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repl1c4nt · 5 months

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i wanna uhhhhhh update my ffxvi post: i did end up giving it a chance and so i will elaborate on the Me (tm) official review: theres a lot buckle in (spoilers for th3 entire game)

ok.,,,,,,...... now dat were all here letz go

First id just like to say soken delivers another phenomenal soundtrack(no surprize there) Historie - the holy empire and Titan lost are some of my favorite tracks in the game i cannot say i expected anything otherwise and it was a delight to get to every major dominant battle to hear what he cooked

on the topic of battle the gameplay was another huge plus for me. when all else failed i found myself returning to ffxvi for the gameplay alone because it is very genuinely fun, fast paced, and i enjoyed the variety of each eikon it kept rhe game fresh for me espically when it slowed down in every other aspect, i enjoyed every eikon battle to death whenever i couldnt decide if i /liked/ the game while playing i remember fighting titan. i had no clue how the fight would play out despite being late to the scene and i was blown away by how good it was. everything about it was so enjoyable it honestly empowered me to get to the rest of them and bahamut was just as much of a treat. it helped i love dion (i will be getting to characters) and his phase themes (beyond the heavens&ascension) were brilliant. the bahamut fight much like titan did not disappoint. for me at least it felt odin had a bit of a much welcomed difficulty spike enjoyed that fight a lot even if it wasnt as cinematic as bahamut and titan

speaking of... cinematic scenes were a weak point to me.. as cool as they were and they /were/ i cant help but feel like there had to be a better way to interrupt the fight. sometimes it really took me out of the moment to have my fight paused to just like press a button or mash or some shit. its fine just got old /fast/

as far as the rest of the battles they were all fun adn well and good.. i enjoyed every fight theme and found every fight mostly enjoyable although i cant help but feel the DPS check section fighting ultima where you kinda fly arounf him in circles would have been leagues more fun if it was a drakengaerd 3 style synced to thr music event... imagine that....it would be so awesome it woukd be so cool................. anyway as far as the actual final fight.. well lets get to the characters and story first

i wont be discussing the controversy surrounding the game because, despite it impacting my experience playing the game in very real ways, it just isnt what i wanna get into in this base post

alright. maybe i wasnt paying rnough attention but the story to me fell apart when ultima became a bigger actor on the stage. absolutely dont get the lad or the crystals. were destroying yhe mother crystals cos theyre killimg the planet fine well and good the story's pacing in this part was really wonk to me haha it would go from desperately boring an sluggish to fun for a moment and then just so boring again. it wasnt until the final two mother crystals when i became invested in whats happening. the mothercrystal plot twist was like oh ok well cid died for nothing /shrug i really dgaf either way i only really care my beloved mid. i really found myself most invested when characters i liked specifically becme involved with the plot (dion its dion its always dion)

dion's story to me was easily the best (yes my favorite heavensward character was aymeric. whos fucking surprised) fang and and vanille always had the most profound impact on me as far as ff relations go and its def because they were the closest thing we had to a canonical queer relationship and i will say dion and terance felt.. good? i know theyre not the /best/ and fang and vanille were leagues ahead of them a decade ago bit theres that just the way theres no question about their queerness just felt so good to see as a long time queer fan of the series who put up w its homophobic moments lol........... they were definitely a genuine highlight for me and their relationship was so beautiful and refreshing i wish we saw more of them.. especially because clive and jill just did not hit lolll. i couldnt believe how little i resonated with clive, joshua too. for me i usually have no problem relating to the main cast they all feel so human and real even when theyre cartoonish theres an undeniable down to earthness and relatability of most of the ff main casts i just couldnt bring myself to really care about clive

jill's story was for a brief moment something interesting and exciting. this was a woman in a yoshi p game w her own arc where the male character plays a fully supportive role and she isnt put in a passive role for her own story to move someone elses development along jill for the briefest moment maintains her own active will to get closure on her trauma where she isnt punished for it its just so disappointing its her only moments in the game. her character arc is chapters short and afterwards she would almost exclusively play passive roles, even giving clive her powers after they share an equally intimate scene both naked and venerable only for a dynamic to be reinserted through the form of dominant's power

clive was just nothing to me, i honestly tried to like him and i did mostly enjoy joshua as a character but i just did not ever care for his story ultima was so unfleshed out and strange ffxvi was best when it was pretty grounded to the on continent conflicts, the story doesnt feel like it was built around ultima the story honestly feels like it was built around the empire and ultima was an after thought. and man vs empire and then suddenly extraterrestrial/celestial freaks are involved isnt even uncommon ff plot progression. i could play like 5 other final fantasy games at that point. if the combat in ffxvi werent so addicting it would have nothing. (untrue of course it always has a brilliant soundtrack) i just really did not like the way the game built off itself it never felt natural or believable. none of the conflict with ultima felt grounded or natural or like it was built up in any meaningful way

i really dont understand the hype around clive hes very genuinely just a pretty face. i just dont care about u at all no matter how hard i tried

i never cared about hugo or benedickta either, although theyre like tertiary antagonists to be fair

joshua was another highlight for me. hes just very polite and jote was cute if definitely underutilized. i really dont have much else to say i wasnt surprised he died

clive i knew would die, that was a spoiler i knew w out a doubt going in and i was completely disappointed in it anyway. joshua made sense at Least he was basically dying the entire game and dion well. it makes sense yoshi p would kill the one gay man we cant have shit in eorzea but seeing clives entire arc be no dont kill yourselfffffff..... the world and its endless beauty is a bounty of possibilities and meaning. just to die anyway feels well. it just feels and to be fair clive did sacrifice himself for the lives of others but the scene where cid tells clive not to kill himself- regardless of how ungentle he put it- just feels so empty because well clive u could hav just killed yourself there i guess. sorry you were a slave for 13 years youll die before you get to live your life for yourself. like cmon narratively a more satisfying arc for him would have been to overcome this and live for himself even if he has to live w out joshua. he can move on hes done it partially before hes accepted himself he must live but he doesnt get to

its a shame. also unrelated the final fantasy namedrop made me reel but i forgave it for honestly being a little camp......... the lodestone name drop is Not forgiven. just horrible someone shpuld be fired

i dont really have much else to say and out of a desire to post this soon im gonna wrap it up. honestly i had high hopes for final fantasy 16 and im not one to go "oh final fantasy now sucks" because i Love ff13. i love ff15. i liked ff14 a normal amount. but ff16 just felt underwhelming compared to them.. it looked leagues better dont get me wrong even if ill always think ff13 is visually the best out of 'modern' final fantasy for its incredible cgi cutscenes good art direction and the ps3 charm the realtime cutscenes in 16 sometimes felt undynamic in comparison but real time vs cgi is very literally games hardware vs movie so........ not comparable tbh the environment and general worldbuilding of 16 was just so lackluster. the world felt so unreal even if it looked incredibly real, the plot was unfocused at times and inadequately built up, the characters are mostly uninteresting, and the character eith the most meaningful connection to clive was torgal. well torgal and cid but cid dies and leaves a gaping hole in the 'good character' category when it was just him mid and dion to begin with

still fun to hunt rank s's though ☝️

#me talkies

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riftdancer · 8 months

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[ *DASH : SPELL OUT YOUR URL USING SONG TITLES. THEN, TAG AS MANY PEOPLE AS THERE ARE LETTERS IN YOUR URL. ]

rip us with long urls A lot of these songs actually correspond with my muses.

[░r] ewrite (cover) - AmaLee || Revive and rewrite this tale of pointless fiction and make it one you won't forget / So now rise and rewrite as you awake from the grave to give it everything your body heart and soul

[░i] gnorance - Paramore || It's not a war, no, it's not a rapture / I'm just a person, but you can't take it

[░f] low - Masayoshi Soken || I'll catch your tears, quench your fears with joy til you near the shore / Where in time, all shall as hope be reborn, ah // For this journey's end is but one step forward to tomorrow

[░t] o The Edge - Masayoshi Soken || (Hell take us, heaven can wait) // (Our hearts beat loud, unafraid) / On hands and knees we pray to gods we've never seen

[░d] o You Remember Love? || Through and through I will accept the love you gave to me, in return just behold me / Like the sunlight is igniting the distant moon

[░a] Way of Life || Deep inside my mind / I didn't compromise just for the love / Everything made sense to you, Nobody stopped to see them fade, your eyes seemed so innocent

[░n] ation Blue || Wherever you lead me on this sparkling blue road / I'll always be by you, even if we're far away from each other

[░c] ome - Amuro Namie || Don’t you see? You’re the only person / In the whole world who means everything to me

[░e] cho (cover) - Lollia || I can't get a grip, but I can't let go / There wasn't anything to hold on to though.

[░r] eturn To Oblivion - Masayoshi Soken || A voice from the past echoes loud like a drum oh, yes / No more goodbyes, though my heart is still aching / Now open my eyes, one more time, Here I come

TAGGED BY: @mathcs; Thank you! I had some fun with this!

TAGGING: If you want to do this, feel free to!

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endwalkr · 4 years

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FUCK the strings in the heavensward main theme make me so fucking emotional

#make me feel like im ascending... i love sweeping violins so much ;_;#FUCK #god i like the it. i love it but also hate it cuz im like crying now #FUCK AAAAAAAAAAAAAA IT REALLY FUCKING MUSIC #masayoshi soken i WILL fucking die for you #FUUHABBJ THE USE OF LEITMOTIFS DUIRING THE WHOLE OST MAKES ME AHHHHHHH #OH FUCK U-OK HFUCK THE TORN FROM THE HEAVENS AAAAAAAAAAAAA #live music reaction #tip: do not listen to the ffxiv ost while trying to write a story in a language youre not good at #soundtrack ramblings #im fucking EMO #I LOVE IT WHEN THEY USE THE MAIN THEME IN BOSS FIGHTS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #OH FUCK YOU THE ISHGARD THEME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#this piece is making me have a stroke

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sonicringbond · 3 years

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Sonic Ring Bond: The Journey - Scene 52

Hopefully as everyone is reading this things have improved for me. My mental state has been a bit of mess at the time of writing this. I’ve had fears for the future of the AU and my ability to write it at all. While I have big plans and changes in store, it’s surprisingly difficult to stay enthusiastic. Strangely, only my primary villain seems to keep me motivated. But they won’t appear here, too an extent I suppose, but there is another villain who returns in this scene. I’ll let you see who now in...

“Oh~! I see more flowers,” Blister began as she stepped through the Ring Gate and watched Zooey embrace Tails. She grew distracted a moment however as she took in the sight of the Ring Gate Beacon room. The ceiling of shifting blocks covered in glowing geometric patterns was almost mesmerizing. “Wow~. I have to get one of these on my ship.”

“Maybe later,” Tails stated as he put his hands on Zooey’s shoulders and pushed her back, although as gently as he could. “Right now, we have to support Sonic. Zooey, can we map out the catacombs from the bridge.”

“The Engineers and I already have a map in place,” Zooey confided in Tails, though still peeked around him curiously at Draw and Blister. Tails’ urgency pulled her back however as she felt his grip tighten on her shoulders. “We can use the same sonar method we used to map the city to keep track of Sonic and give him a heads up if anything goes sideways.”

“That’s great,” Tails sighed relieved and started to hurry for the bridge, stopping only long enough to look back and ask Zooey another question. “Is it sensitive enough to pick out people?”

“I don’t believe it is, but the catacombs should be large enough for the Tornado to fly through.”

~|~

“Ho! An aeroplane of all things to best Claymore the Purple,” Claymore scoffed as he strode through brick halls that were open on one side to a cavernous hall beyond. “How the mage caused so much trouble with so small a force. No less he bought the time to take to the skies again. Ho! It is like that I would do well to remember the name Sonic the Hedgehog, unless I should stop him and my other guest all at once.”

Weighing the thought of confronting two Ring Mage’s, Claymore chuckled nervously to himself. “Ho! My first real battle since waking and I must face two Ring Mages. Would that I could be joined in battle by my fellow knights.”

~|~

“I don’t like it,” Rosy puffed up her cheeks, her problems multifold.

“Well, you’ll just have to bear with it,” Sonic encouraged Rosy to not let the situation get to her. As he was sitting on top of her pressing her deeper into the cockpit of the Tornado, his words seemed uncaring. Though they were no meant to bet, he had his own problems controlling the biplane as he had one hand occupied holding onto Rosy’s tarot card case. “Just consider it for your own protection.”

“I don’t need protected,” Rosy puffed her cheeks up even more. “Besides, if what Tails said is true, we won’t have time for me to be kept safe. We have to go stop Ix.”

“You know who you’re talking to, right kid?” Sonic feigned being hurt. But Rosy was not feeling playful.

Beyond the cockpit, even squished uncomfortably behind Sonic as she was, Rosy could see Yoluku in the sky, the upside-down sunset becoming a tighter and more sinister smile with each passing moment. A chill ran through Rosy looking at it, and she could swear even without her cards that she heard those same whispers.

It’s fine. This is fun isn’t it? Enjoying a desperate adventure to save the world with your true love. How entertaining!

“Hrm~!” Rosy emitted a low growl and puffed up her cheeks more. Not liking the voice in her head, she contorted herself as best she could behind Sonic and managed to get access to her wrist device.

“Tai~ls!” Rosy whined into it. “Please tell me you have somewhere for us to go!”

-I do!- Tails’ voice came back across the radio.

~I want to feel relieved while Tails guides Sonic through how he needs to fly the Tornado into the catacombs. It’s actually a lot of fun too, the way Sonic pilots his plane around the towers of the city and down into a chasm I didn’t know was in the city. Ooh~! It’s so exciting, but the situation isn’t good. Yolk is… I don’t know what Yolk is any more, but I have a really bad feeling.

~It’s not like me to have bad feelings, especially when Sonic is here. I know he’ll save the day, but something isn’t right. I just have a hard time believing Ix was seen so easily. He had me and everyone else fooled when I first met him, so to think he would be seen going into these oversized catacombs. It just doesn’t feel right. I wonder if this is supposed to be a trap. But for who? Did he even know I was going to be here? Ooh~! I don’t like this!~

“We’re going on foot from here,” Sonic stated as he landed the Tornado on a small ledge, bringing the short flight to an end. As he left the plane, he worked he wrist device under his ow glove cuff. “I’ll relay back to you what I see Tails, but you’re going to have to be on your game to get us to where you think our uninvited party crasher is going.”

-No problem, Sonic!- Tails’ voice chirped confidently across the wrist device’s radio. -Just watch out for traps.-

“No worries there,” Sonic laughed. “In case you haven’t forgotten, I have a world class rascal here to take care of them for me.”

“Soni~c!”

~Sonic’s ability to stay cheerful, even in the face of danger is always so inspiring and always helps me forget that people call me strange for doing the same. I can’t help but smile running with him through these ancient stone tunnels. Though it would be nice if there were less traps. But, well, a lot of traps that needed to be tripped were already tripped as Sonic and I ran past them. It’s hard to say running so fast, but they look more like they were disarmed rather than tripped. I shouldn’t be surprised, but… I kind of feel like it looks too familiar how they’ve been disarmed.~

~|~

“Alright, how much further do you want to drag me into this place! It’s been nothing but trap after trap and no rewards worth the risk!"

“Silence, treasure hunter! I must endure this humility and so will you.”

“Yikes! Don’t lose your feathers old man!”

“An old man who will outlive you, treasure hunter!”

“Alright, alright! Just put my gun down. I’ll stop asking questions.”

“Perhaps it would be best if you both focused.”

“Yeah, well if I could I’d leave you both under a pile of rubble if I thought it’d do anything you talkative pile of rocks.”

“Keep talking, treasure hunter. It fascinates me how your mouth is able to dig a grave.”

“Yikes!”

Watching the antics of Doctor Fukurokov, former leader of the now all but defunct Battle Kukku Armada, and Fang the Sniper, the troublesome treasure hunter who introduced Rosy to the world of adventure for his own gains, Ix would have sighed if his stone form possessed lungs. The two were anything but dignified. Though at least Fang put on no airs of false dignity like Doctor Fukurokov.

Still, Ix’s plans required both, lest he had been rid of them ages ago having learned all he needed from them via a forced Ring Bond.

“There will be time for you to torment the Child of Chaos yet, Child of the Heavens,” Ix at last interceded by walking between the owl and jerboa-wolf hybrid. His actions were meant to do more than break line of sight between them however, as he continued forward causing Fang to panic.

“Watch where you’re walking you blasted statue! You’re going to get us all killed!”

Fang’s excited shouting carried through the catacombs, straight into the twitching ear of a certain pink hedgehog girl. “Fang!”

“Him again, huh?” Sonic sighed in response to Rosy’s exclamation.

“Ooh~! Don’t be like that Sonic!” Rosy chided Sonic before suddenly picking her own route deeper into the catacombs.

“Hey! Amy! That’s not the way Tails is–”

“It sounds like Fang is with Ix!” Rosy interrupted Sonic and dashed off, following the sounds of the voices and her intuition.

“This isn’t a great time Amy! AMY!”

Left with little choice, Sonic took off after Rosy. It was going to be far from a difficult task to catch her either. For as much as she did her best to run at Sonic’s speed, her stumbling and general clumsiness was not the practiced and instinctual scrambling that Sonic performed that allowed him to run freely nigh anywhere. As large as the catacombs were, however, Fang did not possess Sonic’s speed. As he was the one searching for traps, he was the one controlling the pace at which Ix’s party progressed.

“Yeesh, the weasel, the surprisingly resilient birdbrain, and the statue who really would have been better served staying in bed,” Sonic remarked as he skidded to a halt and saw the odd group. Or at least odd to Rosy who did not see the panic on Fang’s face as anything but a desperate plea for help. Naturally, Sonic saw it differently. “So how are you going to lie your way out of this one, weasel?”

“Ho! Funny, Ring Mage,” the voice of Claymore boomed from beyond Ix. “I was aiming to ask you and the medium the same.”

“And now, all of the players are present,” Ix remarked, his blue glowing eyes taking in the autogolem knight, the treasure hunter and pirate, and the two hedgehog’s who he silently deemed the most troublesome of all his obstacles.

Scene 52 · CLEARED Party Crashing, to be continued

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And there we go. Two scenes left to finish up Season 1. There’s a lot of ground to cover, and hopefully I’ll be able to have Sonic meet my main villain. It’s just there is so much to cover, and it’ll likely inflate the scenes. The smart thing to do would be to stretch it out, but I really want to end the season inline with the anime season. So, if everything went well after I wrote this, in one week Season 1 will be finished and Season 2 will be quite different in it’s handling. Please look forward to it!

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Special Thanks to Cutegirlmayra Story by @JoshTarwater/SonicFanJ Inspiring Song – Insatiable (From “Final Fantasy XIV”) - Vocaloid Version – Azina, Masayoshi Soken – Insatiable (From “Final Fantasy XIV”)

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic fan fiction #sonic au #sonic au series #sonic ring bond #the journey #classic amy #amy rose #rosy the rascal #au amy #amy redesign #miles tails prower #fang the sniper #doctor fukurokov #pir'oth ix #sonic oc #claymore the purple

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zuraoftheblack · 4 years

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Zura - Profile Playlist

Character Profile - Music Edition ♪

The Dark Side

It Has Begun - Starset But nothing could ever stop us from stealing our own place in the sun We will face the odds against us and run into the fear we run from It has begun ♪

My Demons - Starset We are one and the same You take all of the pain away Save me, if I become My demons ♪

Beyond The Stars - Evans Blue Keep your silent song Reach for life beyond the stars Save your mercy For someone who needs it more ♪

On My Side - Demon Hunter So now, where is the enemy? I can feel no bite Where is the enemy, when death is on my side? ♪

Destroy the Obvious - Evans Blue I’m left no choice, we live in a black hole So let’s go destroy the obvious I’m left no voice, I live in your echo So let’s go destroy the obvious ♪

The Reckoning - Within Temptation, Jacoby Shaddix Red tears run down like a river Don’t close your eyes, it won’t disappear No fear, you wanna end the pain Don't let go, don't back down, hold the line We'll bring the reckoning ♪

Die Trying - Art of Dying If it takes forever I will die trying ♪

The Light Side

Lifetime - Decyfer Down Sitting here with you right now is everywhere I wanna be Looking in your eyes I see Everything I ever could want Everything I'll ever need Has always been here next to me ♪

Your Guardian Angel - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus I will never let you fall I’ll stand up with you forever I’ll be there for you through it all Even if saving you send me to heaven ♪

Take on the World - You Me At Six Nobody knows you, the way that I know you Look in my eyes, I will never desert you And just say the word, we'll take on the world ♪

My Freedom - Two Steps From Hell I will stay, by you, through the night ♪

Until the End - Quietdrive To the end of the world, there and back Until the end of time, no one can stop me if they tried The darkest days, the darkest nights I won't stop until the day I die Until the end of the world, my love To the end of time ♪

Summertime - My Chemical Romance If you stay, I would even wait all night Or until my heart explodes How long ‘til we find our way In the dark and out of harm? You can run away with me Anytime you want ♪

The Gray Line

The Dalmasca Estersand (FFXII) - Distant Worlds IV

Dr Wily Stage 1 (From “Megaman 2″) - Ferdk

Shadowbringers - Masayoshi Soken ~ Shadowbringers OST

Life Will Change (Persona 5) - FamilyJules

Hopes and Dreams ~ SAVE the World - Ferdk - Undertale Symphonic Metal

Victory Fanfare (From “Octopath Traveler”) - Ferdk - Night Ode

Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep: Fate of the Unknown - Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Shigatsu - Otouto Mitai Na Sonzai Piano - Kyle Landry

My Sanctuary / Passion (From “Kingdom Hearts 2″) - FamilyJules

Impossible - Two Steps From Hell

Secret Melody - Two Steps From Hell

Any number of songs by Dream Theater

The Dark Side: Part 1 of Zura’s album. These songs share themes of Zura’s personal battle against the darkness along with his physical battle against his enemies over the course of Final Fantasy XIV’s story. Cries of battle, cries for help, and declarations of his own shadowy might solidify how he is often perceived by those who don’t know him personally, but as a Warrior of Darkness: devoid of fear, brimming with power, cold, unrelenting, and unforgiving.

The Light Side: Part 2 of Zura’s album features a much softer side, much of the lyrics revealing an undying devotion to his allies and his friends, though it’s clear that the main focus is his lifelong partner, very best friend, wife, and lover, Lua. These reveal a deeper part of Zura that he often doesn’t show to anyone save those he trusts and can relax around: his kind, cheery demeanor and his willingness to always help out and better those who he cares about the most. While these days he knows that preserving himself is better than unnecessary sacrifice, he is still willing and able to put himself between anything that would do his friends harm, especially if it were Lua; truly, his love and adoration for her cannot possibly be overstated.

The Gray Line: Bonus disc. This is a set of instrumentals that are various themes of Zura’s gathered from various sources. Some heavy battle themes, some light and contemplative themes for touching moments, and some simply grand and adventuresome. While none have any lyrics (unless you dive into Dream Theater’s discography, in which case, Twelve help you) they all reveal some part of Zura’s soul in some way or another.

[[ Tagged by: @high-stakes-gambler! ]]

#I had such a blast making this #ty for the tag!#Denny knows I love music

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b-e-n-k-y-o-u · 5 years

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Today I went to see the Eorzean Symphony!

Photography and filming was prohibited during the concert. However, I thought I'd write up some small nice details about the orchestra. The event lasted a total of around 2 hours 30 minutes (with a 20 minute intermission).

I love classical music and so I'm familiar with orchestras and the stiff atmosphere they can often have but this event was nothing of the sort. Incredible music, a lively audience and having Soken and Yoshi-P there to break the ice was so nice!!

Yoshida acted as MC alongside Soken and the two acted as a manzai comedy duo during song intermissions. Soken wore a Moogle pinned onto his suit.

When Yoshida came on stage it was to the usual cheers and very load applause and some, "YOSHI-P YOSHI-P" chanting but he genuinely looked surprised and said, "but I'm not even a performer". He's too precious.

The conductor, Hirofumi Kurita was an absolute joy to watch. He seemed really enthralled with the music.

Susan Colloway sang Revolutions for the first-time ever on stage! Yoshida exclaimed that this was a world first. Also, we all wanted to cry during Dragonsong.

The first act consisted of songs from ARR and HSW. Lots of choral heavy pieces were chosen. (and oh my goodness the chorus were so good shivers went down my spine).

In Act 2 Soken and Yoshida joined the male chorus for the first song; The Garlean Territorial Anthem for Gyr Abania

In Painted Red and Tsukuyomi's Pain, a Shakuhachi master came onto the stage. It was the first time I've heard a Shakuhachi live before so I was blown away by the sound dynamics it was able to create among the powerful notes from the violins.

During The Open Box Soken played along with the orchestra with his Korpokkur-trumpet thing. It was hilarious and he joked afterwards that he'd quit being sound director and wanted to take this new role seriously.

Of course, the last song (From the Heavens) played and we were all sad. BUT. Nope. Hirofumi left the stage after a standing ovation and came back less than a minute later to play 3 more songs with the orchestra.

Afterwards, when we thought that it was REALLY over, the screen flashed with SHADOWBRINGERS and I kid you not, in the audience we all collectively freaked out and died. The ensemble played INVINCIBLE (honestly my favourite final boss composition) whilst footage of Amaurot and Emet-Selch played on the screen. It was amazing. Absolutely amazing.

Then it really was the end of the concert and as there were still a few minutes left until the official end time, Yoshida allowed us to take as many photos of the crew as we wanted!

As I should be in Tokyo next year I hope I can make it to future events too!

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #eorzean symphony

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