2024-05-09, 16:20
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Age: 41
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Originally Posted by Marina2
Spoiler for 2.2 story Boss battle + Music:
That was one of the best boss fight I have experienced in any game. The presentation is perfect. The new vocal song Hope Is The Thing With Feathers completely blew and extinguished Wildfire for me. The moment it came up is prefect and it surprisingly suits the fight. I even had a little teary eyes during a battle. And that train, HOLY.
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Spoiler for 2.2 Battle Boss Music:
I didn't have a chance to listen that closely during the fight itself, but listening to the lyrics again now, there's a lot of care from the writers here. It really does tie-in extremely well to what Robin said before the fight: that although she isn't on the Trailblaze Path, that she was going to channel the spirit of the Trailblaze through her song. It ties her Harmony ideals with the Trailblaze very closely, which of course ties to the Trailblazer's new Harmony path. And obviously, she uses the imagery of the train in the song (which is also the central element in the music itself -- the rhythm of the tracks, the "whoa" to represent the train whistle, etc.), which ties into the special attack in the battle. Them using the Trailblaze as the antithesis to the Oak Family vision of "Order" (and as the answer to Acheron's Nihility, and the answer to the Watchmaker's riddle) is, of course, the plot. And you could also say, at the end, the lyric about rising as one in the face of god is taking a stand against her brother, which is something personal for Robin. (That she used her feathers to catch her brother from falling in the closing cutscene not accidental...) They did a good job of writing this as a sort of "wake up call" that totally fits this arc completely.
So anyway, it's a good song in general (and definitely brings "hype" to the battle), but I appreciate how well they tied it to both the story and the gameplay. It's this kind of little touch that I appreciate in miHoYo games and their music.
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