Final Fantasy 14 Community Spotlight: Lazy Afternoons, Kingdom Hearts-themed Bard Band
During your travels across Eorzea, you might be lucky enough to hear a few notes of a familiar song in the distance. Follow the sound and you’ll see a Bard — or even a whole band — using Final Fantasy 14’s Performance Mode to create captivating music.
Whenever this happens to me, regardless of whatever I was in the middle of doing, I can’t help but track down the performers and watch for a while, and I’m never the only one. Players gather from all over to listen and celebrate the creativity of others, with crowds sometimes spanning the whole of my screen.
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I’m always on the lookout for exciting community shows, and I’ve made my fair share of alts to attend specific concerts and events on other Data Centers. Yet I’m still finding new and interesting performances that blow me away. Lazy Afternoons, the Kingdom Hearts-themed bard band on Primal’s Behemoth world, was one of these gems that I stumbled across — but it wasn’t in-game that I found them, but through the FF14 community.
“I'm very passionate about the Kingdom Hearts series,” Floppy, the creator of Lazy Afternoons, tells me. “As a kid, my parents sheltered me, and they only allowed me to play Kingdom Hearts 2 because it had Disney characters on the box art. It was the very first story game I ever had the opportunity to play, and it holds many fond memories, especially the music, which is truly incredible!
“Yoko Shimomura has such a unique style when it comes to composition, and I really enjoy her music. Around the start of 2021, I set out to rearrange as many Kingdom Hearts songs as I could. I thought to myself, why not have a Kingdom Hearts band after making so many songs from the series?”
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