Game Composer Reacts to DEMOCRAWLER THEME from STELLAR BLADE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ค. 2024
- After so many of you recommended the Democrawler theme from Stellar Blade to me, I knew something was up with this track. I was already impressed with the Stellar Blade soundtrack in general, but Democrawler... Dang, this is a whole new level. Definitely one of the best OSTs in recent years.
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I didn't think I would be this impressed by Stellar Blade music again after the video I did on the Abaddon theme. Btw, have you watched that one? It's over here: th-cam.com/video/SAgKEXZLw-k/w-d-xo.html
Wait until you hear the Nest ost from this game. I think you will like it a lot. I was heavily looking forward to your review on the Democrawler theme, though. Great video, as always, man.
I think the reason why they went with more opera is for a few reasons. One, this boss is a collection of many people who died in the war of the Orbit Elevator so these are a group of people who were just about to reach their safe paradise but got killed. As such it's more organic feeling than the rest of the monsters and by in-game lore is the embodiment of resentment and rage. There is also an opera house in the remnants of the civilization on Earth so I think opera is somehow part of the culture of the people and the location this boss in might suggest these were the remnants of the upper class of society. Design-wise its almost lovecraft-ian in how horrific and large the monster is so the levels of disturbing nature makes sense. Hope that helps!
Hey Mr Gaijinhunter
@user-zc3sg4hf1kStellar Blade pays homage to a lot of games like Devil May Cry, Sekiro, Nier, Bayonetta, Dark Souls, also some connections to movies like Edge of Tomorrow, Matrix and Star Troopers. Yet the game feels so unique in it's own way. Overall awesome game it is
We know Mother Sphere’s goal with Andro-Eidos was the “Human Instrumentality Plan” (yes they just stole that from Evangelion) with all their memories coming together when they then die.
I wonder if this grotesque horrifying boss then is also a representation of how human’s viewed it. As gross and unnatural. Shape of a sphere (mother sphere) and as close to the colony you can get. They also were plugged into the space elevator at the beginning for some reason.
Very much so on the culture part. If you do the questline that takes you to the opera house there’s several readings and descriptions about how certain performers and creations there like the Karakuri actors were all planned to entertain the VIPs on the orbital elevator during their ascent… and of course we see how that all turned out as we travel up. Like as not Enya would have ended up there too if circumstances didn’t stop her.
@Nikzedik72you’ll be surprised just how Bloodborne it gets
This boss is an amalgamation of humans who are filled with bitterness and resentment. The main character becomes keenly aware of this pain and fights the boss to free it from that agony. That's why the soundtrack here is so fitting. It sounds like a lament or a dirge in the beginning, and towards the end, it takes a heroic turn in the tone as the fight comes to its close.
Wow that's incredible considering how people reacted to the game. So interesting
The reason why the music for this boss is so high scale is because it's not the actual boss you are fighting, once you defeat it you find out it's only part of the actual boss which has taken over the entire space station and it's basically a gigantic seraphim.
Lyrics :
Void ov aen'dies eordt
Deordt oer'ta
Blinded by light, far beyond the skyline
In a dance of death, the phantoms entwine
Invisible chains of despair and pain constrict the world's very heart
Clouded by murmurs of grief, drowned in a thousand laments
The azure of mind is torn and sublimed by torments
In this nightmarish rain, the silence roars
We are trapped in the choir of chaos, yet redemption calls from the depths of a miracle
Ei'qo!
Nor'qo!
A cosmic masquerade dreams long to evade, ab aeterno
Blinded by light, far beyond the skyline
In a dance of death, the phantoms entwine
Invisible chains of despair and pain constrict the world's very heart
Clouded by murmurs of grief, drowned in a thousand laments
The azure of mind is torn and sublimed by torments
In this nightmarish rain, the silence roars
We are trapped in the choir of chaos, yet redemption calls from the depths of a miracle
Ei'qo!
Nor'qo!
A cosmic masquerade dreams long to evade, ab aeterno
Lost and broken words unspoken
Bound in the endless flow of darkness
Through elation, seek salvation
For freedom will fry, ad astra
By Pernelle
Pernelle for people who don't know = the actual singer.
@@abysswalker3891 talented** actual singer :)
This game gas two very big reasons that are inviting me to buy it.
The OST and combat seem top notch
And a total badass main female finnaly amazing game i have already 100h the gameplay feel so good
you NEED to react to the final boss theme
damn u can pick any song from stellar blade ost n get blown away - they all r STELLAR
👍
One of my favorite things about Davi Vasc is he talks about the theory of music. It sets him apart from other music reactors. Talking about things such as interesting time signatures, or which happy, sad, or tense chords are used, is really interesting, as least, to me.
Do more of it! I love it!
You're not ready for the final boss theme which is my top 1st favorite above democrawler theme
Here is the lore regarding this boss for those interested. I've beaten this game 4 times, btw. The game is phenomenal.
Democrawler
Many died in isolation throughout the facility during the battle for the Orbit Elevator. In the center of the devastation at the Central Core, people lost their lives while staring longingly out at their beautiful Colony hometown, It's no surprise that, when Naytibas infected their corpses, a horrific embodiment of resentment and rage was born.
raven theme of stellar blade is amazing.. but also many enviroment themes that are very good
Def amazing but I could see some not amazed cuz of the style of it
@@estrayahanthony729 very true. Some people think it's weird but those with good taste loves it too much😊
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It made me laugh when it first played on that boss fight seriosuly.
Amazing video as always! This music gave me the grand beauty of Soulsborne music and the melodic and heroic vibe of JRPG music. The atmosphere of the opera can be dramatic and grandiose, but at the same time it gives you the overdone and comical feelings. But in this music, it feels like those feelings are perfectly balanced to create madness and drama. I haven't played the game yet, so I don't know the context of this fight, but I was blown away!
Ugh this game gives you the best music to kick ass to. The fight-fuel these tunes provide adds so many levels of fun to this game
Yes more. I was waiting for another video on stellar blade
This track is so insane. Best trCk of the year
I've been waiting for you to cover this track. To me, it's the is the best in the game
Thanks for another great analysis, Davi.
I have not played the game, but what I've seen of the boss in your video reminds me of what the Reapers in Mass Effect did to other sentient creatures - transforming something organic to a horrific amalgamation of their former selves. The soundtrack's continuous plunge from classical opera to an electronic version of itself, to me, signified that.
Yas bby, give Stellar Blade's OST the love it deserves. Still think you need to do the Tachy theme next!
Sou um fã brasileiro q ta sempre acompanhando suas análises por aqui. Obrigado por mais um ótimo vídeo ❤
Everyone, TURN DOWN EFFECTS VOLUME in the game or you won’t be able to hear the music as well. I didn’t change volume settings when I played and did not get this experience. Now I’m playin thru again with only the music on.
yeah damn the effects are too loud. im glad i turned them down in time for the last boss battles
Somehow this boss reminds me of ludwig,the holy blade from bloodborne. If i'm not wrong the director of the game said he was inspired by several games like nier automata,bloodborne and sekiro. The sword glows with the same colour as ludwig's holy sword
Man this game has a lot of good music. The final boss theme, Belial, and flooded commercial sector, the wasteland, and Xion are all amazing. i hope you react to one of them
The final boss theme « elder naytiba » might be my favorite boss music I’ve ever heard on par with ff7 one winged angel
I was like "this sounds like Soken had a son hwo's a composer as well" and then you said in the same part but the second time it plays "doesn't it sound a bit like a Soken FF soundtrack?" 😂
This is the first exposure I've really had to this game and tbh the soundtrack alone is enough to get me looking into it. I wish I could've made out the lyrics a bit better, I feel like those are pretty important in songs like this. Definitely in English, though.
Any chance we could get a video on the Hades II soundtrack, now that it's in Early Access? Coral Crown and Song of the Sirens are both phenomenal.
raven has a very good boss fight theme
Stellar Blade has some pretty good OSTs. Could check out Elder Naytiba’s theme
Hi, i really love your videos. I like to hear about how you talk about musical techniques and the mood of melodies. How do you feel when you try to make out Paul Romero's compositions from the Heroes of might and magic games?
Oh, hi Davi! Suggestion (it's not Blasphemous finally, jajaja, although I'm still waiting a video for at least one track hopefully 🙏): so yeah, Song of the Sirens form Hades II , you can truly feel the song doing its work, incredible track, beautifully hypnotic. I'm loving some tracks from Hades II, specially the ones from this 'group' ;).Video: Oh Davi, this one is an incredible track, I really like opera so that also helps, but yeah amazing song, I'm happy I saw this video, great as always, I really enjoyed it!.
Well, that's it, don't forget to check out Blasphemous 1 or 2 OST 🥺, jajajajajajaja, and ofc Hades II. ¡Adiós Davi!
this is a very cool OST, it's trying to be everything all at once and it's actually succeeding lol
It's a little strange though as far as a monaca assisted soundtrack us concerned. It seems monaca is only really used for chill, laid back, world themes and camp music. Very little action music from them.
This is just extra jarring because the intro to the game is clearly monaca styled epic NieR inspired music, and we just never get to hear anything like that in the game again, and it makes the game feel tonaly disjointed from the intro based on its music and scale of the scene.
The ost is amazing for sure, but I was expecting and hoping for more boss themes inspired by the dramatic epic Orchestra of the NieR series.
Slightly disappointing for me since I prefer classical/orchestral over rock or metal and stellar blade clearly leans into the latter.
Oh well can't complain really, it's different from what I usually like but that helps expand my horizon a little bit. Plus I already have my epic orchestral Sci fi music in NieR:Automata. So some action packed Sci fi rock/metal is welcomed.
When they’re going rockestral, ah shoot here comes Uematsu. More like paying respect than being original.
Man loves it at phase 2 hahahaha, his face was exactly my reaction too, you love to see it.
Hades II OSTs perhaps? There's some bangers already, would recommend main theme (Death to Chronos) or Crossed Flames as first intros
Davi, would you consider covering some music from Banjo Kazooie/Tooie? Mr. Patch, Freezeezy Peak, Klungo, Click Clock Woods, Cloud Cuckooland. Thanks for what you do.
the final boss theme also has Opera on it and I think it's worth checking out
The game does a neat thing with its OST where the instrumentals do the storytelling for you. You don't really get to appreciate it without already knowing the full story, so SPOILERS:
As you progress throughout the game, you come to discover that the wars of the past can be summarized into cybernetic androids vs organic humans, and the game starts in a time where androids have had their memories rewritten to believe they are the humans, while the organic humans have all undergone genetic mutations to survive extinction in the war against androids, becoming the Naytiba.
Musically, enemies Eve perceives as good guys = orchestral instrumentals, while the bad guys are given the more metal/synthesized parts. Almost all the boss tracks will have some mixing of both, since they're all some form of fusion or parasitization of one to the other. Abaddon being one of the first bosses falls in line with her worldview, being mostly metal/electronic- incoherent and chaotic. The second Alpha's track is melodic and uniform in comparison based on their past relationship, and this is when Eve's perception of the world starts to get challenged. As the game progresses and Eve discovers the origins of organic humans and cybernetic androids, the lines between good and bad begin to blur as she begins to redefine humanity for herself.
The Democrawler is one of the last bosses Eve faces during her disillusionment near the end of the game, and she comes to empathize with the flesh and metal housing the consciousness of countless humans and androids. The beginning of the track addresses the tragedy and humanity in their situation, and then picks up with the metal/electronic as Eve gets closer to putting the thing out of its misery, sort of echoing the android's triumph over humanity in the past. The rest of the boss tracks become more streamlined in their operatic/orchestral = organics and vocaloid/synthesized = android dichotomy as Eve's worldview develops further.
I honestly didnt notice there was boss music until i saw his reaction to the soundtrack of Abbadon's boss fight. Was locked in making sure the various very scary, very sudden attacks dont land...to little succes.
I interpreted this music for this fight as, the mixed emotions of the souls in one functioning being, like happy, angry, and sad.
Then the second phase seemes like they form one goal to defeat the main character.
Unidentified Naytiba is my fav boss track. Hope you give it a listen.
東方の曲のピュアヒューリーズをやって欲しいです。めっちゃラスボス感があってかっこいいです
Awwww yeeeee, my favourite one!
It's amazing how I played the game but it feels like you know more about this boss than me by just listening to the song.
Yes the musical score Jiggle and jells with the gameplay, im listening to the score right now. it on Spotify
You MUST DO the final boss, tachy , raven, and providence I think is really good but some ppl don’t agree w me on that lol
Providence as a boss is kinda lame, which is probably the reason people don't like the ost for it so much. It's cool looking, it's name is badass, but it's moveset is super repetitive where it just constantly just tries to 2 piece you with its fists.
It's very basic and moderately paced compared to raven, a much more badass, intense, fast paced and high skill. Basically parry your ass off or you die.
I feel like you'd LOVE the Elder Naytiba boss theme if you ever get around to it!!
The singer name is Pernelle, if anyone curious about her.
2024 GOTY!!!!
I feel like those are slow triplets as opposed to truple meter in 3/4
New Elden Ring DLC trailer dropped, I think you'll like the music, it's unlike anything you've ever heard from a Souls game
Do the cords usually play identically with the vocalists voice? Is there anything different about the notes and pitches that the vocalist is using? Their drawn out lows are really intriguing to me.
Aliens
no truer word was ever spoken
Getting Nier Automata vibes!!
Hi, I recently watched all your Undertale music videos, and I don't know if you'll see this comment
But will you ever listen to Undertale Yellow soundtrack? It's very close to quality of original Undertale soundtrack.
Ost from Undertale Yellow that I specifically want to recommend is called "Mother's Love"(would be cool if you listened to it with a scream sound effect it has in the game, gives you chills!)
Please do primal dialga theme in pokemon mistery dungeon its the best theme I heard in all my life
I would like to recommend Kosei Shishido's final boss themes from Like a Dragon Gaiden: The man who erased his name
Hi Davi, can you react to the Deep Rock Galactic OST? RUN! and Dance of the Dreadnought are particularly good in my opinion
The funny thing is it reminds me of a james bond intro song.
Keiichi Okabe is still the undefeated GOAT of video game music
He wasn’t in the making of stellar blade’s one
@Lcss1 Yes he was, he didn't do all if it alone, but he was a major contributing artist. You can obviously hear it, plus he's credited in game
Wrong, the intro battle ost is the best where they put all thier budget in 😂
Keiichi Okabe is super amazing
Oliver Good
Can you pleeeease listen to the champion’s gravetender from Dark Souls 3??
please react to the elder naytiba ost
where's the lore connoisseur in the comments?
Short version: A lot of people died fighting to get to their home in the space Colony. When Naytibas infected their corpses and combined them, the result became an entity of resentment
This has nothing to do with the video itself, but I would like to give a suggestion. PLEASE listen to some Thymesia soundtracks, they need to be talked about
I think the songs are in an unknown language mixed with English gibberish.
I hear it everywhere on their soundtrack, you feel like you understand what they are singing yet when you really pause and listen, the lyrics don't make sense and sounds gibberish. Not complaining though, I like it being ambiguous like that.
The singer added her own created language when she wrote the lyrics. They have a meaning, but she let the audience thinks what it is.
th-cam.com/video/D2eLCE2-64I/w-d-xo.html
It took you a long time analyzing the first half of the song that you only saved the best part of the music for the last third of your video.
I kept waiting for the beat to drop but you kept rewinding before the best part. 😅
Deltarune rude buster.
Have you evaluated "A Cup of Liber-Tea" before? It's the main theme from Helldivers 2.
Can you react to the main theme of super smash bros brawl
"Is this English?"
Basically what I'm noticing in a second Korean game now. First one being Lies of P. Amazing music, but some incredibly broken English that straight up sounds like made up words.
Check the singer channel, Pernelle. She put sub for the lyric.
Level of disturbance: Dark Souls, Bloodborne. Nice definition