I remember getting onto the sea for the first time, and that wall of sound hit me. Legit sat there mesmerized for 10 solid minutes while the music washed over me. One of my favourite video game songs of all time. Easily
This game is my first proper foray into the DQ series. I haven't quite finished the game, but I have definitely fallen in love with it. The world, the characters, the music, all of it. It's truly terrific. This music almost took my breath away the first time I heard it. The way it swells, the sweeping melody make it sound like some romantic moment from an epic film. It's sublime.
@@KingMertel exactly. I remember this vividly from Sentinels of the Starry Skies, which I don’t know if I will still like more than DQ11 after I beat it. Both games are absolutely amazing in their own way
@@jdhathrisenI dunno if 12 is gonna be good, from interviews and stuff they’re changing the formula to more “action” it’ll be more “mature” I think it’ll divide the fanbase much like how ff is divided now. 11 was such a swan song if you think about it in terms of throwbacks and references and that it basically loops back to the original trilogy. 12 might be good but I’ll divide fans
played this and 8 throughout the hardest time of my life. was going through a lot physically and mentally. this song brings me to tears and dragon quest will always have a special place deep in my heart
I know what you mean, dragon quest 11 was such a great friend at the time I played it, amazing game. One of the best RPGs I’ve ever played, one of the best games in general!! It was as close to perfect as an rpg can get. Everything was done right. And it was there for me too when dealing with some terrible mental/physical stuff as well. I have such a fondness when looking back on it, so strange isn’t it!
@@CenturianEagleyes for sure! i totally feel this! amazing how it can bring comfort to so many people! a truly fascinating game. so thankful i randomly bought it back then. great times for sure. hope you are doing better!
@@444WORLD oh you just randomly bought it? You weren’t a fan of dragon quest before then? You should play some other dragon quests then too! Dragon quest 8 for ps2 or 3ds was great and dragon quest 6 for ds was great too for the ds/snes/mobile. They’re all good of course- but I just chose those two because they have a similar charm, but they all have that great charm to some degree! Dragon quest builders 1&2 are also really fun. Yes I’m doing better thank you for asking! I actually was beginning to do better when starting that game but I needed time to stay home and heal at that time and that game was there for me at a time when I was just staying home pretty much 24/7, I wish I could forget the game and play it again! I hope you are doing better too?
@@-Blooment- Voicing is a technical term for the placement of the notes in a melodic line and/or the instruments used to express the melody in a piece of music. Also, you can just say flute…these days, transverse is assumed unless you specific otherwise.
Ocean themes in dq always bring tears to my eyes, they sound so powerful and grand. The suspenseful leap between the dissonant climax and resolution is so well done. Love Koichi Sugiyama
I am so glad they reused this theme albeit with a little bit of a new touch in some parts but with the same nostalgic feel from Dragon Quest 4 and 9 ! My god this theme never disappoints !
This is so... wow. This is the most sweeping, grandest, most romantic, most emotionally-charged piece. It would fit as the perfect love theme from an epic tale of struggle and war and loss and ultimate redemption. And yet, it's just the boat music from Dragon Quest XI.
But it's not just the music for sea travel. You see, the overworld music of this game is mean to tie the whole story together. It tells you how you should feel as you travel the world and connects the dots of your adventures together into one cohesive storyline. The overland music is perhaps the most important for this reason: it isn't just telling you the story of you traveling the waves, it's the guiding hand of the entire game that unifies it into a singular vision of your adventure. It captures the highs and lows and mystery and romance and fear and glory of it ALL. So you're right, it is in fact telling that story of struggle and battle and ultimate redemption! It very much intends to tell that story rather than merely a story about you happening to be traveling by boat. For, why are you on the boat in the first place? Well because YOU MUST get on the boat in order to progress upon your adventure and fulfill your destiny! And so the boat is a vehicle in more than one way, yes it's a vehicle in the mundane sense that it transports you physically to and fro, but the boat is also serving the purpose of propelling you forward in your adventure and your moments of travel whether on boat or by foot or horse in this game, serve as something like what you call a "leit motif" that repeats itself and consolidates the emotions of your journey thus far. It immerses you into the world in such a way that the adventures you have gone on in the game start to take on real and true emotion as if you have truly done those things and you're there with the adventuring party yourself. If you remember one thing about music in your life, remember this: "traveling music is never JUST traveling music". Music is always communicating something to you about where you are, who you are, why you are, and where you want to go. The very act of creating music is of trying to capture lightning in a bottle where in the case of humans, the lightning is our sense of meaning and perception of reality itself. :)
@@Calix64DJ Yeah those parts are really cool but the part at 1:52 sounds like something you hear when do you say how did you figure out like your identity or something on the French horns do that thing where you become suspicious and then the ship theme comes back
@@pizzahut8482 That’s a really cool part to with the French horns there that part reminds me of when you first become suspicious and then all of a sudden the beginning of the song comes back
Prior to this I had never heard the whole piece of music as it was move for 5 seconds, get attacked, the music starts again move for 5 seconds, get attacked. Bah! A wonderful piece of music now I have heard it in its entirety!!
I bought the definitive edition so I can replay this game with all the fully orchestrated music included. It’s so much better this way compared to my first play through. The flying whale intro literally brought me to tears the first time I heard it in orchestrated version!.
I absolutely love this style of music. It just has that beautiful feeling that you would only get from a professional concert. I know it's from a live concert, but it's just so wonderful to listen to. :)
Damn, Sylvando’s got some really sweet sailing music. Doesn’t fit too well with the name of his ship, but it’s hard to care with how great this sounds.
Dragon Quest XI was a wierd game for me to get into. The only reason I did was due to the series being represented in Smash Bros. It was 2019 and I was living with my best friend's family at the time and was playing this game constantly when it released on Switch. When my friend and I were home alone, we'd play games in the living room since there was speakers all around for surround sound and a much bigger TV. I was home alone by myself and about 10 hours into the game, playing in the living room. I go to the ocean within the game for the first time and hear this incredible piece of music surrounding me. I stopped playing for a few minutes and just listened... absorbing how beautiful it sounded. It was moments like this that got me into exploring other entries in the Dragon Quest series.
I legit cried to this game at the beginning when the hero learns of his past and his foster father tells him the truth. It's such a classic story/archetypal hero's journey...but it was told SO well.
I just got to the ship in the game. This theme pops up, i feel like I've Heard it my whole life. I'm 44. I need to know why I knew this theme even if it my first ever DQ game
this song is my absolute favourite symphonic style, i cannot wait to play 4 when i am able to, preferably there is a version that is like the dq3 remake, after playing the remake of 1 and 2 then starting 3, the art style is incredible especially considering how the originals look, i started that shit up and before even fighting ANYTHING i knew i was going to love it
Didn't think it would play when I got on the boat because the music changes around so damn much because of the chapters haha But the chills came right on through oh my lord
Love the game personally i have both dragon quest 8 and 11 as my favorite of all time. The music is amazingly done. Beautiful piece of art. All hail the kingdom of Trodain and the never forgotten kingdom of Dundrasil 👐
Oh so this was from the DQ4?. Little did I know! I thought they were trying to replicate the greatness of the DQ8 ship theme. This game has so many songs from past DQs. Is that a normal thing in every DQ?
For reference, this is the same orchestration as the 1991 sound track for DQ4 - th-cam.com/video/oVS7hcuqY1E/w-d-xo.html - can you spot the differences?
No cap, this game was super shallow plot-wise and just felt like it kept adding shitty tropes when it ran out of plot (almost immediately), but some of the music was phenomenal.
I mean it's just simple fairy tale-esque scenarios under the umbrella of a "defeat the demon" plot like most of the DQs. It's always been more about the execution of the concepts than anything else. Don't know what "running out of plot" is really supposed to mean.
Now you're being a jerk. I liked the drama of a hero being treated like a villain by an evil king, besides the Act 2 as a whole. It helps that both games' endings are good, ending with the true villain dead and the hero alive. And the characters are charming. Especially Erik, Serena, Sylvando and Jade.
@@geekdaparaiba nah, that shit was trash. It was super flaky. It did the whole 'kid from an small village' trope and then followed that with dumbfuck story where there is absolute bad/good. I think plots should be a bit better than that, people are more complex and it just makes it super cartoonish/boring/unbelievable. But some of the music was nice, they do a good job at creating some cozy music. But other than that, it was a heap or garbage.
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How to make sailing tolerable:
Step 1:
I just buy plenty of Holy Water
Step 2：Dragon Quest VI - Ocean Waves
Step 3：Dragon Quest V The ocean
Why tf did they make the most godly track of the game and literally cut out of it every 10 secs to fight
That's why I just park the ship for a few minutes and kick back.
@@Masckerdoomexactly.
I remember getting onto the sea for the first time, and that wall of sound hit me. Legit sat there mesmerized for 10 solid minutes while the music washed over me. One of my favourite video game songs of all time. Easily
It happened to me too!
@@pont1695 it really is beautiful
Beautiful music, only to soon be interrupted by monsters.
@@PLASBEZ not if you are stuck in place listening to it lol
SAME! Sugiyama surely was...strange as a person, but he definitely knew how to write a gut-punchingly fantastic song. I'll never forget that moment.
This game is my first proper foray into the DQ series. I haven't quite finished the game, but I have definitely fallen in love with it. The world, the characters, the music, all of it. It's truly terrific. This music almost took my breath away the first time I heard it. The way it swells, the sweeping melody make it sound like some romantic moment from an epic film. It's sublime.
Welcome to the Dragon Quest series! So glad you discovered it!
I only played DQ9 but always check out the music of new releases.
Just can't get enough of these beautiful pieces of art.
@@KingMertel The music in all the Dragon Quest games is fantastic.
@@KingMertel exactly. I remember this vividly from Sentinels of the Starry Skies, which I don’t know if I will still like more than DQ11 after I beat it. Both games are absolutely amazing in their own way
Most of the soundtrack is recycled from other Dragon Quest games, but still worth it.
this song is such a legend that they featured it in multiple DQ titles... damn. i first heard it in DQ9 and no other sea theme compares
Rest in peace toriyama 💔🕊️
First Sugiyama, now him. Two of the three that you could argue created the series. I think XII will be Horii's last. But oh, what a game it will be.
@@jdhathrisenI dunno if 12 is gonna be good, from interviews and stuff they’re changing the formula to more “action” it’ll be more “mature” I think it’ll divide the fanbase much like how ff is divided now. 11 was such a swan song if you think about it in terms of throwbacks and references and that it basically loops back to the original trilogy. 12 might be good but I’ll divide fans
He has nothing to do with the music. Stop farming for likes.
@NotCharAznable ??? When did I say that? I say that because of his involvement in dragon quest, don’t piss me the fuck off
@@pkmemes01woah scary guy
played this and 8 throughout the hardest time of my life. was going through a lot physically and mentally. this song brings me to tears and dragon quest will always have a special place deep in my heart
I know what you mean, dragon quest 11 was such a great friend at the time I played it, amazing game. One of the best RPGs I’ve ever played, one of the best games in general!! It was as close to perfect as an rpg can get. Everything was done right. And it was there for me too when dealing with some terrible mental/physical stuff as well. I have such a fondness when looking back on it, so strange isn’t it!
@@CenturianEagleyes for sure! i totally feel this! amazing how it can bring comfort to so many people! a truly fascinating game. so thankful i randomly bought it back then. great times for sure. hope you are doing better!
@@444WORLD oh you just randomly bought it? You weren’t a fan of dragon quest before then? You should play some other dragon quests then too! Dragon quest 8 for ps2 or 3ds was great and dragon quest 6 for ds was great too for the ds/snes/mobile. They’re all good of course- but I just chose those two because they have a similar charm, but they all have that great charm to some degree! Dragon quest builders 1&2 are also really fun. Yes I’m doing better thank you for asking! I actually was beginning to do better when starting that game but I needed time to stay home and heal at that time and that game was there for me at a time when I was just staying home pretty much 24/7, I wish I could forget the game and play it again! I hope you are doing better too?
this song has no right being this fucking gorgeous. 1:39 consistently makes my jaw drop, such a pretty voicing
If you like that sounds, you should check Maya or Hypnosis, by Ian Clarke. Btw, is not a voice, it is a transverse flute.
@@-Blooment- Voicing is a technical term for the placement of the notes in a melodic line and/or the instruments used to express the melody in a piece of music. Also, you can just say flute…these days, transverse is assumed unless you specific otherwise.
This song gives me chills every time I hear it. The music swelling is just immaculate
God, the opening swell just sends shivers down my spine.
Ocean themes in dq always bring tears to my eyes, they sound so powerful and grand. The suspenseful leap between the dissonant climax and resolution is so well done. Love Koichi Sugiyama
Until you encounter an enemy (ruined the moment)
I am so glad they reused this theme albeit with a little bit of a new touch in some parts but with the
same nostalgic feel from Dragon Quest 4 and 9 !
My god this theme never disappoints !
This is so... wow. This is the most sweeping, grandest, most romantic, most emotionally-charged piece. It would fit as the perfect love theme from an epic tale of struggle and war and loss and ultimate redemption. And yet, it's just the boat music from Dragon Quest XI.
But it's not just the music for sea travel. You see, the overworld music of this game is mean to tie the whole story together. It tells you how you should feel as you travel the world and connects the dots of your adventures together into one cohesive storyline. The overland music is perhaps the most important for this reason: it isn't just telling you the story of you traveling the waves, it's the guiding hand of the entire game that unifies it into a singular vision of your adventure. It captures the highs and lows and mystery and romance and fear and glory of it ALL.
So you're right, it is in fact telling that story of struggle and battle and ultimate redemption! It very much intends to tell that story rather than merely a story about you happening to be traveling by boat. For, why are you on the boat in the first place? Well because YOU MUST get on the boat in order to progress upon your adventure and fulfill your destiny! And so the boat is a vehicle in more than one way, yes it's a vehicle in the mundane sense that it transports you physically to and fro, but the boat is also serving the purpose of propelling you forward in your adventure and your moments of travel whether on boat or by foot or horse in this game, serve as something like what you call a "leit motif" that repeats itself and consolidates the emotions of your journey thus far. It immerses you into the world in such a way that the adventures you have gone on in the game start to take on real and true emotion as if you have truly done those things and you're there with the adventuring party yourself.
If you remember one thing about music in your life, remember this: "traveling music is never JUST traveling music". Music is always communicating something to you about where you are, who you are, why you are, and where you want to go. The very act of creating music is of trying to capture lightning in a bottle where in the case of humans, the lightning is our sense of meaning and perception of reality itself. :)
1:52 always the best part I love this music
For me it’s 1:06 but I can’t lie 1:52 is pretty freaking good too
@@Calix64DJ
Yeah those parts are really cool but the part at 1:52 sounds like something you hear when do you say how did you figure out like your identity or something on the French horns do that thing where you become suspicious and then the ship theme comes back
2:15 is where it gets really good
@@pizzahut8482
That’s a really cool part to with the French horns there that part reminds me of when you first become suspicious and then all of a sudden the beginning of the song comes back
Naaaah
In a couple more years this song will be a blast of nostalgia. I’m just saying, I wouldn’t be disappointed if in maybe a decade they remastered this 😏
...this is from DQ4, released in 1990.
@@jasonk1609 He was being sarcastic, hence the emoji.
@@jasonk1609 whoooooosh and the joke flew right over your head!
@@NIDAK52 or Swoosh
@@heroponoflegend3326 that's just your assumption lmao
1:07 Man, this is so freaking beautiful.
Rip Koichi Sugiyama 😭
finished the game like 4 weeks ago, by far my favorite theme
Fr??? And the fly theme???
Prior to this I had never heard the whole piece of music as it was move for 5 seconds, get attacked, the music starts again move for 5 seconds, get attacked. Bah! A wonderful piece of music now I have heard it in its entirety!!
Welcome aboard the Salty Stallion.
I bought the definitive edition so I can replay this game with all the fully orchestrated music included. It’s so much better this way compared to my first play through. The flying whale intro literally brought me to tears the first time I heard it in orchestrated version!.
This is the “Going to and from Slime Island to grind early-game” music
I love this theme
I absolutely love this style of music. It just has that beautiful feeling that you would only get from a professional concert. I know it's from a live concert, but it's just so wonderful to listen to. :)
Thank you for uploading this! It's the first I could find that wasn't extended to 20 minutes.
Damn, Sylvando’s got some really sweet sailing music. Doesn’t fit too well with the name of his ship, but it’s hard to care with how great this sounds.
That's not Sylvando's song. He stole it from Dragon Quest IV.
@@geekdaparaiba Well, he IS sort of a pirate after all, eh?
@@geekdaparaiba Surprised IV didnt copyright sylv
Dragon Quest XI was a wierd game for me to get into. The only reason I did was due to the series being represented in Smash Bros.
It was 2019 and I was living with my best friend's family at the time and was playing this game constantly when it released on Switch. When my friend and I were home alone, we'd play games in the living room since there was speakers all around for surround sound and a much bigger TV. I was home alone by myself and about 10 hours into the game, playing in the living room.
I go to the ocean within the game for the first time and hear this incredible piece of music surrounding me. I stopped playing for a few minutes and just listened... absorbing how beautiful it sounded. It was moments like this that got me into exploring other entries in the Dragon Quest series.
I legit cried to this game at the beginning when the hero learns of his past and his foster father tells him the truth. It's such a classic story/archetypal hero's journey...but it was told SO well.
What a legendary theme song
I just got to the ship in the game. This theme pops up, i feel like I've Heard it my whole life. I'm 44. I need to know why I knew this theme even if it my first ever DQ game
Its clearly heavily influenced by western classical music. The grand sweeping melodies are reminiscent of Tchaikovsky
For some reason, this made me think about stageplays that include ancient Greek sea voyage scenes.
this song gives me chills each time i hear it. sometimes i even tear up jkfcefowiefwej its so beautiful, earworms fr 😭😭
this song is my absolute favourite symphonic style, i cannot wait to play 4 when i am able to, preferably there is a version that is like the dq3 remake, after playing the remake of 1 and 2 then starting 3, the art style is incredible especially considering how the originals look, i started that shit up and before even fighting ANYTHING i knew i was going to love it
Didn't think it would play when I got on the boat because the music changes around so damn much because of the chapters haha
But the chills came right on through oh my lord
Love the game personally i have both dragon quest 8 and 11 as my favorite of all time. The music is amazingly done. Beautiful piece of art. All hail the kingdom of Trodain and the never forgotten kingdom of Dundrasil 👐
この曲好きすぎるなあ
Game is a masterpiece
The beginning part just gives me the chills
Hearing this for the first time froze me for a moment; the ost was good, yes, but my god this one told me "yeah, this shit is GOOD".
I LOVE THIS PART OF THE OST 🤩🤩🤩
This just reminds me of Dragon quest IX when Stella's giving you the 'Sailing 101' qnd you're just like "FOR GOD'S SAKE STELLA I GET THE GIST"
1:06 🥲
If you like this track give a try to Sheherazade by Rimski-Korsakov
intro moves me to tears
that opening into the drumroll was OOOF
Holy mother of god
GOD DAMN MERMEN LEAVE ME ALONE
I'M TRYING TO GET THROUGH THE DANG VALOR-SAUSAGE CHANNEL
i think they took inspiration from claire de lune it is the same chord progression in several areas and it is beautiful.
They used this from Dragon Quest 4.
So?
This track is godly
Reminds me of a mix of Tom and Jerry cartoon and Disney all at the same time.
Oh so this was from the DQ4?. Little did I know! I thought they were trying to replicate the greatness of the DQ8 ship theme. This game has so many songs from past DQs. Is that a normal thing in every DQ?
Yes my friend, it is. Dragon Quest is a beautiful series.
1:51
3015 Dimitri Street
I really want to go swimming with Serena Please!
Mans is down bad
This game made me quit me playing any switch Pokemon game
THE ONE PIECE IS REEALL
😮💨😍🤪🤪🤪
For reference, this is the same orchestration as the 1991 sound track for DQ4 - th-cam.com/video/oVS7hcuqY1E/w-d-xo.html - can you spot the differences?
Doesn't this sound like that one song from Beautiful Katamari or Katamari Forever?
Xenoblade 3 cadensia
dq 8 best version not this one
I bet 8 was the first one you played.
@@stevenuss1482 i played 1 2 3 6 8 9 and 11 thank u
Ok.
No cap, this game was super shallow plot-wise and just felt like it kept adding shitty tropes when it ran out of plot (almost immediately), but some of the music was phenomenal.
I mean it's just simple fairy tale-esque scenarios under the umbrella of a "defeat the demon" plot like most of the DQs. It's always been more about the execution of the concepts than anything else. Don't know what "running out of plot" is really supposed to mean.
L
Now you're being a jerk. I liked the drama of a hero being treated like a villain by an evil king, besides the Act 2 as a whole. It helps that both games' endings are good, ending with the true villain dead and the hero alive.
And the characters are charming. Especially Erik, Serena, Sylvando and Jade.
@@geekdaparaiba nah, that shit was trash. It was super flaky. It did the whole 'kid from an small village' trope and then followed that with dumbfuck story where there is absolute bad/good. I think plots should be a bit better than that, people are more complex and it just makes it super cartoonish/boring/unbelievable. But some of the music was nice, they do a good job at creating some cozy music. But other than that, it was a heap or garbage.
@@mmhmm9021 you miss the whole point of DQ games
1:06