This rhythm game moment in a nutshell. -Love the song -Love the callbacks -Love the chime sounds to press -Hate the volume of the chime sounds to press -Hate the camera to see the chimes -Because of it, hate the instakill -That last chime
They brought it back in the ff14 neir raid. Good ol PTSD , forgetting to hit that very last note just to start allllll the way over from the start of the song.
Honestly, the camera is just there to screw with you. It's a proper rhythm game, you don't need to see the chimes, you just have to hear them and follow the rhythm. But yes, screw that last chime.
It's not even archaic Japanese.The lyricist(s) purposely took out particles and messed with word order to make it hard to understand. So it ends up being more like an evocative word salad i.e. me writing white flower, red sunset, ripped gloves
Your wee 'confused af' faces were adorable! Haha! I totally get why you'd feel like that with absolutely no context. This song plays during the absolute final battle in the final ending of Drakengard 3, which is a rhythm game (a callback to the final battle of the final ending of Drakengard 1) ... you're essentially fighting six different people, hence the weird transitions you hear throughout. Kuroi Uta is the main theme of the main character our of the six. This is all I can say without bringing in spoilers, but you should watch the actual fight itself. It's weird but wonderful and beautiful at the same time. ^u^
Was going to say as above. The layering here is super strange without context. With video it makes much more sense since the action is literally in rhythm to the song. Still really really cool to see you digest this one song which is attempting to encapsulate 6 different characters. For reference Silence is mine is a great one from Drakengard 3 that doesn't require context like this. Just a cool song.
@@MarcoMeatball If you thought that was crazy, you should watch the final battle for Drakengard 1 (Ending E) ... that's the ending that actually leads into the Nier series. The song in that is called 'Thirtheenth Chapter - Closing' I believe! Definitely another 'wtf song'~ ^u^
@@cathyloumedia I vouce for this reaction to happen. I wanna know your reactions to that horrible yet lovely music of Drakengard 1. Side note, as a toddler, and barely 5 years old. My many of the 6 uncle's use to come around my bedroom onto my PS2 and played Drakengard, their shocked and unspoken words and gasping and jaw downed jaws... I remember when, spoilers but confusing spoilers that you won't understand but when one of my uncle saw the huge, chloroform giant fly, man eating babies, he muttered out the word, "whaat duuh fuuck...?"
I feel like you may know by now, but Yoko Taro is lovingly known as a bit of troll in his games, which he is lovingly hated and admired for. This boss is one of the reasons why
People need to stop with this "Yoko Taro is"-garbage. He is NOT the only one who makes the games. He is NOT the one who designs the battles and he is NOT the one who writes the stories alone. This is a whole team of brilliant and crazy people.
Your confusion was absolutely priceless! Believe me, many of us Drakengard players were also confused at the beginning. I hope a lot of Drakengard players find this video so they can get traumatized again🤣☕
Love the genuine reaction from you. To me, the xylophone sounds like rain and the bass remind me on a heartbeat. The beginning of the song as well as the end both have a lamentable quality to me, as if the character is lamenting to having to deal with existing itself but also lamenting that the existence must end. The voice sings until the very last heartbeat struggling to persist or get a message across, as the last droplets of rain settle. The droplets, while a bit sad also sound peaceful unlike the rest of the piece.
So, as you noticed, this contains the piece of 'Kuroi Uta', as this is essentially a reprisal of six different characters' themes/motifs in a relevant moment in the game. ... ... To put things in perspective, this also happens to be the moment in the game where the soundtrack is the boss. Yeah, Yoko Taro is crazy (But we love him). As you only heard one of the six relevant songs, it likely felt either fresher or weaker for you.
@@MarcoMeatball the other themes from which this song is based r pretty banger too (Kuroi uta sort of being Zero’s, the other themes are conveniently labeled “One’s Song,” “Two’s Song,” etc up to Five) Although square Enix seems to be deleting many of the videos of them off TH-cam… I’ve also heard that in the final boss fight, each sister/girl doesn’t necessarily sing their respective song, i.e. some of them sing a different sister’s theme
Every movement of the song represents a different goddess. I love this song so much :D Seeing this in game will probably leave you just as confused, but it is beautiful to see none the less.
I would love to see your reaction to "This Silence is Mine". The singer Chihiro Onitsuka, wrote the lyrics, and she wrote it in 10 minutes because she believes the first thing that comes to mind is the best version. The credits for the song say she composed the song herself with Okabe being the arranger.
My favorite detail in this song is the ending. When it plays, the final boss, your goal is to neutralize and stop the song. So, the ending fades out and plays slower and slower. To the point that the final note of the melodic phrase doesn't actually resolve. It stops just before it can. And while that's a success, the context of the story manages to turn it into an utter gut-punch, emotionally.
I listened to this song for the first time back when i was 17. It was the first song that I transcribed by ear. For me, this piece is one (if not the most) important music in my entire life (next to a song called "Egregori" from this game): I started my Composer career at University when I was 18 (im still a student), made a lot of friends & beautiful memories, all from this single song. As I wrote in a deleted video from another channel, I can't describe how grateful and the amount of respect that I have for the Monaca Team
"That was the most intense seven minutes of my life." Now, fail about 90 times before needing to completely restart each time and you've got what it feels like to "fight" the boss this song is accompanied by.
I'd like to give you some context to understand this song completely. "The Final Song" is the song that plays in the final battle of D3's ending E, one of the multiple ending of the game. It's a rhythm game-style battle, you basically have to follow the music and "counter attack" the music itself following its rhythm. There is no life bar for the boss, you have to go through the full song without missing a single note and, if you do, you start from the very beginning. It's one of the most difficult boss battles in the entire game history and since it is so music-related I raccomend you to watch a gameplay of it. The final boss is basically a big dancing statue made of the 6 female protagonists of the game, called "Intoners". Every major change in the song, usually following the non-singing parts, corresponds to one Intoner. They all have very different personalities but share the same origin. This translates in a very chaotic song as you said, since every major part is very different from the others, but there is like a common theme throughout the entire song. Loved your confused looks while listening 🤣 Best regards :)
@@MarcoMeatball it also heavily pays homage to the final boss/song of drakengard 1 which i reccomend you check out whether you decide to make a video on it or not. That one is a lot more haunting and probably just as confusing. The boss/song is also rhythm based and is the definition of chaotic
@@MarcoMeatball Drakengard 1 had an even more insane version of it. In Drakengard 3, you only need to press ONE button. In 1, you needed two. In 3, the music comes at you at a fairly normal pace and there is background music that it syncs up with. In Drakengard 1, there is only the tolling of bells and you MAKE the music by canceling each attack. To make it even worse, there is a 12 second segement where the game throws 58 tones at you. That's over 200 BPM.
@@MarcoMeatball And what is perhaps one of the hardest (Or at least with the most consequence) parts is the final note in the song you have to hit is after the screen fades to black so you cant see the visual indicator to hit the final note so ya kinda have to guess it and of course if you miss it you start over (Doesnt help with how long the song is and with the camera zooming wayyyy in and wayyy out throughout)
@@cajunseasoning1846 it's not just a homage too, as The Flower is more than likely connected to The Watchers. Maybe even one of the Ways to create Watchers. So Zero is essentially becoming a Watcher, probably even a Queen Watcher too, and was just stopped shortly before full convertion by Mikhail. It actually makes sense in DrakenNierverse, as corruption is common in it, and Watchers actually being corrupted Humans reprogrammed to hate Humanity isn't farfetched at all.
Just seeing your face in confusion to phase changes was so hilarious. Huge spoilers for the game but since we're here already. This song is essentially the last "boss fight" from the game, yes the song itself IS the fight. It's perhaps one of the more infamous moments in gaming that left a lot of people with ptsd after it because at the very last minute the game turns from being an action game into an absolutely BRUTAL rhythm game that tries to mess with you as hard as you can practically making one of the easier ways to finish it to just blindfold yourself and follow the rhythm of the music not relying on the visuals at all. Of course as the culmination of the game, and the series it has so much meaning and lore and symbolism and everything attached to it that it's crazy. But I'm sure some Yoko Taro historian could explain it better than myself as I'm more of a simple enjoyer of his works.
I didn't play the game, but watched a full playthrough. And each time I here this song, I'm remembered of the final dialogue of the game. And it breaks me. Each. Time.
The song that is one of the most punishing examples of how yoko taro will just genre-shift your gameplay because its more interesting this way. Fight the final boss? Nah, fight the final *theme*.As a rhythm game. The boss is just backdrop.
This song represents the culination of the lives of a person that existed as 6 different people and lived 2 lives their self. The different parts of their lives and personalities, everything that they were and represented all coming down to a beautiful and tragic ending in the most magnificent and odd and wonderful way possible. It's beautiful, it's powerful, it's tragic, chaotic. This is one of the greatest tracks in all of Nier and Drakengard.
Ah yes the true final song, we're the "final song" sounded like a sad ending, this one tells otherwise, that she won despite the costs, and she can finally be happy
Intentionally disharmonious, rough transitions, straggly, influences from different across the world, wierd tempo changes, uncanny yet dreamy. Unmistakably Keiichi Okabe.
I get it. We all do. The reason that smile just plastered itself on your face. It belonged there because of the beauty, & it gets wiped away because of the tragedy & sheer power of the composition.
So glad you reacted to this. I don't know what I was expecting but this was very entertaining! It's chaotic, it's confusing, but it's so beautiful and intense. And if you've played DoD1, hearing those bells at the start is PTSD triggering. I mentioned in my original request for this track to also check out Chapter XIII Closing from Drakengard 1, I think you can probably do a lot reacting to that knowing it's in the same story universe. I think a solid idea for you would be to have Blind Reactions and then have a "Reprise" series where you react to it with context! Many games put a lot of effort into their OST design, DoD/Nier perhaps being at the very top of that list alongside the Ar Tonelico series, where the music is absolutely integral to the experience. FFXIV as you know as a player puts a similar amount of effort into marrying the OST with the context of the scenes, and it really elevates the whole experience (though it does stand on its own merits as you assert!). Anywho, looking forward to more from you!
So here's something a lot of people don't know. There's 6 people total including the main character and without much spoilers you see how the songs somehow felt different, yet they connected? Well 5 of them have their own songs with different lyrics when you fight them individually and you feel like they're short and incomplete. Now when you get to the final fight all of their songs or "verses" along with the main character's come together to complete the song that has been broken up to each individual. Truly a masterpiece and will always be my favorite.
Ok love that people mention it being the rhythm game of a final boss but more behind the story. ZERO main badass potty mouth queen, is off to kill/re-absorb her 5 other sisters that were spilt from her. The people of the land know them as goddesses that use music as a form of combat besides their weapons. Each sister including zero sing each part. Starting with Zero being the more familiar understanding of Japanese and then goes to 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and Zero again at the last lines. And that slowing down portion is sad because it's her farewell after finally taking back her sisters while being fully taken by basically the world most asshole version of poison (end the world level) and doing what she believes is saving the world and saying goodbye to her friend dragon that she's basically re raised since he reincarnated to a child like state again and he's grown with you as you battled each sister and taken each form of them back. To finally having all six turn into a hauntingly beautiful but destructive flower due to zero's poison (flower that settled on her eye) and only the dragon friend is powerful enough now to stop them.
Great reaction... now this may be know as the final song... however is the second to last... the actual last song of the game is "this silence is mine" where the game and zeros journey actually ends... i see much people have explained the context of the song but the actual explanation is all spoiler filled and to be totally understand you need to know most of the extra media surrounding the game... well ill put the spoilers down bellow this post to explain the context of the song... here comes the wall of text... Spoilers: the last song is indeed a fight against all intoners against mikhail (the dragon) and thats why the gameplay changes, however to be exact in this fight youre actually fighting the flower while zero is trying to contain the flower power to keep it from spreading again as it happened before with zero and the sisters... In truth the intoners as they are showed in game didnt existed thats why theyre all a lie that zero could not accept in the end (in a manga its explained how they tried to live together but finally it didnt worked), the origin of the intoner sisters is interesting but sad, they were a group of young rebels that tried to free the people from the land lords, however they failed and died in really poor conditions in a plaza alongside zero who was just a murder (in the end of her life zero killed just to survive almost as an animal, she killed entire families just to steal food for the day), so in the end of zero life she was the last survivor of the 6 girls (the last girl alive was going to be burned alive alongside the other 5 corpses... to which zero complained to herself because it was starting to rain and it was going to be harder for her to burn)... Now as what the intoner sisters are actually... when zero was dying at her last moment she saw a flower thay forcefully revived her, however at that point she was tired of everything and just wanted to die, because she came to terms with the fact that the whole world just tried to kill her and there was just nothing for her so she just wanted to die... so she tried to rip the flower out of her, however the flower didnt liked that and what it did was split zeros power and past experiences into the 5 corpses around her, so each sister is a mix of the original girl and some portion of zero past (five is zeros desires to experience things and is cosumed by greed, four is zeros will to be just/pure and is consumed by her inferiority complex, three is zeros will to know and was consumed by obsesion, two is zeros will to be loved and gets consumed by grieve and one is zeros will to know things but she is not actually consumed by anything as she keep the power of the flower at bay by secluding herself) this resulted in zero not having enough power to end herself because to do it she had to kill all of her sisters and to make it worst the flower would keep making the sisters stronger and taking away her sanity (each sister has a trait that keep increasing without they being able to control eventually in five case would be desire manifested in her growing breast, four case it would be the desire to be pure and her growing nails, three is her knowledge and her growing hair, two is her need to be loved and her growing physical strenght and in one case is the desire to protect and the growing sharpness of her senses)... in turn zero keep getting duller and numb as time passed in the end she said that she was basically a walking corpse and thats why she needed to end her sisters as fast as she could.
Oh this was very interesting to watch, I've been with this series for a long time so I've been reminded on how chaotic this actually sounds out of context, like many commenters pointed out this plays at the absolute end of the game, and is followed by a rhythm boss battle where you have to restart if you get hit once However I'd also like to add a couple of things that make this boss fight extra nighmarish See the Drakengard/NieR are notorious for having framerate issues and lag in almost every game(it was the case up until Automata) So Imagine having to play a Rhythm game where it lags a lot and you die in one hit, and the worst part is that towards the end the game blacks out the screen for some dialogue BUT you're still expected to be on rhythm,meaning you could die during the final cutscene of the game
The gameplay was fine, it’s the cutscenes that make the PS3 poop itself. On actual hardware I had no frame drops during the sections where you’re playing the game, but in the cutscenes the game would frequently drop frames.
I'm currently playing through it and while the music is amazing and the gameplay serviceable (very repetitive though) the story itself is............uh, yeah. You literally can't go 1 minute without hearing a sex joke. I'm still only in Route B, so still got a ways to go. I don't think Yoko Taro is interested in remaking it though, especially with the more serious direction Nier:Automata took overall + Replicant Remastermake reinforcing that mindset.
Your facial expressions alone made this video worth it haha. Really confusing by itself out of context, still cool to listen to though. I love catching the tempo changes since in the fight that kinda helps hehe. Since you’re on Drakengard 3 you might want to check out This Silence is Mine, which plays over the final credits
This song is such a trigger for many people. I would recommend you check out "Morning Light Hymnus" from Granblue Fantasy. That song would be right up your alley.
The soundtrack in DG 3 it is quite a trip. You don't need to play the game, but I recommend watching a playthrough, with the boss battles. You will not be bored. Granted you might not have time for that, since we love watching new people react to Yoko Taro's work.
Also if you ever get a chance to, you should definitely listen to Silence Is Mine, which is another song from Drakengard 3, which is sang by a woman who, from what I read, had suffered damages to her vocal cords or her throat and was hired specifically for that voice to sing it before she went to have surgery.
A thing I ABSOLUTELY love about Yoko Taro games and the choices made with the soundtrack I can only resume as "We won, at what cost". Drakengard and NieR are pretty much the opposites of what most games give us: The joy and thrill of overcoming the odds and rising even above the gods as human beings. It feels like a hollow victory. Those games shows that, even if the ending appears to be a happy one, it is just a momentary peace, that in a not so distance future everything will be doomed, but that was a choice the characters made along the way and I can only describe as "human" choices. It's refreshing seeing games not ending in a perfect good ending, nor a bitter sweet or bad ending as a what if scenarios. A long time ago, I stumbled at some interviews of Yoko Taro explaining his mentality about the Drakengard and NieR games. About Drakengard, he says that he noticed how many games graded you as you kill hundreds of thousands of creatures in a gloating manner, and only an insane person would enjoy such a thing, so he created Cain, the protagonist of the first game, to be an insane person who loves to murder anyone in his path. With NieR, he was influenced by the 9/11 and the War on Terror and the philosophy he took from them was that people will commit the greatests atrocities if they believe are in the right.
beautiful piece that still traumatized me to this day, I might have beaten malenia in elden ring but she's nowhere near that single note during the black screen, screw you yoko taro
I love that you're reacting to the songs of this game! It's one of my favourites, I was so close to 100% and 3 trophies away from the platinum but I don't think I'll ever get it because of the final boss. I've tried many times and I just can't do it perfectly but I for some reason still love this song 😅
I am really happy right now to see someone who enjoys the NieR OST as much as i do! What gets me every time in the final song is the missing note at the end. I really like your content and hope to listen to even more great tracks. If im already talking about tracks, here would be my suggestion for tracks to listen to: Monster hunter World: Fatalis theme Rotten Veil theme Professor Layton: Basically all Live OSTs (Layton has a special place in my heart) Ace Combat Assault horizon: Rebirth Inferno
I loved to see your reactions LOL! I enjoyed it throughly. Some other songs I think would be a nice check would be “fleeting words” and “shadowlord’s castle” (not to be confused with shadowlord) from nier replicant. Really beautiful pieces. Again thank you again for your wonderful content and especially the rate at which you are able to create these AMAZING videos! :>
Also the song Daimon's 2nd form from Dragons dogma is actually the secret second phase of the bossfight where the normal theme is the song from the other comment "Coils of Light" just thought i should add that incase you'd ever think of doing them, and also because of the two the second has more opera elements to it, though i just personally love them and would like to see your reaction! love this channel and your god shattering star review
Funnily enough I just watched the final battle for this game on a random recommendation on TH-cam the night before you posted this ^^ The song that plays after this though leading into the credits hit me pretty hard, I'd like to see your reaction to that too if it interests you ! Drakengard 3 - This Silence is Mine Whether you react to it on here or not it's a great song :)
@@MarcoMeatball nice ! Was the first time I heard silence is mine. I think what you said about the breathing being included in the singing really helped boost my enjoying that one :) I used to not understand why they'd include the breathing, I thought it took away from the songs to hear that before you said it's to help with the emotion and such in one of your other videos :) I appreciate your perspective on these things :D
Drakengard 3 is a crazy yet somewhat brilliant game for having some of the most unique characters and plot lines. That vibe of insanity rubs off on the music, and that’s what makes it sound so good.
FYI This whole boss fight was pretty much a reimagining of Drakengard 1's final boss; Kuroi Uta is a very human and hopeful song, but Chaotic Song is a very inhumane and bleak tolling of Humanity...
If you think this song was traumatizing, you should see the Drakengard 1 final boss! Unlike this one, which is a rhythm game, Drakengard 1’s final boss is basically ‘hey how about you memorize the button inputs and hope your thumbs don’t fall off lmao’.
You literally listened to a rolercoaster xP With the visuals its really giving another deep vibe. ts amazing how someone who doesnt know anything of the game gets these vibes. I love Keiichi Okabe
Ah, this reminds me of how mind-blown I was the first time I heard this song TToTT it’s indeed a super wild ride lol! Fitting of a hack n’ slash with a rhythm game as the final boss….
I know it's an interpretation unrelated to the actual story and translation, but this song has always represented the phases of a human's life to me. Beginning slow and delicate in infancy, building vigor and force through adolescence and adulthood, steeling in tone to do what you have to do, then the rapid decline of old age, and finally slow death.
I'd absolutely love to see your reaction to either You May Call Me Father or The Greatest Jubilee from Bayonetta. They're fantastic pieces that I'd love to hear the opinions of someone with an insight in the world of music.
I see in the previous comments that you've seen the final battle itself and I must say the sound effects during the battle feel like they really add to the song, in my opinon ^^
@@addzay3135 Right?! I really hope that this series picks up enough traction so that the overlords at Square Enix are merciful and open the doors to remakes and additional content for all of the games! Including the Drakengard 3 DLC! Imagine the sisters, Caim, Angelus, and the whole crew remade for new platforms? Sign me up!
Honestly what hit me the most is towards the end of the song just as its about to close, Mikhail and zero talk and you already know how it ends but Mikhails thoughts gut-wrenched me.
I brought this up on the Kuroi Uta reaction, but please check out This Silence is Mine! If this song is the 'death', This Silence is Mine is the 'requiem'.
That was amazing!! I actually just started this game last night. The first time I heard this song I was felt like I was transported to another reality 😂
The short translation of this song is "All things must come to and end" that's it. It's the cycle of life and death. Most nier games ost are profound in meaing mostly related to occult and esoteric knowledge.
I’m not entirely sure how you do requests, but I’m wondering if you would talk about Maria & Draco, the opera from Final Fantasy VI. I’m wondering what tropes, motivic ideas and their uses, and patterns found in actual opera music would be found in the song. Side note: Thank you for the recent influx of game music analyzation, especially from the NieR/Drakengard series, as Keiichi Okabe is of my favorite composers in general
That final note still haunt me till this day,imagine play hack and slash like dynasty warrior but the final boss is rhythm game its so evil,and the sick part is the true final boss is the camera angle
New to the channel, probably a little older song, but since you background as a singer I think you might enjoy the song "The Beginning and the End" from the game Xenogears composed by Yasunori Mitsuda and is singed by The Great Voices of Bulgaria
This really has nothing to do with the song itself but one of my favorite memories with this series is watching one of my best friends play it on Twitch. One thing to keep in mind for Drakengard is that the final boss of 1 is a really hard out of nowhere rhythm game that turns the whole game on its head. I remember *very* distinctly my friend getting to the end boss of 3 and during the loading screen going "please dont be a bullshit rhythm game boss," and upon realizing the boss this song accompanies she paused, put down the conteoller, left the room but you could still hear through the microphone "ITS A BULLSHIT RHYTHM BOSS!" (3 is one of her favorite games ever so it was all in good fun but that was hilarious to me.)
the gameplay is rage inducing but the music is epic and when you finished the gameplay you feel happy but sad at the same time because it's time to say goodbye to the character that you play
I listened to the song so many times using the clip of the video game with sound-effects, they became part of the song. It's weird not hearing them in the audio version.
Only in Drakengard can your Final Boss to an RPG be The Final Song itself, as well be considered one of the most painful Final Bosses to ever be conceived... No exaggeration the Final Boss is a Rhythm Game to the beat of the song, and has a Lot of cheeky moments like the screen zooming in at one part making it very difficult to see the visual cues as well at the Very Very end of the song as the screen fades to black there's one last note played that can totally screw you if you put down your controller in celebration too early.
As a music enjoyer, the tempo variations gave me joy. As a gamer, they gave me despair.
Hahaha facts
whatever came from yoko taro. never hope anything happy on it. that's it
I mean, one of the lyrics is, literally, "I shall give you despair"
This song has traumatized millions, that's all you need to know
I can see that
Millions?
I don't think DoD3 sold that well.
@@HDcamel at least several hundred
@@HDcamel just exaggerating lol
@@HDcamel just checked, when it came out it sold around 115k, and by now around a million so my exaggeration was spot on
This rhythm game moment in a nutshell.
-Love the song
-Love the callbacks
-Love the chime sounds to press
-Hate the volume of the chime sounds to press
-Hate the camera to see the chimes
-Because of it, hate the instakill
-That last chime
They brought it back in the ff14 neir raid. Good ol PTSD , forgetting to hit that very last note just to start allllll the way over from the start of the song.
Honestly, the camera is just there to screw with you. It's a proper rhythm game, you don't need to see the chimes, you just have to hear them and follow the rhythm. But yes, screw that last chime.
the last chime!!!!!
@@atoli16wich raid?
@@puntitusYoRHa: Dark Apocalypse
Btw, unlike NieR, where the lyrics are Emi Evans' chaos language, these on drakengard 3 are actually archaic japanese and you can find the translation
Yet it's not really Japanese and hard to translate because of a lot of mistakes
It's not even archaic Japanese.The lyricist(s) purposely took out particles and messed with word order to make it hard to understand. So it ends up being more like an evocative word salad i.e. me writing
white flower,
red sunset,
ripped gloves
This might help you to understand this:
There are six singers, singing with one voice.
Each sings in turn, then they all sing together.
Your wee 'confused af' faces were adorable! Haha! I totally get why you'd feel like that with absolutely no context. This song plays during the absolute final battle in the final ending of Drakengard 3, which is a rhythm game (a callback to the final battle of the final ending of Drakengard 1) ... you're essentially fighting six different people, hence the weird transitions you hear throughout. Kuroi Uta is the main theme of the main character our of the six. This is all I can say without bringing in spoilers, but you should watch the actual fight itself. It's weird but wonderful and beautiful at the same time. ^u^
Just watched. Holy crap…
Was going to say as above. The layering here is super strange without context. With video it makes much more sense since the action is literally in rhythm to the song. Still really really cool to see you digest this one song which is attempting to encapsulate 6 different characters.
For reference Silence is mine is a great one from Drakengard 3 that doesn't require context like this. Just a cool song.
@@MarcoMeatball If you thought that was crazy, you should watch the final battle for Drakengard 1 (Ending E) ... that's the ending that actually leads into the Nier series. The song in that is called 'Thirtheenth Chapter - Closing' I believe! Definitely another 'wtf song'~ ^u^
@@MrDwwalle oh yes, this when i listen to the personal boss themes of each sister, they're like fragments of this one final song
@@cathyloumedia I vouce for this reaction to happen. I wanna know your reactions to that horrible yet lovely music of Drakengard 1.
Side note, as a toddler, and barely 5 years old. My many of the 6 uncle's use to come around my bedroom onto my PS2 and played Drakengard, their shocked and unspoken words and gasping and jaw downed jaws... I remember when, spoilers but confusing spoilers that you won't understand but when one of my uncle saw the huge, chloroform giant fly, man eating babies, he muttered out the word, "whaat duuh fuuck...?"
I feel like you may know by now, but Yoko Taro is lovingly known as a bit of troll in his games, which he is lovingly hated and admired for. This boss is one of the reasons why
He’s definitely a love able troll 🤣
There was one part of the NieR raid in XIV he wanted to be an insta wipe if even 1 of the alliance members died. Luckily it didn't go through.
sounds like he'd have fun making game with Hideo Kojima.
@@mikigirl18 I assume it was the final boss of the last one with that DAMN MUSIC MECHANIC. I had freaking PTSD when I saw that.
People need to stop with this "Yoko Taro is"-garbage. He is NOT the only one who makes the games. He is NOT the one who designs the battles and he is NOT the one who writes the stories alone. This is a whole team of brilliant and crazy people.
Your confusion was absolutely priceless! Believe me, many of us Drakengard players were also confused at the beginning. I hope a lot of Drakengard players find this video so they can get traumatized again🤣☕
Hahaha hahaha I’m so
Sorry 🤣🤣🤣😏
Love the genuine reaction from you. To me, the xylophone sounds like rain and the bass remind me on a heartbeat. The beginning of the song as well as the end both have a lamentable quality to me, as if the character is lamenting to having to deal with existing itself but also lamenting that the existence must end. The voice sings until the very last heartbeat struggling to persist or get a message across, as the last droplets of rain settle. The droplets, while a bit sad also sound peaceful unlike the rest of the piece.
Beautiful!!!!!! I think they’re bells at the beginning btw. I said the wrong thing.
Honestly this is beautiful because if you know the context of what is actually happening and the theme of the game, it truly fits.
I think what makes this all the more accurate is how STRETCHED out that last vocal is done too.
So, as you noticed, this contains the piece of 'Kuroi Uta', as this is essentially a reprisal of six different characters' themes/motifs in a relevant moment in the game.
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... To put things in perspective, this also happens to be the moment in the game where the soundtrack is the boss.
Yeah, Yoko Taro is crazy (But we love him). As you only heard one of the six relevant songs, it likely felt either fresher or weaker for you.
So crazy
Yoko Taro is not only on crack, he is also a genius. Also he is such a dork that we love him.
@@MarcoMeatball the other themes from which this song is based r pretty banger too
(Kuroi uta sort of being Zero’s, the other themes are conveniently labeled “One’s Song,” “Two’s Song,” etc up to Five)
Although square Enix seems to be deleting many of the videos of them off TH-cam…
I’ve also heard that in the final boss fight, each sister/girl doesn’t necessarily sing their respective song, i.e. some of them sing a different sister’s theme
Every movement of the song represents a different goddess. I love this song so much :D
Seeing this in game will probably leave you just as confused, but it is beautiful to see none the less.
It is beautiful for sure
Yeah i saw the gameplay and was confused as f. the only thing i understood (OH THEY LOOK LIKE THE CHARACTERS!) btw i haven't played the game.
I swear I can still hear those damn rings
the infamous "pshpshpshpshpshpshpsh_psh" in the last phase
SO TRUEEEEEEEEEEE LMAO
I would love to see your reaction to "This Silence is Mine". The singer Chihiro Onitsuka, wrote the lyrics, and she wrote it in 10 minutes because she believes the first thing that comes to mind is the best version. The credits for the song say she composed the song herself with Okabe being the arranger.
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My favorite detail in this song is the ending.
When it plays, the final boss, your goal is to neutralize and stop the song.
So, the ending fades out and plays slower and slower. To the point that the final note of the melodic phrase doesn't actually resolve.
It stops just before it can.
And while that's a success, the context of the story manages to turn it into an utter gut-punch, emotionally.
I listened to this song for the first time back when i was 17. It was the first song that I transcribed by ear.
For me, this piece is one (if not the most) important music in my entire life (next to a song called "Egregori" from this game): I started my Composer career at University when I was 18 (im still a student), made a lot of friends & beautiful memories, all from this single song.
As I wrote in a deleted video from another channel, I can't describe how grateful and the amount of respect that I have for the Monaca Team
"That was the most intense seven minutes of my life." Now, fail about 90 times before needing to completely restart each time and you've got what it feels like to "fight" the boss this song is accompanied by.
I'd like to give you some context to understand this song completely. "The Final Song" is the song that plays in the final battle of D3's ending E, one of the multiple ending of the game. It's a rhythm game-style battle, you basically have to follow the music and "counter attack" the music itself following its rhythm. There is no life bar for the boss, you have to go through the full song without missing a single note and, if you do, you start from the very beginning. It's one of the most difficult boss battles in the entire game history and since it is so music-related I raccomend you to watch a gameplay of it.
The final boss is basically a big dancing statue made of the 6 female protagonists of the game, called "Intoners". Every major change in the song, usually following the non-singing parts, corresponds to one Intoner. They all have very different personalities but share the same origin. This translates in a very chaotic song as you said, since every major part is very different from the others, but there is like a common theme throughout the entire song.
Loved your confused looks while listening 🤣
Best regards :)
I just watched. I can’t believe you have to RESTART
@@MarcoMeatball it also heavily pays homage to the final boss/song of drakengard 1 which i reccomend you check out whether you decide to make a video on it or not. That one is a lot more haunting and probably just as confusing. The boss/song is also rhythm based and is the definition of chaotic
@@MarcoMeatball Drakengard 1 had an even more insane version of it. In Drakengard 3, you only need to press ONE button. In 1, you needed two. In 3, the music comes at you at a fairly normal pace and there is background music that it syncs up with. In Drakengard 1, there is only the tolling of bells and you MAKE the music by canceling each attack.
To make it even worse, there is a 12 second segement where the game throws 58 tones at you. That's over 200 BPM.
@@MarcoMeatball And what is perhaps one of the hardest (Or at least with the most consequence) parts is the final note in the song you have to hit is after the screen fades to black so you cant see the visual indicator to hit the final note so ya kinda have to guess it and of course if you miss it you start over (Doesnt help with how long the song is and with the camera zooming wayyyy in and wayyy out throughout)
@@cajunseasoning1846 it's not just a homage too, as The Flower is more than likely connected to The Watchers. Maybe even one of the Ways to create Watchers. So Zero is essentially becoming a Watcher, probably even a Queen Watcher too, and was just stopped shortly before full convertion by Mikhail.
It actually makes sense in DrakenNierverse, as corruption is common in it, and Watchers actually being corrupted Humans reprogrammed to hate Humanity isn't farfetched at all.
Just seeing your face in confusion to phase changes was so hilarious.
Huge spoilers for the game but since we're here already.
This song is essentially the last "boss fight" from the game, yes the song itself IS the fight.
It's perhaps one of the more infamous moments in gaming that left a lot of people with ptsd after it because at the very last minute the game turns from being an action game into an absolutely BRUTAL rhythm game that tries to mess with you as hard as you can practically making one of the easier ways to finish it to just blindfold yourself and follow the rhythm of the music not relying on the visuals at all.
Of course as the culmination of the game, and the series it has so much meaning and lore and symbolism and everything attached to it that it's crazy.
But I'm sure some Yoko Taro historian could explain it better than myself as I'm more of a simple enjoyer of his works.
IMO The final boss wasn't the song, it was the freaking camera XD
I didn't play the game, but watched a full playthrough. And each time I here this song, I'm remembered of the final dialogue of the game.
And it breaks me. Each. Time.
The song that is one of the most punishing examples of how yoko taro will just genre-shift your gameplay because its more interesting this way. Fight the final boss? Nah, fight the final *theme*.As a rhythm game. The boss is just backdrop.
Most intense 7 minutes of your life indeed, my heart beat so fast when I battled through it... Along with the visuals, it's so "visceral".
This song represents the culination of the lives of a person that existed as 6 different people and lived 2 lives their self. The different parts of their lives and personalities, everything that they were and represented all coming down to a beautiful and tragic ending in the most magnificent and odd and wonderful way possible. It's beautiful, it's powerful, it's tragic, chaotic. This is one of the greatest tracks in all of Nier and Drakengard.
Drakengard has great music like Neir. The Next song i think you'd love is "This Silence is Mine" also from Drakengard 3. One of my personal faves
Ah yes the true final song, we're the "final song" sounded like a sad ending, this one tells otherwise, that she won despite the costs, and she can finally be happy
Each movement of the song is related to each one of the Intoners' theme. You should check the video of the gameplay of this song.
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@@MarcoMeatball It's crazy, isn't it?
That quiet, awed, confused "... What?" and loss for words in the aftermath is basically the Drakenier experience in a nutshell.
Intentionally disharmonious, rough transitions, straggly, influences from different across the world, wierd tempo changes, uncanny yet dreamy. Unmistakably Keiichi Okabe.
I get it. We all do. The reason that smile just plastered itself on your face. It belonged there because of the beauty, & it gets wiped away because of the tragedy & sheer power of the composition.
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So glad you reacted to this. I don't know what I was expecting but this was very entertaining! It's chaotic, it's confusing, but it's so beautiful and intense. And if you've played DoD1, hearing those bells at the start is PTSD triggering. I mentioned in my original request for this track to also check out Chapter XIII Closing from Drakengard 1, I think you can probably do a lot reacting to that knowing it's in the same story universe.
I think a solid idea for you would be to have Blind Reactions and then have a "Reprise" series where you react to it with context! Many games put a lot of effort into their OST design, DoD/Nier perhaps being at the very top of that list alongside the Ar Tonelico series, where the music is absolutely integral to the experience. FFXIV as you know as a player puts a similar amount of effort into marrying the OST with the context of the scenes, and it really elevates the whole experience (though it does stand on its own merits as you assert!).
Anywho, looking forward to more from you!
So here's something a lot of people don't know. There's 6 people total including the main character and without much spoilers you see how the songs somehow felt different, yet they connected? Well 5 of them have their own songs with different lyrics when you fight them individually and you feel like they're short and incomplete. Now when you get to the final fight all of their songs or "verses" along with the main character's come together to complete the song that has been broken up to each individual. Truly a masterpiece and will always be my favorite.
Ok love that people mention it being the rhythm game of a final boss but more behind the story. ZERO main badass potty mouth queen, is off to kill/re-absorb her 5 other sisters that were spilt from her. The people of the land know them as goddesses that use music as a form of combat besides their weapons. Each sister including zero sing each part. Starting with Zero being the more familiar understanding of Japanese and then goes to 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and Zero again at the last lines.
And that slowing down portion is sad because it's her farewell after finally taking back her sisters while being fully taken by basically the world most asshole version of poison (end the world level) and doing what she believes is saving the world and saying goodbye to her friend dragon that she's basically re raised since he reincarnated to a child like state again and he's grown with you as you battled each sister and taken each form of them back. To finally having all six turn into a hauntingly beautiful but destructive flower due to zero's poison (flower that settled on her eye) and only the dragon friend is powerful enough now to stop them.
Great reaction... now this may be know as the final song... however is the second to last... the actual last song of the game is "this silence is mine" where the game and zeros journey actually ends... i see much people have explained the context of the song but the actual explanation is all spoiler filled and to be totally understand you need to know most of the extra media surrounding the game... well ill put the spoilers down bellow this post to explain the context of the song... here comes the wall of text...
Spoilers: the last song is indeed a fight against all intoners against mikhail (the dragon) and thats why the gameplay changes, however to be exact in this fight youre actually fighting the flower while zero is trying to contain the flower power to keep it from spreading again as it happened before with zero and the sisters...
In truth the intoners as they are showed in game didnt existed thats why theyre all a lie that zero could not accept in the end (in a manga its explained how they tried to live together but finally it didnt worked), the origin of the intoner sisters is interesting but sad, they were a group of young rebels that tried to free the people from the land lords, however they failed and died in really poor conditions in a plaza alongside zero who was just a murder (in the end of her life zero killed just to survive almost as an animal, she killed entire families just to steal food for the day), so in the end of zero life she was the last survivor of the 6 girls (the last girl alive was going to be burned alive alongside the other 5 corpses... to which zero complained to herself because it was starting to rain and it was going to be harder for her to burn)...
Now as what the intoner sisters are actually... when zero was dying at her last moment she saw a flower thay forcefully revived her, however at that point she was tired of everything and just wanted to die, because she came to terms with the fact that the whole world just tried to kill her and there was just nothing for her so she just wanted to die... so she tried to rip the flower out of her, however the flower didnt liked that and what it did was split zeros power and past experiences into the 5 corpses around her, so each sister is a mix of the original girl and some portion of zero past (five is zeros desires to experience things and is cosumed by greed, four is zeros will to be just/pure and is consumed by her inferiority complex, three is zeros will to know and was consumed by obsesion, two is zeros will to be loved and gets consumed by grieve and one is zeros will to know things but she is not actually consumed by anything as she keep the power of the flower at bay by secluding herself) this resulted in zero not having enough power to end herself because to do it she had to kill all of her sisters and to make it worst the flower would keep making the sisters stronger and taking away her sanity (each sister has a trait that keep increasing without they being able to control eventually in five case would be desire manifested in her growing breast, four case it would be the desire to be pure and her growing nails, three is her knowledge and her growing hair, two is her need to be loved and her growing physical strenght and in one case is the desire to protect and the growing sharpness of her senses)... in turn zero keep getting duller and numb as time passed in the end she said that she was basically a walking corpse and thats why she needed to end her sisters as fast as she could.
Watching your confusion and subsequent stunlock is wonderful.
Oh this was very interesting to watch, I've been with this series for a long time so I've been reminded on how chaotic this actually sounds out of context, like many commenters pointed out this plays at the absolute end of the game, and is followed by a rhythm boss battle where you have to restart if you get hit once
However I'd also like to add a couple of things that make this boss fight extra nighmarish
See the Drakengard/NieR are notorious for having framerate issues and lag in almost every game(it was the case up until Automata) So Imagine having to play a Rhythm game where it lags a lot and you die in one hit, and the worst part is that towards the end the game blacks out the screen for some dialogue BUT you're still expected to be on rhythm,meaning you could die during the final cutscene of the game
The game needs a remake, it was badly done gameplay wise but story and ost the best.
The gameplay was fine, it’s the cutscenes that make the PS3 poop itself. On actual hardware I had no frame drops during the sections where you’re playing the game, but in the cutscenes the game would frequently drop frames.
@@SpikeVallen no.
Story was trash lol, it becomes decent after ending C, besides the edgy Zero and the cast sucks.
@@dontbothertoreply9755 yes.
I'm currently playing through it and while the music is amazing and the gameplay serviceable (very repetitive though) the story itself is............uh, yeah. You literally can't go 1 minute without hearing a sex joke. I'm still only in Route B, so still got a ways to go. I don't think Yoko Taro is interested in remaking it though, especially with the more serious direction Nier:Automata took overall + Replicant Remastermake reinforcing that mindset.
Your facial expressions alone made this video worth it haha. Really confusing by itself out of context, still cool to listen to though. I love catching the tempo changes since in the fight that kinda helps hehe. Since you’re on Drakengard 3 you might want to check out This Silence is Mine, which plays over the final credits
This song is such a trigger for many people.
I would recommend you check out "Morning Light Hymnus" from Granblue Fantasy. That song would be right up your alley.
Okay!
Loved watching this. Your genuine reaction mirrored mine when I first heard this blind!
The soundtrack in DG 3 it is quite a trip. You don't need to play the game, but I recommend watching a playthrough, with the boss battles. You will not be bored. Granted you might not have time for that, since we love watching new people react to Yoko Taro's work.
Also if you ever get a chance to, you should definitely listen to Silence Is Mine, which is another song from Drakengard 3, which is sang by a woman who, from what I read, had suffered damages to her vocal cords or her throat and was hired specifically for that voice to sing it before she went to have surgery.
Thank you so so much for this! I was really hoping you'd cover this particular song
This is a mix of all 6 entoners' themes, as they're amalgamated in a single, colossal, white flower, the one that Zero has on her eye
A thing I ABSOLUTELY love about Yoko Taro games and the choices made with the soundtrack I can only resume as "We won, at what cost".
Drakengard and NieR are pretty much the opposites of what most games give us: The joy and thrill of overcoming the odds and rising even above the gods as human beings. It feels like a hollow victory.
Those games shows that, even if the ending appears to be a happy one, it is just a momentary peace, that in a not so distance future everything will be doomed, but that was a choice the characters made along the way and I can only describe as "human" choices. It's refreshing seeing games not ending in a perfect good ending, nor a bitter sweet or bad ending as a what if scenarios.
A long time ago, I stumbled at some interviews of Yoko Taro explaining his mentality about the Drakengard and NieR games.
About Drakengard, he says that he noticed how many games graded you as you kill hundreds of thousands of creatures in a gloating manner, and only an insane person would enjoy such a thing, so he created Cain, the protagonist of the first game, to be an insane person who loves to murder anyone in his path.
With NieR, he was influenced by the 9/11 and the War on Terror and the philosophy he took from them was that people will commit the greatests atrocities if they believe are in the right.
beautiful piece that still traumatized me to this day, I might have beaten malenia in elden ring but she's nowhere near that single note during the black screen, screw you yoko taro
THANK YOU FOR REACTING TO THIS
I love that you're reacting to the songs of this game! It's one of my favourites, I was so close to 100% and 3 trophies away from the platinum but I don't think I'll ever get it because of the final boss. I've tried many times and I just can't do it perfectly but I for some reason still love this song 😅
I am really happy right now to see someone who enjoys the NieR OST as much as i do!
What gets me every time in the final song is the missing note at the end.
I really like your content and hope to listen to even more great tracks.
If im already talking about tracks, here would be my suggestion for tracks to listen to:
Monster hunter World:
Fatalis theme
Rotten Veil theme
Professor Layton:
Basically all Live OSTs (Layton has a special place in my heart)
Ace Combat Assault horizon:
Rebirth
Inferno
I loved to see your reactions LOL! I enjoyed it throughly. Some other songs I think would be a nice check would be “fleeting words” and “shadowlord’s castle” (not to be confused with shadowlord) from nier replicant. Really beautiful pieces. Again thank you again for your wonderful content and especially the rate at which you are able to create these AMAZING videos! :>
Però mi sto riprendendo un po’ 🤣 stavo andando velocissimo e finalmente ho trovato un ritmo che pensò che andrà bene per mia salute e mia sanità 🤣🤣🤣
@@MarcoMeatball 😂
The expressions on you face during the reaction were amazing. :D
Also the song Daimon's 2nd form from Dragons dogma is actually the secret second phase of the bossfight where the normal theme is the song from the other comment "Coils of Light" just thought i should add that incase you'd ever think of doing them, and also because of the two the second has more opera elements to it, though i just personally love them and would like to see your reaction! love this channel and your god shattering star review
Funnily enough I just watched the final battle for this game on a random recommendation on TH-cam the night before you posted this ^^
The song that plays after this though leading into the credits hit me pretty hard, I'd like to see your reaction to that too if it interests you !
Drakengard 3 - This Silence is Mine
Whether you react to it on here or not it's a great song :)
I plan to!
@@MarcoMeatball nice ! Was the first time I heard silence is mine.
I think what you said about the breathing being included in the singing really helped boost my enjoying that one :)
I used to not understand why they'd include the breathing, I thought it took away from the songs to hear that before you said it's to help with the emotion and such in one of your other videos :)
I appreciate your perspective on these things :D
This silence is mine is a must react i swear this song is so good. I highly suggest to check it out
In a week ;)
Kudos for the recognition on Kuroi Uta is the theme.... And for recognizing that this is the slow dying of an Angel.
Drakengard 3 is a crazy yet somewhat brilliant game for having some of the most unique characters and plot lines.
That vibe of insanity rubs off on the music, and that’s what makes it sound so good.
Oh, this "boss fight" was a pure hell. Dat last two troll notes on black screen when you thought that this is the end... xD
Eir Aoi`s performance is just soooooooo good.
She also sang "Sanbika" in Kill la Kill, "Ignite" in Sword Art Online: GGO and more
If you’re looking at the screen during this fight, you’re doing it wrong. Close your eyes and count the beat
FYI This whole boss fight was pretty much a reimagining of Drakengard 1's final boss; Kuroi Uta is a very human and hopeful song, but Chaotic Song is a very inhumane and bleak tolling of Humanity...
If you think this song was traumatizing, you should see the Drakengard 1 final boss!
Unlike this one, which is a rhythm game, Drakengard 1’s final boss is basically ‘hey how about you memorize the button inputs and hope your thumbs don’t fall off lmao’.
You literally listened to a rolercoaster xP
With the visuals its really giving another deep vibe.
ts amazing how someone who doesnt know anything of the game gets these vibes.
I love Keiichi Okabe
Ah, this reminds me of how mind-blown I was the first time I heard this song TToTT it’s indeed a super wild ride lol! Fitting of a hack n’ slash with a rhythm game as the final boss….
Your facial reactions to this song are wonderful. I had those reactions when watching the boss fight this song is in.
Hahahah your confused face at the beginning when kuroi uta plays 👌
Mikhail crying.....
Aside from enjoying your interpretations to the music, I just really like your voice and facial reactions. They’re hella cute 🥰
Thank you!!! I accept your compliments!
Can you react to Hills of Radiant Winds? I'm playing original Nier and the music is always inside my head. Great video as always!
8:30 You just listened to a swan song. Just one. Last. Flight.
I know it's an interpretation unrelated to the actual story and translation, but this song has always represented the phases of a human's life to me. Beginning slow and delicate in infancy, building vigor and force through adolescence and adulthood, steeling in tone to do what you have to do, then the rapid decline of old age, and finally slow death.
No video game music has ever made me emotional as this track.
I'd absolutely love to see your reaction to either You May Call Me Father or The Greatest Jubilee from Bayonetta. They're fantastic pieces that I'd love to hear the opinions of someone with an insight in the world of music.
Greatest jubilee is coming up a lot I’ve made a mental note
I will admit, the end had me crying as I knew what happened. Dammit now I need to play it again. It's all so beautiful and sad.
you need to see the dancing ladies in the sky...
I did…woah haha
Out of context this sounds insane
With context this still sounds insane
as a nier fan, listening to this for the first time immediately reminded me of the original nier's soundtrack.
God this song man, Yoko Taro games always have these strange but absolutely amazing musical choices.
Not a final battle, but a final sacrifice, where the main character gives her life to put an end to the source of the worlds imminent destruction.
I see in the previous comments that you've seen the final battle itself and I must say the sound effects during the battle feel like they really add to the song, in my opinon ^^
They definitely do! I enjoyed seeing them in context.
so thats how the later half of the song sounds like
Can I assume 'This Silence is Mine' will be next to finish the Drakenguard set
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haha this was the song that got me into NieR yet i still haven't played D3 XD
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It is about $20 on Amazon for the ps3. The dlc that adds to some characters is $30 bucks in addition though
This song and its micro transitions reminds me of "Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost" album, also these guitars and rhythms
Drakengard 3s soundtrack is amazing. A lot of the character depth and lore behind the game is found in novels and the original drakengard game.
I like how at the start he's like "OK, I get what this song is." then slowly transitions into "scratch that, I know nothing."
Yes! Finally someone listens to it again! Praise the Black Flower!
It won’t be long until every person on the planet assimilates into the DrakenNier fandom. The time has come lol
@@anonymousanomaly7276 we need remaster of all the drakenier series
@@addzay3135 Right?! I really hope that this series picks up enough traction so that the overlords at Square Enix are merciful and open the doors to remakes and additional content for all of the games!
Including the Drakengard 3 DLC! Imagine the sisters, Caim, Angelus, and the whole crew remade for new platforms?
Sign me up!
@@addzay3135 I wonder if they would remake all of the soundtracks…like with the rebirth/remake of NieR…
@@anonymousanomaly7276 they deserved a total reboot it could be awesome
Wait till you hear growing wings/Exhausted
Honestly what hit me the most is towards the end of the song just as its about to close, Mikhail and zero talk and you already know how it ends but Mikhails thoughts gut-wrenched me.
I brought this up on the Kuroi Uta reaction, but please check out This Silence is Mine! If this song is the 'death', This Silence is Mine is the 'requiem'.
That was amazing!! I actually just started this game last night. The first time I heard this song I was felt like I was transported to another reality 😂
Probably in my Top 5 Favorite Video Game Songs, near Automata's "Dependant Weakling" which is easily in my Top 3 Favorite Songs of All Time...
Yes. This song is a powerful emotional roller coaster.
The short translation of this song is "All things must come to and end" that's it. It's the cycle of life and death. Most nier games ost are profound in meaing mostly related to occult and esoteric knowledge.
yoko taro doing yoko taro things
I’m not entirely sure how you do requests, but I’m wondering if you would talk about Maria & Draco, the opera from Final Fantasy VI. I’m wondering what tropes, motivic ideas and their uses, and patterns found in actual opera music would be found in the song.
Side note: Thank you for the recent influx of game music analyzation, especially from the NieR/Drakengard series, as Keiichi Okabe is of my favorite composers in general
That’s a great idea. I wasn’t sure how to approach Maria and draco.
That final note still haunt me till this day,imagine play hack and slash like dynasty warrior but the final boss is rhythm game its so evil,and the sick part is the true final boss is the camera angle
New to the channel, probably a little older song, but since you background as a singer I think you might enjoy the song "The Beginning and the End" from the game Xenogears composed by Yasunori Mitsuda and is singed by The Great Voices of Bulgaria
This really has nothing to do with the song itself but one of my favorite memories with this series is watching one of my best friends play it on Twitch. One thing to keep in mind for Drakengard is that the final boss of 1 is a really hard out of nowhere rhythm game that turns the whole game on its head.
I remember *very* distinctly my friend getting to the end boss of 3 and during the loading screen going "please dont be a bullshit rhythm game boss," and upon realizing the boss this song accompanies she paused, put down the conteoller, left the room but you could still hear through the microphone "ITS A BULLSHIT RHYTHM BOSS!"
(3 is one of her favorite games ever so it was all in good fun but that was hilarious to me.)
Oh boy, that final song was a true nightmare, five sisters, one dragon, a lot of GAME OVER screens.
the gameplay is rage inducing but the music is epic and when you finished the gameplay you feel happy but sad at the same time because it's time to say goodbye to the character that you play
I listened to the song so many times using the clip of the video game with sound-effects, they became part of the song. It's weird not hearing them in the audio version.
The final boss of final boss soundtracks that are boss fights in and of themselves.
Only in Drakengard can your Final Boss to an RPG be The Final Song itself, as well be considered one of the most painful Final Bosses to ever be conceived...
No exaggeration the Final Boss is a Rhythm Game to the beat of the song, and has a Lot of cheeky moments like the screen zooming in at one part making it very difficult to see the visual cues as well at the Very Very end of the song as the screen fades to black there's one last note played that can totally screw you if you put down your controller in celebration too early.
the music: *chimes start*
me: *nam flashbacks*