Answers || Final Fantasy: XIV OST

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We've heard Answers since the very beginning. Answers, permeates through what makes Final Fantasy XIV Final Fantasy XIV, it is unendingly important to the emotional arc to the plot, and ultimately makes an enormous difference in how we resonate with that plot. It has been around for so many years and is so vitally important. I hope you enjoy this video of me discussion Answers.
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Chapters:
00:00 Answers
00:27 The 7th Umbral Calamity
01:18 Dalamud's Arrival
01:34 The Final Disconnect
01:42 Answers is Final Fantasy XIV
01:57 Flames of Truth
02:52 Why Must We Suffer?
03:18 Flames of Truth pt2
04:57 Who Is this Celestial Being?
06:03 Flames of Truth pt3
06:55 Rock Ballad
07:40 Flames of Truth pt4
08:29 Our Only Hope
09:07 Flames of Truth pt5
09:47 Stillness
10:13 Flames of Truth pt6
10:40 Where Does This Leave Us?
11:11 Venat and the Ascians
11:31 "Your Answer"
11:56 Proving Our Worth
12:42 Your Answer pt2
13:58 Battle To The Death
14:36 Your Answer pt3
15:18 This is Our Answer
16:23 Your Answer pt4
15:47 The Final Days and The Calamities
17:07 Venat's Promise
17:42 The Cycle of Suffering
18:08 Venat's Promise pt2
19:48 Hearing Answers Differently
20:19 Venat's Promise pt3
22:14 "From The Ashes"
22:25 Venat's Promise pt4
26:18 Sundering the World
27:11 Venat's Promise pt5
30:03 A Quest to Find Your Purpose
30:34 The Importance of Answers
Videos Used:
• Final Fantasy XIV : La...
• FFXIV - The Hymn of Da...
• FINAL FANTASY XIV - Fl...
• FF14 Endwalker : Venat...
• FFXIV Endwalker - Your...
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Composers: Masayoshi Soken, Nobuo Uematsu, Naoshi Mizuta, Tsuyoshi Sekito
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Answers (From "Final Fantasy XIV") · Nobuo Uematsu
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@yarredpel9779 Год назад

Hydaelyn "Hear, Feel, Think" Meteion "I wish only to hear your words, share your feelings, and know your thoughts."

@tinyblackmage Год назад

This is 😱

@KatInkura Год назад

AAAAAHHH HOLY SHIT I'm high as fuck right now and that made my brain stop for a while oh my god

@darcmoon9096 Год назад

And she chose to walk the path alone to endure all pain- past, present and future to answer those questions, forever.

@nerothos 2 месяца назад

Oh shit, good catch.

@JudisHQ Год назад

No lie, I've heard Answer thousands of time and every time I get chills.

@bwehhueh5135 Год назад

i think it gets better each time i hear it

@jerome6519 Год назад

Answers is so amazing you can feel and hear both the Dread and the hope within the singers voice bringing what this song means to life in ways that i didnt think possible

@zekira9457 Год назад

I cry every time, it just grabs your heart with all those feelings, it's amazing

@Stickarms99 Год назад

"No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. Henceforth, he shall walk." That line gets me every freaking time. Such eloquent yet powerful writing.

@austinmartin612 Год назад

That scene straight broke me.

@tidaloctoling715 Год назад

The look of heartache in Venat's eyes as they kept praying to Zodiark, I know this act was the hardest thing she needed to do.

@FlorenceFox 10 месяцев назад

That moment really gets me. That's the moment she knew for certain that history could not be rewritten, and that all she could do was place her faith in the future, in us.

@lucalopez9604 Год назад

What blows my mind the most of Answers is that they couldn't possibly know what it would mean by EW. It was written for the end of 1.0, when they just had very tight time to not only fix a dumpster fire of a game but make it anew, not to say that the main scenario writer for ShB and EW wasn't the one also in charge of 1.x's and ARR's storyline. And yet, _and yet,_ they took this already incredible and powerful song and turned it into so much more. Answers is the cries of the people living through the 7th Umbral Calamity AND the cries of the Ancients as the Final Days come. Answers is Hydaelyn comforting Eorzea that the 7th Astral Era will soon come AND Hydaelyn telling us that we must stand before the sorrow and the pain and finally stop the Final Days. This song is 1.0 and 2.0 and Coils and EW, all at the same time, and every single time is as powerful and meaningful as the first time we saw Bahamut come down from Dalamud, if not even more.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Yup exactly!

@torashiki5646 Год назад

@@MarcoMeatball Another thing that might be worth mentioning is that the song is to this day meant to be ambiguous as to who is about. Its not just the ancients, but also the people that suffered the 7th Umbral Calamity, and whoever suffers of despair and anguish. Its supposed to give lie to the biases of Emet-Selch. Its supposed to say 'no, we are not so different. Our suffering is the same, our tales are the same, our pain and despair and the things we want to protect are the same'. Its supposed to show that the hypocrisy of Emet-Selch is that of inflicting 7 Final Days upon the people that the Ancients at large, even the shades he recreated, consider as their children. Emet spent 12.000 years believing his own biased lie about the world and its state because it allowed him to excuse and rationalize his stagnancy of his own coping process. He was stuck in a denial and anger limbo for thousands of years until we force him to accept that his people are gone and that the world they want to bring is no longer a possibility.

@DKHZStudio 11 месяцев назад

Well unless another MMO like Wow where they did try to explain everything last stray and in FF they did not explain so they have more options

@midlanderhyur6035 Год назад

that walk that Venat took while suffering in unimaginable pain in her every step and what it actually means hit me so hard that I literally cried. Even now tears are still threatening to fall. One of the most impactful scenes I have watched for sure. You can finally rest, Venat. We will take it from here.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

We will 😩

@prinstyrio0 Год назад

Means so much knowing she watched and felt every calamity, every rejoining, and the suffering of all those people she couldn't help and then weakening, straining herself to do all she could, painfully clinging on. Hits deeper knowing during the cinematic she was going through all that once again. Atleast now she can rest and let the world take care of itself in the future.

@LMMotoss Год назад

She did her best until she couldn’t go on anymore 😢😭

@tinyblackmage Год назад

Venat is such a strong mother for all of Eorzea, she did her all for mankind🥺😢

@shadowbird25 Год назад

Same thing, I still get chocked up just thinking about this scene, one of the most powerful moment in gaming for me, helped by all the years of story that preceded it.

@tamasczigola6392 Год назад

I am surprised you did not talk about how Hydaelyn literally completes the message she has been sending us for so long in her fight. "Hear...The song of Creation's end. Feel...The sorrow at Hope's demise. Think...and find your way in the darkness" I think that would have fit together with the whole message of answers and thus worth mentioning.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Thanks for mentioning it here I did my best to research everything as well as I could from a lore and musical perspective!

@tamasczigola6392 Год назад

@@MarcoMeatball Of course! and it was amazingly well put togheter. Just wanted to mention this part as it hit heavy for me when we finaly got the answers for the meaning of her words.

@The_Zxirius Год назад

The lines that say "Our souls have been torn and our bodies forsaken" always struck me as some kind of complain like, "how could WE have been forgotten". After playing Shadowbringers that line immediately clicked, for me those words are theirs, those who started everything.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Mhm. Amazing.

@cnkclark Год назад

Bearing sins of the past, for our future is taken.

@joey6347 Год назад

Yes even more in endwalker now. I love how everything ties together and hits so hard.

@scifisyko Год назад

Yeah, I have to say, during the Hydaelyn trial I loudly yelled “OH NO WAY, ANSWERS” when Your Answer started, and as soon as that first voice sang “Witness” I nearly had to take a break, it hit me so hard.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Right?!?! I was like damn!!!

@Enderlinkpawnu Год назад

When that trial theme started. I was hyped. When the lyrics kicked in I was even moreso

@camillegrinnaux879 Год назад

I went through my first time with the scions and wiped twice because I kept getting over emotional

@BeatrixKiddo198 Год назад

I felt every painful step Venat took in that particular cutscene of EW and suddenly the song took on such a deeper meaning for me

@lordboopyzoop2406 Год назад

As one of the unfortunate few that began to doubt the validity of Hydaelyn's words, to lose faith in her, it hit so hard seeing her story as Venat come to an end. Facing her finally, for the last time, in the Mothercrystal, I pictured myself and my character falling to our knees before the very being we'd come to no longer trust, after she had set us on our path and led us to do amazing things... She knew that people would curse her had they known she was the reason for all the pain and suffering, and She knew that we might even curse her as well, if she had told us all of this sooner. But, like us, she carried out, walked, stumbled and even crawled to where we met her face to face, and bested her: Proving to her that we could do what she did, what no one else could. I've enjoyed every second of your series going over the music from FFXIV, a game that I have been playing for nigh 4 years, starting my journey at the release date of 4.4, Stormblood. You've been able to put into words things I've felt while listening to these songs during my own journey, and that's beautiful... and I am immensely grateful. To you, to Soken, to Yoshida-san, to Hydaelyn, and to Zhira, my WoL. Thank you.

@MrPatchy248 Год назад

Hydaelyn's monologue still makes me well up to this day. The closing of the "Answers" dialogue was a master stroke that could never have been possible without an incredible amount of coordination from such talented people. There are few fantasy experiences that can feel so real, even with the benefits of the medium.

@birdjericho Год назад

The part about Answers that really gets me... is that all of the "answers" we are given to the question are verbs. Things to do. Things to become. We are here to perform. Our purpose lies in action, not inaction. And that the experience of life is more important than even the mere act of living, for we are meant to live, die, but (most importantly), know. I liked this song when I listened to it the first time. But I love it even more as time goes on.

@virys.5887 Год назад

I love that Soken took what Uematsu left behind and wove it into the Story like a tribute…Uematsu and Soken are both such legends!

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

They sure are

@iaxacs3801 7 месяцев назад

"To look to those who walked before to lead those who walk after" It really is starting to feel like were seeing the pass of a baton between the old FF creators to the new guard

@cerebralisk Год назад

Oh so one small thing from the Mothercrystal fight that ties into the music, during the intermission phase she in dialog actually finishes the 'think...' 'feel...' statements that we've heard since the beginning, essentially answering the fact that Answers asks 'think what? feel what?'

@austinmartin612 Год назад

Every time I hear Answers it brings tears. without fail. It's that powerful. It's a bardcore rock ballad with opera mixed in. When Answers played during Venat's post sundering walk I couldn't continue playing for quite a while, it just completely broke me.

@cnkclark Год назад

The line that always jumps out at me is "Judgment binds all we hold to a memory of scorn." Meteion's judgment of the meaningless cruelty of Existence, Hermes's scorn for the callous indifference of the Ancients to the suffering of the life they create and destroy on a whim - and his decision to hold a Determination to judge mankind's fitness to exist.

@gabriellez613 9 дней назад

whether they intended this or not, great insight! So true

@kalinkapavlova9398 Год назад

Well I just sat here and ugly cried through about 80% of the video. Also I really love how Answers still remained not only relevant but CENTRAL to XIV's storyline despite the reboot, all the changes in leadership, and even the shift from Uematsu to Soken. I feel like the team really did a fantastic job working with what they had, and giving us a game that remained consistent, feels like a golden age FF (at least in my humble opinion) and at the end of the day is an encouragement/inspiration to us to push forward through the darkness in our real lives, and find joy and light, and even to better appreciate those moments. Anyways cheers for making this video!!

@Reynsoon Год назад

Answers is a 'climbing vine'. Like sure, you can give someone a blank slate magic fantasy and say 'go nuts' but it's rich to have a framework to work with, to work against, and work around. And clearly, Answers was that.

@darkhorizon6235 Год назад

Just in general Answers makes me cry almost every time I listen to it, and know knowing what it's about just makes it more of am impact

@Yunaelle96 Год назад

"Thou Must live, die and know"... This was something that was haunting me for a very, very long time. This song itself was an enigma at first for me. But the more I progressed in the story the more I understood it. This song is for me our companion, the one who's been here from start and when we finally understand it... He goes off. What a truly masterpiece of a video you made. I would love to see it on dragonsong who's full of lore.

@Zaileir Год назад

Answers is the epitome of why music, and in this case video games, is SO important and how it can serve as an intensely powerful tool at delivering a message. It can set the exact mood needed to exact all facets of emotion that wrack our lives; fear, despair, stillness, anger, uncertainty, longing, hope, etc. Answers gives us just that, the answers to which all people will struggle with at some point in their life. There is no escaping the grasp of negative emotion, but it is in spite of that emotion that we can still push forward toward a new tomorrow. The cutscene of "Thou must Live, Die, and Know" is so incredibly powerful it's hard to put into words, especially when one has processed the message it's delivering unto the player after such an arduously long adventure. The message of Answers was particularly impactful to myself, as I've been through numerous hardships that have significantly impacted my life to the point of almost ending it. To hear that to live is to suffer, and that in spite of that suffering there is beauty in the mortality we have truly brings comfort unthought of to many of us dealing with such a burden. Upon hearing the song for the first time I cried, and upon seeing the above mentioned cutscene, I bawled, but out of happiness of the message delivered. It makes such a big difference, and I'm so glad to have heard it. Amazing job with the analysis Marco. We need more stuff like this in the world.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Thank you so much. And thank you for sharing this with me.

@SuperSpaceCube Год назад

This song easily can go into the Video Game Music Hall of Fame. I didn't play FF14 back then, but when I first heard this song and first saw this cinematic, I got chills. I could feel the emotion in this song. After going back and finding out the significance of this scene and the story and stories the players had leading up to this. Learning the what this meant, not just to the players, but to the staff that worked on this game. It's transcends into something beyond just a cinematic for a video game. It becomes an amazing piece of art. I love this song, even though I don't play the game. I still go back once in a while to listen to it. I find this song so beautiful. It still gives me chills.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Same!

@Khujop Год назад

Ah, I was there for the fall and all I got was this tattoo and chocobo. All jokes aside, it's a moment I won't forget. Watching everything end with my fellow adventurers until that message popped up. I honestly had no idea that a song in a game could have such a lasting impact on me and to this day I just can't let go of that moment. To an outside viewer, it'll sound silly to speak about a game like it changed your life. But the funny part is, it did. It helped me understand that something that comes from "just a video game" isn't actually just about said video game. It's about art.

@Flweem Год назад

It really is amazing just how much emotional weight they managed to wrap into one song. This is a great overview and analysis of just how they did it. Answers gets me emotional every single time I hear it. This video was no exception.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Thank you so much for sharing it.

@Seedmember Год назад

Venat's walk is one of, if not the, best moments of the whole franchise, not just 14. The presentation, the music, the monologue, all placed perfectly. What is ironic, is that many FF fans still don't consider this game a true FF game.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

which is ridiculous. the story is by far one of the best.

@gamerkingdom1442 Год назад

OOOOOHHHH….. you actually analyzed it. This is legitimately, one of the saddest songs I’ve ever heard. It wasn’t a glorious victory, or a grand celebration…… ITS FFXIV SWAN SONG…… a final goodbye. Thank you for this. It made me remember why MUSIC is so important in gaming….

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Absolutely. It’s extremely moving.

@GearheadPrime Год назад

We love you, Mom. Rest well.

@Chas-OTE Год назад

@@GearheadPrime fittingly, a final goodbye to Venat too... Excuse me while I wipe tears from my eyes.

@crowolf3862 Год назад

One thing about the primals is the vocals always allude to them somehow: like sophia’s theme being about her version of equlibrium. So I love how Answers can be about multiple peoples: it starts with bahamut and the dragons, with the male chorus suggesting those chained by the allagans to suffer the same fate as bahamut - never able to die, only able to offer prayer to power dalamud. As we later learn, the dragons are guests on the star, and so represent a people separate from those of the sundered. Then we hear it again as hydalyn’s theme, and it becomes about us and the ancients. Despite the dragons not being from the star, they still are recognized as a people of the star and get the same answer from hydalyn as they suffer with the other peoples of ethyris.

@Zoey-- Год назад

Beautifully spoken. The reveal of what this song meant after so MANY years is a masterpiece of storytelling. You can't simply experience this level of foreshadowing and profound emotional revelation in written works or other media. It's the combination of written storytelling and emotive master crafted music that combines into a few fleeting moments, those moments of revelation and understanding spread across literal years of playing this games storyline. They all flow together and become one and reveal the secret in a beautiful experience that has changed the lives of millions. This is a work of artistry that deserves to be remembered as a classic, one of the masterpieces of our time.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Absolutely. And thank you!

@keybladesrus Год назад

It's crazy how EW recontextualized Answers. 1.0 ended with Answers, and then they brought it all the way back around for EW. I only started playing the game shortly before ShB launched, but I listened to Answers an unhealthy number of times. The way they used it in Venat's walk shook me to my core.

@Toksyuryel Год назад

While 1.x ended with Answers, not many seem to realize that 1.0 also STARTED with Answers. They didn't write the song for that cinematic, it's been there from the very beginning. It's so incredible what the team has been able to transform it into. If 1.0 hadn't been such a trash fire, the puzzle of the song likely would have been resolved after only a couple expansions just like they did with FF11's Memoro De La Stono and it wouldn't have been anywhere near as powerful or beautiful as it ended up becoming.

@themadhatter9358 Год назад

Every time I hear Answers now tears start, because I know the weight of this song. These words. After Venat's walk I needed to take a break because the culmination of what I saw in the story up to that moment to the bridge being connected to the past...yeah that broke me.

@rougenaxela Год назад

I find it remarkable how beautifully this song was re-contextualized again and again. Often, you have songs written to go along with a story, but this was more a case where the story was, in part, written to go along with the song, and it just works so beautifully. One could almost say that Answers is to the story of FFXIV itself, as Hydaelyn is to the WoL, and that makes it hit all the harder. When Answers was first written, there's no way even those who made it could have known what it would become.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

I agree wholeheartedly

@LadySuilenroc 3 месяца назад

I think my favorite thing about Answers is that, on its surface, it's a song asking questions, but once the player has been through the story, you realize it told us the answer right from the start. Hermes asks, "What is the meaning of life?" Per the lyrics, "Answer, answer, answer together."

@andrebastos3785 Год назад

I'm not gonna lie, I cry when I listen to this song. It's damn powerful even before EW gave it extra context, but just being generally older since ARR gave us this and having faced more hardships in life, yeah, this is definitely one of my favorite songs of all time because it helps me when I'm depressed a lot tbh. It just moves something in my heart, and I appreciate it.

@FerrumAnulum Год назад

My prediction before starting this video... I'm going to cry again aren't I? 🥲

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Pretty likely

@PetarBladeStrok Год назад

The most beautiful song in FFXIV. Venat's walk absolutely ruined me. What an amazing breakdown this is. *slow clap*

@benjaminrosiek5007 Год назад

"No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. Henceforth he shall walk."

@tickledpickle5671 2 месяца назад

When I realized that when Bahamut first breaks out, the chous is asking, and Hydaelyn is answering. The last time they have this exchange, it's Hydaelyn asking, and the choir answering. A small detail that adds to the emotional intensity.

@KirsiKitten Год назад

This might genuinely be one of your best videos. Since I started playing in 2013, this has been one of my absolute favorite songs in the game and your analysis is so perfect.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

I’m glad you like it. I tried to give it a lot of care since it matters a lot!

@PsiKnight Год назад

I always keep coming back to this song, cause it still gives me hope for my future, at least enough to keep myself pushing forward.

@aeolussvichi7680 Год назад

It still blows me away that the entire premise of the game up to the end of 6.0 is contained in Answers. Having beaten Endwalker I see Answers in a whole different way now. Incredible.

@humanintelegence4695 Год назад

Answers in the background of the anniversary event areas makes me cry so much, and reminds me of the videos of the final moments of 1.0.

@AnonymousInternetUserLaine Год назад

The thumbnails as of late have been improving greatly Be warned ye Meatball nonbelievers, our God grows in power

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

I have let them know how amazing they are :)

@PoldaranOfDalaran Год назад

"Henceforth he shall walk" will NEVER stop making me tear up.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

I know

@JoacinoDaGona 5 месяцев назад

Very few pieces of media manage to cause me to bawl my eyes out, when Answers came back during the 6.0 MSQ, man that was an emotional sucker punch I did not expect.

@MarcoMeatball 5 месяцев назад

Oof I know

@LieblingsLuu Год назад

Marco, you really are a gift to RU-vid. Thank you so much for your content 🥹❤️

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

That means so so much. Thank you a ton.

@ksz1921 Год назад

Venat's promise cutscene is the only time we hear Answers in its totality in the game. When it is used to fight Bahamut in T13, the ending choral section is not used, and there are shortened sections in the End of an Era cutscene. The song has meant many things to the community - those fighting in the Calamity, the dragons suffering at the hands of man, those facing colonial oppression - but the ability to showcase the entire piece, and From the Ashes when Venat confronts the Ancients, really reinforces the new use as an all-encompassing viewpoint of the song. How did they make Answers more powerful, more meaningful, and better after all these years?! A song that was composed for 1.0!

@Silvist Год назад

Yup and I have been in the game since 1.0 alpha, what a journey 😉As sad as it was that 1.0 ended, its beautiful to see how the game evolved into what it is now. Such is life eh?

@FluffieXStarshine 9 месяцев назад

Right now they are having a celebration for the 10th anniversary of ARR ... was in Limsa tonight and up on the top deck there's a faint, haunting version of Answers playing during the fireworks show. Chilling but in a beautiful way.

@dasmoools606 Год назад

I've played this game since the very beginning. Yet still, Answers will always give me goosebumps. But the transition in Coils, when Bahamut uses megaflare, still sticks with me to this day.

@LMMotoss Год назад

I cry every time I see the opening cinematic, so you can imagine how hard Endwalker broke me. What a sublime use of music that ties the entire arc of the game together and brings up every bit of emotion from the struggles along the way.

@rebellyanmagic6409 Год назад

"No more shall mankind have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth....he shall walk."

@alysterfalda7958 Год назад

This song never fails to break me down into a sobbing mess

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

It really strikes me deeply as well.

@alysterfalda7958 Год назад

@@MarcoMeatball That really shows in your video, thank you for your work on this! I've seen a few reactions to the song by others who haven't played the game and it's just awesome how music can really make you feel these emotions.

@RCDeschene 11 месяцев назад

It's been explained by by the composers that the song at the beginning represents Erozia (the male choir) and Hydaelyn (Soprano).

@sarahtonin6367 8 месяцев назад

Ever since I finished Endwalker, I have absolutely adored the fact that the primary lesson of the entire ten year story arc winds up being the knowledge that it is fundamentally impossible to know joy without also knowing sorrow. It is such a deep truth that it is part of our lives here in reality too. If the Ancients had been able to continue as they were, they would have gone the way of all the other worlds that our dear little bird friend and her sisters saw. Venat saved not only her world and its remaining shards, but she also saved the future of the entire universe, even if it hurt unbearably to have to do it.

@sonicroze Год назад

I think that's why a lot of people don't think of God or Christ until they are in "Deepest despair". He is Light Everlasting. The song is amazing, and bringing it full circle from 1.0 through ARR and tying it up with EW is just very beautifully done. 1.0 players had no Answers, only the questions. How haunting it must have been to hear the Answers echo overhead with doom on the horizon. 2.0, you can broadly apply it to the current calamity of Bahamut, but there are still things mysterious about it... "Now open your eyes, while our plight is repeated." - We know there have been calamities so at that point, it'd be that cyclical thing. "Still deaf to our cries, lost in hope we lie defeated" - Deaf to our cries? Who? Hydaelyn? Or now, perhaps Zodiark who has not restored paradise. And how can one be "Lost in hope"? The hope of returning to the lost paradise - that will never be again. Only in the lens of 6.0 do we see it for what it is. "Our souls have been torn, and our bodies forsaken bearing sins of the past for our future is taken" - The 13 shards, Souls torn, the bodies of the Ancients Sundered. The sins of the past - theirs, and the future they hoped for taken with it. "To all of my children in whom life flows abundant. To all of my children in whom death hath passed his judgement." - I think that is Venat/Hydaelyn. She does love, so fully. She bore a terrible burden for the hope of the future. "Shining is the lands light of judgement, ever flows the lands' well of purpose... Walk free.... Walk free... Walk Free... believe... The land's alive so believe." - There is something to this life, the fact we have it - that the flowers grow and we are here - there is your proof of greater things. Walk free to the path before you, seize it.

@inspiredcreativity768 Год назад

Great video as always Marco! I am happy that you took a look at both Answers and Your Answer. They really are the bookends to Hydaelyn's story. I was watching a cutscene the other day and realized that the music playing during was a leitmotif of Answers. It is really interesting how some of the major musical themes developed for 2.0 are interwoven throughout the game in places that you would not necessarily look for them.

@sylvastreak 11 месяцев назад

I love how absolutely ethereal the 1.0 echo is and how it always, without fail, makes the hairs on my body stand up on end. Such a powerful introduction to this song, and a powerful end to 1.0 . It's the sole reason I'd have wanted to play then, to just experience the end of that era of FFXIV. To have that in full context.

@OtaKatWolfe Год назад

I love your analysis. You seem very familiar with and passionate about the game which sets this far above most analysis videos, why have are usually blind speculation. Thank you for making this.

@debrathomas4160 Год назад

dude I love your breakdowns of the text, the music is so important in this game. As a singer myself I really appreciate your content.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Thanks Debra! It’s my pleasure. I’m so glad you like it :)

@Sussy_Bottom_Boys Год назад

Really appreciate that this is more than looking at the music itself. There’s so much important context that would be missed by that approach.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

That’s why I didn’t just do the song because it would be impossible

@vastayanvixen685 Год назад

When I first saw your channel I never would have expected a FFXIV lore breakdown.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Me neither 🤣

@StellaKagami Год назад

Everytime I hear this song, teardrops will always fall down to my cheeks.. The final Venat cutscene was, surprised, but the meaning behind is... wow.. When I finally fought Hydaelyn and heard "Your Answer", I couldn't focus on the raid at all, and kept crying, especially when she called "Hear, Feel, Think.." during phase 2. It stuck me deep, and hard. The story of FFXIV 1.0 to Endwalker is truly a masterpiece.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Truly it is. It was a gift to experience

@Froggsroxx Год назад

No matter how many times I hear it, I still get shivers.

@SuperMatto77 Год назад

'And amidst deepest despair, light everlasting.' That's where I broke. So powerful. Well done! Great video.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

@cyphi474 Год назад

Basically, entire later plot is written around this song, which is quite unique way to do it. "For those we lost, for those we can yet save." Looking for answers is repeately used for every main character substory.

@Faputa-Sosu 11 месяцев назад

This song brings me to tears effortlessly it resonates with me so much. I can’t stop crying.

@swapertxking 6 месяцев назад

"inevitability" is the answer, that all things are hoisted upon the cycle of life unto death and unto life anew, peace breaking into war and war breaking into peace. It interestingly shares the same feeling with another motiff. The Worm's Tail.

@stormlord1984 Месяц назад

Majestic. Brilliant. A video breakthrough as worthy as the music itself. Thank you, sir!

@NicholasMonado Год назад

This has been my favorite theme in 14 for a long time Great analysis video on it 👍

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Thanks so much!!!

@Cat-Cheese Год назад

Im certainly going to die from dehydration with all the crying i do for the characters and the music. This was a beautiful video of the song and what it means to the entirety of ffxiv. Thank you for the great work and passion you put into this. 💖

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

My pleasure im really glad you enjoyed it

@ValeVenator 10 месяцев назад

everytime i watch and hear this song it always brings me to tears

@UltaFlame Год назад

Minor correction about 26 minutes in, the world unsundered was split into 14 pieces. The Source and 13 shards.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Oh? Okay! Thank you!!!

@nomaddelux6452 8 месяцев назад

I cried a lot when i heard this song, knew its meanings. For a long time i wondered who's will dragged up under. But the tears were never out of sadness but something that made me wanna go on.

@ryanseager123456789 Год назад

This song transcends the game, I was going through probably one of the worst times in my life when Endwalker came out. I remember reaching the Venat scene and I had to take a break from the game after. For the first time, art made me feel so overwhelmed that I had to have a break to process it. Even now when I feel down I remember the words, our purpose is to find strength where all strength has left us, to find joy when darkness descends and to look for that everlasting light in the darkness. That helps me get back up. Soken/Uematsu and the whole team at Square are masters of their art and I can never give them enough praise for what they accomplished in the story. Thank you for the video, incredible as always and your insights always bring new meanings to the art.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Thank you for sharing. As you might know endwalker and my playthrough came at a time when I was mourning and continue to mourn the loss of my father. This game has helped me so much. Thank you for sharing your story.

@jeremyvanpelt5097 Год назад

I feel that... I was still processing the loss of a parent when EW released. The post Elpis Venat scene hit me so hard. I'll never forget it.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

@@jeremyvanpelt5097 yea….oof. And all my respects 🙏

@ClessTheAngel Год назад

Wow you blew me away with this video Marco.. Its incredible what message music can send, even if you don't have the whole picture or context of the peice!

@kubaliski Год назад

Wow, so much quality in this video. What a great analysis. Congratulations

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Thank you!

@TheRealChappie Год назад

So im on at 7:14 of this video but i feel like i should share that i can already tell you know and love this song as much as I do. I've been playing the game for 3 years (Late Stormblood) and the person that got me into the game forced me to watch the Answers opening cinematic. I didn't know what I was watching but the song, I later learned was Answers moved me a drummer of 20 years to absolute tears and it still does to this day through Endwalker. That opening fill into half time is not only simplistic but so so powerful. I'm gonna finish watching but I just wanted to get this thought out of my head.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Thank you for sharing this with me. 🥰

@TheRealChappie Год назад

@@MarcoMeatball So i just finished the entire video and i have to give you a standing ovation. This deserves a sub and I will be sharing this. I think so much of Answers can be derived into the real world at times that we needed Venat to give that monologue that no matter what, find the strength. This song will always hold a special place in my heart, it was my introduction not only to FFXIV as the opening cinematic, but the FF universe in general as my first game in the series. Wonderful analysis, didn't know I needed this today but here we are.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

@@TheRealChappie thank you so much Chappie!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

@flyyf1 Год назад

every version of the song gives me goosebumps

@Ilikesilver1 Год назад

watching this, the memories i have with this game all came at once, so much joy, sadness, and anger all at once, but above all, love. Love for a game, a world, and a people. Love for a journey that can still continue. Love born amidst a pandemic of despair. I have lived this game. I have felt the death of beloved characters. I now know my purpose in Eorzea. It is as a beacon of light for those who walk after. A light everlasting.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

❤️

@CyberValeth 6 месяцев назад

Only seeing this now, but Answers, and by extension Flow and a lot of other Endwalker music takes on personal meanings. We're reminded of our own journeys and the story's arc coming to an end. For me completing Endwalker it had a different meaining, I did not know how much farther things would hit. I was a caretaker for my grandparents. My grandfather passed last year literally day after Christmas. I finished this final chapter in May. Little did I know the following month was the beginning of the end. I lost my grandmother whom I was also a caretaker for last month. I asked myself essentially the same question, I still do, even though I know the answers, my own. To continue, to continue living despite all the pain and heartache, and the tears. We all ask what is the purpose, and meaning in life, yet in a game we have the answers. Our purpose is to live life. Even at the core, to just live. Experience and know the joy and sorrow, to appreciate all we have, lost, and never had. The game has helped me through a very dark chapter and its finale of my life. And most amusingly, and maybe fittingly, the new expansion is a new beginning. A new story. Just as in life, it continues on. Our stories continue on, and perhaps forever will even if we ourselves are no longer around.

@skykid Год назад

*We* are the answer, the Warrior of Light, a fierce beacon of life illuminating the endless inevitable darkness in profound defiance.

@williamklett6660 Год назад

ARR and Answers was important and sad. During the Bahamut Trial Answers felt almost joyous. Then after Endwalker I can never hear Answers without tears... Even now I am still sniffling... You might have mentioned that the wounds Venat suffers during her walk are the wounds from the later calamities. Greivious and bloody, yet still she walks forward.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Mhm good point.

@ultimatelyit Год назад

A song of those who tried and failed to create a better world. A song of the end.

@Baphomet1305 Год назад

Love this format of videos, great job!

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Thank you!

@frankisnake Год назад

BRAVO great video i enjoyed a lot thanks for the analysis

@KeitaroYevon Год назад

The annual Rising event just started today and the Echo version of Answers is playing in Ul'dah. Always gives me chills.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Right?!?

@AlbertoGonzalez-qr3co Год назад

Thank you, Marco. I needed this today.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

It is my profound pleasure

@vladitsvar Год назад

Beautiful analysis for a beautiful song

@toutankill 3 месяца назад

I have to thank you sir, for respecting this song. Your breakdown and analysis of the 3 versions is absolutely on point and reach way further than most of the reactions to this song. And the writting of your video is really a careful considerarion of all the context around this song. Thank you again, from the bottom of my heart as a XIV fan who might have cried watching this :)

@MarcoMeatball 3 месяца назад

No problem! It’s not a reaction that’s most likely why 😂😂

@toutankill 3 месяца назад

@@MarcoMeatball yeah you're right, it would even be rude of me to call that a reaction, but I kinda fell upon your work while looking for more in-depth reaction so that's where the comparison came from ^^

@MarcoMeatball 3 месяца назад

no worries whatsoever. It's such a gorgeous song huh@@toutankill

@toutankill 3 месяца назад

@@MarcoMeatball I wholeheartedly agree

@gabrielefried3853 Год назад

This is how you honor a legacy - and furthermore teach the most powerful lesson of life itself. 🥰

@HezrouDhiaga 7 месяцев назад

I feel like Answers is about those before us. The ancients. Being sundered and made to walk the earth as fragments of their former selves and never becoming whole. Hydaelyn singing for them - but also remorseful for their suffering - as nessessary as it is.

@tetsuookami Год назад

Wonderful homage to this brilliant song. Well done sir!

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

Thank you so much!! I’m glad you liked it.

@shadeblackwolf1508 Год назад

To me, Answers to me, was her answer to the question. A question asked long ago. A question who's lack of an answer drove a man, and even whole civilizations to ruin. A question we do not learn about until this beautiful story of her people's downfall was written literally around it in such a beautiful way you'd think it was all planned.

@castoputa Год назад

Seeing this was the entry drug to an eight year glorious habit, I might not have been there when the servers opened, but I will be there when they close. Another excellent video! ❤️

@uPoeLumin Год назад

Great analysis, I just wanted to add that Hydaelyn sundering the ancients wasn't just for the sake of humanity. Yes, she was creating a way forward for her people, but without that light of hope that she protected on Etheirys, Midgardsormer and the clutch of eggs he carried would never have survived. It just adds more weight to "Amid deepest despair, light everlasting" line. He fled past countless worlds on his flight before he found a tiny sundered world with, presumably, the only flame of hope left in existence. It speaks to the truth of her belief in the ability of mankind to find a way forward where others cannot. Excited to see where the story goes from here.

@MarcoMeatball Год назад

same. me too!

@dra6o0n Год назад

I actually took to heart the wisdom in those words, it relates to everyone's struggles on Earth as well. If we don't find these wisdom, we simply fall into despair. End is never the End.

@WestCero Год назад

As one Ala Mhigan said to a scared Garlean, It's the little things that make life worth living.

@4mb127 Год назад

The way they integrate music with storytelling in this game is nothing short of masterful.

@camillegrinnaux879 Год назад

Answers has been making me cry for the better part of a decade now. I only wish I hadn't been scared away from 1.0 before the end so I could have witnessed this in person.

@alibutterfly82 Год назад

You know, watching this, I was struck with the thought that I'd be very interested in hearing you and Alex Moukala kind of have a joint discussion breaking down a lyrical song in FFXIV. It seems like his commentary focuses primarily on the music/instrumentation of a piece, and while you do touch on that somewhat, I noticed in this video you seemed to focus more on the lyrics. I feel like it could be such an interesting discussion to have the two of you do the super deep dives that you do into your respective specialties while also discussing with one another and tying it all together. Anyway, love this video ^_^ Will always watch and love anything discussing "Answers." It still makes me tear up very often when listening to it, and I've been playing since ARR open beta. I'm not sure many other pieces of media have had that much emotional sway over me for that long in my life - but then, not many other mediums encourage your personal investment in the way a story-driven MMO does.

@Trib273 6 месяцев назад

I always though during Your Answers (around 13:45 and on) you could hear a birdsong in the background, implying that the ever imposing threat of Meteion is present even now, in this fight.