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Okey Im here to recommend a brand new singer for your channel. Şebnem Ferah. Turkish singer, songwriter, producer and vocalist. She has been around since 1987. She was in Volvox and Pentagram. She worked with Apocolyptia before Evanescence. She is doing alternate rock, hard rock, pop rock and heavy metal. Im gonna go straight away for song suggestions from 2007 İstanbul Live Concert. My personal favs are -Delgeç -Ben Şarkımı Söylerken -Can Kırıkları AND I am gonna comment at each video so you can see it and dont forget it😅
Do not miss old songs like: - It doesn't matter - Live & Learn - Catch me if you can - His world - I am all of me - Knight of the Wind - Endless Possibility And many more
Fun fact a Rock Band that use to do Most of the music for the Sonic games for over a decade (Well all the main vocal themes.) Is Called Crush 40 you should check them out.
When the community complained about Crush 40 not being in Frontiers, I didn't, in fact, when I first heard Vandalize, I knew, Frontiers was gonna be fine without Crush 40 Vandalize was the song that got me into OOR, and I gotta say, there was no going back from that, Taka's performance on Stand Out Fit In saved me, I used to be a person who claimed to be sad, depressed, and lonely, just in an attempt to be cared for But NO! One Ok Rock showed me that I have to be the one to save myself, to make a change, to move on I'll forever be grateful for Sega for using Vandalize, indirectly saved me
Sonic Frontiers IS a darker more serious game. basically after all the detraction they got for screwing around lightly with the story and characters, especially after the last main game - Sonic Forces- they buckled down and started treating the franchise more seriously again. They even hired a beloved writer from the Sonic comics to pen the dialogue.
they tried going to a more serious tone with forces but with the same writters and personality of the games before the game could not keep serious in my oppinion forces is the between frontiers and lost world/colours, forces start walking the serious path so Iann Flynn could make it run in frontiers
@@indecisiveponderer643 It...was not. It tried to be and failed miserably and any semblance of darkness in theme was told not shown. This is the same franchise that had a man talk about his plans to kill everyone on Earth because they shot his granddaughter while he's about to be executed by firing squad, and had Sonic intentionally murder a mad king and deal with someone who cursed the current state of the world because she feared the inevitable end of her kingdom and herself, they had Eggman and a princess die in an explosion with Sonic having to go back in time to reverse it, Even the Shadow the Hedgehog game which also tried to be edgy had dark moments that worked, like in the neutral ending where Shadow curses his existence for causing so much destruction when he was originally supposed to help the world and wishes he was never born.
@@smugsneasel i didn't say it nailed that tone all that well. Just that it's generally what people would get when they think "dark" and that's definitely not the vibe most sonic games outside the dark ages era give. And speaking about where I stand on forces.. the only things I think it fumbled story-wise were pacing and writing, but other than that it's definitely not as bad as people seem to make be, and it's totally worthy of being labeled "dark" and edgy to a debatable extent.
Nice to see you get around to Sonic Frontiers. The game is pretty good especially compared to some of the other recent Sonic games. I wouldn't say the game is particularly dark but there are some story beats that might feel heavy depending on how seriously you take them. These are some other good tracks from this game: I’m Here Break Through It All Find Your Flame Dear Father One Way Dream Undefeatable
Man, playing Sonic Frontiers was such a great time. And now that you've stepped partially in this world, you definitely need to check out the other music in that game at least. Then maybe other Sonic soundtracks? I dunno~ Also I guess I should've said this earlier but the One OK Rock song that I keep requesting, "No Scared", is for the game Black Rock Shooter and it's sung over the intro. So maybe you could check out the game's intro first someday.
I'd say the sonic universe has always had a lot of heavily dark themes. it's just that it doesn't get shown how dark it can get sometimes. especially when the recent shows and movies are more catered towards kids and teens. Sonic Frontiers definitely shone a light on that side of the world of sonic which I honestly love. P.S Sonic games tend to be hotly debated on whether or not they're good games or not, but everyone agrees that no matter what the quality of the sonic games may be, every Sonic game has an absolute banger of an OST.
I love this song so much because it reminds me of this overly edgy phase in Sonic fandom around mid-2000s and early 2010s filled with animated music videos to songs of every popular rock band at the time, so like Linking Park and etc. We laughed at it but deep down we miss it.
If you want a great idea of Frontiers tone then I HIGHLY recommend looking at the prologue animation they made for it. It doesn't spoil anything about the story itself but is a good look at the vibe the game was aiming for while teasing some cool stuff. Sega have been making a bunch of animations lately to promote the games; Sonic Mania Adventures, Team Sonic Racing Overdrive, Chao in Space (that one is just for fun)
“Pierce” from Yokohama Arena or “Broken Heart of Gold” are my next suggestions for ONE OK ROCK! I love Vandalize, it’s my favorite from their latest album. I do prefer the Japanese version to this one though 😁
Thank you, I love ONE OK ROCK Taka is a great vocalist 😍💕 There are many wonderful songs! Please react "Change" (official video from Eye of the Storm Japan Tour) It's a wonderful live where everyone smiles and is happy !!!OOR's live performances are the best!They were on hiatus due to the coronavirus, but they resumed their activities last year.Taka suffered because he couldn't hold concerts or record for a long time.💧💧
@@AarenYASS meh, I loved 4 ep 2 and main theme Forces and Infinite's with some "modern" stages (if ya except, then it counts into the banger list). For me the one exceptions are prob 3D blast and DS rpg one.
You should definitely listen again to the other songs in your own time.. They don't really get highlighted much in the game since the stages end right away
As someone who played all the sonic games its always been dark it just perspective and im glad that sonic frontiers came out all songs and tracks was awesome first stage gave me mental problems hearing flowing with time repeatedly, trying to ace the thing. Sonic games after 2 and unleashed was a down, but happy that this game was made and even though problems at the end. They did a fantastic job.
You should react to Nobody's home next. Such an amazing song. I'm not much of a crier but this song has brought me to tears multiple times. It is specially emotional if you know the backstory and the meaning of the song. If you do choose to react to this masterpiece you really should do some research before or after, I assure you won't be disappointed.
Man. One OK Rock is such a great band. They've been a go to for me since I discovered them back in 2019. (Thank you TH-cam algorithm) My only regret is that I discovered them just a few days after the Central US leg of their US tour that year. I believe No Scared, Jibbun Rock, American Girls, and Memories are the only ones left on my favorites list you haven't reacted to yet.
hey hey! I know I’m a little late but if you didn’t yet, there is one version of we are that they performed called we are 18Fes NHK,, since you like crowds singing THIS will blow your mind they basically built an entire choir with the crowd
DUDE BOSS THEMES NOW No matter how bad the Sonic game it still has some of the best music out there. Undefeatable, Break Through It All, Find Your Flame, I'm Here.... And another song from the TH-camr himself, Nathan Sharp called One Way Dream. They are all so good
About the game's tone: The Sonic Series didn't go exactly DARK. But the last decade of Sonic Games was playing it safe, they were very kid-friendly, and the scripts felt like Sat AM cartoons. So for this one, the first mainline game in 5 YEARS they chose to go back to the Teen Rating they used to have back in the early 2000s. So they were aiming to go for a Shonen approach on this one, trying to appeal a lot to the Japanese market. Because despite Sonic and SEGA being Japanese, the hedgehog was never as popular as he is on our side of the world over there. They got the writer of the Sonic IDW Comics (generally highly regarded as the best Canon Sonic stories there are) to write the script for this game and after a decade of poorly written games, character butchering, and retconning of the 2000s games we all loved, Sonic Frontiers finally allowed itself to take the franchise's story seriously. The game has its fair amount of darkness but it doesn't go over the top. And it follows Sonic on the Starfall Islands, trying to rescue his friends Amy, Tails, and Knuckles from a virtual reality called The Cyberspace. There are also giant kaiju-like monster things you have to fight to get the Chaos Emeralds and the fights go hard as heck. As my other comment said, I recommend listening to Undefeatable, the first boss theme. Glad you enjoyed the song, and I hope I was of help!!!
Actually I disagree the Sonic games have always been dark, it's just the cutesy look of sonic and friends masked that darkness. The world is post apocalyptic, Eggman built a giant robot army enslaved all animal life and turned them into batteries. Human life seemingly was eradicated, many if not all of the landscapes are hellish or overrun. It's only recently that they've started pulling back on the cuteness so we're seeing the darkness more clearly.
@Matthew Williams They can't be taken as dark if they don't take themselves seriously enough to do so. Arguing Lost World is dark because all life from the earth is destroyed for a moment, then reversed, falls flat when the game is written like a SpongeBob episode. Sonic USED to go dark in Adventure 1&2, Shadow, 06, and even Unleashed. But ever since it was aimed at children, they didn't bother to make good stories because children wouldn't care.
Don't just check out music from frontiers since music is the thing sonic does BEST. There are lots of lyrical and instrumental tracks across all of the games that are amazing. If you want to stick to lyrical songs then there's a lot in frontiers like one way dream or find your flame, but I'd also recommend some of the non-lyric ones like cyberspace 1-5 or vs ghost. And please check out music from other sonic games like sonic unleashed or sonic adventure.
When I first heard the Sonic OST was going to be OOR's Vandalize, I actually laughed out loud. It's an amazing song, don't get me wrong, but I had a moment of panicked absurdity where I didn't think they were going to censor it and thought Sonic was going to have to f*** the pain away 😂😭😭 Not sure if there are any good live recordings, but Neon is a great song. I got to see OOR live last year, and Neon was INCREDIBLE live. The energy they brought, even to a small venue, was superb.
Thank you for your new reaction for OOR « Vandalize ». I prefer the album version (the not auto-censured one). I hope you will react to those songs next : Be the light Fight the night Cry out The way back Re:make NO SCARED Ending story
I hope you react to One Ok Rock "Be The Light" Music Video. This one always makes me shiver, this song is dedicated to people who went through natural catastrophe in Japan. The disaster, known as a large earthquake and tsunami measuring 9.1 on the Richter scale (SR), destroyed the entire city of Tohoku and triggered a nuclear leak at the Fukushima.
Difficult to narrow down songs to request reactions to, I could easily say react to 95% of their discography that you haven't listened to yet, or say anything from their Luxury Disease album, but I feel like you'll get more recommendations for those, so I would like to Rep some of their slightly older material: -Pierce -Liar -Juvenile -No Scared
If you're interested in other Sonic Frontiers songs then definitely check out Undefeatable it's one of 3 boss songs in the game sung by Kellin Quinn from Sleeping With Sirens (Undefeatable, Break Through It All & Find Your Flame) Undefeatable is chronologically the first and from what I've seen the fan favorite so it's a good place to start
"I wouldn't expect to be Dark from Sonic" hate to break it to you, but Sonic has had some Dark themes and Rock Band Type Music since Sonic Adventure in 1998.
You might be misremembering but back in the day sonic games were not on nintendo consoles, original sonic the hedgehog 1+2 and 3 were for a console called the Sega genesis nintendos competitor at the time and during the n64 era sonic adventure was on the competitor console the Sega Dreamcast sonic games didnt come to nintendo til the release of the gamecube and gameboy advanced when sega went from a player in the console wars to a game developer shadow the hedgehog was on ps2 and gamecube.
Dark in the aspect that there is a weight to the actions being made. In the previous games, the story and atmosphere never left you wondering that Sonic was ABSOLUTELY going to win. But with this game there is a weight behind the circumstances that Sonic and the gang find themselves in. As you progress through the game there is a moment where you're actually left wondering wether he's going to pull through or not. But of course he is. It's a Sonic game. He's contractually obligated to win. But they definitely instill that "what if" moment in the game and it is HEAVY (for me at least). To the point that I was on the verge of tears, but I also cry easily. 😅
These songs are one of the best in sonic discography! When you reach “Undefeatable” “break through it all” and “find your flame” do medicate the pausing! These songs are a continuos banger experience that should be enjoyed to the fullest as to not break the flow!
Since Sonic came to 3d it starter exploring some mature tone story although every story around the 2010 is like a morning cartoon but the rest before that explore themes of loss, death and sacrifice understanding whats better for everyone
"Has Sonic gone dark?" Well he was recently murdered if that's any indication. But the series has been kinda been dark before ( outside of Shadow the Hedgehog ).
Ou "Clean version on Vandalize" u should check the Japanese not clean version of this too. I highly recommend from oor:Mad world(japanese version),Broken heart of gold(Japanese version),Renegades(japanese version) キミシダイ列車(kimishidai ressha) live, Wonder(Japanese version) Jaded ft:Alex Gaskarth, Lost in tonight(only in Ambitions Japanese version), 20/20(only in Ambitions Japanese version), And I know, Can't wait(only in Eye Of Storm Japanese version) ,Pieces of me,outta sight & Rock,Scissors,Paper Oor all songs are more than amazing and agree Taka-san is absolutely best vocalist but also his brother Hiro-san is phenomenal,in my opinion Moriuchi brothers are born to be singers. From My First Story x Sayuri single album: ミかジキ(Mikazuki mfs vo. Hiro cover version) Original song ミかジキ is from Sayuri Mfs-I'm a mess,ハルジオン(harujion),Smash out live version, One light live version which is so beautiful and 失踪FLAME(Shissou Flame) live is so beautiful ReN-Rainbow ft:Taka milet-Who I am,Finall Call 優里(Yuuri)-かくれんぼ(kakurenbo) ft:My First Story Hiro
Really liked your video! To answer your question: yes, this game is dark. The game's main theme is death and discovering things about the past, so it makes sense that you are getting Assassin's Creed vibes. Aside from the past decade (Sonic Colours to Sonic Forces), the games from Adventure onward, have always been darker than the classic ones from the Mega Drive/Genesis era. Most people tend to assume Sonic games only have simple and family friendly stories because of the colorful settings, but that coudn't be further from the truth 😂
I've heard the song Vandalize, but seeing it being used for Sonic Frontiers. It is interesting how it is used here. Either way seeing them being chosen to do a song for it is amazing!
Sonics older games (the golden era of games) had more underlying darkness and edginess, but because of the characters dialogue and designs it just became a funny-goofy looking universe, so over the "modern" era of games they toned down the edginess and just made sonic a quirk and goofy hedgehog, which did not do him any favors, and when they realized they weren't giving the community what we deserved they dropped this banger of a game, which finds the perfect blend of the old nostalgic underlying darkness but keeping the heart of the characters and making most of the cast useful again while keeping sonic the universe soloing blue hedgehog we all love. Frontiers is a must play for anyone who wishes to dig your feet back into the franchise and doesn't need any knowledge of any previous games to understand it.
It's not like the original japanese dialogue was particularly goofy. Sure, some jokes here and there, but that was more who Sonic is than him not taking it seriously. Despite spawning some iconic lines, the localization really did the series a disservice.(Outside of 06, where it is largely identical and one or two of the remaining mistranslations are actually better than the original writing.)
The best part about this is the edited lyrics actually don't suck like most censored songs do. The song *SPOILER-ISH* is the end credits song of the game so even though I don't know the full story of the game it really doesn't have to fit the narrative too much (like most end credit songs are just a very loose feel good ending rock out kinda thing)
I think Sonic Forces was probably the first modern era "dark sonic game" I mean eggman technically succeeded in destroying most of the world in that game and Sonic Frontiers ends up trapping most of sonics friends in a half way point between cyberspace and reality while sonic has to fight massive robots called "Titans" that are ancient guardians of the islands they're on all by himself, sonic barely even surviving and they even give Eggman a bit of emotional stuff too because an AI who protects eggman in cyberspace that he kind of gets an attachment to and even sees as a daughter ends up convincing him to help Sonic and his friends at the cost of her own programming being wiped and by extension her (if I remember right, haven't played in over a year now..) So yeah the song being dark definitely fits with this game.. To be fair sonic has always had darker themes scattered about (I mean just look up the lore to Sonic Unleashed..)
Undefeatable Break Through It All Find Your Flame I'm Here The Main Boss themes of the game. Absolutely mental boss fights with even wilder themes. I won't spoil the game itself, but Vandalize only really has a tangential relation to the story if you stretch it a bit. It's mainly just the "Normal ending" credits theme. The REAL credits theme is an upbeat song called "One Way Dream", more or less written by the devs as a promise and a vow to not let this be "The only good Sonic game after 10 years" but "The FIRST good Sonic game after 10 years." One Way Dream is an incredibly personal song written from the heart, and sung by a Sonic Fan who's been officially picked up, Nathan Sharp, AKA NateWantsToBattle
Might be late in saying this if you've recorded more of the OST tracks since posting, but make sure to listen to the full versions of the three boss fight tracks people have been recommending (Undefeatable, Break Through it All and Find Your Flame) - I recommend watching yesmen10's lyric videos Great reaction as usual~
oh yes, sonic has many a serious story actually, and Sonic frontiers is.. almost a comeback to the more serious stories.... also yeah the boss themes? definitely give them a listen... though i will say for undefeatable specifically, careful of choosing the short preview version or you will miss out on the great full version.
Ah yes, my wheelhouse, Sonic the Hedgehog. To understand the disparity in apparent tone between Sonic's visuals and the story and atmosphere (cartoon hedgehog in a colorful cartoon world with more dramatic, serious storytelling and presentation elements? What?), you need to understand Sonic's influences. Namely, Dragonball, Laputa: Castle in the Sky (and Ghibli as a whole, lots of nature vs. technology), Lupin III, Mickey Mouse and other rubber hose animation (namely in the character designs), Star Wars (yes really) and Super Mario Bros (among others). You'll notice that most of that is anime, with Dragonball being the biggest influence. On how the settings rules work including the power system, the character archetypes and details, even the setting as a whole. Super Sonic and the 7 Chaos Emeralds directly mirror events and story props in Dragonball that I won't spoil because you haven't seen it so spoilers. The point is, these details aren't incongruous, barring some...let's call it slight mismanagement...with the lore and tone from 2011 up to Frontiers' release, Sonic was ALWAYS about that contrast. Of cute, cartoon-y characters in serious, anime-esque situations, and the music has always been a reflection of that. Frontiers takes that anime influence to another level, there are so many DBZ and Evangelion references in this fucking game it's insane. If I wasn't taking a hiatus from Sonic because of a 5 year binge I went on in the wait for this game to come out burning me out a bit, I'd leave an absurd, essay length comment all about Sonic and its lore, its themes and music, as Sonic is my favorite thing on this earth and a lifelong obsession driven by my autistic hyperfixation on it. I cried when I beat this game because of how important Sonic is to me. I'll say this though. Listen to all the vocal themes from this game, unless you plan on playing it, because holy FUCK the boss themes, don't spoil the experience of hearing those in game for the first time. Frontiers isn't a 10/10, even for me who WOULD actually die for Sonic, it's noticeably pretty flawed, but it's still really good, and I think worth a shot. There's a little prequel animation that leads into Frontiers' story on the main Sonic the Hedgehog youtube channel that's worth a look too. It's also getting a bunch of free DLC this year to expand on the story and add new stuff (part of the reason for my hiatus is to get past the burn out and be fully, enthusiastically on board for when that comes out) like certain fixes and quality of life improvements. If you play it on stream or something and find yourself missing some of the references to past story events in the Sonic series, chat'll probably fill you in, cuz there's a lot. Also, it's theorized that the lyrics ARE about a character in this game, but it's not Sonic.
To be honest, Sonic has always been dark, depite the classic games not really showing it to much. But think about it, the main theme in the classic games is industrialism vs nature, with Eggman turning every natural landscape into a mechanic nightmare landscape, and he even enslaves animals and uses them as the power source of his mechs. Since Sonic Adventure they have started maching the dark undertones more prominent thanks to the story also being a big focus of the games from then on.
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If we speak about Sonic Frontiers, then you definently should hear boss-themes.
Undefeatable is insanely good!
Okey Im here to recommend a brand new singer for your channel. Şebnem Ferah. Turkish singer, songwriter, producer and vocalist. She has been around since 1987. She was in Volvox and Pentagram. She worked with Apocolyptia before Evanescence. She is doing alternate rock, hard rock, pop rock and heavy metal. Im gonna go straight away for song suggestions from 2007 İstanbul Live Concert. My personal favs are
-Delgeç
-Ben Şarkımı Söylerken
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Décision live pleaseeeeeeeeee
ONE OK ROCK _ smiling down
There you go ! First step done! Next in line : "Undefeatable" , "Break Through it all", "Find your flame" and "I'm Here" !
One way dream too
And that cyberspace track
Definitely gotta listen to undefeatable
Do not miss old songs like:
- It doesn't matter
- Live & Learn
- Catch me if you can
- His world
- I am all of me
- Knight of the Wind
- Endless Possibility
And many more
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Now that you've entered sonic frontiers YOU HAVE TO HEAR THE BOSS THEMES
Undefeatable
Break through it all
Find your flame
And "I'm Here", too.
Been a One OK Rock fan for years. Once this song dropped on Spotify, I smashed that "add to playlist" button so fast. This song is a banger.
this is a filtered lyrics version.
The chorus originally goes
"F*ck the pain away, my bed is in ruins"
undefeatable and break through it all are also fantastic songs in sonic frontiers, definitely up your alley
Don’t forget Find Your Flame
@@blackreaperkaneki9900 why are people acting like we shouldn’t recommend everything
@@mr.stuffdoer8483 what do you mean?
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Fun fact a Rock Band that use to do Most of the music for the Sonic games for over a decade (Well all the main vocal themes.) Is Called Crush 40 you should check them out.
DECISION!! 😅 Still waiting for that one, Luke, esp the version for the 35XXXV tour…
Cheers and love the reaction as always! 🍻
When the community complained about Crush 40 not being in Frontiers,
I didn't, in fact, when I first heard Vandalize, I knew, Frontiers was gonna be fine without Crush 40
Vandalize was the song that got me into OOR, and I gotta say, there was no going back from that, Taka's performance on Stand Out Fit In saved me, I used to be a person who claimed to be sad, depressed, and lonely, just in an attempt to be cared for
But NO! One Ok Rock showed me that I have to be the one to save myself, to make a change, to move on
I'll forever be grateful for Sega for using Vandalize, indirectly saved me
Sonic Frontiers IS a darker more serious game. basically after all the detraction they got for screwing around lightly with the story and characters, especially after the last main game - Sonic Forces- they buckled down and started treating the franchise more seriously again. They even hired a beloved writer from the Sonic comics to pen the dialogue.
While I agree, I feel like the execution of the cutscenes in the game kind of falls flat in that aspect
they tried going to a more serious tone with forces but with the same writters and personality of the games before the game could not keep serious in my oppinion forces is the between frontiers and lost world/colours, forces start walking the serious path so Iann Flynn could make it run in frontiers
Tbf forces is way more darker than most sonic games
@@indecisiveponderer643 It...was not. It tried to be and failed miserably and any semblance of darkness in theme was told not shown.
This is the same franchise that had a man talk about his plans to kill everyone on Earth because they shot his granddaughter while he's about to be executed by firing squad, and had Sonic intentionally murder a mad king and deal with someone who cursed the current state of the world because she feared the inevitable end of her kingdom and herself, they had Eggman and a princess die in an explosion with Sonic having to go back in time to reverse it,
Even the Shadow the Hedgehog game which also tried to be edgy had dark moments that worked, like in the neutral ending where Shadow curses his existence for causing so much destruction when he was originally supposed to help the world and wishes he was never born.
@@smugsneasel i didn't say it nailed that tone all that well.
Just that it's generally what people would get when they think "dark" and that's definitely not the vibe most sonic games outside the dark ages era give.
And speaking about where I stand on forces.. the only things I think it fumbled story-wise were pacing and writing, but other than that it's definitely not as bad as people seem to make be, and it's totally worthy of being labeled "dark" and edgy to a debatable extent.
Now you can move onto the boss theme. "Undefeatable" is the first one, so naturally I would recommend reacting to it first.
Sonic frontiers is a pretty good game in my opinion and songs are absolutely bangers fr 🔥
Nice to see you get around to Sonic Frontiers. The game is pretty good especially compared to some of the other recent Sonic games.
I wouldn't say the game is particularly dark but there are some story beats that might feel heavy depending on how seriously you take them.
These are some other good tracks from this game:
I’m Here
Break Through It All
Find Your Flame
Dear Father
One Way Dream
Undefeatable
Definitely check out "Undefeatable" from Sonic Frontiers as well. Vandalize was a great song, but Undefeatable blew my socks off.
Man, playing Sonic Frontiers was such a great time. And now that you've stepped partially in this world, you definitely need to check out the other music in that game at least. Then maybe other Sonic soundtracks? I dunno~
Also I guess I should've said this earlier but the One OK Rock song that I keep requesting, "No Scared", is for the game Black Rock Shooter and it's sung over the intro. So maybe you could check out the game's intro first someday.
I'd say the sonic universe has always had a lot of heavily dark themes. it's just that it doesn't get shown how dark it can get sometimes. especially when the recent shows and movies are more catered towards kids and teens. Sonic Frontiers definitely shone a light on that side of the world of sonic which I honestly love.
P.S Sonic games tend to be hotly debated on whether or not they're good games or not, but everyone agrees that no matter what the quality of the sonic games may be, every Sonic game has an absolute banger of an OST.
You gotta react to "Smiling down", this song just hits me every time I listen to it 💜
I love this song so much because it reminds me of this overly edgy phase in Sonic fandom around mid-2000s and early 2010s filled with animated music videos to songs of every popular rock band at the time, so like Linking Park and etc.
We laughed at it but deep down we miss it.
throwing my comment to the mix just to up the odds of you reacting to:
Undefeatable
Break Through It All
Find Your Flame
I'm Here
One Way Dream
Be the light live from Yokohama stadium next!!!
I am so happy, I just bought a ticket for a performance. I will be seeing them live in july :)
If you want a great idea of Frontiers tone then I HIGHLY recommend looking at the prologue animation they made for it. It doesn't spoil anything about the story itself but is a good look at the vibe the game was aiming for while teasing some cool stuff.
Sega have been making a bunch of animations lately to promote the games; Sonic Mania Adventures, Team Sonic Racing Overdrive, Chao in Space (that one is just for fun)
“Pierce” from Yokohama Arena or “Broken Heart of Gold” are my next suggestions for ONE OK ROCK! I love Vandalize, it’s my favorite from their latest album. I do prefer the Japanese version to this one though 😁
Oh yes „broken heart of gold“ is such a good one
Thank you, I love ONE OK ROCK Taka is a great vocalist 😍💕 There are many wonderful songs! Please react "Change" (official video from Eye of the Storm Japan Tour) It's a wonderful live where everyone smiles and is happy !!!OOR's live performances are the best!They were on hiatus due to the coronavirus, but they resumed their activities last year.Taka suffered because he couldn't hold concerts or record for a long time.💧💧
ONE OK ROCK _ SMILING DOWN
At long last you finally touch the Sonic Frontiers OST. Got about 4 more one from Nate and the rest from Kellen Quinn.
You HAVE TO check out the Boss Themes from this Game
3D Sonic games may be hit or miss these days, with admitted more misses, but every single one has an absolute banger if a soundtrack.
Good OST are a must in every single game and never fails to deliver it. Mostly being the main theme the ones carrying the gold
except Sonic 4 and Forces. (the latter having the vocal tracks as an exception and that one boss theme)
@@AarenYASS meh, I loved 4 ep 2 and main theme Forces and Infinite's with some "modern" stages (if ya except, then it counts into the banger list).
For me the one exceptions are prob 3D blast and DS rpg one.
@@AarenYASSforces's ost is quite good imo
With the only exception being faded hills
You should definitely listen again to the other songs in your own time..
They don't really get highlighted much in the game since the stages end right away
You should listen to OOR's First Love Cover from their Day to Night Acoustic Session!
The uncensored version hits different
As someone who played all the sonic games its always been dark it just perspective and im glad that sonic frontiers came out all songs and tracks was awesome first stage gave me mental problems hearing flowing with time repeatedly, trying to ace the thing. Sonic games after 2 and unleashed was a down, but happy that this game was made and even though problems at the end. They did a fantastic job.
I can't wait for you to hear 'Let Me Let You Go'. I think it's one of their best songs!
You should react to Nobody's home next. Such an amazing song. I'm not much of a crier but this song has brought me to tears multiple times. It is specially emotional if you know the backstory and the meaning of the song. If you do choose to react to this masterpiece you really should do some research before or after, I assure you won't be disappointed.
Man. One OK Rock is such a great band. They've been a go to for me since I discovered them back in 2019. (Thank you TH-cam algorithm) My only regret is that I discovered them just a few days after the Central US leg of their US tour that year. I believe No Scared, Jibbun Rock, American Girls, and Memories are the only ones left on my favorites list you haven't reacted to yet.
hey hey! I know I’m a little late but if you didn’t yet, there is one version of we are that they performed called we are 18Fes NHK,, since you like crowds singing THIS will blow your mind they basically built an entire choir with the crowd
DUDE BOSS THEMES NOW
No matter how bad the Sonic game it still has some of the best music out there. Undefeatable, Break Through It All, Find Your Flame, I'm Here.... And another song from the TH-camr himself, Nathan Sharp called One Way Dream. They are all so good
Hope you do the boss songs next, starting with Undefeatable, I recommend yesmans10 videos since those have animated lyrics. You choice though
About the game's tone:
The Sonic Series didn't go exactly DARK. But the last decade of Sonic Games was playing it safe, they were very kid-friendly, and the scripts felt like Sat AM cartoons. So for this one, the first mainline game in 5 YEARS they chose to go back to the Teen Rating they used to have back in the early 2000s.
So they were aiming to go for a Shonen approach on this one, trying to appeal a lot to the Japanese market. Because despite Sonic and SEGA being Japanese, the hedgehog was never as popular as he is on our side of the world over there.
They got the writer of the Sonic IDW Comics (generally highly regarded as the best Canon Sonic stories there are) to write the script for this game and after a decade of poorly written games, character butchering, and retconning of the 2000s games we all loved, Sonic Frontiers finally allowed itself to take the franchise's story seriously.
The game has its fair amount of darkness but it doesn't go over the top. And it follows Sonic on the Starfall Islands, trying to rescue his friends Amy, Tails, and Knuckles from a virtual reality called The Cyberspace.
There are also giant kaiju-like monster things you have to fight to get the Chaos Emeralds and the fights go hard as heck.
As my other comment said, I recommend listening to Undefeatable, the first boss theme. Glad you enjoyed the song, and I hope I was of help!!!
Actually I disagree the Sonic games have always been dark, it's just the cutesy look of sonic and friends masked that darkness. The world is post apocalyptic, Eggman built a giant robot army enslaved all animal life and turned them into batteries. Human life seemingly was eradicated, many if not all of the landscapes are hellish or overrun.
It's only recently that they've started pulling back on the cuteness so we're seeing the darkness more clearly.
@Matthew Williams They can't be taken as dark if they don't take themselves seriously enough to do so. Arguing Lost World is dark because all life from the earth is destroyed for a moment, then reversed, falls flat when the game is written like a SpongeBob episode. Sonic USED to go dark in Adventure 1&2, Shadow, 06, and even Unleashed. But ever since it was aimed at children, they didn't bother to make good stories because children wouldn't care.
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Don't just check out music from frontiers since music is the thing sonic does BEST. There are lots of lyrical and instrumental tracks across all of the games that are amazing. If you want to stick to lyrical songs then there's a lot in frontiers like one way dream or find your flame, but I'd also recommend some of the non-lyric ones like cyberspace 1-5 or vs ghost. And please check out music from other sonic games like sonic unleashed or sonic adventure.
When I first heard the Sonic OST was going to be OOR's Vandalize, I actually laughed out loud. It's an amazing song, don't get me wrong, but I had a moment of panicked absurdity where I didn't think they were going to censor it and thought Sonic was going to have to f*** the pain away 😂😭😭
Not sure if there are any good live recordings, but Neon is a great song. I got to see OOR live last year, and Neon was INCREDIBLE live. The energy they brought, even to a small venue, was superb.
Thank you for your new reaction for OOR « Vandalize ». I prefer the album version (the not auto-censured one). I hope you will react to those songs next :
Be the light
Fight the night
Cry out
The way back
Re:make
NO SCARED
Ending story
Sonic has been on the darkside 😭
I hope you react to One Ok Rock "Be The Light" Music Video. This one always makes me shiver, this song is dedicated to people who went through natural catastrophe in Japan. The disaster, known as a large earthquake and tsunami measuring 9.1 on the Richter scale (SR), destroyed the entire city of Tohoku and triggered a nuclear leak at the Fukushima.
LUKE!!! Taka and the boys are hiting the UK on tour this summer. TELL ME YOU ARE GOING?!?!??!?!?!
VANDALIZE MY HEAAARRRTT!!!!!
FIGHT THE PAIN AWAY, MY HEAD IS IN RUINS!
Difficult to narrow down songs to request reactions to, I could easily say react to 95% of their discography that you haven't listened to yet, or say anything from their Luxury Disease album, but I feel like you'll get more recommendations for those, so I would like to Rep some of their slightly older material:
-Pierce
-Liar
-Juvenile
-No Scared
If you're interested in other Sonic Frontiers songs then definitely check out Undefeatable it's one of 3 boss songs in the game sung by Kellin Quinn from Sleeping With Sirens (Undefeatable, Break Through It All & Find Your Flame) Undefeatable is chronologically the first and from what I've seen the fan favorite so it's a good place to start
Yeeeeah I'm totally in watching you reacting to video games OST! React to Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Main Theme
You should've heard the uncensored version
you should check next "20/20"!
"I wouldn't expect to be Dark from Sonic"
hate to break it to you, but Sonic has had some Dark themes and Rock Band Type Music since Sonic Adventure in 1998.
"Is Sonic dark?"
*flashbacks to the Sonic Adventure series* -
You might be misremembering but back in the day sonic games were not on nintendo consoles, original sonic the hedgehog 1+2 and 3 were for a console called the Sega genesis nintendos competitor at the time and during the n64 era sonic adventure was on the competitor console the Sega Dreamcast sonic games didnt come to nintendo til the release of the gamecube and gameboy advanced when sega went from a player in the console wars to a game developer shadow the hedgehog was on ps2 and gamecube.
Dark in the aspect that there is a weight to the actions being made. In the previous games, the story and atmosphere never left you wondering that Sonic was ABSOLUTELY going to win. But with this game there is a weight behind the circumstances that Sonic and the gang find themselves in. As you progress through the game there is a moment where you're actually left wondering wether he's going to pull through or not. But of course he is. It's a Sonic game. He's contractually obligated to win. But they definitely instill that "what if" moment in the game and it is HEAVY (for me at least). To the point that I was on the verge of tears, but I also cry easily. 😅
These songs are one of the best in sonic discography!
When you reach “Undefeatable” “break through it all” and “find your flame” do medicate the pausing! These songs are a continuos banger experience that should be enjoyed to the fullest as to not break the flow!
This is pretty much the only sonic frontiers song I listen to regularly.. It's just a good song in general!
Ayoooo Vandalize is FYC and eligible for a Grammy for Song written for Visual Media nomination category #oneokrock #grammys #sonicfrontiers
あなたのONE OK ROCKのリアクションが大好きです。心からの感動が伝わってきます。
リストを見ましたが、以前に反応している、「we are」の「10fes ver.」はまだ見ていませんか？
観客との掛け合いが好きなら
「we are 18fes ver.」オススメです。とても心が熱くなります。
You have to go to One OK Rock concert in London!!
Since Sonic came to 3d it starter exploring some mature tone story although every story around the 2010 is like a morning cartoon but the rest before that explore themes of loss, death and sacrifice understanding whats better for everyone
"Has Sonic gone dark?"
Well he was recently murdered if that's any indication. But the series has been kinda been dark before ( outside of Shadow the Hedgehog ).
Please listen to "stuck in the middle" and "chaosmyth" ❤️
Check out the Boss fight music for Sonic Frontiers. Heavy as hell. :D
Pleaseeee! I want you to react to "So far gone" by ONE OK ROCK! It's such a beautiful song! You would love it!
Boss Themes from Sonic Frontiers next! Start with Undefeatable and go from there.
Ou "Clean version on Vandalize" u should check the Japanese not clean version of this too.
I highly recommend from oor:Mad world(japanese version),Broken heart of gold(Japanese version),Renegades(japanese version) キミシダイ列車(kimishidai ressha) live, Wonder(Japanese version) Jaded ft:Alex Gaskarth, Lost in tonight(only in Ambitions Japanese version), 20/20(only in Ambitions Japanese version), And I know, Can't wait(only in Eye Of Storm Japanese version) ,Pieces of me,outta sight & Rock,Scissors,Paper
Oor all songs are more than amazing and agree Taka-san is absolutely best vocalist but also his brother Hiro-san is phenomenal,in my opinion Moriuchi brothers are born to be singers.
From My First Story x Sayuri single album: ミかジキ(Mikazuki mfs vo. Hiro cover version)
Original song ミかジキ is from Sayuri
Mfs-I'm a mess,ハルジオン(harujion),Smash out live version, One light live version which is so beautiful and 失踪FLAME(Shissou Flame) live is so beautiful
ReN-Rainbow ft:Taka
milet-Who I am,Finall Call
優里(Yuuri)-かくれんぼ(kakurenbo) ft:My First Story Hiro
Crush 40 sonic songs and SA2 music goes so crazy
"Has Sonic gone dark?"
My brother in Chaos, have you any idea who Shadow is?
Really liked your video!
To answer your question: yes, this game is dark. The game's main theme is death and discovering things about the past, so it makes sense that you are getting Assassin's Creed vibes. Aside from the past decade (Sonic Colours to Sonic Forces), the games from Adventure onward, have always been darker than the classic ones from the Mega Drive/Genesis era. Most people tend to assume Sonic games only have simple and family friendly stories because of the colorful settings, but that coudn't be further from the truth 😂
I've heard the song Vandalize, but seeing it being used for Sonic Frontiers. It is interesting how it is used here. Either way seeing them being chosen to do a song for it is amazing!
Check out Hardy “Wait in the truck “
💙Hi,amazing beautiful Luke. CHANGE of OOR, please
Please react to NO SCARED from ONE OK ROCK, especially the live performance from Yokohama Stadium. That song is epic.
Sonics older games (the golden era of games) had more underlying darkness and edginess, but because of the characters dialogue and designs it just became a funny-goofy looking universe, so over the "modern" era of games they toned down the edginess and just made sonic a quirk and goofy hedgehog, which did not do him any favors, and when they realized they weren't giving the community what we deserved they dropped this banger of a game, which finds the perfect blend of the old nostalgic underlying darkness but keeping the heart of the characters and making most of the cast useful again while keeping sonic the universe soloing blue hedgehog we all love. Frontiers is a must play for anyone who wishes to dig your feet back into the franchise and doesn't need any knowledge of any previous games to understand it.
It's not like the original japanese dialogue was particularly goofy. Sure, some jokes here and there, but that was more who Sonic is than him not taking it seriously. Despite spawning some iconic lines, the localization really did the series a disservice.(Outside of 06, where it is largely identical and one or two of the remaining mistranslations are actually better than the original writing.)
Ypu should see the music for and play the opening and final boss song for sonic colors and sonic forces.
The best part about this is the edited lyrics actually don't suck like most censored songs do. The song *SPOILER-ISH* is the end credits song of the game so even though I don't know the full story of the game it really doesn't have to fit the narrative too much (like most end credit songs are just a very loose feel good ending rock out kinda thing)
one ok rock has been japans #1 band since 2019.
"Who Hurt Sonic"
Answer: Sonic 06
I love this!!!!!!
Add ado crime and punishment to your list , hope one day you'll get to listen to it
I think Sonic Forces was probably the first modern era "dark sonic game" I mean eggman technically succeeded in destroying most of the world in that game and Sonic Frontiers ends up trapping most of sonics friends in a half way point between cyberspace and reality while sonic has to fight massive robots called "Titans" that are ancient guardians of the islands they're on all by himself, sonic barely even surviving and they even give Eggman a bit of emotional stuff too because an AI who protects eggman in cyberspace that he kind of gets an attachment to and even sees as a daughter ends up convincing him to help Sonic and his friends at the cost of her own programming being wiped and by extension her (if I remember right, haven't played in over a year now..)
So yeah the song being dark definitely fits with this game.. To be fair sonic has always had darker themes scattered about (I mean just look up the lore to Sonic Unleashed..)
Undefeatable
Break Through It All
Find Your Flame
I'm Here
The Main Boss themes of the game.
Absolutely mental boss fights with even wilder themes.
I won't spoil the game itself, but Vandalize only really has a tangential relation to the story if you stretch it a bit. It's mainly just the "Normal ending" credits theme. The REAL credits theme is an upbeat song called "One Way Dream", more or less written by the devs as a promise and a vow to not let this be "The only good Sonic game after 10 years" but "The FIRST good Sonic game after 10 years." One Way Dream is an incredibly personal song written from the heart, and sung by a Sonic Fan who's been officially picked up, Nathan Sharp, AKA NateWantsToBattle
Might be late in saying this if you've recorded more of the OST tracks since posting, but make sure to listen to the full versions of the three boss fight tracks people have been recommending (Undefeatable, Break Through it All and Find Your Flame) - I recommend watching yesmen10's lyric videos
Great reaction as usual~
oh yes, sonic has many a serious story actually, and Sonic frontiers is.. almost a comeback to the more serious stories.... also yeah the boss themes? definitely give them a listen... though i will say for undefeatable specifically, careful of choosing the short preview version or you will miss out on the great full version.
Sonic frontiers is in my opinion a mix of sonic and NGE do listion to the other boss themes but unrelated have you reacted the crual angel's thisiss
React to Undefeatable from Sonic Frontiers too!
I love ONE OK ROCK, but it's sad that there are so many requests for Sonic Frontiers songs and so few comments for ONE OK ROCK😭😭😭
Ah yes, my wheelhouse, Sonic the Hedgehog. To understand the disparity in apparent tone between Sonic's visuals and the story and atmosphere (cartoon hedgehog in a colorful cartoon world with more dramatic, serious storytelling and presentation elements? What?), you need to understand Sonic's influences. Namely, Dragonball, Laputa: Castle in the Sky (and Ghibli as a whole, lots of nature vs. technology), Lupin III, Mickey Mouse and other rubber hose animation (namely in the character designs), Star Wars (yes really) and Super Mario Bros (among others).
You'll notice that most of that is anime, with Dragonball being the biggest influence. On how the settings rules work including the power system, the character archetypes and details, even the setting as a whole. Super Sonic and the 7 Chaos Emeralds directly mirror events and story props in Dragonball that I won't spoil because you haven't seen it so spoilers. The point is, these details aren't incongruous, barring some...let's call it slight mismanagement...with the lore and tone from 2011 up to Frontiers' release, Sonic was ALWAYS about that contrast. Of cute, cartoon-y characters in serious, anime-esque situations, and the music has always been a reflection of that. Frontiers takes that anime influence to another level, there are so many DBZ and Evangelion references in this fucking game it's insane.
If I wasn't taking a hiatus from Sonic because of a 5 year binge I went on in the wait for this game to come out burning me out a bit, I'd leave an absurd, essay length comment all about Sonic and its lore, its themes and music, as Sonic is my favorite thing on this earth and a lifelong obsession driven by my autistic hyperfixation on it. I cried when I beat this game because of how important Sonic is to me.
I'll say this though. Listen to all the vocal themes from this game, unless you plan on playing it, because holy FUCK the boss themes, don't spoil the experience of hearing those in game for the first time. Frontiers isn't a 10/10, even for me who WOULD actually die for Sonic, it's noticeably pretty flawed, but it's still really good, and I think worth a shot. There's a little prequel animation that leads into Frontiers' story on the main Sonic the Hedgehog youtube channel that's worth a look too. It's also getting a bunch of free DLC this year to expand on the story and add new stuff (part of the reason for my hiatus is to get past the burn out and be fully, enthusiastically on board for when that comes out) like certain fixes and quality of life improvements. If you play it on stream or something and find yourself missing some of the references to past story events in the Sonic series, chat'll probably fill you in, cuz there's a lot.
Also, it's theorized that the lyrics ARE about a character in this game, but it's not Sonic.
To be honest, Sonic has always been dark, depite the classic games not really showing it to much. But think about it, the main theme in the classic games is industrialism vs nature, with Eggman turning every natural landscape into a mechanic nightmare landscape, and he even enslaves animals and uses them as the power source of his mechs. Since Sonic Adventure they have started maching the dark undertones more prominent thanks to the story also being a big focus of the games from then on.
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try checking out the other music its straight metal with screaming and everything. maybe "find your flame"
We need a one ok rock / ado collaboration
And then there's the other uncensored version of this :D
LiSa will be singing for Spider-Man: Into Spider Verse 2 OST
I'd really, REALLY love to hear what you would think of Frontiers, honestly! It's more serious, for sure, but I adore the story
U listened one, now u have too listen all lol
Still waiting on the other frontiers songs!!
3d Sonic had some darker stories