Level 99 Trial Theme - FFXIV OST

After Athena won Mother of the Year last year, I'm proud to present the Father of the Year award to Zoraal Ja.

I love how in the 2nd phase Zoraal Ja's body seems to have a spot for a 2nd head, which is missing. With what we know about his father and applying titles, Zoraal Ja had resolve, but he lacked all reason in his actions.

Love that if you're doing this fight with npc's, wuk lamat says she has no idea what to do for the 2nd phase mechanics, so she just stands there getting pummeled. In fact, many dungeons and solo duties in the expansion have a lot of funny npc interactions that i love.

If your rival is blue, seeks power, tries to surpass his father, is fought on top of a tower, willingly harms his own son, and has a devil looking 2nd form. That's not Zoraal Ja, that's Vergil.

Blue? Deadbeat dad? Has a cool transformation? NEEDS MORE POWER!? Square enix: "We have vergil at home"

Guys, the way my jaw DROPPED when I heard this theme. This had no business being such a banger. Even now I'm --- 👌😤

Yakuza, SMT, Metal Gear music, all whilst fighting a Covenant-looking dude. I love Final Fantasy

this song is so good but the smn portrait has me in tears

The screwed-up part of this theme is that it still has bits of the leitmotif of "Smile" in it. Particularly the part at 1:54 up to 2:12 sounds like the chorus of the song

Between this and the dungeon before it, I'm thoroughly convinced Soken and his team have been playing a lot of Yakuza recently

Man when he pauses a second for his son that hit so hard.

ZORAAL JA COMING IN WITH THE STEEL CHAIR

No part of this trial had any right to go as hard as it did. Listening to the theme while waiting for the queue to pop, having the majority of the party be completely new to the fight, Zoraal Ja's VA knocking it out of the park, the fight itself...when I think back on Dawntrail, this trial experience is what I'm going to remember. Holy shit.

"You WILL pay child support!"

soundtrack is insane but even more insane is how you are able to see anything with all effect on

LET THE VICTOR'S REIGN BE SANCTIONED BY THE BLOOD OF THE FALLEN.

The new Warframe boss is looking pretty dope.

Yoshi-P: "So I've started playing Doom 2016-" Soken: "Say no more!"

I dont think a villain in XIV has made me so irrationally angry (Not in a badly written way). When he tried to harm his own son, I started seeing red and every fiber of my being wanted to skin him alive.

The beginning of the song, with how it opens, gives me Dark Messenger vibes. Zoraal Ja reminds me of an expy of Kuja, in fact, albeit one who's a warrior instead of a powerful mage. A similar superiority-inferiority complex, a desire to be more than his creator/father, a complete descent into madness with the consumption of souls feeding into that final form, and then in his last, dying moments he does see reason and is... not so much friendly, per se, but is more open about his motivations than he ever was, and does give voice to his regrets. Even the arena makes me think of Memoria in FF9.