hearing this soundtrack while you investigate the dude who died in the walls and seeing all the chaos going on through the window slits has to be when i decided this was my favorite game of 2018
Yeah he was a tricky one to figure out too. Only got him by eliminating all the other stewards, never did find if anything actually tells you who he is
Thomas Holt indeed, but figuring out who he is was the tricky part. It becomes clear after a while that he’s a steward but not sure who until figuring out all the others - goes to show what a great detective game it is
@@thomasholt3697 I felt so bad for that guy. He pretty much fought against every horror the crew faced, but one freak accident cost him everything, Doom notwithstanding.
@Jill Stingray is precious That one was so amazingly set up. "Oh, it sounds like there's a storm. She's being told she's out in a storm when she shouldn't be. Hey she used somebody's name so they'll be easy to identify! OK here's the snapshot, so she got smacked in the face with a piece of mast blown by the storm. I'll just look around and see who else is.... around........."
@@MisterHunterRow the one who refers to the other as "boss" dies, and the "boss" who wanted him to stay in cover didn't (yet). also there's like one or two scenes of them both in the carpenter's shop if you wander around.
Why does no one in this community show any love for my midshipman Charlie? He kamikaze threw a lantern at one of those things. But no, everyone's all "Oh, Winston Smith is such a hero" and no one recognizes Charles Herchestic for doing the exact same thing. 😫
@@matt4048 I mean, he threw up after seeing a cow slaughtered so... Idk :) Aside from the jokes, yeah he was indeed very brave. You can't forget Maba though, who was arguably the most hardworking topman as well as a fearless fighter. The kraken tore him apart after he attacked him with his sword, over and over, fearlessly.
Just to think, because the deaths are separated by mere moments - the whole chapter actually happens in a very short span of time. From the moment that the crab riders board the ship to the last one being blasted on the cargo deck it must have been no more than 2 or three minutes. The fact that the crew of the Obra Dinn managed to regroup and react to the threat so quickly just makes this tune much more heroic, if not desperate, to me.
@@demondelaplace5161 not quite, the Obra Dinn sailed in 1802 and the Napoleonic Wars didn't start until 1803. In general, though, no ship sails without reliable teamwork and skilled crew, so the sailors were still badasses in their own right
@@vinilla02 I theorize that Winston wanted the gun so he could have some revenge. He wasn't going to take the death of his mate standing down, he was going to show those sons of bitches they messed with the wrong ship.
I like how the passengers are fined for "murder of a crewmate" despite it being self defence when the lady shot that angry Russian. Also none of the passengers get compensated for the horrific experience they suffered, instead they're fined for "abandonment of crew and vessel". Like, what? They're just passengers, they aren't responsible for the ship like the crew is.
@@Indoor_Carrot Passenger was ordered by a member of a crew to stop, and we had no evidence that that order was superseded by another, higher ranking, member of the crew. In fact, as there is no evidence of an abandon ship order being given, all of those crew were being insubordinate by doing so, and that sailor was within his rights to attempt to stop them (despite his motivation clearly being selfish). Now, the captain did order the crewmate to let them go, but he was shot immediately after, so could not obey. As far as the insurance report goes, 3 crew and two passengers commandeered a boat without orders, and when challenged by a serving member of the crew, shot him dead to escape, which the captain allowed post-hoc.
-Knows he's an important character in a sea tale -Doesn't know the genre -Fucking dies -is given the wrong name Truly he was the best Helmsman.....wait shit that's not right is it?
I think this js my favourite song in the OST for 2 reasons 1) The way the song is set up to introduce the chapter is so perfect. You find a body that is weirdly tucked into a corner. You briefly investigate around him, maybe try and go to the main deck. You are blocked. By the time you decide to peak through the holes it just around where the bells become much louder and clearer. And you see the Crab Monsters attacking everyone in the ship. It puts the scene in a completely new context and the player quickly discards all they have gathered thus far to try and understand what's before them. Right when the bells change their style and becomr louder, more frantic as you quickly take in more information that what is possible. 2) Viewed as how it narratively relates to the chapter. The music starts kinda muffled, with loud crashes being heard. This is this represents the sound of distant thunder. Then the kinda distance and echoey bells, a distant far danger approaching. Then the strings to show the danger on the boat deck itself. There's some cause for concern in the lower decks and they start to investigate. Before the crab monsters go below deck and now everyone is aware and to action. These is represented by the crescendo of all the instruments the song play with no muffle of echo, no distance, it's right in front of you. I also wanted to add to the comments talking about how heroic it sounds, there is no desperate terror in the music. It feels like it shows how the ship's passengers were fully able to keep this under control, they were fighting back and winning. The chapter is full of bravery, the carpenter not fearing the spider and charging straight at it, the assistant carpenter being the one to take down one crab while a midshipman does the same to help kill another. These are good honest people who try to fight together to save each other. These men don't tempt fate or act immorally to deserve this as divine punishment. I fucking love this game
Best tune in the game. You’re so busy figuring out who is who and what’s going on you’re not listening to the music, only to have it subconsciously welded into your brain. Was finger tapping it out for days
This tune was so stuck in my brain, that when I replayed the game I was genuinely surprised that this was only playing for one chapter, and not the entire game
"you’re not listening to the music" - Nah, I doubt that's how people felt playing this chapter. I was hooked on this jingle the moment I heard it. How can you not!?
"Lower the topsail, work fast, the wind is alive" Hearing that line and seeing that scene still gives me goosebumps. The fact that you can just see the crabs crawling up the ship down below. My favourite scene of the game.
Can we all just take a moment to realize how incredibly lucky Akbar was in this chapter? Dude wasn't fast enough to join the other guys rushing below deck to get away from the crab riders and is forced to hide behind one of the narrowest of covers while Li's dead body is above him; yet somehow, he still doesn't get noticed and survived through that attack. It's just a shame he isn't as lucky later on.
I'm not even exaggerating when I say that for a good two days after I played this game I was in kind of a funk cuz I felt really bad for pinning the death of Wolff and the sailor whose name escapes me on Ackbar. It was pretty clear that he was the one who lit the fuse on the cannon that blew those two to smithereens, so his estate got fined for the murder of two crewmates :/ I suppose it shows to go how well done this game is that I felt so bad about a collection of pixels.
I’ve played and replayed this game too many times to the point where I feel intimately familiar with the characters. Now I can only watch let’s plays to relive that sense of discovery and success.
The ship steward's fate was driving me insane - it was the last one I had to get, and by all accounts I thought that I assumed correctly that he got spiked by one of the crab riders. But no. He accidentally got shot by the frenchman. THAT BULLET TRAJECTORY WAS BARELY VISIBLE.
In a way it's the same for the Formosan who is killed by firing squad, it took me a while to figure out whose bullet actually killed him as I was still geting used to the art style and looking around at everything else too, marvelling at how well the in-game scene matched the drawing by Edward Spratt
@@wulfricr7635 Yeah, that one was a doozy as well. Until I noticed the bullets and carefully followed their approximate flight path to find out who it was, I was stumped as to which one was the first to kill the Formosan. But it was one of the scenes where I managed to pinpoint A LOT of identities all at once, mostly thanks to the artwork by Edward Spratt.
This is one of the best tracks. It manages to capture the ripping yarn nature of what's happening, the heroism and courage as the crew fight back against the ferocious attack by the crab riders but also the melancholy as many of them will die here.
The first time I heard this song was nearly 3 weeks ago when my mate played it after I bought it him for Christmas. When he was investigating the corpse on the starboard walk he looked up through a window to see the chaos right as the clearer/closer bells started playing, which really amplified the effect. This song has been stuck in my head ever since.
you can also see the crab riders climbing the ship when the lighting hit Hhoung Li hard, imagine the sound of the thunder while seeing these crab riders holding spears lol
The first major twist to this game is the Kraken. A sea monster in a murder mystery? Holy shit. And you play the other chapters and get a better picture of what happens and you know the kraken attack is really the climax. You know it's the big flashy supernatural event that blows everything else away. The second major twist is that the kraken is not the only supernatural monster the crew faces. When you dive into the chapter, you see carnage as the orlop deck is ravaged by horrendous sea creatures that are not your typical monster like the giant squid. They are freaky and foreign, and you have previous fates in the chapter to set the atmosphere for what the living quarters are like. It's beautiful, and you can only see them through slots in the wall. I truly loved the time I spent playing this game
"En daemon! (A demon!)" "Out of my way!" "Beat to quarters! Enemy aboard!" "What's going on?" "Stay back! It's already done for Nick!" "Come on, Boss!" "No, get down!" "Hey! Catch!" *tosses axe at Crab Rider, gets spiked*
This and the theme for "The End" to me are the defining music of The Return of the Obra Dinn. The Doom is probably the one with the most impact and exposure (given the sheer amount of deaths in that one chapter) but that beats there can at times feel generic. Soldiers of the Sea and The End on the otherhand have stuck with me as iconic to that game. Soldiers of the Sea captures the menace of many of the unfortunate events the Obra Dinn suffers, and The End captures what feels to me as a great teaser of the mysteries the rest of the game challenges the player to solve.
I agree. Having the game begin while only 4 people are left was a genius move. And pushing to slowing into the story rather than shove a bunch of characters at you all at once.
I've been enjoying hearing people struggle with this, the "Somebody shoot it" line immediately followed by the sound of a gunshot opening the scene means I never thought it was anything but death by gunshot.
@@FinetalPies Same holy shit, I originally assumed it was gunshot but had the wrong name so I looked up a hint guide which said "rethink your assumptions" which made me second guess myself and think he must have actually been speared. I was so pissed when I found out I was right from the start lmao
@@SB_Tommy Oh Yeah Mr.Krabs! (jokes aside those things creeped the shit out me. Something about their vaguely human figure and the way they brutally murder those they encounter really gave me the chills)
@@neddles33 Well, there are Japanese spider crabs that look almost exactly like what you see in this game, just smaller. Edit: Don't click if you're scared of spiders or crabs. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Macrocheira_kaempferi.jpg
Now that I know what I'm listening for I can hear it from the beginning, but it gets drowned out about 4 or 5 seconds in. It's most audible 9-10 seconds in, just after the bells start and the drum sounds, and it gets a bit louder at 19 seconds after another drum and again at the 24 second drum. It's like the first track is the sound effects of the attack, the drums are the flintlocks firing, probably missing in panic or just not affecting the enemy, and the claws are getting louder because they're getting closer to the people below deck. Edit: Also, the bells could be a reference to alarm bells which were used to notify crew of fires on the ship (but hey, in the case of crab demons I would imagine they'd be ringing the bell).
Legend has it right after the artist randomly peeking through the window in this chapter, he drew the whole scene. The surgeon actually found the sketch but decided to dispose it because it's such a terrifying drawing.
@@therealnickname7689 Are we talking about the guy who got spiked, then crawled outside and got accidentally shot through the wall? Because he definitely wasn't a traitor, we barely even saw him in any events.
JackieHoute I thought about the guy in The Calling chapter where the guy was the last to survive and right when he was close to the ship, some chinese guy straight shotted him even thought he yelled "I yield!"
@@therealnickname7689 I think some of those Chinese guys couldn't understand English anyway and had a friend translate in most scenes, either that or he was ordered to shoot them as soon as they got close to the Obra Dinn
Lightning heralded their arrival, these horrific riders of the deep, and as their spiny legs crawled upon the unsuspecting Obra Dinn, the funeral bell tolled ceaselessly.
@@Unownshipper lightning strikes are not instantly fatal. They give you massive burns and stop your heart. You die of cardiac arrest, which *is* fairly painful, though not the most painful way to go. But he probably died from the fall, anyway, which is incredibly fucking painful.
Marcus Gibbs:"Come on,boss!" Winston Smith:"No, Get down!" Marcus Gibbs:"Hey! Catch!" *Throws an axe at the giant crab but gets spiked by the beast* (Sheer amount of American Bravado if I do say so myself.)
I swear, the “Boss” part kind of threw me off. What white man in 1807 America would willingly call a black man boss even if he WAS his boss? Those two must’ve been really close friends.
@@garcalej Same, when I heard that I honestly thought he was referring to the Crab metaphorically as "boss" kinda like when you're trash talking and saying "come at me" to distract him and I totally missed that he was literally talking to his boss
"SOMEBODY SHOOT THE DAMN THINGS?!" Me: ..*seeing the man bleeding in the little side hall* Oh shit..what happened to this gu- *looks through the windows into the body of the cargo deck* 0.0.............
@@madeofmandrake1748 Right! He was my favourite character all throughout. That one accident was my last fate to solve since I wrote it off early as being spiked. I was floored when I realized what happened. Felt awful putting his name down.
@@madeofmandrake1748 I also felt slightly bad for one the Russian, Volkov. The two others russians were mutineers so they deserved their fate, but Leonid fought through everything bravely, and just snapped at the end when he saw people trying to escape. He though they were either part of ongoing mutiny or (more likely) cowards for abandoning the rest of them and got mad. Ended up killed, treated as a murder (I mean, yeah ok, he killed Paul), his body tossed to the sea like some garbage, and his estate fined but he clearly did everything he could beforehand when shit went south to save the ship. Manned the cannons, fighting Kraken like a boss, and staying faithful to the Obra Dinn to the very end.
This part turned the whole game upside down. You finally knew you were in for some serious shit. Holy shit, I love this game so much and I wish I could tell this in an appropriate way to Lucas. And I love these comments so much too! You are all the people and beautiful!
this track is almost whimsical and definitely my favorite in the game. I love this chapter for just the insane damage the crab riders do in only a couple minutes. they slaughter everyone in their path with pinpoint precision and the seamen taking them down is some of the most badass imagery in the whole game.
@@lordshitbiscuit5527 I did, i said the ost was good but there are better osts out there, i didn't say the ost was bad at any moment, just said that the commenter probably didn't get very lucky with the games he chose to play in terms of soundtracks.
I decided at long last to buy this game this past weekend. Must remind myself not to read through the comments. Spoiler alerts. You have been warned. Probably one of the best games I've played in a very, very long time. The soundtrack by itself is fantastic!
Never played this myself, but a streamer played it and I fell in love. Don't think I'll ever play it because I know everybody's fate now, but damn it's a great game. Also, this track reminds me of a sea shanty-ified Gravity Falls theme.
With all the death in this chapter, this music sounds heroic, and adventurous. It doesn’t sound like it was a sad time, it sounds like you are telling a story of an adventure, to your kid about the good times when you were fighting danger and overcoming deadly encounters. Instead of making me feel the despair of death, it makes me feel like I’m hearing a story of going on adventures and fighting monsters.
Before this chapter: Oh, the crew mutinied and tore each other apart, what a tragic tale of human nature in an environment of isolation. After this chapter: CRAB PEOPLE
@@joesretrostuffI like to imagine the mermaid was watching to see if the fate of the obra dinn was recorded... aka the whole ship being cannibalised by Captain Robert in tragedy
I dunno what everyone here is talking about, how so may people were killed by monsters in this chapter. It was obviously the captain wearing a disguise, guys. Don't be fooled.
It was at this moment that I realized how screwed all these guys where. As I checked the battle field, I noticed that all these guys currently fending off the spider crab where going to die to kraken. They will survive this attack because they are fated to die later on. A chilling thought to be sure.
Fun fact: those bells are called a "carillon." Often housed in bell towers, carillons are usually owned by churches, universities, or municipalities. They can include an automatic system through which the time is announced and simple tunes are played throughout the day. Carillons come in many designs, weights, sizes, and sounds. They are among the world's heaviest instruments, and the heaviest carillon weighs over 91 metric tons (100 short tons). Most weigh between 4.5 and 15 metric tons (5.0 and 16.5 short tons). To be considered a carillon, a minimum of 23 bells are needed; otherwise, it is called a chime. There are about 700 carillons worldwide. And yes, I too hope to one day own a house-instrument-building.
Why is nobody showing love for my man Emil O' Farrel, dude was the biggest sweetheart in the ship and ended up getting horribly spiked by the crab riders
Bro when I first heard his death moans while doctor evans was trying to save him I cringed. It's honestly very haunting and pitiful at the same time. 😢😢😢
Imagine crawling to the port walk, having ripped out a spike as the crab knights are attacking. You take just a moment to breathe as the chaos unfolds all around you, and you hear "Will somebody shoot the damn thing?" and then everything fades around you.
Am I the only one who thinks the piece sounds better if the two parts are played in the other order? Soldiers of the Sea 2 is calm and ominous, while 1 slowly builds up to an unbroken melody and a crescendo. Part 1 also ends on a note that sounds a lot more final. I don't know the correct music terminology, but it sounds to me like part 2 ends with a question mark, while part 1 ends with a full stop.
@Josh JeanJacket Jaeger Yo dude, there's a bit of a spoiler there with those nationalities. Fancy rewording it to not give stuff away to people who haven't experienced the full game?
hearing this soundtrack while you investigate the dude who died in the walls and seeing all the chaos going on through the window slits has to be when i decided this was my favorite game of 2018
Yeah he was a tricky one to figure out too. Only got him by eliminating all the other stewards, never did find if anything actually tells you who he is
@@joesretrostuffThe guy in the striped shirt is shooting him through the wall. You can see the trail of the bullet
Thomas Holt indeed, but figuring out who he is was the tricky part. It becomes clear after a while that he’s a steward but not sure who until figuring out all the others - goes to show what a great detective game it is
@@thomasholt3697 I felt so bad for that guy. He pretty much fought against every horror the crew faced, but one freak accident cost him everything, Doom notwithstanding.
@Jill Stingray is precious That one was so amazingly set up.
"Oh, it sounds like there's a storm. She's being told she's out in a storm when she shouldn't be. Hey she used somebody's name so they'll be easy to identify! OK here's the snapshot, so she got smacked in the face with a piece of mast blown by the storm. I'll just look around and see who else is.... around........."
everybody gangsta till the terrible beasts start spiking
someone shoot the damn thing
@@danielsteger8456 *shoots steward Zungi Sathi like a boss*
@@gowentgone7584 "why was he standing in the wall like that?"
"Maybe it's his fault"
@@Osamathegamer you mean till the bells starts ringing...
@@eranbenzeev627 I don't get it.
Rip Charles Hershtik, goes from throwing up after killing a cow to valiantly sacrificing himself so that he could take a crab rider down.
Don't forget the Carpenter Winston Smith and his mate Marcus Gibbs
@@andrewmontgomery5621 Marcus going full gigachad with "I GOT THIS BOSS!"
@@fabiopauli420 . Actually he said "Come on, Boss!"
@@andrewmontgomery5621 Is that how to tell them apart? I've had trouble trying to find a realistic way of doing so... I always end up guessing.
@@MisterHunterRow the one who refers to the other as "boss" dies, and the "boss" who wanted him to stay in cover didn't (yet). also there's like one or two scenes of them both in the carpenter's shop if you wander around.
... and then I looked out through the little window.
God damn, you were not the only one, let me tell you...
My reaction was literally "Hmm whats through her-WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT."
Emils face of horror, quite scary
Roderrick Andersson and the noise he made when the surgeon tried to pull him off the wall
Hmmmm.....no sir, I don’t like it.
This guy: fuck, i got spiked. Just gonna crawl the hell out and hide
Random bullet: do you have a minute to answer some questions?
"Do you have a Moment for God?"
"Because he has an eternity for you."
*Do you have 2 microseconds to answer some questions?
well... he'd die anyway, he got that spike somewhere around his heart, there are no non-vital organs
One of the last ones i solved, one of my favorite deaths
If they had replaced all the seaman with carpenters, the Obra Dinn would still be sailing.
Sammy Liao Americans*
It technically never stopped sailing up until the inspector leaves
Wood is scarce in the middle of the sea
Why does no one in this community show any love for my midshipman Charlie? He kamikaze threw a lantern at one of those things. But no, everyone's all "Oh, Winston Smith is such a hero" and no one recognizes Charles Herchestic for doing the exact same thing. 😫
@@matt4048 I mean, he threw up after seeing a cow slaughtered so... Idk :) Aside from the jokes, yeah he was indeed very brave. You can't forget Maba though, who was arguably the most hardworking topman as well as a fearless fighter. The kraken tore him apart after he attacked him with his sword, over and over, fearlessly.
Just to think, because the deaths are separated by mere moments - the whole chapter actually happens in a very short span of time. From the moment that the crab riders board the ship to the last one being blasted on the cargo deck it must have been no more than 2 or three minutes. The fact that the crew of the Obra Dinn managed to regroup and react to the threat so quickly just makes this tune much more heroic, if not desperate, to me.
And then the last chapter rolls around and adds context to the whole thing.
Most of the sailors would have been veterans of the Napoleonic wars.
@@demondelaplace5161 that's so badass
@@demondelaplace5161 not quite, the Obra Dinn sailed in 1802 and the Napoleonic Wars didn't start until 1803. In general, though, no ship sails without reliable teamwork and skilled crew, so the sailors were still badasses in their own right
Sorry but if you check your clock first topman died at 6.05 and last one died at 6.40. So they fight at least half an hour.
The chapter that lets you realize that the obra dinn had some absolute CHADS on it
Nah that was established right at The End when Captain casually pulled off a 1v3 then shot himself.
The carpenters were just built *different.*
"Hey, catch!"
"Is that all?"
@@0011ftw RIP Maba gone but never forgotten
My man charles couldent handle slaughtering a cow but did hold an entire sea beast while burnning it to death
@@GoodMorningButch Maba was an ABSOLUTE UNIT.
carpenter winston smith is the MVP of the obra dinn. survives a crab's spike attack and kills it with a mortar at point blank. RIP to a real one.
And his mate, who throws an axe as he gets spiked
And Hershtick, who literally threw a lantern to burn the crab just to then jump on it and pin it down
"Is that all!?" BOOM
Blunderbass Hero
@@vinilla02 I theorize that Winston wanted the gun so he could have some revenge. He wasn't going to take the death of his mate standing down, he was going to show those sons of bitches they messed with the wrong ship.
As a IRL insurance agent, I was very surprised how realistic this game is.
heartless bureaucracy fining for missing a giant crab is a thing, I guess
so you have death pocket watch too?
A customs officer said the same thing about Papers, Please. Amazing to realize how much care Pope put in his games.
I like how the passengers are fined for "murder of a crewmate" despite it being self defence when the lady shot that angry Russian.
Also none of the passengers get compensated for the horrific experience they suffered, instead they're fined for "abandonment of crew and vessel". Like, what? They're just passengers, they aren't responsible for the ship like the crew is.
@@Indoor_Carrot Passenger was ordered by a member of a crew to stop, and we had no evidence that that order was superseded by another, higher ranking, member of the crew. In fact, as there is no evidence of an abandon ship order being given, all of those crew were being insubordinate by doing so, and that sailor was within his rights to attempt to stop them (despite his motivation clearly being selfish). Now, the captain did order the crewmate to let them go, but he was shot immediately after, so could not obey. As far as the insurance report goes, 3 crew and two passengers commandeered a boat without orders, and when challenged by a serving member of the crew, shot him dead to escape, which the captain allowed post-hoc.
I was eager to figure out what had left the large pool of blood by the stairs.
This was not high up on my list of theories.
The blood was there cuz charles hershtick became into quite the SHTICKY situation
Nobody expected Spanish inquisition in form of crab-riding mermaid agents trying to retrieve the shells after their mer-friends failed to do so
i was expecting soldiers of the sea to be about pirates and boarding. disappointing, but a bit fun too
@@danielsteger8456 That would have been cool, but I think it might have been unrealistic for the time of the game taking place.
@@noahmay7708 nah, its in the correct time but their route they were sailing on doesnt have many pirates i think
-Is warned to not get near the Crabs
-Reassures that he’ll be okay
-“Hey! Catch!”
-Throws axe
-Misses
-Fucking dies
RIP to the bravest
-Knows he's an important character in a sea tale
-Doesn't know the genre
-Fucking dies
-is given the wrong name
Truly he was the best Helmsman.....wait shit that's not right is it?
Actually if I remember correctly he didn't miss, but the crab deflected the axe with its arm
both the Americans die with such bravery lol, although one had much more success
@@Milo375Gaming
"Hey! Catch!"
"No U"
Deflects the axe while also shooting spikes into his chest.
Never enjoyed people getting brutally killed this much before
dude you should try Rimworld.
@@Hale444 Sseth?
I know its wrong but I laughed out loud at the cannon double TK suicide.
What, Danganronpa, YTTD, and Corpse Party not up your alley?
@@MrAwesomeMatty dont remind me Corpse Party. Grudge was kids movie compare to this.
noticing that they were not merely fighting crabs, but crab knights, was a defining moment for me
Plays Game:
~Spiked
~Spiked
~Spiked
~Spiked
~Got shot whilst being spiked
SURE
I used the word "speared" a few times just to convey at least a little variety~
Someone put rum in the Christmas punch.
It was spiked!
Dont forget electrecuted
Oh and decapitated
''~Got shot whilst being spiked'' - I had to look this up :( the only one i made a mistake.....very very hard
I think this js my favourite song in the OST for 2 reasons
1) The way the song is set up to introduce the chapter is so perfect. You find a body that is weirdly tucked into a corner. You briefly investigate around him, maybe try and go to the main deck. You are blocked. By the time you decide to peak through the holes it just around where the bells become much louder and clearer. And you see the Crab Monsters attacking everyone in the ship. It puts the scene in a completely new context and the player quickly discards all they have gathered thus far to try and understand what's before them. Right when the bells change their style and becomr louder, more frantic as you quickly take in more information that what is possible.
2) Viewed as how it narratively relates to the chapter. The music starts kinda muffled, with loud crashes being heard. This is this represents the sound of distant thunder. Then the kinda distance and echoey bells, a distant far danger approaching. Then the strings to show the danger on the boat deck itself. There's some cause for concern in the lower decks and they start to investigate. Before the crab monsters go below deck and now everyone is aware and to action. These is represented by the crescendo of all the instruments the song play with no muffle of echo, no distance, it's right in front of you.
I also wanted to add to the comments talking about how heroic it sounds, there is no desperate terror in the music. It feels like it shows how the ship's passengers were fully able to keep this under control, they were fighting back and winning. The chapter is full of bravery, the carpenter not fearing the spider and charging straight at it, the assistant carpenter being the one to take down one crab while a midshipman does the same to help kill another. These are good honest people who try to fight together to save each other. These men don't tempt fate or act immorally to deserve this as divine punishment.
I fucking love this game
Oh this is such a happy tune! I wonder what is happening when it plays.
Actually plays game: JESUS
Rather ironic that a jaunty tune like this is accompanied by such chaos
I feel this theme is so ominous, I don't really get people hearing something cheerful about it.
@@Deorman Really? I think it's bouncy and upbeat. I feel like dancing when I hear it.
To me, it's the sound of church bells beneath the waves, or hammers beating on sunken metal hulls. Hardly cheerful instruments.
@@inoriselectricboogaloo2442 I think a mixture of both, like a chaotic situation
Best tune in the game. You’re so busy figuring out who is who and what’s going on you’re not listening to the music, only to have it subconsciously welded into your brain. Was finger tapping it out for days
Days? It's been 3 months since my mate played this, and those bells are still playing in my head every time I got to sleep.
Its in fact so good its part of the main theme
Nah man I looked forward to finding more bodies during that chapter just to hear those bells
This tune was so stuck in my brain, that when I replayed the game I was genuinely surprised that this was only playing for one chapter, and not the entire game
"you’re not listening to the music" - Nah, I doubt that's how people felt playing this chapter. I was hooked on this jingle the moment I heard it. How can you not!?
"Lower the topsail, work fast, the wind is alive"
Hearing that line and seeing that scene still gives me goosebumps. The fact that you can just see the crabs crawling up the ship down below. My favourite scene of the game.
and the poor Haung Li getting lightened so hard
This is also my favorite scene in the game! Paired with this music, it was just fantastic.
Leonid said that, most people think charles said it but it was leonid
That line had one of the best deliveries only to be cemented by being struck by lightning
@@roderrickgaming9949 It sounded much more like a French accent than a Russian accent to me
Can we all just take a moment to realize how incredibly lucky Akbar was in this chapter?
Dude wasn't fast enough to join the other guys rushing below deck to get away from the crab riders and is forced to hide behind one of the narrowest of covers while Li's dead body is above him; yet somehow, he still doesn't get noticed and survived through that attack.
It's just a shame he isn't as lucky later on.
And all of his fellow Indian friends were dead by that point :(
You know what they say: Can’t have shit in 1807
and then he dies by falling off the boat. poor sod was likely food
I'm not even exaggerating when I say that for a good two days after I played this game I was in kind of a funk cuz I felt really bad for pinning the death of Wolff and the sailor whose name escapes me on Ackbar. It was pretty clear that he was the one who lit the fuse on the cannon that blew those two to smithereens, so his estate got fined for the murder of two crewmates :/ I suppose it shows to go how well done this game is that I felt so bad about a collection of pixels.
His luck ran out.
Watching blind playthroughs of this game with commentary is the closest I can get to reliving a fresh experience of this game. At least there's that.
ooo good idea!
I learned about this game watching Otzdarva's playthrough, it's so cool!
There is a playthrough like that on the channel “About Oliver”. If you still interested in that of course
@@alicestolze8327 Me too! I love otzdarva :)
I’ve played and replayed this game too many times to the point where I feel intimately familiar with the characters. Now I can only watch let’s plays to relive that sense of discovery and success.
“IS THAT ALL!??”
F for the butcher
@@BakuraTaxi He was the Carpenter
@@occono3543 you'r right
My hero 😍
The ship steward's fate was driving me insane - it was the last one I had to get, and by all accounts I thought that I assumed correctly that he got spiked by one of the crab riders.
But no. He accidentally got shot by the frenchman. THAT BULLET TRAJECTORY WAS BARELY VISIBLE.
If you notice, there's a hole on the wall in present time which indicates there was a bullet penetrated.
@@huyucnguyen9851 Yeah...I'm ashamed that it took me waaaaay too long to notice that it was, in fact, a bullet hole, and not a spike hole.
In a way it's the same for the Formosan who is killed by firing squad, it took me a while to figure out whose bullet actually killed him as I was still geting used to the art style and looking around at everything else too, marvelling at how well the in-game scene matched the drawing by Edward Spratt
@@wulfricr7635 Yeah, that one was a doozy as well. Until I noticed the bullets and carefully followed their approximate flight path to find out who it was, I was stumped as to which one was the first to kill the Formosan.
But it was one of the scenes where I managed to pinpoint A LOT of identities all at once, mostly thanks to the artwork by Edward Spratt.
Same here. I was so confused I nearly left the ship early to see if I needed to know about the bargain to confirm the last couple of fates.
This is one of the best tracks. It manages to capture the ripping yarn nature of what's happening, the heroism and courage as the crew fight back against the ferocious attack by the crab riders but also the melancholy as many of them will die here.
Correction:all of them will die here
Yayyyyyyy
@@greekhuman8706 litterally 4 people will leave and a few will die somewhere else
@@MinecraftKarol2005 ok m8 correction:the vast majority of them will die here
@@greekhuman8706 4/60 of them die there
I love youtube comments
This is entirely too jaunty for watching men getting brutally murdered by creb-riders
I love it
funeral bell tolls
and tolls
and tolls
The first time I heard this song was nearly 3 weeks ago when my mate played it after I bought it him for Christmas. When he was investigating the corpse on the starboard walk he looked up through a window to see the chaos right as the clearer/closer bells started playing, which really amplified the effect. This song has been stuck in my head ever since.
"Main sail hauled up! Secure the braces and lower the topsail! Work fast, the wind is alive!"
*Haung Li struck by lightning*
That's Volkov calling out! No doubt about that! :)
you can also see the crab riders climbing the ship when the lighting hit Hhoung Li hard, imagine the sound of the thunder while seeing these crab riders holding spears lol
Considering how nearly everyone else died, he was the lucky one
すごく心に響く曲ですね…
怪物相手に必死に戦う彼らのシーンを思い出すと、悲いけど胸が熱くなります
This is the precise moment the game goes from "Whoa" to "WTF". And becomes even more awesome. :D
The first major twist to this game is the Kraken. A sea monster in a murder mystery? Holy shit. And you play the other chapters and get a better picture of what happens and you know the kraken attack is really the climax. You know it's the big flashy supernatural event that blows everything else away.
The second major twist is that the kraken is not the only supernatural monster the crew faces. When you dive into the chapter, you see carnage as the orlop deck is ravaged by horrendous sea creatures that are not your typical monster like the giant squid. They are freaky and foreign, and you have previous fates in the chapter to set the atmosphere for what the living quarters are like. It's beautiful, and you can only see them through slots in the wall.
I truly loved the time I spent playing this game
"En daemon! (A demon!)"
"Out of my way!"
"Beat to quarters! Enemy aboard!"
"What's going on?"
"Stay back! It's already done for Nick!"
"Come on, Boss!"
"No, get down!"
"Hey! Catch!" *tosses axe at Crab Rider, gets spiked*
"We're no use. Burn it, quick!
Wait wtf I thought they rode spiders? They look nothing like crabs
@@mcpopcorn3195 looks like both, the spider-crab upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Macrocheira_kaempferi.jpg
@@roderrickgaming9949 AAHHAHAHHAARGGGHGHGHHHHH
@@chaltier Holy fuck, these things really exist?!? Im fckin avoiding japanese waters... 😀
This and the theme for "The End" to me are the defining music of The Return of the Obra Dinn. The Doom is probably the one with the most impact and exposure (given the sheer amount of deaths in that one chapter) but that beats there can at times feel generic. Soldiers of the Sea and The End on the otherhand have stuck with me as iconic to that game. Soldiers of the Sea captures the menace of many of the unfortunate events the Obra Dinn suffers, and The End captures what feels to me as a great teaser of the mysteries the rest of the game challenges the player to solve.
I agree. Having the game begin while only 4 people are left was a genius move. And pushing to slowing into the story rather than shove a bunch of characters at you all at once.
*When you waste considerable time thinking that guy is pierced by crabman needles
FUCKING relatable
Literally the second last fate I figured out, just because I didn’t notice “Somebody shoot it!”
I've been enjoying hearing people struggle with this, the "Somebody shoot it" line immediately followed by the sound of a gunshot opening the scene means I never thought it was anything but death by gunshot.
@@FinetalPies Same holy shit, I originally assumed it was gunshot but had the wrong name so I looked up a hint guide which said "rethink your assumptions" which made me second guess myself and think he must have actually been speared. I was so pissed when I found out I was right from the start lmao
BALD
The carpenter was the true MVP
IS THAT A MAN RIDING A SHRIMP???????????
Jooho Lee crab
@@SB_Tommy Oh Yeah Mr.Krabs! (jokes aside those things creeped the shit out me. Something about their vaguely human figure and the way they brutally murder those they encounter really gave me the chills)
I had them down as sea spiders
@@neddles33 Well, there are Japanese spider crabs that look almost exactly like what you see in this game, just smaller.
Edit: Don't click if you're scared of spiders or crabs.
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G3n3r1cN4m3 omg and it makes sense because the box belonged to the Furmosans and the mermaids must have been connected to some kind of eastern magic
"Oh come on that was a nice one."
"Uh oh, hahahah-"
This spooky jaunty tune still haunts me, It's by far my favorite of the game. It's almost cheerful despite all the manslaughter
If you listen listen closely in the beginning of the song then you can hear the snapping of claws.
Now that I know what I'm listening for I can hear it from the beginning, but it gets drowned out about 4 or 5 seconds in. It's most audible 9-10 seconds in, just after the bells start and the drum sounds, and it gets a bit louder at 19 seconds after another drum and again at the 24 second drum.
It's like the first track is the sound effects of the attack, the drums are the flintlocks firing, probably missing in panic or just not affecting the enemy, and the claws are getting louder because they're getting closer to the people below deck.
Edit: Also, the bells could be a reference to alarm bells which were used to notify crew of fires on the ship (but hey, in the case of crab demons I would imagine they'd be ringing the bell).
@@internetbud2380 Yo, don't go complimenting me, I'm just the guy who said what to listen for, give Sixten your love.
Sixten Paulsson - *puts the speaker right up against my ear* Oh yeah! That soft tapping noise. Nice catch.
I think it's supposed to be the ticking of the watch
@@GnrcNm holy shit, I just got mind blown like when I was playing in this game... Lucas is a genius
Legend has it right after the artist randomly peeking through the window in this chapter, he drew the whole scene. The surgeon actually found the sketch but decided to dispose it because it's such a terrifying drawing.
PROTIP: Listen to the advice of more experienced crew to avoid making stupid mistakes.
“cAtCh tHiS” now his boss on the other hand, that’s a real American man, he blew that fucking thing’s head clean off when he went out
the master vs the apprentice lmao
I still doubt they'd have experience in killing giant crabs with human-like lumps of fur on their heads
@@MrPoiuytre
You thought it was fur? Pretty sure those were people riding crabs into battle. The so-called "Soldiers of the Sea"
@@FinetalPies People looking like lumps of fur
This song made me realize how sealed these guys fate was. It was when I was working on the poor guy who tried to drag himself away then got shot :/
GM 180 he was traitor anyway
@@therealnickname7689 Are we talking about the guy who got spiked, then crawled outside and got accidentally shot through the wall? Because he definitely wasn't a traitor, we barely even saw him in any events.
JackieHoute I thought about the guy in The Calling chapter where the guy was the last to survive and right when he was close to the ship, some chinese guy straight shotted him even thought he yelled "I yield!"
@@therealnickname7689 Yeah, that one was definitely a traitor, not to mention a coward considering what happened on the boats.
@@therealnickname7689 I think some of those Chinese guys couldn't understand English anyway and had a friend translate in most scenes, either that or he was ordered to shoot them as soon as they got close to the Obra Dinn
Heave!
Run!
What is it?
Bloody devil!
Another one!
Over there!
I got the glorious moment of the bells coming in as I saw the crabs for the first time. Absolute masterpiece.
Lightning heralded their arrival, these horrific riders of the deep, and as their spiny legs crawled upon the unsuspecting Obra Dinn, the funeral bell tolled ceaselessly.
As Count from Ace Combat 7 would say "Quite the poet."
...was devoured by Captain Robert Witterel
If only the cook had been alive, he would have fried a good meal out of those crabs.
Charles went from being unable to slaughter a cow properly to being willing to tackle a crab knight on fire.
The Best music in the game!!!
>tfw you kill a crab with a hand mortar to the face
Shas'O Swoll american hero!
IS THAT ALL?!
what a chad
He had to get revenge for his friend, what a hero
He didn't tho, right? The first crab was killed with fire.
_A.K.A the chapter where crabs take revenge._
OH SHIT ITS THE CRAB RAVE
When the Chinese guy gets struck by lightning, you know crap's going down.
ikr? you think they'd be used to going through tribulations after reading a ton of cultivaiton novels
To be honest, he probably had it the easiest of all them. Quick, instant death without catching sight of unholy crab people.
@@Unownshipper Also got to keep his internal organs intact.
More like crabs going up.
@@Unownshipper lightning strikes are not instantly fatal. They give you massive burns and stop your heart. You die of cardiac arrest, which *is* fairly painful, though not the most painful way to go. But he probably died from the fall, anyway, which is incredibly fucking painful.
The way this track ends in synchronization with the circle closing in is very satisfying
“Looks like he was hiding from something…oh…”
I wonder whether or not I'm the only one who's enjoyment of this track increases tenfold once you put it on 1.75x or 2x speed
Marcus Gibbs:"Come on,boss!"
Winston Smith:"No, Get down!"
Marcus Gibbs:"Hey! Catch!" *Throws an axe at the giant crab but gets spiked by the beast*
(Sheer amount of American Bravado if I do say so myself.)
"IS THAT ALL?"
Nationality analysis: American.
I swear, the “Boss” part kind of threw me off. What white man in 1807 America would willingly call a black man boss even if he WAS his boss? Those two must’ve been really close friends.
@@garcalej That lad probably spent most of his working life with the guy.
@@garcalej Same, when I heard that I honestly thought he was referring to the Crab metaphorically as "boss" kinda like when you're trash talking and saying "come at me" to distract him and I totally missed that he was literally talking to his boss
@@garcalej Oh shit dude lmao. I thought "1807" and immediately assumed that the white guy was the "boss".
Amazing how you start off investigating the man in the corridor, look through the window and see... that.
勇敢な兵(へい・つわもの)たち
勇ましい章にふさわしい荘厳でかっこいい
一番好きです！
"SOMEBODY SHOOT THE DAMN THINGS?!"
Me: ..*seeing the man bleeding in the little side hall* Oh shit..what happened to this gu- *looks through the windows into the body of the cargo deck* 0.0.............
It's so sad that we have no choice but to deny Charles Miner his Hero-money because of that one accident. The frenchman deserved better.
@@madeofmandrake1748 Right! He was my favourite character all throughout. That one accident was my last fate to solve since I wrote it off early as being spiked. I was floored when I realized what happened. Felt awful putting his name down.
@@madeofmandrake1748 I also felt slightly bad for one the Russian, Volkov. The two others russians were mutineers so they deserved their fate, but Leonid fought through everything bravely, and just snapped at the end when he saw people trying to escape. He though they were either part of ongoing mutiny or (more likely) cowards for abandoning the rest of them and got mad. Ended up killed, treated as a murder (I mean, yeah ok, he killed Paul), his body tossed to the sea like some garbage, and his estate fined but he clearly did everything he could beforehand when shit went south to save the ship. Manned the cannons, fighting Kraken like a boss, and staying faithful to the Obra Dinn to the very end.
This music... This game... So eerie and great... I wish I could forget all about it to play it for the first time again.
This part turned the whole game upside down. You finally knew you were in for some serious shit.
Holy shit, I love this game so much and I wish I could tell this in an appropriate way to Lucas.
And I love these comments so much too! You are all the people and beautiful!
this track is almost whimsical and definitely my favorite in the game. I love this chapter for just the insane damage the crab riders do in only a couple minutes. they slaughter everyone in their path with pinpoint precision and the seamen taking them down is some of the most badass imagery in the whole game.
This chapters songs are my favorites
The most emotional one out of all of them. Not to say that the others aren't emotional, but this one is the most emotional
You mess with crabo, you get a stabo
1st one is probably the best ost i have ever heard. no joke.
The i guess you haven't heard many good osts.
@@lordshitbiscuit5527 There are osts alot better than this one, which is also good.
@@lordshitbiscuit5527 I did, i said the ost was good but there are better osts out there, i didn't say the ost was bad at any moment, just said that the commenter probably didn't get very lucky with the games he chose to play in terms of soundtracks.
I've heard some pretty good osts imo, undertale, deltarune and danganronpa and obra dinn are one of my favorites
@@lordshitbiscuit5527 An opinion about a objective statement, what.
I decided at long last to buy this game this past weekend. Must remind myself not to read through the comments. Spoiler alerts. You have been warned. Probably one of the best games I've played in a very, very long time. The soundtrack by itself is fantastic!
Made this my ringtone, the bells make it pretty perfect
Dude even 2 weeks after I finished the game I cant stop listening to this. This is so damn good.
Never played this myself, but a streamer played it and I fell in love. Don't think I'll ever play it because I know everybody's fate now, but damn it's a great game.
Also, this track reminds me of a sea shanty-ified Gravity Falls theme.
Gave me goosebumps the first time I heard it.
With all the death in this chapter, this music sounds heroic, and adventurous. It doesn’t sound like it was a sad time, it sounds like you are telling a story of an adventure, to your kid about the good times when you were fighting danger and overcoming deadly encounters. Instead of making me feel the despair of death, it makes me feel like I’m hearing a story of going on adventures and fighting monsters.
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I remember looking through the slit and being like “OH GOD WHAT IS THAT”, and with the music holy this was an outstanding experience.
yeah this game got crazy, went from murder mystery to fucking mythical and legendary pretty fast. I loved it
Before this chapter: Oh, the crew mutinied and tore each other apart, what a tragic tale of human nature in an environment of isolation.
After this chapter: CRAB PEOPLE
Lost at sea in 1803, the good ship Obra Dinn
Thankfully, someone made sure the boat returned.
Ever noticed the shining sparkle in the sea in the distance as you’re wandering about? That’s the freed mermaid who got the Obra Dinn home....
@@joesretrostuffI like to imagine the mermaid was watching to see if the fate of the obra dinn was recorded... aka the whole ship being cannibalised by Captain Robert in tragedy
This and Escape are the best songs in the soundtrack.
どこか神秘的で
どこか哀愁があって
どこか荘厳なメロディ
i'm lovin' it
The next time I see a crab at the beach will be the most intense moment of my life.
I dunno what everyone here is talking about, how so may people were killed by monsters in this chapter.
It was obviously the captain wearing a disguise, guys. Don't be fooled.
This beat goes dummy hard for no reason
I need a 10 hour version of this please.
depending on how you are using youtube it may be possible to set the video to loop. If not create a playlist with one video and set it to repeat
I'm late but I feel you ! I'm obsessed with this theme.
Songs to spend an hour trying to figure out the difference between "speared" and "spiked" and "clawed" to.
I can't explain why, but this tune is absolutely perfect in the heat of that deck on the ship
It was at this moment that I realized how screwed all these guys where. As I checked the battle field, I noticed that all these guys currently fending off the spider crab where going to die to kraken. They will survive this attack because they are fated to die later on. A chilling thought to be sure.
The few who died in chapter 1 & 2 got off real lucky
Don’t mind me, just gonna listen to this ten times in a row while I do schoolwork...
I'm someone who has Arachnophobia so this chapter scared the fuck out of me
Fun fact: those bells are called a "carillon." Often housed in bell towers, carillons are usually owned by churches, universities, or municipalities. They can include an automatic system through which the time is announced and simple tunes are played throughout the day. Carillons come in many designs, weights, sizes, and sounds. They are among the world's heaviest instruments, and the heaviest carillon weighs over 91 metric tons (100 short tons). Most weigh between 4.5 and 15 metric tons (5.0 and 16.5 short tons). To be considered a carillon, a minimum of 23 bells are needed; otherwise, it is called a chime. There are about 700 carillons worldwide.
And yes, I too hope to one day own a house-instrument-building.
Well Marcus, at least you tried.
But to Winston? Godspeed to that tough one.
Honorable mention to Charles too.
even when I'm not listening to this song I can still hear it
Those crabmen are cool as hell, and so are the bells.
Aka the part you realize, THERE WAS A SECOND DIFFERENT TYPE OF BEAST ATTACK?!?!
Why is nobody showing love for my man Emil O' Farrel, dude was the biggest sweetheart in the ship and ended up getting horribly spiked by the crab riders
Bro when I first heard his death moans while doctor evans was trying to save him I cringed. It's honestly very haunting and pitiful at the same time. 😢😢😢
Ocean demons: “Oh yeah Mr. Krabs” *shoots spikes*
Entire Obra Dinn crew: “EEEEYYAAHHH!!!!”
I understand this more than I should have.
Most memorable mainly because of the bells signing the impending doom that will happen and has yet to happen
On sea a bell means one of three things
*Food
*Danger
*or in the Obra Dinn's case Combat
Imagine crawling to the port walk, having ripped out a spike as the crab knights are attacking. You take just a moment to breathe as the chaos unfolds all around you, and you hear "Will somebody shoot the damn thing?" and then everything fades around you.
He was shot in the stomach, he didn't die immediately
Nobody is talking about the absolute fucking chad Winston Smith (Carpenter) blowing one of those things fucking head clean off as it was on top of him
Am I the only one who thinks the piece sounds better if the two parts are played in the other order? Soldiers of the Sea 2 is calm and ominous, while 1 slowly builds up to an unbroken melody and a crescendo. Part 1 also ends on a note that sounds a lot more final. I don't know the correct music terminology, but it sounds to me like part 2 ends with a question mark, while part 1 ends with a full stop.
agreed
But if part 2 played first, most people wouldnt have part 1 playing when they look through the window the first time, which would be a tragedy.
Hey, boss! Catch!
Is that a hint?
@@Blyra92 bit misleading, it's actually two people talking, one says
"Boss, get down!" followed by "Oy! Catch!" *throws axe and gets spiked*
@@ShasOSwoll Nope, one (the killed) says "Let's get him Boss" (to his boss), who replies "No, get down"
"c'mon, boss!"
"No, get down
"Hey, catch!"
@Josh JeanJacket Jaeger Yo dude, there's a bit of a spoiler there with those nationalities. Fancy rewording it to not give stuff away to people who haven't experienced the full game?
This is one of the best games I have ever
played. What a stunning experience!
One of the most favorite tracks in this