@@iaxacs3801 Look up the original FF4 Moon Theme sometime (it's remastered/remixed in XIV, in the Red Moon theme, but listen to the original first). If that didn't make you feel like you stepped onto a lonely weird alien land far away from anything humans have ever known, I don't know what will.
What I would give to experience this zone's introduction again for the first time. Gave me chills. This game truly is a masterpiece by every conceivable metric.
Same man, I had to sit there in stunned silence with my mouth open at the sheer majesty of this zone. And the amazing thing is it's simply a large barren crater with a tower and a jail.
Same. I first arrived on the moon at like 4AM and it hit so hard. I sat there stunned at how amazing it was. I knew the moon was gonna be pretty dope but this just blew my imagination out of the water. Soken and the dev team are the true successors of the FF series.
Was dealing with anxiety and depression a few days back, I still am a bit, but I teleported here whilst in game and just stood in Mare Lamentorum for an hour or so and listened to the music and really helped me ease some of my sadness... ❤️
Which is pretty ironic since "Mare Lamentorum" means "Sea of laments" in Latin. But I think everyone can agree this is quite the opposite and rather soothing instead. Glad to know you've found something to uplift your spirits
I am not going through any form of depression that i know of at least but i feel a similar sensation. Its as if all the worries, stress or even pain of struggles wash away in a place like this. When i look at the planet from this distance.. the stars surrounding it.. the void that the planet floats on.. it adds a certain perspective. The planet doesn't move forward. It doesn't move backward. It just is. It exists. All my problems seem soo small when i close my eyes and looks down on myself from the moon. They are all confined to this small rock floating in space. I get a sense of clarity. Sometimes its ok not to think of the future, or lament the past. Sometimes its ok to exist in the moment the way the planet does.
I still remember the chills I had accepting that **this** was only the level 83-84 zone... I just couldn't imagine topping traveling to the *moon* for the remainder of the expansion.
When I first arrived at this zone, I was in awe. I already knew we were going to the moon, but I hadn't expected it to happen so quickly in the storyline. It sent chills down my spine, because at that moment I knew the story was going to go so much deeper than I had originally anticipated. EW is right up there with ShB as a true masterpiece.
This song really captures how it must feel to be trying to save your friends, yourself, the only world you’ve ever known, and realize that you’ve already been doing that for thousands of years and lost more than anyone can imagine.
FFXIV Has one of the best composed soundtracks in gaming period. Every single piece of music is crafted to fit perfectly. It's rare to see such care and dedication put into a game nowadays. The music absolutely blows it out of the park every single time
I just got to this zone a few days ago, after playing since March of last year. I sat for an hour just listening, sitting on the balcony with The Watcher. There's so much peace in this music...
No other expansion will top this one for me.. Many of the things in this expansion, reminded me so much of some of the things in a comic I used to draw as a kid, which I am now redoing, as well as designs for another game.
Soken is a genius man. I'd give anything just to experience 1 day in this guy's head. One of the only things that disappointed me about Endwalker was I wish there was more to do in this zone/we were able to spend more time here. My favorite zone in the entire game. Always loved it when the Hunt Train stopped here.
When I first arrived at Mare Lamentorum I thought: I guess that's how Neil Armstrong must have felt when he stepped on the moon for the first time in his life! It was amazing that first time for me! I love this Game, this artwork called FFXIV 🤩😍
Here to compare the FF16 Dominance trailer theme with this song. :D When I first set foot here my first reaction to the music was “FF16 man choir”, in reference to the man choir in the FF14 Awakening trailer song. Just as well, when the Dominance trailer dropped my reaction to the music was “Endwalker style music”, which was a surprise because for whatever reason I was expecting FF16 to sound more like Heavensward.
I just got to this area recently in Endwalker with my black mage and the moment I heard this song I knew it was going into my favourite FFXIV song list. i wanna cry when I hear it, it's so beautiful and has so much emotion, imagery in it. It's not just a space-moon theme, it's got an incredible melody to it. I am glad the FF series continues to have great music, from the very first games to now with FFXIV.
I'm so glad I found this video! A recent patch changed the way the moon looks, the dark side of Etheirys is a complete shadow now and it's no longer possible to make out the distinct land, clouds, and water.
I love this zone a lot, but there's something about it that's always driven me nuts. They showed us a preview of this zone before release, and in that preview the sun was part of the skybox, sitting just left of the planet, which is where the zone's light came from. In the release version, the sun is gone (probably to put more emphasis on the planet), but the fixed lighting of the zone behaves as though the sun is still there. Where does the light come from now? (this is counterbalanced somewhat by the fact that the attention to the "phase of the planet," as it were, is incredible, but still--the shadows show that the light clearly isn't coming off of the planet, so how can we see...?)
The light is coming from all over the sky, but the photons are very polite and orderly, and make sure they're all going the same direction as they approach the moon's surface... probably
Let me tell you from my esotetic journey how this mare lamentorum is like. It's one of the steps, a lament that feels like as if it comes out of your spirit, as if it takes it all out. In order to move forward & to get freedom, it just has to throw it all up in form of lament. Everybody might get their moment of complete reset in life, maybe at some point in their life or maybe never at all but this is it, this is how it feels. A lament of freedom. So despite the name, lament is not bad, it's a deep expression of freedom. It's like you've zoomed out of your life on earth, it's got no meaning at all, just like in a middle dimension where it feels so serene. It's a battle and reset with yourself, of what does not belong to you, like a battle to remove what is not you. A lament of removing. I feel so lonely at times of such esoteric change & music is just the right company. Sometimes I wish I could be somewhere isolated from people, like in the greenest valley watching the night sky. Our escapism is not bad, it's helping us cope with it all, it's our strength.
Game: Serious Sam - Fusion Map: De Tenebris Ad Lunam (Workshop Custom Level by Cyborg) Brought me here ! I now understand why the map maker choosed this song on the map he created, it's the same vibes. I sadly never played Final Fantasy, I heard alot about it though, many of my friends plays it. I can tell that even a non-fan/non-player of this game can actually really love the song and falls in deep connection with it. Thank you for using your flying mount showing the area, since me I do not know the game, it's way better seeing where this is from versus a static picture with nothing added at all. Beautiful scenery, I litteraly saved it to be able to use it as a rotating Live Background on Wallpaper Engine. I loved reading the comments too about all players experiences discovering that area. Have a good one and thank you for sharing this masterpiece with us.
This zone just hits different. Very rarely does a zone alone tell you all you need to know via ambience and design. The only other instances are Azys La, Garlemald and especially Tempest. Right in the feels. The grief and sadness of a long lost race and the focused hope in Zodiark, soul crushing. Besides being on the moon is awesome on top of that and creates a surreal transcendent feeling.
This is an odd note, but I love how moon themes in games always have that ambience about them. This song kinda reminds me of Untamed Heart from Klonoa: Door to Phantomile just due to the nice chill feeling
my character, Hime, often comes to Mare Lamentorum to think. she sits on the watcher's palace' top balcony and just looks out at the star. puts things in perspective for her. and btw the name of the theme is a reference to Neil Armstrong's famous quote "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind". even more fitting when you think about the fact he said it when he first stepped onto our moon in real life
Every time I come here on a Hunt Train (Hyperion Represent) it just makes me want to play through Mario Odyssey for the Nth time. I know there’s a lot of Moons in games and media, but Mare just seems to fire the same neurones as the Odyssey Moon does for me, in the best ways possible.
This and the previous place is where the expansion really took off for me. Loved every moment and hated the start and mid section of radz at hanz until elpis and Ultima Thule. This expansion was really nicely made aside from a few mistakes
The ending part of Garlemald to half of the moon was by far the craziest part in the whole game. I was utterly shocked at what transpired and they really did the unexpected, these crazy developers.
6.2 spoilers! I have to be honest, I'm not excited for these 13th shenanigans at all. I knew the story of the Ancients, Emet-Selch, and the Hydaelyn/Zodiark saga had to come to an end, but I really dont want to accept it. I love the Ancients, I'm hoping they don't move on from them completely but it seems like they might with how 'final' Endwalker was. Hearing this song just makes me sad. I have faith in the writers but I'm also struggling to see how I'm going to care about the new story in the same way.
@@Bonebounder93 Yep, the Ascian Saga was basically nothing, until Shadowbringers released and it all made sense all of a sudden, which took 6 years (this huge lore pay off probably contributed a good part to the success of it, considering how beloved the Ancients are in the whole fanbase, along the unique approach they took with the characters). It was very solid from A Realm Reborn to Stormblood, but it was basically just the build up for the real meaty stuff at the end of the day. Atleast when it comes to the Ancients. I expect the same with the new saga, but probably a tad faster cuz we already have our connections to places and events here and there.
I think it does. If it was just tons of bare moonstone then it would be much more boring. All those little details make it more of a zone than a place.
Me listening to the playlist, and thinking "Hmm, this song doesn't have a night version -- oh wait"
The real moon has a day and night cycle, it's just much slower than Earth's.
@@Miranox2 It lasts roughly a whole month. That's part of what the moon phases are about
Imagine big braining that hard and just making the most perfect 'we are on the Moon' theme imaginable. This track gives me an indescribable feeling.
Nothingness and pure calm light, a calm feeling that give you the message that you are truly alive.
Soken really doesn’t miss, ever. True successor to Uematsu.
@@ryanrushford7918 yup i 100% agree with you.
This and the DuckTales moon theme
@@iaxacs3801 Look up the original FF4 Moon Theme sometime (it's remastered/remixed in XIV, in the Red Moon theme, but listen to the original first). If that didn't make you feel like you stepped onto a lonely weird alien land far away from anything humans have ever known, I don't know what will.
What I would give to experience this zone's introduction again for the first time. Gave me chills. This game truly is a masterpiece by every conceivable metric.
Same man, I had to sit there in stunned silence with my mouth open at the sheer majesty of this zone. And the amazing thing is it's simply a large barren crater with a tower and a jail.
"Here He waits, in this cold, barren place. His cradle and His grave."
There's more to the game than just the story
@@villaniousmustache4898 I’m well aware, and every aspect of this game that I have experienced, is truly great.
Same. I first arrived on the moon at like 4AM and it hit so hard. I sat there stunned at how amazing it was. I knew the moon was gonna be pretty dope but this just blew my imagination out of the water. Soken and the dev team are the true successors of the FF series.
lofi hip hop beats to slay primals to
What I would give to experience this expansion for the first time again.
New game plus is there and u can play endwalker I know it not the same but it still fun endwalker is just a masterpiece for not play it multiple times
@@john_7000 what about if you wanna replay from the start 😭
@@lucatiel2859 new game plus allows you to redo every expansion or if you wanna start totally fresh you can create a new character
Was dealing with anxiety and depression a few days back, I still am a bit, but I teleported here whilst in game and just stood in Mare Lamentorum for an hour or so and listened to the music and really helped me ease some of my sadness... ❤️
Which is pretty ironic since "Mare Lamentorum" means "Sea of laments" in Latin. But I think everyone can agree this is quite the opposite and rather soothing instead.
Glad to know you've found something to uplift your spirits
I am not going through any form of depression that i know of at least but i feel a similar sensation. Its as if all the worries, stress or even pain of struggles wash away in a place like this. When i look at the planet from this distance.. the stars surrounding it.. the void that the planet floats on.. it adds a certain perspective. The planet doesn't move forward. It doesn't move backward. It just is. It exists. All my problems seem soo small when i close my eyes and looks down on myself from the moon. They are all confined to this small rock floating in space. I get a sense of clarity. Sometimes its ok not to think of the future, or lament the past. Sometimes its ok to exist in the moment the way the planet does.
depression is a bitch and I honestly don't know how I'm ever going go get better.
I still remember the chills I had accepting that **this** was only the level 83-84 zone... I just couldn't imagine topping traveling to the *moon* for the remainder of the expansion.
And oh boy.. what a wild ride it was. And it got topped twofold, Endwalker was wild.
Mare Lamentorum OST strikes the same as Amh Araeng OST, what a perfect match to MSQ story and location!
This zone gave me Evangelion vibes seeing Zodiark caged in the center. Love the chill theme though. I definitely felt like I was floating in space.
Very much same, it felt very Evangelion.
When I first arrived at this zone, I was in awe. I already knew we were going to the moon, but I hadn't expected it to happen so quickly in the storyline. It sent chills down my spine, because at that moment I knew the story was going to go so much deeper than I had originally anticipated. EW is right up there with ShB as a true masterpiece.
This song really captures how it must feel to be trying to save your friends, yourself, the only world you’ve ever known, and realize that you’ve already been doing that for thousands of years and lost more than anyone can imagine.
FFXIV Has one of the best composed soundtracks in gaming period. Every single piece of music is crafted to fit perfectly. It's rare to see such care and dedication put into a game nowadays. The music absolutely blows it out of the park every single time
I just got to this zone a few days ago, after playing since March of last year. I sat for an hour just listening, sitting on the balcony with The Watcher. There's so much peace in this music...
This is some of the most relaxing music I’ve ever heard. Really soothing.
It perfectly captivates the moon
"One small step for a man..."
One giant leap for a Loporrit
And one giant leap for the hope of mankind
It's the choir-like synth that does it for me. It's... perfect.
This was the first time where I said “Now this is something I expect from a Final Fantasy game”. What a place, what a song, what a game man.
I love that they included a version of the FF prelude
Stopping here two years later just to say I went through this area in MSQ and the theme is just stuck in my head as an earworm as I try to sleep.
When I first got here someone in shout chat said "We're whalers on the moon" cracked me up quite a bit. Futurama
My jaw dropped when I first heard this combined with the view from the moon
This song is giving me goosebumps everytime i'm listening it
The music in FFXIV has never disappointed me. Banger after banger after banger.
I wonder what they're saying. The chanting.
Ishgardian housing? Nah. I want MOON housing if I can hear this all the time lol.
Thank goodness for the change of mood after witnessing the entirety of the Garlemald arc
Best zone in the game, bar none. I could stay there forever. So beautiful. I'm glad we're actually doing a new mission irl to go back to our own moon.
the amount of FANTASTIC tracks in FFXIV is staggering
No other expansion will top this one for me.. Many of the things in this expansion, reminded me so much of some of the things in a comic I used to draw as a kid, which I am now redoing, as well as designs for another game.
Etheyris looks so magnificent from the Moon. Still hard to believe that we WoLs got to go :O
Yesterday ( first time) I Literally stopped to appreciate the vision... Breath taken, So beautiful, man... I love FF XIV S2 🤩🤩
Love chilling in this zone for the music alone, let alone the masterful work that was this entire thing. Beautiful.
Oh boy, I can't wait to hear what the night version of the track i-
...
.....Ah, well now I just feel silly.
I listen to this and Thavnairs night music when I sleep c:
this is the greatest moon theme to ever moon
Soken is a genius man. I'd give anything just to experience 1 day in this guy's head.
One of the only things that disappointed me about Endwalker was I wish there was more to do in this zone/we were able to spend more time here. My favorite zone in the entire game. Always loved it when the Hunt Train stopped here.
When I first arrived at Mare Lamentorum I thought: I guess that's how Neil Armstrong must have felt when he stepped on the moon for the first time in his life! It was amazing that first time for me! I love this Game, this artwork called FFXIV 🤩😍
Here to compare the FF16 Dominance trailer theme with this song. :D When I first set foot here my first reaction to the music was “FF16 man choir”, in reference to the man choir in the FF14 Awakening trailer song. Just as well, when the Dominance trailer dropped my reaction to the music was “Endwalker style music”, which was a surprise because for whatever reason I was expecting FF16 to sound more like Heavensward.
I just got to this area recently in Endwalker with my black mage and the moment I heard this song I knew it was going into my favourite FFXIV song list. i wanna cry when I hear it, it's so beautiful and has so much emotion, imagery in it. It's not just a space-moon theme, it's got an incredible melody to it. I am glad the FF series continues to have great music, from the very first games to now with FFXIV.
i love this theme so much.. i arrived yesterday mare lamentorum and was blowed away by everything
I'm so glad I found this video! A recent patch changed the way the moon looks, the dark side of Etheirys is a complete shadow now and it's no longer possible to make out the distinct land, clouds, and water.
I love this zone a lot, but there's something about it that's always driven me nuts.
They showed us a preview of this zone before release, and in that preview the sun was part of the skybox, sitting just left of the planet, which is where the zone's light came from. In the release version, the sun is gone (probably to put more emphasis on the planet), but the fixed lighting of the zone behaves as though the sun is still there. Where does the light come from now?
(this is counterbalanced somewhat by the fact that the attention to the "phase of the planet," as it were, is incredible, but still--the shadows show that the light clearly isn't coming off of the planet, so how can we see...?)
The light is coming from all over the sky, but the photons are very polite and orderly, and make sure they're all going the same direction as they approach the moon's surface... probably
this zone was sooooo fucking cool....
I always felt this and Snowcloak’s theme were the most soothing themes ❤
Let me tell you from my esotetic journey how this mare lamentorum is like. It's one of the steps, a lament that feels like as if it comes out of your spirit, as if it takes it all out. In order to move forward & to get freedom, it just has to throw it all up in form of lament. Everybody might get their moment of complete reset in life, maybe at some point in their life or maybe never at all but this is it, this is how it feels. A lament of freedom. So despite the name, lament is not bad, it's a deep expression of freedom. It's like you've zoomed out of your life on earth, it's got no meaning at all, just like in a middle dimension where it feels so serene. It's a battle and reset with yourself, of what does not belong to you, like a battle to remove what is not you. A lament of removing.
I feel so lonely at times of such esoteric change & music is just the right company. Sometimes I wish I could be somewhere isolated from people, like in the greenest valley watching the night sky. Our escapism is not bad, it's helping us cope with it all, it's our strength.
Game: Serious Sam - Fusion
Map: De Tenebris Ad Lunam (Workshop Custom Level by Cyborg)
Brought me here !
I now understand why the map maker choosed this song on the map he created, it's the same vibes. I sadly never played Final Fantasy, I heard alot about it though, many of my friends plays it. I can tell that even a non-fan/non-player of this game can actually really love the song and falls in deep connection with it.
Thank you for using your flying mount showing the area, since me I do not know the game, it's way better seeing where this is from versus a static picture with nothing added at all.
Beautiful scenery, I litteraly saved it to be able to use it as a rotating Live Background on Wallpaper Engine.
I loved reading the comments too about all players experiences discovering that area.
Have a good one and thank you for sharing this masterpiece with us.
Big Terra Battle vibes, if anyone's ever played that before it got shut down
The main menu theme in particular
I love the part of the song where you can here Echoes In The Distance from Ultima Thule
When is that?
@@zerombr The piano notes outline the melody of "tales of loss and fire and faith"
one of my favorite tracks of the expansion, and one of my favorite areas in the game
This zone just hits different. Very rarely does a zone alone tell you all you need to know via ambience and design. The only other instances are Azys La, Garlemald and especially Tempest. Right in the feels. The grief and sadness of a long lost race and the focused hope in Zodiark, soul crushing. Besides being on the moon is awesome on top of that and creates a surreal transcendent feeling.
best and most atmospheric theme in the game by far, surprised its not more popular
This is an odd note, but I love how moon themes in games always have that ambience about them. This song kinda reminds me of Untamed Heart from Klonoa: Door to Phantomile just due to the nice chill feeling
The days when Argos was just "Lustrous Dog." I want to go back to those days and experience it all again with a wiped memory
Does the chorus sing latin lyrics ? I'm curious about what this song might be about.
my character, Hime, often comes to Mare Lamentorum to think. she sits on the watcher's palace' top balcony and just looks out at the star. puts things in perspective for her. and btw the name of the theme is a reference to Neil Armstrong's famous quote "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind". even more fitting when you think about the fact he said it when he first stepped onto our moon in real life
This moon does not contain a spicy Dorito.
Sadeness - Part XIV
That’s one small step for Hume, one giant leap for Hydaelyn-Kind!
I doubt there will be many games, or maybe any, that will be able to make me feel what Endwalker made me feel.
Terraria the stars above moment
Perfect bgm to just zone out on. Putting it on loop and brain afk.
Every time I come here on a Hunt Train (Hyperion Represent) it just makes me want to play through Mario Odyssey for the Nth time.
I know there’s a lot of Moons in games and media, but Mare just seems to fire the same neurones as the Odyssey Moon does for me, in the best ways possible.
This and the previous place is where the expansion really took off for me. Loved every moment and hated the start and mid section of radz at hanz until elpis and Ultima Thule. This expansion was really nicely made aside from a few mistakes
Is it just me or does the Elpis music sound pretty similar?
Clearly this was inspired from FF X - Wandering Flame
Am I the only one who hears Simple and Clean?
first time getting there was insanly mind blowing it just kept getting better
I'm exicted if they can ever manage to top that with future expansions
The ending part of Garlemald to half of the moon was by far the craziest part in the whole game. I was utterly shocked at what transpired and they really did the unexpected, these crazy developers.
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exclamation point, question mark, exclamation point, question mark
John madden
John madden
John madden
John madden
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Snake?
@@talonmarshal Snake? SnAAAAAAAkeeeeeee
can you get this on a roll
Yes, you can buy it with bicolor gemstones (assuming you've done shared fates)
Hella Sakamoto vibes
_SPAYCE_
6.2 spoilers!
I have to be honest, I'm not excited for these 13th shenanigans at all. I knew the story of the Ancients, Emet-Selch, and the Hydaelyn/Zodiark saga had to come to an end, but I really dont want to accept it. I love the Ancients, I'm hoping they don't move on from them completely but it seems like they might with how 'final' Endwalker was. Hearing this song just makes me sad. I have faith in the writers but I'm also struggling to see how I'm going to care about the new story in the same way.
prob takes another 10 year of build up
@@Bonebounder93 Yep, the Ascian Saga was basically nothing, until Shadowbringers released and it all made sense all of a sudden, which took 6 years (this huge lore pay off probably contributed a good part to the success of it, considering how beloved the Ancients are in the whole fanbase, along the unique approach they took with the characters). It was very solid from A Realm Reborn to Stormblood, but it was basically just the build up for the real meaty stuff at the end of the day. Atleast when it comes to the Ancients. I expect the same with the new saga, but probably a tad faster cuz we already have our connections to places and events here and there.
great song dissapointing zone its too small doesnt feel like a moon
I think it does. If it was just tons of bare moonstone then it would be much more boring. All those little details make it more of a zone than a place.
Love this track, but the voices at 1:23 and then later completely ruin it. Choir voices seem out of place in FF soundtracks, not a fan
It's the lament of souls bound to Zodiark. Hence the zone's name, Sea of Laments
Disagreed. It adds to the ambience of the track, as well as the lore signifying the lament from the souls that were sacrificed to Zodiark.
I'll never forget this moment. It was breathtaking. I actually cried because of how well the OST fit the zone.