it was literally a battle of song. everyone who heard it was affected viscerally not just because of the sound, but because those sounds were literally the sound of magic being used around them
Imagine you're just sitting at home watching tv, then all of a sudden you hear church bells outside, knowing the fact that you don't live near a cathedral. After the last bell ring, it starts to snow, and last, you witnessed the people outside you're window turning into salt and hearing the sheer panic and screams of those dying from agony while being turned too salt
The Bells tolling was only the beginning of the end, it took them at least another thousand years before getting completely extinguished. But then again, their legacy lived on, so they're not really gone are they?
The Trumpets of the apocalypse weren't really trumpets. " this was a straight, narrow bronze tube with a mouthpiece of bone and a bell; they do not resemble modern trumpets"
the most unnerving part of this song is that its not really a song...its a voice. a langauge incomprehendable by humanity. that its only able to interperated as church bells
If I ever find myself with too much money, I want to place an inflatable grotesquerie in the middle of a city with this track blaring from a speaker on loop.
@@Kimarnic thats the beauty of it almost nobody would know what this giant lady is doing in the middle of this city while church bells are tolling perfect recipe for disaster
I only just realised the most frightening part of this song after stepping away for a few hours after listening to it a few times: It's catchy. _I couldn't get it out of my head._ Consider what a human hearing bells in their head means in the DrakeNeir multiverse, and consider that in an actual playthrough you’re probably going to hear it a _lot more_ than I did from having to retry the unforgiving rhythm game over and over - if they did that on purpose, then it's one of the most chilling fourth wall breaks I've ever seen, or rather, heard. *I hear a sound. And so do you.*
GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD
@@NEMESIS2K199 Hearing bells in one's head is one of the earliest symptoms of White Chlorination Syndrome, a supernatural plague that gets spread from the remains of the boss whose fight this song plays for. The short story is that WCS slowly drives you murderously crazy and then kills you while spreading to anybody near you that you didn't kill, so hearing bells in this setting more or less means you and everyone else around you is already dead, and it's the first step of Humanity's extinction in Nier.
@@NEMESIS2K199 in addition to what the player above said, more practically, the last boss in Drakengard is a rhythm minigame where the boss emits magical sound waves for each bell, which you have to counteract with waves of your own.
you know whats nuts? I never even played the game. I played Automata back in 2018 and watched the final boss and ending that leads to the Nier series out of curiosity. Recently I got into Final Fantasy 14, just did the nier raids, reached Her Inflorescence. IMMEDIATELY recognized the bells, like I'm talking instantly recognized that they were the same as that one drakengard song I heard four years ago. It never left my memory.
The most apocalyptic song ever... The minimalist arrange, together the hypnotic repetition of those bells, make this sound very unsettling. One of the most enveloping and atmospheric final boss themes I ever heard, you can just feel doom slowly crawling over this world. Drakengard definitively is something else.
I completely agree with everything you said, there is a feeling of mystery, but you know a feeling of morbid interest in this song, like if hearing literally death itself was somehow beautiful
@@novustalks7525 meh, i guess it’s starting to enter subjective territory, so i guess we should just leave it at that but just some tiny context tidbits: the people of tokyo could hear the bells here as well, so imagine you just going about your day and suddenly seeing this giant statue and hearing ominous bells (they also heard it really loudly and with a lot of reverb, if youre willing to spend some time editing the sound to fit that you should try it) hearing bells is also one of the symptoms of white chlorination syndrome
For anyone that wants the true essence of this song, add the heaviest reverb you can in your audio settings without distorting the audio and then up your volume to the loudest volume you can handle. That's how it felt for the people at Shinjuku.
Verdelet : It's the end! The end! Dragon : And yet you do not pray? Verdelet : To whom? What gods can help us now? Dragon : No gods ever heard your prayers
I still can't believe the Japanese military saw a giant fall from the sky, kill millions and then decided to shoot the Dragon that did no damage and destroyed the thing that killed a shit ton of people 💀
Off-key notes/chords and sequential looped beats can create eerie feelings and are commonly used in horror-themed media. Tubular bells are one of the sound instruments that have many distinguishable harmonics per notes, including frequencies between microtonal range.
I hope the team will work on something Drakengard-related for the next Nier Automata mod. They said they were going to work on new ones after the church, so a mod reference to DoD1 ending would be godly
On June 12th 2003, at approximately 15:00, a massive ripple opens up in the skies above Tokyo, and a colossal white Giant falls through, landing right in the middle of Shinjuku. Shortly thereafter, a red Dragon ridden by what appears to be a human in medieval armor emerges, and the Dragon and the Giant engage in battle. It appears as though the Giant is singing, and the Dragon is counteracting its song. The song is heard as a loud, disharmonic cacophony of bell sounds. Everyone in Tokyo can reportedly hear these bell sounds, though it sounds as if it's coming from inside their own heads, drowning out all other sounds, nearly deafening. Mass panic ensues among the population. The Japanese Self-Defense Force observes the situation and plans countermeasures. An emergency Cabinet meeting takes place regarding the situation. At approximately 16:00, the battle between the Dragon and the Giant concludes. The Giant breaks apart and dissolves. It's composition is unable to be determined. It is similar to salt, but seemingly lacks any mass or weight. It quickly disperses and vanishes from the area. Shortly after the fall of the Giant, Bravo-One, callsign: Scarface, of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's 6th Air Wing, 303rd Squadron shoots down the Dragon with a missile strike. It is not known who issued the order. The Dragon's body falls and is impaled atop Tokyo Tower. It is later recovered and taken to a government research facility for testing. The body of the Dragon's rider was never found. This event later becomes known as the 6-12 Incident. It resulted in 56 deaths, 320 injured, and an economic cost of over ¥60,000,000,000. A gag order is issued regarding the events of the 6-12 Incident, but videos and photos of the Incident circulate on the internet shortly thereafter. Fears of terrorism, foreign plots, and other conspiracy theories soon follow these extraordinary events. _(I'm leaving this fan-made sum-up of the 6-12 incident here in honor of the original commenter, whose profile name I unfortunately can't remember.)_
I know this is some serious necroposting, but I have to say once again how GLAD I am that we're not currently in the DrakenNieR timeline. Like holy shit.
Couldnt the church thing sadfutago showed be linked to the catedral that started the story of drakengard in any way? I literally watched a million lore vids in like a week because the lore of these games got me hooked real bad, and didnt even have time to play then yet, so if i got something wrong, excuse me... But maybe its like a story going full circle , in some way?
Not that Nier Replicant or Automata are bad or anything but i'm a bit bummed Taro never managed to reach the highs of "unsettling, fucked up shit" of Drakengard 1 again. The whole game and especially chapter 12 and 13 are peak dark fantasy.
IDK, the revelation you're a genocidal mass murderer that's been slaughtering an entire group you've repeatedly denied are more than monsters in NieR is definitely a form of horrifying DoD didn't reach. Granted, it's a much more personal/human/moral horrifying than cannibalistic giant babies and their giant pregnant time unbirthing queen...
I mean Nier 1 (dadverse) once you get the first/second ending it really makes to you super depress of what you'd considered a somewhat functional cast of characters. I felt Nier 1 succeeded in that sense, I've yet to see if they'd added anything in Replicant. But yeah, Drakengard 1 cannot be topped in its cruel fuckery.
This is Rote Memorization: The Boss Fight. You will remember every note, you will commit them to memory, and you absolutely will die countless times until you finally remember the exact 49 note sequence that will get you to the very end of this ordeal.
Drakengard 3 bloomed Intoner song: beautiful , remorseful, resolute, emotional, melodic, bittersweet, powerful , focused and purposeful Queen Beast: dissonant, inhumane and completely devoid of any form of humanity like a hollow proxy just sending out noises, chaotic , blasphemous, and unnatural
This is canonically not even a song, it's diagetic audio. The people of Shinjuku saw a giant and a dragon fighting while hearing this. And then they all lived happily ever after. The end.
... that's what diegetic means. Song of the Ancients - Devola was sung by Devola in the village. Devola and Closing exist both in the OST and their worlds, because diegesis also encompasses the meaning of canon. So it's a song.
This is how I really describe my depression, loneliness, anxiety, and hopelessness all in one sentence. This OST I feel like reflects what these feelings *REALLY* feel like when I'm not distracting or masking myself from them. It feels like even in places, even in spaces, that're *SUPPOSED* to make you feel everything *BUT* this, IT still feels like you're being haunted by all of these feelings. Which is why I like to listen to this.
You know what's really ironic? Drakengard started out basically the same way, but on roids. The world of Drakengard was very much like our own, until a cataclysmic earthquake took place in the Iberian peninsula and a giant cathedral city appeared in its wake, after which Dragons, Angels and other magical beings started to appear and populate the planet. Where did the cathedral city come from? Who built it? Who lived in it? We don't know. We have as much of an idea about it as the people in NieR's world have about the Queen-Beast and Angelus. Who knows, maybe they also came from another world. Or better yet, the new upcoming NieR game is called "Reincarnation". Is it possible that its plot will revolve around groups of androids and machines trying to "reincarnate" humanity and the machines' alien creators after finding out they were dead, only to instead create strange monstrous beings - and with one of the endings having the city at which the game's events take place plunged thousands of years backwards in time as one of the game's main characters begins to transform into the Queen-Beast?
My guess is the gods/God felt the humans might be a problem in future, so Cathedral City was Phase 1 of the Exterminate Humanity plan. Then if the stuff from that didn't get us, the Flower might. Then Red Eye, then the Watchers. Basically, a plan and 3 backups.
i can't stop myself from listening to this on daily basis... it has been 3 weeks... there was not a single day i missed listening to this theme... am... am i going crazy?
Same, I found my old PS2 hidden in my parents house, and it had the Drakengard dvd on it. I think I’m going insane, I’m daydreaming about this song every day, since the last 6 months
I swear this unnatural, infinitely repeating, almost robotic background chime is the stuff of nightmares. But somehow, it's catchy... I like to listen to it... That's really unnerving.
There was one time when i was quiet at home and those Queen Beast bells were so engraved in my head that I could clearly hear them ringing very softly, Yoko Taro really knows how traumatize.
This makes me think of a wretched, vile, nightmarish abomination. And yet... it isn't roaring. Or clawing. Or pacing. Or shrieking. Or biting. Or salivating. Or growling. Or showing its teeth. It's just staring at us. Quietly. I wonder what it's thinking about.
Ah... the start of nier, the red dragon falls from the heavens, yoko taro is unique and wants to stand out from other people. *fun fact him and kodaka go out drinking at times*
What I find odd is how everyone knows the dragon is red even though Angelus was in her chaos form when she dropped into the Nier universe and was mostly black.
The anxiety of this final mission. I thought I had forgotten about it until I watched a NieR lore video giving the whole history yesterday. Need to dig out my PS2 and see if I still have this game!
I do not know what World War 3 will be fought with. But I know that World War 4 will be fought with A quiet guy riding a dragon and an eldritch abomination.
There is something fondamentaly wrong in this song, not that the song itself is bad, no. It feels like you shouldn't hear it, as if it was something completely out of and beyond everything humans knows this far in it, something truly and horribly out of the world, out of the universe...out of literally everything.
The language of God was something that humans were never meant to hear, the Mother Angel being a direct creation of God means that it too speaks it. (or in this case, sings)
After slowing down and speesing up this video i have heard two different harmonies, sped up i see the greater working the main rythmic loop, slowed down i hear the choir behind the bells- really really listen to it its there, theres an atmospheric shift the layers deepen
Im obsessed with the complete nightmare that this game has become by the end. It opens like its a Fire Emblem game, and by the time you hit chapter 11 you're in the deepest pits of despair.
Fun fact: In the original version, the main antagonist of the Drakengard world is God. Not Gods, but the one christian God. Gods - it's censorship for western version)
@@AngraMainiiu In this particular instance it's definitely meant to be singular. There are ways to pluralize "god" and they're never once used, even when you'd expect them to if it was meant to be plural. It's also not the only religious censorship in the translation (angels are "Watchers", the church is a "cult", a reference to the virgin Mary is changed to "Gaia")
The first time you hear a song is really important. Usually, music is capable of making you reminisce a certain memory or event from when you first heard it. By itself, is a simple earworm you cannot help but hum, since it's really catchy; however, with it's context (Yoko Taro is a really subversive creator, since this is a rhythmn track in the end of a multi-genre game, which really deviates from the original genres {for context, hack'n'slash and a starship shooter game}), combined with the fact that this was mapped as jarringly as posible {for me, this is on the level of those supreme levels in the Theatrhythm games}, really give this song a meaningful impact on the player. And we're not talking about how It also gained a retroactive notoriety thanks to the following games. P.D.: Honestly, I feel that this is just a ripple to what other users said; so I'll try to add something more to add over the original. This piece has no melody, in a traditional sense: the rhythmn is performed by the three accords from the beggining that loop themselves, while the actual melodic content comes from the bell tolls. There are only two types of bell tolls, which represent a succession of notes; as such It could be repurposed in the future as binary, however, the important part is how with just two different forms of sound they created a new song, in the spirit of the tribal dances where only the rhythmn determined the melody. At least, that's my opinion...
Which one do you think is a more accurate representation of the world's response against a global magical catastrophe, should such exist ? Light or dark fantasy ?
@@JabamiLain ...Honestly, that's quite hard to answer. The obvious answer would be a dark fantasy setting for how common and easy it is to create; however there are quite a good chunk of fantasy works using a lighter fantasy style to represent the hope on humanity... My best answer would be to make a mix between both, since reality IS unexpected and would make for a more fledged work... Something like NIER, or Earthbound with more bleakness if you want it lighter.
Because of this song i now get VICERALLY uncomfortable whenever i hear church bells in real life. There is a clock tower in the shopping center i go to that has bells and i shudder every time i hear it
Yeah this is fire like I can’t describe how fire this is because it’s so good it just is fire like it’s totally not like I’m going insane and this song is bad which it’s not not it’s actually really good and not making crazy people do thing drakengaurd own sucks at first glance but playing and hearing this song changes your mind completely but you also got to think about how this game is the reason NieR exists thanks for reading
My favorite songs are: -Growing wings/Tsukiru; -Seere's prayer In the Sky; -Route C Staff roll; -Route D staff roll; -And of course, this final song. Anyone else would like to share their favorite parts of the ost ?
The fact that in the Nier drama CD audio the citizens of Shinjuku could hear the bells during the battle makes it even more disturbing.
WTF. I just heard of this. Thanks!
I. Hear. A. Sound.
I didn't catch this since I never played Drakengard. Great trivia!
it was literally a battle of song. everyone who heard it was affected viscerally not just because of the sound, but because those sounds were literally the sound of magic being used around them
Imagine you're just sitting at home watching tv, then all of a sudden you hear church bells outside, knowing the fact that you don't live near a cathedral. After the last bell ring, it starts to snow, and last, you witnessed the people outside you're window turning into salt and hearing the sheer panic and screams of those dying from agony while being turned too salt
Little did the people of Tokyo know, the end of humanity wasn't signaled by the trumpet being blown, but by bells tolling
gods dude, thats so fuckin cool when you put it that way!
For whom the bell toooolls
The Bells tolling was only the beginning of the end, it took them at least another thousand years before getting completely extinguished. But then again, their legacy lived on, so they're not really gone are they?
@@foolsembraceTime marches on!
The Trumpets of the apocalypse weren't really trumpets. " this was a straight, narrow bronze tube with a mouthpiece of bone and a bell; they do not resemble modern trumpets"
The one and only proper soundtrack for the end of the world.
I H e a r a S ou n d
Final words of Number 2
Is this...
the land of the *Gods?*
"Thank you for playing"
Who says this?
@@novustalks7525 the dragon
Square Enix better bring back this masterpiece so we can suffer again!
the most unnerving part of this song is that its not really a song...its a voice. a langauge incomprehendable by humanity. that its only able to interperated as church bells
I guess that would mean they're
lost verses
The language of the watchers
White bell 1 and black bell 0 or vice versa, will try some day to translate it
oh, interesting, didn't know that. That adds so much more character to the soundtrack tbh
it can also be morse code
If I ever find myself with too much money, I want to place an inflatable grotesquerie in the middle of a city with this track blaring from a speaker on loop.
Geeze, you'd need like, an entire Lotto Jackpot winning for that.
I'd gladly help.
and so begins the end of humanity
Only the 10 Drakengard fans will get it
@@Kimarnic thats the beauty of it
almost nobody would know what this giant lady is doing in the middle of this city while church bells are tolling
perfect recipe for disaster
Everyone's gangsta until unknown white particles fall from the inflatable grotesquerie
I only just realised the most frightening part of this song after stepping away for a few hours after listening to it a few times: It's catchy. _I couldn't get it out of my head._ Consider what a human hearing bells in their head means in the DrakeNeir multiverse, and consider that in an actual playthrough you’re probably going to hear it a _lot more_ than I did from having to retry the unforgiving rhythm game over and over - if they did that on purpose, then it's one of the most chilling fourth wall breaks I've ever seen, or rather, heard.
*I hear a sound. And so do you.*
GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD
Oh no I’m actually listening to it on repeat
@@NEMESIS2K199 Hearing bells in one's head is one of the earliest symptoms of White Chlorination Syndrome, a supernatural plague that gets spread from the remains of the boss whose fight this song plays for. The short story is that WCS slowly drives you murderously crazy and then kills you while spreading to anybody near you that you didn't kill, so hearing bells in this setting more or less means you and everyone else around you is already dead, and it's the first step of Humanity's extinction in Nier.
@@NEMESIS2K199 in addition to what the player above said, more practically, the last boss in Drakengard is a rhythm minigame where the boss emits magical sound waves for each bell, which you have to counteract with waves of your own.
you know whats nuts? I never even played the game. I played Automata back in 2018 and watched the final boss and ending that leads to the Nier series out of curiosity. Recently I got into Final Fantasy 14, just did the nier raids, reached Her Inflorescence. IMMEDIATELY recognized the bells, like I'm talking instantly recognized that they were the same as that one drakengard song I heard four years ago. It never left my memory.
The most apocalyptic song ever...
The minimalist arrange, together the hypnotic repetition of those bells, make this sound very unsettling. One of the most enveloping and atmospheric final boss themes I ever heard, you can just feel doom slowly crawling over this world.
Drakengard definitively is something else.
I completely agree with everything you said, there is a feeling of mystery, but you know a feeling of morbid interest in this song, like if hearing literally death itself was somehow beautiful
How's it enveloping? It's just repetitive and bland
@@novustalks7525maybe if you take into the context that is given, it may feel a lot more atmospheric
@@octo.p14 not really
@@novustalks7525 meh, i guess it’s starting to enter subjective territory, so i guess we should just leave it at that
but just some tiny context tidbits:
the people of tokyo could hear the bells here as well, so imagine you just going about your day and suddenly seeing this giant statue and hearing ominous bells (they also heard it really loudly and with a lot of reverb, if youre willing to spend some time editing the sound to fit that you should try it)
hearing bells is also one of the symptoms of white chlorination syndrome
2:03 - 2:14 And that's how death sounds.
Splendid
indeed
2 years later, coming back to hear it again, because its so chaotic
For anyone that wants the true essence of this song, add the heaviest reverb you can in your audio settings without distorting the audio and then up your volume to the loudest volume you can handle.
That's how it felt for the people at Shinjuku.
Verdelet : It's the end! The end!
Dragon : And yet you do not pray?
Verdelet : To whom? What gods can help us now?
Dragon : No gods ever heard your prayers
As a note, the dragon name's Angelus
@@Barri2410In the dialogue and game all the way except the final Ending A cutscene, she never reveals her name and is called just the Dragon
@@aetherinfuseCool. The dragon's name is still Angelus.
@@jonahbrown5669this is just not true at all
Yeah it's the end. End of humanity 💀
A song you DEFINITELY don’t want to hear in your dreams…
I remember hearing something very similar to it in a dream I had as a kid.
I still can't believe the Japanese military saw a giant fall from the sky, kill millions and then decided to shoot the Dragon that did no damage and destroyed the thing that killed a shit ton of people 💀
It's typically human to attack first and ask questions after(if possible)
Canonically, no they didn't. Noone knows where the order to shoot the dragon down actually came from
@@illireisource?
@@nicocarrero5953The Nier Replicant load Screens I think.
JSDF Sigma Grindset: Kill the dude that risked his life to save everyone from the monster no questions asked
Off-key notes/chords and sequential looped beats can create eerie feelings and are commonly used in horror-themed media. Tubular bells are one of the sound instruments that have many distinguishable harmonics per notes, including frequencies between microtonal range.
I wouldn't say off-notes/chords, I think it's dissonances make this environment
Here because I missed Drakengard after the whole church modding in Nier Automata
oh my god can you imagine if the modders actually put this song slowed down like 900% in that church? i wouldve gone crazy
I hope the team will work on something Drakengard-related for the next Nier Automata mod. They said they were going to work on new ones after the church, so a mod reference to DoD1 ending would be godly
On June 12th 2003, at approximately 15:00, a massive ripple opens up in the skies above Tokyo, and a colossal white Giant falls through, landing right in the middle of Shinjuku. Shortly thereafter, a red Dragon ridden by what appears to be a human in medieval armor emerges, and the Dragon and the Giant engage in battle. It appears as though the Giant is singing, and the Dragon is counteracting its song. The song is heard as a loud, disharmonic cacophony of bell sounds. Everyone in Tokyo can reportedly hear these bell sounds, though it sounds as if it's coming from inside their own heads, drowning out all other sounds, nearly deafening. Mass panic ensues among the population. The Japanese Self-Defense Force observes the situation and plans countermeasures. An emergency Cabinet meeting takes place regarding the situation. At approximately 16:00, the battle between the Dragon and the Giant concludes. The Giant breaks apart and dissolves. It's composition is unable to be determined. It is similar to salt, but seemingly lacks any mass or weight. It quickly disperses and vanishes from the area. Shortly after the fall of the Giant, Bravo-One, callsign: Scarface, of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's 6th Air Wing, 303rd Squadron shoots down the Dragon with a missile strike. It is not known who issued the order. The Dragon's body falls and is impaled atop Tokyo Tower. It is later recovered and taken to a government research facility for testing. The body of the Dragon's rider was never found. This event later becomes known as the 6-12 Incident. It resulted in 56 deaths, 320 injured, and an economic cost of over ¥60,000,000,000. A gag order is issued regarding the events of the 6-12 Incident, but videos and photos of the Incident circulate on the internet shortly thereafter. Fears of terrorism, foreign plots, and other conspiracy theories soon follow these extraordinary events.
_(I'm leaving this fan-made sum-up of the 6-12 incident here in honor of the original commenter, whose profile name I unfortunately can't remember.)_
Yo, that was my comment! :D
I was so sad when the video I had originally left it on got removed.
Thank you so much for restoring it!
I know this is some serious necroposting, but I have to say once again how GLAD I am that we're not currently in the DrakenNieR timeline. Like holy shit.
Listening to this while watching the complete chaos on NieR subreddit after sadfutago posts images of the Intoners inside Automata.
Couldnt the church thing sadfutago showed be linked to the catedral that started the story of drakengard in any way? I literally watched a million lore vids in like a week because the lore of these games got me hooked real bad, and didnt even have time to play then yet, so if i got something wrong, excuse me... But maybe its like a story going full circle , in some way?
Lmao
Not that Nier Replicant or Automata are bad or anything but i'm a bit bummed Taro never managed to reach the highs of "unsettling, fucked up shit" of Drakengard 1 again. The whole game and especially chapter 12 and 13 are peak dark fantasy.
IDK, the revelation you're a genocidal mass murderer that's been slaughtering an entire group you've repeatedly denied are more than monsters in NieR is definitely a form of horrifying DoD didn't reach. Granted, it's a much more personal/human/moral horrifying than cannibalistic giant babies and their giant pregnant time unbirthing queen...
I mean Nier 1 (dadverse) once you get the first/second ending it really makes to you super depress of what you'd considered a somewhat functional cast of characters. I felt Nier 1 succeeded in that sense, I've yet to see if they'd added anything in Replicant. But yeah, Drakengard 1 cannot be topped in its cruel fuckery.
Taro just never does the same thing twice... for better or worse
ye its such a haunting experience
What an unsettling sound to start Nier's story. Sad part is it fits.
"The queen begins to sing... Light and shadow, goodness and evil... Silence the mother's song."
0:10🗼
This is Rote Memorization: The Boss Fight. You will remember every note, you will commit them to memory, and you absolutely will die countless times until you finally remember the exact 49 note sequence that will get you to the very end of this ordeal.
*I. Hear. A. **_Sound._*
The song that signaled the end of humanity on that universe.
Drakengard 3 bloomed Intoner song: beautiful , remorseful, resolute, emotional, melodic, bittersweet, powerful , focused and purposeful
Queen Beast: dissonant, inhumane and completely devoid of any form of humanity like a hollow proxy just sending out noises, chaotic , blasphemous, and unnatural
This is canonically not even a song, it's diagetic audio. The people of Shinjuku saw a giant and a dragon fighting while hearing this.
And then they all lived happily ever after. The end.
... that's what diegetic means. Song of the Ancients - Devola was sung by Devola in the village. Devola and Closing exist both in the OST and their worlds, because diegesis also encompasses the meaning of canon. So it's a song.
@@PaszerDye yeah I suppose so
The more I listen, the better the song sounds. Sooner or later, I'm going to go along with God's will...
How to even meet God and where, that's is the true question
This unironically slaps
I can exactly tell where I pressed the wrong button.
Same. This fight to me 10, 000 years. That final fight is what.....2 minutes of sheer anxiety and stress!
This is how I really describe my depression, loneliness, anxiety, and hopelessness all in one sentence. This OST I feel like reflects what these feelings *REALLY* feel like when I'm not distracting or masking myself from them. It feels like even in places, even in spaces, that're *SUPPOSED* to make you feel everything *BUT* this, IT still feels like you're being haunted by all of these feelings. Which is why I like to listen to this.
1:51 was pure evilness in video game design...
You know what's really ironic?
Drakengard started out basically the same way, but on roids.
The world of Drakengard was very much like our own, until a cataclysmic earthquake took place in the Iberian peninsula and a giant cathedral city appeared in its wake, after which Dragons, Angels and other magical beings started to appear and populate the planet. Where did the cathedral city come from? Who built it? Who lived in it? We don't know. We have as much of an idea about it as the people in NieR's world have about the Queen-Beast and Angelus. Who knows, maybe they also came from another world.
Or better yet, the new upcoming NieR game is called "Reincarnation". Is it possible that its plot will revolve around groups of androids and machines trying to "reincarnate" humanity and the machines' alien creators after finding out they were dead, only to instead create strange monstrous beings - and with one of the endings having the city at which the game's events take place plunged thousands of years backwards in time as one of the game's main characters begins to transform into the Queen-Beast?
And leads to the fourth Drakengard game
More like loops back into the start of the Drakengard timeline and by extension the NieR timeline
My guess is the gods/God felt the humans might be a problem in future, so Cathedral City was Phase 1 of the Exterminate Humanity plan. Then if the stuff from that didn't get us, the Flower might. Then Red Eye, then the Watchers. Basically, a plan and 3 backups.
And they ended up exterminating the wrong humanity. The one in the Drakengard world was never destroyed
@Ponera Grimoire
"Wrong humankind, Josh!"
"Eh....at least we killed them off in one reality. If it weren't for that meddling Caim and his dragon..."
i can't stop myself from listening to this on daily basis... it has been 3 weeks... there was not a single day i missed listening to this theme... am... am i going crazy?
We both must've are, probably because we have White Chlorination Syndrome then
@@ms.pirate i see... so we are awaiting for god from another world to ether help us by turning into he's slaves... or pretty much just perish
@@BladeUpDestiny *I. Hear. A. Sound*
@@ms.pirate the bells... they are coming closer... the sound gets louder... louder... hu-
Same, I found my old PS2 hidden in my parents house, and it had the Drakengard dvd on it. I think I’m going insane, I’m daydreaming about this song every day, since the last 6 months
Save the world
Get shoot down
Pilot: we saved the world
Did he saved it tho? Doesn't seems like it.
* nervous cough in the background*
snow in summer
*IT'S NOT SNOW LALALALA*
*PTSD of trying to achieve the Nier ending intensifies*
The last song you’ll ever hear before your world tears apart before your eyes
Really nice to see Drakengard and Nier fans alike here ^_^ Hello everyone.
Drakengard Ending E Basically a Third Impact of Evangelion
One whose architect takes sadistic pleasure in dragging it out through out the millenia.
wouldn't be surprised if someone lost their mind playing this game
I swear this unnatural, infinitely repeating, almost robotic background chime is the stuff of nightmares.
But somehow, it's catchy... I like to listen to it... That's really unnerving.
I hate how easy this is to whistle along with. Its so catchy (and easy to improvise verses)
There was one time when i was quiet at home and those Queen Beast bells were so engraved in my head that I could clearly hear them ringing very softly, Yoko Taro really knows how traumatize.
a recording of the exact instant humanity died
The roaring of the bell begins. So blessed, yet so frightening. The realization of how insignificant your soul is.
THE SOUND OF THE SUMMER
I love the unsettling feeling that comes from this. It just sets the vibe for the whole franchise for me.
For whom the bell tolls? For thee and thine.
*silence*
you cannot kill me
for iam loved
loved by *them*
more than anyone else
thanks for the reupload bud
Drakengard’s soundtrack really is completely unique. I’ve yet to hear anything like it, even within its own franchise
Don't pass the AUX cable to Drakengard fans
This makes me think of a wretched, vile, nightmarish abomination.
And yet... it isn't roaring. Or clawing. Or pacing. Or shrieking. Or biting. Or salivating. Or growling. Or showing its teeth.
It's just staring at us. Quietly.
I wonder what it's thinking about.
Ah... the start of nier, the red dragon falls from the heavens, yoko taro is unique and wants to stand out from other people.
*fun fact him and kodaka go out drinking at times*
What I find odd is how everyone knows the dragon is red even though Angelus was in her chaos form when she dropped into the Nier universe and was mostly black.
But does he want to Achieve Moksha like a Certain Kotaro Uchikoshi character from Ai Somnium files?
@@Niky272 same, probably an error or just wants to cut it from the lore
@@Niky272 crazy i was watching a TH-cam lore video and someone pointed this out?
I remember listening to this outside while the skies are grey, shit gave me chills-
Ight time to put this as my ring tone
I went to sleep to this bop and woke with the best sleep of my life but worse thing to wake up to.
Try getting a job next
Brother im a minor how am i gonna get a job
@@Small_oats Disgusting, never reply to me again
Ok buddy
bruh xd
The anxiety of this final mission. I thought I had forgotten about it until I watched a NieR lore video giving the whole history yesterday. Need to dig out my PS2 and see if I still have this game!
what a haunting beautiful ost and Lore this game has
the sound of true, inescapable horror
TURN THIS SHI UP FAM🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️
Drakengard being a greatest horror to this day 🤔
*Our world will finally find true peace, but at what cost.*
This is more pleasant too hear than the gameplay version
I do not know what World War 3 will be fought with. But I know that World War 4 will be fought with A quiet guy riding a dragon and an eldritch abomination.
I LOVE THIS SONG
There is something fondamentaly wrong in this song, not that the song itself is bad, no.
It feels like you shouldn't hear it, as if it was something completely out of and beyond everything humans knows this far in it, something truly and horribly out of the world, out of the universe...out of literally everything.
The language of God was something that humans were never meant to hear, the Mother Angel being a direct creation of God means that it too speaks it. (or in this case, sings)
So creepy and unnerving yet I can't get it out of my head
2:31 minutes of Yoko Taro laughing at your misfortune of dying again and again.
I hear a sound indeed.
After slowing down and speesing up this video i have heard two different harmonies, sped up i see the greater working the main rythmic loop, slowed down i hear the choir behind the bells- really really listen to it its there, theres an atmospheric shift the layers deepen
"And nothing was ever heard of him again
Except with the sound of tubular bells "
this shit gives me chills and makes feel like am about to die "and i fucking love it"
Sucks it got taken down most of the soundtrack
If all of humanity start hearing this in the back of our mind, we are doomed
Wow, this sounds hauntingly beautiful :00
The Initial Part of Nier Reincarnation Final Boss Themen is Straight from this...
music to my ears
Dear diary: today I finished this mission. I feel happy right before the end of the world.
PTSD bells
Im obsessed with the complete nightmare that this game has become by the end. It opens like its a Fire Emblem game, and by the time you hit chapter 11 you're in the deepest pits of despair.
_Mandalore stared at the black cat, the black cat stared back at him, and then he heard this bell violently ringing._
hell's bells
My favorite part of the OST. It's so haunting but weirdly hyponitc
The song of the end
Ayo the "gods" be slappin' hard with the bells!!
While this is iconic, I like the tune that plays during the first chapter 13 cutscene. It's like a remix from chapter 12. Love it.
they have to play this song as they closing my casket
Yet none will be present to hear such a lovely tune.
I shall request instead the crematory play this while disposing my remains.
That’s some real twerkin music there
Sounds like the track that plays in hell. Love it!
Lmaoo
This song puts me in a meditative state, and i love it.
Fun fact: In the original version, the main antagonist of the Drakengard world is God. Not Gods, but the one christian God. Gods - it's censorship for western version)
Not necessarily, Japanese lacks plurals and it's ambiguous if it's God or gods.
@@AngraMainiiu In this particular instance it's definitely meant to be singular. There are ways to pluralize "god" and they're never once used, even when you'd expect them to if it was meant to be plural. It's also not the only religious censorship in the translation (angels are "Watchers", the church is a "cult", a reference to the virgin Mary is changed to "Gaia")
So DoD is basically just Yoko Taro's SMT. XD
This fight was hell
Yo turn that up that sounds fi- *turns into salt*
How to find more music like this for a atmospheric harmony but unsettling eerie playlist,,.
I wish we could hear this song in any nier game. Kinda a call back even a little hints like those bells when the virus happened.
Imagine this irl
Will be creepy 😰
The only thing worse than a painful death is an ignominious death, at least we'll have a soundtrack to accompany us in the other world!
The first time you hear a song is really important. Usually, music is capable of making you reminisce a certain memory or event from when you first heard it.
By itself, is a simple earworm you cannot help but hum, since it's really catchy; however, with it's context (Yoko Taro is a really subversive creator, since this is a rhythmn track in the end of a multi-genre game, which really deviates from the original genres {for context, hack'n'slash and a starship shooter game}), combined with the fact that this was mapped as jarringly as posible {for me, this is on the level of those supreme levels in the Theatrhythm games}, really give this song a meaningful impact on the player.
And we're not talking about how It also gained a retroactive notoriety thanks to the following games.
P.D.: Honestly, I feel that this is just a ripple to what other users said; so I'll try to add something more to add over the original. This piece has no melody, in a traditional sense: the rhythmn is performed by the three accords from the beggining that loop themselves, while the actual melodic content comes from the bell tolls. There are only two types of bell tolls, which represent a succession of notes; as such It could be repurposed in the future as binary, however, the important part is how with just two different forms of sound they created a new song, in the spirit of the tribal dances where only the rhythmn determined the melody. At least, that's my opinion...
Yoko taro had nothing to do with the soundtrack. Credit the guys who actually made it instead moron
Which one do you think is a more accurate representation of the world's response against a global magical catastrophe, should such exist ? Light or dark fantasy ?
@@JabamiLain ...Honestly, that's quite hard to answer. The obvious answer would be a dark fantasy setting for how common and easy it is to create; however there are quite a good chunk of fantasy works using a lighter fantasy style to represent the hope on humanity... My best answer would be to make a mix between both, since reality IS unexpected and would make for a more fledged work... Something like NIER, or Earthbound with more bleakness if you want it lighter.
@@marcoslavinfernandez6869that was my opinion too.
Run
Because of this song i now get VICERALLY uncomfortable whenever i hear church bells in real life. There is a clock tower in the shopping center i go to that has bells and i shudder every time i hear it
Grow some balls bitch
Yeah this is fire like I can’t describe how fire this is because it’s so good it just is fire like it’s totally not like I’m going insane and this song is bad which it’s not not it’s actually really good and not making crazy people do thing drakengaurd own sucks at first glance but playing and hearing this song changes your mind completely but you also got to think about how this game is the reason NieR exists thanks for reading
My favorite songs are:
-Growing wings/Tsukiru;
-Seere's prayer In the Sky;
-Route C Staff roll;
-Route D staff roll;
-And of course, this final song.
Anyone else would like to share their favorite parts of the ost ?
Chapter 8 closing and basically all the tracks for Chapters 4 and 12 are iconic
kino