Good Morning Friends! It is time for another Mixtape Monday, and I am going to take a moment to sorta slide into this discussion. It is Blaugust and we are supposed to be giving some sage advice or some such as mentors. This friend is what you would call a series and it gives me some structure when it comes to planning around my blog. I know that in theory every Monday, which is one of the harder days to be motivated and post something is taken up by a fixed construct that I can count on. This also gives me the ability to plan ahead, knowing that each Monday I am going to need a Mixtape to write about. As such I tend to have these super productive days when I crank out a half dozen or so tapes and then keep them in the bank for when I need another Monday post.
The double-edged sword of having a series is that you are more or less expected to keep it going. While you have a predictable slot in your blog schedule, it also means that you have to more or less produce on a pattern. I have been super bad at actually keeping series going throughout the course of this blog, and so many of these have been abandoned by the wayside. For example, probably no one actually remembers Easing Into Eorzea, Media Consumption, Steampowered Sunday, or Storytime Saturdays but they were absolutely series that I attempted to make a thing and now looking back had a shocking number of posts under each of them. They are failed series because I didn’t plan ahead enough or work on trying to create a backlog of content to post under each of those categories. Essentially my advice to you is if you plan on doing a series, treat it as something that you are going to create content for ahead of time so that you can meet those weekly drops.
Aether Consumed Prayers Answered
It is shocking to no one who has read this blog for more than a few posts recently that I am back playing an awful lot of Final Fantasy XIV. The game itself is great, but one of the things that have always stood out is the music. I realize there are a number of you that do not listen to in-game soundtracks, and I would say at least for Final Fantasy XIV it is a critical flaw in your logic. This game spends so much effort devoted to making sure that the music is great and synchronizes down to the frame with animates. One of the places this is most clearly evidenced is the Primal fights and something like Titan for Leviathan would not be the same experience without the soundtrack and the changes that are made during the source of the fight. This morning I share with you some of my favorite big fight tracks, while not all are from Primal encounters they represent the vast majority. Unfortunately this means that the YouTube version of this playlist is going to be super spoilery and I will give it a very special warning below.
Track List
- Fallen Angel – Masayoshi Soken
- Spiral – Masayoshi Soken
- Rise – Masayoshi Soken
- Battle on the Big Bridge – Nobuo Uematsu
- Amatsu Kaze – Masayoshi Soken
- Unbreakable (Duality) – Masayoshi Soken
- Under the Weight – Masayoshi Soken
- Through the Maelstrom – Masayoshi Soken
- Metal – Brute Justice Mode – Masayoshi Soken
- Oblivion – Masayoshi Soken
- Birds of Prey – Masayoshi Soken
- Wayward Daughter – Masayoshi Soken
- Unbending Steel – Masayoshi Soken
Listen On Spotify
Listen On YouTube
Normally I embed the YouTube Playlist here, but I feel like I need to give some very special warning with this one. Unlike is normally the case, the vast majority of these videos are actually fighting spoilers and show players fighting along to the primal encounter itself. This means watching the videos could spoil not only fight mechanics but significant story beats. Please watch at your own peril and I realize this is frustrating given that up until this point I have tried to give both Spotify and YouTube equal treatment. So I will link to the playlist, but if you have not experienced these fights then I highly suggest minimizing it and letting it play in the background without actually watching the fights themselves.
Well folks that were the Fourteenth mixtape in this series, and as a result, it is clearly aligned to being music from Final Fantasy XIV. I am going, to be honest, this is entirely a happy synergy that I did not plan in the least. I have been playing a lot of the games and loving the music, and this sorta happened spontaneously. Again if you are not listening to the music while you play this game, you really should remedy that. As always if you are so inclined, you can listen to the entire Mixtape Mondays Archive:
Thanks for this Bel! My fiance loves the FFXIV music and is always looking for playlists like this (I don’t dislike it, I’ll add, he’s just more an instrumental kind of guy and game music kinda guy) so this has been saved for him <3
Heh! I almost always have the general game music on in every game I play but I almost always turn “battle music” off. If that’s not an option I turn it down when I know there’s going to be a battle. I can’t concentrate on fighting with loud music going on and battle music is almost without exception far too abrasive in every game I’ve heard it. Fights are noisy enough without a heavy metal soundtrack.