The ending to Stormblood...

[Ameela]

Man I have to say it left a really bitter taste in my mouth sadly...
The fight was disappointingly easy and anticlimactic (are we really going to use Thunderer again...?), the way it ends just feels tacked on for HW nostalgia bux and nothing even really happens? Like I was expecting the transition into the Warrior of Darkness to be an actually active event in the story but I guess with everything we know it's just going to be a label we get whenever we decide to go to the First...

[Iscah]

(are we really going to use Thunderer again...?)

Thunderer is epic! The music that tells us "prepare to fight an Ascian!"

I'm absolutely fine with it being used here, though I'm more disappointed that it gets used for non-Ascian things like Ixion. Makes it less special.

[Ameela]

Thunderer is epic! The music that tells us "prepare to fight an Ascian!"

I'm absolutely fine with it being used here, though I'm more disappointed that it gets used for non-Ascian things like Ixion. Makes it less special.

Yeah I think that's it: the song has been used so much at this point that all of its impact is gone.
Plus is it really the track that should be playing during the Warrior of Light's triumphant arrival and rescue of their friends? During the final encounter of the entire expansion, one which we've been trying to beat solo since the very start?
IMO if Revolutions should have played anywhere, this fight would have been the perfect place to do it, even if it's just a relatively mindless one-and-done story fight I think it would have greatly elevated it and the rest of the finale.

[Iscah]

Yeah I think that's it: the song has been used so much at this point that all of its impact is gone.
Plus is it really the track that should be playing during the Warrior of Light's triumphant arrival and rescue of their friends? During the final encounter of the entire expansion, one which we've been trying to beat solo since the very start?

Well, yes, because we're going to fight an Ascian...

Sure, it looks like the guy we've been repeatedly fighting throughout Stormblood, but he's not in there any more. We're fighting Elidibus this time.

It would have been good to work Revolutions in there somehow, but I don't think it would quite work for that fight.

[Ameela]

Well, yes, because we're going to fight an Ascian...

Sure, it looks like the guy we've been repeatedly fighting throughout Stormblood, but he's not in there any more. We're fighting Elidibus this time.

It would have been good to work Revolutions in there somehow, but I don't think it would quite work for that fight.

Yeah but it's not like every Ascian fight needs Thunderer playing, we even have Ascian Prime already which has Maker's Ruin (which, speaking of, would've been another good fit for the fight since it's essentially the WoL's theme)

But I dunno, maybe it's just because Eureka soured me on the track in general.

[Iscah]

But I dunno, maybe it's just because Eureka soured me on the track in general.

Oh, I haven't done much Eureka... but I do remember it being used there now that you mention it.

Was trying to think where else I'd heard it to be annoyed about it being used for non-Ascian fights.

[Reynhart]

Was trying to think where else I'd heard it to be annoyed about it being used for non-Ascian fights.

It was also used for Twintania and, IIRC, early big FATEs like Behemoth.