I will never forget the first time I heard the leaked version of this song. I started 14 for this raid; 14 is my first FF game. I didn't recognize the Prelude. But when the first chords of Weight of the World played I collapsed into the nearest chair and cried.
At the beginning of you comment I was like... meh -_- ? Then I unterdstood and agreed. 2 best games fusion + one a best music... How not enjoy this awesome stuff
Once I noticed what song it was I actually started tearing up (still got PTSD from Route E haha) and almost took a laser to face because I couldn’t see the screen lol
I love how they blend weight of the world, the crystal prelude, and ff battle themes together so seamlessly. Considering it's a battle theme, it feels so hopeful.
@@Shifsabre Wouldn't be the first time a remix changed up the time signature. See MvC3's Jill's Theme, which is a remix of Sad But True from RE5 and uses a different time signature.
ACKCHYUALLY the "main theme" they keep using is just Prelude/Crystal Theme. The main theme is and has been Prologue ever since you walked over the bridge in FF1. Which sadly just kind of got relegated to that first time you hopped on an airship at like level 12 or something in XIV.
@@Skijaramaz absolutely, as are the original themes orchestrated for each game - or expansion pack in XIV's case - my only point was that it isn't the *main* theme like many people think it is.
@@Draekrio Ah. The way you typed the comment up made it sound like you were dismissing the Prelude's staying power as a theme iconic to the FF franchise, a sentiment I personally don't agree with. Maybe I misread what you typed, there is no tone-of-voice on the internet, after all, and I'm not the best at understanding the social cues of others, especially strangers.
@@Draekrio You are right, said this because in most games and RPGs they use the main theme at the title screen like FF, sadly, the TRUE main theme is not used as much as the prelude, with some games just having it for a couple of seconds in the credits or not even having it at all, like FF2 and I think FF10 IIRC.
*Me, playing this raid before knowing about Nier Automata:* Nice epic music with the Final Fantasy prelude mixed in. *Me, after seeing all of Automata's endings:* 'CAUSE WE'RE GONNA SHOUT IT LOUD EVEN IF OUR WORDS SEEM MEANINGLESS IT'S LIKE I'M CARRYING THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD
Same here friend. "Cause we're going to shout it loud..." Have you seen Animenz's version of Weight of the World? It's really worth checking out! Glory to Mankind!
The synthesis of automata and final fantasy signature sounds in this is absolutely breathtaking. This is art that makes me grateful to be alive, just to experience such beauty.
I know! When I first heard this version I just HAD to hear it on its own as soon as possible. Its absolutely fantastic. The mix of the two makes it so emotional.
@@dankmeemo3464 I suggest checking your typing because my perverted mind translated that to '9S is a bad boi that can perform oral gratifcation to an entire army by himself' instead of '9S can blow UP an entire army by himself', dood.
I can confirm that I was SAM on this boss and all the tanks were diking around by not using tank stance and I accidently got the aggro around 10% of his health and I died I was like wut why am I tanking I'm a dps 😂
That moment when you finish Nier:Automata because this song left an impression on you, and you get to Ending E, with the minigame, and all the people are singing "Weight of the World" in different languages, and you realize: "HOLY SHIT, THIS IS THE EORZEAN ADDITION TO THE VOCALS!!!"
This song is still a surprise even over a year later. “Let’s use Weight of the World, the most iconic Nier song” “Ok, sure, makes sense.” “And combine it with Prelude, the most iconic FF song” “Ok... I mean, if you can make it work. It’s a cool idea thematically, but I don’t know if-“ “And turn it into a boss fight theme!” “Huh?”
@@RobinsMusic Nope, it's Keiichi Okabe, the whole Nier saga composer. Soken didn't touch the 24man for this expansion raid series. All FF rendition of Nier Music is from Okabe : no way in hell they were going to disrecpeting him by not making him the lead for his own work re-edition. Just like Matsuno was the one who wrote all of the Ivalice inclusion in FF XIV, Yoko was the one in charge of the scenario while Okabe was in charge of the music for Nier
@@randomstreamer2868 the real question is why is it the Japanese are such glorious symphony composers while we've almost entirely forgotten how beautiful classic music can be?
@@ChainedFei that's not entirely true. there are some movie scores that have truly beautiful pieces. Even some western video games (halo and destiny come to mind) have some amazing orchestral pieces. We've definitely let the art die down, but it's not entirely gone
I swear that every time I hear the FF Prelude play in after the main chorus lines, it just gives me the chills. In a good way. Like it’s one of those reminders where it’s “Remember, Player. Though this is the Nier collab, you are still the Warrior of Light. Eorzea’s Warrior and Hero. The Shadowbringer of the once Endless White Skies. And now...you are helping in the fight for the Glory to Mankind.”
I haven't played Nier, but I watched my husband during one of his playthroughs. I loved 9S. Smol child- er, robot?- we must protect. So, when I got to this point, I'm running it with my FC, and we're in Discord. Several of them had already ran it, but me and the co-leader hadn't. We started screaming in chat. "Why are we fighting our boy?!" "No! I can't do this!" "I feel so bad!" Massive feelings of regret were had. I can only hope in the 3rd part, whenever it comes out, that he's going to be okay.
@@mlemlemmlemmlem what the flying fuck are you talking about? Okabe has just as much of a hardon as Soken for leitmotifs.. 90% of Automata's soundtrack is basically the same three songs remixed and layered on top of each other. And no, that's not a bad thing.
Just did this yesterday, waited forever in duty finder, being newer to ff14 i didnt think it was possible but we decided 9 people was all we were gonna get and were able to complete it with 9 people. Made a great friend that day i will never forget this music and epic final stand we came out victorious from!
I can agree. But also man... Emet-Selch EX is prob better as a whole. I loved this raid so much but i like Emet more :P "And i mean honestly i love both of them to death they are absolutely breathtaking"
@@Joshuamiller19570 I felt Hades was too easy imo. I was trying to compare him to Shinryu which was a pretty hard EX comparably to others of that expac. But it had too many ways to cheese the mechanics on hades like the orbs that come down you can just sit in the middle and take two voluns and survive all other mechanics. I just felt it was way too easy but it could have too many factors. Mind you overall the fight is fun but had too many transitions which can mess with some jobs alignment/rotation, also final phase was a big disappointment... I understand why they did it like that but it was a massive disappointment.
@@dragoon666 Clearly they need to have Adam and Eve as bosses, only to have their boss fight turn into a rhythm game. Wouldn't be a first for Yoko Taro.
Me, a fan on the Nier games: damn, they put weight of the world in their boss fight Ff prelude kicks in: *crying in the corner because I can't handle the beauty*
This music was probably the most godly thing I've ever heard. I didn't clear it but got up to the dps check in this fight. I love this raid. It's definitely my favorite now it was so much fun
This is exactly where I popped my Sage LB3 in a party of first-timers the other day, it was fucking glorious. The 'helix' was at its largest when the Prelude kicked in.
9S showing up as the final boss combined with this song playing at the same time was about enough to finish me this morning. Quit toying with my emotions Yoko Taro!
Lyrics I feel like I'm losing hope, in my body and my soul And the sky, it looks so ominous And as time comes to a halt, sadness starts to overflow My cries are inconspicuous Tell me God, are you punishing me? Is this the price I'm paying for my past mistakes? This is my redemption song I need you more than ever right now Can you hear me now? 'Cause we're gonna shout it loud Even if our words seem meaningless It's like I'm carrying the weight of the world I'd wish that some way, somehow That I can save every one of us But the truth is that I'm only one girl Maybe if I keep believing, my dreams will come to life Come to life... After all the laughter fades Signs of life all washed away I can still, still feel the gentle breeze No matter how hard I pray Signs of warning still remain And life has become my enemy Tell me God, are you punishing me? Is this the price I'm paying for my past mistakes? This is my redemption song I need you more than ever right now Can you hear me now? 'Cause we're gonna shout it loud Even if our words seem meaningless It's like I'm carrying the weight of the world I'd wish that some way, somehow That I can save every one of us But the truth is that I'm only one girl Maybe if I keep believing, my dreams will come to life Come to life... 'Cause we're gonna shout it loud Even if our words seem meaningless It's like I'm carrying the weight of the world I wish that some way, somehow That I can save every one of us But the truth is that I'm only one girl Still we're gonna shout it loud Even if our words seem meaningless It's like I'm carrying the weight of the world I'd hope that some way, somehow That I can save every one of us But the truth is that I'm only one girl Maybe if I keep believing, my dreams will come to life Come to life...
Still doesn't make sense, at the end YorHa doesn't exist and 2P says there are more androids coming after her. I dunno what timeline this comes from but it doesn't stem from the game
@@ryuzakias1207 I'm guessing it's a parallel universe. Drakengard and Nier do have branching paths after all, and for each one, there is at least one Accord observing that universe.
@@john22590 Why wouldn't he? That's actually his entire shtick if you recall. Here the Machines are more or less a third party so not weaponizing them would just be a waste of resources from his PoV.
whats next fighting automata's devola and popola with a remake of song of the ancients yoko taros most famous song. fighting a combination of kaine emil nier and weiss how about going the deep end and having to fight the Watchers or a reanimated caim and angelous.
I truly adore the level detail design for the last two bosses. The white ashes like cover has to be from the Queen that collapsed after being warped and dropped down on modern day Tokyo, how it started from Drakengard to Nier.
This theme is responsible that I'm now playing FFXIV... back in December I was listening to some "Epic" themes from different games when this was shared with me, I was instantly enthralled by the music. Never been a fan of Nier Automata as a game, just the lore/music/characters, the theme was way too different from the one i remember and I knew i had to experience it first hand. It gives you a sense of urgency, tension.... you really feel the weight of the world. Four months later I'm still playing this game and discovered a bunch of other great themes. But this was the one that started it all.
Man as a Automata player, i sugges You to play it, if not them look the sountrack here on RUclips, You going to understand, and if You truly want to understand the Automata Raid and all the serious stuff behin it, them watch/play all the 5 Main endings, this raid going to Made año of sense
This is seriously some of the best final fantasy music I’ve heard the combination of Nier and FF gives me goosebumps and makes me emotional... seriously the BEST. This is up there with one winged angel and Seymour’s final battle music for me
Reminder that endings C and D could still have happened despite E being the true ending. 9S uploads his consciousness to the shuttle that took him and the rest of the machines to space in the ending where you play as him, while the "true" 9S is revived in ending E and stays on Earth. This could be the 9S that went on with Adam, Eve and the rest of the machines since it stated that their rocket had no destination other than a distant world or planet far off in space. This would also explain why he's more keen on using machines as freely as he does here, and maybe even why he wants to kill 2P (since this is presumably still the more insane or nihilistic 9S from endings C and D since he never got the rekindled hope that ending E brought to all of them).
@Leon Kael 9S doesnt even die in Ending C after destroying the machine network, if anything, he comes back in the Forest lol. 9S is literally too angry to die by that point. And E isnt the """true""" ending, its the most optimistic one, and personally, I hate that ending.
except 9s doesnt survive after ending E because he never wakes up, so either he dies for good or his consciousness was sent to hydaelyn with the rest of the machine network
@Leon Kael What about the multiple dead 2B clones in the Copied Factory while we went looking for Anogg and Kanogg? I would assume that was done by 9S prior to us arriving, which could certainly make him go mad.
This one just moves me to tears. It's so incredible in how it is epic and powerful, especially the vocals. It's probably one of the songs that really reminds me of my WoL. The song has so many layers, like how it has the powerful moments, which represent his struggles, and then there's the parts where it's slow with the traditional ff theme, symbolizing the happiness and peace of his life. The song is truly incredible in how it symbolizes many aspects of him and all that he means to me over the years.
The second boss could be a refference to a secret episode on Automata's DLC, where you play as a machine that has to do tests like the ones in the raid, and he becomes crazy beacuse he starts malfunctioning and cant beat the tests
Heard this for the first time in the Copied Factory the other day and I got so hyped I swear I entered the matrix hitting my rotation perfectly while singing weight of the world at the top of my lungs
I will never forget the first time I heard this song while playing. I literally could barely focus on the fight i was so enamored majesty of this song.
I sometime run copied factory more than once a week even when I don't need the manufactured coin again just to hear this while I'm doing the fight. It's just amazing.
I honestly wasn't looking forward to this, I expected it to feel too jarring and immersion-shattering. But god damn, the dev team really made it fit in-universe and turned all the things I thought would be weaknesses into strengths. My hat's off to you, Team FFXIV.
Something to consider is that Neir/Drakengard have made use of inter-dimensional travel, so literally anything can go. And all that "snow" from the last 2 bosses, I have a feeling, is going to take the story into a strange place.
It also probably helps from a visual perspective that the lead character designer for N:A was the lead character designer for FFXIV (and FFT/FFXII). This of course means that the 6.x raid series has to be a Bravely Default colab. ... or Ogre Battle.
@@jtspender Honestly, the biggest issue I had was the art style being so different. But of course, setting all this on the First makes it work. It feels almost like the First's equivalent of the Allagans to me, and even if the interdimensional thing winds up happening I think that initial sense of it working in this universe like that is important for making good first impressions.
I will never forget the time I did this with a friend for the first time about a month ago while maintenance was going on. We had roughly 10 minutes left when we got to the final boss. Even though both of us were panicking a little, we won with a little under a minute left and managed to log out before maintenance.
As a 45 year old man, I can neither confirm nor deny that I teared up when this work of art played thru the fight. Aw hell, who am I kidding, I teared up.
@@Mochachocakon That's where you muscle memory kicks in, though if I'm going to criticize anything, I'd say that in this vid their important skills are in somewhat harder to reach places (6 through = and with modifier) 90% my WHM skills are never beyond what my left hand can reach comfortably and with my muscle memory firmly familiar with the buttons I can safely tuck away the hotbars or even hide them, I just need to put important skills on the "cooldown watch" hotbar
@@FriendlyYandere I have my 30 abilities all on keybinds. No time to use mouse to press abilities in savage / ultimate raids. Get a MMO mouse with the 12 thumbbuttons, map your remaining buttons to 1-5 and the other keys next to your movement keys and with shift, alt, etc modifiers. And start to use macro's (and learn when to use certain macro's as certain macro's have input delays and you need to time it right in the encounter while also keeping the animation lag in mind). Very important when you want to reach 95th percentile (or higher). Spend a day practicing target dummy and you're good to go. I only use my mouse to select targets and for @mouseover macro's.
This song gets me every time, an absolute masterpiece. The first time I heard it I legitimately stopped everything I was doing, I died of course but then I got to sit there and enjoy its epicness!
I have only got into Yoko Taro’s games and into the Final Fantasy series, starting with NieR: Automata and FFVII at the start of this year. Both are my top two and hearing the mix of Weight of the World and the Prelude is making sob like I have never sobbed before. What a powerful remix that gives us, the players, hope 💜
Whoever decided to incorporate both Weight of the World and the FF prelude deserves a Nobel prize
I will never forget the first time I heard the leaked version of this song. I started 14 for this raid; 14 is my first FF game. I didn't recognize the Prelude. But when the first chords of Weight of the World played I collapsed into the nearest chair and cried.
Having played both FF and NieR:Automata, and loving the music from both, and hearing this complete masterpiece, I can definitely agree with you
Soken is a likely suspect. The man loves his remixes and keeping themes in his osts.
That's Soken, my guy!! He's a mastermind
They were both from square enix
*gets shot by tank laser while trying to keep party alive*
IS THIS THE PRICE I'M PAYING FOR MY PAST MISTAKES
Don't worry.
I'm sure that someway, somehow, you'll save every one of us.
Everything that lives is designed to end
The price of freedom is steep...
This comment speaks to me on a spiritual level.
*dies*
*is revived*
*immediately dies again*
"We are perpetually trapped in a never-ending spiral of life and death."
"How loud do you want the chorus?"
"Yes."
What an unbelievably unoriginal comment.
“How bad do you want to hurt your fanbase?”
“Yes”
@@zazikikomo7796 U MAD?
@@zazikikomo7796 what an unbelievably unpleasant use of your time
WE’RE GONNA SHOUT IT LOUD
Hardest boss in the game because is very hard to do even simple mechanics while you are crying
Crying tears of joy with that soaring melody!
Mizzteq said the same thing lol
At the beginning of you comment I was like... meh -_- ? Then I unterdstood and agreed. 2 best games fusion + one a best music... How not enjoy this awesome stuff
Once I noticed what song it was I actually started tearing up (still got PTSD from Route E haha) and almost took a laser to face because I couldn’t see the screen lol
I dont get why everyone likes 8S...he was so annoying
For the Nier Automata players who deleted 100% of their save data to help others. Thank you all ❤️
Glory to mankind !
Did that with both NieR Automata and the original NieR back on 360. Good times.
For the Nolife TV viewer who saw the end of [N]olife
I deleted my save data because I have a savedata in my PS Plus
Glory to mankind!
cam you explain?
I love how they blend weight of the world, the crystal prelude, and ff battle themes together so seamlessly. Considering it's a battle theme, it feels so hopeful.
The intro also comes from Bipolar Nightmare, if memory serves.
@@Thagesthoughts Bipolar Nightmare uses 3/4 time signature
@@Shifsabre Wouldn't be the first time a remix changed up the time signature. See MvC3's Jill's Theme, which is a remix of Sad But True from RE5 and uses a different time signature.
'Hopefulness' for anything Yoko-Taro-related? PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
@@kenjiroumiyamoto1432
Isn't the point of The [E]nd of YoRHa that it flies in the face against the futility of the rest of his work though?
"Boss theme incorporates the game's main theme at some point" This trope gets me diamonds.
ACKCHYUALLY the "main theme" they keep using is just Prelude/Crystal Theme. The main theme is and has been Prologue ever since you walked over the bridge in FF1. Which sadly just kind of got relegated to that first time you hopped on an airship at like level 12 or something in XIV.
@@Draekrio I mean, the Prelude theme is also a theme for Final Fantasy. It definitely serves as one, at any rate.
@@Skijaramaz absolutely, as are the original themes orchestrated for each game - or expansion pack in XIV's case - my only point was that it isn't the *main* theme like many people think it is.
@@Draekrio Ah. The way you typed the comment up made it sound like you were dismissing the Prelude's staying power as a theme iconic to the FF franchise, a sentiment I personally don't agree with. Maybe I misread what you typed, there is no tone-of-voice on the internet, after all, and I'm not the best at understanding the social cues of others, especially strangers.
@@Draekrio You are right, said this because in most games and RPGs they use the main theme at the title screen like FF, sadly, the TRUE main theme is not used as much as the prelude, with some games just having it for a couple of seconds in the credits or not even having it at all, like FF2 and I think FF10 IIRC.
*Me, playing this raid before knowing about Nier Automata:* Nice epic music with the Final Fantasy prelude mixed in.
*Me, after seeing all of Automata's endings:* 'CAUSE WE'RE GONNA SHOUT IT LOUD
EVEN IF OUR WORDS SEEM MEANINGLESS
IT'S LIKE I'M CARRYING THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD
*GLORY...........TO MANKIND!!!*
Literally me. I have a lyric macro now.
YASSS lmfao
Same here friend.
"Cause we're going to shout it loud..."
Have you seen Animenz's version of Weight of the World? It's really worth checking out!
Glory to Mankind!
@@masak6293 my typa friend
The synthesis of automata and final fantasy signature sounds in this is absolutely breathtaking. This is art that makes me grateful to be alive, just to experience such beauty.
Michael Costa so god damn true! Brings tears to my eyes just from music 😍😍😍
I know! When I first heard this version I just HAD to hear it on its own as soon as possible. Its absolutely fantastic. The mix of the two makes it so emotional.
Yeah, I'm still trying to process the level of epicness! ❤️
Also a little bit of Chrono Cross Dreams of the Shore Near Another World
@@agunlogisteam One of my favorite songs to play in cities on the Harp in game.
Who can win: 24 adventurers who by this point of the game have killed multiple god level entities, or an angry thot destroyer on his playmobile.
Actually, its a Yorha unit, don't forget that bad boy can blow an entire army by himself, its a robot from "our" futur XD
Dank Meemo woosh
@@dankmeemo3464 I suggest checking your typing because my perverted mind translated that to '9S is a bad boi that can perform oral gratifcation to an entire army by himself' instead of '9S can blow UP an entire army by himself', dood.
@@dankmeemo3464 oh he blows alright
@@mallicite136 r/ihavereddit
0:58 I just love how in sync the pheonix attacks are with the music there. as if it was dancing to the beat.
Anonny Mouse omg you’re right! Did not notice until I read your comment lol 💕
THANK YOU FOR THIS!!
Hahaha, I just saw it myself now, that's absolutely perfect! :D
Dude you made my day !
That SMN has some serious rythm skills !
This song has a hidden buff, it triples your DPS output.
I can confirm that I was SAM on this boss and all the tanks were diking around by not using tank stance and I accidently got the aggro around 10% of his health and I died I was like wut why am I tanking I'm a dps 😂
yeah is called boost morale
I havent played ff14. But for sure the song tripled my crying output.
@@marksayosmejia7251 When the chorus hits, and you're mid fight. It's nuts, i die everytime
@@henriquerodrigues7795 I actually forgot to dodge stuff the first time it hit the chorus. Was too busy humming and stuff.
That moment when you finish Nier:Automata because this song left an impression on you, and you get to Ending E, with the minigame, and all the people are singing "Weight of the World" in different languages, and you realize:
"HOLY SHIT, THIS IS THE EORZEAN ADDITION TO THE VOCALS!!!"
More like Norvrandt's
This song is still a surprise even over a year later.
“Let’s use Weight of the World, the most iconic Nier song”
“Ok, sure, makes sense.”
“And combine it with Prelude, the most iconic FF song”
“Ok... I mean, if you can make it work. It’s a cool idea thematically, but I don’t know if-“
“And turn it into a boss fight theme!”
“Huh?”
thats Yoko Taro for ya
@@accelerator8558 I’d rather say Soken
@@RobinsMusic Nope, it's Keiichi Okabe, the whole Nier saga composer. Soken didn't touch the 24man for this expansion raid series. All FF rendition of Nier Music is from Okabe : no way in hell they were going to disrecpeting him by not making him the lead for his own work re-edition. Just like Matsuno was the one who wrote all of the Ivalice inclusion in FF XIV, Yoko was the one in charge of the scenario while Okabe was in charge of the music for Nier
@@randomstreamer2868 the real question is why is it the Japanese are such glorious symphony composers while we've almost entirely forgotten how beautiful classic music can be?
@@ChainedFei that's not entirely true. there are some movie scores that have truly beautiful pieces. Even some western video games (halo and destiny come to mind) have some amazing orchestral pieces. We've definitely let the art die down, but it's not entirely gone
When you keep dying to this boss but your healers just won't let you rest: *THIS CANNOT CONTINUE*
This was me. I was raising so many people (and getting raised myself)
I pushed to last second with superbolide just to reach healer lb3 to raise the party, nobody in my party gave up, it was good run.
I was tank so I was not dying, but was surrounded by corpses lol.
Boss kept failing to kill my healer and the party watch us mad men continue a vicious cycle
HAHAH! So true!
I swear that every time I hear the FF Prelude play in after the main chorus lines, it just gives me the chills. In a good way.
Like it’s one of those reminders where it’s “Remember, Player. Though this is the Nier collab, you are still the Warrior of Light. Eorzea’s Warrior and Hero. The Shadowbringer of the once Endless White Skies. And now...you are helping in the fight for the Glory to Mankind.”
*GLORY...... TO MANKIND!!!!*
This Raid is SIMPLY AMAZING...
We need to get on our knees and apologize to 9S.
I never felt so awkward in a game before
lmao, this was basically my first thought on patch day.
@@GreatHammurabi Mine too, soon as 2P did what she did, the literal first thing out of my mouth was "shit now I know why he wanted her dead"
I haven't played Nier, but I watched my husband during one of his playthroughs. I loved 9S. Smol child- er, robot?- we must protect. So, when I got to this point, I'm running it with my FC, and we're in Discord. Several of them had already ran it, but me and the co-leader hadn't. We started screaming in chat. "Why are we fighting our boy?!" "No! I can't do this!" "I feel so bad!" Massive feelings of regret were had.
I can only hope in the 3rd part, whenever it comes out, that he's going to be okay.
9S was right for going full thot destroyer on 2P.
*Raid wipes*
"Isn't this all meaningless?"
Yes
>No
"Do you think games are silly?"
Yes
No
@@Caribbean-Man not gonna lie I actually read this in Ardbert's voice
realistically alot of people would pick yes
"GIVE UP HERE?"
Yes
>No
RESCUE OFFER RECIEVED FROM YOSHI P.
ACCEPT OFFER?
>YES
NO
Took me 7 playthroughs of this dungeon to realise that the gear reward is called yorha type 51.
5.1.
That's a nice touch. :)
Aliztair Clark Oh shit, never noticed.
/takesoffglasses
Sonovabitch....
Don't get it
@@Tomxai the raid was added in patch 5.1
@@Lahrcan Ah, i see. Thanks
I don't play the game
Years later, and weight of the world still brings me to tears.
Truely Yoko Taro is a powerful man who hits people right in the feels
I love how they made the "2P" nickname for that alt 2B costume from Soul Calibur into something official.
@@yamilalcaide9448 MARKETING~
Ye, 2P as in Player Two
I always thought this was a nod to Yoshi-P.
Final Fantasy 14 has always had stellar music but my word is this some absolutely great stuff.
make sense, nothing to do with ff, it's keichii okabe, nier's compositor that did ut
@@soulofhate2529 I'm really hoping that soken learned from him. Because I'm getting tired of just hearing leitmotifs
Sir Hate oh no, the Nier snobs have arrived.
Actually ffxiv has some of the best music in any mmo when it comes to boss/raid fights
@@mlemlemmlemmlem what the flying fuck are you talking about? Okabe has just as much of a hardon as Soken for leitmotifs.. 90% of Automata's soundtrack is basically the same three songs remixed and layered on top of each other. And no, that's not a bad thing.
Just did this yesterday, waited forever in duty finder, being newer to ff14 i didnt think it was possible but we decided 9 people was all we were gonna get and were able to complete it with 9 people. Made a great friend that day i will never forget this music and epic final stand we came out victorious from!
Honestly this music gets no where near as much hype as it should. It's simply fantastic. Every raid boss dreams of having themes this good
This theme is the absolute highlight of the entire patch.
EDIT: holy shit 1000 likes
theres a reason it was featured in the trailer lol
I can agree. But also man... Emet-Selch EX is prob better as a whole. I loved this raid so much but i like Emet more :P "And i mean honestly i love both of them to death they are absolutely breathtaking"
Hades
@@Joshuamiller19570 I felt Hades was too easy imo. I was trying to compare him to Shinryu which was a pretty hard EX comparably to others of that expac. But it had too many ways to cheese the mechanics on hades like the orbs that come down you can just sit in the middle and take two voluns and survive all other mechanics. I just felt it was way too easy but it could have too many factors. Mind you overall the fight is fun but had too many transitions which can mess with some jobs alignment/rotation, also final phase was a big disappointment... I understand why they did it like that but it was a massive disappointment.
Honestly, this, Hades EX, and the part where we got to play as Estinien were all highlights to me. Strong patch, I like it.
1:08 Chorus: HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
Jasper Does Things
I CANT UNHEAR THAT NOW!
LMAO
@@500Arios Kinda like how I can never unhear the fact that Garlean alarms sound like a robot saying "Feel me" over and over and over again?
@@Skijaramaz or the lyrics to the La Hee song sounding like "La Hee, now I have ebola"
Can't unhear now
@@Linkrlz im so sorry
I can't believe the music can get better than this. And then I remembered that there are two more Alliance Raids coming.
...
I am not ready for this.
Don't know how they can top this raid, best one yet IMO
this can continue.
@@locke103 I got the reference ;)
@@dragoon666 Leave that to Okabe.
@@dragoon666 Clearly they need to have Adam and Eve as bosses, only to have their boss fight turn into a rhythm game.
Wouldn't be a first for Yoko Taro.
Me, a fan on the Nier games: damn, they put weight of the world in their boss fight
Ff prelude kicks in: *crying in the corner because I can't handle the beauty*
I've listened to this song over and over and over and over and over and over again. So GOOD!
This mashup is absolutely iconic. Thank you Square Enix, truly.
This music was probably the most godly thing I've ever heard. I didn't clear it but got up to the dps check in this fight. I love this raid. It's definitely my favorite now it was so much fun
I wasn’t ready.
I hadn’t recovered.
And yet, SE felt the need to do this to me.
This is only part 1. For the next part we are going to beat up Emil.
@@OmegaGamer04 please no. after the shit he went through - including Nier 1 - dude deserves some sort of happy ending.
@@carldimayuga6419Yoko Taro is involved with this. That means everyone will die
@@OmegaGamer04 fuuuuuucck. F
On my first run, we nearly wiped, and then healer LB3 saved us right as 3:08 kicked in. The chills, man
moments like that make FFXIV so memorable
i love being a whm!
Ugh it just makes me emotional thinking about that moment for you 😂😂
This is exactly where I popped my Sage LB3 in a party of first-timers the other day, it was fucking glorious. The 'helix' was at its largest when the Prelude kicked in.
I'm just glad 9S couldn't hack my Automaton Queen. That wouldn't have been very cash money of him.
Magic technology, 9S can't do jack.
@@cryw1092 he hack emil
@@accelerator8558 that is true o:
Am i the only one who thinks Automaton queen looks like Pascal?
@@cryw1092 Magitek isn't 'magic technology' though, it's machinery powered by ceruleum to attempt to mimic magic.
9S showing up as the final boss combined with this song playing at the same time was about enough to finish me this morning. Quit toying with my emotions Yoko Taro!
Yeah is it enough we saw them die many times oh the suffering
Lyrics
I feel like I'm losing hope, in my body and my soul
And the sky, it looks so ominous
And as time comes to a halt, sadness starts to overflow
My cries are inconspicuous
Tell me God, are you punishing me?
Is this the price I'm paying for my past mistakes?
This is my redemption song
I need you more than ever right now
Can you hear me now?
'Cause we're gonna shout it loud
Even if our words seem meaningless
It's like I'm carrying the weight of the world
I'd wish that some way, somehow
That I can save every one of us
But the truth is that I'm only one girl
Maybe if I keep believing, my dreams will come to life
Come to life...
After all the laughter fades Signs of life all washed away
I can still, still feel the gentle breeze
No matter how hard I pray Signs of warning still remain
And life has become my enemy
Tell me God, are you punishing me?
Is this the price I'm paying for my past mistakes?
This is my redemption song
I need you more than ever right now
Can you hear me now?
'Cause we're gonna shout it loud
Even if our words seem meaningless
It's like I'm carrying the weight of the world
I'd wish that some way, somehow
That I can save every one of us
But the truth is that I'm only one girl
Maybe if I keep believing, my dreams will come to life
Come to life...
'Cause we're gonna shout it loud
Even if our words seem meaningless
It's like I'm carrying the weight of the world
I wish that some way, somehow
That I can save every one of us
But the truth is that I'm only one girl
Still we're gonna shout it loud
Even if our words seem meaningless
It's like I'm carrying the weight of the world
I'd hope that some way, somehow
That I can save every one of us
But the truth is that I'm only one girl
Maybe if I keep believing, my dreams will come to life
Come to life...
I seriously got distracted by the music first time around. So much feels and then realized I still needed to heal people!
Dammit Nines! Stop attacking me! This can NOT continue!
thIS CanNOt ConTINuE
beCOmE aS GOdS
this boss makes a little more sense if you've played the rest of the routes in automata
Jude I saw 9S and I was like “again Nines... really? Alright...”
But I wouldn't expect Nines to be using the machine lifeforms. Unless he ain't 9S, like them 2B clones in the Tower
Still doesn't make sense, at the end YorHa doesn't exist and 2P says there are more androids coming after her. I dunno what timeline this comes from but it doesn't stem from the game
@@ryuzakias1207 I'm guessing it's a parallel universe. Drakengard and Nier do have branching paths after all, and for each one, there is at least one Accord observing that universe.
@@john22590 Why wouldn't he? That's actually his entire shtick if you recall. Here the Machines are more or less a third party so not weaponizing them would just be a waste of resources from his PoV.
This song elicits so much hope and inspiration, truly an anthem for the light!
Don’t forget guys, this is just the first tier. Brace yourselves for the next two.
But we have to wait 8 months for part 2. :((
6?
whats next fighting automata's devola and popola with a remake of song of the ancients yoko taros most famous song.
fighting a combination of kaine emil nier and weiss
how about going the deep end and having to fight the Watchers or a reanimated caim and angelous.
@@lunerblade13 Would be great to not have to do any of this and just forget this raid ever existed.
@@WaaDjooNoBoutDa Why?
Love how that particular ff sound being intergrated into the music
Idk how many times I've listen to this but when the prelude kicks in it still sends shivers up my spine, so good!
This ost is called : Weight of the World (Prelude Version)
oh, i thought it was called cait od ce sorld
this song is an absolute masterpiece, the prelude mixed in makes me feel emotions and ugH I'm so happy this exists
shame we couldn't get voice acting for the raid story
It does feel weird not hearing Pod. Hope they add it to later ones.
"Recommendation---take evasive action."
WoL: YOU DONT SAY?
I would have been okay with voice acting just for the cutscene introducing 9S, since it's such an iconic character and all
We'll probably get it for the final 24-man. I mean, we did for Ivalice!
I'm positive Kira and Kyle would have gladly come back to do their voices too. It felt weird not hearing that 9S rage.
Sciencebro There was voice acting in all three Ivalice raids.
I truly adore the level detail design for the last two bosses.
The white ashes like cover has to be from the Queen that collapsed after being warped and dropped down on modern day Tokyo, how it started from Drakengard to Nier.
Uh . No man . Its flour do you not even read!
it was a really neat nod to the history of the series
@@Xarul "What is this stuff? Flour?"
It's "salt"
I really hope we get into some good and proper, old school Nier/Drakengard shit by the third raid. Give me a giant baby boss, damn it!
FINALLY someone uploaded this. I was about to spend a few million gil on the MB just so I could listen to this.
This theme is responsible that I'm now playing FFXIV... back in December I was listening to some "Epic" themes from different games when this was shared with me, I was instantly enthralled by the music.
Never been a fan of Nier Automata as a game, just the lore/music/characters, the theme was way too different from the one i remember and I knew i had to experience it first hand. It gives you a sense of urgency, tension.... you really feel the weight of the world.
Four months later I'm still playing this game and discovered a bunch of other great themes. But this was the one that started it all.
Man as a Automata player, i sugges You to play it, if not them look the sountrack here on RUclips, You going to understand, and if You truly want to understand the Automata Raid and all the serious stuff behin it, them watch/play all the 5 Main endings, this raid going to Made año of sense
Such a good song! and the mix with the FF iconic crystal music is just a cherry on top.
Played this Raid for the first time last night. Was so looking forward to this fight; entire raid was INCREDIBLE
I stopped trying to pick a "best" song from FFXIV a long time ago. Man, the majority of them are all incredible for one reason or another!
This is seriously some of the best final fantasy music I’ve heard the combination of Nier and FF gives me goosebumps and makes me emotional... seriously the BEST. This is up there with one winged angel and Seymour’s final battle music for me
Reminder that endings C and D could still have happened despite E being the true ending. 9S uploads his consciousness to the shuttle that took him and the rest of the machines to space in the ending where you play as him, while the "true" 9S is revived in ending E and stays on Earth. This could be the 9S that went on with Adam, Eve and the rest of the machines since it stated that their rocket had no destination other than a distant world or planet far off in space.
This would also explain why he's more keen on using machines as freely as he does here, and maybe even why he wants to kill 2P (since this is presumably still the more insane or nihilistic 9S from endings C and D since he never got the rekindled hope that ending E brought to all of them).
@Leon Kael 9S doesnt even die in Ending C after destroying the machine network, if anything, he comes back in the Forest lol. 9S is literally too angry to die by that point. And E isnt the """true""" ending, its the most optimistic one, and personally, I hate that ending.
except 9s doesnt survive after ending E because he never wakes up, so either he dies for good or his consciousness was sent to hydaelyn with the rest of the machine network
@Leon Kael them why he its here? to begin a new war agains all living things?
@Leon Kael What about the multiple dead 2B clones in the Copied Factory while we went looking for Anogg and Kanogg? I would assume that was done by 9S prior to us arriving, which could certainly make him go mad.
@@mezmezzy1870 welp base on all the concert now we are 100% sure that E is the canon ending.
This one just moves me to tears. It's so incredible in how it is epic and powerful, especially the vocals. It's probably one of the songs that really reminds me of my WoL.
The song has so many layers, like how it has the powerful moments, which represent his struggles, and then there's the parts where it's slow with the traditional ff theme, symbolizing the happiness and peace of his life. The song is truly incredible in how it symbolizes many aspects of him and all that he means to me over the years.
Word. This OST is simply Godlike.
I know I'm super late to the party, but this is by far one of the best in-game/boss music tracks I've heard in 30 years.
He's just standing there... *menacingly*
I don't know why, but the prelude part always makes me tear up.. always
For this boss everyone in my alliance just typed in all caps GLORY TO MANKIND
r/ThatHappened
@@Kittens-and-Chips Nothing ever happens?
@@Kittens-and-Chips Happened in mine too, don't try too hard to be edgy, just makes you look stupid. Imagine thinking that's far fetched.
@@Kittens-and-Chips xD xD excellent subreddit link fellow le redditor xD
@@leepicredditorxd451 you're not on 4chan anymore, anon. Turn the post-ironic-meta-deconstrctionist projected self-loathing down a couple notches
The second boss could be a refference to a secret episode on Automata's DLC, where you play as a machine that has to do tests like the ones in the raid, and he becomes crazy beacuse he starts malfunctioning and cant beat the tests
@Leon Kael More like Whitley.
@@TDSFounder I'M NOT A MORON!
The added the Final Fantasy Prelude to the melody.
I'm so happy
Heard this for the first time in the Copied Factory the other day and I got so hyped I swear I entered the matrix hitting my rotation perfectly while singing weight of the world at the top of my lungs
"How many breaks should we give them in this fight?"
"No."
This has to be the most beautiful piece of music I have ever heard. I go through a journey every time I listen to it.
I will never forget the first time I heard this song while playing. I literally could barely focus on the fight i was so enamored majesty of this song.
The music for this game is just amazing
Agreed its so good
I sometime run copied factory more than once a week even when I don't need the manufactured coin again just to hear this while I'm doing the fight. It's just amazing.
Such a beautiful mix of the two songs. I've only just started for two weeks at lvl 36 currently. I will reach there one day.
Easily one of the greatest pieces of music I have ever heard
I honestly wasn't looking forward to this, I expected it to feel too jarring and immersion-shattering. But god damn, the dev team really made it fit in-universe and turned all the things I thought would be weaknesses into strengths. My hat's off to you, Team FFXIV.
Something to consider is that Neir/Drakengard have made use of inter-dimensional travel, so literally anything can go. And all that "snow" from the last 2 bosses, I have a feeling, is going to take the story into a strange place.
@@shanegrayson7068 WCS is a hell of a drug.
It also probably helps from a visual perspective that the lead character designer for N:A was the lead character designer for FFXIV (and FFT/FFXII).
This of course means that the 6.x raid series has to be a Bravely Default colab.
... or Ogre Battle.
@@jtspender Honestly, the biggest issue I had was the art style being so different. But of course, setting all this on the First makes it work. It feels almost like the First's equivalent of the Allagans to me, and even if the interdimensional thing winds up happening I think that initial sense of it working in this universe like that is important for making good first impressions.
Omg same! I wasn't hyped for this raid. But when I got dragged through. I got goosebumps, chills and the music was just amazing. It's my favorite raid
Its beautiful... I've listened to it for hours.
The chills... what an amazing mix
Hey, uhm, 9s... sorry. My bad.
Yeah.... we fucked up. A little.
Emm.... yup... so.... no hard feeling eh bro?
Big oof on our part.
We might have done a tiny little mistake here
Well after watched 2P at puppet's bunker (at its ost video and ofc i never play ffxiv). I saw your point that 9s and his machine did nothing wrong
I will never forget the time I did this with a friend for the first time about a month ago while maintenance was going on. We had roughly 10 minutes left when we got to the final boss. Even though both of us were panicking a little, we won with a little under a minute left and managed to log out before maintenance.
An amazing fusion between FF theme and Nier's Weight of the World. I love it.
So much good in this, and yet the best part of this video is the macro bar for the "Play" action... Seriously envious here.
This is the only song from a game that made me legit emotional. damn.
Have you heard "Answers"?
Why is nobody talking about the Monk in there being named "Kickya Lipsoff" That's what I call clever
LMFAOOOO
As a 45 year old man, I can neither confirm nor deny that I teared up when this work of art played thru the fight.
Aw hell, who am I kidding, I teared up.
Feels has no age limit *31 year old crying playing this*
"Tear up". Don't worry my 31year old self had tears streaming. The story is beautiful.
Weak.
@@GyaruRespecter "Weak" - 🤓
1:08 - "POP ALL THE COOLDOWNS!"
"WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT?!"
"BECAUSE THIS SONG IS TOO HYPE!"
Everyone is marveled at the music and here I am oogling the hud arrangement.
Sorry but putting your skills on the bottom right, completely away from your peripheral vision is pretty Pepega
@@Mochachocakon That's where you muscle memory kicks in, though if I'm going to criticize anything, I'd say that in this vid their important skills are in somewhat harder to reach places (6 through = and with modifier)
90% my WHM skills are never beyond what my left hand can reach comfortably and with my muscle memory firmly familiar with the buttons I can safely tuck away the hotbars or even hide them, I just need to put important skills on the "cooldown watch" hotbar
@@FriendlyYandere I have my 30 abilities all on keybinds. No time to use mouse to press abilities in savage / ultimate raids.
Get a MMO mouse with the 12 thumbbuttons, map your remaining buttons to 1-5 and the other keys next to your movement keys and with shift, alt, etc modifiers.
And start to use macro's (and learn when to use certain macro's as certain macro's have input delays and you need to time it right in the encounter while also keeping the animation lag in mind).
Very important when you want to reach 95th percentile (or higher).
Spend a day practicing target dummy and you're good to go.
I only use my mouse to select targets and for @mouseover macro's.
@@Fhaerron I don't have an mmo mouse, but all of my abilities have a key binded to them, even the macros of some abilities.
This video is showcasing the song so I guess it’s to be expected?
In a game filled to the brim with amazing music, this tops it all.
1:00 the music is SO lit that even the phoenix is dancing.
Four months later and I’m still listening. God Soken did NOT have to go this hard with the music in Shadowbringers.
"Hey guys, let's wipe the battle to listen it again and again :'D"
"Hmmmm...ok"
This song gets me every time, an absolute masterpiece. The first time I heard it I legitimately stopped everything I was doing, I died of course but then I got to sit there and enjoy its epicness!
Just did this raid for the first time and my God this music fucking blew me away. I had tears in my eyes, man.
Same
This arrangement of the song is a masterpiece.
One of the most amazing tracks I've ever heard. Holy shit its epic.
This song is absolutely epic. Quite possibly one of the best songs in the history of boss music.
Awesome raid after finishing it came here to listen to it😍 i knew it you already had this uploaded 🤩
1:37 is such a cool touch i cant even describe it
I wanna cry listening to this. Reliving these feelings again from Nier automata is so much.
This ost is so good! Definitely one of the best.
This has gotta be my favorite battle track in the game
I have only got into Yoko Taro’s games and into the Final Fantasy series, starting with NieR: Automata and FFVII at the start of this year. Both are my top two and hearing the mix of Weight of the World and the Prelude is making sob like I have never sobbed before. What a powerful remix that gives us, the players, hope 💜
Freaking got teary-eyed in this fight.
Why is this so relatable haha
Best MMO ever made. Best composer behind Uematsu even though he didnt write this.
Not gonna lie. I lost my shit when Nines showed up. I was both overloaded with joy and questions...
Ending D....
And the collection item for hints to the lore
One of the best things I've ever heard, FF-related. And there's been some amazing ones throughout the installments, ty for this 👊🏻.