
Love the game version, never heard a live version, if thats really the requested version I'm intrigued
The best version of Godsibb, imo, is the live concert version off Kajiura's 2008.07.31 Concert dvd. But this studio version is really good as well.
Omg I never thought you'd get a request like this!!!! I was gonna be a patron soon and request this song but I'm so happy someone did!!!!!!!
The xeno series always goes hard with music. Hopefully you get to hear some other good xeno songs soon like promised pain, dark dawn, fatal fight, omen, awakening, etc.
Xenogears came first, then Xenosaga, then Xenoblade.
They're under the same meta series and by the same creators, but are isolated enough as the rights are split between different companies, Square Enix, Bandai Namco, and Nintendo respectively
I had no idea there was a live version of this. Wow, that was insanely good!
Pretty new here and first time commenter, though I've been going through catching up on several vides. It's great to see some Xenosaga love! Yuki Kajiura does really cool stuff. If I recall correctly she was one of the composers for Xenosaga II and the sole composer for Xenosaga III. Hope to see more :D
Oh wow. Didn't think Xenosaga would make it. Very good game. I love xenosaga! I wish they would remake it or at least remaster it
Also the lady playing the piano is Yuki Kjiura. She's a music composer/musician. Most of her well known music are from games and anime
The group is known as FictionJunction. They have been singing for Kajiura since 2006 (I think)
The "band" fictionjunction is a little odd, in that the only constant member is the producer yuki kajiura, who migrates from project to project, rolling up all these absurd talents into a beautiful operatic fusion drumnbass electronica katamari, and then starts over when she thinks some part of her process gets stale. Her early work was the crisp meaty center of so many early 2000's amvs, it's a little crazy. Big mover/shaker. Thank God she quit her IT job for this.
You mentioned you liked the production, so I say all this to bring to the fore that her production is very much the point of her doing this (besides making money haha). She gathers up a bunch of talent, learns as much about how to mix them into something utterly unique, and then hucks them into the sky like a greek constellation. Between fictionjunction and kalafina, so much of anime and games music's sound today can be traced right back to her personal drive to improve.
This 🔥. I think this is the first Xenosaga video you have. One way to describe the Xenosaga Trilogy whether it be the games themselves or just the music is "space opera"
ngl, seeing you cover a xenosaga music gets me crying. i loved this series a lot when i was a kid and i lost my trilogy copy long ago and seeing this pop up in my recommendations just makes me nostalgic. this series got me listening to yuki kajiura music. she's such an awesome composer.
Thank you for your reaction, this was amazing!
Oh wow ths is my groove man. Xenosaga was my childhood . Btw Kajiura Yuki is the composer of this song and is pretty much the mastermind of FictionJuntion and Kalafina. The singers are Yuriko, Kaori and Joey(subbing for wakana). Keiko is the 4th member but this song doesn't have bass parts so she ain't here.
edit. Just had to comment about that "they're made to sing with each other" comment. That's the genius of the composer man. I'd admit some of their members still lack solo singing skills but when they sing a kajiura arangement, they suddenly sound like goddesses.
The band/group is called FictionJunction, led by Yuki Kajiura. They've worked on many games and anime soundtracks together and you should totally react to more of their stuff.
Xenosaga had really great music. The image theme of xenosaga 2 is one of my favorite tracks
The look on your face when it came back in XD seriously though this is incredible
Yuki Kajiura writes specifically for her vocalists and they're speaking a language often referred to as Kajiurese, which is a made up language to give vocals to a track without detracting from the music because you're focusing on the lyrics. Yuki Kajiura does music for a lot of games and even a few anime including Sword Art Online and Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicle
Oh sh*t, Xenosaga 3. One of the greatest RPGs ever made. Love this song as well, though there's at least one from this game I like even more.
Yuki Kajiura is amazing!! She did OST for .Hack//Sign, Noir and many other anime and video games. She is super talented.
One of many awesome songs from Xenosaga. Also this live ver is kickass
Xenosaga was Monolithsoft's first IP and then later they went on to make Xenoblade. Xenogears was the inspiration for the later games in the Xeno series, and their relation is that Tetsuya Takahashi is the director (usually)
Yuki Kaijura is a legendary composer. She did the soundtrack for the .hack, Noir, Sword Art and Fate series. Her songs have a very paticular sound. She also formed a group called Kalafina...which may be who youre listening too here.
5:31 the look of absolute confusion on your face was spectacular lmao I honestly to god wasn’t expecting a live reaction to “wtf it’s still going?”😂😂😂
I once went shopping wearing sunglasses because the light hurt my eyes, so there.
Yup you know when the name has xenos in it gonna have banger like this
Sir
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Incoming!
Thank you, I will be a patient boi for this.
Now Jesse only has Xenogears OST left to react to cover the whole xeno series. I'd love him to react to Light from the Netherworld.
"You shall be as gods."
The composer of this song i believe did both Xenosaga 2 and 3 soundtracks and did work for the anime Sword Art Online from which "luminous sword" and "swordland" come to mind (both having having a heavier remix named "light your sword " and "gunland" respectively for the second season ost), violins and singers are more prominent in the original iterations of the songs than the latter remixes. I don't know if anime ost is viable but if not, at least give a try to those two songs in your spare time.
For some very strange reason the very beginning made me think of the classic Visitors miniseries theme. I have no idea why.
Also... this made me remember I have yet to actually play the Xenosaga trilogy. ... Too many games... too many games...
Xenosaga is in fact a Monolithsoft game series, just as Xenoblade and Xenogears (sort of) are. And they all share themes, design elements, and some degree of underlying lore and cosmology though Xenogears, Xenosaga, and Xenoblade are all from under different ownership. Each series references the prior heavily.
Xenogears from when Takahashi (creator of Monolithsoft) worked for Squaresoft, Xenosaga from when Monolithsoft was owned by Namco, and Xenoblade now that Monolithsoft is owned by Nintendo.
Wow a trip to memory lane for me lol I was 17 when this game came out
The creator of Xenoblade both did, in the past, Xenogear and Xenosaga. Also, speaking about Xenoblade, check out Zanza theme from Xenoblade 1 OST.
You can really hear the similarities between Zanza theme to this song. You'll hear that Zanza theme is perhaps influenced by Godsibb theme. Their both great!
Hey there, if you’re interested I would recommend checking out the Calamity Mod ost at some point. It has a very niche community unfortunately so a good chunk of people either don’t hear of it very often or are put off by the fact that it accompanies a mod. Despite that though the amount of work that the author put into it for a (relatively) small community is pretty crazy. Regardless of what happens though keep up the great work!
You know what they say about people who wear sunglasses indoors, right?
That's right, it's that they're very cool.
Omega Metampsychosis
epic af fight
This boss fight is probably one of the best in Xenosaga 3 and it’s accompanied by one of the best tracks in the game imho, nice review
My favorite part of Godsibb is that the lyrics is literally gibberish.
Underrated series, own the soundtrack for ep 1. Violin is always a fav in ost. I recommand giving the Atelier Series a listen.
Xenogears-Xenoblade-Xenosaga is the universe meta order.
HURRAY fictionjunction!!
Xenosaga is amazing, I wish it got more love than it does. Also, yes, Xenosaga is related to Xenogears and Xenoblade. Same director, but all different companies.
Xenogears > Squaresoft/Square Enix
Xenosaga > Namco/Bandai Namco
Xenoblade > Nintendo
Not all of the games have the same composer, but the Xenosaga series has had Yasunori Mitsuda (Episode I), Shinji Hosoe (Episode II, in game soundtrack), and Yuki Kajiura (Episode II cutscene songs, and the whole Episode III soundtrack) as the composers.
If you haven't played Xenosaga, you should do so. It's such an underrated series. Not even its owners love it as much as the fans do.
*Glaring at Bandai Namco intensely.*
edit: also, here's the version that was for the game itself.
ruclips.net/video/VjPWTEtuv74/видео.html
edit (2): 12:28 You said "Xenogears godsibb" lol, I doubt it was intentional tho but it was a funny thing I noticed
Xenosaga has a lot of religious themes, "Godsibb" is middle-English for "godparent.
Xenosaga, as well as Xenogears arent directly connected to Xenoblade, but they share the same creator, and characters from Saga made cameos in Blade 2, and there's a nod to the other games in the story of 2. Also Square-Enix (Xenogears) and Bandai-Namco (Xenosaga) collaborated with Monolith on Xenoblade 2.
Promised Pain from Xenosaga 3 is worth listening to.
At some point Xenosaga were supposed to be the prequel to Xenogears because Xenogears is episode 5. And there's supposed to be 6 episodes in total. I don't know when the plan change but some rumors said it was changed on the development of 2 or 3. Another speculation is also the 6 episode plan were scrapped when the team that now Monolith Soft left Square-Enix.
Also, Kajiura Yuki is one of my favorite composer. I mever realized that Godsibb is Xenosaga's song
A Xenogears product was in development, we don't know if it was going to be one of the prequels or the ending episode, or if it was even going to be a game as the series was proposed to potentially be a multimedia franchise. What we do know is it was killed because Square wanted to put more resources into Final Fantasy The Spirits Within.
Ooooooooh, have you heard any of Library of Ruina's music? Stuff's legit!
Nope, but plenty of requests for it down the pipeline
A comment late, Very late.
But I don't know what you all think about this 8 time pose to get back very powerfuly with a full layering.
Edit : Also the live performance of every Yuki Kajiura related are the ones with the most quality.
while Godsibb is already a compositional masterpiece, wait until you get to a piece with Keiko Kubota on vocals.
If you want more Xenosaga, I suggest Xenosaga 2's "Fatal Fight", used in a cinematic, by the same composer. ruclips.net/video/YtA-iLt2rgw/видео.html
There's also a Xenosage 3 version which is used for a special boss battle. ruclips.net/video/IOuWFGrsDJE/видео.html
The one in 2 is the original. It's still in my VGM playlist after all the years I've known it.
God i miss Xenosaga so much. Such an underappreciated series because of awful marketing. Xenosaga 1 and 3 are such insanely good games. Xenosaga 2 unfortunately killed any chance of the series seeing huge success because of how horrendously bad the global market was and how bad the gameplay was compared to 1 and 3 (because 2 was given to another person to work on.) But Xenosaga 1 and 3 were just in another class of their own.
The music is absolutely bonechilling across the series and hits the themes of the story perfectly.
Xenosaga III is in my top 5 games of all time
Those who played it know its one of the GOATS
Fun Fact Yuki Kajiura made up the lyrics its not a real language
would love to see you react to attack on titan all 7 openings, I know it's not your usual stuff but I think you'd like it
Xenosaga and Xenoblade have the same developers, but not the same composers. Except for Yasunori Mitsuda, who composed for Xenosaga 1 and Xenoblade 2 and 3.
Oh no...
I knew I was going to play Xenosaga, but now I know I'm going to have to buy the soundtracks too...
Please don't be like $200 apiece
So what kind of headphones are you wearing?
AKG K240
Dude you really should react to attack on titan osts
And The live performances is absolutly insane like ashes on the live
Superb ost. Unfortunately live performances kill the sense of immersion for me
You need to give us your reaction to
youseebiggirl
Xenosaga is in fact not related to Xenoblade! It is a very old rpg series that was made on PS2, and maybe the third was on PS3 but I could be wrong. Xenosaga has a very interesting story, and such cool characters. It was one of the harder rpg's with a turn-based batte system at the time, enemies were no push-overs. But yeah, entirely its own thing!
It should be mentioned that both series are by the same studio and director. Though, despite some similarities, the composer Yuki Kajiura wasn't involved in Xenoblade. Yasunori Matsuda was the main composer of Xenoblade and Xenogears.
In my case it was also funny cause I've never heard this song before and didn't know who was the composer but right from the start the vocals reminded me of Kara no Kyoukai and of course it was Kajiura! :D
It is related, but not directly connected. It obviously stands on it's own and the story has nothing to do with Xenoblade and Xenogears, but they're definitely related and have many similarities (and have even crossed over from time to time).
It is actually related to Xenoblade, as is Xenogears. Especially in background lore.
@@badlatency9979 That goshdarn Zohar causing trouble across dimensions!