A Life Sent On
| A Life Sent On | |
|---|---|
| Original Title | おくられる |
| Composer(s) | Yasunori Mitsuda |
| Length | 1:56 |
| Used in | Xenoblade Chronicles 3 |
| Other versions | Off-Seer - Noah Off-Seer - Mio Noah and Mio - Our Melody |
| Links | Sound file (via official website) |
A Life Sent On is Disc 2, Track 12 on the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Original Soundtrack and Disc 13, Track 12 on the Xenoblade Chronicles Original Soundtrack Trinity Box. It was used in promotional material for the game: Noah plays a section of the piece's opening at the start of the game's reveal trailer, and 1:10 in the track plays towards the end of the trailer. The full track is playable on Xenoblade 3's official Japanese website by pressing a button labelled 'BGM', and was also released in a tweet by XenobladeJP on Twitter.
It plays in the following cutscenes. In all such cases, the flute lines are played in-universe (the orchestral accompaniment, which plays in some instances but not others, presumably does not play in-universe). Whether both flute lines play during all sections of the piece is dependent upon cutscene.
- Noah and Mio send off Guernica Vandham in Chapter 1.
- Noah and Mio send off Consul K in Chapter 2.
- Noah and Mio send off the 'soldiers' they 'killed' in the fight against Lambda Ferronis, while the rest of the party reflects upon their reasons for doing so, in Chapter 3.
- Noah and Mio send off Ethel and Cammuravi in Chapter 4.
- Young Noah hears flutes playing a variant of this theme, Noah and Mio - Our Melody, after time resumes in the post-credits cutscene.
Noah and Mio play excerpts of the piece's flute lines when Off-seeing. In gameplay this momentarily replaces the area music; which flute line is played corresponds to which flute is used in-universe (the lower line is played by Noah's black flute while the higher line is played by Mio's white flute). When off-seeing multiple husks, the characters play both lines together.
The piece's high flute line is also called Off-Seer - Mio, and the low flute line is called Off-Seer - Noah. Both lines are used (independently, although often together) as motifs in a very large number of other tracks, and as such A Life Sent On shares portions of its melody with much of the rest of the soundtrack. For full lists of such tracks, see the pages for Off-Seer - Noah and Off-Seer - Mio.
Album notes[edit]
- Album notes written by Yasunori Mitsuda. No official translation exists.
この曲は最初に書いた曲で 「3」 の全てが織り込まれています。 キャラクター画やシナリオを見ると日本的な「和」 や「雅」 をすぐに想像しがちですが、 ここはありふれた発想をすべきではないと感じました。 このアイオニオンと いう世界にしか存在しない 「調べ」 を紡ぐべく、 一音一音、 考え抜いて書いた曲です。 奏者である野口明生氏にも 「和」 や 「雅」 にならないようにと何度もお伝えしました。 そして、特別に笛まで製作し徹底的に拘ったテーマ曲 です。
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Trivia[edit]
- A Life Sent On was the first piece of music composed for Xenoblade Chronicles 3.[1]
- The flutes used for the recording of A Life Sent On were instruments the developers had custom-made with the design of those of Noah and Mio in-game.[1]
References[edit]
In other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
 English
|
A Life Sent On | — |
 Japanese
|
おくられる |
1. Sent-off life 2. Life being bid farewell to 3. Life being lived 4. Gifted life |
 French
|
Une âme guidée | A guided soul |
 German
|
Ein heimgekehrtes Leben | A Life that came home |
 Spanish
|
Un alma despedida | A soul bid farewell |
 Italian
|
Una vita tramandata | |
 Chinese (simplified)
|
被送走的生命 | |
 Chinese (traditional)
|
被送走的生命 |