ok, maybe I already posted this, but damn, FFXIV music team
be someone on the music team*
need to do a variation on the Battle of the Four Fiends
be inspired by a super famous parody song by another Japanese composer from the 2000s
kill so many players who couldn't do the fight because they were laughing
also I am hoping y'all and Hyadain are also laughing about this joke together!!!
links under the cut so the fight/songs aren't spoiled for anyone
* people are variously saying Soken/Takafumi Imamura, I don't have enough of an ear for music to tell. I wish I knew where to look this up before the soundtrack's official release...
This is the original Battle of the Four Fiends
This is the 2000s Hyadain parody remix, on the composer's own channel:
Here's that same remix, but with the text + hilarious visuals:
And, finally, goddamn FFXIV music team. XD XD XD
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1:34 Describing Clive in one word and that is Love is so accurately touching!
12:41 It's amusing how Ben was 'second choice' but got main role just like how Clive the first born didn't get the blessing but is the main character! It was meant to be like Koji said!
Just played the demo and I'm seriously excited!
Ben's voice acting is amazing, I got chills! Logan Hannan who voices Joshua did in A Plague Tale and I absolutely his acting!
As an XIV player I'm super excited with everyone involved!
Music, design and story! And of course I love the swearing, thanks Koji haha!
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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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