A Portent Crawling Over
| A Portent Crawling Over | |
|---|---|
| Original Title | |
| Composer(s) | Kenji Hiramatsu |
| Length | 2:44 |
| Used in | Xenoblade Chronicles 2 |
A Portent Crawling Over is Disc 1, Track 9 on the Xenoblade2 Original Soundtrack and Disc 6, Track 9 on the Xenoblade Chronicles Original Soundtrack Trinity Box.
It plays in the following cutscenes:
- Rex touches the Aegis Sword and is stabbed by Jin.
- Pyra, Rex, Azurda and Tora plan their rescue of Nia and Dromarch.
- Tora prepares to awaken Poppi.
- Akhos welcomes back Jin, Malos and Sever at the beginning of chapter 3, and prepares to set out himself.
- Niranira warns Mòrag and Niall of Bana's assassination plan.
- Mòrag and Tora preemptively prepare for an attack at Theoscaldia Palace.
- Azami destroys the Thanatitan-administering device in her Blade Quest, All's Fair.
- Tora, Tatazo and Lila prepare to awaken Poppi QTπ in Powered-Up Poppi.
- Theory almost spears the party outside Torigoth in her and Praxis's second Blade Quest, Blade-Sharp Memory.
- Sheba confronts the Nopon that swindled her in her Blade Quest, Fool's Gold.
- Sheba threatens the same group of Nopon for the final time in the same quest.
Album notes[edit]
- Album notes written by Kenji Hiramatsu. No official translation exists.
Original text
不穏な空気を表す曲ということと、主にバーンのシーンで使用されるということで、あまり極悪になりすぎないよう意識して制作しました。ですが１曲目も２曲目もバーンに特化しすぎているということで残念ながらボツになってしまいました。仕切り直して３曲目のこの曲は内面の不安感を表すため、不協和なストリングスとともにビートとシンクロさせた心臓の鼓動音を、徐々にテンポアップしながら不安を煽る構成としました。
Unofficial translation
Since this song expresses a disturbing atmosphere and is really only used in scenes with Bana in them, I was aware to not produce it as overly heinous. But, regrettably, the first and also second versions of the songs were overly specialized for Bana. So they were turned down. Starting up again with the third version of the song, for expressing a sense of inner anxiety, it was composed of dissonant strings while at the same time the beat was synced with a heartbeat. Then I slowly increased the tempo to stir up anxiety.