Killer Instinct - The Dragon Spirit (Kim Wu) | Reacting To Video Game Music!
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Glad you liked it, Jesse! Feeling music at that level, which you clearly did, is a very special gift. Thank you. 🙏🏼 (TS aka Atlas Plug)
Hey, very awesome for you to stop by! Been a while since I heard this, but it was a swell time.
Hope to hear more from you soon someday :D
Celldweller and Atlus Plug had such huge shoes to fill for season 3 when Mick left the project after getting hired for Doom. And they absolutely brought it! I always appreciated how they didn't try to emulate Mick and did their own thing instead. They really added to the diversity KI's OST has.
Fun fact, the vocals for the theme are a Korean folk song to represent Kim Wu's Korean heritage. The title is in reference to her literal dragon spirit. Lol
This song and Gargos's theme (shameless recommendation) are among my favorite season 3 tracks! 🤘
Nice to see you still kicking!
certified gym workout banger
I've been a fan of celldweller for decades and I always thought his music would fit perfectly in videogames. Then this happened.
IIRC, his music was in Dead Rising 2 before he appeared in KI. He was banging there, as well
Haven't played this game, but was friggin' shocked and very intrigued when I heard Celldweller. One of my earliest musical obsessions - glad to see he's doing some game stuff.
I didn't even realize the KI main theme thrown in there at 4:30, I was too lost in the sauce.
I love how they do that.
You should react top The First Disciple from Destiny 2. That song hits hard
At first I also thought this sounded pretty Chinese, but when the lyrics kicked in I was like "Whoa!? It's not Chinese, It's Korean!"
The giveaway was the part starting from 3:18, where the song is a Korean folk song "Arirang", where the rap is basically saying "I'll kick your ass, make my day" in Korean.
Yeah, I should have known, cause Kim is a prominent Korean family name but I thought it was used in China as well.
Kim Wu is Korean. Which makes sense. The theme is very reminiscent of the soundtrack from KI2 as well. So good on them for staying faithful to the original.
According to the composers of the track, the lyrics of this theme are supposed to evoke South Korean nursery rhymes to represent Kim Wu mocking her opponents skill comparing them to children.
hi! KI player here. to give a very basic summary, dude on the album artwork is “Gargos”, basically an evil god who is trying to take over the world (of course). The Dragon Spirit refers to the benevolent spirit who is attached to Kim Wu when she inherited a pair of nunchucks from her… grandfather, iirc? And now she’s one of the primary “heroes” who are striving to stop Gargos. KI’s story is very basic, but I’m into a bunch of the characters, Hisako primarily. Love the reactions, as always!
One of my favorite tracks in the game. Shoes were filled, my dude.
You know the music is good when Jesse puts on his sun shades.
He cracked open the KI OST, ya’ll know what that means!
*in the far distance slowly approaching*
“Back to rise
Back to grow
Back to fly
Back to soar
Back to war
Let the truth be told
I feel on fire when my passion FLOW”
he already did that one
I remember suggesting this months ago. Stoked you got to it.
Kim Wu is a Korean martial artist that was introduced to the series for the sequel back in the late 90s. That’s why you’re saying it’s Chinese it’s actually Korean. There are a lot of similarities of course with the style but if you ever go back and listen to Kim Wu soundtrack from KI2, you’ll notice a lot of the themes even though it’s a lot simpler back then are still prevalent in this track here. Did a really good job of staying faithful to the original but still bringing it into the modern. Probably one of my favorite OST tracks from the series.
As far as the dragon spirit goes, I can’t remember exactly what her backstory was but I’m sure there was a dragon in there somewhere. My first thought when I heard the dragon spirit would’ve been Jago but that was the tiger spirit.
Holy shit, didn't know this one! Fucking hype! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Favorite KI track right here, hard to not love all of them though
Killer instinct never disappoints ✊ such a fantastic theme
Yes, Mick didn't compose the season 3's OST because he had just landed the gig for Doom 2016 :)
The high pitched vocals always reminded me of BabyMetal, even though they're a japanese band
Also, The Dragon Spirit refers to Kim Wu's (a new character for season 3) power source, she basically summons a "dragon spirit" lol
One more thing, at 4:37 (in your video), you can hear the main KI theme like all the other tracks :)
A Shattered Eyedol, Enter the Battletoad, together with The Dragon Spirit, are my top tier songs from the entire Killer Instinct soundtrack.
Others of note from the duo in the soundtrack, in prioritized order: The Watchman of the Gods, The Champion of Sanghelios, Nocturne in Blood, Eagle's Theme and For The Horde.
Lastly, imo, Celldweller's remarkable work outside topic are: Switchback, Eon, Under The Feet, One Good Reason and Own Little World. All ALBUM versions, because video clip versions cut the build-ups severely.
When I saw the shades came on I was like "yeah he's feeling it" lol
Hell yeah brother, more KI!
I’m shocked you haven’t listened to “I’m back to rise”. I legit listen to that everytime I workout.
I've had this one on my Spotify playlist for the longest time, it's such a banger. Highly recommend checking out Celldweller's other stuff as well (you can check it out if it's not VGM, right? :) )
Damn I missed this upload, this is my favorite song of the OST from after Mick left
Wow. Just wow.
I like that u play judgment day in the background lol
Atlas Plug is an alternate name for Tom Salta, a composer who's done work on mainly the Tom Clancy games and I think he did some tracks for the Halo franchise at some point?
Personally, I love Killer Instinct on SNES, but I don't own an Xbox... and considering MS bought Rare, I'm unlikely to get to experience KI any time soon, but I did keep up with the music as it came out. Kim Wu is half Korean, Half Chinese. She's also one of the younger members of the roster. Most Killer Instinct characters fulfill some sort of role with a movie genre, usually horror. Like Riptor is genetic recreation horror like Jurassic Park, Spinal is inspired by the skeletons from Jason and the Argonauts. And then you have Jago who is a Ninja, his sister Orchid (also the "main character" of the series in the same way Lui Kang is the "main character" for Mortal Kombat) who is a government agent and kind of a kunoichi. TJ Combo is a Boxer like Rocky. You got all kinds of tropish characters. Kim Wu is your "Chosen One" type character from a Martial Arts film. Also, from her trailer, you can see she's new to the whole martial artist role but has quickly accepted her role like a young adult super hero.
The high energy there really captures her invincible attitude and embrace of destiny while also playing into her heritage.
The game was released on PC later too, if I remember correctly... Originally on that Microsoft store thing, but I think they also released it on Steam later... Not sure if they put it on other services, like Epic Games... Maybe... Maybe you don't have a good PC either though, which is probably fair enough... I dunno... It's an option if you want it anyway.
I always kind of forget Killer Instinct still exists, or exists again? My main experience with it was back on the N64 and it was basically my first fighting game. Played it with my sister and dad who generally kicked our butts lol. Kim Wu was a character I used a fair bit back then! Things have certainly come a way :D.
You need to try it out. It have deep gameplay depth, very detailed tutorial and good netcode. Every character was redesigned and given unique traits ( Spinal, fox example, can now can use stacked skulls in many ways - projectiles, special enchancer and run cancel). It's hard to find mid skill players, but people still playing that in tournament or in diacord groups
If you liked this mix of metal and Chinese (or Korean, based on another comment? idk) instruments and vocals, I recommend checking out the song Gunmetal Black by Varien. No idea what the instruments used in it are, but they definitely sound similar to this, and it also mixes in a lot of metal and some light word-less vocals
Most the original themes from the super nintendo game were epic too. Back then you got a CD with the copy of the game.
Second favorite track of the game for me, Icehaven just calls more to my sensibilities.
this OST goes BRAZY. my favorite song has always been Hisako's theme but there are no duds here
I believe I did that one on this channel!
Do you think you could check out the song plasma shock which is better known as the Matriarch theme from Killing Floor 2?
4:30 ooooh you sneaky mf
That was the main theme and i didnt even notice
For me, this was... different. Being a legally blind person, thus having to rely much more on sound all my life, I figured out immediately that this was not Mick Gordon.
This was still very enjoyable, definitely can see it being used in a lot of anime, or a Capcom game or two, but... You were right. Mick Gordon's many signatures were missing, one of them was the skillful way Mick Gordon used very noisy and out of EQ guitar sounds to make his tracks sound more POWERFUL!.
Mick gordon is GYM POWER LIFTING music.
This was much more... excited to go to a huge event and listening to something energetic on the long driver over there music.
Very enjoyable.
But you are right, it's unfair to compare to Mick Gordon.
Now, if this is on par, ABSOLUTELY NOT. But then again, even Andrew Hulshult isn't on par with Gordon, and he is closer to him than this composer IMO.
But... is this different, and did I like it, ABSOLUTELY!
Is this a mosh pit or a rave? The answer is both
Killer Instinct is a fight game with music.
for the next video game music reaction video, listen to the Killzone 3 main theme “And Ever We Fight On”
If you liked this one from them, champion of sanghelios as well as the battletoads themes are extremely good.
Hey Jesse, there is one track I’d love for you to listen. It’s called Burning Town 2 from Shadow Fight 2.
hi jesse a reaction to heart of chaos from final fantasy 13 2 would be awsome!
Ouça o Tema Enter The battletoad também de ki feito por eles,outro tema incrível da terceira temporada
Can you check out
Metal Hellsinger - No Tomorrow
Ft Serj Tankian?
Please bro do "Kings" from Project Wingman.
I'll do anything for just a crumb of Kings bro please.
Though if you do, just know that this is the final showdown against the main antagonist.
Oh and another thing, "Coronation" plays right after "Kings".
Love u