Library of Ruina - Children of The City (Mili) | Reacting To Video Game Music!
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As you can see, the classic dissonance between Mili lyrics and music strikes yet again! Yeah, this is one where that disconnect hits particularly hard. The boss where this song plays has some very tragic circumstances, as well. It's basically about someone who tried to break free from their fate as a cog in the dystopian city he is forced to carry out injustices for, only to realize that everything he did to assert his freedom has been part of the city's plan from the beginning. The fight happens while he is the middle of a violent existential breakdown from this realization. It's one of the game's most depressing story arcs, and this song is appropriately melancholy and bluesy to fit the sadness of the fight.
The song's lyrics fit the game's events really well, but they also can have a non-game interpretation. The lyrics are full of these arbitrary, nonsensical orders that people have to carry out as part of their roles, which can be metaphors for all the mundane and meaningless jobs and routines adults are forced to take to survive in the urban/modern world. And when people try to assert their freedom and individuality in this world, they get quickly beaten down and absorbed into the system. It goes back into the game's whole existential theme about how much freedom we truly have, and how much we can truly be ourselves in a civilization that expects so much out of us. The song in general has that neon, late-night-city sort of atmosphere to it, and it can easily be seen as the backdrop for the singer stumbling through the dirty streets going through despair over their place in life. Oh, and the whole "don't go home until you finish reading the value of e" thing with the numbers at the end? The number e is an irrational number, which goes on forever, so the "joke" is that the singer can never go back home. They cannot go back "home" to innocence. To happier days. Nothing.
Yeah, this song just gets heavier and heavier the more you think about it. But it gives you a lot of food for thought. And it's a big reason why I enjoy Mili's songs.
I play all sorts of games. RPGs, puzzle games, adventure games, stealth games, visual novels, Eastern games, Western games, AAA games, indie games, etc. So it doesn't surprise me that I stumbled onto this game, now that I look back on it. I usually find out about games through their soundtrack, and this game is no exception. But let me tell you, this series (Lobotomy Corporation, Library of Ruina, Limbus Company (the newest one)) really is bizarre, in the best possible way. It has this special, unique brand of grimdark and weird and twisted to its stories, that I can tell a game is a Project Moon game from a glance. But their stories also give you much to think about, and they have more depth to them than you expect going in. You don't know what to expect at all going in, actually, but in the end, people stay for the great characters and story, complex gameplay, and the amazing soundtrack.
The soundtrack drew me in as well, and i went into lobcorp expecting a funny quirky indie game, and around day 24 with the iconic hydraulic press scene, it just grabbed me by the throat.
Here I am a year later with the Project Moon brain rot.
that's a great description of what the song represents, absolutely amazing stuff from both project moon and mili with regards to the game and music
@@Noanator i recently got that game on sale, as soon as i finished the first boss i recognised the voice right away XD
Found a random youtuber a long time ago when LC wasn't even out yet and I was already hooked on the story despite how low quality LC was at the time.
Thanks, after beating this boss and gaining a better understanding of the lyrics, I’m now depressed.
And don't forget... Do not go home until you finish reading the value of E
Maybe you can since sleeping 800hr/day is possible
@@quangnguyendang7029 wish I could just sleep enough for 1% of that amount per day
I hope someone make the "100 number of E" song so i could play it before sleep and see if i could recite it..
E
@@quyluuthanh6798 So... just 8 hours per day
The flower on the icon is the blue aconite, also known as wolfsbane, representing caution, treachery, and misanthropy.
Even without the context of the game, Children of the City is a song about the futility of free will and depression, made clear by the very first line.
"Sleep for 800 hours per day"; improper sleeping habits and lack of regard for self-care is considered a symptom of depression.
In case you're confused, the last line "Do not go home until you finish reading the value of E" is effectively telling you that you can never go home.
E is Euler's Number, an irrational number like pi. It DOESN'T end.
The flower actually loos more like Forget-Me-Not which represents true love and respect or also promise or be remembered and not to be forgotten imo.
the forget-me-not is also the primary symbol of the index in general
Jokes on them, I'll just read the ASCII value for "e"!
this song is literally one of the best examples of blending narrative into music, a masterpiece in the soundtrack next to Gone Angels
In an interview with Mili, Cassie Wei (the vocalist and lyricist for Mili) said that she has a hobby of making stories but never really liked writing, so she uses music to tell stories. Pretty much all Mili songs have some form of narrative/story to them (even the ones written in fictional languages). It’s one reason why Mili is such a good fit with Project Moon, who like mixing narrative and gameplay.
This song really grew on me. I didn't like it the first few times but now it has grown so much on me - I really need to play the game to completely understand the context. But yes, this song is a vibe and very trippy, especially with its lyrics.
It really does grow on you. It was my least favorite song in the album when I finished the game a couple years ago, and now it's probably my favorite.
To give a bit of context to the song:
Basically, this is the theme of a character that has realized that all of their actions to try and expose what can only be described as a “machine prophet” that gives out ludicrous orders (like putting nails inside a child’s birthday cake) under penalty of death if not carried out as a hoax were actually preordained by said prophet. Realizing this, he falls into complete and utter despair, realizing that everything he did to try and get people out of this stupid system was in vain. Through that despair and utter hopelessness at knowing he never had free will, he ends up transforming into an entity made solely to carry out the prophet’s orders.
For Context: There is a orginasation called the Index and in their organisation and part of the city that they control, everyone follows the order of the "Prescipt" which are letters with specific orders. If you disobey these orders, you die. Nobody knows what is written until they recieve the order. Sometimes it can be something like - sing a song 3 times or something cruel like - eat glass. These orders make no sense but still they somehow maintaine some sort of hierarchy within the organisation. The boss where this theme is from is one of the agents of the Index. He basically figured out what the origin of these Prescipts is and basically couldn't take that information.
To be more precise: you don't necessarily die. The execution is done by special members - "proxies", and for them it is a prescript as well. Pretty much everyone, except Gloria, knew certain someone was trying to not follow prescripts, but they didn't get prescript to deal with them
it's all going according to the plan.
Spoiler:
*The will of the City...*
Fun fact unrelated to E/Euler's Number: the lyric "I desperately wish to be included in the City's nights" can be taken two ways in-universe.
One is to imply that the singer wishes to be recognized as one of the City's "neon Stars" - as someone powerful, someone others look up to, or as someone to be feared. At the time the battle this song plays in takes place, your Library is already considered a "Star of the City" on its own, having managed to cut down a number of reputable opponents before this point - the only rank you can reach afterwards is "Impuritas Civitatis" (Impurity of the City). In a sense, we are turning them into part of a Star by defeating the boss the song is associated with and using their book's contents to empower ourselves.
The other meaning, well... in the City there's this thing called the Night in the Backstreets - at around 3 AM, a bunch of entities called Sweepers will start roaming around the Backstreets (which are the City's slums) for about half an hour, viciously murdering anyone unlucky enough to not be inside and making their corpses disappear.
Take the above-mentioned lyric, put it into this context, and it goes from "I wish to be a star shining above the City" to "I wish to be out at the time when people who are out are horribly mutilated and never seen again".
TLDR: depending on how you look at it, "I desperately wish to be included in the City's nights" can be seen either as a longing for a better place or a suicide note.
This is probably the best song for typewriter I have ever heard.
My favorite Mili song from Ruina, Yan's story arc and the idea behind the Gods of the City is just pretty neat and a good nail in the grimdarkness of the Proyect Moon setting. Like others posted this song requires a little of background to get it but in short its a song about yearning self affirmation of your existance and how the path of the Prescripts (and the cult like criminal syndicate that operates under them) grinds Yan to utterly cosmic despair and the erasure of his self.
All of this alongside the song makes Yan a fan favorite character in Library of Ruina by a wide margin.
For reference, Mili is an indie group composed of a few different people. Cassie Wei is the vocalist and also responsible for most of the lyrics. They do have albums independent of LoR as well as other video games and even anime they've done songs for. Space Colony from Miracle Milk being one of my favorite songs they've done.
So uh, this is my favorite song of all time. Really touched me in a lot of ways when I was going through hard times, and its such a calming yet unnerving track. Hope its an interesting listen!
Project Moon commisions for many of these songs, giving Mili and Studio EIM a detailed explanation of what they desire to obtain.
Both groups have mentioned how complicated, yet inspiring, these ideas have been, and how they love designing music for Project Moon games. There are some interviews to them in the PM channel, but it really gives a big insight on how attention to detail they put into making these songs fit the game context.
Ah Children of the City. It's a great mood setter for the Project Moon world as a whole. It does a great job to make you feel like you were in this huge grand dystopia that's cool at first but really depressing if you think about it. The choice of vaporwave for this song was something that had to grow on me, but boy did it grow on me. This is probably my favorite track in the OST now. Most of what I had to say was already said by Kevin, but I'll tack this onto it. In the City the nights are extremely dangerous, full of violent crime and eventually the Sweepers come to "clean up" any dead.. and living that are still outside. So with that context, the lyric "I desperately wish to be include in the city's night" takes a whole new meaning.
Mili - Between Two Worlds [Limbus Company]
As a huge Project Moon fan, as someone who wanted to get into the video game industry growing up, their games are difficult, wonderfully written story & character wise, and always seem to impressively incorporate their game's story & lore into the game's mechanics themselves. They have a ton of passion, and the studio's full of literature geeks which shows in their game's references to all sorts of classical literature and such! Also yes, they have a new game that recently released called 'Limbus Company', taking place after the events of 'Library of Ruina'.
I actually came to Library of Ruina from Lobotomy Corporation, was someone who got to enjoy the experience of the development process with others. I enjoy all sorts of games, and an "SCP Facility Management" game really caught my eye and grabbed my curiosity. And boy did it grab me by the ankles and drag me all the way in, definitely a worthwhile experience though lol.
Oh hell yea Mili is such an awesome artist. I know nothing about this game but all of their music is so damn good
Update: I have bought the game
@@stikkysosage9125 another one joins the -GRIND- city's gutters.
@@stikkysosage9125 PM fans are slowly spreading
OMG I love this song! One of my favorites from LOR.
So a little bit of Context in different thing because learning a bit more is always good.
Mili is the name of the group, the singer is Cassie Wei.
The Gruesome Lyrics and the lyrics that sounds like commans are to represent Prescripts, long story short if you belong in a group called the Index you sometimes get a Prescript telling you a random order that you need to fulfill to stay in the Index (and alive), they are random like "Place Needles into your neighbors birthday cake", "Walk into a three way intersection and wave 2 times to the north" or "Remove the Spine of the 27th person you run into". They are very strange and apparently very random but for some reason they always work into the Index favour.
And lastly, the numbers at the end of the Song are from the line "Do not go home until you finish reading the value of e", e is a mathematical value, kinda like Pi, is infinite.
What i love about Mili's songs for project moon is they make a point of making the song relevant to the contextual plot, but also having a more general dual meaning
For example, From a Place of Love in context is about a particular couple and their horrific trauma as a result of being in the crossfire of ruinas plot, but the song to an outside listener can also be about an unhappy arranged marriage
Children of the City in the games context is about the character Yan and his struggles with the nature of free will
But taking the lyrics out of that context is about discontent with being part of the capitalistic machine but seeing no way out and resigning yourself to the fact that were all doomed to our fates from the moment were born
At least thats my general interpretation
This is why Mili released their Ruina related songs as part of an album rather than a soundtrack, because all the songs are intended to stand on their own without needing additional context.
On another note, Project Moon did recently release their new game which mili is also doing the music for (so far theres only 2 mili songs, but theres more to come with updates) but with the game comes several new instrumental tracks that are just absolutely killer and i hope to see you check out some of the Limbus Company soundtrack eventually!
Returning of Library of Ruina with my favourite song of the game. Cool.
I only learned about this game through Jesse's channel I can't remember what my thoughts were on the other songs he did but I think I liked them.
Fun synth chords, the lower end sounds kind of like synth wave. The speaking vocals give this a really unique vibe, I don't know how to feel about it but it gives me asmr vibes. The groovy parts in here remind me of Street Fighter Alpha music, it's a cool dichotomy having this super flowing and tender high end with the funky lower end. I just payed attention to the lyrics and they are quite saddening and I'm sure many can relate. That is an interesting ending, number then it cuts out. I would have never got that this was a boss theme but the song completely fits the context of the bosses character as far as I can tell from the comments.
im very pleased :D so İn Hell We Live in Lament or Between two Worlds From Limbus Company when? :D
Before Ruina I was going through a lot of deckbuilders and had this recommended to me by a few people on a game's discord. After having played it, it's become one of my favorite games of all time and I've been really loving the universe that they have created ever since!
I'm sure it has been mentioned but e is a constant, just like pi ( π = 3.14159...ad infinitum).
"Don't go home until you finish reading the value of e" means you are NEVER going home.
One specific note on the lyrics, for "9mm pacifier" - What else is commonly described as being 9mm? A handgun.
One thing about all these milli songs that is lost outside of the game is how they are part of long and complicated bossfights. So all these sad or distressing lyrics are playing in your ears over and over as you drag yourself through the fight.
Children of the City has grown to be my favorite song on the Ruina OST, although I found the game initially by listening to Iron Lotus so many times I eventually wanted to know what kind of game it could be battle music for. I was a long time Mili fan prior to getting into Ruina and Project Moon works in general, so while the heady gameplay they present with their titles definitely vibes with me, it's not what brought me to them.
As for the types of games I do play, it's mostly puzzles, platformers, RPGs, visual novels, deck builders. Ruina is 4 of those things.
Yeah there was a game that came out called, Limbus Company
The story does take place after the events of Library of Ruina but ALSO after a webnovel named, Leviathan (which I suggest to not read if you have not finished Library cuz of story reasons)
Not a book webnovel/Manga
These songs are like the world they play in .... totally weird and if you put them into parts and look at each on individually you think: HOW THE HELL should THAT fit together?
But is does fit extremely well in its own weird way. I mean we have in Limbus a character with a clock as a head and that isnt even weird/the weirdest in that universe. XD
I just found this channel because I was listening to mili and was like man has anyone reacted to her? Like I love them and the vocalist so much and when I saw you reacting to some of them and the way you break it down and appreciate her made me happy that others like her too. So I subbed, good stuff
Yep, they released a new game, Limbus company, a couple months ago which means more mili songs! Not sure if you've heard them yet, it's "In hell we live, lament" and "between two worlds".
The new game is set in the same universe after library of ruina btw.
What is funny about you reacting to this song now is that Cassie Wei and Yamato Kasai of Mili recently started a companion band to Mili called AWAAWA for more experimental music (Mili used to be more experimental with their music but they can’t release experimental songs as much due to their popularity so they created this side band/project to scratch that itch since Yamato Kasai (the composer for Mili) loves experimental music) and the first song they released “What Robots Need” is very similar in style to Children of the City.
The first sentence of each verse, and the ones with the filter really sound like the "prescripts" that yan (a messenger of the index) would deliver
The Index distributes these prescripts to those under their protection, which they have to carry out exactly; and they sometimes seem to give nonsensical orders
Oh oh ohhh I'd been wondering why I couldn't find any reactions to this song just earlier this week but lo and behold!
The numbers at the end are the value of Euler's number, represented as e. It's used in logarithms. It's similar to Pi, in that it's a mathematical constant with a decimal that goes to infinity.
I'll keep spoilers to a minimum, the lyrics are related to one that was a part of the Index, one of the Fingers, one of the five most powerful of the organized crime syndicates that rule the backstreets, they rival the power of the Wings, which are mega-corporations that rule their Districts as their own private fiefdoms. The Index follow the prescripts, seemingly random instructions that if they don't follow then, the Proxies are sent to kill them, as for where the prescripts come from...it's revealed in the cutscene before the battle against the boss that this theme is for.
Milii is a band, they've done a bunch of tracks for various games and a selection of anime opening, plus their own independent stuff.
They did the soundtrack for Ender Lillies in addition to their work with Project Moon. If you're inclined to check out Ender Lillies music I'd like to recommend Harmonious.
The more you listen to this song, the more you feel you are the cog that the song is talking about, at first you don't like it, but with each repeat your heart forces to hear, you realise that you and everyone you know is related to these lyrics, we got consumed by the city, only dreaming of being part of the neon sky.
There's the Library of Ruina 'wait, what?' right there. And let's just mix in the Mili tendencies of somewhat upbeat tempo with utterly messed up lyrics.
The two really are made for each other. The song is great because it's both impactful individually, and yet also reflects the context that it refers to fantastically. It's a bit of a trip when the Mili song ends up a bit too literal to the Library of Ruina circumstances.
To answer your question about what kind of people play this game:
I started playing Library of Ruina pretty recently and I actually was drawn to the game because of the music! I mostly play a lot of indie games because I love games who have a strong visual and/or musical identity, and indie games are more likely to be more weird and intense and unique (and Library of Ruina is all of this). I've played stuff like Hollow Knight, Supergiant Games studio games (Bastion, Transistor, Pyre and Hades), Abzû, Darkest Dungeon, Othercide, Hyper Light Drifter... but also some non indie stuff like FFXIV, the Ace Attorney series or Prey (2017). What most of those have in common is good as hell music, I guess!
I definitely recommend Library of Ruina, it's got a really intriguing story so far (I haven't finished the game yet but I'm enthralled) with a cool deck building turn-based strategic type of gameplay.
Try out omori
do you know anything about Persona 5? I’ve played that a lot and really enjoyed it. I was wondering if you’d recommend Library of Ruina since the gameplay and musical identities both games have are really strong :)
@@yamawun320 I know of Persona 5 but I've never played it so I have no idea how similar the gameplay is to Library of Ruina and whether or not you'll like it. I guess the best way of finding out is to either try it, or find a video of someone playing it to see how that looks to you!
A a Proyect Moon Fan, i came from the usual Nintendo and generic adventure and rolplay games, but i always had a something to some visual novel or just anything that goes hard into the human psique,
Things like psyconauts, Omori, persona (and shin megami tensei proper) tend to tickle that nerve on me...
But project moon has something that i really enjoy... They do not hesitate to incorporate suffering into their games, the way they squeeze the characters, bring them to their knees and then let then rise up or fall down completely is peak for me, also the clear inspiration in literature and the whole Cabala was refreashing because it showed me a culture i'm not exposed to enough.
Another certified Mili depression banger
This boss made me actually look up mili
This song’s lyrics are very on theme for this fight, and the lore behind it.
Yooooo the Del drop! I was so surprised to hear Deltron 3030 brought up in this.
Its a comparison I can definitely see. Deltron 3030 is such a commentary on society, and Milli's works are so often the same. Deep lyrical complexity with a lot of double meaning, and its really beautiful stuff that you can just really dig into on repeat listens.
As one last thing, lots of LoR players have definitely moved onto Project Moons new gacha sequel to it, Limbus Company.
I'm sure you'll get requests for some songs from it, PM fans get...ravenous. Don't hold it against them! Liking underrated games can do that do someone.
A true resume. Follow commands or you die, thats the topic of the song.
O and I am just think about the opening them of limbo company, a new mobile game of this series. Also really cool.
Earlier on in the video you had mentioned about the next game after library of ruina that came out recently, yes it's a psudo sequel but it doesn't have any (current) cross with ruina as far as I was seeing. Later on when they add more to the story we might get that. The game is called "Limbus Company" and is a somewhat similar game to ruina, even has some music I'm sure you'd love.
Amd who can say no to more Mili music?
Little bit spoiler for the context of The few first gruesome lyrics are hint to the prescript that the follower of the syndicate and people they protect had and must to do without question or else the prescript will give prescript order to the syndicate to claim the life of anyone that didnt follow and finish their prescript as ordered... All of the prescript massage are are full of ambiguous words... Anyone who received the massage has to interpret it anyway they could(out of the box) some massage are straight forward which make common folk that received it hesitant to do it which cost them their live... All of the massage prescript gave are all entangled and connected with one another... Example...
(WARNING ITS EXTREMELY GRUESOME)
To : *****, after 3 AM of second day of the 6th month this year, drive on the nearest highway for 3 hours at 80km/h speed, if you see someone wearing red hat and blue shirt on the middle of the road accelerate to 112km/h and paint the highway with their's color.
To : *********, come to the nearest highway after 3 AM of second day of sixth month this year while wearing red hat and blue shirt then stay at each of the highway line for 1 hours each until 7 AM, if you see any cars missed you throw a bag of nails on the previous line you stayed...
Note* actual prescript in the lore are mostly shorter and less elaborate rather than the example above.
This song is basically theme of being trapped in a terrible system and unable to do anything about it
9:30
Came from Lobotomy Corporation and went to Limbus Company 😎✊
(For context. The prequel and the sequel to Library of Ruina respectively.)
Jokes aside, I don't know, it's weird. Project Moon games and their music are kind of "their own thing", similar to Touhou in that regard, where you just randomly stumble upon it and may or may not fall into a rabbit hole, or you get dragged by someone who's already in there (and then you never leave and it melds into your life haha).
All Yan needs is a big hug..
gone angels next?
From Halo, to Lobotomy corp, and finally Arknight. I am still down to visit more good hidden gems such as Lybrary of Ruina
But beware..
The difficulty spike is vertical.
If i Had to say what types of games LOR players play, Strategy and RPGs that focus on really dark stories would first come to mind.
In my case Darkest dungeon was a big connecting point for me cause i liked the grim aspects and turn based strategy (Ignoring of course that i played all of Lobotomy corporation prior)
As for where after. if not Limbus company, (Which im sure you'll also get song requests for because they Slap.) I personally went into FF14. so i guess story and RPG is a good baseline for Ruina players?? iunno i'd need other peoples opinions on that.Whiiich i'll now just check comments n see lmao.
Also yeah getting into this series is a terminal condition. i started L Corp about 3 years ago and i still wont shut up about all of project moon's games lmao.
And it complete normal drop some sanity in Mili song
9 mm pacifier means a gun
I know, that's why I said it's gruesome..
Do From a place of love next!!!
Yes, Library of ruina is really unique, there's nothing quite like it. Same devs recently released gacha-game named Limbus Company, which inherited many ideas from LoR, but for now there's little to no content.
If you enjoyed Children of The City I recommend you l WHAT ROBOTS NEED which is also by MIli but under AWAAWA which is apparently like a seperate group for their more experimental stuff. A word of warning, the music video is rather NSFW
Fun game. Yea.
Finally! "hype"
I hope Jessie covers Between two worlds from limbus company
If you’re liking the mili stuff from library of ruina might I recommend “Salt, pepper, birds, and the thought police”. That’s my favorite song in the game and has the biggest dissonance between lyrics and tone of music. That might call for some lyrical analysis.
My favorite part of the song is where mili doxes my router number
That moment when you can't go home before saying the value of e
I hope you can react to Between two worlds by mili next! :)
Tickling ear worm ost
Freedom Units! Jesse's Based.
Someone please reccomend gone angels next.
We moved on to Limbus Company
I am once again asking you to keep Honkai Impact's cinematics in mind if you find your react queue is empty. Honkai impact has some of the best compositions cinematics-wise and song-wise. I guarantee you won't regret having reacted to them. What's more, there are a very large portion of honkai players and fans that love watching others react to these cinematics.
I'll leave one such cinematic below, there are many of these cinematics and they only grow in quality.
Honkai Impact - Will of the Herrscher
Mili is a band, not a person!
Fnaf, guilty gear
Mili is a band, not the singer.
I honestly don't play anything else remotely like this ^^