Fun fact: This song has kind of a phase 1 and a phase 2 which are stitched together by 14 unique transition segments and no I didn't write that wrong. They actually made 14 completely unique transitions to the track, just so that the music would blend together seamlessly from phase 1 to 2 and that's absolutely insane. This is also the reason that the version you listened to had some weird stops to it, because it also included some of the transition segments (the majority were left out though.). Another fun fact: The composer Hirokazu Ando actually plays bass himself, and often records himself playing for the tracks he composes, so it's very possible that the bass in the song is actually being played by him and that's also really cool.
WHAT That's sick! XD That's so cool, thanks for the info! I didn't know he played the bass, I always find it really cool when the composer themselves also plays a part in their own song's performance, if you know what I mean!
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"What even is Kirby" Kirby is a friend who is perpetually hungry, adorable, and the only one who can save us from the terrifying reality that is the vastness of space
Kirby is the primordial void when fused with friendship. He is the most powerful eldritch being in his canon, and enjoys long naps. He has defeated gods and is friend to all who want to be his friend. He saves worlds regularly only to celebrate with cake. Kirby is what happens when an eldritch monstrosity is also an adorable friend.
I can't help but chuckle internally every time someone says 'this sounds adult for *insert series here*' when they have lore akin to that of Eldritch horror stories with a cute coat of paint
Since you never really played Kirby. I’ll inform you that almost every Kirby game starts simply and cute and ends with Kirby defeating an intergalactic horror or demonic god or murder AI. I would recommend listening to Astral birth-void’s theme from Kirby Star Allies.
the ENTIRETY of the Void Termina suite including astral-birth void is just incredible (they did the whole thing during the 30th anniversary concert and it's INSANE)
I love watching people who don’t know Kirby getting a taste of the the true depth of the lore. The moments of “wait what? That’s in a Kirby game!?” Is always satisfying
The final boss uses Planet Pop Star (Kirby's home planet) as a projectile to try to destroy Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Parallel post apocalyptic earth) and this isn't even the most crazy final boss either, Star Dream (Final boss of Planet Robobot) tried to wipe out all life in the universe, and Void Termina (Final boss of Star Allies) is the origin of all Dark Matter and is a destroyer of Universes and heavily implied to be a version of Kirby before becoming, well, Kirby
10:11 "in kirby , The forgoten land this is serious" Fun fact , in almost every Kirby game finale you are figting an Actual god or facin a universe ending calamity or an eldrictch lovecraftian nightmare.....with the power of friendship and happynes (canonically acurate)
Kirby lore can be summarized in three points 1) Someone steals Kirby's strawberry cake 2) Kirby defeats a multiversal Elder God 3) Kirby goes back home to take a nap
Kirby has a wild music identity these days, especially when it comes to the soundtrack for the endgame scenarios. The juxtaposition between this and Kirby's happy, childlike, ultra-friendly exterior is so funny and it's hard to put into words just what makes it so compelling. But it absolutely is compelling all the same.
Kirby from outside is a cute and colorful game, but when you get deeper, you realise it has one of the crasiest lore combined with banger music. It also has Dedede, the most glorious character in the franchise
"What is Kirby" you ask? He is many things. He's a loyal friend, an ally to Popstar...or he could be the infantile reincarnation of an eldritch god, with an all consuming hunger that compels him to devour all things in the universe. Anyway, wonderful reaction, and I love that you started listening to Kirby music. It's been some of my favorites and I hope you listen to more, Marco.
"Or"? Nah, he's both of those things. He's an infant incarnation of the Space Between Spaces, of the Void from which all worlds arise and to which all worlds eventually return, of the Emptiness Beyond which wishes to devour All That Is. He is also quite literally made of Friendship, and would and has done many things to protect those he considers friends. Even the dozens upon dozens of sapients he consumes regularly likely don't stay dead, because the last time Death tried to set up shop in Dreamland it ambushed Kirby, decisively defeated him, and then still got its rear soundly and decisively handed to it _by_ Kirby.
"It sounds so like, adult, for a Kirby game" welcome to Kirby final bosses lmao, and Kirby endgames in general. It always goes from cute and rosey to -incredibly dark- lol. Forgotten Land in general has a fantastic soundtrack, highly reccomend checking out the rest of it whether on your own or otherwise.
"I didn't necessarily take Kirby seriously" has to be one of the most accurate ways of describing what people both out and in-game think of Kirby after their first *real* encounter with the pink ball.
Fun fact about this song. There are 14 different transitions between the first phase of the song and the second phase of the song depending on where in the song you are after beating the first phase of the boss fight.
OH MY GOD, I was really hoping that you could listen to this song, is probably one of, if not, the best final boss theme in Kirby's history. Now, for context, this song plays when you battle "Fecto Elfilis" an eldritch alien that nearly drove the Forgotten land people to extinction. The reason why the song is called "Two planets approach the Roche limit" is because as a last resort, Fecto Elfilis opens a hole in reality to use Kirby's home planet (Popstar) as a meteor. Also, and this is an interpretation of mine, I believe the reason the singer did that whistle tone, is to sound like a synthesizer, to evoke that classic alien theme that you could hear in movies and Tv shows. Anyway, you're one of my favorite UA-camrs, and I'm so happy for the 100K. Also, sorry if my grammar isn't the best.
The Star Conquering Traveller, is the song theme for the strongest enemy in the Kirby franchise (as today), it is a 9+ minutes suit with multiple phases, which actually possesses canonical lyrics. (According to the official Twitter, said lyrics are the following, however, it is never explained where or how they fit in the musical composition) Rise! Oh Dark Lord of Despair! Crush the stars! Lay waste to care! (x4) Rise and cover the land in sorrows! May your symphony of emptiness bring the end of all tomorrows! Rise! Oh, Dark Lord of Despair! Crush the stars! Lay waste to care! (x4) Upon your wing, dark judgment bring! May your symphony of tragedy cause the end of everything! ---------- And this, is the theme... For Void Termina~.
Kirby's music is crazy underappreciated, IMO. There's far more weird off-the-wall experimental stuff than you would ever expect for such a cute series. My go-to example is Kirby Super Star for the SNES, which had a microtonal track and another one that changed key signatures more or less every measure for most of the song.
I wish I was kidding, but last night I had a dream that you reacted to this song. Your note about the jazz riffs is very appropriate! They pop up in a few other songs on the soundtrack, such The Battle of Blizzard Bridge. I'm glad you've begun to see the light on Kirby music 😉 As plenty of others have said already, the final bosses of this franchise go hard, and so does the music in them. Kirby is one of the franchises that does boss themes better than most others, in my opinion, of course. There's even an official operatic (or so I assume, you're the former opera singer here) arrangement of the final boss theme of Kirby Triple Deluxe.
One of the composers in the Kirby series, Hirokazu Ando, has a background in jazz and jazz fusion. In fact, an arrangement of one of his compositions recently won a Grammy earlier this year (for Best Arrangement in Jazz iirc).
Kirby always had a few songs and antagonists that subvert expectations. The Zero Two theme from Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards is an experience. That was my first Kirby game and, especially as a child, I did not expect THAT. Everything about it is so wildly different from the rest of the game.
People constantly underestimate the Kirby franchise, and while not every single one is a grand slam, most of them are at least home runs. If you're curious, a longtime YT animator named TerminalMontage has a series called "Something About ______" for many series; my favorite is the one for Kirby and the Crystal Shards. Definitely recommend.
A good amount of kirby games have kirby being underestimated by the villains. Which is a cool theme of the series that not everything is what it seems on the surface level.
The composer of this track is Hirokazu Ando, who has a background in jazz. He's been part of HAL's Sound Team since the second Kirby game, iirc. He's also composed quite a few final boss themes in this series, especially the past FOUR games. There's no surprise that he's added a heavy jazz influence into this series- in fact a rearrangement of one of his tracks recently won a Grammy (Storming the Halberd, performed by the 8-Bit Big Band), originally from Kirby Super Star.
Kirby lore is insane and I don't mean that metaphorically it's legit crazy, depressing, and super deep. Here's a favorite quote of mine from another UA-camr: "You wake up, it's a Monday. Your friends have all been kidnapped by furries. God must be defeated. Welcome to another Kirby game." - Failboat
Just when you think they would take what one would consider a kids game seriously they put this music out for it which is amazing I always enjoy your video Marco keep up the good work, it just goes to show how we can’t truly lose the ones we love when we have music being one of the greatest examples of that of that fact, wish you well and keep the music going.
I like how he's talking about how the 'concern' and the 'confidence' are about Kirby, but are actually the boss. The small Kirby Motif "Spring Breeze" are always sprinkled in bits in the songs.
Kirby and the Forgotten Lands' OST (and the game as a whole) really impressed me. It's so expressive and multi-layered and brims with a unique creativity that really blew my mind at some points in the game, even though I wasn't that huge into the Kirby franchise before. And it just fits so well. They even managed to give it that chiptuney feel even though it mostly uses orchestral instruments! Highly recommend it to everyone.
I recommend you listen to the entire OST of this game. Not only because it's a great listen, but because many bits and pieces are taken from many different tracks to create Two Planets Approach The Roche Limit. For example, the part you described at 3:58 is actually taken from The Battle of Blizzard Bridge. It is satisfying when you realize which leitmotif come from which track.
Awesome video! I do recommend listening to other kirby soundtracks, specially final boss themes such as Under My Control, CROWNED, Dirty & Beauty, The Star Conquering Traveller and so on. Keep up the nice work :D
I find it actually interesting what someone is hearing out of a song without the context of the game. I would highly recommend you to take a look at "Northeast Frost Street" from the same game. It's such a wonderful piece of music ^^
Yeah so for context when this plays, Kirby, who is themself an incarnation of Void born of positive emotions, and thus one of the closest things to a god the setting has, is fighting Fecto Elfilis, an angelic alien that was dubbed the "ultimate lifeform" by the people of the Forgotten Land and has the ability to tear rifts in space-time, such as to pull Kirby's home planet past the Roche limit of the Forgotten Land, as the song describes. Every Kirby game has you fighting some abomination like that (the various non-Gooey Dark Matters, Void Termina, Marx, Star Dream)
People keep bringing up this or that about Kirby having dark lore or intense action... but people are hardly talking about the music itself! I'd love to point out just how wonderful tracks like these are because they are loving culminations of leitmotifs you've heard all throughout the adventure! That's why so many of the instruments and notes are all talking to each other so effortlessly. The fact that it all pairs together so well, even for someone who has not first heard any of the leitmotifs in their original contexts... its just so lovely!
I love the opening to this theme, like listening to it bkond I bet you pictured something slowly unveiling itself by unfurling a outer shell, because my god that part is written perfectly to accompany Elfilis revealing himself, by far my favorite kirby boss next to galacta knight. And yeah all the boss themes have this sort of thrust and parry to them, you can sort of hear like two themes dishing it out to make one epic fight song in every track
I just love how “for Kirby this is serious “ oh yeah just idk Kirby’s home planet being pull throw a portal by an ancient god with the objective to crash with eart
Think of it this way Kirby Series is like those Pool that doesn't that deep at all. So you go down, but it turn out it really deep The Series build upon the cute and friendly setting while having background as horror as possible " It feel like two planet is approching" LOL
2:06 at the end of every kirby game you fight an eldritch threat in the form of a god or dimension conqueror or something other universal threat and this song is the theme of the final boss of kirby and the forgotten land, which is, you guessed it, an eldritch monster also 6:37 yeah the 2 planets crashing into eachother is about right also 11:19 to answer the question kirby is basically the (canonical) incarnation of happiness and friendship, and also a godslayer
This will always be one of my favorite songs of all time. It leaks a sort of profound sadness but also a feeling of grandness and elegance to match Fecto Elfilis and their story. It feels like a fight you don't want to have but have to anyway with the second part feeling even more like a struggle you're sort of reluctant to have but are more determined now because of how much the fight means and the stakes. I always found Fecto Elfilis to be a sort of sad character in a way having been locked in its own mind for so long (which I imagine is tortuous) and finally returning to do what it knows only to be stopped by the friend its better half bonded with. The whole fight floored me with grandeur on top of the fact I'm absolutely in love with Elfilis' design. Also, the name of the song comes from the fact Elfilis was going to crash Kirby's entire home planet into the one you're on.
I recommend the OST from Kirby: Star Allies, "Star-Conquering Traveler" (AKA final boss theme) all the way through, all phases. Genuinely an epic piece of music in a series that presents itself in such a cutesy way, and always takes a turn for the dark near the end.
Something about this final boss as well that I always appreciated is that it has a silhouette that is definitely intended to look vaguely like an angel. It has anatomy that resembles two enormous feathered wings, and it wields a long spear as a weapon that ends in a double helix that spreads out into wing-like shapes near the blade. There's definitely an undertone of some sort of "fallen angel" here that I think is reflected well in the music. The angelic choirs, the bells, the musical feeling of cosmos and falling stars, the organs being played at certain points, all leans into this I feel.
i like how you start off with complementing the space sound for the intro, but the fight happens at the top of a building. also, i really like how you say the song is "so like, adult for a kirby game" when the kirby series itself is mostly universe ending cosmic horrors.
As soon as I saw the title and had no idea what it was but instantly knew that it was something that had to do with the destruction of astral bodies and it started up with Bells and the chanting Choir, that's when I knew that this theme MEANT BUSINESS and that this was THE Final Boss Theme. What I DIDN'T expect was for it to be for the character that the designers just said "What if we take Mewtwo, split it into two separate beings from the original cut movie version of childlike innocence and the other the tortured adult soul, combined it with The Tale of Desperuex, made it the catalyst for the extinction of the human race and bringer of the 6th Cataclysm, gave it a Halberd Spear and biblically accurate Angel wings fused with it's face, and the very mirror being and equal to Kirby in every way, shape, and form, all the while the part inside of it who was with you the whole game knew what was going on and fully aware that it haa to fight you and did everything it could to prevent this final battle from happening because they truly were your friend and you were the one and only person who showed it kindness and taught it the beauty of life and all the good it can contain. And yet now trapped inside their own mind and body they are forced to watch you battle them to the very finish and know that they have to lose in order for you to win even if that means you have to end their life. A life which they only now just finally saw the goodness and beauty in living and are now forced to watch as what could have been be thrown away by their own hand. And so they even take that one last little part of themselves that they know could defeat them, give it to you, and basically strap it the most destructive blunt force of power being a literal SEMI TRUCK and say "Don't hold anything back, finish me, and please take my dreams and explore this new world for me." as you must grant them their final wish and drive up the ruining cityscape collapsing in on itself in the destruction of the whole world being torn apart rains, crashes, burns, and explodes upwards and downwards all at the same time and drive straight into them to run them over." Kirby just officially made the sad robot dog episode AGAIN actually CANON IN A REAL GAME WITH THE TRAVELING COMPANION THAT EVERYONE IMMEDIATELY DISTRUSTED AND DISLIKED SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY SEEMED SUSPICIOUS AND REMINISCENT OF WHAT ONLY HAPPENED 2 TIMES OUT OF OVER 5 BEFORE MEANING ALL THAT ANIMOSITY WASN'T JUST IN VAIN BUT REGRETFULL! And they say Nintendo games are just baby games or whatever. Yeah sure bud, go back to your microtransactions'R'AssaultScandelsUs and blind violence shooters that actually are what give video games the bad image and stigma they have. I'll be taking my friend's dreams and exploring this new world for them because they couldn't do it themselves so they wanted me to live their life on for them. And ya know what, it's rated E for everyone you savage animals. Welcome to the new world.
The name of the song makes perfect sense. Because near the final of the boss fight the boss opens a portal so that Kirbys Homeplanet Popstar and the Forgotten Land (Earth) approach. So Popstar is falling on Earth and most likely get destroyed whan it's crossing the roche limit, it even begins that parts of Dreamland are falling down.
As a big Kirby fan who plays the games, I love watching people that don’t know anything about Kirby react to music and stuff from it. It’s always fun to see reactions to such epic music!
I love the talk at the end about it probably being “not very serious” when it’s straight up Kirby slaughtering a god to save two planets and billions of lives
Welcome to the Kirby music club, basically every final boss theme is a banger, but if I had to choose one to see on this channel it would definitely be "The Star Conquering Traveler". You might even recognize it since it was the final boss theme of the Kirby game you did play. (Kirby: Star Allies)
If we're dipping our toes into the deep pool that is Kirby, you ought to check out the full arrangement for the final boss of Star Allies (which you might have already heard? As it sounds like you've played it). But specifically the one with Astral Birth Void. It's a pretty long one but it's honestly incredible, one of the few songs that gets me a little misty-eyed when I hear it. Mostly I'm sure because I'm a long-time Kirby fan - it might be a bit less impactful if you're not. But it's beautiful either way.
KatFL really is a testament to music doing wonders for the stakes (See also: Roar of Dedede having no right to rock so hard). Kirby's all about fun times and sweet dreams, so his greatest enemies are nightmares, and therein always lies an element of absurdity. But in that absurd moment, Elfilis is a beautiful monster of existential dread, and it feels amazing to take them on. If you ever do more Kirby, it would be fascinating to see what you make of CROWNED or Moonstruck Blossom as character themes. The latter especially, since it spawned an operatic aria cover (Eternal Dream).
I love your analysis. Kirby is very much a kids game... Until you hit the lore. Then we got the Lovecraft horror and souls-like melancholy, complete with death, trauma, and ruin... E for everyone! Astral Birth Void actually even pulls a Soul of Cinder in it's music by hitting you with RAW nostalgia near the end with tons of meaning imbued to the added leitmotif. So much so, it's hard not to tear up if you realize what it is. I love when tracks do that. I strongly recommend that track.
You should listen to Fatal Blooms in Moonlight! It's my second favorite song in the series, just behind this one. It's from an older game, Kirby Triple Deluxe, and is also the theme of the Final Boss.
its funny you mention 80s when a lot of forgotten land ost actually gave me an 80 vibe too. prob why i love the soundtrack so much cause my dad would always play 80s music for me as a kid growing up
Honestly I just love how alien this tune feels. It's properly otherworldly, reminding me alot of musical cues used for old sci fi movies with flying saucers and the likes. Fitting for a creature with the power to literally rip a hole in dimensions with just its mind.
I may not be correct in this fact, but I remember hearing that Makiko Ohmoto sang in this, which is crazy cuz she's also the VA for Sectonia and for the song "Moonstruck Blossom"... and Kirby's voice actor. Crazy, right?
So glad you finally listened to this! A lot of Kirby music is like this, especially final boss music, because things usually hit the fan towards the end. It's a game with a charming look but surprisingly deep lore and story. Kirby likes to hide story in pause menu text. I love it. But yeah, a lot of people looking from the outside don't really take Kirby seriously. The fanbase, on the other hand, knows otherwise. Check out more Kirby songs, I think you'll like them! (Mind in a P.R.O.G.R.A.M., C-R-O-W-N-E-D, Moonstruck Blossom, Dirty and Beauty, etc.)
The steaks are that during the song there is a interdimensional demonic, alien, being that he’s going to use the psychic power to smash two planets together
"this song is so adult for a kirby game" yeah, practically all final boss themes in the series are pretty much this deep and intense, they have no right to be this good and somehow they are and I love it
Yaaaas, I love Kirby! It's literally my favorite game franchise. I hope you listen to the the final boss themes cause they are all bangers. Some suggestions would be C.R.O.W.N.E.D., hyness hooded and unhooded, and of course masked Dedede.
I love your reaction when the singer went that high. That is my favorite part of the song cause it's so impressive. I mean I love kirby games so much and the final bosses have such amazing tracks. I'd recommend crowned or even crowning of a Supreme overlord. Btw fighting the final boss and their chaos form in this game was such a blast!
for another kirby song to listen to that i want to sneak in: Astral birth void is a one of my favourite kirby songs, it's emotional and amazing. also i don't know if you like going into music blind but i want to say one thing if you do react to this song: a major part of the pixel/piano part of the song is literally the first song (excluding title screen) you hear in the first kirby game and has been in nearly every kirby game ever since.
I kinda wanna recommend some "non-final-esque" music from this game: Northeast Frost Street Pitch Black Horror(and its in game alternate remix, Pitch Black Valley) Moonlight Canyon
There's an orchestral cover medley of the final boss themes from the Kirby Anniversary Concert that I really reccomend. They did a full cover of The Star Conquering Traveller in it, too. I don't know if you can find it on UA-cam though, but it's really good.
I'm the only one who noticed that he chose version 2 of the song? Postscript: The fact that just by listening to the song he could tell that Kirby is actually fighting something re-confirms how great this song is
I love the way you reacted to this as somone that does not know about kirby lmao. That's not a problem of course, but it's always interesting when someone says something like "this is very adult for kirby" mainly because the entire series has this very same thing. There's a LOT this series has to offer that most outsiders don't know about, such as a constant evolving lore of kirby's universe, an interconnective world, and of course, final boss music that is award winning material at the end of EVERY kirby game. If you ever want to hear any other fan favorite kirby songs, 3 on the top of my head is CROWNED, Fatal Blooms in Moonlight/Moonstruck Blossom, and Zero Two. If you ever wanted to listen to those, I think you'd love them!
"And chances are in the world of Kirby and the Forgotten Land, this _is_ serious, you know what I mean?" Well, an omnicidal psychic eldritch horror from the depths of space beyond the stars has escaped containment and is tearing the entirety of Earth apart to attack Kirby, while opening a rift to Kirby's planet _so it can telekinetically hurl the whole planet at him._ So, yeah, kinda serious. Of course, for Kirby, it's just another Tuesday...
oh man, now that you've listened to this one i really wanna hear your opinions on Astral Birth Void (Kirby Star Allies). Even though it's a long piece I think you might enjoy the maturity and seriousness of it!
Seconding every suggestion for Suite: The Star-Conquering Traveler. If you ever get to it, try to find it an upload with all five movements. The last movement (Shimmering Star) is the same music as Astral Birth: Void some comments have suggested already, by the way.
Your kinda saving the entire Universe from a newly reformed space-bending/portal maker ultimate being, so yeah, it's not so surprising that this sound serious
Absolutely loved this fight, and the music plays a huge part as to why. You've explained it pretty well, even though you haven't played the game. There's this sense of you having to face an immensely destructive yet majestic alien threat which I quite liked, and my first playthrough against this boss was a very close fight. I am not forgetting it anytime soon! You could go for Gigalomania from Live A Live next. It feels pretty similar to me as it works for very similar reasons but also has a very distinct identity and carries other subtleties.
To answer the questions about "Who's Kirby?" Basically, Kirby is a positive energy of the heart of the void Void in Kirby series is a sort of god entity that the entire universe originates from. Void consists of: Darkness, Void, Soul, Heart. So, for example Dark Matter is most likely negative darkness. Void Termina is negative heart. Fecto Elfilis (the main antagonist of Kirby and The Forgotten Land) most likely is negative soul. Meanwhile, Kirby is positive heart. All those creatures like Kirby that originate from Void are created out of a combination of strong positive or negative emotions. Also, basically all these creatures are a part of a god, The Void (they're technically not kids, but a part of the god that absorbed many emotions and fallen off)
You should listen to “Roar of Dedede” and “Masked and Wild; D.D.D.” They are really good, and, similar to this track, feels a lot more adult than the usual Kirby Boss OST, and almost feels tragic, which, in the context of it being a battle against two people who are normally friends, it can be seen as such.
Long time kirby fan here, You should definitely play Forgotten land its one of the best games in the series and i wholeheartedly recommend it. It is one of the best platformers to ever grace 2022 and the type of kirby game ive been wanting since i was 8
A little late to the party here... Just wanted to say that if you enjoyed this, I highly suggest checking out more of Kirby's recent final boss themes. "Modern" Kirby's finales have just been one home run after another for me. The songs' titles are a bit iffy since I think some of the names by which they're most commonly known are fan titles and not official ones. Anyway, I've listed the titles below CROWNED Fatal Blooms in Moonlight (AKA Moonstruck Blossom) The Star Conquering Traveler Planet Robobot's final boss theme is a bit hard to peg since it's three or four separate tracks. The names I recall are: Mind in a Program, Virtual Space Manipulator, and Vagrant Counting Song of Retrospection. Very unsure about the second title being correct as I write this. Edit: The second song isn't Virtual Space Manipulator, it's Intermezzo Without A Leader. Anyway, happy listening!
Thank you for reacting to my song Marco, I'm very happy that you liked it so much, I found it interesting to send you this one because I thought there was a lot to analyze and also because I thought it represented this darker part of the Kirby series well
Kirby music has never been my thing really, but this one is v. good indeed :) For something you could do in the future, I've gotta recommend the Ultrakill soundtrack for you to hear. Act II: Imperfect Hatred is better than Act I: Infinite Hyperdeath in my opinion, but both of them have such a unique blend of leitmotifs and themes, which make them a joy to hear. Hakita is a one man army, designing and composing the entire game and score on his own.
"what even is Kirby" well, first we have to talk about a cosmic being that simultaneously exists in all dimensions, which was awoken by blood sacrifice.
This song still hits like a truck
Or as I say: Hyper Star Truck
i see what you did there
hits like 2 planets colliding
Get tf out here 💀
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"I didn’t take Kirby seriously, but..." is something everyone says once in their life.
kirby really doesn't fuck around with ost
Fun fact: This song has kind of a phase 1 and a phase 2 which are stitched together by 14 unique transition segments and no I didn't write that wrong. They actually made 14 completely unique transitions to the track, just so that the music would blend together seamlessly from phase 1 to 2 and that's absolutely insane. This is also the reason that the version you listened to had some weird stops to it, because it also included some of the transition segments (the majority were left out though.).
Another fun fact: The composer Hirokazu Ando actually plays bass himself, and often records himself playing for the tracks he composes, so it's very possible that the bass in the song is actually being played by him and that's also really cool.
smoothing in the tracks is very common in KATFL, like "smell of a strange beast" has some smoothing behind phases of it
That is amazing. I always hoped something like this would happen.
WHAT That's sick! XD That's so cool, thanks for the info! I didn't know he played the bass, I always find it really cool when the composer themselves also plays a part in their own song's performance, if you know what I mean!
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"What even is Kirby" Kirby is a friend who is perpetually hungry, adorable, and the only one who can save us from the terrifying reality that is the vastness of space
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And the fact that Kirby is basically an eldritch god himself
He's also a fragment from an all-consuming dark god of chaos. But hey, cake!
@@CathodeRayKobold Well, that much is not officially confirmed, but rather implied. To my knowledge at least
Kirby is the primordial void when fused with friendship. He is the most powerful eldritch being in his canon, and enjoys long naps. He has defeated gods and is friend to all who want to be his friend. He saves worlds regularly only to celebrate with cake. Kirby is what happens when an eldritch monstrosity is also an adorable friend.
I can't help but chuckle internally every time someone says 'this sounds adult for *insert series here*' when they have lore akin to that of Eldritch horror stories with a cute coat of paint
Mark of anyone's knowledge of Kirby: "This is shockingly dark!" Vs "I honestly hoped it was gonna get worse."
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Since you never really played Kirby. I’ll inform you that almost every Kirby game starts simply and cute and ends with Kirby defeating an intergalactic horror or demonic god or murder AI. I would recommend listening to Astral birth-void’s theme from Kirby Star Allies.
Imagining some reading "Astral Birth-Void" without context of Kirby lore fulfills me to no end
the ENTIRETY of the Void Termina suite including astral-birth void is just incredible (they did the whole thing during the 30th anniversary concert and it's INSANE)
fun fact those endboss descriptions are not mutualy exclusive
Ew
the sad green greens in that song gets me
I love watching people who don’t know Kirby getting a taste of the the true depth of the lore. The moments of “wait what? That’s in a Kirby game!?” Is always satisfying
THIS!
I like this feeling
It surprised me in this video
Honestly, I never expected a song and title as raw as "Two Planets Approaching the Roche Limit" to come from a franchise like kirby.
The final boss uses Planet Pop Star (Kirby's home planet) as a projectile to try to destroy Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Parallel post apocalyptic earth) and this isn't even the most crazy final boss either, Star Dream (Final boss of Planet Robobot) tried to wipe out all life in the universe, and Void Termina (Final boss of Star Allies) is the origin of all Dark Matter and is a destroyer of Universes and heavily implied to be a version of Kirby before becoming, well, Kirby
@@allingbrodniak8819 oh yeah I know, I played the game, I just think it’s an awesome name.
kirby final bosses have a lot of cool titles, i'm partial to "Astral Birth Void" and "Vagrant Counting Song of Retrospection"
Don't forget about "Faded Dream of a Psychomeddler" from the same game.
@@LordSerperior1 Sword of the Surviving Guardian and VS Psychic Power Given Form are also great titles
10:11 "in kirby , The forgoten land this is serious" Fun fact , in almost every Kirby game finale you are figting an Actual god or facin a universe ending calamity or an eldrictch lovecraftian nightmare.....with the power of friendship and happynes (canonically acurate)
Kirby lore can be summarized in three points
1) Someone steals Kirby's strawberry cake
2) Kirby defeats a multiversal Elder God
3) Kirby goes back home to take a nap
Except for when the final boss is a soft cuddly penguin man
@@princeapoopoo5787 don't u mean fat?
@@gabrielsingal209 that too
@@gabrielsingal209 I said what I said
Kirby has a wild music identity these days, especially when it comes to the soundtrack for the endgame scenarios. The juxtaposition between this and Kirby's happy, childlike, ultra-friendly exterior is so funny and it's hard to put into words just what makes it so compelling. But it absolutely is compelling all the same.
Kirby from outside is a cute and colorful game, but when you get deeper, you realise it has one of the crasiest lore combined with banger music.
It also has Dedede, the most glorious character in the franchise
Agreed. King Dedede is amazing
Don’t forget about waddledoo the most important character
"What is Kirby" you ask? He is many things. He's a loyal friend, an ally to Popstar...or he could be the infantile reincarnation of an eldritch god, with an all consuming hunger that compels him to devour all things in the universe.
Anyway, wonderful reaction, and I love that you started listening to Kirby music. It's been some of my favorites and I hope you listen to more, Marco.
"Or"?
Nah, he's both of those things. He's an infant incarnation of the Space Between Spaces, of the Void from which all worlds arise and to which all worlds eventually return, of the Emptiness Beyond which wishes to devour All That Is.
He is also quite literally made of Friendship, and would and has done many things to protect those he considers friends. Even the dozens upon dozens of sapients he consumes regularly likely don't stay dead, because the last time Death tried to set up shop in Dreamland it ambushed Kirby, decisively defeated him, and then still got its rear soundly and decisively handed to it _by_ Kirby.
"It sounds so like, adult, for a Kirby game" welcome to Kirby final bosses lmao, and Kirby endgames in general. It always goes from cute and rosey to -incredibly dark- lol. Forgotten Land in general has a fantastic soundtrack, highly reccomend checking out the rest of it whether on your own or otherwise.
You HAVE to do Morpho Knight's theme from this game
Indeed is awesome
yes
Indeed
C-R-O-W-N-E-D in the back ground:
@@andrewzeshypikamander1120 YES
"I didn't necessarily take Kirby seriously" has to be one of the most accurate ways of describing what people both out and in-game think of Kirby after their first *real* encounter with the pink ball.
Fun fact about this song. There are 14 different transitions between the first phase of the song and the second phase of the song depending on where in the song you are after beating the first phase of the boss fight.
OH MY GOD, I was really hoping that you could listen to this song, is probably one of, if not, the best final boss theme in Kirby's history.
Now, for context, this song plays when you battle "Fecto Elfilis" an eldritch alien that nearly drove the Forgotten land people to extinction. The reason why the song is called "Two planets approach the Roche limit" is because as a last resort, Fecto Elfilis opens a hole in reality to use Kirby's home planet (Popstar) as a meteor.
Also, and this is an interpretation of mine, I believe the reason the singer did that whistle tone, is to sound like a synthesizer, to evoke that classic alien theme that you could hear in movies and Tv shows.
Anyway, you're one of my favorite UA-camrs, and I'm so happy for the 100K. Also, sorry if my grammar isn't the best.
The Star Conquering Traveller, is the song theme for the strongest enemy in the Kirby franchise (as today), it is a 9+ minutes suit with multiple phases, which actually possesses canonical lyrics.
(According to the official Twitter, said lyrics are the following, however, it is never explained where or how they fit in the musical composition)
Rise! Oh Dark Lord of Despair!
Crush the stars!
Lay waste to care! (x4)
Rise and cover the land in sorrows!
May your symphony of emptiness
bring the end of all tomorrows!
Rise! Oh, Dark Lord of Despair!
Crush the stars!
Lay waste to care! (x4)
Upon your wing, dark judgment bring!
May your symphony of tragedy cause the end of everything!
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And this, is the theme... For Void Termina~.
Most Kirby music is like this. I recommend "The Star Conquering Traveler", "Mind in a P-R-O-G-R-A-M", "C-R-O-W-N-E-D", "Moonstruck Blossom", and "02"
Kirby's music is crazy underappreciated, IMO. There's far more weird off-the-wall experimental stuff than you would ever expect for such a cute series. My go-to example is Kirby Super Star for the SNES, which had a microtonal track and another one that changed key signatures more or less every measure for most of the song.
Hmm yes "cute series"
It IS cute. It's just also got a deeper level of darkness and horror.
I love how at certain points of the song it sounds like it's fighting (and barely succeeding) to not transition into green greens
It’s Kirby wearing his opponent down since green greens is essentially Kirby’s theme
I wish I was kidding, but last night I had a dream that you reacted to this song.
Your note about the jazz riffs is very appropriate! They pop up in a few other songs on the soundtrack, such The Battle of Blizzard Bridge.
I'm glad you've begun to see the light on Kirby music 😉 As plenty of others have said already, the final bosses of this franchise go hard, and so does the music in them. Kirby is one of the franchises that does boss themes better than most others, in my opinion, of course. There's even an official operatic (or so I assume, you're the former opera singer here) arrangement of the final boss theme of Kirby Triple Deluxe.
One of the composers in the Kirby series, Hirokazu Ando, has a background in jazz and jazz fusion. In fact, an arrangement of one of his compositions recently won a Grammy earlier this year (for Best Arrangement in Jazz iirc).
Kirby always had a few songs and antagonists that subvert expectations. The Zero Two theme from Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards is an experience. That was my first Kirby game and, especially as a child, I did not expect THAT. Everything about it is so wildly different from the rest of the game.
Also in Kirby 64, can't forget Ripple Star Catacombs and Factory Inspection. Great at giving that unsettling atmosphere.
Remember kids, nothing, and I mean NOTHING, can stop 45 tons of American steel going at 120 miles an hour.
People constantly underestimate the Kirby franchise, and while not every single one is a grand slam, most of them are at least home runs.
If you're curious, a longtime YT animator named TerminalMontage has a series called "Something About ______" for many series; my favorite is the one for Kirby and the Crystal Shards. Definitely recommend.
A good amount of kirby games have kirby being underestimated by the villains. Which is a cool theme of the series that not everything is what it seems on the surface level.
God I love at 5:58 you hear Void’s theme come in from Star Allies. I love the musical nods to other world ending boss battles
The composer of this track is Hirokazu Ando, who has a background in jazz. He's been part of HAL's Sound Team since the second Kirby game, iirc. He's also composed quite a few final boss themes in this series, especially the past FOUR games.
There's no surprise that he's added a heavy jazz influence into this series- in fact a rearrangement of one of his tracks recently won a Grammy (Storming the Halberd, performed by the 8-Bit Big Band), originally from Kirby Super Star.
Kirby lore is insane and I don't mean that metaphorically it's legit crazy, depressing, and super deep. Here's a favorite quote of mine from another UA-camr:
"You wake up, it's a Monday. Your friends have all been kidnapped by furries. God must be defeated. Welcome to another Kirby game."
- Failboat
Just when you think they would take what one would consider a kids game seriously they put this music out for it which is amazing
I always enjoy your video Marco keep up the good work, it just goes to show how we can’t truly lose the ones we love when we have music being one of the greatest examples of that of that fact, wish you well and keep the music going.
❤️ thank you.
I like how he's talking about how the 'concern' and the 'confidence' are about Kirby, but are actually the boss. The small Kirby Motif "Spring Breeze" are always sprinkled in bits in the songs.
Kirby and the Forgotten Lands' OST (and the game as a whole) really impressed me. It's so expressive and multi-layered and brims with a unique creativity that really blew my mind at some points in the game, even though I wasn't that huge into the Kirby franchise before. And it just fits so well. They even managed to give it that chiptuney feel even though it mostly uses orchestral instruments! Highly recommend it to everyone.
I recommend you listen to the entire OST of this game. Not only because it's a great listen, but because many bits and pieces are taken from many different tracks to create Two Planets Approach The Roche Limit.
For example, the part you described at 3:58 is actually taken from The Battle of Blizzard Bridge. It is satisfying when you realize which leitmotif come from which track.
Awesome video! I do recommend listening to other kirby soundtracks, specially final boss themes such as Under My Control, CROWNED, Dirty & Beauty, The Star Conquering Traveller and so on. Keep up the nice work :D
I find it actually interesting what someone is hearing out of a song without the context of the game.
I would highly recommend you to take a look at "Northeast Frost Street" from the same game. It's such a wonderful piece of music ^^
Yeah so for context when this plays, Kirby, who is themself an incarnation of Void born of positive emotions, and thus one of the closest things to a god the setting has, is fighting Fecto Elfilis, an angelic alien that was dubbed the "ultimate lifeform" by the people of the Forgotten Land and has the ability to tear rifts in space-time, such as to pull Kirby's home planet past the Roche limit of the Forgotten Land, as the song describes. Every Kirby game has you fighting some abomination like that (the various non-Gooey Dark Matters, Void Termina, Marx, Star Dream)
People keep bringing up this or that about Kirby having dark lore or intense action... but people are hardly talking about the music itself! I'd love to point out just how wonderful tracks like these are because they are loving culminations of leitmotifs you've heard all throughout the adventure! That's why so many of the instruments and notes are all talking to each other so effortlessly. The fact that it all pairs together so well, even for someone who has not first heard any of the leitmotifs in their original contexts... its just so lovely!
I’d love for more reactions to the other final boss themes. A lot of them are in parts and each honestly deserve recognition
Like The Ultimate Show from Super Paper Mario.
I love the opening to this theme, like listening to it bkond I bet you pictured something slowly unveiling itself by unfurling a outer shell, because my god that part is written perfectly to accompany Elfilis revealing himself, by far my favorite kirby boss next to galacta knight. And yeah all the boss themes have this sort of thrust and parry to them, you can sort of hear like two themes dishing it out to make one epic fight song in every track
I just love how “for Kirby this is serious “ oh yeah just idk Kirby’s home planet being pull throw a portal by an ancient god with the objective to crash with eart
Think of it this way Kirby Series is like those Pool that doesn't that deep at all.
So you go down, but it turn out it really deep
The Series build upon the cute and friendly setting while having background as horror as possible
" It feel like two planet is approching" LOL
2:06 at the end of every kirby game you fight an eldritch threat in the form of a god or dimension conqueror or something other universal threat and this song is the theme of the final boss of kirby and the forgotten land, which is, you guessed it, an eldritch monster
also 6:37 yeah the 2 planets crashing into eachother is about right
also 11:19 to answer the question kirby is basically the (canonical) incarnation of happiness and friendship, and also a godslayer
This will always be one of my favorite songs of all time. It leaks a sort of profound sadness but also a feeling of grandness and elegance to match Fecto Elfilis and their story. It feels like a fight you don't want to have but have to anyway with the second part feeling even more like a struggle you're sort of reluctant to have but are more determined now because of how much the fight means and the stakes. I always found Fecto Elfilis to be a sort of sad character in a way having been locked in its own mind for so long (which I imagine is tortuous) and finally returning to do what it knows only to be stopped by the friend its better half bonded with. The whole fight floored me with grandeur on top of the fact I'm absolutely in love with Elfilis' design. Also, the name of the song comes from the fact Elfilis was going to crash Kirby's entire home planet into the one you're on.
"What is Kirby?" He's shaped like a friend 😊
I recommend the OST from Kirby: Star Allies, "Star-Conquering Traveler" (AKA final boss theme) all the way through, all phases. Genuinely an epic piece of music in a series that presents itself in such a cutesy way, and always takes a turn for the dark near the end.
Something about this final boss as well that I always appreciated is that it has a silhouette that is definitely intended to look vaguely like an angel. It has anatomy that resembles two enormous feathered wings, and it wields a long spear as a weapon that ends in a double helix that spreads out into wing-like shapes near the blade. There's definitely an undertone of some sort of "fallen angel" here that I think is reflected well in the music. The angelic choirs, the bells, the musical feeling of cosmos and falling stars, the organs being played at certain points, all leans into this I feel.
i like how you start off with complementing the space sound for the intro, but the fight happens at the top of a building.
also, i really like how you say the song is "so like, adult for a kirby game" when the kirby series itself is mostly universe ending cosmic horrors.
Though Fecto Elfilis is an alien, and the planet is alien too from Kirby's perspective, so the space theming makes sense
Do more Kirby pleeeease! The music deserves more praise
As soon as I saw the title and had no idea what it was but instantly knew that it was something that had to do with the destruction of astral bodies and it started up with Bells and the chanting Choir, that's when I knew that this theme MEANT BUSINESS and that this was THE Final Boss Theme.
What I DIDN'T expect was for it to be for the character that the designers just said "What if we take Mewtwo, split it into two separate beings from the original cut movie version of childlike innocence and the other the tortured adult soul, combined it with The Tale of Desperuex, made it the catalyst for the extinction of the human race and bringer of the 6th Cataclysm, gave it a Halberd Spear and biblically accurate Angel wings fused with it's face, and the very mirror being and equal to Kirby in every way, shape, and form, all the while the part inside of it who was with you the whole game knew what was going on and fully aware that it haa to fight you and did everything it could to prevent this final battle from happening because they truly were your friend and you were the one and only person who showed it kindness and taught it the beauty of life and all the good it can contain. And yet now trapped inside their own mind and body they are forced to watch you battle them to the very finish and know that they have to lose in order for you to win even if that means you have to end their life. A life which they only now just finally saw the goodness and beauty in living and are now forced to watch as what could have been be thrown away by their own hand. And so they even take that one last little part of themselves that they know could defeat them, give it to you, and basically strap it the most destructive blunt force of power being a literal SEMI TRUCK and say "Don't hold anything back, finish me, and please take my dreams and explore this new world for me." as you must grant them their final wish and drive up the ruining cityscape collapsing in on itself in the destruction of the whole world being torn apart rains, crashes, burns, and explodes upwards and downwards all at the same time and drive straight into them to run them over."
Kirby just officially made the sad robot dog episode AGAIN actually CANON IN A REAL GAME WITH THE TRAVELING COMPANION THAT EVERYONE IMMEDIATELY DISTRUSTED AND DISLIKED SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY SEEMED SUSPICIOUS AND REMINISCENT OF WHAT ONLY HAPPENED 2 TIMES OUT OF OVER 5 BEFORE MEANING ALL THAT ANIMOSITY WASN'T JUST IN VAIN BUT REGRETFULL!
And they say Nintendo games are just baby games or whatever. Yeah sure bud, go back to your microtransactions'R'AssaultScandelsUs and blind violence shooters that actually are what give video games the bad image and stigma they have. I'll be taking my friend's dreams and exploring this new world for them because they couldn't do it themselves so they wanted me to live their life on for them.
And ya know what, it's rated E for everyone you savage animals.
Welcome to the new world.
"It's kind of funny to hear that in a Kirby game because you're like, What dire straits?" Oh you have no idea.
The name of the song makes perfect sense. Because near the final of the boss fight the boss opens a portal so that Kirbys Homeplanet Popstar and the Forgotten Land (Earth) approach. So Popstar is falling on Earth and most likely get destroyed whan it's crossing the roche limit, it even begins that parts of Dreamland are falling down.
fun fact, at 4:34 is actually a callback to an earlier mini boss rush level! I personally really LOVE this theme, like,, I listened to it for months.
As a big Kirby fan who plays the games, I love watching people that don’t know anything about Kirby react to music and stuff from it. It’s always fun to see reactions to such epic music!
I love the talk at the end about it probably being “not very serious” when it’s straight up Kirby slaughtering a god to save two planets and billions of lives
Welcome to the Kirby music club, basically every final boss theme is a banger, but if I had to choose one to see on this channel it would definitely be "The Star Conquering Traveler".
You might even recognize it since it was the final boss theme of the Kirby game you did play. (Kirby: Star Allies)
If we're dipping our toes into the deep pool that is Kirby, you ought to check out the full arrangement for the final boss of Star Allies (which you might have already heard? As it sounds like you've played it). But specifically the one with Astral Birth Void.
It's a pretty long one but it's honestly incredible, one of the few songs that gets me a little misty-eyed when I hear it. Mostly I'm sure because I'm a long-time Kirby fan - it might be a bit less impactful if you're not. But it's beautiful either way.
KatFL really is a testament to music doing wonders for the stakes (See also: Roar of Dedede having no right to rock so hard). Kirby's all about fun times and sweet dreams, so his greatest enemies are nightmares, and therein always lies an element of absurdity. But in that absurd moment, Elfilis is a beautiful monster of existential dread, and it feels amazing to take them on.
If you ever do more Kirby, it would be fascinating to see what you make of CROWNED or Moonstruck Blossom as character themes. The latter especially, since it spawned an operatic aria cover (Eternal Dream).
I love your analysis. Kirby is very much a kids game... Until you hit the lore. Then we got the Lovecraft horror and souls-like melancholy, complete with death, trauma, and ruin... E for everyone!
Astral Birth Void actually even pulls a Soul of Cinder in it's music by hitting you with RAW nostalgia near the end with tons of meaning imbued to the added leitmotif. So much so, it's hard not to tear up if you realize what it is. I love when tracks do that.
I strongly recommend that track.
It is crazy that it took 20 years for Kirby to get an age advisory bc of the Rerelease of KDR3 and its.. if you know, you know
You should listen to Fatal Blooms in Moonlight! It's my second favorite song in the series, just behind this one. It's from an older game, Kirby Triple Deluxe, and is also the theme of the Final Boss.
its funny you mention 80s when a lot of forgotten land ost actually gave me an 80 vibe too. prob why i love the soundtrack so much cause my dad would always play 80s music for me as a kid growing up
Honestly I just love how alien this tune feels. It's properly otherworldly, reminding me alot of musical cues used for old sci fi movies with flying saucers and the likes. Fitting for a creature with the power to literally rip a hole in dimensions with just its mind.
I may not be correct in this fact, but I remember hearing that Makiko Ohmoto sang in this, which is crazy cuz she's also the VA for Sectonia and for the song "Moonstruck Blossom"... and Kirby's voice actor. Crazy, right?
Shiiiiiit
大本さんはこの曲を歌っていないはずです。ですが、みんな大好き敏腕秘書スージーが作中でもよく歌うハルトマン社歌はカービィの公式ライブにて歌唱された事があります。
あと、それとは別の演奏会にてカービィハンターズの曲とディスカバリーのメインテーマの曲も歌唱されてますのでそちらも要チェックですよ！
Fighting an unknowable eldritch being destroying all of existence?
Just another Thursday for our favourite Pink Ball Friend 🔴
"what dire straits?" Two planets are literally about to collide wiping out all life on both, that's just how kirby games tend to get at the end
So glad you finally listened to this! A lot of Kirby music is like this, especially final boss music, because things usually hit the fan towards the end. It's a game with a charming look but surprisingly deep lore and story. Kirby likes to hide story in pause menu text. I love it. But yeah, a lot of people looking from the outside don't really take Kirby seriously. The fanbase, on the other hand, knows otherwise. Check out more Kirby songs, I think you'll like them! (Mind in a P.R.O.G.R.A.M., C-R-O-W-N-E-D, Moonstruck Blossom, Dirty and Beauty, etc.)
The song is even better when you recognize the leitmotifs it has
This and Roar of Dedede are such amazing tracks
My wish is to see you attempt this actual boss fight one day, maybe on your second channel or something
This song is one of my favorite songs to ever exist! I love it so much! It’s just so epic and amazing!
The steaks are that during the song there is a interdimensional demonic, alien, being that he’s going to use the psychic power to smash two planets together
*stakes 😅
"this song is so adult for a kirby game" yeah, practically all final boss themes in the series are pretty much this deep and intense, they have no right to be this good and somehow they are and I love it
Yaaaas, I love Kirby! It's literally my favorite game franchise. I hope you listen to the the final boss themes cause they are all bangers.
Some suggestions would be C.R.O.W.N.E.D., hyness hooded and unhooded, and of course masked Dedede.
Some other kirby songs i recommend listening to are C.R.O.W.N.E.D, Roar Of Dedede, and, Sword of The Surviving Guardian
I love your reaction when the singer went that high. That is my favorite part of the song cause it's so impressive. I mean I love kirby games so much and the final bosses have such amazing tracks. I'd recommend crowned or even crowning of a Supreme overlord. Btw fighting the final boss and their chaos form in this game was such a blast!
for another kirby song to listen to that i want to sneak in:
Astral birth void is a one of my favourite kirby songs, it's emotional and amazing.
also i don't know if you like going into music blind but i want to say one thing if you do react to this song:
a major part of the pixel/piano part of the song is literally the first song (excluding title screen) you hear in the first kirby game and has been in nearly every kirby game ever since.
Beginning of a Kirby game: "haha funny pink ball"
End of a Kirby game: "I am going to dethrone and consume (another) god"
I kinda wanna recommend some "non-final-esque" music from this game:
Northeast Frost Street
Pitch Black Horror(and its in game alternate remix, Pitch Black Valley)
Moonlight Canyon
There's an orchestral cover medley of the final boss themes from the Kirby Anniversary Concert that I really reccomend. They did a full cover of The Star Conquering Traveller in it, too. I don't know if you can find it on UA-cam though, but it's really good.
I'm the only one who noticed that he chose version 2 of the song?
Postscript: The fact that just by listening to the song he could tell that Kirby is actually fighting something re-confirms how great this song is
PLEASE PLEASE LOOK INTO THE REST OF THE KIRBY SOUNDTRACK, ESPECIALLY VOID TERMINA
Oh Lord, if this is his reaction to Roche Limit imagine his reaction to the Star Conquering Traveler Suite. 😂
@@princeapoopoo5787 YEAH EXACTLY, WE NEED VOID TERMINA
I love the way you reacted to this as somone that does not know about kirby lmao. That's not a problem of course, but it's always interesting when someone says something like "this is very adult for kirby" mainly because the entire series has this very same thing. There's a LOT this series has to offer that most outsiders don't know about, such as a constant evolving lore of kirby's universe, an interconnective world, and of course, final boss music that is award winning material at the end of EVERY kirby game. If you ever want to hear any other fan favorite kirby songs, 3 on the top of my head is CROWNED, Fatal Blooms in Moonlight/Moonstruck Blossom, and Zero Two. If you ever wanted to listen to those, I think you'd love them!
"And chances are in the world of Kirby and the Forgotten Land, this _is_ serious, you know what I mean?"
Well, an omnicidal psychic eldritch horror from the depths of space beyond the stars has escaped containment and is tearing the entirety of Earth apart to attack Kirby, while opening a rift to Kirby's planet _so it can telekinetically hurl the whole planet at him._
So, yeah, kinda serious.
Of course, for Kirby, it's just another Tuesday...
It'd be neat to see this guy do a let's play of a game and hear it's soundtrack in context. Like, specifically analyzing the music as he goes.
oh man, now that you've listened to this one i really wanna hear your opinions on Astral Birth Void (Kirby Star Allies). Even though it's a long piece I think you might enjoy the maturity and seriousness of it!
Oh you actually did it
I didn't expect you to actually listen to Kirby music
I love this song and most other songs from Kirby final bosses are bangers as well
Fun fact: Is one of the few Kirby modern games that the last boss theme doesn't have the Triumphant Return leitmotif
Seconding every suggestion for Suite: The Star-Conquering Traveler. If you ever get to it, try to find it an upload with all five movements. The last movement (Shimmering Star) is the same music as Astral Birth: Void some comments have suggested already, by the way.
Your kinda saving the entire Universe from a newly reformed space-bending/portal maker ultimate being, so yeah, it's not so surprising that this sound serious
Absolutely loved this fight, and the music plays a huge part as to why. You've explained it pretty well, even though you haven't played the game. There's this sense of you having to face an immensely destructive yet majestic alien threat which I quite liked, and my first playthrough against this boss was a very close fight. I am not forgetting it anytime soon!
You could go for Gigalomania from Live A Live next. It feels pretty similar to me as it works for very similar reasons but also has a very distinct identity and carries other subtleties.
To answer the questions about "Who's Kirby?" Basically, Kirby is a positive energy of the heart of the void
Void in Kirby series is a sort of god entity that the entire universe originates from. Void consists of: Darkness, Void, Soul, Heart. So, for example Dark Matter is most likely negative darkness. Void Termina is negative heart. Fecto Elfilis (the main antagonist of Kirby and The Forgotten Land) most likely is negative soul. Meanwhile, Kirby is positive heart. All those creatures like Kirby that originate from Void are created out of a combination of strong positive or negative emotions. Also, basically all these creatures are a part of a god, The Void (they're technically not kids, but a part of the god that absorbed many emotions and fallen off)
Didn't want to edit the comment but basically, I got wrong of what the void consists off. Basically, it's: *DREAM,* dark(ness), heart and soul
You should listen to “Roar of Dedede” and “Masked and Wild; D.D.D.” They are really good, and, similar to this track, feels a lot more adult than the usual Kirby Boss OST, and almost feels tragic, which, in the context of it being a battle against two people who are normally friends, it can be seen as such.
Its always fun seeing people be introduced to the eldritch horrors of kirby.
Long time kirby fan here, You should definitely play Forgotten land its one of the best games in the series and i wholeheartedly recommend it. It is one of the best platformers to ever grace 2022 and the type of kirby game ive been wanting since i was 8
A little late to the party here... Just wanted to say that if you enjoyed this, I highly suggest checking out more of Kirby's recent final boss themes. "Modern" Kirby's finales have just been one home run after another for me. The songs' titles are a bit iffy since I think some of the names by which they're most commonly known are fan titles and not official ones. Anyway, I've listed the titles below
CROWNED
Fatal Blooms in Moonlight (AKA Moonstruck Blossom)
The Star Conquering Traveler
Planet Robobot's final boss theme is a bit hard to peg since it's three or four separate tracks. The names I recall are: Mind in a Program, Virtual Space Manipulator, and Vagrant Counting Song of Retrospection. Very unsure about the second title being correct as I write this.
Edit: The second song isn't Virtual Space Manipulator, it's Intermezzo Without A Leader.
Anyway, happy listening!
I just searched "Two planets approach the roche limit Marco meatball" and it was uploaded an hour ago, what a pleasant surprise
oh trust me, the stakes at this point are ASTRONOMICALLY high.
Great video!
4:02 You should definitely listen to The Battle of Blizzard Bridge, which is the song where we first hear this motif
Thank you for reacting to my song Marco, I'm very happy that you liked it so much, I found it interesting to send you this one because I thought there was a lot to analyze and also because I thought it represented this darker part of the Kirby series well
Kirby music has never been my thing really, but this one is v. good indeed :) For something you could do in the future, I've gotta recommend the Ultrakill soundtrack for you to hear. Act II: Imperfect Hatred is better than Act I: Infinite Hyperdeath in my opinion, but both of them have such a unique blend of leitmotifs and themes, which make them a joy to hear. Hakita is a one man army, designing and composing the entire game and score on his own.
Oh _definitely_
I completely agree, ultrakill music is great
"what even is Kirby"
well, first we have to talk about a cosmic being that simultaneously exists in all dimensions, which was awoken by blood sacrifice.
and now you are aware of void termina