well, the INTRO was really good...(Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers)

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What’s happening in the game when this plays? Your crying.

"Let expanse contract, eon become instant! Champions from beyond the rift heed my call!"

This track goes along with the opening cinematic for Shadowbringers. The very beginning of the song borrows the opening vocalist from a track called Tomorrow and Tomorrow. At about 5:18 ish where you hear the violin and cello, that is a call back to FFIII and a song called Eternal Winds. Soken does a lot of call backs to previous FF games. He does this several times for Endwalker - Footfalls where he calls back to the previous expansion for FFXIV. All of the individual tracks that Soken wrote for FFXIV are really dependent on context from the game. They are super well written but each on kinda fits to a specific scene or area.

I realized the first time I played this song for my sister in the car how important context is for it. It's not bad on it's own but it definitely has a lot of negative space when you're not watching (or thinking about) the trailer or contents it's tied to. So your conflict makes a lot of sense.

Regarding the mixing of the male lead vocals in the majority of the song, the sound director and composer of the piece, Masayoshi Soken, is on record that he typically treats vocals as just another instrument in the mix, so songs he composes tend to have vocals that are more "in the mix" than other composers on the music team for FFXIV. Some of this comes from earlier in the game's life when their budgets were smaller, getting a male vocalist meant singing himself, and Soken does not view himself as a strong vocalist, so the use of distortion, vocoding, and other effects to get the sounds he wanted from the vocals was a necessity.

RIDING HOME, DON'T LOSE HOPE.

One of the reasons vocals sit a bit lower in the mix is that often characters will have voice acting over top of this music. It plays in the climactic moments and incorporates several themes from throughout the expansion.

4:12 "let's keep discovering here" is such a good phrase, might use it myself. love the idea that everything's can be a personal discovery

This music was designed to be the backdrop to the trailer for Shadowbringers. I think it would be worth it to watch that to get a recontextualization for the music. It really is one half to the whole.

At the part where you said "let me know whats happening" when that song plays youre staring down your nemesis getting ready for a final battle

Most of the different parts of this theme have their own full song in the ost so this one is sort of a medley of the different themes. Can't really explain what's going on in the game while this plays without major spoilers and a lengthy exposition, but what I can say is that you'll probably be emotionally invested in what's happening and this song will most likely elevate those emotions hhhhh

If you like the intro you'll like the song "Tomorrow and Tomorrow". It has the same intro and keeps the same vocalist throughout the song. It's a stunningly beautiful and deep song about preserving the memories of those who've died. If you like "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" you'll really like "Flow" which is about your soul flowing into the afterlife, which is represented as a vast and dark ocean, where you rest until it's time to reincarnate. Each of the memories of your life are like individual rain drops, coming together to form a river, flowing into the afterlife.

The song is used as the background music for the expansion trailer of Shadowbringers. My theory is that the song isn't so overpowering because it has to make room for dialogue, sound effects and visuals. It is by that reason I think it might be difficult to get the full experience with the track alone. Expansion themes also incorporates several songs to give the full breadth of the content included so it can sound segmented. Hope this helps! (also excuse my english as it isn't my first language)

It's fair not feeling that extra bit that gives you the feeling of not hitting the high for all the build up. Not having that context is important too. Like everyone else is saying, its a medley used for the trailer. Basically sets up the leitmotifs we'd be hearing for the next 2 years.

This version is for the Shadowbringers trailer but when the song itself kicks in ingame is the end of the main story and is one of the hypest things Ive ever seen or heard in videogames.

FFXVI - 'Find the Flame' That's it. That's the comment.

The composer Soken is a fan of Rage Against the Machine, that's why despite being a Japanese composer the lyrics for the game are all in english and he tends to take inspiration from them in his works.

This is actually trailer music that is a "mash-up" of multiple songs in Shadowbringers. The songs that I know in this intro are: Tomorrow and Tomorrow, To The Edge, and Eternal Wind

The full song plays along with the games cinematic trailer for the expansion also named Shadowbringers. However the song is combination of 2 others, one being called Tomorrow And Tomorrow and Eternal Wind (which this song itself is a montage of Final Fantasy IV) with the remaining being Shadowbringers itself. As you play the expansion, you will often hear smaller motifs of the song in the background music but the song itself wont play until the characters encounters the boss of the main expansions story.