Things You Missed if You Weren't at FanFest
Queues. My god, so many queues. Long queues. Slow queues. For every activity, including ones you reserve timeslots for. For merch. For food. For bathrooms. See also: everything selling out.
The crowd cheering every time the Dawntrail teaser trailer played and it reached the part with the G'raha taco.
DJ Spinningway turning up the whole club (does he have an actual name? that's his name, in my heart)
The most absolute banger rendition of In the Balance by Keiko and Amanda Achen during the piano concert.
Soken "The Labyrinth" otamatone
The Primals playing their absolute best bangers but also a new one!!
Koji Fox said "fuck." At least twice. Raise the rating of this game.
The crowd chanting her name made Ishikawa cry during the closing ceremony, which in turn made the rest of the devs cry.
Yoshi-P's closing remarks were: "I have one thing to ask you all--please stop making our most adorable team member cry."
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Final Fantasy XVI Music
Want to know what the tracks for the upcoming crossover sound like? Once again, Masayoshi Soken & Team have given us some bangers, and the selection is nice.
I'll add them (mostly) in the FF16 OST's list order, along with lyrics for "Find the Flames", below the cut.
Starting us off with the menu music, 16's version of the FF Prelude.
An arrangement of Cidolfus Telamon's theme. Takafumi Imamura's done some of my favorite FF14 tracks too. The title translation is "Thunder in the Machine" since this Cid is not only a scientist/engineer, but also the Dominant of Ramuh.
Field music for one of the nations of Valisthea, the Holy Empire of Sanbreque.
Another field theme, this time for Clive's homeland, Rosaria.
An arrangement of Joshua/Phoenix's theme. The lyrics for the full version are good.
Clive's theme song, heard in the crossover trailer and pretty much everywhere else. Blood-pumping sound and lyrics.
An arrangement of Clive's theme, as he comes to terms with a hard truth.
World Map theme, an arrangement of the FF Prelude.
"Our Terms" is a Hideaway (home base) default theme, and while not one of the rewards, it is the music heard in the crossover trailer while riding Torgal, so it may be his mount up music.
"Before The Storm - Caer Norvent" (site of a significant confrontation) and "To Sail Forbidden Seas" (the battle theme against other Dominants and their Eikons) are too big for Tumblr's audio uploads, so I'll add links to those in the Replies. Caer Norvent will have some scenes, but nothing one can't see in the demo as it's a very early encounter, and it's mostly talking. The battle theme video has no gameplay.
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A little disappointed we get none of the many arrangements of "My Star", Jill Warrick's theme. The full song plays at the very end as the credits begin to roll, sung by Amanda Achen, music by Soken, arranged by Keiko, lyrics by Michael-Christopher Koji-Fox.
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Lyrics for "Find the Flame":
Dig, dig, dig, dig, deeper
Dig, dig, dig, dig, deeper
Delve, delve, delve, delve, deeper
Weep, weep, weep, weep, weeper
Dig, dig, dig, dig, deeper
Dig, dig, dig, dig, deeper
Wake, wake, wake, wake, sleeper
Reap, reap, reap, reap, reaper
Raise thy lantern, pioneer
Shine upon the far frontier
Fingers cracked and body broken
Mind adaze yet soul awoken
Diving into the...mire!
Laid out upon the...pyre!
Never this soul shall...tire!
Running into the...fire!
Your bleary bloodshot eyes open wide in the dawn
Let the light in and brighten the shades that sleep inside you
Find the flame, the flame, the flame
Find the flame, the flame, the flame
Let its light blind you
Delve in this dark abyss.
Fathomless emptiness,
Till the kiss of fire enfolds you!
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I went to the NieR concert in LA and oh my god. new lore/continuation and probably the official end of automata after 7 years. it was so beautiful and they repurposed the songs to tell a new story. also amanda achen and jc miller were sitting in front of my friends.
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