Another beautiful reminder of how incredible Uematsu's work is. I love how the FFXIV team honors his contributions to the franchise wherever they can. This is the theme of FFVIII's endboss and once you understand who this boss is and how she got to that state, the whole arrangement fits perfectly. Thinking about the insanely tragic story behind that game always makes me tear up a but. "I'll be waiting here...for you...so...If you come here...You'll find me. I promise."

The guy in the comments saying it sounds tragic is right. Gaia has had her memories erased and forced to resume the identity of her previous life, and the two identities basically fight for dominance before the old one takes over and asserts itself when Artemis dies. In a fit of rage it lashes out and tries to kill you and your party (since you're the ones directly responsible for Artemis's death) while you're desperately trying to save the current version of Gaia from being erased for good.

This song just made the end of the Ultimecia fight in FF8 so intense. Having it kick in here was just epic when I first got to the transition...I probably deafened my raid mates since FF8 is my favourite game xD The original still holds a place in my heart but this was a great remix (Plus the fight has casts that reference the ultimecia fight so that was a cool touch)

@Lockheart237

2 жыл бұрын

Feel the same way bro, when I saw her cast Shockwave Pulsar I got so hype!

Favorite FF8 OST after Griever fused with Ultimecia, I love that game so much, best FF out there, no contest.

QUICKSAND QUICKSAND QUICKSAND someone get this man to see this. (Sohm al hard theme)

@Junebug89

Жыл бұрын

Quicksand stands out so much as an Uematsu track lol. It feels like getting taken back in time to snes or playstation days.

This is actually from FF8 the song that you find Vincent with sounds similar but it's a different song called "The Nightmare Begins" similar vibes to the intro but not the same song ;)

Playing this fight when it was new was a DIFFERENT experience, even getting to this fight felt like a mountain climb (gameplay and story wise, it was a REALLY hard set of fights) and then once you get here you're rewarded with this song accompanying a tough as nails gauntlet of rapid fire actions. It WOULD NOT HIT if the music wasn't there, and listening to the song again evokes all those emotions out of me all over again.

Oracle of Darkness is just Nobuo Uematsu's "The Extreme" from Final Fantasy 8. Same composer of "Battle on the Big Bridge" :) This was awesome though!

This is amazing fight and amazing music. Always made me pumped up for reclears.

Such a good track, was fun to see you adapting to it over time, a challenging one it seemed!

If you aren't aware of that, the original composer Nobuo Uematsu re-arranged an Instrumetal Metal cover of this song - check it out, you might catch a thing or two out of this! Simply look out for "The Black Mages - The Extreme", they also do some (official) sick cover of original songs too!

Just stumbled upon this video randomly and watched the whole thing, you're absolutely sick! Subbed.

Man thank god the KZread recommendations actually recommended something I can easily subscribe to. You're amazing dude, keep up the good work!

The piano part at the beginning remind me of the game on PSP "The 3rd birthday" in the main title

ONE OF MY FAVORITES

A great rendition of FFVIII final boss theme.

AWESOME!

Man, you're awesome!

Hell yeah love the Extreme

Crazy!

I can see that your naturally remember the riff for this song lol! Amazing!

I was unspoiled on the Savage version of this fight. My static had to endure my fangirl screaming as soon as we got to this phase for the first time and I heard that intro.

This is from the final Savage level fight from Shadowbringers, and one day I really want to actually do it. This theme is the second phase, after you fight a whole boss. When I tried it, I never got past like 60 or 70% on the first part. One day!

@Qazqi

2 жыл бұрын

The more I see the fight in the video, the more I miss the time when I was progging it. You should definitely go back when you can. Part 2 is widely considered easier than part 1 (more puzzle than execution, so primarily for blind prog), but also commonly more fun.

@edaphus

2 жыл бұрын

Lions?

@Kamedouken

2 жыл бұрын

One day? Just go in and do it today?

@Kamedouken

2 жыл бұрын

All these folks cry one day how bout just get in there rn and get er done

@veemancer8392

2 жыл бұрын

It was such a great and exciting moment experiencing it in game, even though I already knew it was coming. My little fanboy heart couldn't take it, my group and I had to sit and listen and just geek out for a good 10 minutes.

Such a fun fight to prog, and the music only made it better. They did justice to the Ultimecia final boss theme

Ultimecia Battle Boss Theme

Final boss theme off FF8 Not 7

Is this a reupload?

so you're covering The Extreme soon yeah?👀

"This is the music that plays when you find Vincent in FF7" What is that person in chat smoking to be that far off base?

Shadowbringers but still a baker for sure