I haven't thought of this song for years, then the other day I was binging Arnold Schwarzenegger and heard Die vierte Kerze at the beginning of his one movie End of Days. And of course it sounds almost exactly like the first part of this song and ended up here.
Jesus, probably one of my favorite games of all time. I occasionally get nostalgic and this is the track I remember the most. Please remaster this series!
Definitely a theme worthy of being an enemy stronghold, where if you fail the rest of us will perish. Not many games that make you feel this anymore...
The Xenosaga Series was heavily influenced by Nietzsche and Carl G. Jung. Each of the titles (e.g. Also Sprach Zarathustra) was named after books written by Nietzsche and theories about the "Shadow" and "Unconscious" were thrown in relating back to Jung. An example of this are the names of "Rubedo, Albedo, and Nigredo." I won't ruin the game for anyone because the series is fantastic and definitely worth a play through. (I Found Xeno III to be the best in terms of storyline. I honestly cried more during Episode 3 than I did during Aerith's Death FF7). To sum it up, the trilogy involves humans thirst for knowledge and power (Gnosticism). The Gnosis represent that forbidden knowledge.
I cried like a baby during the whole ending sequence of Episode III and haven’t had such a reaction to a game since. I remember starting to get emotional and realizing it was the end once -SPOILER- Prellegri willingly refused to evacuate from the ES Issachar and said she was tired. :(
I really wish that they would actually continue on with this story and the developers and so forth. I mean come on, it has been the best game I ever played and still play on my ps2! The games had helped me through many difficult things in my life. The most of it all, people just don't stick through these and truly understand it, some just throw it aside because of the religious concept it has in it, who freakinf cares about that? I certainly don't mind it, amongst the only three games that has came from the series, the idea and story does make me have tears. The ending of III has brilliantly placed me in tears and not most games do. Just imagine it there, living in that era. I mean the imagination s bloody brilliant.
ShadowKeeperX The thing is, both Xenogears and Xenosaga were only ever a shadow of what they could have been, but they were still brilliant in their own right. Xenoblade was the first game Takahashi was able to actually complete, but the focus was definitely on the gameplay more than the story - not to say the story was bad, as it was still an incredible game, but it was more focused on younger people. He said he learned a lot from the experiences, and Gears and Saga were more attempts at pure self-expression and youthful creativity, whereas Xenoblade was an experiment, but also an application of everything he'd learned about game development through the years. Takahashi himself admitted that the era of "story-heavy" games is like these is pretty much over, because there just isn't the widespread public interest to support it anymore, but isn't it a crying shame? Imagine, if the Gears or Saga projects had been see through to completion and given the budget they deserved. A man can dream, anyway.
@@Harvaine You aren't the only one. But, this is what happens when you let lawyers and accountants dictate design schedules. Truly a more soulless bunch has never existed.
Xenosaga would need to be heavily tweaked and redone. I think the better tech we have availavle today would help a lot with the pace and delivery... But a lot of the narration and worldbuilding would need adjustment. A bit less obscurantism, and more thematic consistency.
If I recall correctly, the true Song of Nephilim plays during one of the ending scenes of Episode 3, I believe is the one where Nephilim pulls Abel out of the berserk Zarathustra
This is what should pop into your head when you're writing about an evil, fascist, highly religious society. This song gives me Catholic Church, the same people who helped the Nazis flee during the end of WWII vibes
@@yulikitten Well, yes, but if you are, then don't use the Catholic Church as your starting point because EVERYONE does that. I've seen Atheists on Reddit complaining about the Evil Catholic Church trope and the Evil Pope trope. Hollywood has run those into the ground, along with the Evil Inc. trope and the Stupid Dad trope. The instant your audience sees that your creepy religion has any parallels to the Catholic Church (or any Christian denomination, for that matter,) they will be able to predict EVERYTHING because it's been done already. If you want to come up with a creepy religious organization, go with something that feels more ancient and mysterious. The fewer parallels it has to real-world religions, the less your audience will know what to expect. Because when your audience knows what to expect, it gets BORED, and being boring is the worst thing a story can be.
" song plays in your head when you spotted the Zohar at the laboratory research facility from XC1 and XC2 knowing full well what it does to humans * coughs* fraternal twins*
So beautiful. I have heard this theme in many many shows and previews. The most recent is in teen titans go episode "legs" when cyborg is staring at the clasp/medallion on Ravens cloak
This is strange. I'm watching a South park episode and it seems to use an excerpt of this song. Maybe its something akin to the Wilhelm scream? Just a stock soundbyte thats used in several forms of media?
I wonder who the original artist to that song is? Can't find it anywhere. Heard the song on xenosaga, south park, future tactics back to perfection, and it is now driving me crazy. Can't find the original artist?
chris w powell What i found on the forums: "The four note sequence is just a spooky sequence that's included in some music composing program. I believe Mitsuda admitted he just took it and tweaked it into a full song." "The Song of Nephilim is actually some stock music reworked." So the true origin is totally unknown, all i found was that it's some stock sound that Yasunori Mitsuda made in to a song :D
