Patch 3.2 Trailer Discussion

[Theodric]

Even with the little we hear of the tracks in the trailer I already know I'm going to love the new Lost City theme, Antitower's theme and the FF6 inspired track for Sephirot. I'll be even more excited if they include a nod to Calcabrina's original theme too.

[Phyllo]

The music of the second phase was "The Feast" 's music, we don't know how the music will play out yet.

you can actually hear a few seconds of the second phase of Sephirot just before the Feast's theme begins, it starts when the air pulsates and Sephirot lifts himself using the platform now giant sized and ends when the fade to black happens leaving its place for the FATE theme remix that will be used in the Feast.
It's only a few seconds but it kinda sound techno ish to me.

[FeliAiko]

You like the part where a woman is screaming YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHHH or whatever at the start, we are talking about the same part right? Because that's what I mean when I say RIGHT at the start. People like hearing that? More power to yah if you like the first 5 seconds to be the best part I guess.

I get the impression they meant the part that happens after that wailing 'intro', where the first verse is sung in a fictional language, before the next one uses English lyrics.

[CyrilLucifer]

Nah, I was referring to the nasal chanting.

Thunder Rolls opinions ahead, unrelated to the thread, just discussion of music.

She's not going "Yeeeeeeeah;" it's far more similar to when you might hear a singer go "Laaaaaa" just with your tongue placed differently differently and breathier, like the louder, heavily stomach-based singing of an opera. That's the best part of the song, quality-wise, in my humble opinion.

Because it's not found in a lot of western music, I can imagine it sounds quite strange to those unused to it. I, however, adore it. They've used Mongolian Throat Singing with Ravana, I wouldn't be surprised if they went full Akiko Shikata on us eventually.
Have a (rather extreme) battle variant of nasal chanting, because when giving an example, I have to go all out in craziness -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoicX3RPf5Q

tl;dr
I was really disappointed by the Ramuh song because it went so. . .boring after the intro teased me with nasal chanting. That and the Engrish.

I just don't see the point of attacking Soken because he doesn't like his variant of Battle to the Death? There are literally hundreds of remixes of the song online, why single Soken out?

My personal favorite is quite a liberal interpretation of the original.

[Fenral]

Did you just link EXEC_PURGER/. on a Final Fantasy website? New favorite. (Though I still prefer Aurica's version for that particular track. Misha's is a bit vanilla for Akiko Shikata. /heresy)

But seriously, Uematsu's composition style is what's known as "just winging it," and he had 10+ years of it under his belt before FFVI came along. I think Soken deserves some slack for not having mastered "just winging it" in his first major solo effort.

[CyrilLucifer]

Aw, love you too. I was actually having a hard time trying to decide on the best example, but that was one of the songs that really turned me on to nasal chanting in general, so I added it for my nostalgia's sake, more than anything. I'm a huge GUST fan in general, though, so you can't go wrong with any music from them.

[Yasuhiro]

I get the impression they meant the part that happens after that wailing 'intro', where the first verse is sung in a fictional language, before the next one uses English lyrics.

That was the part I liked when I said I liked the lyrics (the non wailing parts) So that's why I was confused when they said they cannot possibly disagree more because I like the part they like :/

[CyrilLucifer]

That was the part I liked when I said I liked the lyrics (the non wailing parts) So that's why I was confused when they said they cannot possibly disagree more because I like the part they like :/

Uh, I replied to you three posts above.

You hate what I (and Fenral!) love. Hence not agreeing with you. At all. Nasal chanting is the best.

[Theodric]

So, wild theory:

Aymeric may be attacked or screwed over somehow by Emmellian. Most of the MSQ's in the patch notes take place in Western Coerthas. The trailer shows Aymeric speaking in what seems to be Western Coerthas. Thancred seems very angry and punches Emmellian. Honorait - Emmellian's errand boy - is briefly seen in the trailer on the floor nearby either dead or injured as this happens.

[CyrilLucifer]

It does seem, at the very least, that Emmellian and Artoriel will finally take a larger part in the plot. Artoriel did sort of in 3.1, but he was overshadowed by Aymeric, in both gameplay and story.

I'm actually hoping we see more cracks in Artoriel, like we've started seeing in Emmellian. I mean, his dad goes on and on about how wonderful Haurchefant and Aymeric are and how they are ideals to live up to, but he was helping too. What credit did he get?

Emmellian kind of comes off like a brat, but his problems can be easily fixed. When Artoriel breaks, though, he's going to absolutely shatter. I don't mean this in a cruel way, but from a character-development perspective, it will be incredibly interesting.

Though honestly, at this point, I think Aymeric might be giving us a run for our money as the purest pure purity in all of Eorzea. I'd be interested in seeing a few more of his failures and some darker aspects of his personality as well.