FFXV Multiplayer Expansion Comrades - Nobuo Uematsu & Emiko Suzuki Guest Composer Trailer w subs
I've attended a number of recording sessions over the years, but this was honestly the first time I had to fight back tears while listening in. I hope everyone else is as moved by the song as I was.
Nobuo Uematsu
"Choosing Hope" is the main theme of Final Fantasy XV: Comrades, the multiplayer expansion of Final Fantasy XV. It is composed by Nobuo Uematsu, arranged by Tsutomu Narita, and sung by Emiko Suzuki, with lyrics written by DAGMUSIC.
Uematsu thought that a gospel sound would befit Comrades, and "Choosing Hope" was written with a swing rhythm Suzuki had sung before in gospel music. The lyrics describe the state of the world during Comrades, which takes place after Noctis departs Lucis and the world plunges further and further into darkness. The former members of Kingsglaive (the player characters) try to protect the populace until the coming of the True King. It speaks of keeping hope alive in trying times, the people needing to persevere.
The theme is playable in the music player.
Lyrics[]
The official lyrics were released on Final Fantasy XV Original Soundtrack Volume 2.
- Battle scarred down to the bone
- Falling, failing to believe
- Living in so much despair
- With no hope of release
- Was I born to be betrayed?
- Was I born to simply die?
- Can I bear to seek the truth
- When it feels like a lie?
- Into the darkness we will fly
- Soaring above our fears
- Praying this world will survive
- Fighting and striving for the light
- Living life knowing that we must die
- Loving until the end
- Choosing hope when all hope has seemed lost
- And believing in the strength of our friends
- If the Oracle can heal
- If the plague can be removed
- And the darkness overcome
- Then I'll carry on too.
- Must I live to sacrifice?
- Must I die to make things right?
- Do I dare believe in hope
- When surrounded by night?
- Into the darkness we will fly
- Soaring above our fears
- Praying this world will survive
- Fighting and striving for the light
- Living life knowing that we must die
- Loving until the end
- Choosing hope when all hope has seemed lost
- And believing in the strength of our friends
- We fought even the fiercest of foes
- Strong against all the odds
- Giving our all when friends needed us most
- Without ever counting the cost
- I chose hope when all hope had seemed lost
- And I believed in the strength of my friends
Live performances[]
Distant Worlds: music from Final Fantasy Jiritsu[]
"FINAL FANTASY XV : Choosing Hope" is an concert performance performed and recorded for the Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary, orchestrated by Hiroyuki Nakayama. It was conducted by Arnie Roth and performed by Emiko Suzuki, the New Japan Philharmonic, and the Tokyo Art Academy Singers.
