Ranking Every Final Fantasy VICTORY THEMES | TIERLIST
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ย. 2024
- Another tierlist video! This time, I've ranked all of the mainline Final Fantasy games' victory themes from I through to XVI!
Filmed and edited this one 12hrs before release on virtually no sleep, so apologies if I got some info wrong (for example the FF14 Duty Complete theme is actually by Masayoshi Soken), or just seemed rather erratic. 😅
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My favorite version of the "classic" victory theme is the Cosmos-aligned victory theme from Dissidia.
For the XIV versions: The 1.0 version plays in a few cutscenes and when you win a chocobo race.
I always preferred the Chaos version with the violins kicking in.
I've always preferred the Chaos one, personally! Which is funny, because I rarely played as the villains!
I didn't realise the 1.0 version also features in a few areas in 2.0 onwards!
Great tier list as always! For your next ranking, you should do the chocobo themes!
Great idea, that!
First time I've seen your content. Nice list! That was fun. As an old school XI player, that couple seconds of level up music was the greatest sound in the world, especially 60+ when it was hours of work. Gotta throw in the level down/death music too to give it full context. But yeah, individually it belongs right where you have it.
The theme from Lightning Returns actually amazed me when I first played the game. It was also a reason why I enjoyed the game the most out of the trilogy.
Genuinely itching to pick that game up again and actually finish it. XIII Trilogy Remaster when??? 👀
XIII and XIII-2 deserve so much moreee here, they might not be super energetic but they sound incredible and really get across the "we won the battle! let's relish in our victory" vibes while also really driving home the technological aspects of the games
FF8 and X-2 are definitely my favorite, FF8 just goes so hard and feels like the perfect version of that theme for the game it's in and X-2 is reminiscent of the original but has the guts to do it's own thing which I guess sums up the game overall for better or worse, I never actually finished it but I appreciate the hell out of it
I’m actually insulted that you put 10 so mid. That synth part and the brass absolutely slaps. Well each to their own.
Don't get me wrong, FFX is my favourite game, period. But I'm just super not a fan of its fanfare versus the others! 😅
On my Apple Music version of the XIII-2 soundtrack Honor's Fanfare is known as Glory's Fanfare, which is the same as the fanfare for XIII. There's also Blessed Fanfare which I think you might prefer after what you said. There's also two different songs called Etro's champion, I think I've heard two names for several songs on the XIII-2 soundtrack.
Is Blessed Fanfare part of the FF13 or FF13-2 OST?
@@Jerichords XIII-2
Honestly, i was like ohh how nostalgic too hear all these jingles and rate them. But i didnt know we were getting an performance also great video ❤👏👏
Thank you! I'm not a very good performer, I prefer to just compose, but I'll try and incorporate the piano-playing in future videos!
Personally I wouldn't put any of them in peak, but what do I know? My favorite victory fanfare is from 12. But that fanfare also came with some fun little animations that changed for each character and what weapon they had equipped. On the flip side though I don't think any of them are bad either, well, maybe 11's.
Definitely agree where you placed 7. The fact that it was the very first fanfare that was different in the series makes it more iconic. Love the content!
Thank you! :D
I think the first one you played for 14 is when you finish a GATE at the gold saucer with perfect score haha, or when you finish first at a chocobo race. It also plays during very specific side quests, usually for relief or comedy purposes ( I know it plays during Hildibrand quests or Tribal quests)
The second one was when you finish a duty
Adding on, this is correct. The second is definitely the end-dungeon theme, while the first is more for fun things like Gold Saucer success or such.
I remember not spending a whole bunch of time at the Gold Saucer, so that's probably why the theme did not stick with me haha
@@Tarrot I just remembered the first one also plays once in the MSQ when the lopporits wake up in endwalker
VII's will always be my favorite. The foreboding synth that appears in the background to give you the allusion that there are still more fights to go through.
It's just so good.
XVI's is amazing, but plays like 6 times unfortunately.
With XVI: Not if you do all the optional hunts! 👀
FFXIII-2 you cut it just before it got more interesting.
Also there was another similar version that you missed! It plays if you managed to did excellent in battle. I think you woulda liked this better than XII
Not gonna lie i teared up once I heard V's fanfare 😂 idk why even tho its not my most favorite one. Meanwhile I didnt feel the same way with my favorite.
I've played 1 - 10 and Dissidia. My favorite by far is the Chaos Variation, and FFV's. -Final Fantasy 7's too.
FF15 Comrades fanfare was saying to the player: U won the battle but not the war. Also, FF8 is the ost goat!
FF8 is iconic, it was the perfect blend of the old and new aesthetics of the franchise.
I'd love for you to do opening/ending themes ! So many bangers there, or the main themes from the games
Oooh, ending themes might be a good shout!
@@Jerichords the ending themes are usually amazing, FFX particularly always gets me 🫠
You should have gone with Blessed Fanfare from FFXIII-2 not the Glory's Fanfare as Blessed Fanfare plays when you get 5 stars at the batte results (which you get most of the time). Blessed Fanfare sounds better than Glory's Fanfare. My all time favourite Final Fantasy Fanfares are FF7 and FFXIII-2 Blessed Fanfare.
FF14 information:
Starting with Heavensward, each expansion will have a Raid series (12 total fights), an Alliance Raid series (generally each end boss has their own theme), and Trials through the main story + separate side-quests. The Raid series has a lot of repeat music, so you can probably get 8 or so songs out of that, 3 from the Alliance Raids, and probably 7+ from the main story. The songs are 5 minutes and some have lyrics. Unless you were to truncate the songs for TH-cam purposes, you're looking at possibly 2 hours per expansion, which I imagine would be unfeasible. My suggestion if you were to do this is split the themes into Raid Boss themes and Story/Trial boss themes.
As for dungeon themes, the Alliance Raids would probably count as dungeons, so there's 3 there each expansion. You have probably 14 different dungeons/expansion from Shadowbringers on (+ the 3 Alliance Raid so 17), and a lot more in Heavensaward/Stormblood because they added a lot more extra dungeons in those expansions. Those themes are shorter though so it might be more viable to do on TH-cam.
With ARR, there's so much stuff there, I don't really know how to split that up.
I feel like the dungeon themes in FFXIV are all so much better in context because they are expansions of the area themes they’re located at. P.S. the victory fanfare that you played for FFXIV (the second one) plays for all duty victories in every expansion not just ARR
Haha, you can see why doing the FF14 combat music videos would be a logistical nightmare 🤣
My phone camera would overheat well before filming for any of those videos would be done lmao
Another one to rank (still think main character theme would be good) would be the lyrical themes. The only problem is I believe that would exclude 1-5.
VI - Opera Maria and Draco
VII - (cheating to avoid OWA) Hollow
VIII - Eyes On Me
IX - Melodies of Life
X - Suteki Da Ne
XI - Distant Worlds
XII - Kiss Me Goodbye
XIII - Eternal Love
XIV - lots just pick the trailer songs
XV - Stand By Me Florence version or Somnus
XVI - Moongazing
TH-cam copyright claims will have my life with this one, but fuck it we ball! A good idea, that!
Answers for XIV because yes
I'd put Mystic Quest victory at an A
I would put it at middle B Tier! It's a fun tune, but not particularly my cup of tea! It does remind me of old school commercials for some reason 😅
“You just got pwned F T W
Now you’re dead, you’re dead because we killed you. We took you by surprise…”
Wow haven't heard brentlefloss in a while
Original FF14 release is 1.0. FF14 ARR is technically 2.0 which was the reworked re release.
You could include Remake and Rebirth. Also Type 0, Dissidia, etc.
I think VII has the best soundtrack overall, but plenty of other games have amazing tracks. The Extreme is an amazing Final Boss track, for example.
I think XII is trying to mimic the sound of FFT as they are the same universe.
XIII has amazing tracks, some of the best in the franchise. But it either didn't do a version of a classic track (like Fanfare) or just didn't work.
In regards to FFXII and FFT, yes they take place in the same world of Ivalice. But they also share the same composer, so it makes sense that the style would be the same. Same goes for Vagrant Story (which I haven't played), it's very "Ivalice-coded" with the same composer and dev team from FFT.
While I do not like that FF6 is placed that low compared with FF7,
what about Final Fantasy Tactics?
Bear in mind, I've not played FF Tactics, but I would put it on A TIer right above ARR! I like how it uses an alternate version of the series' prelude theme!
10:01 HOW THE ABSOLUTE DARE
X is amazing
FFX’s victory theme has been my ringtone for YEARS it’s so iconic to me, how VERY DARE
Credit themes
Clicks to see if FF13’s was thrown straight into the trash
Lightning Returns wasn't! 👀
13's ost is one of the best but I get his point on the fanfares
That's fair on XI, but I will say after all day of levelling, dying, losing XP, and killing, that was the greatest sound in the world.
I can imagine someone having the context of the relief upon hearing it would probably rank it a lil higher than I did 😅
7, 8, and 10 go on C tier, for me. The beginning fanfare was great but I didn't care for the theme afterward.
I would have put 12, 15 and 16 into D tier but i agree with everything else.
Not a fan of the choirs in 12's and 16's?