Sora no Kiseki SC OST - The Merciless Savior 

...Wait, did he not compose any tracks for Zero or Azure? (He died in 2014 so he COULD have composed something for those ones if he was still part of the sound team then)

@@CaptainJarkes He left in 2008, on reasons unknown to anyone but himself

@@leonhardtbelgar2468 He was sick. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2014.

@@albundy1485 Very sad, such a shame cus his works in these games is just some of the very best game music I've ever laid ears to. This & Challenger Invited are my absolute favs.

Ishibashi left in 2005 not long before the game came out, then joined SuperSweep but was only there for less than a year. He did some great music for Super Dragon Ball Z, Taiko no Tatsujin as well as his own albums. A lot of Falcom fans don't seem to be aware of his non-Falcom work.

it got there and then a little

@@meinman7591 Hell yeah :D Onwards to 1 million one day!

@@AnimeWins here's to hoping mate. Heck, I hope this masterpiece becomes more recognized around the world

That's one of the things I praise the most about this game, the use of the "villains leitmotif", its present in other songs as well like Conspiracy and Flying Battleship Glorious, the use of this little tune is absolute genius throught the game, it teases the player and builds up to those amazing fights.

ITS ACTUALLY THE LEITMOTIF OF THE ENFORCERS!!!!

@@haekalode4886 Someone's extremely excited about the leitmotif. Not that I can blame you - it's excellent.

After getting to know his backstory, that "final moment" between Weissman and Kevin gets even more disturbing (especially because Kevin certainly had to know about his past). SPOILERS Sure, he committed way too many serious crimes at that point and was probably beyond redemption, but Weissmann's unfortunate circumstances are a big reason of why he became evil. The way how Kevin reveled in his assassination (even using the same "thing" that killed his parents) was shocking because it exposed a very dark side of a character that until then seemed a good guy through and through.

Nothing I've heard in this series beats this so far. This is truly peak Ishibashi work before he left and passed away.

@@atomickaiser1934 ishibashi magnus opus

1 year late but I'm pretty sure the melody for I swear IS the melody of the main sora theme

Just beat SC tonight with a couple friends watching who were familiar with the series. Jumping into 3rd very soon, can’t wait to see where things go from here. These games are something else!

These games may not look like something spectacular from side point of view, but when you playing its totally different picture. Even if nothing epic happens at some times, you are still addicted and want to play more.

Not a famous opinion, but I rather think every game gets worse and worse. So many attempts to add details to the story ends up showing us clichés that are formed specifically in Japanese manga culture from presumably decades ago.

@@Tongireth I kinda agree with that, but in my opinion hajimari and kuro had a jump in writing quality compared to cold steel, the writing is not on par with sky but it is definitely better imo

@@ludwigmoller7611 well nothing could go worse than Cold Shite

It's​ a bit of a waste to use Zeram powders on Agate really, Since he can just use Wild rage.

ThisIsALoli zeram powders is faster

Best used on Joshua rather Agate, then you can easily spam Phantom Raid + Dragon Dive (Zerams really are a waste on Agate at the end of the day)

*when Kevin overdoses on Zeram powder

@@iwanttoputkamuistoesinmymo5938 You want faster WITHOUT wasting a rare item? Use Schera's Heaven's Kiss craft on Agate after someone heals him(to offset the HP loss of any previous Wild Rage uses) and have Agate do it again. I cheesed the final boss with Estelle, Joshua, Agate and Schera. I purposely built Agate to have more SPD than Schera, so she went last. Joshua would cast Earth Wall, Estelle would cast any healing spells or use any items necessary to keep this strategy going, Agate would Wild Rage, and Schera would AT advance everyone with Heaven's Kiss. Estelle would heal Agate, Joshua would finish casting a spell or begin casting another, Agate would do another Wild Rage, wipe the field(Joshua would help with HIS S craft here and there) and....yeah, the boss was very much cheesed.

nerd ^

Makes you wonder how well the songs would become if he stayed alive for alot longer huh?

It honestly reminds me of the different movements of Dancing Mad from Final Fantasy VI in a way.

@@xedron5897 God damn that would be insane. This track alone just makes you feel something by the end that most games can't pull off.

+Charles Ponthier No lies detected.

Hey bud, I have been listening to and admiring the soundtrack to this game for many years now, well before it ever came out in the U.S. I REALLY want to finally give this game a go, but am still not quite sure what the best version of this game is to play in the U.S. Which version and system did this game/series come out for in the U.S. that you'd recommend and what are the official names of the games? There seems to be so many of these games as well as similarly named games for the PSP with the Legend of Heroes name and so I am a bit confused as to which one is the right one to play. I seem to remember playing one specific Legend of Heroes game on the PSP and remember it being horrible, but I don't think it was the same series, just was the same in name alone. I think there is another series with the same name that is really bad?

Catharsis You don’t need to play the Crossbell Arc before the Cold Steel games. They happen concurrently. Play the Trails in the Sky trilogy, then play Cold Steel while you’re waiting for the Zero games to come out. Aside from a few references to the Crossbell (Zero) games (and a cameo at the end of the second Cold Steel game) you won’t miss out on the overall story. Highly recommend you play these games. They’re without question some of the top JRPGs in existence.

skins4thewin: Not really a different series. You probably played one of the Gagharv trilogy (which came before Trails), likely A Tear of Vermillion (which is actually a good game, though not as good as Trails, but had a horrible localization). Trails in the Sky FC (First Chapter) was actually the 6th game in the LoH series, but it doesn't have any ties to previous games in the series afaik. You can play The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky and its sequel (Trails in the Sky SC) on both PSP and PC, though the third game (Trails in the Sky the 3rd) is only available on PC.

Play trails in the sky on pc, then trails in the sky sc. Trails in the sky 3rd comes after that. After you play 3rd are 2 games known as the crossbell duology. Zero no kiseki, and Ao no kiseki. they are not currently in english (though t here are a couple of mostly complete fan translations available) as psp game patches. Before you play those two though, officially, there is Trails of Cold Steel 1, and 2, on pc and ps3.. these 2 cold steel games are effectively as good to play as the crossbell duology after trails in the sky 3rd. However cold steel 2 doesn't end its arc, there is a 3 (in japan only), and though I haven't played it, I heard that it is best to play crossbell beforehand. So even though it's not out in english quite yet. I would suggest consdering the fan translations of crossbell at that point before playing cs (cold steel) 3... IN ANY CASE., at least play trails in the sky, trails in the sky SC, and third to begin with, then Cold steel 1 and 2 are good afterwards, after that, you can probably figure out for yourself what is the best course of action.

Falcom and Tales Namco is best at make stories in rpg.

@@manoharalisa5829 Until you play arise and cold steel 2.

@@atomickaiser1934 haha...

To be fair though, this One Winged Angel beats the crap out of the original, at least as far as soundtrack and characterization goes.

Are you saying that SC beats FC's soundtrack? Huge lie right there. There was not a single song that was better than Silver Will from SC's soundtrack. Not only that but most of SC's soundtrack usage comprised of FC's soundtrack. SC has a good sountrack but relied more on FC's soundtrack. And as for characterization, well I mean that's obvious and not really fair to FC. Trails is a long journey that doesn't achieve itself from just SC.

+Mxs No, he's saying Trails in The Sky is better than FFVII

Hafizh M That makes no sense lol

I know, it's like he forgot the first half of his sentence before writing the rest. But he's definitely referring to FF.

And you know you're commenting on every single video? And I note it down?

:)

And now I'm playing copycat :)

If it sounds like jazz then it's because the first battle theme of the FC was jazzy :D so it makes sense to mirror that

+Joffrey Baratheon Well not like this boss theme or any of them were jazz, but still yeah this theme is freakin awesome. Can't wait to hear the SC Evolution version.

CursedFein I disagree on that, i wouldn't say its better but nothing about it made much different from the original (besides one part of the song) which is good because it didn't need to be too different. If you didn't like it, that's fine, i was happy about and will probably for this one's. Most cuz hell kinda sucks some really good pieces don't get touched much (though they have alot of songs so kinda understandable).

+AkumetsuRecords Now that it has been released I think we can safely say The Merciless Savior in EVO kinda sucks except for the vocal part from 3:13 onwards.

ShinenYuri Very much disagree but i wouldn't say its as powerful or better than the original. It hits the same feel of fighting the boss and is pretty much the same as its original so i don't get why you have to use "sucks" if you couldn't find better way of saying "not better than original". Still i do agree with you, it won't take the original's spot, but i find it just as good.

I use "suck" because to me it "sucked". It's not just kinda inferior, it's vastly inferior. Maybe "suck" is a bit too blunt but it's of course a valid response, I guess. Take Ao EVO's Azure Arbitrator, I consider it equal to the original one because both have their own goods. But to me everything felt kinda inferior in the Merciless Savior from SC EVO. That said, I've noted that there's a part I liked much more than the one in the original, and even said at which minute it starts. That part was marvelously done, strikes the feeling of the battle perfectly, it's just that when I listen to everything else from the song I don't feel that use of the instrumental The Merciless Savior from regular SC had.

You beat it in 70 hours? Damn, my slow ass took over 100 hours. Though I did do a max BP run.

@@FirstLast-mn4re It took me ~70-75 hours to finish, grinding included. What were you doing, my fellow bracer?

@@cringemaki I talked to most NPCs at every opportunity. Also did max BP and got every steam achievement for SC in a single playthrough.

@@FirstLast-mn4re Understandable, have a nice day. I talked to most of them, I played on PSP FC and SC so I didn't know about the achievements. Still, you're a mvp

@@FirstLast-mn4re dude i took 180 hours LOL

Not sure if it wanted to save humanity or just save itself, the aureole seems like a very rudimentary magical A.I. with a few basic commands coded into it like "if: capable of granting wish to human then grant wish to human, elif: only grant wish in the mind of human, else: prioritize existence of aureole".

@@Amenomihashira Totally agree, to me "The merciless Savior" is Weissmann for sure, after hearing the reasons he wants to use the Aureole for it makes a lot of sense to call him a merciless savior

Interesting reading this while you have a pic of Joshua.

@@Amenomihashira So everyone was just wishing for anything like changing the way they look, looking younger, stronger or even getting a new toy for their child?

@@PhilipsLS1300 Yep, when you have everything you could possibly want, you ironically lose your driving force to live on.

boss was actually kinda not very hard, but the bgm was good. and I say that as someone who normally hates vocal chorus bgms for final boss tracks. sounds so forced and melodramatic. but this one was good. Possibly because this was the first rpg that truly had an epic story.. well maybe xenogears was the first, but this one was 2nd and even more epic.

If you beat Lowe then you're solid Weissman is nothing compared to him lol

Same here, was playing on hard (a mistake IMO), still great fight, it was a fucking struggle, Joshua and Kevin died and the last HP life bar remains was solelly Estelle and Kloe going physical and crafting at the asshole, TENSE. Kloe landed the final blow with her sword.

AngelicDetective86 This boss was af. Lowe was waaay harder. Quite possibly the hardest boss in the game.

If you saved your Zeram items, it was fairly quick once you remembered to get rid of the little guys first.

Listen Azure arbitrator

​@@nikolaikolev8433My man

Couldn't agree more. :)

For me its 7:23

I just finished Trails to Azure and yes, The Azure Arbitrator is fucking insanity and quite easily one of the greatest final boss themes I have ever heard in my life, but I still think this song is a bit better because of its amazing use of leitmotifs that are present in many tracks from FC and SC.

Currently at Cold Steel III, let's see if Spiral of Erebos delivers... Edit: Spiral of Erebos isn't the final boss theme lmao

Finally beat Cold Steel IV, this still is still the GOAT in terms of final boss music.

@@Leotsune Working through them myself lol. Currently on Cold Steel 4: Act 1 Crossbell I think the only thing that can rival Sky's final boss theme is something from Ys.

It gets even better in ao no kiseki

This game was seriously awesome i'm glad i'm going through the games from the beginning to prepare for CS4

@@babatundeismail6732 please do!! You won’t regret it. I did the same and I’m on CS4 now and enjoying it so much more

@@Tankerminion I plan too once I complete the other games and replay cold steel 1-3 again i'll definitely be able to enjoy them alot more since i'll be able to understand all the references I missed before, and that excites me even more for what CS4 has to offer since it's the conclusion of all the arcs up to that point

I tried FC first and got bored so I refunded it. Thank god I decided to give Trails another try with CS1. Absolutely loved that game and instantly bought the sequel. By the time I was done witb CS2 I was already obsessed with the lore, the gameplay mechanics, locations and seeing previous events. So I went back and played the Sky trilogy back to back, this time enjoying it a lot (cause I was already invested in the world and mechanics). I just finished watching a summary of Crossbell games while I do NG+ of both CS1 and 2. Currently on the finale of CS2, then I would jump on CS3 right away... but Elden Ring is coming out

@@Walamonga1313 I completely agree that this game pulls you in with great worldbuilding, music and characters. CS3 is great too but it’s on the lower end of the 4 games along with 2. You’ll definitely appreciate it more having played the Crossbell games but watching is great too. Are you gonna get Zero when it releases this fall?

*everything blends naturally* Singa: Hold my beer. Also Singa: _drops his beer_

BuyMeThingsNow listen to a track called "Azure Arbitrator" and compare the two. Also made by Falcom, but it just blows this out the water.

+Malcolm Fitzpatrick I heard Arbitrator long before, and I disagree. It's top notch rocking, but Merciless Savior has vastly more emotion infused IMO. It practically sums the whole journey.

BuyMeThingsNow never played part 2. took too long to come out. guess its a matter of taste.

Malcolm Fitzpatrick It's worth it IMO. The two form the best rpg I've ever played. But I was in love and needed more from First Chapter, so maybe a matter of taste.

10/8 actually ;)

You must've never played Final Fantasy

@@Walamonga1313lmao them having a vivi avatar makes this 10x funnier💀

I had Joshua lead a Chain 3 combo that finished him. The last person on the chain was Kloe, meaning technically the kill belonged to Sieg. I could think of no more fitting end for the product of Weissman's warped desires.

Finished the game last night and felt like I just had to so I gave joshua my last zeram powder for a phantom raid

Of course you'd say that Rean.

I can't believe I understand this lol

I laughed so hard for one minute after reading this comment, so accurate 😂

Same thing for me but just with Kevin who got hit, the more time after the attack passed, the more I was freaking out because I didn't saw Kevin came back, and when I saw the boss do the same attack again, I realised I lost Kevin for the fight (but oh well, Joshua is a beast so even in hard it was easy to finish the boss, I just freaked out a bit)

I had this happen because it hit both Joshua and Kevin when they had immunity up. I ended up losing that attempt lmao.

lol, same for me except that was Kevin, but I thought that he would come back if I wait long enough, like in cold steel

Nah Weismann is pretty high up there. It took Loewe sacrificing himself/breaking a Divergent Law sword to expose a weakness.

I used Olivier in my final party, he isn't that bad. Vander on the other hand...

Really? The final boss has low DEF. Heck, is one of the bosses that Estelle can actually hurt him a lot with physical attacks , rather than cause passable damage for most other bosses and usually being better off using arts instead. So I assume Vander would have little issue, specially if STR buffed.

yes but i wanted it to be my favourite characters, i only brought the two of them because i figured they're erebonians and want to see their reaction to loewe and the hamel incident. the boss is still easy to smack down, just that i want it to be other characters instead

I'd like to hear that ost you're talking about, could you provide a link or the name of that game?

@@MrSasukeSusanoo It's Serpent Devouring the Ground from Bravely Default. It's awesome enough on its own, but the way the song evolves with the flow of the battle is really something amazing, it sets the mood of what's happening in a way I've almost never seen in a final boss, even final bosses with multiple forms. You'd honestly have to play it to appreciate it.

@@GalanOfTruth oh yeah I know that one, pretty epic ost! One of my all times favourites

@@MrSasukeSusanoo There's a point where the fight reaches its climax and they add a remix of each character's theme song, plus the remix of the game's main theme to top it off, and the way it goes down literally makes the player feel so confident that they can't lose lol. Every jrpg i've played since, even ones better than bravely default, haven't quite matched what this theme does.

a shame the only good part of bravely default is the music

I don't know if you played the most recent game in the west, but keep this kind of mindset and you will see how right you are, haha.

@@markjoseph6243 The most recent Legend of Heroes games you mean?

@@Sextus70 Yes, my bad, haha I said it in such stupid way

Which is cool considering this came out way before bloodborne and even the Souls games.

Grail locket won't save you rip kloe

Rest in peace queen, we'll miss and love you 😔👊

A better Zero no Kiseki fan translation recently just finished while you have to make do for the _okay_ fantranslations in Ao no Kiseki

Wow, where can I get it at?

@@tribblefairy5735 the geofront patch for zero(not ao) is already complete but is still being proofread so you can wait for it for a few weeks or so or play the _okay_ translations of zero and ao with a PSP emulator by dowloading it after searching it in the web(search zero/ao no kiseki psp english). The _okay_ translations are good enough except for a few grammatical errors and untranslated books

@@tribblefairy5735 I can send you a link to both "okay" translations if you want. PC version with voices from Evo. I just don't know how RU-vid would deal with it (in comments). Also, may I ask from where is your profile pic? Seems like an amazing Arianrhod art! Thanks in advance

I think I'll wait for the better Zero no Kiseki fan translation. Can I find it in the same place as the okay one? @Lyff Here is the link to the link to the pic :D file:///C:/Users/tribb/Pictures/Pictures/Stahlritter/954274.jpg

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