Finally donating. Your music is special Chris. It truly is and it's changed everyone life so much with the media it's in. I've listened to every single album you've ever released and I listen to many of your songs daily. Me and you have spoken on other songs in the comments and your always so interactive and kind as well. We love you
"November eighth, twenty-two sixty-five. Please state your name for the record." I can only hope the guy who wrote comments on the original Coalescence and Con Lentitud Poderosa will cook up another banger story for this one
After 10 years, the same feeling of the original is there. Feels like though there's more weight to the song, the extra scratches and few punches. It hits, and it hits hard as always. Thanks for the absolute amount of emotions Chris
"I thought of a world without memory, without time; I considered the possibility of a language that ignored nouns, a language of impersonal verbs and indeclinable epithets. Thus the days died and with the days the years, but something similar to happiness happened one morning. It rained, with powerful slowness"
I've been listening to your music since I discovered Risk Of Rain as a kid in 2013, I love the work and pieces you've been doing. The music you do has unlocked some emotions I didn't know I could feel anymore and I just want to say thank you for all these years.
Without your music, Chris, I don't think Risk of Rain would have been as popular as it is now. It adds so much life to the series, and so do the rest of the songs you create. Thank you.
This song, alongside "...con lentitud poderosa", theyre the 2 single most powerful songs (emotionally speaking) Ive heard and have yet to be topped (Resistiré by Dúo Dinamico being a close 3rd), I cannot express enough how much I love your music, not physically, not mentally, not in any way other than emotionally Thank you, SO fucking much for the care and love you put into your work
Getting back to the Contact Light again was just... God I cannot even begin to describe how perfect this song is for the final level. The somber beginning really encapsulates the feeling of sifting through the wreckage after a disaster, with the building action as you navigate the violence that's become routine to you, culminating in that final desperate struggle to reach the cockpit as all hell is breaking loose. Hits as hard today as it did 10 years ago.
Thank you for noticing! Some tracks really didn't need much work (eg. Chanson d'Automne), some others needed some adjustments, like the infamous ultra boomy 808 on this one :)
As someone who never played the original, it's a blast to play RoR Returns and hearing the actual song in-game That alongside Chanson d'Automne, which I love because it gave The Rain Formerly Known AS Purple its leitmotif, and the credit song makes this an awesome experience Thank you
I've made maybe 2 comments on TH-cam since I started using it in 2007. Chris, Thank You. You've done more for me and the others here than I can express properly in words. Thanks.
Thank you so much for your music. This game meant a lot to me and my friend. I cant express the emotions i feel when i hear your music. So εφαρμογή παρά πολύ, thank you for making something so special.
just bought the vinyl. when this song came on in my first playthrough of returns i was in shock at how good this sounds. it fits perfectly with the game and it is even better than i remember. i saw the vinyl comes with sheet music and i cant wait to make an arrangement of this song on guitar. thank you for ten years of amazing music chris.
LET'S FRIGGIN' GO! Coalescence is my #1 on Spotify currently, and for good reason. Easily my favorite song. I don't mean to get all sentimental, but this has helped me through big things lately.
Truly remarkable, I have major respect for you and the people that do what you do. Risk of rain (and games as a whole) wouldn't be the same without tracks like coalescence. Thank you for your contributions to this series.
I just feel the need to say, that the moment i saw RoR Returns released i knew the game was gonna be worth it's salt and got it, even as a complete stranger to the series. I've since sank hours into the game and recently got into the second game as well. You're a composer like no other, Chris. You're the greatest reason that I've met this wonderful experience and precisely what makes it so immaculate in it's presentation. If there's one regret i have in life, it's that i didn't get to grow up with the original game from 2013 like so many others here, even though i had the opportunity. Better late than never, i guess! Thank you for the emotions, and please never stop putting your heart and soul on what you love the most ❤
This is one of my favorite song of the entire franchise. Contending with it is: They Might as Well be Dead, Once in a Lullaby, Con Lentitud Poderosa, Surface Tension, Chanson d’Automne (I think that’s what it’s called), and The Rain Formerly Known as Purple). Your music is absolutely amazing, and each and every song is just as good the last.
Congratulations for the great job Chirs! One day I was listening to some random musics on youtube music, and i heard this one and recognizes the style and sayd "Hey, it's similar to the Risk of Rain songs", when i checked you were the author, your style is distinct and unique. Nowadays i still hear your musics when I'm working ,driving or just relaxing. Thank you for one of the bests music experiences of my life. This game was a part of my childhood, and I'm happy to see that you are still working with it, and hope it continues this way.
I really have to say. You just attacked my emotions in positive way. Literally, I love the style how bass percussions rose up. They pierce ma ears like royal capacitor with ten lens-mark's glasses. Coalescence was already perfect before decade, but now. It's truly magnum opus of game soundtrack. I really love both old and new version. Also the coalescence returns too. I can't wait to hear this in game! Horray from korea, for the chris!
I'm fairly new to the RoR franchise, I started playing 2 a little before Returns released. But let me just say that now, having played both 2 and Returns, that these games are very special to me, and your music is a huge part of that. Nothing will beat the first time I made it to the Contact Light with this track playing, and I regularly listen to the soundtracks on my own time. I guess this is my weird way of saying thank you, and I hope you keep making bangers like this one!
Thanks so much for sharing. Your music has come to mean so much to me, represent some of my highest highs and lowest lows, and seeing me through many tough times. Thank you so much.
I can't understand just how good this track and Coalescence Returns are. The gameplay of ROR/ROR2/RORR is why people pick it up, but your music is so integral to the series that you're inextricably bound to everyone's fond memories of the games. Thank you for your incredible work you fucking genius.
I still remember conversing with you about this song years ago during the original release! Still one of my favorite tracks and the music tactic you used for the constant build up is still so satisfying. 10/10 still one of my favorite composers.
This song has fueled my willpower sinceIi first heard it. I love how it tells a story of someone who has been in really tough times but is not willing to give up yet. It really gets that feeling of pure hopefulness, and thats why it has a really deep emotional connection to me. Thank you.
We may be monsters, but Providence was the catalyst and author of his (and his brother's) own destruction. He was bored and prideful, saw something entering his view that wasn't his and decided to toy with it, to wreck it, to leave it broken and bruised, just because he could. Just goes to show, you always reap what you sow....
@@alias588the way I see it, nobody in the story is either good or evil. Sure, there are bad people, there are good in terms of kindness, but their actions and decisions were not justified nor unjustified. If Mithrix had been a little more open to allowing a bit of life, if Providence hadn't felt absolute rage and locked his brother on the Moon, if the Humans didn't take a random path near Petrichor, if Providence hadn't assumed that the Humans were there to free Mithrix, everything would've been alright. The entire series is just a series of unfortunate events
Well, we, as the player, committed planetary genocide...twice over. If you read all the logs, you can see that outside of our interference, Petrichor V enjoys a mostly peaceful existence, with a lot of its life living out content and fulfilled existences. Our presence was a beacon for that world's life, as Providence (and later Mithrix) painted us as targets to be annihilated at all costs. So we made the cost *everything*, and they were made to pay it. From our perspective it's always about survival. From their perspective, we are the fly in the ointment. Under the directive of their creator(s), we cannot be allowed to live, and we cannot allow them to kill us...and so we commit those acts necessary to allow us to leave. Wiping out life, killing gods, leaving a world barren, a moon deleted from space and time. I like how they wrote the story. If I were in the shoes of the survivor(s), I'd likely feel the same way after all was said and done. I'd have survived, but the price of survival would be too great for anyone to pay.
WE MAKING IT OUT PETRICHOR V WITH THIS ONE! Chris, I wanted to let you know that you're the first one to ever make me close my eyes while listening to music. Your style is unique, first time I made it to the last stage in ROR 2013, I swear my soul left my body. Few days ago, the same memory happened. Hope you never stop making this dude. ❤
bro chris i cant stress enough how much i love the entirety of the risk of rain franchise ost and how special and good it is and your truly a gift to this community ❤
Thank you Chris. You're really talented and honestly have become one of my favorite game composers in recent years and the fact that you made an even BETTER version in Risk 2 just goes to show. I'll never forget these games and their music.
I could explain why this song is special to me or why it makes me feel the way it does but to be honest that’s already been said. I just want to thank you Chris.
See, what's really interesting is how I relate to commando in the visuals, because even though 500 enemies are slowly approaching me to anihilate me, I'm vibing to the incredible music
I only just started playing ror back in March of this year and I just wanna say, the music was one of the biggest factors for me coming back for more. Can’t think of anything to say that hasn’t been said already but on behalf of me and all my friends who love ror, thank you Chris.
I loved risk of rain 2 but ive never been huge on 2d games so I wasnt planning on getting risk of rain returns. Yeah im buying it Chris is a master manipulator with these bomb ass tunes
I posted this on the original Coalescence, but I'll post it here too because I really like it and also to give a little algorithmic boost. 0:00 You arrive on the Contact Light. "Finally," you think, "almost there." But there's this... other voice. Trying to get your attention, trying to tell you... 0:23 No, no time for that now. Not when you're so close. You soldier on, your steps and gunshots rhythmic enough to keep you alert. Someone's got to survive, after all. 0:45 Is that... Wailing? Moaning? You must've picked up the mask somewhere and forgotten. All those trinkets and baubles, some of them are going to get lost. On top of that, you've been more focused on _staying alive._ 1:06 You're having to move a bit faster, shoot a bit more now. Why don't they want you to leave? Where are they all even coming from? How... How many more will...? 1:27 The wailing is getting louder. Almost like they're following you. They can't be the same ones as before, they _can't_ be. They should've gone away by now. And that voice. Or is this another one, splintered off from the first, multiplying like the Gups? 1:49 Whatever. Just _keep moving._ You _have_ to survive, someone _has_ to carry on the message of what happened here. It doesn't matter how much like iron it smells, it doesn't matter how bumpy the floor has become. Just. _Keep._ *_Going._* 2:10 "Shut UP," You think, "SHUT *_UP!"_* You're running now, angry, adrenaline and panic swelling within you. The monsters have never been this numerous, "Just let me leave, just _let me leave,_ *_please!"_* 2:32 You catch sight of something on the other side of a window. You go to shoot at it, assuming it's another monster. It certainly looks the part. But you stop when you see that _it_ goes to shoot at _you,_ too. In fact, it looks like it... moves when you do. Looking at it closer it... isn't wearing a mask. But there's still an _army_ of ghosts behind it. 2:53 The voice comes back. It's quieter now, but impossible to ignore. And it tells you what you already know. At some point you broke into a sprint. You aren't even bothering to shoot anything anymore, you just want to find the bridge so that you can get _off_ of this planet, so that you can put as much distance as _physically possible_ between you and this, this... The word "Hell" seems apt. 3:57 You forgot about the doors. You start pounding on the controls, shouting, as if it'll make them open faster. But it won't. You have to turn around. There's more coming, and they won't wait. At least, not while they're alive. It seems like for every one you kill, two more take it's place. Whatever is left of You has been shrieking, _howling_ at the horror of what you've done, the realization of what you _are_ now. 4:39 You finally get to the control console. You boot up the launch sequence, and 4:42 When He shows up, something in you snaps. You start screaming, out loud this time. Everything about Him let's you know that He is Judge and Executioner. You know that He's not Jury. You know because you're stained head to toe with the Jury. 5:04 He falls, but it does not bring you relief. You feel in your bones that you've made a terrible mistake. You drop to the floor, clutching the smooth glass that you know now is your head and face. It's outside is slick with blood and gore, and it's inside is hot and wet with tears and sweat. At this point, you aren't sure if it's you or the planet screaming. Or maybe it's both. You don't deserve to scream though. Not now. Not ever again.
This game got me into game development. And this song, this whole soundtrack... Hope some day I can work with you man. Hope we can make art together. Till then keep up inspiring generations.
Risk of rain, the only series of games i've bought the OSTs for. Entirely worth the money, and hoping to spend more along the way just for these soundtracks. Thank you, Chris, for not only composing one of the very few OSTs i listen to in my free-time, but also contributing to some of the best roguelikes i've ever played, amplifying the experience with your music. I cant wait for the latest stuff from you, and i hope you're as stoked for your own releases as i am. Stay safe out there, man.
Coalescence is one of those songs that will always make me tear up when I hear it, and I don't even have any sorta experience to tie it too, aside from the game itself- hearing it during that last stage, knowing something didn't feel quite right.. I had to plug in my headphones just to make sure Coalescence was the only thing I could hear
I realized one of my main drives in getting better at the game is the need to get to that last stage and plunge into this song again and again. Thank you Chris.
When I reached the final stage of Risk of Rain for the first time in 2013 when I was 19 years old, I was both happy and shocked when this song played. I still love it even after 10 years. From a Japanese fan.
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Finally the fans got what they wanted, Coalescence 2
3 ?
Coalescence 2:
and his music was Electric Boogaloo
Nah this is a remaster we actually got a Coalescence 2 th-cam.com/video/cB8bcjA0O-w/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9_KvC9uuyPwEQbXa
Wouldnt Coalescence 2 be Con lentitud poderosa?
Calling this Coalescence 2 is like calling RoR Returns "RoR 2"
SO GOOOOOOOOD!!! You are a MASTER!!!
indeed
Peak recognizes peak
a re-master, even
You guys could do an OST together, someday?
Legend to legend
Finally donating. Your music is special Chris. It truly is and it's changed everyone life so much with the media it's in. I've listened to every single album you've ever released and I listen to many of your songs daily. Me and you have spoken on other songs in the comments and your always so interactive and kind as well. We love you
Thank you so much
@@AstronautDown thank you too
+1
@@AstronautDowni can say the same things as from our friend right there, your part of my life with your music and i just love it deep down.
Agreed
I'm not crying, the sky is.
no im crying actually
It sure is raining alot today, let's leave
Its a terrible day for rain... 😢
And the tears fell powerfully slowly...
@@cristiandepaulasantos9504 oh you son of a bitch you did it didn't you
"November eighth, twenty-two sixty-five. Please state your name for the record."
I can only hope the guy who wrote comments on the original Coalescence and Con Lentitud Poderosa will cook up another banger story for this one
Based.
with 2 minutes of tracking, i can assure you that he is still writing stories ( maybe ), however i cant find his socials anywhere except royal road
@@kripsy4512 Yeha hes only on royal road.
only 241 years to go.
After 10 years, the same feeling of the original is there. Feels like though there's more weight to the song, the extra scratches and few punches. It hits, and it hits hard as always. Thanks for the absolute amount of emotions Chris
The moment the stage started, the feeling rushed back to me. Genuine goosebumps, absolutely love it.
"I thought of a world without memory, without time; I considered the possibility of a language that ignored nouns, a language of impersonal verbs and indeclinable epithets. Thus the days died and with the days the years, but something similar to happiness happened one morning. It rained, with powerful slowness"
...con lentitud poderosa
I've been listening to your music since I discovered Risk Of Rain as a kid in 2013, I love the work and pieces you've been doing. The music you do has unlocked some emotions I didn't know I could feel anymore and I just want to say thank you for all these years.
Thanks so much, this is too generous
Without your music, Chris, I don't think Risk of Rain would have been as popular as it is now. It adds so much life to the series, and so do the rest of the songs you create. Thank you.
very true
Yeah. The game itself is good, but the music makes me want to vibe to the game instead of getting frustrated by the bullet sponges. It is so good.
bulwark of the week
Because of your pfp, I like to think that this is Providence himself writing this, literally thanking Chris for giving him his identity.
Risk of rain wouldn’t be the same without your amazing music. Ty for giving me something to enjoy as much, if not even more, as risk of rain itself
This song, alongside "...con lentitud poderosa", theyre the 2 single most powerful songs (emotionally speaking) Ive heard and have yet to be topped (Resistiré by Dúo Dinamico being a close 3rd), I cannot express enough how much I love your music, not physically, not mentally, not in any way other than emotionally
Thank you, SO fucking much for the care and love you put into your work
Getting back to the Contact Light again was just... God I cannot even begin to describe how perfect this song is for the final level. The somber beginning really encapsulates the feeling of sifting through the wreckage after a disaster, with the building action as you navigate the violence that's become routine to you, culminating in that final desperate struggle to reach the cockpit as all hell is breaking loose. Hits as hard today as it did 10 years ago.
if i ever become a video game music composer it's because of this tune
(and antarctic oscilation)
Fr
BRO WERE PUTTING GLUE ON THE ROACH WITH THIS ONE 🗣 🗣 🗣 💯 💯 💯 🔥 🔥 🔥
_what_
@@Dr.Pootis th-cam.com/video/3zpr-B33-0c/w-d-xo.html
@@Dr.PootisI regret and don't regret looking up the glue on the roach cover.
GLUE
GLUE ON THE ROACH
GLUE ON THE ROACH, BABY
glue on the roach returns
Here's to another 10, whatever form that may take.
Thank you Chris
Really appreciate how much care you put into even just remasters especially this one.
Thank you for noticing! Some tracks really didn't need much work (eg. Chanson d'Automne), some others needed some adjustments, like the infamous ultra boomy 808 on this one :)
As someone who never played the original, it's a blast to play RoR Returns and hearing the actual song in-game
That alongside Chanson d'Automne, which I love because it gave The Rain Formerly Known AS Purple its leitmotif, and the credit song makes this an awesome experience
Thank you
just beat it today and i was blown away by seeing the original sprites in the credits. What an amazing remake
I've made maybe 2 comments on TH-cam since I started using it in 2007. Chris, Thank You. You've done more for me and the others here than I can express properly in words. Thanks.
Glue on the Roach Returns
This really bustles my fungus
This comment leeched my seed
This reply weeped my fungus
Thank you so much for your music. This game meant a lot to me and my friend. I cant express the emotions i feel when i hear your music. So εφαρμογή παρά πολύ, thank you for making something so special.
Thank you so much! So glad you enjoy the music
That subtle movement in the image is really cool
Even with enemies approaching, the Commando decided: NOT. ONE. STEP. BACK.
I didn’t notice it until very recently but there is also a dead huntress and bandit’s hat on the ground next to him.
ive been listening to this ost since 2015, when i first played Risk of Rain 1, and im so fucking happy it lasted this long
just bought the vinyl. when this song came on in my first playthrough of returns i was in shock at how good this sounds. it fits perfectly with the game and it is even better than i remember. i saw the vinyl comes with sheet music and i cant wait to make an arrangement of this song on guitar. thank you for ten years of amazing music chris.
Thank you for the support! I hope you enjoy the vinyl!
Big day for precipitation enjoyers
You are my favorite artist, I love the emotion you put into your songs
LET'S FRIGGIN' GO! Coalescence is my #1 on Spotify currently, and for good reason. Easily my favorite song. I don't mean to get all sentimental, but this has helped me through big things lately.
Truly remarkable, I have major respect for you and the people that do what you do. Risk of rain (and games as a whole) wouldn't be the same without tracks like coalescence.
Thank you for your contributions to this series.
glue, glue on the roach bro, glue, glue on the roach baby. It′s always echoing in my head
“Even in our past memories flourish like I clear river flowing peacefully to the ocean… Not all treasures are Luxurious”
We're glueing a roach with this banger lads!
getting to hear this again does make me smile
and also cry but that is beside the point
The guitar notes climbing ever higher at the end of the song really cement this one in the hall of fame for me.
man when I first re-visited contact light in ror returns I immediatly turned up the music volume. Bravo.
I just feel the need to say, that the moment i saw RoR Returns released i knew the game was gonna be worth it's salt and got it, even as a complete stranger to the series. I've since sank hours into the game and recently got into the second game as well. You're a composer like no other, Chris. You're the greatest reason that I've met this wonderful experience and precisely what makes it so immaculate in it's presentation. If there's one regret i have in life, it's that i didn't get to grow up with the original game from 2013 like so many others here, even though i had the opportunity. Better late than never, i guess! Thank you for the emotions, and please never stop putting your heart and soul on what you love the most ❤
My favorite song of all time
Never in my life have I needed something so much and never known until I received it. Thank you Chris ❤
This is one of my favorite song of the entire franchise. Contending with it is: They Might as Well be Dead, Once in a Lullaby, Con Lentitud Poderosa, Surface Tension, Chanson d’Automne (I think that’s what it’s called), and The Rain Formerly Known as Purple). Your music is absolutely amazing, and each and every song is just as good the last.
Hey now. Your favourites are an entire album's worth of music! Gotta narrow it down :p
@@AstronautDown they’re all that good, what can I say.
your music never fails to make me feel in a way words can not explain. thank you for everything
Congratulations for the great job Chirs! One day I was listening to some random musics on youtube music, and i heard this one and recognizes the style and sayd "Hey, it's similar to the Risk of Rain songs", when i checked you were the author, your style is distinct and unique. Nowadays i still hear your musics when I'm working ,driving or just relaxing. Thank you for one of the bests music experiences of my life. This game was a part of my childhood, and I'm happy to see that you are still working with it, and hope it continues this way.
I really have to say. You just attacked my emotions in positive way. Literally, I love the style how bass percussions rose up. They pierce ma ears like royal capacitor with ten lens-mark's glasses. Coalescence was already perfect before decade, but now. It's truly magnum opus of game soundtrack. I really love both old and new version. Also the coalescence returns too. I can't wait to hear this in game!
Horray from korea, for the chris!
been addicted to returns since it came out, loved playing the original as a teenager
even now, this track still feels like coming home
thanks, chris
I'm fairly new to the RoR franchise, I started playing 2 a little before Returns released. But let me just say that now, having played both 2 and Returns, that these games are very special to me, and your music is a huge part of that. Nothing will beat the first time I made it to the Contact Light with this track playing, and I regularly listen to the soundtracks on my own time. I guess this is my weird way of saying thank you, and I hope you keep making bangers like this one!
Having a ton of fun listening to original and remaster to hear the difference from then and now.
Thank you for your hard work as always.
Thanks so much for sharing. Your music has come to mean so much to me, represent some of my highest highs and lowest lows, and seeing me through many tough times. Thank you so much.
I can't understand just how good this track and Coalescence Returns are.
The gameplay of ROR/ROR2/RORR is why people pick it up, but your music is so integral to the series that you're inextricably bound to everyone's fond memories of the games.
Thank you for your incredible work you fucking genius.
The layering on this song is so breathtakingly dynamic. Thank you, Chris, for this sonic feast.
My heart aches nostalgia hits too hard
Finishing the game and hearing this almost made me cry ngl. Awesome game and incredible music
This has always been my favorite song of yours, it gives me chills. Awesome work, as always.
this is peak 🔥🚒
One of the best things I've ever heard, thankyou!!
What a great song with a very emotionally moving buildup!!
The perfect song...
You're the man Chris!
I still remember conversing with you about this song years ago during the original release! Still one of my favorite tracks and the music tactic you used for the constant build up is still so satisfying. 10/10 still one of my favorite composers.
An incredible being who have a prophecy to furfill. The Legend himself Chris Christodoulou.
This song has fueled my willpower sinceIi first heard it. I love how it tells a story of someone who has been in really tough times but is not willing to give up yet. It really gets that feeling of pure hopefulness, and thats why it has a really deep emotional connection to me.
Thank you.
WE'RE HAVING DEEP "AM I THE MONSTER" MOMENTS WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️‼️‼️‼️🔥🔥‼️‼️‼️
We may be monsters, but Providence was the catalyst and author of his (and his brother's) own destruction. He was bored and prideful, saw something entering his view that wasn't his and decided to toy with it, to wreck it, to leave it broken and bruised, just because he could.
Just goes to show, you always reap what you sow....
UH OH! Annoying child in sight!
@@weirdooftheyeardawg seriously? calling me an annoying child but posting a comment like this? damn
@@alias588the way I see it, nobody in the story is either good or evil.
Sure, there are bad people, there are good in terms of kindness, but their actions and decisions were not justified nor unjustified.
If Mithrix had been a little more open to allowing a bit of life, if Providence hadn't felt absolute rage and locked his brother on the Moon, if the Humans didn't take a random path near Petrichor, if Providence hadn't assumed that the Humans were there to free Mithrix, everything would've been alright. The entire series is just a series of unfortunate events
Well, we, as the player, committed planetary genocide...twice over. If you read all the logs, you can see that outside of our interference, Petrichor V enjoys a mostly peaceful existence, with a lot of its life living out content and fulfilled existences. Our presence was a beacon for that world's life, as Providence (and later Mithrix) painted us as targets to be annihilated at all costs. So we made the cost *everything*, and they were made to pay it. From our perspective it's always about survival. From their perspective, we are the fly in the ointment. Under the directive of their creator(s), we cannot be allowed to live, and we cannot allow them to kill us...and so we commit those acts necessary to allow us to leave. Wiping out life, killing gods, leaving a world barren, a moon deleted from space and time.
I like how they wrote the story. If I were in the shoes of the survivor(s), I'd likely feel the same way after all was said and done. I'd have survived, but the price of survival would be too great for anyone to pay.
WE MAKING IT OUT PETRICHOR V WITH THIS ONE!
Chris, I wanted to let you know that you're the first one to ever make me close my eyes while listening to music. Your style is unique, first time I made it to the last stage in ROR 2013, I swear my soul left my body. Few days ago, the same memory happened. Hope you never stop making this dude. ❤
This song is like a melancholic hope
bro chris i cant stress enough how much i love the entirety of the risk of rain franchise ost and how special and good it is and your truly a gift to this community ❤
Thank you Chris. You're really talented and honestly have become one of my favorite game composers in recent years and the fact that you made an even BETTER version in Risk 2 just goes to show. I'll never forget these games and their music.
Such an amazing experience. Going through it all again after almost 10 years for me is something truly special. Thank you Chris, love ya
I could explain why this song is special to me or why it makes me feel the way it does but to be honest that’s already been said. I just want to thank you Chris.
See, what's really interesting is how I relate to commando in the visuals, because even though 500 enemies are slowly approaching me to anihilate me, I'm vibing to the incredible music
Cant wait for next year and have the vinyl on my hands!!! ❤
Chris, you just know EXACTLY how to make your music fire every neuron in my brain, man. This never gets old!
I only just started playing ror back in March of this year and I just wanna say, the music was one of the biggest factors for me coming back for more. Can’t think of anything to say that hasn’t been said already but on behalf of me and all my friends who love ror, thank you Chris.
i love listening to Coalescence so seeing it get a remaster brings me much joy
This song really coalesces in my heart.
The build-up of these percussion instruments...just fantastic.
Thank you so much.
I'm changing everyone's favorite musics by showing them your musics. You are legend.
Thanks for spreading the word! Much appreciated!
Glue glue on the roach baby
Instant thumbsup
I loved risk of rain 2 but ive never been huge on 2d games so I wasnt planning on getting risk of rain returns.
Yeah im buying it Chris is a master manipulator with these bomb ass tunes
I posted this on the original Coalescence, but I'll post it here too because I really like it and also to give a little algorithmic boost.
0:00 You arrive on the Contact Light. "Finally," you think, "almost there." But there's this... other voice. Trying to get your attention, trying to tell you...
0:23 No, no time for that now. Not when you're so close. You soldier on, your steps and gunshots rhythmic enough to keep you alert. Someone's got to survive, after all.
0:45 Is that... Wailing? Moaning? You must've picked up the mask somewhere and forgotten. All those trinkets and baubles, some of them are going to get lost. On top of that, you've been more focused on _staying alive._
1:06 You're having to move a bit faster, shoot a bit more now. Why don't they want you to leave? Where are they all even coming from? How... How many more will...?
1:27 The wailing is getting louder. Almost like they're following you. They can't be the same ones as before, they _can't_ be. They should've gone away by now. And that voice. Or is this another one, splintered off from the first, multiplying like the Gups?
1:49 Whatever. Just _keep moving._ You _have_ to survive, someone _has_ to carry on the message of what happened here. It doesn't matter how much like iron it smells, it doesn't matter how bumpy the floor has become. Just. _Keep._ *_Going._*
2:10 "Shut UP," You think, "SHUT *_UP!"_* You're running now, angry, adrenaline and panic swelling within you. The monsters have never been this numerous, "Just let me leave, just _let me leave,_ *_please!"_*
2:32 You catch sight of something on the other side of a window. You go to shoot at it, assuming it's another monster. It certainly looks the part. But you stop when you see that _it_ goes to shoot at _you,_ too. In fact, it looks like it... moves when you do. Looking at it closer it... isn't wearing a mask. But there's still an _army_ of ghosts behind it.
2:53 The voice comes back. It's quieter now, but impossible to ignore. And it tells you what you already know.
At some point you broke into a sprint. You aren't even bothering to shoot anything anymore, you just want to find the bridge so that you can get _off_ of this planet, so that you can put as much distance as _physically possible_ between you and this, this...
The word "Hell" seems apt.
3:57 You forgot about the doors. You start pounding on the controls, shouting, as if it'll make them open faster. But it won't. You have to turn around. There's more coming, and they won't wait. At least, not while they're alive. It seems like for every one you kill, two more take it's place. Whatever is left of You has been shrieking, _howling_ at the horror of what you've done, the realization of what you _are_ now.
4:39 You finally get to the control console. You boot up the launch sequence, and
4:42 When He shows up, something in you snaps. You start screaming, out loud this time. Everything about Him let's you know that He is Judge and Executioner. You know that He's not Jury. You know because you're stained head to toe with the Jury.
5:04 He falls, but it does not bring you relief. You feel in your bones that you've made a terrible mistake. You drop to the floor, clutching the smooth glass that you know now is your head and face. It's outside is slick with blood and gore, and it's inside is hot and wet with tears and sweat. At this point, you aren't sure if it's you or the planet screaming. Or maybe it's both. You don't deserve to scream though. Not now. Not ever again.
One of my favourite video game songs of all time. Fantastic work - well done.
so much dopamine this game is in the top ever created thank you so much keep the good work
gotta love the glue on the roach song
Chris, you are the reason that risk of rain is one of my favorite game franchises. Keep up the amazing work, I’m stoked for Seekers Of The Storm!!
This game got me into game development. And this song, this whole soundtrack... Hope some day I can work with you man. Hope we can make art together. Till then keep up inspiring generations.
Always a pleasure, Chris.
A Coalescence remaster oh my god amazing!!
As usual one of the best video game soundtracks ive heard cant wait to see more from you
Glue on the roach baby
Thanks for making 10 years of my life bearable and special in ways I couldn't replace if I tried.
glue, on da roach broo!
holy crap this dudes music is fricking electric
Risk of rain, the only series of games i've bought the OSTs for. Entirely worth the money, and hoping to spend more along the way just for these soundtracks. Thank you, Chris, for not only composing one of the very few OSTs i listen to in my free-time, but also contributing to some of the best roguelikes i've ever played, amplifying the experience with your music. I cant wait for the latest stuff from you, and i hope you're as stoked for your own releases as i am. Stay safe out there, man.
... and his music was electric
your music is amazing and will always hold a special place in my heart.
Coalescence is one of those songs that will always make me tear up when I hear it, and I don't even have any sorta experience to tie it too, aside from the game itself- hearing it during that last stage, knowing something didn't feel quite right.. I had to plug in my headphones just to make sure Coalescence was the only thing I could hear
I always appreciate your work, it's carried me through some tough(er) times.
I realized one of my main drives in getting better at the game is the need to get to that last stage and plunge into this song again and again. Thank you Chris.
Screaming, crying, throwing up ❤🎉
SO glad you are here for Risk Of Rain Returns!
Just as beautiful as the day I first obsessively fell in love with this song
Truly has a special place in my heart, now and forever
It's been a long and beautiful journey and I'm just happy that there's still more ahead
Love you Chris!
When I reached the final stage of Risk of Rain for the first time in 2013 when I was 19 years old, I was both happy and shocked when this song played. I still love it even after 10 years. From a Japanese fan.