Engage the Enemy

The future doesn't belong to you!
For those who have not completed games in the Xenoblade Chronicles series, this page contains spoilers regarding the plot. Discretion is advised.

Engage the Enemy (敵との対峙, Confrontation with the Enemy) is an Event Track in Xenoblade Chronicles, composed and arranged by ACE+. It is track 9 of disc 1 from the Xenoblade Original Soundtrack, and track seventeen of disc one from the Xenoblade Definitive Edition Original Soundtrack and Xenoblade Original Soundtrack Trinity Box. It is also track 9 on the Xenoblade Chronicles Special Soundtrack. This music is a pre-battle theme that is heard in the following cutscenes:

When Metal Face stabs Fiora during the raid on Colony 9
When Shulk learns Monado Speed and saves Sharla from the Mechon M71 at Spiral Valley
Before the battle against Xord at the Central Pit - Base Level.
Between battles with the Leone Telethia in the Decayed Forest as it regenerates its health
Confrontation with Face Nemesis and Metal Face at Prison Terrace atop Prison Island
Dunban versus Mumkhar on Valak Mountain, interrupted by Egil's arrival
Death of Mumkhar as he falls from the Heavy Machine Depot in Sword Valley
Zanza versus Fiora/Meyneth in a duel of the gods above Mechonis Core
Between battles against Disciple Dickson as the party catches their second wind

In Future Connected, this song plays after the final battle with the Fog King, when the Telethia make explosions that distort and destabilize the rift, and Melia deals the final blow to the Fog King in order to protect the future.

In Xenoblade Chronicles 3, motifs of Engage the Enemy are used in Carrying the Weight of Life.

A trimmed and looped version of the track appears in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. A remix of Engage the Enemy also appears in the "Xenoblade Chronicles Medley" track.

Live Recording[]

The Live Recording is an official live performance of five songs from Xenoblade Chronicles to celebrate the release of Xenoblade Chronicles 3D. These songs were performed and orchestrated by ACE+ band accompanied by a string quartet, in particular the live recording of "Engage the Enemy".