A fun fact about this song, when Shoji Meguro brought Lotus in to record the lyrics for this song he read them and said "Nah man this is wack, this beat goes hard though" and proceeded to freestyle the first verse completely. When they decided to make FES, they just had him write the second verse instead of someone else
people tend to disrespect Lotus when talking about persona music, but his input is so massive even as far as persona 5 with him writing tons of lyrics for Royal music
@@ilavainTHANK YOU. As incredibly funny as his freestyling can be (squeezy trigger, three dots connect to rectangles), he is an incredibly talented lyricist.
Reasons why this one is particularly popular are 1) It's kind of an old meme, so it managed to be discovered by more people than usual Persona fanbase. 2) It's the ONLY standart battle theme in P3. Bosses have their own ones but whenever you're in the main dungeon Tartarus, this song is the only song you hear in battles. Tartarus have 264 floors. 3)Extremely basic and catchy chorus. You can't go wrong with no context BABYBABYBABYBABY
FINALLY. I can’t believe it’s taken many Persona requests to get to arguably the most iconic song in the franchise. This is my favourite standard battle theme in a game of all time, hope you enjoy!!
@@adriahrin3284 was more popular because it was trendy. atm I hear more mass destruction than last surprise p3 also came out in 2006 i think so it's a LOT older. more iconic I believe
@@A_bels when someone who has not played a single persona game and does not know a lot about the games, you show him last surprise and they probably know it's from it, but you show them mass destruction and it's a low possibility they recognize it, iconic by definition means that it's widely known and by seeing it or hearing it you will know from where it is, therefore last surprise is more iconic (at least in my opinion)
A lot of people have been waiting for this, the series most iconic battle theme other than Last Surprise. There’s so many great versions of this track, theres the movie version, the reincarnation version (best one imo), the 20th anniversary version, a bunch of remixes too.
Sadly it's very short and goes on loop a lot I haven't played it but I can imagine it looses the appeal even quicker than this song but with this song when in battle you don't notice it looping as much I'd say. I do actually really like the femc battle song and suits her well sucks that it's so short
I absolutely love this song. It's the main battle theme in P3/FES so you hear it all the time. The music in P3 was one of the biggest reasons I even got into Persona as a series, and I've not been disappointed yet! Lol On a side note, you could almost take P3's Mass Destruction as verse one and FES as verse two with the progression of the song.
I like to look at the FES version as the second verse to the original, since the original doesn't have a proper second verse. I know some later remixes treat it that way too, mixed the two into a first and second half.
So when it comes to story, SMT is infamous for being very dark and super serious, the Persona games however are slightly less depressing...within contex cuz bad things happen in all games, Persona 1, 2 and 3 in particular, but even if the series started going in a "Brighter" mood from P3 on, even P4, arguably the most cheerful and positive Persona game ever, is still a Murder Mystery with named characters dying.
yeah ive beat persona 3 twice and i still think this song is good but it gets old really quick in context of the game. I'm a bigger fan of the p4 and p2 battle themes lol
@@butterflydreamer9649 I still love the battle theme but yeah it’s painful . I just wish they had the option for the ps1 soundtrack because the psp soundtrack is alright but gets old quick
So absolutely iconic. It’s definitely got meme status because: BABYBABYBABYBABYBABY But like legit it’s really quite the jam and is a great bop. Never gets old even though it’s a battle theme, meaning you hear this one constantly. Now you gotta eventually listen to the female main characters battle theme ‘Wiping All Out’ honestly I find it to be just as good as this one. Honestly a lot of the FeMC route songs are just as good as the original male portags ones.
Persona has a unique spot in your brain and it's so amazing that you have that relationship with this music. You give us an opportunity to contemplate music from the games we love on its own merit and that is fantastic
This song is a lot like Baka Mitai -- it slaps, but it's only so popular because BABY BABY BABY is a meme. While both Persona and Yakuza are pretty big now, they still have limited reach so having 13 million views has to be because of the meme status.
Mass Destruction occupies the same part of our brains that La Hee does. Since its the main battle theme it has grown into a meme that just builds upon an already really solid song that we were forced to hear ALOT.
I've been waiting for this! This is the song that made me a Persona fan, I had never heard anything like it. Even if it's technically just a short loop I've never gotten tired of it, it's that good
The most unexpected battle theme I ever experienced in my gaming history. A song like this in 2006? I was...baffled. I played tons of JRPGs at the time, but this? I was like...WOW
Reasons this track has so many views 1. Like you said the song is very well made, its catchy, its fun, its an enjoyable experience all around 2. This is the main battle theme of Persona 3, and thus it is heard a lot in game, its an easy one to gravitate to 3. This song is in Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, and was even used in one of the trailers to show how Music effects the stage 4. Memes, this song got very popular for awhile due to the BABY BABY BABY BABY part at the beginning
The thing is that Mass Destruction FES is more of a second verse than a remix. Original Mass Destruction is the battle theme for Persona 3 main story called The Journey and Mass Destruction FES is the battle theme in a epilogue called The Answer.
Hell yeah, time for BABYBABYBABY to blast through. As cheesy as it is in a lot of ways, it's still probably my favorite normal battle theme in the series. I never got tired of it, just this hip hop beat coming through while desperately fighting to the top of Tartarus. Good stuff. Also, maybe it's not the right place to ask, but has there been any consideration to maybe listening to more tracks from Undertale or Deltarune? Hell, maybe even playing them? They're relatively short indie RPGs with absolutely phenomenal music. Gameplay, characters, and story aren't a slouch either. They're popular for a reason, though some of the songs Toby Fox has put together, like Hopes and Dreams, A Cyber World, Field of Hopes and Dreams, the track literally titled Undertale, and, of course, Megalovania, all of them just take the games from good to amazing. Really would love to see you delve into those games, either through a music reaction or actually playing them. God, watching you play them would be a blast, to see your reactions to the music in the moments they play. Either way, always happy to see more Persona on here.
So i'm surprised no one i saw mention it but you talked about wanting to see persona live performance, and persona has an event called persona super live, which is just basically a persona concert with a couple of announcements sometimes. There's one in october this year tmk.
Deep Breath (the version one from the train mission) and Changing of the Seasons are my favorites from 3, I love all of the Persona soundtracks but I always appreciated how P3 embraced an unapologetically weird niche fusion of trip hop, hip hop, pop, and house that can sometimes feel like a more poppy prototype of 2010's era industrial/abstract hip hop at times. P3's music always kind-of felt to me like it was a big risk with the general crowd of Persona fans and I'm happy they took it because it's very nice to have the one that appeals most to my more core tastes to point to when persona music comes up.
The difference between these two versions is the lyrics in the rap... FES is almost an entirely new song except the chorus section. Hell, even the title Mass Destruction is not there anymore. Persona has sad songs (some of them I like more than the happy ones) or songs that make you uncomfortable on purpose (like the one you obviously disliked, made to simulate a panic attack) but those are not the first ones people remember. About the gameplay, they are as special and mixed as their VGM xD Combat is a turn based rpg like OG FF7, but outside of it you have the schedule management genre, because you need to do a lot of things with the time you have, a full school year: -You need to get good grades as a student or is game over -You need to grind exp in combat to be able to win the battles -You need to spend time building relationships with people around you, with the chance of romance :P And kind of visual novel genre with all the stuff you have to read. Stuff that you will remember and will move you, but still a lot to read xD I joke about how one of my best friends got into Persona thanks to me and loves the games, but what if we fight horribly and stop being friends? It would be a horrible thing to be linked to, because maybe he won't be able to enjoy the games the same way any more by association.
This is the main battle theme for Persona 3, so it *needs* to be good for you to not get tired of it. And, to be honest, I was kind of burned out on it by the end of my playthrough, but it's still a banger.
For me, this song is an ear-worm/meme. Not that it isn't great on its own, but after hearing it for tens of hours in P3's big af dungeon, it kind of lives in your brain. You go from "huh, cool song" to "aghhhhsjsjsjsks make it stopppp" to "My SONG is on the RADIO, it's time to GET UP and DANCE" Also, just stumbling upon random comments saying, BABY BABY BABY BABY and instantly the song will restart the tape deck in your head whether you want it to or not Basically, it's good
There's a version of this in P3D that combines both versions. As for why it's so loved, some of it is nostalgia for sure, but it is really catchy. I like it because it makes me want to dance. I personally like the original version better, or the mixed version.
See, it's missing the gunshot at the very beginning and then the five seconds of wind sound as the game scrambles to load the battle scene. Or is that just the PSP version?
I might just be remembering incorrectly but that's the case in every P3 versions Always either "cool, a battle" or "OH GOD MY MP AT 0 AND EVERYONE'S TIRED PLS NO" when you hear that sound
It's alright. Being a secondary is not that bad. That bad. The song is popular because we played the game. Being the battle theme we listen to it quite often. The thing about video games is that both gameplay and music play along together. Experiencing one without the other is just having half of your meal. It might be why you didn't like that previous song. It plays along the mood of the scene and the gameplay.
Ah yes, mass destruction; we are finally here. While Burn my Dread was the first thing that jumped out to me as, huh this is great, this game has likely got more great music. However, while Burn my Dread is good, Mass destruction was the one i will consider my favourite from P3 - It could be because i love music that can keep repeating indefinitely, but that is hard to say for certain - You do hear it a LOT since it is the main battle theme, so it could get old for some people during gameplay, but somehow i have never really heard bad things said about it.
So fun fact™️ this song also appeared in one of the Persona 3 movies. I know it's technically not a vgm at that point but you might enjoy listening to it anyways
Persona 3 came out at a time when the landscape of gaming was changing pretty dramatically. Then next-gen consoles were coming out and boasting huge production values and pretty insane visuals. It felt like a lot of older styled games were going to be left behind in this new era. Then Atlus released a turn-based JRPG on what was considered a dead platform, and people who went out and played it instantly fell in love. It had an unmatched art style, incredible music, and a style of gameplay that felt familiar, but new. Mass Destruction is the centerpiece when people mention the music mainly because it stands out so much as it's the main battle theme, but also because as others have mentioned it's been memed into relevance over the years along with "Specialist" from Persona 4.
Persona 3 was my first persona, played it back before I started highschool, and having a high school setting itself made it a bit extra special. I actually rented it from Movie gallery or blockbuster I forget which but beat it before i had to return it. Was an amazing experience I had for that period in my life. Introduced to this type of music in games for the first time, the dramatic shift in game's story and tone from what I was used to.
I can tell you for sure you're not the only one who got into Persona only through the music because, well, I'm in the same boat. It would be good to get to the series one day though.
Fun fact, the protagonist in the original Persona 3 (middle human character in the first video's picture) wears headphones a lot of the time. It's pretty much accepted to be canon that he's listening to Mass Destruction during battles! He's got pretty great taste in music, if the game's OST is anything to go off of lol
"It's almost barely a remix" Honestly, it's the subtleties of it that make the FES version so fun, so I don't blame the Dancing game for just combining the two for a verse 1 and 2 medley.
"Persona just makes you feel good... I don't know about the games but..." Persona - 3 in particular - has a very... odd dichotomy in tone going. All the music is very much up beat and uplifting... but the story goes some really **REALLY** dark places. Like, the game opens with the phrase Memento Mori. Remember you are mortal. The characters get their strength by putting a gun to their head and making Death blink. Everyone in the main crew comes from a dysfunctional or broken home in one way or another, forced to contend with weird time breaking nonsense that only they know exists, and fighting to save everyone for no thanks. 3 definitely has similar tones to Nier in its themes of existentialism and what it means to be alive. Highly recommend it. Especially since 3-5 are getting ports to Steam.
I used to do the same thing. I had a demo CD for pc games that had a few great tracks (I think it was Chaos Overlords and Muzzle Velocity.) I also had a Top Gun: Hornet's Nest cd that I would listen to in the car. The game was okay but the rock was unparalleled. I don't know the answer to your question but I'll say this. The Persona 3 soundtrack makes you feel cool, like one of those cool kids I'm sure you've heard about. I love how some games take an unexpected music format and set a battle to it (Mrs. Krista Yoslav/Assault Horizon much?) and this game is no exception. You're grooving into battle feeling all cool with your gang rather than... something else. Like, let's say, the "meat grinder" mentality of Doom or some epic orchestral thing. This is good too, but very different in that it doesn't really get you hyped up to take down this boss (at least not me). Maybe you feel like dancing with it instead. Speaking of which... you haven't done Deja Vu/Mrs. Krista Yoslav from Ace Combat: Assault Horizon yet, have you?
Reasons why this one is particularly popular are 1) It's kind of an old meme, so it managed to be discovered by more people than usual Persona fanbase. 2) It's the ONLY standart battle theme in P3. Bosses have their own ones but whenever you're in the main dungeon Tartarus, this song is the only song you hear in battles. Tartarus have 264 floors. 3)Extremely basic and catchy chorus. You can't go wrong with no context BABYBABYBABYBABY
I think one of the reasons this song is special is because there's a definite contrast between the gloomy atmosphere of the gameplay sections during which it is played, and the very funky nature of the song. They went with really bold design choices in Persona 3, which is why when it hits, it really slaps, but when it whiffs, well... Not saying they weren't bold with P4 & 5, but those have generally more consistent aesthetics.
It's popular because the Shin Megami Tensei is basically unknown to the entire market no matter what their fans say. Persona is an offshoot from this franchise, the first games were still called Shin Megami Tensei Persona tho. Persona 3 is the one game that stopped with that nomemclature and where they started to use the specific formula you still find in 5, and does away with a lot of the uninteresting parts (to the masses) that Shin Megai Tensei dragged along. That's when they went hogwild with new ideas and the game that came out of it has a lot of atmosphere to it due to its story/music/gameplay. That's why it's popular: the song is nice, you listen to it hundreds and hundreds of times, and the franchises finally emerges as something anyone can actually pick up and play.
Here's the the most distinct remix of this song for you to react to ua-cam.com/video/ilibOFA6Pjg/v-deo.html I think it tries to go more for a metal rap combo
A fun fact about this song, when Shoji Meguro brought Lotus in to record the lyrics for this song he read them and said "Nah man this is wack, this beat goes hard though" and proceeded to freestyle the first verse completely. When they decided to make FES, they just had him write the second verse instead of someone else
I love how he also just freestyles when they perform this live too
people tend to disrespect Lotus when talking about persona music, but his input is so massive even as far as persona 5 with him writing tons of lyrics for Royal music
@@ilavain Whoever these people are they all need a slap.
@@ilavainTHANK YOU. As incredibly funny as his freestyling can be (squeezy trigger, three dots connect to rectangles), he is an incredibly talented lyricist.
@@kieranray5340also, I mean, come on, it was like 18 years ago as well
Reasons why this one is particularly popular are
1) It's kind of an old meme, so it managed to be discovered by more people than usual Persona fanbase.
2) It's the ONLY standart battle theme in P3. Bosses have their own ones but whenever you're in the main dungeon Tartarus, this song is the only song you hear in battles. Tartarus have 264 floors.
3)Extremely basic and catchy chorus. You can't go wrong with no context BABYBABYBABYBABY
i lowkey had PTSD when u mentioned 264 floors. does that include the basement as well?
@@aronth if you mean monad nah, it's a completely different dungeon. Luckily it only have 10 floors, but larger than Tartarus ones.
@@aronth tbf those 264 floors are distributed throughout the whole game so it doesn't feel that big
"Is it me or does persona music just put you in a good mood?"
Music: OH YEA!
RIGHT on cue. Perfect
Given this is Persona 3, SOMETHING has to lol
Unless it puts you in very sad melancholic mood, which is kinda whole Persona 3 deal
5:52 for the record
@@hundvd_7 Thanks
FINALLY. I can’t believe it’s taken many Persona requests to get to arguably the most iconic song in the franchise. This is my favourite standard battle theme in a game of all time, hope you enjoy!!
isn't last surprise a lot more iconic? i mean it's A LOT more popular
@@adriahrin3284 Not gonna lie, I forgot Last Surprise was a thing
@@adriahrin3284 was more popular because it was trendy. atm I hear more mass destruction than last surprise
p3 also came out in 2006 i think so it's a LOT older. more iconic I believe
@@A_bels when someone who has not played a single persona game and does not know a lot about the games, you show him last surprise and they probably know it's from it, but you show them mass destruction and it's a low possibility they recognize it, iconic by definition means that it's widely known and by seeing it or hearing it you will know from where it is, therefore last surprise is more iconic (at least in my opinion)
@@adriahrin3284 Then Specialist is the most iconic
A lot of people have been waiting for this, the series most iconic battle theme other than Last Surprise. There’s so many great versions of this track, theres the movie version, the reincarnation version (best one imo), the 20th anniversary version, a bunch of remixes too.
"I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!"
@@kt249 Did you see that, Shinji?!
The 20th anniversary remix of Mass Destruction fucks SO hard, it's actually better than the original imo
Babybabybabybabybaby
The 20th anniversary version is so good
BABYBABYBABY
Played Nier twice, and already using OSTs as BGM?
That's how I know it's already living rent free in your head
I like the "Hell yeah" from the chorus
I am of the belief that this should've just been one song. luckily, the dancing version mixes both seamlessly.
Yeah, the FES version is really part 2
"Wiping All Out," the battle theme for the FemC in Persona 3 Portable, also slaps.
Sadly it's very short and goes on loop a lot I haven't played it but I can imagine it looses the appeal even quicker than this song but with this song when in battle you don't notice it looping as much I'd say.
I do actually really like the femc battle song and suits her well sucks that it's so short
I absolutely love this song. It's the main battle theme in P3/FES so you hear it all the time. The music in P3 was one of the biggest reasons I even got into Persona as a series, and I've not been disappointed yet! Lol
On a side note, you could almost take P3's Mass Destruction as verse one and FES as verse two with the progression of the song.
The dancing game does that. It combines both versions.
"IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!" I Love that battle theme! Also that the FES Version is a second Part of the Song is Just cool
I like to look at the FES version as the second verse to the original, since the original doesn't have a proper second verse. I know some later remixes treat it that way too, mixed the two into a first and second half.
That's probably how Lotus Juice intended it. Plus in Persona 3 Dancing, the two verses are put together as 1 full song.
So when it comes to story, SMT is infamous for being very dark and super serious, the Persona games however are slightly less depressing...within contex cuz bad things happen in all games, Persona 1, 2 and 3 in particular, but even if the series started going in a "Brighter" mood from P3 on, even P4, arguably the most cheerful and positive Persona game ever, is still a Murder Mystery with named characters dying.
Persona 2 Innocent Sin final boss 😳
This music doesnt bring mass destruction, but bring slight insanity because youll be hearing this music for like 50+ hours
yet you can't get enough of it
yeah ive beat persona 3 twice and i still think this song is good but it gets old really quick in context of the game. I'm a bigger fan of the p4 and p2 battle themes lol
Y’all haven’t played persona 1 psp have you, mostly everyone agrees by the end of persona 1 you wanna just die from every time you hear lone prayer
@@butterflydreamer9649 I still love the battle theme but yeah it’s painful . I just wish they had the option for the ps1 soundtrack because the psp soundtrack is alright but gets old quick
So absolutely iconic. It’s definitely got meme status because:
BABYBABYBABYBABYBABY
But like legit it’s really quite the jam and is a great bop. Never gets old even though it’s a battle theme, meaning you hear this one constantly.
Now you gotta eventually listen to the female main characters battle theme ‘Wiping All Out’ honestly I find it to be just as good as this one. Honestly a lot of the FeMC route songs are just as good as the original male portags ones.
Song mentioned in this video;
Grand Theft Auto (Da Shootaz) - Joyride
ua-cam.com/video/JYy69qOJWoM/v-deo.html
oh yeah, I remember that one. Slaps so hard.
It is funny that this is the regular battle theme of a game centered around the theme of Death ☠️
Persona has a unique spot in your brain and it's so amazing that you have that relationship with this music. You give us an opportunity to contemplate music from the games we love on its own merit and that is fantastic
This song is a lot like Baka Mitai -- it slaps, but it's only so popular because BABY BABY BABY is a meme. While both Persona and Yakuza are pretty big now, they still have limited reach so having 13 million views has to be because of the meme status.
Maybe but I listen to both lots just for how good the songs are.
"Persona always makes you feel good." Oh, sweet summer child... that ending...
Mass Destruction occupies the same part of our brains that La Hee does. Since its the main battle theme it has grown into a meme that just builds upon an already really solid song that we were forced to hear ALOT.
BABYBABYBABYBABYBABYBABYBABYBABY
now imagine that with
LAHEELAHEELAHEELAHEELAHEELAHEE
I've been waiting for this!
This is the song that made me a Persona fan, I had never heard anything like it. Even if it's technically just a short loop I've never gotten tired of it, it's that good
Woulda never guessed!
This is my phone alarm. I wake up to this song daily.
"As a whole, Persona is just very feel-good." Man does not know Omen exists lol
The most unexpected battle theme I ever experienced in my gaming history.
A song like this in 2006? I was...baffled. I played tons of JRPGs at the time, but this?
I was like...WOW
Reasons this track has so many views
1. Like you said the song is very well made, its catchy, its fun, its an enjoyable experience all around
2. This is the main battle theme of Persona 3, and thus it is heard a lot in game, its an easy one to gravitate to
3. This song is in Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, and was even used in one of the trailers to show how Music effects the stage
4. Memes, this song got very popular for awhile due to the BABY BABY BABY BABY part at the beginning
You hear this song a LOT and I mean a LOT. Somehow it never gets old.
Nothing like getting caught by Death and this song is boopin when your party is getting destroyed lol I love the persona concert version.
mamudoon
fun times
The thing is that Mass Destruction FES is more of a second verse than a remix. Original Mass Destruction is the battle theme for Persona 3 main story called The Journey and Mass Destruction FES is the battle theme in a epilogue called The Answer.
0:46 That jolt you did when it kicked off 🤣
Glad to see you check this one. Literally EVERYONE loves this song 🔊🔥
There are like 5 or more different official remixes of this song.
Babybabybabybabybabybabybaby
Yes, playing VGMs off of the old discs! I figured this out back on Sega CD and definitely listened to my PS1 games that did like Toshinden.
The chorus hook gets me all the time. The "OOH YEAH, DADADADA DA, DADADADA DA" and the gutted clean guitar sound just inject adrenaline.
Very "feel good" song as you put it, in a game where the main theme is death and coming to terms with it lol
Hell yeah, time for BABYBABYBABY to blast through. As cheesy as it is in a lot of ways, it's still probably my favorite normal battle theme in the series. I never got tired of it, just this hip hop beat coming through while desperately fighting to the top of Tartarus. Good stuff.
Also, maybe it's not the right place to ask, but has there been any consideration to maybe listening to more tracks from Undertale or Deltarune? Hell, maybe even playing them? They're relatively short indie RPGs with absolutely phenomenal music. Gameplay, characters, and story aren't a slouch either. They're popular for a reason, though some of the songs Toby Fox has put together, like Hopes and Dreams, A Cyber World, Field of Hopes and Dreams, the track literally titled Undertale, and, of course, Megalovania, all of them just take the games from good to amazing. Really would love to see you delve into those games, either through a music reaction or actually playing them. God, watching you play them would be a blast, to see your reactions to the music in the moments they play.
Either way, always happy to see more Persona on here.
“Now’s Your Chance To Be A” and “Big Shot” are also good
So i'm surprised no one i saw mention it but you talked about wanting to see persona live performance, and persona has an event called persona super live, which is just basically a persona concert with a couple of announcements sometimes. There's one in october this year tmk.
Deep Breath (the version one from the train mission) and Changing of the Seasons are my favorites from 3, I love all of the Persona soundtracks but I always appreciated how P3 embraced an unapologetically weird niche fusion of trip hop, hip hop, pop, and house that can sometimes feel like a more poppy prototype of 2010's era industrial/abstract hip hop at times. P3's music always kind-of felt to me like it was a big risk with the general crowd of Persona fans and I'm happy they took it because it's very nice to have the one that appeals most to my more core tastes to point to when persona music comes up.
personally not a fan of lotus juice, but i still like these songs a fair bit despite it.
very long time leaving falcom music territory, I recommend VGM from ys series
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!!
The difference between these two versions is the lyrics in the rap... FES is almost an entirely new song except the chorus section. Hell, even the title Mass Destruction is not there anymore.
Persona has sad songs (some of them I like more than the happy ones) or songs that make you uncomfortable on purpose (like the one you obviously disliked, made to simulate a panic attack) but those are not the first ones people remember.
About the gameplay, they are as special and mixed as their VGM xD
Combat is a turn based rpg like OG FF7, but outside of it you have the schedule management genre, because you need to do a lot of things with the time you have, a full school year:
-You need to get good grades as a student or is game over
-You need to grind exp in combat to be able to win the battles
-You need to spend time building relationships with people around you, with the chance of romance :P
And kind of visual novel genre with all the stuff you have to read. Stuff that you will remember and will move you, but still a lot to read xD
I joke about how one of my best friends got into Persona thanks to me and loves the games, but what if we fight horribly and stop being friends? It would be a horrible thing to be linked to, because maybe he won't be able to enjoy the games the same way any more by association.
It's an old meme, the BABYBABYBABYBABY part specifically
Someone request Whims of Fate please, it's my favorite Persona 5 track
huh, i'm surprised you hadn't reacted to this song already
This is the main battle theme for Persona 3, so it *needs* to be good for you to not get tired of it. And, to be honest, I was kind of burned out on it by the end of my playthrough, but it's still a banger.
For me, this song is an ear-worm/meme. Not that it isn't great on its own, but after hearing it for tens of hours in P3's big af dungeon, it kind of lives in your brain. You go from "huh, cool song" to "aghhhhsjsjsjsks make it stopppp" to "My SONG is on the RADIO, it's time to GET UP and DANCE"
Also, just stumbling upon random comments saying, BABY BABY BABY BABY and instantly the song will restart the tape deck in your head whether you want it to or not
Basically, it's good
This man NEEDS to see the live performances of some of these songs.
I remember that when i was playing P3 i used to time my attacks with the beat drop
it was sick
There's a version of this in P3D that combines both versions.
As for why it's so loved, some of it is nostalgia for sure, but it is really catchy.
I like it because it makes me want to dance. I personally like the original version better, or the mixed version.
See, it's missing the gunshot at the very beginning and then the five seconds of wind sound as the game scrambles to load the battle scene.
Or is that just the PSP version?
I might just be remembering incorrectly but that's the case in every P3 versions
Always either "cool, a battle" or "OH GOD MY MP AT 0 AND EVERYONE'S TIRED PLS NO" when you hear that sound
If you liked this listen to the 20th anniversary version it is so good and surpasses this is many ways.
It's alright. Being a secondary is not that bad. That bad. The song is popular because we played the game. Being the battle theme we listen to it quite often. The thing about video games is that both gameplay and music play along together. Experiencing one without the other is just having half of your meal. It might be why you didn't like that previous song. It plays along the mood of the scene and the gameplay.
The movie version of this song Is the best
I like how I can hear Nier in the background as you listen to one of the most iconic jrpg tracks
I've been waiting for this BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY
Ah yes, mass destruction; we are finally here.
While Burn my Dread was the first thing that jumped out to me as, huh this is great, this game has likely got more great music.
However, while Burn my Dread is good, Mass destruction was the one i will consider my favourite from P3 - It could be because i love music that can keep repeating indefinitely, but that is hard to say for certain - You do hear it a LOT since it is the main battle theme, so it could get old for some people during gameplay, but somehow i have never really heard bad things said about it.
Accurate song name. It's definitely a Mass Destruction of your expectations.
So fun fact™️ this song also appeared in one of the Persona 3 movies. I know it's technically not a vgm at that point but you might enjoy listening to it anyways
I wish genres like this were more common. What a crazy fusion: hip hop rhythm with trumpets, piano, and guitar and it works SO WELL
Makes me want MORE
lotus juice are fire 🔥🔥🔥
what makes this one popular is the meme factor
Persona 3 came out at a time when the landscape of gaming was changing pretty dramatically. Then next-gen consoles were coming out and boasting huge production values and pretty insane visuals. It felt like a lot of older styled games were going to be left behind in this new era. Then Atlus released a turn-based JRPG on what was considered a dead platform, and people who went out and played it instantly fell in love. It had an unmatched art style, incredible music, and a style of gameplay that felt familiar, but new. Mass Destruction is the centerpiece when people mention the music mainly because it stands out so much as it's the main battle theme, but also because as others have mentioned it's been memed into relevance over the years along with "Specialist" from Persona 4.
Ahahahahah used to be P3' meme xD
Amazing song and great video keep up the great work
Persona 3 was my first persona, played it back before I started highschool, and having a high school setting itself made it a bit extra special.
I actually rented it from Movie gallery or blockbuster I forget which but beat it before i had to return it. Was an amazing experience I had for that period in my life. Introduced to this type of music in games for the first time, the dramatic shift in game's story and tone from what I was used to.
I wonder if he'll go through Iwatodai Dorm just to get all the memes.
I can tell you for sure you're not the only one who got into Persona only through the music because, well, I'm in the same boat. It would be good to get to the series one day though.
it's best to treat both versions of MD as two halves of the same song
Fun fact, the protagonist in the original Persona 3 (middle human character in the first video's picture) wears headphones a lot of the time. It's pretty much accepted to be canon that he's listening to Mass Destruction during battles! He's got pretty great taste in music, if the game's OST is anything to go off of lol
"It's almost barely a remix"
Honestly, it's the subtleties of it that make the FES version so fun, so I don't blame the Dancing game for just combining the two for a verse 1 and 2 medley.
BABYBABYBABYBABYBABYBABYBABY
The best battle theme from persona series I'm lovin this
"Persona just makes you feel good... I don't know about the games but..." Persona - 3 in particular - has a very... odd dichotomy in tone going. All the music is very much up beat and uplifting... but the story goes some really **REALLY** dark places. Like, the game opens with the phrase Memento Mori. Remember you are mortal. The characters get their strength by putting a gun to their head and making Death blink. Everyone in the main crew comes from a dysfunctional or broken home in one way or another, forced to contend with weird time breaking nonsense that only they know exists, and fighting to save everyone for no thanks. 3 definitely has similar tones to Nier in its themes of existentialism and what it means to be alive. Highly recommend it. Especially since 3-5 are getting ports to Steam.
I think the music is so uplifting is because the darkness in life makes us appreciate everyday life more.
I used to do the same thing. I had a demo CD for pc games that had a few great tracks (I think it was Chaos Overlords and Muzzle Velocity.) I also had a Top Gun: Hornet's Nest cd that I would listen to in the car. The game was okay but the rock was unparalleled.
I don't know the answer to your question but I'll say this. The Persona 3 soundtrack makes you feel cool, like one of those cool kids I'm sure you've heard about. I love how some games take an unexpected music format and set a battle to it (Mrs. Krista Yoslav/Assault Horizon much?) and this game is no exception. You're grooving into battle feeling all cool with your gang rather than... something else. Like, let's say, the "meat grinder" mentality of Doom or some epic orchestral thing. This is good too, but very different in that it doesn't really get you hyped up to take down this boss (at least not me). Maybe you feel like dancing with it instead. Speaking of which... you haven't done Deja Vu/Mrs. Krista Yoslav from Ace Combat: Assault Horizon yet, have you?
100 hours of OH YEAH BABYBABYBABY only to give me depression in the last minutes of the game.
Reasons why this one is particularly popular are
1) It's kind of an old meme, so it managed to be discovered by more people than usual Persona fanbase.
2) It's the ONLY standart battle theme in P3. Bosses have their own ones but whenever you're in the main dungeon Tartarus, this song is the only song you hear in battles. Tartarus have 264 floors.
3)Extremely basic and catchy chorus. You can't go wrong with no context BABYBABYBABYBABY
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!
Hello. Please react to When the Stars Are Out Tonight from persona 3, and Pursuing My True Self from Persona 4.
subscribed, bell rang. + comment for algorithm. let's go
"I've been waiting for this!"
FINALLY LESGOOO
HIGHLY recommend Persona 5 Royal for your introduction into persona when the time comes.
Sadly he has stated on a prior video he won’t play a Persona game ever due to how time consuming are these games :(
@@AbSoLuTiOn1307 He also said that about 14. Let's take a bet. I say he'll play 14.
I hope he ends up trying the persona series. The persona series is amazing !
No. Due to the fact the games objectively get mechanically better as they progress, it would be better to play them in order.
I think one of the reasons this song is special is because there's a definite contrast between the gloomy atmosphere of the gameplay sections during which it is played, and the very funky nature of the song. They went with really bold design choices in Persona 3, which is why when it hits, it really slaps, but when it whiffs, well...
Not saying they weren't bold with P4 & 5, but those have generally more consistent aesthetics.
I’ve been waiting for this
It's popular because the Shin Megami Tensei is basically unknown to the entire market no matter what their fans say. Persona is an offshoot from this franchise, the first games were still called Shin Megami Tensei Persona tho. Persona 3 is the one game that stopped with that nomemclature and where they started to use the specific formula you still find in 5, and does away with a lot of the uninteresting parts (to the masses) that Shin Megai Tensei dragged along. That's when they went hogwild with new ideas and the game that came out of it has a lot of atmosphere to it due to its story/music/gameplay. That's why it's popular: the song is nice, you listen to it hundreds and hundreds of times, and the franchises finally emerges as something anyone can actually pick up and play.
I saw the thumbnail and thought you're disgusted from the music or something
You got to check out darkness from P3 FES it the final boss song of the answer and it pretty good in my opinion check it out some time.
BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY!
Next you could react to Wiping All Out also from Persona 3
Babybabybaby
Such a iconic battle theme
Persona 3 Portable: Wiping all out!🤷 Poor Femc!
Here's the the most distinct remix of this song for you to react to
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I think it tries to go more for a metal rap combo
I found P3 as a deal back on PS3, got me into the series
i cant help but be remineded of a certain club with a certain Chad
BABYBABYBABYBABYBABYBABY!!!!!!!!!
You should listen to school days from persona
try lotus juice remix mass destruction its wooow
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!
Bloody Destiny from persona 1