Library of Ruina - Iron Lotus (Mili) | Reacting To Video Game Music!
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I love this song not only because it great but because it fit the fight itself. It a good song to listen to while your nuggets get burned alive by those 30~50ish burn stack.
*ptsd from 100 stack burn*
I'm not far into the game and there's a fight with a 30 to 50 burn stack? I see only pain ahead
@@mrblazeapound7856 Well, no, it's actually worse than that. Have fun :)
@@mrblazeapound7856 remember mate, the difficulty is in fact vertical ; )
@@mrblazeapound7856 i wish you luck buddy
Library of ruina is definitely one of those games where you never see it anywhere and then it hits you out of nowhere and now that you know it exists you see it everywhere
yeah that sounds about right
Rabbit hole is real
My first time seeing library of ruina related content was because of terraria mod
@@aisir3725 rabbit protocol is real
@@chanmeichoo3797 you just exposed my reason finding this game
I mentioned in the last Mili song reaction video that for her work in Library of Ruina specifically, her songs are either used for the opening and ending themes or for a major boss theme. What's cool about her boss themes is that in the game, the boss fight starts with the typical floor battle theme and floor background, only for the boss' power to absolutely warp the background into something befitting them, with the boss theme replacing the normal floor theme. Imagine you're gearing up for a normal fight, when suddenly the environment melts into the blazing Great Wall imagery you see here and this amazing Chinese-style song starts playing. Boss fights in Library of Ruina are something else. When you hear Mili's vocals in a fight, you quickly learn you're -about to get your teeth kicked in- in for an incredible experience.
The experience is even more amplified when you know the context behind the fight. The boss in question is basically a woman on a tearful mission to avenge her dead husband, and the song is essentially about how unfathomably sad she is about not telling him she loved him before he died. Her conflict makes up an entire arc in the game's second-to-last chapter, and the boss fight where Iron Lotus plays is the culmination and climax of her story. The context alone elevates the song from simply great to unforgettable. It also helps that the boss itself is hard. Ball-bustingly hard. Mostly because she burns everyone with prohibitive amounts of fire, and then proceeds to set the fire on fire. So much freakin' fire...
Ahem. So you were on the right track when you said that Mili was contracted to do several songs for the game. The band, especially the singer, Cassie Wei, were pretty famous before Library of Ruina, so it's safe to say that having her songs in-game attracted a lot of players. Cassie's Chinese (the boss is also Chinese-inspired), so she managed to fill this song to the brim with Chinese cultural references you can look up. You're also right in that her songs tend to be telling a story most of the time. Figuring out and analyzing the narrative of the song is a popular pastime for Mili fans. If you're enjoying her work now, she might be coming back for Library of Ruina's sequel, Limbus Company, so her time with Project Moon likely hasn't ended yet.
P.S. It's great that your reaction videos are encouraging more players to try out LoR. Project Moon is still an indie studio, so any exposure they can get for their games is welcome, especially since they are so uniquely great in story, worldbuilding, gameplay, and of course, music.
Pretty cool LOR has so much to offer.
@@JessesAuditorium Funnily enough, this game came out of left field for me as well. I was introduced to it by watching Mili's String Theocracy video, and wondered what the hell Library of Ruina even was. I went down a big rabbit hole, and became obsessed with the game because of all it had to offer. And because the game had gradual story updates until the final release, seeing new music from LoR posted on TH-cam was one of the biggest highlights of my week.
I thought Project Moon themselves said they weren't an indie studio anymore
@@christhethinker6791 Huh, I didn't catch that. I haven't been keeping up with their news and interviews lately, so that may be why.
and then there's the reverb reception with no mili song
The craziest part is that Xiao's commonly considered the hardest boss of her chapter, competing with 얀샋ㄷ요무.
A grieving widower, being a bigger threat than an army of cloned super-soldiers (R. Corp), a dimension-hopping master swordsman (Iori), and an agent wielding a living flesh sword that's basically considered the strongest to ever live (Kali).
That grieving widow has an advantage that others solely lack: A great inclination to arson
@@roowdy6721 to be fair she manifest ego on her own and was already a high tier grade 1 fixer compare to memory shard power kali with a shitty prototype nothing there ego
I personally consider Purple Tear to be way stronger because of sheer amount of powerstacking and way better cards (Xiao has nothing on Duel or Violet Blade, especially when the latter also happens to deal extra damage and benefits even more from power, usually resulting in a half-dead librarian in one hit you can't really stop). She also teleports to another floor and most likely kills everyone there for free emotion levels, which also happens to reset whatever you had going on the first floor.
Kali is a joke though.
Except Iori's Reception effectively gives you 3 floors. Even in spite of her power buffs, she can be worn down by sheer attrition, especially if you're the type of person to have floors pre-ready in case of stuff going pear-shaped.
Xiao's fight is single floor. There's significantly less room for mistakes in comparison.
@@elvinmacospag6989 one of those floors is more likely to get killed off in two scenes after she teleports and whichever floor is the last can also fall really quickly if you don't have like Fullstop stuff since everyone's gonna be at EL0 while she's at max. There's no guarantee that the other floors even have decent keypages on them yet.
Xiao is TWO floors actually, but she's also far less threatening on her own since she doesn't have enough power or dumb cards (aside from one, but you can block it at least), nullifies what little she has and also has means of staggering herself faster. She doesn't fully recover from stagger either.
This song is quite literally fire.
This song is amazing and it goes to one of the hardest and most depressing fights in the game.
This boss was one of the few bosses where I felt like I shouldn't have been the person to win.
Her will to carry on...
"There's nothing that a human...-
That *I* can't overcome."
I always hear her roar when I hear this song.
The only other fight I felt that I should not have won was
Spoiler alert: The second Philip fight when he awakens his ego. I know a lot of people rag on Philip for running away or whatever, but his story arc was one of the only things I’ve experienced that brought me to genuine tears. In fact, Library of Ruina accounts for two of the three times I cried at the story of a game. And the other one was Earth Defense Force, since it really hit me out of nowhere when everyone says that it basically doesn’t have a story.
@@hibacilacle2609 Not everyone is capable of empathizing with characters and settings to a high degree.
EDF4/5 was the goofiest shooter I've ever played, but when halfway accross the game humanity is almost extinct and everyone is mourning via the radio it's pretty sad..
As an air raider main hearing that Despina and Whale were allegedly lost was gut wrenching, as silly as some might find that.
Phillips also made me cry. I understand why he felt the way he did. I cannot fault him for what happened.
His desires to break free of his cowardness was admirable, and considering how he was put up against actually impossible odds (Because of how the Library handles timelines.) I'd say he did better than most cowards ever could.
unspoken rule of the city never run a burn setup when you have loved ones
the fire stack every turn and reverse scale truely tie the fight together
Not as much as having a dog twink wizard
"Even if I'm alone, the night will come. And every night is followed by dawn... A mere fading star has no hope to match the might of the rising sun. Be prepared, for tonight, a star of the city shall be gone."
Project Moon actually has an interview with Cassie, the singer, on their channel as a bonus video for their 5 year anniversary last year, and yeah she has a pretty normal speaking voice lol, though I do think she has like a very cute quality to her voice that I feel contributes to her unique singing sound. Mili has 5 members in total with her, a bassist, a drummer, an illustrator and the overall composer + guitarist (who is married to Cassie! :D)
Iron Lotus is probably my favourite of their LOR songs, being Chinese myself I love all of the traditional music inspirations and cultural references in the song, and it's just a banger on top of everything. The character the song represents is such a badass too and I'm glad she got such an amazing track that drives home all her convictions and regrets that fuel her story :')
Cassie Wei, the singer of Mili, is such an inspiring person for me as she's a Canadian living in Japan with Chinese descendance, so she sings English, Chinese, Japanese and French in her songs - and then sometimes even the own language Mili made up, which I don't think you have heard (yet because I have requested one song with a bit of it :'D )
This one is surprising for me again now because lately I've been listening to an official remix version and it's different at parts, so I was caught of guard a few times here xD (If you're interested, look up the Key Ingredient album, both String Theocracy and Iron Lotus have been remixed by Mili in that one!)
Also yes, Cassie's singing style is so distinct which makes it so hard to sing along Dx
I don't think i remember any song from "To Kill a Living Book" having her invented language, so im not sure what you are talking about.
So you must mean another song, but it has to be from a game, and so no song occurs to me
@@christhethinker6791 I requested "Skin-Deep Comedy"! Although I do take mili-ish very broadly as I'm not sure if that one part is actual Latin or Mili-Latin :D
EDIT: I just re-listened, there is Mili-ish :D
@@aeternusvotum
Well in that case i guess we could see Bulbel anyday in here lol
@@christhethinker6791 it is indeed on the list! So, one day, at some point!
@@aeternusvotum
Certainly has my favorite Mili lyrics
Mili and Project Moon have a weird love story.
Mili songs always had this beautyful, intriguing flavour of an futuristic, doll-like yet synthetic sound, like innocent AI. Someone once made an AMV to her song "Execute(me)" with character from PM first game, Lobotomy Corporation. The lyrics fit the game theme SO well the amv soon exceededpopularity of top uploads of the song itself, and people begged that two creators get in touch.
For the Library of Ruina, being LC sequel, Mili made most of the important songs, including very opening.
Shortly after someone made a fake-opening video of LC and LoR using one of Myht&Roid songs.
The next PM game trailer and opening song is made by both Mili and Myth&Roid.
A thing about Mili that's more unique by her voice style is how she paces words in the songs. Her lyrics are AMAZING, three- or four layer deep at least, awe-inducing images and graphic stories. Yet the way she paces the sentences feels like english was new to her, like she herself was AI learning how to speak. It makes singing her songs really challenging.
I would suggest listening to "And Then Is Heard No More". Iron Lotus is the theme of one of the last bosses in the game, who's narrative is a mirror of a much earlier bosses theme. As another commenter has said, the boss is all fire all the time everything is burning. Both Iron Lotus and And Then Is Heard No More are tied to bosses with very similar mechanics, stories, and completely different resolution.
For Iron Lotus, the boss the theme is attached to is, by the point this theme kicks off, bleeding from the head, bleeding from the mouth, bones broken, body failing, and has taken more damage than any human enemy in the game (even bosses after her) would consider reasonable. She is a dead woman walking, and in that state of near death, has found absolute resolve. Cue an absolutely gigantic healthbar showing up, theme music override, and the boss turning your party into charcoal with fire magic in a setting where people *don't have magic*. Even if she wins, she's probably not able to walk out of there alive anymore, so that leaves just one goal before she passes on. Killing you.
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As for Library of Ruina itself, the game is niche for a good reason. While the game itself, and its content, is legitimately some of the best indie work ever produced, it asks a LOT from its players. Queen of Hatred, a relatively early game boss is such a casual filter that it's been referred to as a vertical difficulty spike, and she's among the easiest bossfights in the game. The game is a deckbuilder RPG, and you'd think that would preclude it from having boss fights with double digit phase counts and enemy passive lists so long they need a scrollbar for their scrollbar. There are fights where you straight up feel like you just read a whole novel trying to just figure out what the bosses gameplan is, realize you did not fully grasp it, and end up steamrolled.
On the flipside of this extreme player investment requirement though is the fact that the game rewards said investment with one of the deepest battle systems in any game ever. The game demands that level of investment because it wants you to engage with the mechanics and plan ahead, and while there is often a ton of stuff orbiting the core mechanics in the form of passive effects and status conditions, once you grasp the basics, the core system is both very easy to understand and VERY strategic. You play cards against the enemy cards, and resolve the events on the cards with dice rolls with the higher roll winning. Faster characters can redirect slower characters to force specific card duels. The core is simple, but when there are 25 actions on the field being thrown around by 10 characters, even that simple core can result in mental pretzels as you try to figure out who deals with what and what abilities you simply have to take to the face.
I would highly suggest playing it. You'll almost certainly get sucked in once the game picks up steam. There's so much to it.
the gui is awful though
I would absolutely consider EGO magic. Her fire magic is just a fire EGO
Ha yes, the battle theme of a grieving widow that half turns into a dragon and literally melts everything around after you killed her husband and her best friend
The official theme song of burning to death
The only boss I have ever fought to inflict two forms of burn, 10/10 boss fight.
Funny you would mention about her story like singing, most MILI standalone songs usually do tell a story of sorts. World.Execute(Me), Summoning 101, RTRT, every song for Library... i would recommend just checking out their songs in general, even if not connected to LoR ^^
The fact that you recognized Mili form Ender Lillies after listening to 2 vocal songs of Library of Ruina shows the power of the individualism the band has and the voice of Cassie Wei being unforgettable.
The thing with Mili is that it falls of the "Trignometry" of modern songs, most of Mili's songs work as Adagios with a story and a reflection for the listeners and its the main appeal of Mili as a band.
now can't wait for from a place of love
the song that fits too perfect to the story of love town from game
Sadly if you don’t know the behind story the song is it just going to be a cute song about love with questionable ending
I have some friends that are very turned off by Mili's unique whisper when she's singing, but to me it kind of always conveys an innocence that contrasts perfectly against the material Mili covers.
This is just one example, but to me it's like the potato chip and chocolate combo of music. It's two tastes that you wouldn't expect to complement each other but hearing the song of a grieving widow pulling herself from the brink conveyed with a voice like Mili's really highlights the tragedy of it all.
So theres this song from LoR that we dont talk about called From a place of Love, its the boss theme for a early boss and pne of the most horrific ones
The boss in question is currently kicking my ass.
Don’t know if this will help but at least it help me get through them: Observe
Lets go, another Mili song! Love their music.
Yaaahhhh more library of ruina content
This one is a favourite for me
fun detail to go with the chinese inspiration in the song, the character this song is from the perspective of has a secret love of candies and in the lyrics chinese candies are used for their symbolism
ie mai ya tang symbolises "love that is sweet but not sticky" and is used as a metaphor for her regret that she never expressed her love to her husband outwardly because she didn't want it to become a burden ('you're my everything' before my thoughts began to speak I bit my lip said nothing and just sucked on mai ya tang)
Mili is quite well known in some rhythm games as her songs appears here and there, the most of them i know of is in Deemo but i do know a few here and there in other rhythm games.
She also appears in some anime op / ed and vgm nowadays too, for vgm the one i remember was some LoR boss themes and what you noticed she also sung some vgm for Ender Lily.
in truth they did the ENTIRE of the soundtrack for ender lilies, it's on their spotify and it's a great album if you want some fantasy grimdark ambience
> the community is nice
And we’re unhinged!
I never expected you to react to this after all that Guilty Gear stuff you reacted to haha.
I absolutely adore Library of Ruina, it's one of those indie games you don't realise you've spent dozens of hours with until you accidentally look at your steam hours played counter. Thanks for this video, and I predict you're gonna have a lot more to react to cos the developers (Project Moon) have another game releasing in Feburary, aside from all the current existing stuff.
I hope you react to Children of The City another Mili song from Library of Ruina it's also great with a very different tone
YESSSS more ruina, love to see it every time.
I love Iron lotus and Mili so much this is going to be good
Limbus company between two worlds and in hell we live Lament this is from the project moons newest game a Boss battle and Limbus Company Opening respectively
Another Library of Ruina and Mili song!
Mili does an incredibly stellar job with how they put meaning in their songs which is always just ugh. You can see that very well in any of the LoR songs as each and every single one of them are able to tell the story tied to them in a musical score. Also Enderlilies while I havent played, has a beautiful song line up (my favorite being Bubel). They've also done songs for many anime ED and OP which is great. WE STAN MILI
Ah yes the PTSD song of dying to insanely large stacks of BURN being inflicted upon you
I can’t wait for the other mili songs in library of ruina
Honestly I'm surprised that ender lilies hasn't appeared on this channel yet. Man Iron Lotu is probably my second favorite track (behind Roland) in the game. A lot of it has to do with the context of the situation around the character this song represents.
Ah yes the song that I heard when I seeing all of my unit or nuggets (by the project moon fanbase always called it as nugget for unit) fighting a boss while suffering high number of burn damage and wipe out everythings in next turn or scene 😂
The way you said that Mili song is like telling a story is a big hit, because all of Mili song, not only in Library of Ruina, she sing always like doing a storytelling of the theme or character in their animation MV illustration or video.
For this song, in their original MV in Mili channel, they using a cute mascot character and just doing some cute dancing, why a cute chara mascot rather than the boss in library of ruina? because The boss in this song is a woman that love a cute things, so they're using a cute mascot instead of the boss it's self so it's not gonna spoil everythings in game too much
For this Iron Lotus, is basically a story from the woman dragon boss PoV about the boss rage feelings toward us (The Library) for taking away her beloved man on some fight before and her regrets because not telling all of her feeling toward her beloved before they going to The Library and gone just to become one of many collection books in The Library.
Ender Lilies is such a gem of a game! So glad to hear someone mention it. I love Metroidvanias, but I could never get into hollow knight. Ender Lilies has similar vibes and I loved it. Bulbel is a good track from that game
While it was String Theocracy that made me listen to Mili it was this song that made me love them. It fits so much into 3 minutes and is so unique
God I love Mili
I should play this game someday
Also was the song in Ender Lilies "Harmonius"? HWHDHWHD
You need to give "children of the city" a listen, its another LoR boss theme, with a more synthwave tone, your gonna love it i swear
No way more ruina music lets goooooo
I won’t lie, since I was a fan of Mili and Limbus (another game Mili did music for), so I listened to Iron Lotus well before playing LoR.
I eventually bought the game, played 100 damn hours, and got to the fight where this plays.
God, I don’t think a boss theme could ever have such a big impact even _after_ I listened to it. It’s just a whole ‘nother thing when you listen to it in the game, I can’t believe it.
More LC and LoR song to come, PM fans be eating good
Ah yes, the theme of one that could give the Red Mist a run for her money.
So, while you are correct in that Mili is a much larger group than just making Library of Ruina songs (they have done opening themes for a LOT of popular anime), one reason that Ruina fans go crazy over her involvement with the series is that for the songs they typically make that are not created for anime, they usually go for a vibe where the sound of the song is innocent or even upbeat, but the lyrics of the song are about things like betrayal, suicide, and other very depressing themes.
For Ruina, the game already has a pretty depressing vibe, so they were given full reign to make that exact sort of song for every song, and it works out fantastically. If you want a non-video game song to listen to that has the sort of vibe they usually go for, Nine Point Eight has always been a very good example.
Send him love town Xd Xd
All I can say is: 57 burn damage
*I AM FIIIIIIRE*
you were mentioning Gospel... The sequel to Library of Runia, Limbus Company, has a song called "Between Two Worlds" (also by Mili, who did many of the Runia songs) that is both Gospel and... well I guess the typical 'stage' progression of their songs. heh
Now Gone Angels-
Is that alpine time rift music from a Hat in Time? After the song is finished
Please check out Mili - Between Two Worlds
2:44 aw... you missed the best part
Yeah, I've posted your LoR reactions on Project Moon-related subreddits & Discord servers a number of times.
Listening to this while getting 200 burn stack is 🔥
When this music plays, after all the bangers of the Library, for the very first time, you realise that you're no longer the boss in the game.
I really hope you listen to "Between Two Worlds" by Mili made for this game's sequel.
Mili lawyers really like to throw copyright claims to videos afaik. Hopefully they woulnd't target this one
It happens, this one isn't monetized. Oh well!
RIP I hope you still do more LOR songs though :(
Doesn't bother me, I just like listening to VGM
I thought it was only ones used for anime that they go after
It’s less their lawyers and more so just the Automated system most music producers/distributors have when it comes to content ID. Project Mili themselves stated that if it’s for the game, or transformative work, just refute the game and they’ll accept it.
It’s mostly there to prevent straight up re-uploads.
I cry
You should try Children of the City by Mili too.
something about this song you know... with or without context to the game is just genius
hopefully someone recommends hokma's realization theme from lobotomy corp at some point, its such an interesting track
song has taught me to not mess with a widowed lady, especially if you're associated with her husband's death 💀
🔥🔥🔥
this one is " fire " as well
its not a pun
🔥
you gotta react to Gone Angels now its from Library of Ruina and one of the most popular songs in it
Listen to the children of the city please
Love hearing the Hat in Time music at the beginning. Or am I mishearing that?
Definitely.
Huh.. i remember subscribing to you
Looks like TH-cam unsubscribed me
Just wait till Gone Angels or Kether.
Mili !!!! Plz react to their older albums like mag mell , miracle milk or millennium mother !
Can you pls react to mass effect 2 - suicide mission?
I did already
@@JessesAuditorium thanks I'll go check it out 😊
Project Moon Community is nice, but the game is Hell for the player.