I gotta say, if you're reading this and don't know anything about Hymnnos, *look it up.* This shit is bananas, somebody put a gloriously stupid excess of thought into creating a singable legitimate language with an emphasis on communicating emotion. And this is in NTP, which is even weirder; _verbs have variable vowels._ It's crazy.
Vanym Storm iirc the devs enlisted help from a language professor or something to create the language, and it was a mix of multiple real-life languages distorted so far out it turns into an entirely new language (plus some invented new words too) by the way, what's NTP?
J.R.R Tolkien did the same thing with Lord of the Rings long before Hymnnos. Elven, Dwarves, Mordor, etc. It didn't shown in films nor books that much, but it existed and perfectly usable as a form of communication; if someone has enough time to learned the whole thing that is.
Irval Firestar Wrong. The whole thing was made by the creator of the series and given input for it by its three main singers. And while the words have influences from Sanskrit, Latin, English, German and Japanese, the grammar is unique in both Central Standard and New Testament of Pastalie (NTP), as no other language (constructed or not) has built-in constructs made solely for expressing emotions.
(Very very late, but) NTP is "New Testament of Pastalie." It's an offshoot of the Hymmnos used to control Ar Tonelico/the First Tower. New Testament specifically controls Infel Phira. In this branch, verbs have a structure similar to Arabic or Hebrew in which there are constant parts (consonants) that determine the meaning, and then variable parts (vowels) that affect the emotion associated with the action. For example, the consonants for "sing" are h.m.m.r. You add vowels in place of the dots to change the emotion, and the position of the vowels actually changes the meaning further. It's actually a really interesting development in Hymmnos. It's very difficult to follow when it's actually sung, though.
I always found it so intriguing how well constructed the Hymmnos conlang was, yet for anyone who doesn't know better, it looks like someone kind of bashed their heads on a keyboard and whatever they managed to write down was decided to be lyrics. Ingenious and beautiful (even the bizarre Pastalia).
Holy crap I finally found it! You cannot find this song anywhere if you just search for the Hymnos and I forgot its exact name, even searching Replekia wouldn't make it come up. I just got lucky and remembered the Method part after way too much thinking, wtf youtube? I was starting to think this was a complete figment of my imagination...the fact that a comment I made 11-years ago is here has finally allowed me to realize I am not. in fact. insane...........well not this way at least.
That depends on if this song overrides the others. As far as I know, Sublimation ~ lamenza and Sublimation ~ ee wassa sos yehar can be still heard after activating Replekia, and on the other hand, Cloche isn't even available in a few of the battles where Hymns are heard. Anyway, I'd think that some players would have enough common sense to refrain themselves from using it when they have a Hymn being sung, especially considering the game's already low difficulty.
Welcome to Friggen New Pastille... and the emotionless words are the worst (Like "q.l.s.") because they have no vowels... Someday I'm going to actually gather the determination required to learn Hymnos, but screw the New Pastille dialect.
¨qulusu¨. Interject some soft u's or even better, some schwas between the consonants. That's how they sing them. And you're going to have a hard time when you get to some of the words that seem to be unprononceable with that mentality.
This song (and the animation in the background) took over the battle with such force when activated that it got me re focused on the battle again. While I heard a lot of anger, the lyrics make it seem like there was more anger and I'm quite surpried to see the second half full of hope.
Haha. np np. Your friend has good taste, imho the MuvLuv trilogy (you have to read the whole thing to get the best out of it because the first two are basically a REALLY long prologue and character introduction) is/are quite possibly the nest VN ever written. Also, ManaMana's charisma breaks are always funny, tis why I made her my avatar ^^ With regards to the adult content, I'd say this: I'm not a massive fan of H-scenes myself, however the scenes are quite tastefully done, it's not hardcore stuff and is actually quite romantic for some of them. The ones in Extra (the first part) are sort of skippable but if you want to get over your dislike of them, it might be a good starting point. And, for me anyway, 2-3 minutes of that versus (in total) 50 hours of story is a very worthy tradeoff. Always nice to talk to more fans/fans to be, hope you enjoy it as much as your friend and I did :3
Sounds like a plan to me :3 I am active on the Muv-Luv wiki as Shiranui-kun but as previously suggested you should steer well clear of that until you have finished all of the trilogy, some things just won't have the same effect if you accidentally spoiler yourself.
Yes, of you singing Replekia, if it's to be believed. As of yet, I believe that only the Real Life Reyvatiel, Akiko Shikata can sing this song successfully.
this song is friking awesome is actually worth playing the game just because of it xD but the game is pretty good to so no problems there Cloche best waifu
I have a save right before the scene it first plays for a reason. Getting all the reyvateils for the full effect takes some serious work though. Note to self: Play all three games again.
Wow, the first half is pure rage, but the second half is like a song of unification- and the Replekia is both- a weapon that unifies the power of all the IPDs and uses it to obliterate... well... anything.
This is why humanity's utterly foolish. They fear power that they can't controlled and call Lady Cloche as maiden of disaster. While I.P.D and reyvateil worship her as their saint
@@satriorama4118 Humanity really doesn't like not knowing or understanding stuff, something that we are going to have to come to terms with eventually.
Wow. This song is absolutely amazing. I've tried to sing this, but have failed miserably every time lol. They have amazing voices...I wish they'd make a third Ar Tonelico game...From what I've heard, the 1st was good, and the 2nd, which I've played all the way through to get the ending in which you love Luca, is absolutely amazing.
If any of u played xenogears which i am quite sure any RPG fan would. this song really fits the moment Fei turns to ID and weltall changing to true weltall....Pawning everything......
*sigh* Put in some fanservice, and instantly everyone outside Japan begins ignoring anything about the game aside of it. How sad it is that it's rare to find anyone who recognizes that the game is as good as its predecessors when it comes to setting and music, and that its characters and plot were well done as well.
if you're talking about at2, then that was wrong at hell cause at2's best component is it's story in my opinion but if you're talking about at3 onwards, then it can't really be helped, because at2's story had set the bar too high for the sequels to succeed
Two months late, but as I said to Lasr, it's more daunting in the spelling of the lyrics than the actual singing. It seems a lot harder than it is, but they really aren't hard. The language, is based on english, german, sanskrit, and japanese, and it really shows in the pronunciations. Even beyond that, Hymmnos is a language where nine times out of ten, you can literally say what you read and be more or less correct.
To be fair it only breaks the game if you rescue every girl. Replekia with every single girl in the game saved and a maxed out party is super broken beyond belief. But if you stay under about 30 girls it's not nearly as bad, of course this falls into the category of a self-imposed challenge or just not being a completionist but it does change the difficulty quite a bit and makes the final boss far more interesting when you don't literally fire an orbital strike form WH40k.
@SilEntNiGHtPhanTom Actually though it sounds like nothing to most (some have actually bothered to learn it) this is honestly one of the most well thought out fictional languages ever. It has its own grammar, spelling, and overall syntax. So really it's the antithesis of Simlish which is just gibberish to stand-in for real dialogue, instead being an actual language. (Note: Not being insulted, or trying to be insulting. Just pointing something out)
13 years... it's been 13 years and i STILL come back to this song... i really wish NiS didn't fuck up the third game... would be cool to see this game remastered on the switch or something
@dfs317 Yeah, there's a glitch in the US version of Ar Tonelico 2. When she uses that attack on the third turn, the game freezes. So you have to beat her before the third turn.
of all the hymmnos songs i've heard so far, this is so far the most tongue-twisting, even among New Testament of Pastalie/Pastalian/I.P.D. Dialect Hymmnos songs
@Grzechu013 Innovator here: as much time there has been spent in front of a game (by the world as a whole), however, is just as much time it possibly could've been taken to make much of the fantasy of the games we play real. (i.e. singing things into reality, making our personas into things (Persona), space travel (Mass Effect). Although, some say it's impossible to conceive; there's a lot of things that are like that, like concrete canvas....
Hell, this song alone is Awesome. Put you can hear all it's Epicness in a Boss Battle. I Try to keep my PM as higher as possible to listen to this song. xD Epic. Who the hell did sing this though? >.>"
When boss music starts playing but it's you who's the boss.
Boss: "Why am I hearing boss music that isn't mine?"
Best way to call in an orbital strike ever!!
I gotta say, if you're reading this and don't know anything about Hymnnos, *look it up.* This shit is bananas, somebody put a gloriously stupid excess of thought into creating a singable legitimate language with an emphasis on communicating emotion. And this is in NTP, which is even weirder; _verbs have variable vowels._ It's crazy.
Vanym Storm iirc the devs enlisted help from a language professor or something to create the language, and it was a mix of multiple real-life languages distorted so far out it turns into an entirely new language (plus some invented new words too)
by the way, what's NTP?
J.R.R Tolkien did the same thing with Lord of the Rings long before Hymnnos. Elven, Dwarves, Mordor, etc. It didn't shown in films nor books that much, but it existed and perfectly usable as a form of communication; if someone has enough time to learned the whole thing that is.
machaiping yep, it's an entire category of made-up language
Irval Firestar Wrong. The whole thing was made by the creator of the series and given input for it by its three main singers. And while the words have influences from Sanskrit, Latin, English, German and Japanese, the grammar is unique in both Central Standard and New Testament of Pastalie (NTP), as no other language (constructed or not) has built-in constructs made solely for expressing emotions.
(Very very late, but)
NTP is "New Testament of Pastalie." It's an offshoot of the Hymmnos used to control Ar Tonelico/the First Tower. New Testament specifically controls Infel Phira. In this branch, verbs have a structure similar to Arabic or Hebrew in which there are constant parts (consonants) that determine the meaning, and then variable parts (vowels) that affect the emotion associated with the action.
For example, the consonants for "sing" are h.m.m.r. You add vowels in place of the dots to change the emotion, and the position of the vowels actually changes the meaning further. It's actually a really interesting development in Hymmnos. It's very difficult to follow when it's actually sung, though.
学生時代、コレを目覚ましにしてました。ばっちり起きられましたね。
I always found it so intriguing how well constructed the Hymmnos conlang was, yet for anyone who doesn't know better, it looks like someone kind of bashed their heads on a keyboard and whatever they managed to write down was decided to be lyrics.
Ingenious and beautiful (even the bizarre Pastalia).
This Music always made it feel so satisfying calling in Replekia. Pressing the button and the boring grind instantly got epic.
"Her chaotic singing is like thunder,
Her chaotic song shakes the town greatly."...
Ahhh, that bit has to be my FAVORITE of this song...
Holy crap I finally found it! You cannot find this song anywhere if you just search for the Hymnos and I forgot its exact name, even searching Replekia wouldn't make it come up. I just got lucky and remembered the Method part after way too much thinking, wtf youtube? I was starting to think this was a complete figment of my imagination...the fact that a comment I made 11-years ago is here has finally allowed me to realize I am not. in fact. insane...........well not this way at least.
Holy hell, this song still give me chills everytime i hear it, and even more so when i read out the lyrics!
Probably the musical highlight of the entire game- and it's used in battle! For when you absolutely need your enemy dead as FUCK.
# 2 was my favorite...this is one of those reason. I mean shit the amount of damage you can OUTPUT holy shit.
the HERALD OF THE FLOOF
That depends on if this song overrides the others. As far as I know, Sublimation ~ lamenza and Sublimation ~ ee wassa sos yehar can be still heard after activating Replekia, and on the other hand, Cloche isn't even available in a few of the battles where Hymns are heard. Anyway, I'd think that some players would have enough common sense to refrain themselves from using it when they have a Hymn being sung, especially considering the game's already low difficulty.
I adored this game and it's music, i'd always turn up the volume for this. I wish they would release the game on Steam.
1:00 1:21 Good luck singing that.
Welcome to Friggen New Pastille...
and the emotionless words are the worst (Like "q.l.s.") because they have no vowels...
Someday I'm going to actually gather the determination required to learn Hymnos, but screw the New Pastille dialect.
¨qulusu¨. Interject some soft u's or even better, some schwas between the consonants. That's how they sing them.
And you're going to have a hard time when you get to some of the words that seem to be unprononceable with that mentality.
i would want to sing it though.. it just needs a LOT of practice
This is one special attack that the music for it absolutely never grows tiring. You look forward to it every single time.
This song is sooo amazing! It still gives me goosebumps. :3
This song (and the animation in the background) took over the battle with such force when activated that it got me re focused on the battle again. While I heard a lot of anger, the lyrics make it seem like there was more anger and I'm quite surpried to see the second half full of hope.
Good god I have to applaud her for singing NTP Hymnos at that speed x.x
Haha. np np. Your friend has good taste, imho the MuvLuv trilogy (you have to read the whole thing to get the best out of it because the first two are basically a REALLY long prologue and character introduction) is/are quite possibly the nest VN ever written. Also, ManaMana's charisma breaks are always funny, tis why I made her my avatar ^^
With regards to the adult content, I'd say this: I'm not a massive fan of H-scenes myself, however the scenes are quite tastefully done, it's not hardcore stuff and is actually quite romantic for some of them. The ones in Extra (the first part) are sort of skippable but if you want to get over your dislike of them, it might be a good starting point. And, for me anyway, 2-3 minutes of that versus (in total) 50 hours of story is a very worthy tradeoff.
Always nice to talk to more fans/fans to be, hope you enjoy it as much as your friend and I did :3
Sounds like a plan to me :3 I am active on the Muv-Luv wiki as Shiranui-kun but as previously suggested you should steer well clear of that until you have finished all of the trilogy, some things just won't have the same effect if you accidentally spoiler yourself.
@poggg The best analogy for this song I've seen yet.
Yes, of you singing Replekia, if it's to be believed. As of yet, I believe that only the Real Life Reyvatiel, Akiko Shikata can sing this song successfully.
this song is friking awesome
is actually worth playing the game just because of it xD
but the game is pretty good to so no problems there
Cloche best waifu
This song always makes me catch my breath. In my opinion the greatest game song ever written.
Nice moon background, sooo match with the song section ^^
god this gives me goosebumps, it's that awesome.
One of my favorite songs in the game! So EPIC!!!
I have a save right before the scene it first plays for a reason. Getting all the reyvateils for the full effect takes some serious work though.
Note to self: Play all three games again.
I always love using replika during boss battles, I didn't know that she was singing this. Heh I love it even more now X3
Wow, the first half is pure rage, but the second half is like a song of unification- and the Replekia is both- a weapon that unifies the power of all the IPDs and uses it to obliterate... well... anything.
They don't call Cloche the "Maiden of Disaster" for no reason, do they?
+Brian Pendell This song + all 100 I.P.D.s = I win.
This is why humanity's utterly foolish. They fear power that they can't controlled and call Lady Cloche as maiden of disaster. While I.P.D and reyvateil worship her as their saint
@@satriorama4118 Humanity really doesn't like not knowing or understanding stuff, something that we are going to have to come to terms with eventually.
@@andresmarrero8666 exactly!
Shikata Akiko, my official goddess of music
- >ATTACK!!!!
- >REPLEKIA song starts
- >DEFENSE!!!!
- >over 1000000%
- >SAY YOUR PRAYER!!1 MUAHAHAHAHA!!!
Wow. This song is absolutely amazing. I've tried to sing this, but have failed miserably every time lol. They have amazing voices...I wish they'd make a third Ar Tonelico game...From what I've heard, the 1st was good, and the 2nd, which I've played all the way through to get the ending in which you love Luca, is absolutely amazing.
This song is just so epic and heroic, yet tragic.
Wow.... I gotta play this game again!
i am really greatful about your translation it gave me an idea to make a poem
If any of u played xenogears which i am quite sure any RPG fan would. this song really fits the moment Fei turns to ID and weltall changing to true weltall....Pawning everything......
*sigh*
Put in some fanservice, and instantly everyone outside Japan begins ignoring anything about the game aside of it. How sad it is that it's rare to find anyone who recognizes that the game is as good as its predecessors when it comes to setting and music, and that its characters and plot were well done as well.
aquagon_drag and yet 98% of copys had that stupid reki bug where the game freezes on her one attack
II was good, 3 was shit
if you're talking about at2, then that was wrong at hell cause at2's best component is it's story in my opinion
but if you're talking about at3 onwards, then it can't really be helped, because at2's story had set the bar too high for the sequels to succeed
Thnaks for the trasnlation! Nice to make sense of this kill switch hehehehe.
"Presses the 'eset button', waits for what will happen."
Woah. That's awesome. It should have been hard to sing it.
Thanks for the reply, though. :D
Two months late, but as I said to Lasr, it's more daunting in the spelling of the lyrics than the actual singing.
It seems a lot harder than it is, but they really aren't hard.
The language, is based on english, german, sanskrit, and japanese, and it really shows in the pronunciations. Even beyond that, Hymmnos is a language where nine times out of ten, you can literally say what you read and be more or less correct.
Nostalgic af.
Very powerful
reyvateils = human vocaloid.
For when you want your enemy REALLY dead
When you hear this song, you better start to surrender.
One of the best songs of all video games!
The lyrics are pure Hymmnos. There's no Japanese language... Perfect
OhMyGAWD! i havn't tried the game, but i HAVE been watching videos. XD i LOVE this song..soooo EPIC!
This song is so very epic, but breaks the game. Cloche annihilates enemies with it. I beat the final boss in one blast due to this awesome song.
To be fair it only breaks the game if you rescue every girl. Replekia with every single girl in the game saved and a maxed out party is super broken beyond belief. But if you stay under about 30 girls it's not nearly as bad, of course this falls into the category of a self-imposed challenge or just not being a completionist but it does change the difficulty quite a bit and makes the final boss far more interesting when you don't literally fire an orbital strike form WH40k.
me too, jajajaja one shoot easy with Replakia.
@@Goldenkitten1 I mean, it's all fair considering the bullshits we need to go through to save all of them. Fitting reward if anything
Every being on every universe would be scared as hell if they were facing Cloche :v
Ehhh... only if she had the IPD's to back her up. You have to take the time to make the attack powerful.
OldSkoolAngel yeah XD
But, considering she has all her 100 singers XD
tailsddr imagine if she had more than 100 to help her...
MrGruntly my dream is to hook up 100 singers and do a live somewhere :3
Know whats even scarier? Facing Cloche and Mir/Jaquli together. Replekia and Phantasmagoria together.... That would be one hell of a Symphony of Death
must play later when alien invade earth!!!
Need to find place to get this song. Was not on Sound Track with game... Many tears shed. Much unhappiness.
Have to agree with you on that Adalia.
Compared to some others I've checked out recently, this looks pretty tame in comparison.
I love this song
My favorite part of this song is the rapid fire lyrics in the second(?) section.
*She continues to sing*
Love this song!!! x3
i finally memorized it word for word
Very passionate song, and another favorite. Makes me feel like breaking things. Haha.
Ar Tonelico 3 made ecchi a gameplay mechanic. It's funny and sad at the same time.
I just played this at the same time as Rig Veda.
EPIC.
enemy : "fk dis."
I lov to hear Replakia
ar tonelico freaking rocks, and this is the best song from the whole freaking series!
@SilEntNiGHtPhanTom Actually though it sounds like nothing to most (some have actually bothered to learn it) this is honestly one of the most well thought out fictional languages ever. It has its own grammar, spelling, and overall syntax. So really it's the antithesis of Simlish which is just gibberish to stand-in for real dialogue, instead being an actual language.
(Note: Not being insulted, or trying to be insulting. Just pointing something out)
Great song.
You must install a font on the control panel. It can use as alphabet font.
This hymmnos gives a whole different prespective of a battle even if it is a random fight or just a boring boss with too much HP x)
gotta love the triplettes part.
this song makes me want to cast devestating spellls of darkness and despair
Very powerful
@Trazen4 She might not have actually been a Goddess, but she was worshiped and viewed as one.
(1:58) Time to get Serious!
13 years... it's been 13 years and i STILL come back to this song... i really wish NiS didn't fuck up the third game... would be cool to see this game remastered on the switch or something
Now, I'm hoping that Ar Tonelico worlds IS our future. Imagine that. I wonder how life will be....
this is my theme song when ever i enter aroom
I never knew that this song is fully sung in hymnos language until now o_O
best of luck ^^
@dfs317 Yeah, there's a glitch in the US version of Ar Tonelico 2. When she uses that attack on the third turn, the game freezes. So you have to beat her before the third turn.
I'll do it. But there are no only-instrumental for this, so I'll just sing along. I'll post the link when I'm done >:3
This is a much easier song than some, though I haven't tried this one yet.
I'll try it tonight sometime and tell you how I fare.
Especially after seeing the end of 2. With Cocona running off TO the third tower.
of all the hymmnos songs i've heard so far, this is so far the most tongue-twisting, even among New Testament of Pastalie/Pastalian/I.P.D. Dialect Hymmnos songs
You can download from 'hymmnoserver'.
@ TheLasr130 "Challenge Accepted." Just have to practice one part.
Unless you get the Raki glitch and you forgot to save your game...
@MrGillykins It sounds like Zektback, because Shikata sang a few times for Zektbach. ;D
Somehow I doubt it lol... but i like the idea of Croix and Mir. They are my favorite pairing in this one.
Dude replekia makes me look around when ever i hear if cuz dude... that song is scary 0.0
Mmm, I love a good dose of rage every now and then.
Si que buena traducion
1:19 kinda sounds like "throwing hands" lol
Use this as an override song 'I cast Bless'
@Kumori001 dunno but if u have a codebreaker or action replay there's a code that will keep the glitch from occuring
Would also fit very well for Gaia's BGM Theme from FF XIV (Eden's Arc)
if u have access to a codebreaker or an action replay there's a code that will fix the glitch
@Grzechu013
Innovator here: as much time there has been spent in front of a game (by the world as a whole), however, is just as much time it possibly could've been taken to make much of the fantasy of the games we play real. (i.e. singing things into reality, making our personas into things (Persona), space travel (Mass Effect).
Although, some say it's impossible to conceive; there's a lot of things that are like that, like concrete canvas....
You can turn the Purge off, you know. Not the mechanics, but the animation and the appearance of Purge.
Hell, this song alone is Awesome. Put you can hear all it's Epicness in a Boss Battle. I Try to keep my PM as higher as possible to listen to this song. xD
Epic.
Who the hell did sing this though? >.>"
Mia musica!
@Fatality65 Awesome! And this song just might win! XD
I think there is a high chance they make ar tonelico 3
because, they said there are 3 towers
sol ciel, sol marta, and another one
I see either Sublimation #1, #2 or XaaaCi as more appropriate candidates for that role, as this song loses its "apocalyptic" feeling near the end.