Xenosaga III - Godsibb | Reacting To Video Game Music! 

Sorry, minor correction; The background song while I'm talking is Gunbound - Metropolis

it's super rare for Xenosaga to get ANY love, attention, or respect

Xenosaga may not be the same series as Xenoblade, but the two are closer than some would think. Xenosaga is a spiritual successor to Xenogears on the PS1, which was made by Squaresoft. The developers of the game wanted more creative freedom than Square was giving them, so they left the company to form Monolith Soft. They then worked with Namco to make the Xenosaga trilogy on PS2, before being bought by Nintendo to create Xenoblade. All three series have a lot of similarities in their stories and design while still standing on their own. Xenosaga has even crossed over directly with Xenoblade, with the character KOS-MOS appearing in Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

The women from See-Saw, Fiction Junction and Kalafina are absolute Legends. Any song, anytime and you will find a masterpiece. They are truly a treat to listen to.

Yuki Kajiura is a legend in the anime music industry. Sadly, Xenosaga is her only video game credit but she's well-known in the anime space for her beautiful harmonic compositions, even being responsible for scores for some big series like Madoka Magica, Sword Art Online or Demon Slayer. If you're willing to dip your toes in her OSTs, some good recs would be 'Mezame' from Mai-Hime, 'A Shadow' and 'Everytime You Kissed Me' from Pandora Hearts, 'Thanatos' from Kara no Kyoukai, 'Open Your Heart' and 'In The Land of Twilight Under The Moon' from .hack//Sign, 'Hear Our Prayers' and 'A Song of Storm and Fire' from Tsubasa Chronicles.

Yuki Kajiura is an astounding composer, who did an excellent job on many things like Sword Art Online, Noir (my personal favorite), and Madoka Magica; her magnum opus, however, is the soundtrack to the original series of .Hack//Sign. Her command of strings, and ability to blend orchestral strings, tribal chanting (called "Kajuiran" by some fans) that almost seems to be a leitmotif to her music, and electric guitars and/or electronica is magical. The song "We Have To Defeat It" from Sword Art Online came on when friends were watching it, and I looked at a friend with a visible question mark over my head. He responded, "You can tell this is a Yuki Kajiura soundtrack." Her sound is unique.

If you enjoyed this, you should seriously look up 'Kalafina.' It's the 'project/band' that Kajiura put together. It's split up now, but several of the members were present in this studio version of Godsibb. Kajiura is the writer/producer and usually also on the piano in these live performances. I've been a fan of hers for well over a decade now... For those that don't know, the vast majority of Kajiura's songs are sung in her own made up language(which us fans tend to call 'Kajiuran'), which combines Japanese, Latin, and a couple others, with the end goal of using her singers voices' as an instrument. That's why she combines sounds from different languages in her vocals.

Xenosaga Episode III's soundtrack is what got me into Yuki Kajiura in the first place. Godsibb and Promised Pain were boss music tracks that really stuck out to me back then. Kajiura has become quite the renowned composer as of late, but Xenosaga II and III are a couple of her very few videogames she has composed for. Her music is powerful. FICTIONJUNCTION is the name of the band in the video.

Yuki Kajiura, the composer and the pianist, has live concerts of her osts in different animes such as this.

Kajiura Yuki is one of my favorite composers and her band "Kalafina" is still one of my favorites even though they broke up a few years ago (apparently due to corporate meddling but needs further citation). Very sad that I wasn't as much as a fan when they they preformed at Anime Expo 2014 so I never got to see them live in person. But, if you want to hear similar stuff live, a cursory search of "kalafina live" on RU-vid gives a bunch of results from their past concerts.

Xenosaga is sadly an underappreciated IP with fantastic OSTs. I imagine there are many sleeper fans out there who would bolt upright upon hearing that the trilogy got a remaster or even just a re-release of some kind on a modern platform. Please take our money, god damn it!

Oh, harmonized vocals and violins are Kajiura's thing. Her songs are extremely recognizable. Oh and the chaos language.

If a Yuki Kujiura track is playing, its pretty much 100% that the tone of the game or anime series is dark. She can do silly or emotional songs too but songs like this are what make her recognizable. The type of music she does doesn't fit snugly into one genre or another.

I'm so happy that the live version is requested because seeing the ladies in action while singing is still my most favorite thing ♥ But Kajiura Yuki has also been my favorite composer before Revo came into my life, so I'm happiness all over, although I didn't know that this track was composed for a game! I never noticed that Keiko was missing in this song, whoops ... but this live had four singers in total! And since most of the other songs are from anime, I absolutely recommend you checking out the rest if you have the time :3

Yes, Yuki Kaijura is one of my Favorite Musicians, she loves Vilolins and Guitars 😊

Xenosaga is a spiritual successor to Xenogears, and now Xenoblade is a spiritual successor to Xenosaga. All three series share plenty of thematic and visual elements, and they are all headed by director Tetsuya Takahashi. Xenogears, Xenosaga Episode 1 and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and 3 are all headed by Yasunori Mitsuda as lead composer (sole for Gears and Saga 1), so his music has basically been the sound of the entire series so far, either following his epic Celtic style like Yuki Kaijura, ACE+, Kenji Hiramatsu and Manami have in subsequent games. Chronices X is the exception because its composer is Hiroyuki Sawano, more known for his sweeping orchestral and electronic soundtracks for Anime. Then there's the main game composer for Episode 2, but no one talks about memorable tracks from that game aside from Kaijura's contributions, TBH. In this case, Yuki Kaijura takes over composer duties for Xenosaga Episode 2's cutscenes and the entirety of Episode 3. Godsibb is a boss battle theme against one of the main antagonists of Episode 3, and it's so fitting for the particular boss.

Yuki Kajiura is one of my favorite composers. She works mostly on anime and I have physical CDs for lots of them. I couldn't believe it when they announced she would be the main composer for the Xenosaga 2 and 3 games. Xenogears -> Xenosaga -> Xenoblade are part of the same ethos and are spiritual successors, developed by the same team at different companies. Her elaborate orchestral themes and violin solos are simply AMAZING.

Ever since listening to this song and seeing HOW MUCH people love this franchise I have begun waiting for this series to return, just like everyone else! IT DESERVES TO RETURN!!!!!!

The Xenosaga games were indeed made by the same studio as the Xenoblade games, Monolith Soft

I totally requested a Xenosaga II song and I can't wait for you to hear it :D. Kajiura Yuki to me is the queen of a full warm sound, so many layers in her music but so clean. The lyrics are just a made up language Kajiura uses in all her music it's her signature. She always try to sample real instruments.

I'm so glad godsibb was covered, it's such a brilliant song.

Kajiura Yuki and her girls are totally fire! Every soundtrack she touches becomes a legend.

Thanks for reviewing this. I had no idea it existed and ended up spending most of this morning listening to what looks like an entire live DVD of this group's performance. Pretty unique stuff. Also for some reason I'm really digging the way these drums sound, which is something I don't normally notice.

i havent gotten this far in xenosaga yet, but i love how i could Immediately tell this was a yuki kajiura song. she's the first composer i think i ever really started recognising and following in media, and her work is So Good.

The xeno series always goes hard with music. Hopefully you get to hear some other good xeno songs soon like promised pain, dark dawn, fatal fight, omen, awakening, etc.

Oh wow. Didn't think Xenosaga would make it. Very good game. I love xenosaga! I wish they would remake it or at least remaster it Also the lady playing the piano is Yuki Kjiura. She's a music composer/musician. Most of her well known music are from games and anime The group is known as FictionJunction. They have been singing for Kajiura since 2006 (I think)

Love the game version, never heard a live version, if thats really the requested version I'm intrigued

Yuki Kajiura is amazing!! She did OST for .Hack//Sign, Noir and many other anime and video games. She is super talented.

5:31 the look of absolute confusion on your face was spectacular lmao I honestly to god wasn’t expecting a live reaction to “wtf it’s still going?”😂😂😂

Xenogears came first, then Xenosaga, then Xenoblade. They're under the same meta series and by the same creators, but are isolated enough as the rights are split between different companies, Square Enix, Bandai Namco, and Nintendo respectively

Pretty new here and first time commenter, though I've been going through catching up on several vides. It's great to see some Xenosaga love! Yuki Kajiura does really cool stuff. If I recall correctly she was one of the composers for Xenosaga II and the sole composer for Xenosaga III. Hope to see more :D

Omg I never thought you'd get a request like this!!!! I was gonna be a patron soon and request this song but I'm so happy someone did!!!!!!!

Xenosaga had really great music. The image theme of xenosaga 2 is one of my favorite tracks

Oh wow ths is my groove man. Xenosaga was my childhood . Btw Kajiura Yuki is the composer of this song and is pretty much the mastermind of FictionJuntion and Kalafina. The singers are Yuriko, Kaori and Joey(subbing for wakana). Keiko is the 4th member but this song doesn't have bass parts so she ain't here. edit. Just had to comment about that "they're made to sing with each other" comment. That's the genius of the composer man. I'd admit some of their members still lack solo singing skills but when they sing a kajiura arangement, they suddenly sound like goddesses.

This 🔥. I think this is the first Xenosaga video you have. One way to describe the Xenosaga Trilogy whether it be the games themselves or just the music is "space opera"

ngl, seeing you cover a xenosaga music gets me crying. i loved this series a lot when i was a kid and i lost my trilogy copy long ago and seeing this pop up in my recommendations just makes me nostalgic. this series got me listening to yuki kajiura music. she's such an awesome composer.

I had no idea there was a live version of this. Wow, that was insanely good!

I once went shopping wearing sunglasses because the light hurt my eyes, so there.

The band/group is called FictionJunction, led by Yuki Kajiura. They've worked on many games and anime soundtracks together and you should totally react to more of their stuff.

Thank you for your reaction, this was amazing!

The "band" fictionjunction is a little odd, in that the only constant member is the producer yuki kajiura, who migrates from project to project, rolling up all these absurd talents into a beautiful operatic fusion drumnbass electronica katamari, and then starts over when she thinks some part of her process gets stale. Her early work was the crisp meaty center of so many early 2000's amvs, it's a little crazy. Big mover/shaker. Thank God she quit her IT job for this.

The look on your face when it came back in XD seriously though this is incredible

Sir Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Incoming! Thank you, I will be a patient boi for this.

You know what they say about people who wear sunglasses indoors, right? That's right, it's that they're very cool.

Yuki Kajiura writes specifically for her vocalists and they're speaking a language often referred to as Kajiurese, which is a made up language to give vocals to a track without detracting from the music because you're focusing on the lyrics. Yuki Kajiura does music for a lot of games and even a few anime including Sword Art Online and Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicle

One of many awesome songs from Xenosaga. Also this live ver is kickass

Yuki Kaijura is a legendary composer. She did the soundtrack for the .hack, Noir, Sword Art and Fate series. Her songs have a very paticular sound. She also formed a group called Kalafina...which may be who youre listening too here.

Now Jesse only has Xenogears OST left to react to cover the whole xeno series. I'd love him to react to Light from the Netherworld.

Underrated series, own the soundtrack for ep 1. Violin is always a fav in ost. I recommand giving the Atelier Series a listen. Xenogears-Xenoblade-Xenosaga is the universe meta order.

Oh sh*t, Xenosaga 3. One of the greatest RPGs ever made. Love this song as well, though there's at least one from this game I like even more.

This boss fight is probably one of the best in Xenosaga 3 and it’s accompanied by one of the best tracks in the game imho, nice review

Yup you know when the name has xenos in it gonna have banger like this

Xenosaga was Monolithsoft's first IP and then later they went on to make Xenoblade. Xenogears was the inspiration for the later games in the Xeno series, and their relation is that Tetsuya Takahashi is the director (usually)

The composer of this song i believe did both Xenosaga 2 and 3 soundtracks and did work for the anime Sword Art Online from which "luminous sword" and "swordland" come to mind (both having having a heavier remix named "light your sword " and "gunland" respectively for the second season ost), violins and singers are more prominent in the original iterations of the songs than the latter remixes. I don't know if anime ost is viable but if not, at least give a try to those two songs in your spare time.

Hey there, if you’re interested I would recommend checking out the Calamity Mod ost at some point. It has a very niche community unfortunately so a good chunk of people either don’t hear of it very often or are put off by the fact that it accompanies a mod. Despite that though the amount of work that the author put into it for a (relatively) small community is pretty crazy. Regardless of what happens though keep up the great work!

Xenosaga is in fact a Monolithsoft game series, just as Xenoblade and Xenogears (sort of) are. And they all share themes, design elements, and some degree of underlying lore and cosmology though Xenogears, Xenosaga, and Xenoblade are all from under different ownership. Each series references the prior heavily. Xenogears from when Takahashi (creator of Monolithsoft) worked for Squaresoft, Xenosaga from when Monolithsoft was owned by Namco, and Xenoblade now that Monolithsoft is owned by Nintendo.

Wow a trip to memory lane for me lol I was 17 when this game came out

Omega Metampsychosis epic af fight

For some very strange reason the very beginning made me think of the classic Visitors miniseries theme. I have no idea why. Also... this made me remember I have yet to actually play the Xenosaga trilogy. ... Too many games... too many games...

The creator of Xenoblade both did, in the past, Xenogear and Xenosaga. Also, speaking about Xenoblade, check out Zanza theme from Xenoblade 1 OST. You can really hear the similarities between Zanza theme to this song. You'll hear that Zanza theme is perhaps influenced by Godsibb theme. Their both great!

HURRAY fictionjunction!!

Would it surprise you in the slightest to learn that this is the boss battle music for a *_MAJOR_* character that had been built up to for two and a half games?

My favorite part of Godsibb is that the lyrics is literally gibberish.

Xenosaga is amazing, I wish it got more love than it does. Also, yes, Xenosaga is related to Xenogears and Xenoblade. Same director, but all different companies. Xenogears > Squaresoft/Square Enix Xenosaga > Namco/Bandai Namco Xenoblade > Nintendo Not all of the games have the same composer, but the Xenosaga series has had Yasunori Mitsuda (Episode I), Shinji Hosoe (Episode II, in game soundtrack), and Yuki Kajiura (Episode II cutscene songs, and the whole Episode III soundtrack) as the composers. If you haven't played Xenosaga, you should do so. It's such an underrated series. Not even its owners love it as much as the fans do. *Glaring at Bandai Namco intensely.* edit: also, here's the version that was for the game itself. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VjPWTEtuv74.html edit (2): 12:28 You said "Xenogears godsibb" lol, I doubt it was intentional tho but it was a funny thing I noticed

would love to see you react to attack on titan all 7 openings, I know it's not your usual stuff but I think you'd like it

while Godsibb is already a compositional masterpiece, wait until you get to a piece with Keiko Kubota on vocals.

A comment late, Very late. But I don't know what you all think about this 8 time pose to get back very powerfuly with a full layering. Edit : Also the live performance of every Yuki Kajiura related are the ones with the most quality.

Xenosaga, as well as Xenogears arent directly connected to Xenoblade, but they share the same creator, and characters from Saga made cameos in Blade 2, and there's a nod to the other games in the story of 2. Also Square-Enix (Xenogears) and Bandai-Namco (Xenosaga) collaborated with Monolith on Xenoblade 2.

If you want more Xenosaga, I suggest Xenosaga 2's "Fatal Fight", used in a cinematic, by the same composer. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YtA-iLt2rgw.html There's also a Xenosage 3 version which is used for a special boss battle. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IOuWFGrsDJE.html The one in 2 is the original. It's still in my VGM playlist after all the years I've known it.

Xenosaga has a lot of religious themes, "Godsibb" is middle-English for "godparent.

At some point Xenosaga were supposed to be the prequel to Xenogears because Xenogears is episode 5. And there's supposed to be 6 episodes in total. I don't know when the plan change but some rumors said it was changed on the development of 2 or 3. Another speculation is also the 6 episode plan were scrapped when the team that now Monolith Soft left Square-Enix. Also, Kajiura Yuki is one of my favorite composer. I mever realized that Godsibb is Xenosaga's song

Ooooooooh, have you heard any of Library of Ruina's music? Stuff's legit!

Xenosaga III is in my top 5 games of all time Those who played it know its one of the GOATS Fun Fact Yuki Kajiura made up the lyrics its not a real language

Dude you really should react to attack on titan osts And The live performances is absolutly insane like ashes on the live

So what kind of headphones are you wearing?

God i miss Xenosaga so much. Such an underappreciated series because of awful marketing. Xenosaga 1 and 3 are such insanely good games. Xenosaga 2 unfortunately killed any chance of the series seeing huge success because of how horrendously bad the global market was and how bad the gameplay was compared to 1 and 3 (because 2 was given to another person to work on.) But Xenosaga 1 and 3 were just in another class of their own. The music is absolutely bonechilling across the series and hits the themes of the story perfectly.

Oh no... I knew I was going to play Xenosaga, but now I know I'm going to have to buy the soundtracks too... Please don't be like $200 apiece

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Xenosaga and Xenoblade have the same developers, but not the same composers. Except for Yasunori Mitsuda, who composed for Xenosaga 1 and Xenoblade 2 and 3.

Superb ost. Unfortunately live performances kill the sense of immersion for me

Xenosaga is in fact not related to Xenoblade! It is a very old rpg series that was made on PS2, and maybe the third was on PS3 but I could be wrong. Xenosaga has a very interesting story, and such cool characters. It was one of the harder rpg's with a turn-based batte system at the time, enemies were no push-overs. But yeah, entirely its own thing!