"For my part, I’ve subjected my totality to much and more. I’ve made my body into an extension of a tower. Blended my soul and memories with those of another self. And each time, I would ask myself: what is it that makes me, _me_ ?" "Were you able to determine an answer?" "...No. But that doesn't mean I'm confused. It simply means I'm the same as everyone else."
@AntChodeny Sephiroth is an incoherently insane mommy's boy with god delusions who entirely wasted his potential with his weird obsessions. He doesn't do anything or fight for anyone other than himself. Emet-Selch would find him insufferable.
People keep saying that "Answers" is Venat saying "I'm sorry" and that "Flow" is her saying "Thank You" but this, I feel like "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" is her encouraging us to push forward.
It's a song for Emet-selch, sung by Venat. Remember that Emet-selch walks with hunched back, thanks to his constant sulking and depression. "Stand tall, my friend."
@@johnzkeePW this here is the perfect explanation. looking at this song through this lens, the stand tall analogy not even being the teh core, fits with the burden Venat knew Emet-selch would carry. lets not forget that Venat heard the story of his fall from grace. This is her telling him that they (the ancients) will be remembered.
Those words (and this song in general) had such a profound effect on me that I actually had a custom-made license plate frame with "Stand Tall My Friend" engraved on it. 🥲
Stay strong. Keep the faith. At duty's end, we will meet again. We will. _We will._ The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it...
Goodbye Shadowbringers, You were the best expansion to date, and quite possibly the best Final Fantasy in years. top five of all for sure. Onward to Endwalker
@@alchemi8085 the singer of Flow, Amanda Achen, posted a video of herself recording the song. The video and her replies to comments had me SOBBING. She said she sang the song for all of us Warriors of Light.
What gets me more than anything in this expansion is G'raha's sacrifice at the end of 5.3. I feel like so many people don't understand the significance of it. G'raha put his soul and his memories in the blood-infused crystal so he could join us in the Source. But in that moment, G'raha said "With you my mind and memories shall travel to the ends of the world and beyond," but he didn't mention his soul. If he had put his soul in the crystal, his body would have collapsed like what happened to the Scions. And when he put his "mind and memory" into the crystal, did he look confused and forget what he was doing? No, which means he still HAD his memories; what he put into the crystal was merely a copy of them. It's a bit open-ended whether the crystal received his soul after he died, or if the G'raha of the source just got that impression. When separated from memory, how does one recognize a soul, even their own? It feels like G'raha of the First (or Future G'raha) gave his life, a unique consciousness coming to an end, yet smiled knowing that a piece of him would continue to help us always. Maybe it's because the concepts of SOMA stuck with me, but that's the impression I get from that scene.
Yeah, makes sense. That's probably why, despite having Future!G'raha's memories, Present!G'raha seems more like the familiar G'raha from the Crystal Tower arc.
I'm not too sure about that. I believe that they do mention that g'raha's soul is denser than everyone else in the source's souls as if he still did live through the 8th calamity. Though I do believe that he was very uncertain about if his soul would be able to be transfered in the first place considering that unlike the other scions, they were trying to put his soul into a body that already had a weaker version of that same soul in it. So as far as he knew, it was entirely possible that they would transfer his mind and memories, but his current soul would be rejected by his younger body, or even that the two copies of his soul would end up destroying each other, turning his body in the source into a husk with his new memories but no soul at all anymore. So from his perspective, there were no guarantees that his soul would survive the process of transferring between worlds, and it might as well be a death sentence. But the slim chance that it might work and he could return to the source with the friends that he devoted centuries to protect was worth the risk.
@@Adu767 I'm pretty sure I remember G'raha saying this in very early/pre endwalker when he was describing how he is doing after joining the scions. And he describes the effects of how his body responded to the crystal and even described it being similar to how we fused with ardbert because of something along the lines of "similar souls resonate with each other"
I used this song along with the piano version for my mother's memorial video this month. On one hand I'm so glad I did because all we did was listen to FF 14 music while I sat with her alone for her final hours but in the same breathe iys made it very difficult to play again yet. Thank you for uploading this I'm probably half of views ATM! ❤❤
My oldest and first best friend died from depression recently, and this song so perfectly embodies a lot of the thoughts and feelings I have about him now, I’ve come to associate this song with him very heavily - when the last chorus comes in as triumphantly as it does, it really makes me feel better, despite it all.
"If I were to tell you that this isn't the end, that we will meet again, would you believe me?" "'Tis good to see you awake, G'raha Tia." "Well... 'Tis good to be awake."
I think both of them are amazing and as much as I prefer Endwalker Shadowbringers is also amazing and the closest thing 14 has to a standalone expansion
idk, endwalker probably would have been cool and all, but it copies shadowbringers in a worse way while fundamentally misunderstanding what made it good, so I wouldn't call it "great" myself. Spoilers, naturally: The first half was... decent, but worse than the better half of stormblood imo. Could have been better, sure, but it held up enough that I wasn't outright bored when playing through it. As I'll talk about later in the paragraph, the tactic of "look, it's the place you've only heard about until now! haven't you wanted to go here the entire time? isn't it so cool?" wasn't the greatest. But then the start of the second half kinda just ripped away all of the magic of shadowbringers by repeating one of the oldest and most prevalent mistakes of storytelling. People often say to "show and not tell", but that only applies sometimes, because nothing you can ever make can surpass imagination. Naturally, elpis was far inferior to what I imagined the unsundered world looked like based on Emet-Selch's recreation of it from memory. The whole storyline there felt awfully contrived, too. They break the time travel rules established in ShB, have you mess around for a while, the extra-super-duper contrived memory erasure thing happens, and then Hydaelyn herself shows up to say exactly how and why she sundered everything in a moment that frankly would have been better shown and not told but would have been even better if it was left out completely. The intermission was fairly solid, and about half of the ending was too (the soundtrack carried it, I just wish it went back to the instrumental version post msq, and that they didn't just say "oh, don't worry about transportation, the ship is quantum superpositioned or whatever" as an excuse for you to go back there alongside a lopporitt). My problems with the finale is that I could physically feel my suspension of disbelief straining with most of it (save for the dragon island and g'raha's sacrifice), and also the disappointment upon realizing it was just the shadowbringers finale but like a second time with a different coat of paint. Because of all that, it's my least favorite expansion by far.
After having gone through Shadowbringers for the first time recently, I now know what everyone's comments meant when they say they wish they could relive it again for the first time. Not purely for the story alone, but experiencing the music along with it. I've had goosebumps throughout many parts of the game especially the first time I've gone through the previous expansions, but none have given me the feels quite like Shadowbringers has all throughout the entire story, especially when I think about how the music coincides with the story.. This song always gets me, especially the “Stand tall, my friend” part. I get the chills everytime even if I'm just standing in Crystarium and listening.
Thank you, Shadowbringers. For all the feels and fun you gave to me. And good luck, Endwalker. I'm looking forward to you, but the bar is set pretty high.
@@ReveredDead Shadowbringers is still peak, though Endwalker was a fantastic send-off and I loved it. And Dawntrail was pretty enjoyable for me as well. Wasn't expecting it to surpass what came before, and it didn't, but it was a fun little adventure.
I love how through the amazing trailer we had a full song with both components and then each part I’d their own song “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” and “Who Brings Shadow”. Haven’t gotten into Endwalker yet but for me Shadowbringers is amazing
This is the final song I want played at my funeral, so that I may not be remembered through sadness, but through hope for a future for those I care about.
Just replayed this in new game + and it still got me just as much as it did the first time round. Who knew a beautifully paced and beautifully written story could be found in an MMO❤️
I haven’t used new game plus yet. Is it essentially just a whole new play through? I’m just worried that stuff will be missing from my original Playthrough.
@@ReveredDead i think it is the exact same as playing it for the first time, the only things different is that any achievements you've unlocked (like flying and aetherytes) are kept, you play the game at your current job level, and you don't get any rewards from the quests. so it's just playing shb but a little easier and quicker
I have loved FF since I was a kid but was never into MMO games. I seen a comment somewhere which compared Shadowbringers to be best stories from FF. This made me buy 14, they were absolutely right. Endwalker is a perfect ending to the story but Shadowbringers for me was peak plot
As someone who's only played up to the end of the Shadowbringers post-patch content, this is probably my favourite song in the game lyrically (not that the arrangement isn't also breathtaking). After the first negative portion, the shift with the male choir over the positive lyrics was enough to make me tear up at the end of ShB's main story, but learning the words afterwards really cemented the piece in my mind. It's this gorgeous message from what feels like all the ancients to... well, every person to come, but especially Emet Selch. A plea to live on and remember these beautiful souls, instead of letting their grief and darkness drive them. And a reminder that, in this world, all the souls to fall will live on. If my interpretation is right, it sounds like the ancients were every bit the incredible people Emet-Selch insists they were. It's just tragic the words never got through to him and his. "...In the chorus, the fallen could rise once more. For none are dead whose names yet echo in the heavens, and the song would not end until the last voice fell silent. Heroes and villains, sinners and saints - all would live again..."
@@timothytregeagle9323 Natsuko Ishikawa came up with the concept behind the lyrics, and Michael Christopher Koji Fox wrote them, while Masayoshi Soken wrote the music and the others didn't know about his cancer yet. Also remember that this song came out with Shadowbringers, 9 months before 5.3 when To The Edge, the song Soken wrote while in the hospital, was released. While writing Tomorrow and Tomorrow Soken might not have even known yet that he had cancer.
Play this on any graduation day and all of you will always be remember that no matter how hard the life is, stand tall and face the tomorrow with renewed spirits.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Not reached Endwalkers yet, it's been a long time since through music and story a game has made me ugly cry I have a feeling Endwalkers will equally tug on my heartstrings.
This games music never ceaces to amaze me! and experience it in the game gives me chills every time, even makes me cry. what a phenomenal video game with so grandiose and emotionally hard hitting pieces of music!
“May all the dark lost inside you find light again” I just realized depending on how you interpret this song it could told to Emet-Selch, telling him it’s okay, he doesn’t need to bring them back he just needs to remember, or to the WoL telling them to stay strong and keep going. Goddamn Shadowbringers
listen flow is good and all but tomorrow and tomorrow will always come back to punch me in the face and decimate me like the tank just cleaved the party or something
1:52 oh fuck off. Just finished Endwalker and listening to all the songs for all the expansions so far the layers of foreshadowing in certain lines just kills me. I thought Answer was mind expanding and then THIS hits me.
Thank you for posting this! I absolutely love this song and looked this up just so I knew which Orchestrion Roll to buy, LOL. This is such a beautiful song, and adding it to Shadowbringers just makes that whole expansion even more emotional. So heartbreaking, but still my favorite XIV expansion!
"Remember us...remember that we once lived." Fucking hell this expansion still has a hold on my heart. I wish I could experience for the first time again.
So crazy that Amandas sang this all the way back in shadowbringers. Now here she is the main female lead for the game having her own kick ass part in the Dawntrail trialer
Need someone to make a quiz for EW with the whole XIV story so far. It might be good to look back on the stuff that has established throughout the years.
I'm still annoyed at G'raha for his final decision as Exarch. If I was about to let my body freeze into crystal for the rest of eternity, I'd at *least* pick a cool pose.
@@WolfBBlack Sadly, I think /flex would be prone to falling over and shattering. However, if we're going by Diamond Dust (Step On Me) rules, he should definitely have timed a /backflip for the right moment. Let future generations figure THAT bull$#!t out. :P
Great composition but the English is definitely forced. Very few Japanese composed songs sound right in English. Best I've ever heard was Xenogear's Small of Two Pieces and the ff9 track was done surprisingly well.
The lyrics were written by American native English speaker, Michael-Christopher Koji Fox [Natsuko Ishikawa but I fail to see the relevance ] as well as , who's also written most if not all the FFXIV English vocal themes. Idk what you mean by forced as the lyrics are well written than the "Engrish" you seem to imply that it is.
Lol Here comes the FF 14 cult. I swear to fucking god. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. I meant that the rhythm does not flow naturally, not the actual English used. I've been listening, making, and analyzing jpop,jrock, western music for a long as time, and anyone who is worst their salt can tell you that very rarely does Japanese carry into English rhymically well and vice versa. But you guys are obsessed with FF14 so that tells me how much you are willing to delude yourself from observational facts.
@@trollingisasport if you weren't clear, then you need to take responsibility for that. Calling people as being part of a ffxiv cult when the response was to your unclear comment is unnecessarily aggressive. To me, this isn't the most perfect song, but the melody is good enough as well as the lyrics. Telling us your background in music production doesn't mean anything other than "trust me bro" credentials. It also doesn't mean you're a good one. At the end of the day it's a matter of opinion and taste and berating someone else's taste in music because you don't like it based on your "observational facts" make you look like a pompous asshole who's full of yourself. THAT is an observational fact.
This song will never not make me cry. Hell tbh all the songs from shadowbringers to end Walker make me cry. How is Souken capable of evoking such emotion through his music? 🥲
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The rains have ceased, and we have been blessed with another beautiful day... but you are not here to see it.
This line kills me everysingle time without fail
😭😭😭
"Tis good to see you awake, G'raha Tia..."
Thank you, tis good to be awake.
DONT 😭😭😭
I cry evrytiem 😭
First time G'raha heard his name in 300 years.
@@vikkran401 second! if you choose to call out to him after Vauthry's death
When the choir comes in with the "stand tall my friend" i always get goosebumps
Same, along with that gentle feeling of choking back a sob. Likei can't sing it aloud without breaking a bit.
This and Ahm Arang during the day were the best.
just reading "stand tall my friend" makes me wanna explode into tears
"For my part, I’ve subjected my totality to much and more. I’ve made my body into an extension of a tower. Blended my soul and memories with those of another self. And each time, I would ask myself: what is it that makes me, _me_ ?"
"Were you able to determine an answer?"
"...No. But that doesn't mean I'm confused. It simply means I'm the same as everyone else."
Sephiroth: I will never be a memory
Emet Selch: I want to be a memory
@AntChodeny /snap Emet wins we all go back to our regularly scheduled program.
@AntChodeny Sephiroth is an incoherently insane mommy's boy with god delusions who entirely wasted his potential with his weird obsessions. He doesn't do anything or fight for anyone other than himself.
Emet-Selch would find him insufferable.
@@etchyasketch2851 I just snorted xD
He doesn't want to be remembered; he just doesn't want his people and their struggles to be forgotten.
@@zephyr8072 Reminds me of Zenos
“So I urge you not to give up. Heed your heart’s desire, and hope that the future you long for shall be realized.” G’raha Tia
Why is a catboy trying to cure my existential crisis and self-doubt?
This always hits hard
Damnit this quote bever fails to make me tear up I hat e
I truly wish I could erase all my memories of Shadowbringers and experience it fresh one more time
Alright, let's get Kairos then.
don't we all? xD i really wanna erase my memories and rewatch SHB and EW T_T
But then you'd break your promise to Emet lol
But that would break our promise. We have to remember. For him.
I just finished it for my first time and jeeesus, I was not even remotely emotionally prepared
People keep saying that "Answers" is Venat saying "I'm sorry"
and that "Flow" is her saying "Thank You"
but this, I feel like "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" is her encouraging us to push forward.
It's a song for Emet-selch, sung by Venat.
Remember that Emet-selch walks with hunched back, thanks to his constant sulking and depression.
"Stand tall, my friend."
@@johnzkeePW this here is the perfect explanation. looking at this song through this lens, the stand tall analogy not even being the teh core, fits with the burden Venat knew Emet-selch would carry. lets not forget that Venat heard the story of his fall from grace. This is her telling him that they (the ancients) will be remembered.
@@johnzkeePW this made me teary again
Seeing this interpretation makes me cry harder.
@@johnzkeePW "May all of the darkness inside you find light again" If this doesn't scream Emet-Selch's plight then I don't know.
Stand tall, my friend.
Words that can heal an aching heart.
Those words (and this song in general) had such a profound effect on me that I actually had a custom-made license plate frame with "Stand Tall My Friend" engraved on it. 🥲
Stay strong. Keep the faith. At duty's end, we will meet again. We will. _We will._
The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it...
Goodbye Shadowbringers, You were the best expansion to date, and quite possibly the best Final Fantasy in years. top five of all for sure. Onward to Endwalker
Who could possibly believe that EW would top all others?
I actually had the same idea till endwalker, so good :O
@@drinibrasco agreed, although shadowbringers soundtrack was way better than endwalker which is a shame. Although Amanda's songs were breathtaking.
@@drinibrasco while EW was amazing and i enjoyed it immensly, got dehydrated in the process , for me shb was still better
@@drinibrasco I thought both Endwalker and Shadowbringers are on equal level. Both gave me a lot of visceral reactions.
Anyone else even MORE emotional hearing this song post-Endwalker?? Damn you, Onion Ninjas...
This and Flow will never not make my eyes water.
@@alchemi8085 the singer of Flow, Amanda Achen, posted a video of herself recording the song. The video and her replies to comments had me SOBBING. She said she sang the song for all of us Warriors of Light.
@@alchemi8085 For sure and flow aswell
@@shannonsmith1589 link to that video?
With the context given to Emet-Selch's actions in Elpis, it really adds further tragedy to "Remember us. Remember... that we once lived."
What gets me more than anything in this expansion is G'raha's sacrifice at the end of 5.3. I feel like so many people don't understand the significance of it.
G'raha put his soul and his memories in the blood-infused crystal so he could join us in the Source. But in that moment, G'raha said "With you my mind and memories shall travel to the ends of the world and beyond," but he didn't mention his soul. If he had put his soul in the crystal, his body would have collapsed like what happened to the Scions. And when he put his "mind and memory" into the crystal, did he look confused and forget what he was doing? No, which means he still HAD his memories; what he put into the crystal was merely a copy of them. It's a bit open-ended whether the crystal received his soul after he died, or if the G'raha of the source just got that impression. When separated from memory, how does one recognize a soul, even their own? It feels like G'raha of the First (or Future G'raha) gave his life, a unique consciousness coming to an end, yet smiled knowing that a piece of him would continue to help us always.
Maybe it's because the concepts of SOMA stuck with me, but that's the impression I get from that scene.
I think that's true. The G'raha on the source is his younger self and already has a soul in his body, right?
Yeah, makes sense. That's probably why, despite having Future!G'raha's memories, Present!G'raha seems more like the familiar G'raha from the Crystal Tower arc.
I'm not too sure about that. I believe that they do mention that g'raha's soul is denser than everyone else in the source's souls as if he still did live through the 8th calamity. Though I do believe that he was very uncertain about if his soul would be able to be transfered in the first place considering that unlike the other scions, they were trying to put his soul into a body that already had a weaker version of that same soul in it. So as far as he knew, it was entirely possible that they would transfer his mind and memories, but his current soul would be rejected by his younger body, or even that the two copies of his soul would end up destroying each other, turning his body in the source into a husk with his new memories but no soul at all anymore. So from his perspective, there were no guarantees that his soul would survive the process of transferring between worlds, and it might as well be a death sentence. But the slim chance that it might work and he could return to the source with the friends that he devoted centuries to protect was worth the risk.
@@althelor The one who commented on the density of his soul was Elidibus, and that was to the Crystal Exarch, not the G'raha of the present.
@@Adu767 I'm pretty sure I remember G'raha saying this in very early/pre endwalker when he was describing how he is doing after joining the scions. And he describes the effects of how his body responded to the crystal and even described it being similar to how we fused with ardbert because of something along the lines of "similar souls resonate with each other"
"Remember... remember us... Remember... that we once lived..." These final words from Emet-Selch always brings tears to my eyes.
Remember us…
Remember that we once lived…
Two best quotes from a villain ever. It wholly encapsulates what, after it all, he and his people wanted.
RIP Emet Selch. My favorite ascian.
Finished Shadowbringers many months ago and this song still brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. Truly a masterpiece in storytelling.
I used this song along with the piano version for my mother's memorial video this month. On one hand I'm so glad I did because all we did was listen to FF 14 music while I sat with her alone for her final hours but in the same breathe iys made it very difficult to play again yet. Thank you for uploading this I'm probably half of views ATM! ❤❤
My oldest and first best friend died from depression recently, and this song so perfectly embodies a lot of the thoughts and feelings I have about him now, I’ve come to associate this song with him very heavily - when the last chorus comes in as triumphantly as it does, it really makes me feel better, despite it all.
Who here actually tried to sing along and didn't just break down into tears in the middle of it ToT
The “stand tall my friend” at 3:35 always hits so hard
"If I were to tell you that this isn't the end, that we will meet again, would you believe me?"
"'Tis good to see you awake, G'raha Tia."
"Well... 'Tis good to be awake."
I would more like this part in Japanese version.
"Good morning, G'raha Tia."
I heard it with lots of tears.
This moment, I could hold my tears no longer.
Endwalker was great, but Shadowbringers is something I believe can never be reprised. It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
I think both of them are amazing and as much as I prefer Endwalker Shadowbringers is also amazing and the closest thing 14 has to a standalone expansion
Endwalker is just special. I played it through a very vulnerable time in my life. The walk on Ultima Thume, I'll never forget it.
idk, endwalker probably would have been cool and all, but it copies shadowbringers in a worse way while fundamentally misunderstanding what made it good, so I wouldn't call it "great" myself. Spoilers, naturally:
The first half was... decent, but worse than the better half of stormblood imo. Could have been better, sure, but it held up enough that I wasn't outright bored when playing through it. As I'll talk about later in the paragraph, the tactic of "look, it's the place you've only heard about until now! haven't you wanted to go here the entire time? isn't it so cool?" wasn't the greatest. But then the start of the second half kinda just ripped away all of the magic of shadowbringers by repeating one of the oldest and most prevalent mistakes of storytelling. People often say to "show and not tell", but that only applies sometimes, because nothing you can ever make can surpass imagination. Naturally, elpis was far inferior to what I imagined the unsundered world looked like based on Emet-Selch's recreation of it from memory. The whole storyline there felt awfully contrived, too. They break the time travel rules established in ShB, have you mess around for a while, the extra-super-duper contrived memory erasure thing happens, and then Hydaelyn herself shows up to say exactly how and why she sundered everything in a moment that frankly would have been better shown and not told but would have been even better if it was left out completely. The intermission was fairly solid, and about half of the ending was too (the soundtrack carried it, I just wish it went back to the instrumental version post msq, and that they didn't just say "oh, don't worry about transportation, the ship is quantum superpositioned or whatever" as an excuse for you to go back there alongside a lopporitt). My problems with the finale is that I could physically feel my suspension of disbelief straining with most of it (save for the dragon island and g'raha's sacrifice), and also the disappointment upon realizing it was just the shadowbringers finale but like a second time with a different coat of paint. Because of all that, it's my least favorite expansion by far.
Emet Selch: Remember. Remember us. Remember that we once lived
HOW COULD WE FORGET 😭
First time a game actually made me cry. What an amazing game this is.
There’s no other MMO out there like this. The story is tantamount to an other worldly experience.
After having gone through Shadowbringers for the first time recently, I now know what everyone's comments meant when they say they wish they could relive it again for the first time. Not purely for the story alone, but experiencing the music along with it. I've had goosebumps throughout many parts of the game especially the first time I've gone through the previous expansions, but none have given me the feels quite like Shadowbringers has all throughout the entire story, especially when I think about how the music coincides with the story.. This song always gets me, especially the “Stand tall, my friend” part. I get the chills everytime even if I'm just standing in Crystarium and listening.
1:12 this part always gets me 🥺
Thank you, Shadowbringers. For all the feels and fun you gave to me.
And good luck, Endwalker. I'm looking forward to you, but the bar is set pretty high.
So what do you think now.
@@ReveredDead Shadowbringers is still peak, though Endwalker was a fantastic send-off and I loved it.
And Dawntrail was pretty enjoyable for me as well. Wasn't expecting it to surpass what came before, and it didn't, but it was a fun little adventure.
I love how through the amazing trailer we had a full song with both components and then each part I’d their own song “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” and “Who Brings Shadow”. Haven’t gotten into Endwalker yet but for me Shadowbringers is amazing
This is the final song I want played at my funeral, so that I may not be remembered through sadness, but through hope for a future for those I care about.
This song hits so much harder after Endwalker.
Just replayed this in new game + and it still got me just as much as it did the first time round. Who knew a beautifully paced and beautifully written story could be found in an MMO❤️
I haven’t used new game plus yet. Is it essentially just a whole new play through? I’m just worried that stuff will be missing from my original Playthrough.
@@ReveredDead i think it is the exact same as playing it for the first time, the only things different is that any achievements you've unlocked (like flying and aetherytes) are kept, you play the game at your current job level, and you don't get any rewards from the quests. so it's just playing shb but a little easier and quicker
I have loved FF since I was a kid but was never into MMO games. I seen a comment somewhere which compared Shadowbringers to be best stories from FF. This made me buy 14, they were absolutely right.
Endwalker is a perfect ending to the story but Shadowbringers for me was peak plot
this was playing in my head so i had to listen back to it for the first time in a couple of years and i just started weeping. god this game is so good
I finished 5.3 and this game made me ugly cry, I cannot wait to continue on
As someone who's only played up to the end of the Shadowbringers post-patch content, this is probably my favourite song in the game lyrically (not that the arrangement isn't also breathtaking). After the first negative portion, the shift with the male choir over the positive lyrics was enough to make me tear up at the end of ShB's main story, but learning the words afterwards really cemented the piece in my mind. It's this gorgeous message from what feels like all the ancients to... well, every person to come, but especially Emet Selch. A plea to live on and remember these beautiful souls, instead of letting their grief and darkness drive them. And a reminder that, in this world, all the souls to fall will live on.
If my interpretation is right, it sounds like the ancients were every bit the incredible people Emet-Selch insists they were. It's just tragic the words never got through to him and his.
"...In the chorus, the fallen could rise once more. For none are dead whose names yet echo in the heavens, and the song would not end until the last voice fell silent. Heroes and villains, sinners and saints - all would live again..."
Man, hearing this after EW adds so much context to it and solidifies it in my head as being
spoilers
a song from Venat to Emet-Selch.
and here I was thinking I couldn't cry harder.
Who put these onions here?
Not just Emet, but also (and especially considering the context and the timing when this was released) Elidibus
I am also 99% sure he was thinking about the cancer when he wrote the lyrics
@@timothytregeagle9323 Natsuko Ishikawa came up with the concept behind the lyrics, and Michael Christopher Koji Fox wrote them, while Masayoshi Soken wrote the music and the others didn't know about his cancer yet. Also remember that this song came out with Shadowbringers, 9 months before 5.3 when To The Edge, the song Soken wrote while in the hospital, was released. While writing Tomorrow and Tomorrow Soken might not have even known yet that he had cancer.
‘Remember us.’
‘Remember.. that *we* once lived.’
No matter how many times I listen to this it turns me into a sobbing newborn. I’m stared at by family all the time like I’ve lost my mind xD 😂
Play this on any graduation day and all of you will always be remember that no matter how hard the life is, stand tall and face the tomorrow with renewed spirits.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
FF14 hits the feels in so many ways its just that good when the music, characters, and narrative are in harmony.
Its crazy that this song is the villain's theme.
It's sad to think this is more or less is Azim singing to Emet Selch to comfort him in his dying :
This song moves me so much...
bruh how can a scene about a big cat man punching a golem's leg be this emotional
it still makes me cry
Not reached Endwalkers yet, it's been a long time since through music and story a game has made me ugly cry I have a feeling Endwalkers will equally tug on my heartstrings.
Oh it'll get you even worse. It's one hell of a ride though, enjoy :)
This song becomes even more emotional when you realize that this song is a message from Venat to Emet-Selch.
Wonder how it is now after endwalker then
This games music never ceaces to amaze me! and experience it in the game gives me chills every time, even makes me cry. what a phenomenal video game with so grandiose and emotionally hard hitting pieces of music!
“May all the dark lost inside you find light again”
I just realized depending on how you interpret this song it could told to Emet-Selch, telling him it’s okay, he doesn’t need to bring them back he just needs to remember, or to the WoL telling them to stay strong and keep going.
Goddamn Shadowbringers
I loved Endwalker, but Shadowbringers' theme is still one of my favorites.
listen flow is good and all but tomorrow and tomorrow will always come back to punch me in the face and decimate me like the tank just cleaved the party or something
1:52 oh fuck off. Just finished Endwalker and listening to all the songs for all the expansions so far the layers of foreshadowing in certain lines just kills me. I thought Answer was mind expanding and then THIS hits me.
This song always kills me. Every time I come back to it. Such a beautiful and moving story and song.
I come here when I need a good cry. This song hurts me in all the right places.
Shadowbringers
You were truly the best!
I'm just here grinding my ARR relic weapon, letting youtube cycle FFXIV music and now I'm crying. Such a beautiful song.
why does this still hurt
Such a memorable one
challenge: watching/hearing this without any tears
haven't succeeded that challenge so far XD
Just thanks for this yes probably best extension and top 3 on all ff ❤
Thank you for posting this! I absolutely love this song and looked this up just so I knew which Orchestrion Roll to buy, LOL.
This is such a beautiful song, and adding it to Shadowbringers just makes that whole expansion even more emotional. So heartbreaking, but still my favorite XIV expansion!
Shadowbringers was excellent, onto endwalker
"Remember us...remember that we once lived." Fucking hell this expansion still has a hold on my heart. I wish I could experience for the first time again.
This is where the lyrics of the Crystarium night theme are from!
Just like the Old Sharlayan song is from Flow.
So crazy that Amandas sang this all the way back in shadowbringers. Now here she is the main female lead for the game having her own kick ass part in the Dawntrail trialer
At 3:35...goosebumps. Pure and uncontrolled emotions. Remember...Remember us....Remember that we once lived.
I love Endwalker but it didn't top Shadowbringers for me. That expansion was really something special.
Stuff was top tier
Very nostalgic choice of images
"It's good to see you dear boy" - Dr. Otto Octavius
Even though EW is wonderfully done, ShB just hits different that I want to cry out all my suffering
How can you listen to this and not cry
Bro...... I'm walking at the mall and I just Teared up 😢 GOD this brings me back back
This is the best song from the game, I will die on this hill.
Need someone to make a quiz for EW with the whole XIV story so far. It might be good to look back on the stuff that has established throughout the years.
Marry a friend who loves Final Fantasy as much as you, and have a duet with that person to this song! That's the dream.
The piano omg I will soon master it
I'm still annoyed at G'raha for his final decision as Exarch.
If I was about to let my body freeze into crystal for the rest of eternity, I'd at *least* pick a cool pose.
/flex
He did pick a cool pose
@@WolfBBlack Sadly, I think /flex would be prone to falling over and shattering. However, if we're going by Diamond Dust (Step On Me) rules, he should definitely have timed a /backflip for the right moment. Let future generations figure THAT bull$#!t out. :P
/playdead or /hildy
WITH THE COMMENT THIS SHOULDNT BE THIS FUNNY
IM NOT GONNA CRY IM NOT GONNA CRY 😭
Elise: Shadow... i don't want to run anymore
Nope didn't make it, someone get me the tissues again
Shadowbringers was a best expansion overall.
You know it. I know it. Everybody knows it.
Happy (late) birthday shadowbringers
Stand tall Emet-selch
🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
WAIT.
_WAIT A FUCKIN' MINUTE._
*_YOU USED A CUTSCENE FROM THE PIXIE TRIBE QUEST_*
Why does my tea taste salty 😭
Shadowbringers was better than EW.
EW was excellent, but SHB was special.
I love both dearly but I agree
Endwalker made Shadowbringers better, and vice versa. To be Shadowbringers and Endwlaker are two parts of the same expansion
@ZiggyMac so kinda like part 1 and part 2 then?
Great composition but the English is definitely forced. Very few Japanese composed songs sound right in English. Best I've ever heard was Xenogear's Small of Two Pieces and the ff9 track was done surprisingly well.
all main ff14 songs are in english? idk what youre on about. The lyrics are written by a native english speaker
The lyrics were written by American native English speaker, Michael-Christopher Koji Fox [Natsuko Ishikawa but I fail to see the relevance ] as well as , who's also written most if not all the FFXIV English vocal themes. Idk what you mean by forced as the lyrics are well written than the "Engrish" you seem to imply that it is.
Lol Here comes the FF 14 cult. I swear to fucking god.
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough.
I meant that the rhythm does not flow naturally, not the actual English used.
I've been listening, making, and analyzing jpop,jrock, western music for a long as time, and anyone who is worst their salt can tell you that very rarely does Japanese carry into English rhymically well and vice versa. But you guys are obsessed with FF14 so that tells me how much you are willing to delude yourself from observational facts.
@@trollingisasport lol
@@trollingisasport if you weren't clear, then you need to take responsibility for that. Calling people as being part of a ffxiv cult when the response was to your unclear comment is unnecessarily aggressive.
To me, this isn't the most perfect song, but the melody is good enough as well as the lyrics. Telling us your background in music production doesn't mean anything other than "trust me bro" credentials. It also doesn't mean you're a good one.
At the end of the day it's a matter of opinion and taste and berating someone else's taste in music because you don't like it based on your "observational facts" make you look like a pompous asshole who's full of yourself. THAT is an observational fact.
This song invokes alot of personal feelings and emotions that i have never ever dreamt that a game could give me.
This song will never not make me cry. Hell tbh all the songs from shadowbringers to end Walker make me cry. How is Souken capable of evoking such emotion through his music? 🥲