New Dungeon preview : Could Omega be the final dungeon that was showed?

[Alberel]

Alberel, I have to agree that I think that song is based in FF6, but instead of the battle theme I feel it has the same structure as the Battle to the Death song... which was used for the Atma weapon fight. It just has that cadence in my mind but its sort of hard to notice since the FF6 version sounds so wild.

Oh wow, you're right! That is a much closer match! In fact the melodies are almost identical at certain points.

Which FF? XIV. Which context? Watch the Heavensward opening FMV again.

That leitmotif plays at a few different points. While it may have some coincidental (or not) resemblance to past FF tunes, I believe we can think of it as Soken's own "main theme," not unlike the leitmotif used in ARR that culminates in the Praetorium assault theme.

I suspect that place is our final 8-man story dungeon, but how we get there from dragons and Ishgard is going to be the big question this time around.

That last dungeon is almost certainly a part of the Floating Continent from FF6. We've also had concept art confirming the existence of the Warring Triad on the island somewhere as well. Given that all the Crystal Tower quests and locations used tracks from FF3 it is almost expected that a location based on FF6 will use some musical inspiration from the game as well.

This is the track that Taliss was referring to above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH40gYZhwWI

And this is the final dungeon track from the new trailer: https://youtu.be/YGcvnNOe34k?t=5m42s

I find it hard to believe the obvious similarities are pure coincidence on Soken's part.

[Frederick22]

Oh wow, you're right! That is a much closer match! In fact the melodies are almost identical at certain points.



That last dungeon is almost certainly a part of the Floating Continent from FF6. We've also had concept art confirming the existence of the Warring Triad on the island somewhere as well. Given that all the Crystal Tower quests and locations used tracks from FF3 it is almost expected that a location based on FF6 will use some musical inspiration from the game as well.

This is the track that Taliss was referring to above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH40gYZhwWI

And this is the final dungeon track from the new trailer: https://youtu.be/YGcvnNOe34k?t=5m42s

I find it hard to believe the obvious similarities are pure coincidence on Soken's part.

The first one of the 2 last dungeons I have to said that is from the floating continent, but im quite no so sure with the second one

[Fenral]

I find it hard to believe the obvious similarities are pure coincidence on Soken's part.

Because it's Soken, (rather, arranger Yoshitaka Suzuki) I could believe it's a coincidence, or at least unintentional.

Final Fantasy XIV: ARR - The Corpse Hall

The Last Story - Order and Chaos

This happens in the industry all the time. Probably intentional this time, though. Probably. The latter part is definitely original, but that intro is very FF6.

[Taliss]

Also of note with the FF6 references... Did anyone else think that the first of those allagan dungeons (with all the winged ixal) might have been the FFXIV allusion to the FF6 magitek research facility? With Garleans taking that Gestahlian Empire feel anyways. Maybe those ixal could even be children of the great Valigarmanda / Tritoch that gets the whole of FF6 started? ideas.. ideas...