Same here. Forever in my mind, forever in my heart... To the point when I read your comment, I thought it was my own for a second. "I watched this video already and even forgot commenting?!"
In an elementary school somewhere... Teacher : Alright, student! What is the color of rainbow? Students : Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple! Me : sleep Teacher : Hey, Sam! Wake up! Me : Huh? What? Teacher : Can you answer my question? Friend : (whisper) colors of Time Devourer...! Me : YELLOW RED GREEN BLUE BLACK WHITE CHRONO CROSS!!!!
That's a pattern I will never forget because it is a pattern that is easy to remember, but sometimes hard to apply because of your enemy's use of elements as you try to apply that pattern.
Yasunori Mitsuda is one of my all time favorites composers, his work is so outstanding and you could tell it is his from the moment you listen to any other piece. A true master
Another sad fact: During this game OST production, Yasunori Mitsuda's mom passed away. This is why there are much emotion in this game's ost. You could say this is the tribute to his mom.
It's tragic in it's own way, but real life emotions are quintessential to transcribing feeling to both a melody and a narrative and as sad as it is to say if this is true, it's the greatest thing that could have happened to the cultural zeitgeist around this game was for this to happen as his loss coincided with our collective loss in that both her life and this game ended and the world would never be the safe thereafter. @@owenmcgee891
I read about that it a magazine, and this game helped ease my mind and my heart after mom passed away in 2001. This music helped me cope so much, as did the wonderful game and its story.
Never knew this and this OST has fucked me up my whole life and that raw emotional undertone that exists throughout because of this fact makes that make a lot of sense.
盗めない宝石 Lyrics The jewel that cannot be stolen 幼い手に包んだ Wrapped in my immature hands 震えてるその光を That trembling light ここまで辿って来た I have been pursuing all the way here 時間の縁を彷徨い Wandering the edges of time 探し続けて来たよ I have been searching for you 名前さえ知らないけれど Even though I don't even know your name ただ一つの想いを There is a simple memory/feeling あなたに手渡したくて That I want to convey to you 時は愛も痛みも Time is both love and pain 深く抱き留め It restrains people deeply 消してくけど私は The me that has been erased 覚えているずっと・・・ I will always remember... 私の胸の奥に In the depths of my chest いつからか響いていた Since when has it been resounding 夜露の雫よりも More than a droplet of dew in the night 微かな囁きだけど Even though it is only a faint whisper 凍て付く星の闇へ Towards the darkness of the frozen planet/star 紡ぐ祈りが The prayers that I have put together 遠いあなたの空に To your distant sky 届くように・・ In attempts to reach you The way the japanese language is structured this kind of music can have many different translated interpretations. It could even be the "you" the person refers in the music are "themselves from another time", so when you see "you" it could simply be a self reflection. It could also be a loved one.
Chrono Cross has to have one of the most underrated soundtracks ever, I seriously don't hear anyone talk about it! There are so many incredible tracks in this game and I'm glad you're getting around to listening to it. Time's Scar is another one of my favorites, the energy of that piece is unreal and sets the tone right from the title screen.
So weird to see that. I suppose I'm not as clued in to what younger gamers think but I'd say about a decade ago when I used to have these kinds of talks about video game music on various sites people always seemed to agree that Chrono Cross has one of the best soundtracks around.
The entire game, imo, deals with the melancholy of life. Even the beginning of the game it talks about loves list and the tides of life continuing on. Cold, callous, smothering. Yet still, it goes on. The pasts that we have and the lives we could have had. If only things were different. What if things were different? Would we be together now? Or would you have left regardless? A friend lost, a lover left, an opportunity missed. How would our lives be if things played out differently. It's such a beautiful game and I adore every bit of it.
Long ago I bought a Chrono Cross music book for the guitar and had it signed by Mitsuda while he was in town. If there was ever a time where I felt the presence of greatness, that was it.
I can't play a single instrument, and likely never will. But if I had that, I'd have it mounted on my wall. Mitsuda has provided the soundtrack for so many of my daydreams.
This song still evokes in me a kind of sorrowful sublimity. Everything you said to describe how the song feels, is actually the gist of what the vocalist is singing about in the lyrics. But I think you realize that when you pop up the lyrics in the video. Music really is a language that speaks past spoken vocabulary and you translate it so well for us when you do these videos. It's so satisfying to watch. :-)
CHRONO CROSS!? i love when people give smaller less known tracks a chance. the other day i finished a game called deaths gambit and it's so small that it's hard to find info on it, but but the ost "endless" hit me hard. if anyone reading this loves video game music like me please go hear endless from deaths gambit
@TBN won't pop i only ever hear people talk about xeno never CC but i guess i just don't notice it, i know CC isn't that small, like it's not granblue fantasy or anything thats only popular in japan but still i can't think of any time where i heard someone mention CC tracks, guess i'm in a different part of the internet
this and "time's scar" are legitimately some of the most beautiful pieces of music video games have given to the world. it's a such a shame that the version of "gale" the game uses is pretty poor and what's worse is that gale is the main battle theme, so you hear it a lot, but the orginal version of "gale" from the sort of prequel to cross(but post trigger) called "radical dreamers" is excellent stuff.
Some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard, period. Before the hard drive crash, my old music collection included over 11k tracks in 15 languages from 6 continents spanning ~700 years. This stands up.
I've listened to this entire soundtrack countless times. One of my favorite tracks of any game here. My parents always wrote these off as just video games... Like do you understand these are COMPOSERS in SquareEnix
I wonder more if it's based off just how people have been exposed to music. most people are exposed to that which is on the radio. and THAT synthetic favoritism by playing the same musicians and styles over and over causes people to a favoritism to music they've heard before. I mean, it used to be a thing (and still is) where a metalhead willn't listen to country, a rocker willn't listen to classical, a country fan willn't listen to Electronica, a Rocker willn't listen to Folk Metal, etc. And all because when they first hear it they instantly think "WTF is this? it isn't what i'm used to hearing.. i dislike it!" Strangely enough I've noticed that video game music lovers tend to branch out the most. I think it is because video game music doesn't always draw the distinctions between genre's of music and so VGM lovers know the utter truth of: MUSIC IS MUSIC. Regardless of what genre it is. If you don't like it don't say "that aint real music!" acknowledge what it is and move on if you don't like it. Or delve more into that new genre just to know and understand it and you may find a composition or musician or album within it that you may actually like.
Delicacy and beauty. Just an acoustic guitar and amazing vocals. 1 insturment and vocals. Having less can be more, and it sure is here. Wonderfully writen lyrics as well. Something I for sure will remember.
You nailed the theme of the song. This plays at the end of the game where it’s theorized that the female lead is sent across time and longs to meet the male lead again.
I absolutely love your analysis of this song, and not only because how how spot-on it is. It is really amazing how songs, especially simple ones, can invoke such reactions in us. In this instance, as if the young girl managed to craft a song capable of carrying all the emotions of her experience and offering them upward in the hope-against-hope that it reaches the target of her affections. And we are given privy to such a profound 'nakedness' - using your instance of the world - of her soul that it leaves us in a reverent somberness as we also recall similar experiences that invoked these emotions within us.
Chrono Cross, aside from also being a great game, has one of the best OSTs of all time of any game. If you haven't listened to the entire OST, I would highly, highly recommend doing so because you will not regret it.
When you get a chance to do so, you should definitely give Trigger and Cross a try. I’d give you my take on the song, but I don’t want to spoil your experience. This song holds a special place in my heart.
Chrono Trigger is just timeless. If you think that Daggerfall was released around the same time, it's actually ridiculous how badly it aged compared to CT.
The saddest song youll ever hear in the game is "Girl who stole the stars from the sky" or is sometimes just "star stealing girl". It doesnt have lyrics but theres a message there. Like a memory from the past, or a person, that youll never get back or never see again. Or a home that you long to return to that doesnt exist anymore or may never have. That's what i feel from it.
I must admit I never felt like Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross really belonged in the same series... But damn did Cross have some of the best music of the Playstation era.
well truth is, they originally aren't. Chrono Cross was originally made as a draft for Final Fantasy 8 but was rejected and put aside as a side-project. Then (i don't really remember the details) for some reason some higher ups in Square or something wants it to be linked to Chrono Trigger, and thus they had to abruptly made some last minute changes. (or so I've heard, cmiiw). Chrono Trigger itself also suffers from the same case, it got rejected as Final Fantasy and became its own thing, iirc they tried to compete with Dragon Quest (thus why they chose Toriyama Akira as the character designer)... so is Xenogears , Saga Frontier , and Vagrant Story.
If I may add, you can also react to "Garden of the Gods" another hauntingly beautiful OST from Chrono Cross. I would love to hear your interpretation of this song.
Yeeeeees!!! I've so been looking forward to seeing you cover Chrono Cross. Though I will again humbly recommend The Girl Who Stole the Stars. I think you'll find it's also a very emotional piece.
Thank you for covering songs of this masterpiece, Chrono Cross. I have a humble request, if I may: there's a song in this game called Another Guldove, which makes me cry EVEYTIME I listen to it; it brings me memories of my childhood and my loved ones who are not here anymore, even though I didn't listen to it at the time. I'd love to see your take on it. Outstanding work, mate. I salute you 🙏🏽
My thought regarding Chrono Cross is mixed. I love it as a standalone game but think it's a misfire as a sequel for Chrono Trigger. However, regardless of what I think about it, the music is top notch. I grew up listening to this song. Also I find it interesting how many key points of the story and ending you managed to get just from analyzing this songs.
I grew up listening to those OST composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, Time's scar (my best ost ever), radical dreams, xenogears ost, suikoden2 ost.... Best JRPG era that made up my childhood, i really love those OST and still listen to it to feel relaxation and epicness also. I feel lucky to have grow up in that era, to get to know those gems. edit: i just edited my comment to say that you really gave more life to the music by your words. Your words really made a touch of happiness for listening to the music
I didn't much like Chrono Cross, but the music and art direction were outstanding. So good, in fact, that I'd recommend the game despite not being a fan.
As someone that played Chrono Cross' whole game back in the day when it came out, on PS1, this magnificent soundtrack brings a lot of memories and feelings each time I listen to it. The same thing that happens to me when I listen to FFVIII's OST (my first FF since I never played FFVII), that's why I fell in love with Mitsuda's and Uematsu's incredible work.🥰
When it comes to music I’m always drawn to melody, especially for songs in languages not native to mine. This song is just beautiful to listen and it saddens me that I’m the only person in my circle of associates and friends who appreciates this quality.
Noriko Mitose does a lot of music in Ar tonelico as well! she's not too much in Ar tonelico 3 except for a boss theme, but she has a few songs in 1 and 2. her normal music is really calming like this as well, i really love her music and voice.
This song was included in a playlist of " most beautiful songs" that was recommended to me. I was playing it loudly one day and my husband said...do you know what this song is? He proceeded to tell me that it was a SE song and from a game that he loved playing as a teen. As someone who lost a parent...this song resonates so strongly to the loss, pain, emptiness and hope. It is true what Yasunori Mitsuda said "music becomes infused with soul when played". How true he is.
I grew up a very poor kid, but my grandparents managed to gift me and my siblings a PS with Chrono Cross. We didn't own many games, but this is the one that always stuck out to me. I was still really young so I often watched my brother play because I wasn't very good and he was too impatient to teach me lol. But the OST always gives me such nostalgia feels, I love love love Mitsuda's musical work and watching other reactors taught me about the "Mitsuda Lick", which I INSTANTLY recognized in Toby Fox's Undertale in Battle Against a True Hero. Glad I stumbled upon your channel! 😊
This song is speeeeeeeeeeeeecilly good, because its the song for the best possible ending, but even when its the ending where everyting is "fixed" it a terribly sad ending!, this song captures exactly that feeling (the lirycs are fantastic too), this is a song that moves feelings in so deep waves, and the voice is just PERFECT. Chrono Trigger and Cross has an incredible OST, and both games use emotional music during the whole game to enphatize the scenes... (VERY masterfully done) you are not mistaken by your analisis, it is a love song, and it is about loss... the main character of the game is a "dream"... he does not exist, he was created by a scar in time during the events of the first game, there is an entity by the name "lavos" that entity consume time, when the hero "chrono" tried to defeat him he unleashed a domino effect trough time and dimensions, chrono cross is about THOSE fisures, the "hero" Serge is in reality someone who is dead, and the "heroine" is the one lavos is fused with and using as a catalist to consume time and space... (both games happens at the same time, both are precuel, and both are sequel, its hard to explain as one game is about time travel, and the other is about dimensional travel), key point here is "scala" who is this inmensibly powerfull magic user is the one that lavos is fused with, and "kid" the girl you use during the whole game with the main hero (the dream) is an alternate version of scala (just as Serge). when you reach the secret true ending of the game KID and schala became one, and Serge (the hero) dissapears as he was never part of the reality he was just but an echo "a dream" hence the radical dreamer.... "Kid" (she is the one that sings this song), and you get some pretty images of her living her life in modern era remembering a dream that "never was" (they will never met again). The game has a "happy ending" but its also a tragedy. it fucking sad and pretty at the same time (they saved reality itself at the cost of everthing). here are the lyrics I held onto the trembling light without letting it go. Wandering at the edge of the time I've traveled so far I've been looking for it, and I don't even know its name. (*interpretation, "looking for it", means the light she mentions, that light is Serge*) I want to share just one feeling with you. Time is full of love and pain. But I remember it. forever. . . For some time now, it had been echoing in the depths of my chest. . . It's more of a whisper than a drop of water This prayers I spun in the darkness of the rising stars, May it reach your distant sky. . . (this is super strong because contrary to most interpretations of the song like the one you used here they usally use "HIM" instead of "IT" and clearly refers the song towards serge, but that is actually META, this is the player knowledge, NOT HERS..., she does NOT remember him as she is not Kid either... she is a whole new entity with the inner power of Schala and Kid (her escense) as time and space was correcter and what "happened" never did, so what she "remembers" is a dream, an echo, nothing but a feeling, a sensation, the light that took her out of the darkness "lavos" the time devourer) she feels the feeling but does not really know what it is asides from the longing... and that's the melancholy she feels (again... the radical dreamer). fun fact... Yasunori Mitsuda was a sound designer who asked for a chance to compose for a game (the first one, chrono triger). They gave him a year to do the whole soundtrack and he worked himself so hard he was hospitalized with Nobuo Uematsu finishing up the final parts of the soundtrack. He did such an impressive original sound track that they ended having Mitsuda doing the music for their most important IP's (this one included)
Ah yesss, thank you for this react. This game ost is so underrated bcs what i think this game ost is masterpiece(ik maybe some people wouldn't agree but ok) coz till this day from my childhood to now, i still hearing this ost as my music playlist. It's just so wonderful you know what im saying? It's full of emotional like the ed song which is radical dreamer, field of time and many others ESPECIALLY time scar, it's just hit different. Yasunori mitsuda respect for you
I've only listened to a few of you videos so far (just the ones for music I know), and it's remarkable how close you got to the situation this song plays over. If I may recommend a piece from Final Fantasy IX: Melodies of Life, a beautiful song sung by the main female lead within the game itself.
@@MarcoMeatball Oh. I'm guessing it's the one entitled "The Final Fantasy Series Has the Best Love Songs!?"? I think I initially missed it because I didn't see it the two playlists I looked at when I glanced at your channel. Adding it to the Watch Later list! In that case, may I instead suggest Chrono Trigger's World Revolution?
there's something about the way music of games like this from the OG Playstation era was mixed or processed; or honestly most media from that time. they were kind of raw and unrefined which made it feel that much more sincere and heartfelt.
I mean, Chrono Cross opening theme is one of the most iconic in gaming, PS1 golden years of gaming. But, I have to recommend the Radical Dreamers version sung by Sarah Àlainn from To Far Away Times - Chrono Trigger & Chrono Cross Arrangement Album. Solely because how incredible an artist she is. Song has a different tone than this, more mature and properly orchestrated.
I've never played any of the Chrono games but when I first heard some of the music, I felt a very nostalgic feeling. It's strange being nostalgic for something new to me, but I figure it's something in how it's written, including the soundfonts of the more midi ones, and the emotions conveyed through them and this song. Additionally, the first time I heard this one, it was a cover by Erutan which is a beautiful rendition.
Chross has some pros and cons to it in terms of gameplay mechanics, but Mitsuda's music from it might actually be the best game OST ever produced. That said, if you want to play any of his classic titles, play Chrono Trigger (the DS version is probably the definitive one, as someone who bought it release day on SNES) and play Xenogears. In terms of classic Square I'm a diehard fan of Matsuno's, but I both are must-play titles in my book. Also it's weird to remember that I played Radical Dreamers on an emulator with a printed fan translation, just like FF5 but an entire generation later. Those were the days.
Both of the soundtracks for Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross are absolutely *_amazing._* Both are in my top three video game soundtracks of all time (the other being Final Fantasy VI), and I can literally listen to them for days on end without getting bored.
"Itetsuku hoshi no yami e, tsumugu inori ga, tooi anata no sora ni, todoku yoo ni" (may this prayer i spun/made and send to the starry darkness, reach your distant sky) Thank you for reviewing this! This makes me so happy From the same game also: "Time's scar" next please 😆
Thank you for doing reaction with my best-loved JRPG. If you have interest, maybe you could do a reaction with Dead Sea, another chono cross score in the game. I was shocked when I was just a child. That huge desperate of mankind, was intense and sorrowful. Great vid! Love it.
This is one of those songs I have to force myself to listen to. It just reminds me, you, of what the ending really means and it is not pleasant. It's one of four games that have absolutely destroyed me emotionally. My favorite game ever I've replayed more than a dozen times, but I refuse to go past the final save point after my first play. CC is similar.
Now that you've heard each pluck of the heart strings that this song resonates as it goes through the ending credits, I highly recommend for you to check out the live orchestrated performance on Cosmosky Orchestra's channel. It's pretty much the most faithful musical rendition of how the final boss utilizes this song to unlock the true ending, & give us this song. It's truly touching.
If Final Fantasy distracted you, then you likely missed out on Dragon Quest series (with SquareSoft's reluctance to release it to the West until recently so we relied on fan translations). Dragon Quest XI is super accessible, has the music of all the past games and its practically a love letter to the entire series.
first verse : osanai te ni tsutsunda furueteru sono hikari wo kokomade tadottekita jikan no fuchi wo samayoi sagashitsuduketekita yo! namae sae shiranai keredo tada hitotsu no omoi wo anata ni te watashitakute... The trembling light wrapped within the young/small hand That I've followed up to this point, through the edge of time I've been looking for it, even thou I don't know what its name is But there's this one feeling I wanted to give to you... 2nd verse : Toki wa ai mo itami mo fukaku dakitome Keshite yukukedo watashi wa oboeteiru Zutto... Time embraces both love and pain deeply It will pass away one day but I will remember it Always... 3rd verse : Watashi no mune no oku ni itsu kara ka hibiiteita Yotsuyu no shizuku yori mo kasukana sasayaki dakedo I'm not sure since when it has been staying in my heart Its whisper fainter than the drop of a night's dew 4th verse : Itetsuku hoshi no yami he tsumugu inori ga Tooi anata no sora ni todoku you ni... May the prayers weaved into the darkness of the frozen star Reach your distant sky...
Awesome video as always! I was watching your videos and I’ve seen that you have made a couple of monster hunter. You should definetly listen and react to Brachydios/raging brachydios theme from Monster hunter World (it has two phases for the raging variant, the brachydios theme and it’s own theme, it’s incredible). It’s one of my favorite soundtrack, it’s so energetic and amazing
At least you admit the sin. Its the first step xD. The real challange though its not playing or completing chrono cross....but coming anywhere close to understandimg it. Gl with that if you ever dare try.
If you want to listen to two other hauntingly beautiful music by Yasunori Mitsuda, I highly recommend, The Girl Who Stole the Stars from Chrono Cross and Nocturne from Kirite.
if you want another song about loss, please, PLEASE react to NieR Automata's "dependant weakling." all of the tracks in automata are masterclass, but this one is one of the best
I don't know if you will get around to it, but would you give "The Right" from the King's Raid Ch. 10 ost a listen? Now, there are different versions English, Japanese, and Korean. Each has it's own sound, but I think that the English version just hits SO much harder. (I think each version is sung by the same person too!) King's Raid has had some of the most amazing title themes and I would love to see people check out the OST! Anyway, keep doing what you are doing! I LOVE these breakdowns and have found new songs to check out and add to playlists thanks to you!
Also, this game came out when I first started learning Japanese as a kid, and listening to it now, and just, having this deep understanding of the language, the lyrics, and all of it mixing together has me here with tears silently streaming down my face. You’re right about the feelings of love, longing, and melancholic loss “Time deeply embraces both pain and love And even though it will fade away I will remember (you) always…”
The vocals, for lack of a better word from my vocabulary, always had a very Japanese timbre and tonality to it. Rather than the Broadway, operatic, pop, or 'Disney' stylings. In my mind if feels less like a silk sheet, but more like a worn yarn tapestry. Still soft, but far from sterile or simple in its texture. The words might tell one story like the actual story depicted on a tapestry, but feeling the tapestry to understand what the tapestry itself has been through is another one (and that story we get through the voice's quality).
This track successfully summons the games imagery to my mind. Played that as a kid, but never finished it. It just wasn't nearly as good as Chono Trigger, never got into it, great song though.
I played CT and CC, the music in CC is fantastic, though while CT was a masterpiece I thought CC as a game was a mess. I think even right after I finished CC I couldn't have told you what it was about. lol
even when I was hearing the vocals in the track I was thinking "was there a non vocal version of this in game or even in Chrono Trigger?" but as I kept thinking, Maker's Ruin started working it's way in and I was like "nooooo way!"
sta colonna sonora, e' qualcosa di epico. Semplice ma fantastica, un po' tipo To zanarkand. E and Small two pieces from Xenogears , che ha colonne sonore da brivido.
Hello marco, i really like the content in your channel the way you analyze every music you encounter i really appreciate if you would react to a song called regression its a song from the game of mihoyo called honkai impact. Really love your content i hope you would react to it 😍😍😍
What perplexes me the most, is that cross is a mediocre game all things considered, full of flaws and lacking a lot of what made trigger an eternal classic. But when this song plays at the end, you get attached to the final pursue between kid and serge. It still makes me internally cry.
Aahh chrono cross my childhood game. When i was 9 i was playing this game. So much. And the song ooohhhh god tbe ost of tbis game was so good This song is the true ending of this game. When Kid and Schala. And she was searching for Serge. Because in the end after defeating time devourer serge lost his memories of his adventure. KidSchala also lost in time she searching him in the future. Past event now
This is the end credits song. It's about a girl who was trapped in a void beyond time. Suddenly she hears a young boy crying and her heart yearns to reach out to comfort him. She finds a way to reach out across time and save him before she is trapped entirely. In the end he also finds a way to save her, but she has to return and they won't see each other again in his lifetime. Before they part she vows she will find him again "someday". She's still out there looking and hoping to meet him again.
You see on the desk that was in the intro a picture of Schala "Kid" Zeal and Serge together, taken like a wedding photo, right at the end. The desk where the book is being read is from their home. So they did actually meet each other in that lifetime. She can't quite remember so searches across all timelines to find him and winds up on the beach where the worlds used to meet. If Serge carries on like normal by not getting the "True" Ending he just lives out his life in the village and marries Lenna instead. Schala "Kid" Zeal decides to leave him be and says goodbye.
Spoiler Alert: This plays during the credits. When you said that it ends with a short sense of hope: immediately after the credits, it shows someone standing in the streets of Tokyo. You only see her from behind, but it's clearly the girl that was "lost", and has jumped to our dimension.
The music from chrono cross is a musical journey in itself. Poignant, lively, dramatic and beautiful. I played chrono cross many years ago when it came out but i still go back and listen to the music whenever i get that itch of nostalgia. Glad you're getting a chance at hearing the music, even if it's one (so far). :)
Why only listen to it when nostalgia hits? listen to it whenever and whereever. Ive had Time's scar on my saved music SD card/mp3 player (yes, I still have a few) ever since I played Chrono cross. The same is true for Chrono Trigger (i even have like 12 variants/remixes of Schalla's Theme), Final Fantasy, Baiten Kaitos, Command and Conquer, Xenoblade Chronicles, Etc. Course i do get a lot of people asking "what IS this?" in both the positive and negative inquiry when I play it via Bluetooth speaker. But i also get those who recognize it instantly and love it (like with Final Fantasy 9's Seymour battle, or a kid around 14 noticing i was playing world 2-1 (shop keeper variant) of Crypt of The Necrodancer,) and others who swear they've heard the music before and make a best guess. It IS a bit sad though when people shit on music just because it isn't lyrical (as with most Video Game Music), or in another language (as is the case with Shwarz Stien featuring Gackt. I only marginally like gackt due to FF Crisis Core) as it shows that if people can be soo closed off to the wide wonders of music to that extent.. no wonder they are closed off to many other things as well.
@@jesseallen3109 nostalgia hits when it hits, sometimes for 3 days in a row and sometimes 3 weeks. It's not far and spread apart. Also nothing wrong with how often you listen to it. I have a video games music playlist that i put on shuffle and sometimes it'll play the random song from a game i played years ago.
@@kikukat8780 well.. okay.. fair enough. But i wonder if that means I'm just one walking nostalgia trip and stuck in the past? I always thought it was just that today's music doesn't always catch my attention due to either my own preferences (like most rap i don't care for) or just overall not that interesting (WAP comes to mind) or something else that's specific to that song or artist.. Then again those are mostly pop songs and I tend to gravitate more towards lesser known musicians or things that are willing to take risks with experimental Music (BT, and shoegazer music come to mind). I should have also prefaced with the fact that my playlists are like.. 70-80% video game music, with anime music and a smattering of Folk metal, Rock, Pop (superman just hits real nice), Electronica, Trance, New age, World Fusion, Shoegazer, post rock, Japanese pop (aforementioned Schwarz Stein.. damn it, knew i spelt that wrong first time), and some other genres. HEck i got some music from a game I didn't even play but someone mentioned it to me and i got it. Mm.. i'm rambling.. gonna end this here. Sorry for the wall-o-text. have a nice day.
@@jesseallen3109 hey nothing wrong with what you like. I have a coworker who listens to nothing but anime songs, another into kpop, a guy heavily into only metal and those are just to name a few. I understand that it seems like "the norm" is to listen to pop music of today or whatever and tbh i do listen to a few but a lot of my music is mixed and all over the place. I do get the occasional weird eye when i listen to a heavy metal song, followed by a song like this one from chrono cross to darude's sandstorm and so on forth. Don't be put off by what other people think of your music. You listen to it because it makes you feel good or gives you nostalgia like it does me and that's what really matters in the end! :)
Great. Ar tonelico and Nier Gestalt/Replicant was one thing, but this... Now you hit me in another one of my nostalgia feels. I liked Chrono Trigger more as a game, but I definitely like Chrono Cross' soundtrack more. Radical Dreamers is one of my favorite songs in the game. Love the simplicity of just using the acoustic guitar. Also, your interpretation of the song is so eerily accurate. Then there's the true ending of the game itself with this song playing. Btw, I also happen to be a bigger FF fan myself, with my obsession being FF6. Still managed to play the Chrono games, mainly because Chrono Trigger was the first game I played that had a NG+. Random thought, but related to the games, one of the Chrono series albums I 'recently' listened to was To Far Away Times, a special arrangement album featuring some select tracks from both Chrono games. The music compared to its game counterparts was very interesting to say the least, especially Time's Scar. Personal favorite from that album is Schala's Theme, mainly because Laura Shigihara, who already did a short cover of that theme, was the vocalist for that track. She has a YT channel under the name Supershigi. Either way, I do recommend that album if you ever wish to give a listen.
Yellow-Red-Green-Blue-Black-White-Chrono Cross. A decade and I still cannot forget. It opens a chime solo leading up to this song.
Same here. Forever in my mind, forever in my heart... To the point when I read your comment, I thought it was my own for a second. "I watched this video already and even forgot commenting?!"
In an elementary school somewhere...
Teacher : Alright, student! What is the color of rainbow?
Students : Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple!
Me : sleep
Teacher : Hey, Sam! Wake up!
Me : Huh? What?
Teacher : Can you answer my question?
Friend : (whisper) colors of Time Devourer...!
Me : YELLOW RED GREEN BLUE BLACK WHITE CHRONO CROSS!!!!
based
That's a pattern I will never forget because it is a pattern that is easy to remember, but sometimes hard to apply because of your enemy's use of elements as you try to apply that pattern.
Yasunori Mitsuda is one of my all time favorites composers, his work is so outstanding and you could tell it is his from the moment you listen to any other piece. A true master
Chrono Cross was the first JRPG I ever played as a kid, so this brings me a tear of joy... Noriko Mitose was perfect for the vocals of this game
Me either, and I can never forget the beautiful score made by Mitsuda Yasunori San. All the music in game are masterpiece.
Another sad fact: During this game OST production, Yasunori Mitsuda's mom passed away. This is why there are much emotion in this game's ost. You could say this is the tribute to his mom.
I've shed enough tears to this music by myself to serve as fitting tribute.
It's tragic in it's own way, but real life emotions are quintessential to transcribing feeling to both a melody and a narrative and as sad as it is to say if this is true, it's the greatest thing that could have happened to the cultural zeitgeist around this game was for this to happen as his loss coincided with our collective loss in that both her life and this game ended and the world would never be the safe thereafter. @@owenmcgee891
I read about that it a magazine, and this game helped ease my mind and my heart after mom passed away in 2001. This music helped me cope so much, as did the wonderful game and its story.
Never knew this and this OST has fucked me up my whole life and that raw emotional undertone that exists throughout because of this fact makes that make a lot of sense.
盗めない宝石 Lyrics
The jewel that cannot be stolen
幼い手に包んだ
Wrapped in my immature hands
震えてるその光を
That trembling light
ここまで辿って来た
I have been pursuing all the way here
時間の縁を彷徨い
Wandering the edges of time
探し続けて来たよ
I have been searching for you
名前さえ知らないけれど
Even though I don't even know your name
ただ一つの想いを
There is a simple memory/feeling
あなたに手渡したくて
That I want to convey to you
時は愛も痛みも
Time is both love and pain
深く抱き留め
It restrains people deeply
消してくけど私は
The me that has been erased
覚えているずっと・・・
I will always remember...
私の胸の奥に
In the depths of my chest
いつからか響いていた
Since when has it been resounding
夜露の雫よりも
More than a droplet of dew in the night
微かな囁きだけど
Even though it is only a faint whisper
凍て付く星の闇へ
Towards the darkness of the frozen planet/star
紡ぐ祈りが
The prayers that I have put together
遠いあなたの空に
To your distant sky
届くように・・
In attempts to reach you
The way the japanese language is structured this kind of music can have many different translated interpretations.
It could even be the "you" the person refers in the music are "themselves from another time", so when you see "you" it could simply be a self reflection.
It could also be a loved one.
Chrono Cross has to have one of the most underrated soundtracks ever, I seriously don't hear anyone talk about it! There are so many incredible tracks in this game and I'm glad you're getting around to listening to it. Time's Scar is another one of my favorites, the energy of that piece is unreal and sets the tone right from the title screen.
It's not underrated, but overshadowed by Xenogears. Which is the magnum opus of Mitsuda works.
So weird to see that. I suppose I'm not as clued in to what younger gamers think but I'd say about a decade ago when I used to have these kinds of talks about video game music on various sites people always seemed to agree that Chrono Cross has one of the best soundtracks around.
@@arapaimagold8088 i prefer chrono cross though
Me too, 1000% It may be nostalgia that affects my view, but man this is a beautiful soundtrack@@bloody4558
Chrono trigger, Cross, xenogears, all phenomenal sound tracks sometimes I cant decide which is my favorite.
The entire game, imo, deals with the melancholy of life. Even the beginning of the game it talks about loves list and the tides of life continuing on. Cold, callous, smothering. Yet still, it goes on. The pasts that we have and the lives we could have had. If only things were different. What if things were different? Would we be together now? Or would you have left regardless? A friend lost, a lover left, an opportunity missed. How would our lives be if things played out differently. It's such a beautiful game and I adore every bit of it.
No wonder I connected with it so hard
Just listen to the entire OST it is a whole masterpiece.
Why not!
Especially Time scar, must listen
@@MarcoMeatballPlease review more Chrono Cross OST
Long ago I bought a Chrono Cross music book for the guitar and had it signed by Mitsuda while he was in town. If there was ever a time where I felt the presence of greatness, that was it.
*raw envy*
I can't play a single instrument, and likely never will. But if I had that, I'd have it mounted on my wall. Mitsuda has provided the soundtrack for so many of my daydreams.
I listen to this song almost every night on repeat to get to sleep. Been doing it for years. It is my absolute favorite song
This song still evokes in me a kind of sorrowful sublimity. Everything you said to describe how the song feels, is actually the gist of what the vocalist is singing about in the lyrics. But I think you realize that when you pop up the lyrics in the video. Music really is a language that speaks past spoken vocabulary and you translate it so well for us when you do these videos. It's so satisfying to watch. :-)
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Dude, Yasunori Mitsuda is a must listen to.
CHRONO CROSS!? i love when people give smaller less known tracks a chance. the other day i finished a game called deaths gambit and it's so small that it's hard to find info on it, but but the ost "endless" hit me hard. if anyone reading this loves video game music like me please go hear endless from deaths gambit
chrono cross sound tracks, totally are NOT a small and less known ones XD
@TBN won't pop i only ever hear people talk about xeno never CC but i guess i just don't notice it, i know CC isn't that small, like it's not granblue fantasy or anything thats only popular in japan but still i can't think of any time where i heard someone mention CC tracks, guess i'm in a different part of the internet
Impressive
@@WastedTalent83 "Jewel That Cannot Be Stolen" & "Scars Left By Time" are much better known than the rest, I think. It's relative.
this and "time's scar" are legitimately some of the most beautiful pieces of music video games have given to the world. it's a such a shame that the version of "gale" the game uses is pretty poor and what's worse is that gale is the main battle theme, so you hear it a lot, but the orginal version of "gale" from the sort of prequel to cross(but post trigger) called "radical dreamers" is excellent stuff.
Some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard, period.
Before the hard drive crash, my old music collection included over 11k tracks in 15 languages from 6 continents spanning ~700 years. This stands up.
I've listened to this entire soundtrack countless times. One of my favorite tracks of any game here. My parents always wrote these off as just video games... Like do you understand these are COMPOSERS in SquareEnix
I wonder more if it's based off just how people have been exposed to music.
most people are exposed to that which is on the radio. and THAT synthetic favoritism by playing the same musicians and styles over and over causes people to a favoritism to music they've heard before.
I mean, it used to be a thing (and still is) where a metalhead willn't listen to country, a rocker willn't listen to classical, a country fan willn't listen to Electronica, a Rocker willn't listen to Folk Metal, etc. And all because when they first hear it they instantly think "WTF is this? it isn't what i'm used to hearing.. i dislike it!"
Strangely enough I've noticed that video game music lovers tend to branch out the most. I think it is because video game music doesn't always draw the distinctions between genre's of music and so VGM lovers know the utter truth of:
MUSIC IS MUSIC.
Regardless of what genre it is. If you don't like it don't say "that aint real music!" acknowledge what it is and move on if you don't like it. Or delve more into that new genre just to know and understand it and you may find a composition or musician or album within it that you may actually like.
I'd take it a step further and say ppl like Nobou Uematsu and Yasunori mitsuda are modern day mozart / Beethoven / Bach.
This song is incredible, Yasunori Mitsuda never disappoints
Beautifully Said :)
Bittersweet and longing? Try Wagakki Band - Doppo live version from premium symphony night.
Delicacy and beauty. Just an acoustic guitar and amazing vocals. 1 insturment and vocals. Having less can be more, and it sure is here. Wonderfully writen lyrics as well. Something I for sure will remember.
Listening to this song while riding your bike, starring at the very blue sky, brings you tears...
This song, The intro and Star Stealing Girl are the most beautiful tracks on this OST.
You nailed the theme of the song. This plays at the end of the game where it’s theorized that the female lead is sent across time and longs to meet the male lead again.
I absolutely love your analysis of this song, and not only because how how spot-on it is.
It is really amazing how songs, especially simple ones, can invoke such reactions in us. In this instance, as if the young girl managed to craft a song capable of carrying all the emotions of her experience and offering them upward in the hope-against-hope that it reaches the target of her affections. And we are given privy to such a profound 'nakedness' - using your instance of the world - of her soul that it leaves us in a reverent somberness as we also recall similar experiences that invoked these emotions within us.
Chrono Cross, aside from also being a great game, has one of the best OSTs of all time of any game. If you haven't listened to the entire OST, I would highly, highly recommend doing so because you will not regret it.
When you get a chance to do so, you should definitely give Trigger and Cross a try. I’d give you my take on the song, but I don’t want to spoil your experience. This song holds a special place in my heart.
Chrono Trigger is just timeless. If you think that Daggerfall was released around the same time, it's actually ridiculous how badly it aged compared to CT.
The saddest song youll ever hear in the game is "Girl who stole the stars from the sky" or is sometimes just "star stealing girl". It doesnt have lyrics but theres a message there. Like a memory from the past, or a person, that youll never get back or never see again. Or a home that you long to return to that doesnt exist anymore or may never have. That's what i feel from it.
Oh my god yessssss
Chrono cross soundtracks are so underrated
I wish more people got to appreciate this game 😭
I must admit I never felt like Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross really belonged in the same series... But damn did Cross have some of the best music of the Playstation era.
well truth is, they originally aren't.
Chrono Cross was originally made as a draft for Final Fantasy 8 but was rejected and put aside as a side-project. Then (i don't really remember the details) for some reason some higher ups in Square or something wants it to be linked to Chrono Trigger, and thus they had to abruptly made some last minute changes. (or so I've heard, cmiiw).
Chrono Trigger itself also suffers from the same case, it got rejected as Final Fantasy and became its own thing, iirc they tried to compete with Dragon Quest (thus why they chose Toriyama Akira as the character designer)... so is Xenogears , Saga Frontier , and Vagrant Story.
If I may add, you can also react to "Garden of the Gods" another hauntingly beautiful OST from Chrono Cross. I would love to hear your interpretation of this song.
Yeeeeees!!! I've so been looking forward to seeing you cover Chrono Cross. Though I will again humbly recommend The Girl Who Stole the Stars. I think you'll find it's also a very emotional piece.
Thank you for covering songs of this masterpiece, Chrono Cross. I have a humble request, if I may: there's a song in this game called Another Guldove, which makes me cry EVEYTIME I listen to it; it brings me memories of my childhood and my loved ones who are not here anymore, even though I didn't listen to it at the time. I'd love to see your take on it. Outstanding work, mate. I salute you 🙏🏽
My thought regarding Chrono Cross is mixed. I love it as a standalone game but think it's a misfire as a sequel for Chrono Trigger.
However, regardless of what I think about it, the music is top notch. I grew up listening to this song.
Also I find it interesting how many key points of the story and ending you managed to get just from analyzing this songs.
I grew up listening to those OST composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, Time's scar (my best ost ever), radical dreams, xenogears ost, suikoden2 ost.... Best JRPG era that made up my childhood, i really love those OST and still listen to it to feel relaxation and epicness also.
I feel lucky to have grow up in that era, to get to know those gems.
edit: i just edited my comment to say that you really gave more life to the music by your words. Your words really made a touch of happiness for listening to the music
I didn't much like Chrono Cross, but the music and art direction were outstanding. So good, in fact, that I'd recommend the game despite not being a fan.
Never played it either, but I've known the music for years. Both Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross have amazing soundtracks.
As someone that played Chrono Cross' whole game back in the day when it came out, on PS1, this magnificent soundtrack brings a lot of memories and feelings each time I listen to it.
The same thing that happens to me when I listen to FFVIII's OST (my first FF since I never played FFVII), that's why I fell in love with Mitsuda's and Uematsu's incredible work.🥰
Ah, Chrono Cross. Constantly in limbo as either my #1 or #2 JRPG lol.
When it comes to music I’m always drawn to melody, especially for songs in languages not native to mine. This song is just beautiful to listen and it saddens me that I’m the only person in my circle of associates and friends who appreciates this quality.
Noriko Mitose does a lot of music in Ar tonelico as well! she's not too much in Ar tonelico 3 except for a boss theme, but she has a few songs in 1 and 2. her normal music is really calming like this as well, i really love her music and voice.
This song was included in a playlist of " most beautiful songs" that was recommended to me. I was playing it loudly one day and my husband said...do you know what this song is? He proceeded to tell me that it was a SE song and from a game that he loved playing as a teen. As someone who lost a parent...this song resonates so strongly to the loss, pain, emptiness and hope. It is true what Yasunori Mitsuda said "music becomes infused with soul when played". How true he is.
theme song of my childhood
first jrp i played and shaped me as a person
also your breakdown is on point as usual 👍
Chrono cross has a lot of good music. The pirce I believe is from the ending credits if I recall.
Chrono Cross is one of my favorite games of all time. People sleep on it but it's amazing.
ライナーノートなどで触れられていますが、ゲームマシンのスペックが上がってフルオーケストラも使えたこの時期に、エンディングにボーカルとギターだけを使ったこの曲は、ある意味冒険でした。
ギターを担当なされた吉良知彦さんは残念ながらお亡くなりになられましたが、ご自身でも作曲などを為されてZABADAKというグループで活動されていらっしゃいました。素晴らしい楽曲もたくさん遺されています。
I grew up a very poor kid, but my grandparents managed to gift me and my siblings a PS with Chrono Cross. We didn't own many games, but this is the one that always stuck out to me. I was still really young so I often watched my brother play because I wasn't very good and he was too impatient to teach me lol. But the OST always gives me such nostalgia feels, I love love love Mitsuda's musical work and watching other reactors taught me about the "Mitsuda Lick", which I INSTANTLY recognized in Toby Fox's Undertale in Battle Against a True Hero. Glad I stumbled upon your channel! 😊
This song and Radical Dreamers are my favorites!
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I remember the first games I've played were *star ocean 2* and *chrono cross* which shaped my gaming tastes even up to this day!
This song is speeeeeeeeeeeeecilly good, because its the song for the best possible ending, but even when its the ending where everyting is "fixed" it a terribly sad ending!, this song captures exactly that feeling (the lirycs are fantastic too), this is a song that moves feelings in so deep waves, and the voice is just PERFECT.
Chrono Trigger and Cross has an incredible OST, and both games use emotional music during the whole game to enphatize the scenes... (VERY masterfully done)
you are not mistaken by your analisis, it is a love song, and it is about loss...
the main character of the game is a "dream"... he does not exist, he was created by a scar in time during the events of the first game, there is an entity by the name "lavos" that entity consume time, when the hero "chrono" tried to defeat him he unleashed a domino effect trough time and dimensions, chrono cross is about THOSE fisures, the "hero" Serge is in reality someone who is dead, and the "heroine" is the one lavos is fused with and using as a catalist to consume time and space... (both games happens at the same time, both are precuel, and both are sequel, its hard to explain as one game is about time travel, and the other is about dimensional travel), key point here is "scala" who is this inmensibly powerfull magic user is the one that lavos is fused with, and "kid" the girl you use during the whole game with the main hero (the dream) is an alternate version of scala (just as Serge).
when you reach the secret true ending of the game KID and schala became one, and Serge (the hero) dissapears as he was never part of the reality he was just but an echo "a dream" hence the radical dreamer.... "Kid" (she is the one that sings this song), and you get some pretty images of her living her life in modern era remembering a dream that "never was" (they will never met again).
The game has a "happy ending" but its also a tragedy.
it fucking sad and pretty at the same time (they saved reality itself at the cost of everthing).
here are the lyrics
I held onto the trembling light without letting it go.
Wandering at the edge of the time I've traveled so far
I've been looking for it, and I don't even know its name. (*interpretation, "looking for it", means the light she mentions, that light is Serge*)
I want to share just one feeling with you.
Time is full of love and pain.
But I remember it.
forever. . .
For some time now, it had been echoing in the depths of my chest. . .
It's more of a whisper than a drop of water
This prayers I spun in the darkness of the rising stars,
May it reach your distant sky. . .
(this is super strong because contrary to most interpretations of the song like the one you used here they usally use "HIM" instead of "IT" and clearly refers the song towards serge, but that is actually META, this is the player knowledge, NOT HERS..., she does NOT remember him as she is not Kid either... she is a whole new entity with the inner power of Schala and Kid (her escense) as time and space was correcter and what "happened" never did, so what she "remembers" is a dream, an echo, nothing but a feeling, a sensation, the light that took her out of the darkness "lavos" the time devourer)
she feels the feeling but does not really know what it is asides from the longing... and that's the melancholy she feels (again... the radical dreamer).
fun fact...
Yasunori Mitsuda was a sound designer who asked for a chance to compose for a game (the first one, chrono triger). They gave him a year to do the whole soundtrack and he worked himself so hard he was hospitalized with Nobuo Uematsu finishing up the final parts of the soundtrack.
He did such an impressive original sound track that they ended having Mitsuda doing the music for their most important IP's (this one included)
Ah yesss, thank you for this react. This game ost is so underrated bcs what i think this game ost is masterpiece(ik maybe some people wouldn't agree but ok) coz till this day from my childhood to now, i still hearing this ost as my music playlist. It's just so wonderful you know what im saying? It's full of emotional like the ed song which is radical dreamer, field of time and many others ESPECIALLY time scar, it's just hit different. Yasunori mitsuda respect for you
I've only listened to a few of you videos so far (just the ones for music I know), and it's remarkable how close you got to the situation this song plays over.
If I may recommend a piece from Final Fantasy IX: Melodies of Life, a beautiful song sung by the main female lead within the game itself.
That’s the third video I ever made!
@@MarcoMeatball Oh. I'm guessing it's the one entitled "The Final Fantasy Series Has the Best Love Songs!?"? I think I initially missed it because I didn't see it the two playlists I looked at when I glanced at your channel.
Adding it to the Watch Later list!
In that case, may I instead suggest Chrono Trigger's World Revolution?
there's something about the way music of games like this from the OG Playstation era was mixed or processed; or honestly most media from that time. they were kind of raw and unrefined which made it feel that much more sincere and heartfelt.
I mean, Chrono Cross opening theme is one of the most iconic in gaming, PS1 golden years of gaming. But, I have to recommend the Radical Dreamers version sung by Sarah Àlainn from To Far Away Times - Chrono Trigger & Chrono Cross Arrangement Album. Solely because how incredible an artist she is. Song has a different tone than this, more mature and properly orchestrated.
Additional fantastic pieces from this game's soundtrack: Star-stealing girl, Orphanage of Flame, and Dragon God. Cannot recommend strongly enough.
Chrono Cross has absolutely the best music of any videogame ever. Probably some of my favorite tracks of all time.
You listening to Chrono Cross is wonderful ^-^ I, too, have never played it but have listened to the OST countless times. Enjoy your time with it!
I've never played any of the Chrono games but when I first heard some of the music, I felt a very nostalgic feeling. It's strange being nostalgic for something new to me, but I figure it's something in how it's written, including the soundfonts of the more midi ones, and the emotions conveyed through them and this song.
Additionally, the first time I heard this one, it was a cover by Erutan which is a beautiful rendition.
One of the beautiful song I have ever heard, I will never forget about this legendary ost.
It’s just purely amazing to listen too 🎶
Chross has some pros and cons to it in terms of gameplay mechanics, but Mitsuda's music from it might actually be the best game OST ever produced. That said, if you want to play any of his classic titles, play Chrono Trigger (the DS version is probably the definitive one, as someone who bought it release day on SNES) and play Xenogears. In terms of classic Square I'm a diehard fan of Matsuno's, but I both are must-play titles in my book.
Also it's weird to remember that I played Radical Dreamers on an emulator with a printed fan translation, just like FF5 but an entire generation later. Those were the days.
Btw, Yasunori Mitsuda's CREID album from Xenogears would be an interesting listen from you and your relevant point of view.
Both of the soundtracks for Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross are absolutely *_amazing._* Both are in my top three video game soundtracks of all time (the other being Final Fantasy VI), and I can literally listen to them for days on end without getting bored.
"Itetsuku hoshi no yami e, tsumugu inori ga, tooi anata no sora ni, todoku yoo ni" (may this prayer i spun/made and send to the starry darkness, reach your distant sky)
Thank you for reviewing this! This makes me so happy
From the same game also: "Time's scar" next please 😆
Thank you for doing reaction with my best-loved JRPG.
If you have interest, maybe you could do a reaction with Dead Sea, another chono cross score in the game.
I was shocked when I was just a child. That huge desperate of mankind, was intense and sorrowful.
Great vid! Love it.
This is one of those songs I have to force myself to listen to.
It just reminds me, you, of what the ending really means and it is not pleasant.
It's one of four games that have absolutely destroyed me emotionally. My favorite game ever I've replayed more than a dozen times, but I refuse to go past the final save point after my first play. CC is similar.
Now that you've heard each pluck of the heart strings that this song resonates as it goes through the ending credits, I highly recommend for you to check out the live orchestrated performance on Cosmosky Orchestra's channel. It's pretty much the most faithful musical rendition of how the final boss utilizes this song to unlock the true ending, & give us this song. It's truly touching.
Gets me even more excited for Xenoblade 3; Mitsuda!
My favourite is scars of time. Or was it time’s scar.
for me, Chrono Cross has the most beautiful game soundtrack ever
Oh man, you definitely should look into the music from Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross. It’s easily some of the best out there.
If Final Fantasy distracted you, then you likely missed out on Dragon Quest series (with SquareSoft's reluctance to release it to the West until recently so we relied on fan translations). Dragon Quest XI is super accessible, has the music of all the past games and its practically a love letter to the entire series.
I really want to sit down with it badly
Love the video quality. It reminds me of older, simpler times. It fits the music perfectly :')
Its an epic game, and has a alot of beautiful soundtrack inside it. Well not many ppl these day get to enjoy this game and music
my favorite ost in Chrono Cross, so nostalgic
first verse :
osanai te ni tsutsunda furueteru sono hikari wo
kokomade tadottekita jikan no fuchi wo samayoi
sagashitsuduketekita yo! namae sae shiranai keredo
tada hitotsu no omoi wo anata ni te watashitakute...
The trembling light wrapped within the young/small hand
That I've followed up to this point, through the edge of time
I've been looking for it, even thou I don't know what its name is
But there's this one feeling I wanted to give to you...
2nd verse :
Toki wa ai mo itami mo fukaku dakitome
Keshite yukukedo watashi wa oboeteiru
Zutto...
Time embraces both love and pain deeply
It will pass away one day but I will remember it
Always...
3rd verse :
Watashi no mune no oku ni itsu kara ka hibiiteita
Yotsuyu no shizuku yori mo kasukana sasayaki dakedo
I'm not sure since when it has been staying in my heart
Its whisper fainter than the drop of a night's dew
4th verse :
Itetsuku hoshi no yami he tsumugu inori ga
Tooi anata no sora ni todoku you ni...
May the prayers weaved into the darkness of the frozen star
Reach your distant sky...
btw, you definitely have to react to the OP music. Its the best one in the series!
Loved your reaction! I haven't played Chrono Cross, too 😅
So beautiful!!
One of my favorite songs
Awesome video as always!
I was watching your videos and I’ve seen that you have made a couple of monster hunter. You should definetly listen and react to Brachydios/raging brachydios theme from Monster hunter World (it has two phases for the raging variant, the brachydios theme and it’s own theme, it’s incredible). It’s one of my favorite soundtrack, it’s so energetic and amazing
At least you admit the sin. Its the first step xD. The real challange though its not playing or completing chrono cross....but coming anywhere close to understandimg it. Gl with that if you ever dare try.
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If you want to listen to two other hauntingly beautiful music by Yasunori Mitsuda, I highly recommend, The Girl Who Stole the Stars from Chrono Cross and Nocturne from Kirite.
if you want another song about loss, please, PLEASE react to NieR Automata's "dependant weakling." all of the tracks in automata are masterclass, but this one is one of the best
I don't know if you will get around to it, but would you give "The Right" from the King's Raid Ch. 10 ost a listen? Now, there are different versions English, Japanese, and Korean. Each has it's own sound, but I think that the English version just hits SO much harder. (I think each version is sung by the same person too!) King's Raid has had some of the most amazing title themes and I would love to see people check out the OST! Anyway, keep doing what you are doing! I LOVE these breakdowns and have found new songs to check out and add to playlists thanks to you!
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Aaaaaaaaaaa one of my fave songs ever. I hope you can enjoy the games sometime!!
Also, this game came out when I first started learning Japanese as a kid, and listening to it now, and just, having this deep understanding of the language, the lyrics, and all of it mixing together has me here with tears silently streaming down my face.
You’re right about the feelings of love, longing, and melancholic loss
“Time deeply embraces both pain and love
And even though it will fade away
I will remember (you) always…”
Ever listen to "Small Two of Pieces" from the end of Xenogears?
The vocals, for lack of a better word from my vocabulary, always had a very Japanese timbre and tonality to it. Rather than the Broadway, operatic, pop, or 'Disney' stylings. In my mind if feels less like a silk sheet, but more like a worn yarn tapestry. Still soft, but far from sterile or simple in its texture. The words might tell one story like the actual story depicted on a tapestry, but feeling the tapestry to understand what the tapestry itself has been through is another one (and that story we get through the voice's quality).
This track successfully summons the games imagery to my mind. Played that as a kid, but never finished it. It just wasn't nearly as good as Chono Trigger, never got into it, great song though.
Both Chrono Cross and Trigger have the best soundtracks of all time 💖
Dreams of Another Shore is the best jrpg music from Chrono Cross hands DOWN. The original soundtrack line up were seminal
I played CT and CC, the music in CC is fantastic, though while CT was a masterpiece I thought CC as a game was a mess. I think even right after I finished CC I couldn't have told you what it was about. lol
I've always loved this song, but the way you vocalized the tone suddenly makes me remember parts of FFXIV's The Maker's Ruin! Weird! D:
even when I was hearing the vocals in the track I was thinking "was there a non vocal version of this in game or even in Chrono Trigger?" but as I kept thinking, Maker's Ruin started working it's way in and I was like "nooooo way!"
Don't already listen to it before reacting to it.
Alrighty 1st of all wellcome to one of my favorite ost
2nd for a second recommendation listen to prisoners of fate
sta colonna sonora, e' qualcosa di epico. Semplice ma fantastica, un po' tipo To zanarkand. E and Small two pieces from Xenogears , che ha colonne sonore da brivido.
Hai ragione! Proprio come zanarkand.
I don't know if this isn't too much but have you ever listen to any monster hunter music rise in particular
I should check out some rise tunes since it just came out
Hello marco, i really like the content in your channel the way you analyze every music you encounter i really appreciate if you would react to a song called regression its a song from the game of mihoyo called honkai impact. Really love your content i hope you would react to it 😍😍😍
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What perplexes me the most, is that cross is a mediocre game all things considered, full of flaws and lacking a lot of what made trigger an eternal classic. But when this song plays at the end, you get attached to the final pursue between kid and serge. It still makes me internally cry.
"I know it's a sin, but I've never played Chrono Trigger."
I gasped. Heresy.
Aahh chrono cross my childhood game. When i was 9 i was playing this game. So much.
And the song ooohhhh god tbe ost of tbis game was so good
This song is the true ending of this game.
When Kid and Schala. And she was searching for Serge. Because in the end after defeating time devourer serge lost his memories of his adventure.
KidSchala also lost in time she searching him in the future. Past event now
This is the end credits song. It's about a girl who was trapped in a void beyond time. Suddenly she hears a young boy crying and her heart yearns to reach out to comfort him. She finds a way to reach out across time and save him before she is trapped entirely. In the end he also finds a way to save her, but she has to return and they won't see each other again in his lifetime. Before they part she vows she will find him again "someday". She's still out there looking and hoping to meet him again.
You see on the desk that was in the intro a picture of Schala "Kid" Zeal and Serge together, taken like a wedding photo, right at the end. The desk where the book is being read is from their home. So they did actually meet each other in that lifetime. She can't quite remember so searches across all timelines to find him and winds up on the beach where the worlds used to meet.
If Serge carries on like normal by not getting the "True" Ending he just lives out his life in the village and marries Lenna instead. Schala "Kid" Zeal decides to leave him be and says goodbye.
Reminds me of the plot of Xenogears. (Also, same musical composer - Yasunori Mitsuda.)
@@owenmcgee891 Masato Kato worked as a writer on Xenogears before going on to direct and write Chrono Cross en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masato_Kato
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Isn't that the story of Kid or Harlet?
Spoiler Alert:
This plays during the credits. When you said that it ends with a short sense of hope: immediately after the credits, it shows someone standing in the streets of Tokyo. You only see her from behind, but it's clearly the girl that was "lost", and has jumped to our dimension.
She is not lost, she is looking for Serge, as she promised - wherever and whenever he is reborn, no matter when and where.
The music from chrono cross is a musical journey in itself. Poignant, lively, dramatic and beautiful. I played chrono cross many years ago when it came out but i still go back and listen to the music whenever i get that itch of nostalgia. Glad you're getting a chance at hearing the music, even if it's one (so far). :)
Why only listen to it when nostalgia hits? listen to it whenever and whereever. Ive had Time's scar on my saved music SD card/mp3 player (yes, I still have a few) ever since I played Chrono cross. The same is true for Chrono Trigger (i even have like 12 variants/remixes of Schalla's Theme), Final Fantasy, Baiten Kaitos, Command and Conquer, Xenoblade Chronicles, Etc. Course i do get a lot of people asking "what IS this?" in both the positive and negative inquiry when I play it via Bluetooth speaker. But i also get those who recognize it instantly and love it (like with Final Fantasy 9's Seymour battle, or a kid around 14 noticing i was playing world 2-1 (shop keeper variant) of Crypt of The Necrodancer,) and others who swear they've heard the music before and make a best guess.
It IS a bit sad though when people shit on music just because it isn't lyrical (as with most Video Game Music), or in another language (as is the case with Shwarz Stien featuring Gackt. I only marginally like gackt due to FF Crisis Core) as it shows that if people can be soo closed off to the wide wonders of music to that extent.. no wonder they are closed off to many other things as well.
@@jesseallen3109 nostalgia hits when it hits, sometimes for 3 days in a row and sometimes 3 weeks. It's not far and spread apart. Also nothing wrong with how often you listen to it. I have a video games music playlist that i put on shuffle and sometimes it'll play the random song from a game i played years ago.
@@kikukat8780 well.. okay.. fair enough. But i wonder if that means I'm just one walking nostalgia trip and stuck in the past?
I always thought it was just that today's music doesn't always catch my attention due to either my own preferences (like most rap i don't care for) or just overall not that interesting (WAP comes to mind) or something else that's specific to that song or artist..
Then again those are mostly pop songs and I tend to gravitate more towards lesser known musicians or things that are willing to take risks with experimental Music (BT, and shoegazer music come to mind).
I should have also prefaced with the fact that my playlists are like.. 70-80% video game music, with anime music and a smattering of Folk metal, Rock, Pop (superman just hits real nice), Electronica, Trance, New age, World Fusion, Shoegazer, post rock, Japanese pop (aforementioned Schwarz Stein.. damn it, knew i spelt that wrong first time), and some other genres. HEck i got some music from a game I didn't even play but someone mentioned it to me and i got it.
Mm.. i'm rambling.. gonna end this here. Sorry for the wall-o-text. have a nice day.
@@jesseallen3109 hey nothing wrong with what you like. I have a coworker who listens to nothing but anime songs, another into kpop, a guy heavily into only metal and those are just to name a few. I understand that it seems like "the norm" is to listen to pop music of today or whatever and tbh i do listen to a few but a lot of my music is mixed and all over the place. I do get the occasional weird eye when i listen to a heavy metal song, followed by a song like this one from chrono cross to darude's sandstorm and so on forth. Don't be put off by what other people think of your music. You listen to it because it makes you feel good or gives you nostalgia like it does me and that's what really matters in the end! :)
This soundtrack is Mitsuda's masterpiece. It will never leave my favorites, there are so many beautiful tracks that NEVER fail to make you feel deeply
Great. Ar tonelico and Nier Gestalt/Replicant was one thing, but this... Now you hit me in another one of my nostalgia feels. I liked Chrono Trigger more as a game, but I definitely like Chrono Cross' soundtrack more. Radical Dreamers is one of my favorite songs in the game. Love the simplicity of just using the acoustic guitar. Also, your interpretation of the song is so eerily accurate. Then there's the true ending of the game itself with this song playing. Btw, I also happen to be a bigger FF fan myself, with my obsession being FF6. Still managed to play the Chrono games, mainly because Chrono Trigger was the first game I played that had a NG+.
Random thought, but related to the games, one of the Chrono series albums I 'recently' listened to was To Far Away Times, a special arrangement album featuring some select tracks from both Chrono games. The music compared to its game counterparts was very interesting to say the least, especially Time's Scar. Personal favorite from that album is Schala's Theme, mainly because Laura Shigihara, who already did a short cover of that theme, was the vocalist for that track. She has a YT channel under the name Supershigi. Either way, I do recommend that album if you ever wish to give a listen.