FFXV Ep Ardyn - Somnus Boss Fight Theme | Reacting To Video Game Music! 

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I ADORED Darin de Pauls performance throughout FFXV but in Episode Ardyn he really gave it his all. Bone chilling performance!

Gotta love the 15 lore, makes me feel like playing it again now... for like the 4th time lol

Oh, my boy Ardyn was done so dirty...

I also really love that the song changes between Ardyn's and Somnus' theme back and forth, as if the leitmotifs were fighting as well. I love this track so much and it's a shame that it never got a proper release 😭

@@freevulture5607 Only 4 times? Loool

Really good game with a lot of charm. My personal favourite song from the game is Hellfire which is an amazing piece.

Yeah i tried replaying it but it just felt so empty. I got too apathetic. I have to say the first playthrough was pretty good story wise though. They did a good job making you care about the gang.

I heard rumors that it was because of the cost of those DLCs. From the looks of it, they were planning to make big scale battles and stuff, which would've resulted in a loss. Too much money and effort put into some DLCs not enough people would've bought. Mostly everyone was over and done with FFXV at that point. But hey, at least they weren't entirely lost. Those DLCs live on through the Dawn of the Future book.

They wrote the final act of the game in a book.

Nah, the best version is the marching band at the beginning of Ardyn DLC lol

Never played VI, but Ardyn really has reasons for what he does. It's a pity his story is a DLC only and not really explored in the game, he deserved more! He is way more complicated than the likes of Sephiroth really but most players never knew.

Caius won too

False. Mateus Palamecia conquered Heaven and Hell. Didn't last long, but he did. Cloud of Darkness has won an innumerable amount of time in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Kefka didn't win. His true goal was exclaimed in the quote before the final battle. Venat and Vayne, were the only true wins. They wanted to bring the age of man, and did so. Caius is thought to have won, but his state in 13-3 shows he didn't.

Do it and upload it. Then tag me.

Also I'd recommend Hic Svnt Leones from FFXIV. Banger boss theme though I may be in the minority there

Wow, a very interesting piece of music.

@@EsporHB It was mainly for the vocal section at 4:50 :)

@@JessesAuditorium which is ffxv main theme: Somnus ;D

It was either Kenji Hiramatsu or Taku Iwasaki. If I had to guess, I’d say Kenji. Seems more in line with this compositions.

@@c.a.honeycutt5046 You might be right. I think Iwasaki only worked on the main theme, at least according to the ending credits. Hiramatsu is indeed credited as the main composer, though I don't know if there might be other unnamed composers/arrangers in the credits, or that composers like Yoshitaka Suzuki or Yoshino Aoki returned for this DLC (I don't think it's Suzuki, not sure about Aoki).

New feature so i dont have to battle with volumes! It's called audio ducking / sidechain ^_^

@@JessesAuditorium love that :D

Welcome to my brain 🎼

like an hour into the game the day I got it, I got to the point where they tell story by just switching to clips from the Kingsglaive prequel movie that come out a few months prior to the game and I just had this awful sinking reaction of "oh no, this game isn't finished huh?" I had a blast playing FFXV and ultimately came out liking it but man oh man is it a giant collection of wasted potential. They more or less succeeded story-wise when it came to the relationships between your core party but apparently that came at the cost of... well pretty much every other aspect of the story which was all spectacularly undercooked or straight up missing. Kinda sad we never got to see the weird romeo/juliet mafia drama plotline that was clearly what Nomura was going for when he was at the helm but at the same time that man almost turned the game into a musical after seeing Les Mis so it's probably for the best he got shifted elsewhere. That all said, the music cannot be faulted with this game. they did an amazing job with the soundtrack.

The game was super super ambitious honestly. I think all the dlcs, the movie, the anime and the companion book were all supposed to be in the game as well as comrades which would lead to different outcomes based on how u played and lead to different endings. If u read the book that tells the stories of episode, lunafreya aranea and noctis you learn Bahamut is the final villain and he manipulated ardyn, noctis and lungreay into bringing about the destruction of the world so he may wipe the slate clean and remake it in his image. I believe the origional game ending is the neutral ending where peace is brought but at the cost of the characters loves, the bad ending would be bahamut succeeding and the best ending being the finale of episode noctis where he and ardyn team up by having ardyn die and killing bahamit in the astral relm while noctis kills bahamit in the physical relm to restore balance and take away the rule of gods which ardyn wanted to do in episode ardyn but wasnt able to do due to bahamut and his brothers interference

And Unseen Abyss!