At Our Life's End - Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed (solo piano arrangement) 

OKAY!!! The last Xenoblade cover for a while--though I have plans for a few I have been DYING to do forever, but they're quite ambitious, and somewhat out of my wheelhouse, so I don't want to say anymore just yet in case I chicken out and they don't materialize 😂😂 It was inevitable I would do this one hahaha, as Mitsuda solo piano title themes seem to be a thing since XB2...no complaints here! lol
This is the last theme featured on my most recent Xenoblade EP with ‪@animevivi‬, Xenoblade Chronicles: Interlude! songwhip.com/a...
Future Redeemed to me didn't inspire as much introspection as the main game did, but gosh was it a good time. Yes, it was shameless fanservice every step of the way and I was 100000% here for it lol, I loved playing as Shulk again, I loved how Nikol was basically baby Shulk and Glimmer was the perfect mix of Mythra and Pyra, and appropriately angsty, and both were just so lovable and fun to control. AND OF COURSE OLD MAN REX WAS EVERYTHING and just for the record I never ever EVER hated Rex in the original XB2, I thought he was such a sweet little boy and the fact he grew up to be basically Vandham with a dash of Zeke was just amazing lolllll.
Not only having both XB protags in the party but being able to revisit key locations like Colony 9, Prison Island, plus the OST BANGED with the battle theme, both Cent-Omnia day and night themes, then the added QoL bonus of being able to track every obtainable chest on the much smaller map inspired the obsessive completionist in me even though I wasn't able to get to two of them stuck in the Black Mountains sob it wasn't for lack of trying lol. Little Easter eggs and references to the main games like a small section of the High Entia Tombs, Zeke and Pandoria's daughter, and I admit one of the reasons I started Xenoblade X was because of that radio broadcast and that whole area at the end looking like NLA, I knew JUST enough about the premise of XBX to be curious about how it all tied in lol!
In short the DLC was basically this glorious nonsensical mess of Xenoblade's greatest hits and I loved every second. Never have I met a game that tried so hard to be my friend lol, letting me do the most cheeseball fanservicey stuff like Shulk and Rex having a shared ultimate attack and offspring of the main cast (not having a Sharla/Reyn descendant was a shockingly missed opportunity lolll) and so many heart-to-hearts reminiscing on events in the previous games plus the slideshow of cutscenes from the other games during the end credits. It made me so danged happy lol.
Okay anyways, about this theme. Like Moment of Eternity from the Torna DLC, it's a stripped down solo piano version of the gorgeous vocal theme, Future Awaits. The only change I made was when the melody recapped--I REALLY wanted more from the harmonies there because it's such an emotionally charged theme, so I beefed the chords up at that point to extend the climax a bit. Otherwise, it's basically the same as in the game, and I hope you enjoy it!!!!
I'll do a writeup post in due course about my plans for this year, but I hope it's been off to a great start for you all, and thank you so much again for listening to me play, reading my wall of text lol and being generally awesome and supportive ❤️ love you guys!!!!! And for those of you going to Magfest this weekend, have a blast! Lots of amazing folks performing, so be sure to catch as many of them as you can!!!