One of my favorite reactions to date! Thanks Victor! Songs mentioned in this video; Mastodon - Aqua Dementia th-cam.com/video/6hGXQEXSVgk/w-d-xo.html Mastodon - March Of The Fire Ants th-cam.com/video/mr9kY98EzVM/w-d-xo.html Thank you!!
The part that really puts all the music in Hades a giant step up, is how they handle the transitions. Every track has that first, softer version, and then that heavy version. When you're just walking around, reading dialogue, etc, it's the softer track. Then when combat starts, the music seamlessly transitions into the heavy version of the track. This one in particular is the music for the first boss fight. So it starts out with you trying to talk your way out of the fight, and then when it comes down to fighting time, the music you've been listening to just says "want to hear this music... turned up to 11?".
And in that same vein, God of the Dead, the final boss music, has a phase 2 that turns it up to 11 as well - but then they added a phase 3 superboss and though "Idk, 12 I guess?" - that being The Unseen Ones
Darren Korb likes to make mashed-up genre names for each of the games he's worked on: Bastion as "Acoustic Frontier Trip-hop" Transistor as "Electronic Old-World Post-Rock" He's described Pyre as Bardic Acoustic Rock And Hades as "Mediterranean-Prog Rock-Halloween" As such I'd like to recommend Paper Boats from Transistor for a look at his work from a different genre!
I love how everyone recommends a different Transistor song. They're so freaking good. Even though it doesn't have lyrics, I think "Old Friends" may be one of my favorite pieces of music...ever?
I think your face at about 5:30 as the song kicks into high gear hands down one of the best reactions I've seen on youtube in general. Also, if you want an excuse to do more Hades, consider this the assist. Gonna recommend "The King and The Bull", "Good Riddance", and "Final Expense (Payback Mix)"
darren korb is a goddam genius and i am glad he's been doing music for supergiant since bastion this isnt even like a request, just go look up his work from pyre and transistor when you have some free time, the vocal tracks especially are amazing
For some context of the track, the game switches which section its in dynamically based on the intensity of your play. If you're just exploring or fighting in low difficulty encounters you'll get the calmer more ambient sections, another one for a regular combat, and a different one for mini-bosses and bosses. A lot of the songs on the hades soundtrack do that or are dynamic in some other way. If you ever listen to "The God of Dead" on this channel, which is the precursor to The Unseen Ones, you'll notice that there are different 'sections' of intensity that in-game correspond to different phases of the fight. ("The God of Dead" is in itself a more intense version of the main title theme "No Escape"). Highly encourage watching a hades clear to get a feel for how the music matches up with the gameplay. In particular, the odd jolting rhythmic patterns in "The God of Dead" fit very nicely with the actual rhythym of the gameplay during that fight.
The beauty of this OST is how simple it is as far as musical fundamentals. It's the execution and creativity in how they do it that makes it so unique and hard to match. I do hope he ended up playing Hades, if only for reliving 5:19- "...hello, Meg."
I think the instrument in the beginning is a “oud” which is an Arabic lute. It is very popular here in the Middle East, and one of my favorite instruments.
Imagine this. I felt like you felt in this video, in literally every single piece in this ost.. its just how crazy good it is. And it also mirrors how good the game is on all levels. Its such a great package that the enjoyment that comes from the music, only skyrockets more when you blend it with the gameplay loop. Pure madness. Possibly the best metal album ever made for a game in our era.
Basically tracks for bosses (apart from Hades fight) have two parts: one part when you talk with your enemy, and when you're done, the second part kicks in saying it's the time when you get trashed
The people behind Hades, Supergiant, are abdolute masters at what they do. Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, and now Hades. Every single one os unique with distinct musical styles ranging from operatic electronic, to splitting lyrical versions of bluegrass tracks then bringing them together for a final song, to the blend of metal in Hades. Beautiful art, stories, characters, acting, and gameplay styles. I genuinely don't believe they've made a bad game. All while ensuring their employees never experience crunch and get substantial time off. Seriously, some talented stuff at Supergiant.
Pyre is especially amazing, because they recorded like 14 different versions of the final match track featuring leitmotifs from the other teams. They put so much thought and love into the lore of the world that it's very easy to forget that it's not some real mythology in the way Hades is.
not for nothing Hades is one if not the best "non AAA" rated game on steam. BTW: "god of the dead" and "The king and the bull" are also pretty damn good.
The first sound reminds me of "oud" instrument which very popular here in middle east/Arabic music. I just discovered your channel and I've been binge watching you react to my fav games soundtracks : Bloodborne, Hades, silent hill, undertale, zelda, FF !! Thank you for the awesome content : D
I love Darren's music so much and it makes me so happy that you're enjoying the hell out of it too! I'd love to hear your thoughts on the beginning of Supergiant's journey with 4 songs: Build That Wall; Mother, I'm Here; Setting Sail, Coming Home; and The Mancer's Dilemma.
Great reaction, and glad you enjoyed the song so much! It was great hearing your analysis of all the nuanced musical details as well. Darren Korb never, ever misses. Hope you had a nice holiday season and got a chance to dive into Hades; it's an amazing game. Cheers!
@@JessesAuditorium Yes, the composer said that in one of his videos. He also shows to play some songs, such as Good Riddance on a plain guitar, shown on the Supergiant Games TH-cam channel.
you definitely need to play Hades when you find the time to spare, I think you'd really, really dig it on a number of levels (beyond the obviously awesome soundtrack). great vid as always man
I found your channel today and have been binging your reactions. I see this is the last Hades you've reacted to and I hope you've had a chance to play the game since this.
When playing the game, you don't really get the time to appreciate the OST as much as when you just sit down and listen to it like this. It really is a great piece of music. Fitting to follow one of the best characters in the game.
I'm not sure if anybody has mentioned it in comments already, but one of the best things (besides, yknow, everything else) that Darren Korb, Ashley Barrett, and Supergiant do with the music in their games is that most songs either have multiple versions (such as Red humming in Transistor) or gradual changes as the song progresses (like in this track), so that the music can vary in intensity with what the player is doing in game. In Hades, the music varies in intensity depending on how many enemies, what phase of a fight, or the scale of the enemy you are up against, and this lends to an incredible player experience where you are rewarded for content progression just through the music you get to hear PLUS any loot or story beats. I think one of the only tracks from the game that beat Scourge of the Furies for me would be God of the Dead... though, if you are planning on playing the game, I may recommend experiencing the song through the game itself rather than listening to it on its own. There's just something about how the music lands WITH the combat in the game and that intensity variation I mentioned earlier that can't be experienced by listening alone (even though I listen to it on repeat afterwards lol)
If you want more Darren Korb, Strange Voyage and Knights of the Sea from Pyre are excellent. Knights of the Sea is his take on a pirate shanty type song and it's so good, and Strange Voyage just makes me happy.
You have to check his other games OST. Pyre, Transistor and Bastion all have very good music. I'd recommend Pyre-Trash Pack for some good guitar riffs and Bastion-Spike on a rail.
If you get the opportunity you really should play Hades as it's easily one of the best games to come out in the last decade: great visuals, great music, and easy to understand gameplay that can scale to your level of intensity. Even more impressive that it's from a small developer!
The Supergiant crew make music games, and in Transistors case, a game about a musician. Go play Hades man, it won game of the year all over for a reason, and the music, and the way the music is tied in to the game, is phenomenal.
Seen it in the comment section already, but I reiterate the sentiment that Risk of Rain 2s soundtrack is amazing and The Rain Formerly Known As Purple is phenomenal, the composer even has an hour long analysis of how each song came to be which is really interesting to listen to even as someone who is completely clueless
One suggestion I'd like to make is literally anything from the soundtrack of the original Nier, which was the precursor to the much more well known Nier: Automata. My personal favorites are "Song of the Ancients" (either the Devola or Popola version, though the duet version is amazing, and only available as the conclusion of a series of fetch quests across the game world.), "Shadowlord's Castle - Roar", or "Yonah" (again, any version). It was a game made by noted industry crazy-man Yoko Taro, and he not only got an entire philharmonic orchestra to play it, but had an entire fake language made up so the songs had lyrics. It's honestly an amazing experience.
Scourge of the Furies is a litteral masterpiece of brutality and savageness, this one is perfect for the characters it depicts. Savage, untamed, and with absolutly no mercy for you ! That's everything about those furies :) And its in my opinion the best theme of the entire game for that matter. If you don't like this theme, you probably have big problems.
see its shit like this that makes me wanna take up bass,electric and acoustic guitar, speaking of which i highly recommend "two's song" from drakengard 3, i think youll get a kick out of it
played Hades yet? because seriously, there isn't a single track that isn't at least as good as this one. If you love harmonies, this game just keeps on giving.
I guess i found my new favorite reaction channel Hope you react attack on titan music it so so amazing Personally i hope you react to ashes on the fire from latest season of attack on titan
@@JessesAuditorium My body is soo ready, i would like to recommend two songs from the same composer of the nier series, "The last song" from drakengard 3 (this song is literaly the last boss from that game) or any of the sister songs from drakengard 3... they´re metal songs from the same composer so is really different (ill recomend Leap Wishes / Egregori)...
I'm not sure if you take requests from comments, but if you want to take it back super old school, check out the title theme for Pictionary on the NES, composed by Tim Follin.
One of my favorite reactions to date! Thanks Victor!
Songs mentioned in this video;
Mastodon - Aqua Dementia
th-cam.com/video/6hGXQEXSVgk/w-d-xo.html
Mastodon - March Of The Fire Ants
th-cam.com/video/mr9kY98EzVM/w-d-xo.html
Thank you!!
The part that really puts all the music in Hades a giant step up, is how they handle the transitions. Every track has that first, softer version, and then that heavy version. When you're just walking around, reading dialogue, etc, it's the softer track. Then when combat starts, the music seamlessly transitions into the heavy version of the track. This one in particular is the music for the first boss fight. So it starts out with you trying to talk your way out of the fight, and then when it comes down to fighting time, the music you've been listening to just says "want to hear this music... turned up to 11?".
And in that same vein, God of the Dead, the final boss music, has a phase 2 that turns it up to 11 as well - but then they added a phase 3 superboss and though "Idk, 12 I guess?" - that being The Unseen Ones
I often take my time to kill the Hydra, because that guitar is just too damn good!!
In case no one else has said this: Darren Korb described the Hades soundtrack as Mediterranean prog-rock Halloween music
Lmao, what a way to describe it
"I need to play this game."
Yes.
Yes, you do.
bro this song gave you like an actual spiritual experience what the fuck
The "Darren Korb, you magnificent sonovagun!" face when the second phase starts was *chef kiss*
Darren Korb likes to make mashed-up genre names for each of the games he's worked on:
Bastion as "Acoustic Frontier Trip-hop"
Transistor as "Electronic Old-World Post-Rock"
He's described Pyre as Bardic Acoustic Rock
And Hades as "Mediterranean-Prog Rock-Halloween"
As such I'd like to recommend Paper Boats from Transistor for a look at his work from a different genre!
I love how everyone recommends a different Transistor song. They're so freaking good. Even though it doesn't have lyrics, I think "Old Friends" may be one of my favorite pieces of music...ever?
those arent real genres
@@NuiYabuko thanks to *me*
@@AuspexAO true and real, Old friends lowkey one of the best songs ever
@@NuiYabuko you dont know me
I love that it goes with the groove just long enough to let you settle in and think this is it then kicks you in the face with metal in the best way.
I think your face at about 5:30 as the song kicks into high gear hands down one of the best reactions I've seen on youtube in general. Also, if you want an excuse to do more Hades, consider this the assist.
Gonna recommend "The King and The Bull", "Good Riddance", and "Final Expense (Payback Mix)"
lmao it was flowing through my veins
Good ol, “Getting jumped by your girlfriend and her sisters” the song
darren korb is a goddam genius and i am glad he's been doing music for supergiant since bastion
this isnt even like a request, just go look up his work from pyre and transistor when you have some free time, the vocal tracks especially are amazing
Dont forget Bastion. The songs from there slap so fucking hard.
For some context of the track, the game switches which section its in dynamically based on the intensity of your play. If you're just exploring or fighting in low difficulty encounters you'll get the calmer more ambient sections, another one for a regular combat, and a different one for mini-bosses and bosses. A lot of the songs on the hades soundtrack do that or are dynamic in some other way. If you ever listen to "The God of Dead" on this channel, which is the precursor to The Unseen Ones, you'll notice that there are different 'sections' of intensity that in-game correspond to different phases of the fight. ("The God of Dead" is in itself a more intense version of the main title theme "No Escape"). Highly encourage watching a hades clear to get a feel for how the music matches up with the gameplay. In particular, the odd jolting rhythmic patterns in "The God of Dead" fit very nicely with the actual rhythym of the gameplay during that fight.
The beauty of this OST is how simple it is as far as musical fundamentals. It's the execution and creativity in how they do it that makes it so unique and hard to match.
I do hope he ended up playing Hades, if only for reliving 5:19- "...hello, Meg."
In case no one shared it before, Darren uses a Theramin in a bunch of the Hades songs!
I love seeing music nerds nerding out about music in their reactions. Like enjoying sth I enjoy on an even deeper level.
I think the instrument in the beginning is a “oud” which is an Arabic lute. It is very popular here in the Middle East, and one of my favorite instruments.
The whole soundtrack for Hades is wicked, but King and the Bull is my absolute favorite piece so i recommend giving that one a listen
One of my favorite things about Hades is just chilling in the underworld listening to the music stripped down to its bass 🤘🏻
This song's time signature magic is top notch honestly.
Hear it almost day now haha
I'd love to see your reaction to Darren Korb's singing in Lament of Orpheus.
Whatever you can say about Korb's boundless talent, man does he love a truly filthy bass tone.
Imagine this. I felt like you felt in this video, in literally every single piece in this ost.. its just how crazy good it is. And it also mirrors how good the game is on all levels. Its such a great package that the enjoyment that comes from the music, only skyrockets more when you blend it with the gameplay loop. Pure madness. Possibly the best metal album ever made for a game in our era.
"The Painful Way" is also amazing, probably one of my favourites
Truly the music of a God of the underworld. Intimidating, majestic, foreign, oppressive, barely relatable. Love your video man.
"That... was... \*makes orgasmic shuddering sounds* Yeah, that's exactly what that was." Heh, I _hope_ you've played the game at this point. ;)
I'd love to see a reaction of the Fire Emblem: Three Houses music some day. God Shattering Star is such a good piece.
Seconding this!
Yea! I love that song.
Hear hear.
It has arrangements reminiscent of the band System Of a Down
This song is interesting, very well done, extremely tasteful
Basically tracks for bosses (apart from Hades fight) have two parts: one part when you talk with your enemy, and when you're done, the second part kicks in saying it's the time when you get trashed
One song from Hades that comes to mind for a reaction is "Out of Tartarus." It's pretty out-front, but it slaps hard.
The people behind Hades, Supergiant, are abdolute masters at what they do. Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, and now Hades. Every single one os unique with distinct musical styles ranging from operatic electronic, to splitting lyrical versions of bluegrass tracks then bringing them together for a final song, to the blend of metal in Hades. Beautiful art, stories, characters, acting, and gameplay styles. I genuinely don't believe they've made a bad game.
All while ensuring their employees never experience crunch and get substantial time off. Seriously, some talented stuff at Supergiant.
Pyre is especially amazing, because they recorded like 14 different versions of the final match track featuring leitmotifs from the other teams. They put so much thought and love into the lore of the world that it's very easy to forget that it's not some real mythology in the way Hades is.
not for nothing Hades is one if not the best "non AAA" rated game on steam.
BTW: "god of the dead" and "The king and the bull" are also pretty damn good.
The first sound reminds me of "oud" instrument which very popular here in middle east/Arabic music.
I just discovered your channel and I've been binge watching you react to my fav games soundtracks : Bloodborne, Hades, silent hill, undertale, zelda, FF !!
Thank you for the awesome content : D
I love Darren's music so much and it makes me so happy that you're enjoying the hell out of it too! I'd love to hear your thoughts on the beginning of Supergiant's journey with 4 songs: Build That Wall; Mother, I'm Here; Setting Sail, Coming Home; and The Mancer's Dilemma.
My video game OST playlist keeps getting bigger and bigger thanks to these reactions. Everyone is winning here! 😄
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
I think this theme does fit this phrase very well.
Great reaction, and glad you enjoyed the song so much! It was great hearing your analysis of all the nuanced musical details as well. Darren Korb never, ever misses. Hope you had a nice holiday season and got a chance to dive into Hades; it's an amazing game. Cheers!
That instrument is actually called a baglama, it is a Turkish interment
Oh cool! Is that confirmed. It does look like a sort of lute
@@JessesAuditorium Yes, the composer said that in one of his videos. He also shows to play some songs, such as Good Riddance on a plain guitar, shown on the Supergiant Games TH-cam channel.
The "O you tryna fuck?" look at 5:20 lmao.
you definitely need to play Hades when you find the time to spare, I think you'd really, really dig it on a number of levels (beyond the obviously awesome soundtrack). great vid as always man
I found your channel today and have been binging your reactions. I see this is the last Hades you've reacted to and I hope you've had a chance to play the game since this.
Nope :(
Need more Hades...
@@JessesAuditorium well, if you need more incentive, may I recommend the Hades track, Out of Tartarus
Damn 👀 what a catjam, son
Great music sugestions too, as always, chef's kiss
When playing the game, you don't really get the time to appreciate the OST as much as when you just sit down and listen to it like this. It really is a great piece of music. Fitting to follow one of the best characters in the game.
you need to play this game, not only is it great fun, but also non stop jams like this. not to mention the story
I can understand how you feel. Even if I'm a tonedeaf, I still feel the urge to grab a guitar and play this piece while listening to it
I'm not sure if anybody has mentioned it in comments already, but one of the best things (besides, yknow, everything else) that Darren Korb, Ashley Barrett, and Supergiant do with the music in their games is that most songs either have multiple versions (such as Red humming in Transistor) or gradual changes as the song progresses (like in this track), so that the music can vary in intensity with what the player is doing in game. In Hades, the music varies in intensity depending on how many enemies, what phase of a fight, or the scale of the enemy you are up against, and this lends to an incredible player experience where you are rewarded for content progression just through the music you get to hear PLUS any loot or story beats. I think one of the only tracks from the game that beat Scourge of the Furies for me would be God of the Dead... though, if you are planning on playing the game, I may recommend experiencing the song through the game itself rather than listening to it on its own. There's just something about how the music lands WITH the combat in the game and that intensity variation I mentioned earlier that can't be experienced by listening alone (even though I listen to it on repeat afterwards lol)
If you want more Darren Korb, Strange Voyage and Knights of the Sea from Pyre are excellent.
Knights of the Sea is his take on a pirate shanty type song and it's so good, and Strange Voyage just makes me happy.
You have to check his other games OST. Pyre, Transistor and Bastion all have very good music. I'd recommend Pyre-Trash Pack for some good guitar riffs and Bastion-Spike on a rail.
The song grabs you and keeps raising the pressure until an awesome badass release.
You should definitely try the DOOM soundtrack, "BFG Division" or "The Only Thing they fear is You" are good ones. Pretty sure you will enjoy those.
If you get the opportunity you really should play Hades as it's easily one of the best games to come out in the last decade: great visuals, great music, and easy to understand gameplay that can scale to your level of intensity. Even more impressive that it's from a small developer!
Have you played Final Fantasy 10? If not, I would like to see your reaction to the HD remaster of Otherworld!
I'd love to see you react to some of the songs from Kenshi. Fertile especially.
The Supergiant crew make music games, and in Transistors case, a game about a musician. Go play Hades man, it won game of the year all over for a reason, and the music, and the way the music is tied in to the game, is phenomenal.
Seen it in the comment section already, but I reiterate the sentiment that Risk of Rain 2s soundtrack is amazing and The Rain Formerly Known As Purple is phenomenal, the composer even has an hour long analysis of how each song came to be which is really interesting to listen to even as someone who is completely clueless
now i need to play this as well damn!
This has some huge PoP Warrior Within vibes...
Hey man Victor? Wherever you are thanks a bunch dude.
Darren is incredible. Check out the entirety of the soundtrack for Bastion.
If you don't know the guitar like sound at the start it is "bağlama", it is a turkish instrument
Oh nice!!
if you don't plan on playing Hades anytime soon i reccomend looking up the artwork for it. jawdropping stuff
One suggestion I'd like to make is literally anything from the soundtrack of the original Nier, which was the precursor to the much more well known Nier: Automata. My personal favorites are "Song of the Ancients" (either the Devola or Popola version, though the duet version is amazing, and only available as the conclusion of a series of fetch quests across the game world.), "Shadowlord's Castle - Roar", or "Yonah" (again, any version).
It was a game made by noted industry crazy-man Yoko Taro, and he not only got an entire philharmonic orchestra to play it, but had an entire fake language made up so the songs had lyrics. It's honestly an amazing experience.
He's already played through both nier games I believe so he's already a bit ahead of you there.
@@trevorveillette8415 this was a year ago, before those playthroughs happened
You should give the live version a shot as well!
Scourge of the Furies is a litteral masterpiece of brutality and savageness, this one is perfect for the characters it depicts. Savage, untamed, and with absolutly no mercy for you ! That's everything about those furies :)
And its in my opinion the best theme of the entire game for that matter. If you don't like this theme, you probably have big problems.
What a journey!
Yeah ,i Guess its Time for me to finally try this game
I recommend "The King and the Bull", also from Hades.
see its shit like this that makes me wanna take up bass,electric and acoustic guitar, speaking of which i highly recommend "two's song" from drakengard 3, i think youll get a kick out of it
The best track on the game. Also just a fucking great game, would highly recommend
Of all the game OST's you've reviewed. You should play the game attached to this one.
May I suggest "There Is No Escape
" from Hades? It's quite a bop ngl!
I`d love it if you reacted to Risk of Rain 2 - The Rain Formerly Known As Purple :)
I think you would like The Painful Way, also from Hades.
I’m assuming it’s a guitar meant to sound like a lyre
Scourge of The Furries lmao gottem
would love to see your reaction to kingdom hearts and fire emblem music (id purpose and god shattering star are something else ill tell you what)
I do have some KH coming this week
Wow
yup
please react to the lament of Orpheus! Its made for hades too and makes me think he made it just to flex on us peasants
Lmao, we really are aren't we
9:58 O face.
Please react to Out of Tartarus.. also Hades soundtrack.. thanks.. 😊
Honestly not to say it’s not fantastic but hades is my 3rd favorite ost of Darren korbs with bastion as number 1 and transistor as 2 leaving pyre at 4
Hades OST slaps all around
I do so very much hope that a reaction to The King and the Bull from Hades is on its way :)
Would you react to covers of video game music? I know of a very good one, better then the original imo.
Possibly! This channel is still experimenting with stuff, so who knows
Hades - God of the dead when?
Can't wait for more Hades, soon though!
played Hades yet? because seriously, there isn't a single track that isn't at least as good as this one. If you love harmonies, this game just keeps on giving.
Alright ya'll imma need you to stop goofing around and have this man listen to the metal gear rising soundtrack already xD
MGR coming this week!
React to Must Die from BlazBlue Central Fiction
Also you MUST do a reaction to Smell of the Game from Guilty Gear Strive
I did like 2 weeks ago :)
React to Silent Hill 2 OST
I guess i found my new favorite reaction channel
Hope you react attack on titan music it so so amazing
Personally i hope you react to ashes on the fire from latest season of attack on titan
I'd love for you to do more NieR Reactions!
2 are coming this week
@@JessesAuditorium My body is soo ready, i would like to recommend two songs from the same composer of the nier series, "The last song" from drakengard 3 (this song is literaly the last boss from that game) or any of the sister songs from drakengard 3... they´re metal songs from the same composer so is really different (ill recomend Leap Wishes / Egregori)...
I'm not sure if you take requests from comments, but if you want to take it back super old school, check out the title theme for Pictionary on the NES, composed by Tim Follin.
React to the queen theme ff14
Man I cant relike this reaction…
Shield users, where you at???