Just noticed the gameplay footage for Grievous Lady was a fanmade chart Please do not be discouraged from trying the game, the actual in-game version is not 7 minutes long
Don't worry, the gameplay video was just edited to his reaction video. He wasn't actually watching any video in the actual reaction video, just the music. As you can see he's not commenting to the visuals, just the audio.
Fun fact: Laur (one of the two composers of Grievous Lady) is classically trained, so you will definitely hear a ton of classical references in his discography. For Gothic Hardcore stuff please check Laur, Team Grimoire (the other composer of Grievous Lady), and Sakuzyo out. Personally I find that Japanese rhythm game composers take a lot of classical composition ideas as inspirations and just go wild with them. Very delightful indeed.
Yeah, there's an absolutely massive amount of influence from classical music in rhythm gaming music. Some of that is in the composer's/producers either being classically trained in some capacity or having an appreciation for it, and some of that is in the need to get music made quickly so we get tons of remixes or arrangements of actual classical music too.
japanese rhythm game composers certainly desevere waaaay more light than they get currently, i love them dearly... would be so amazing to see more of it on here
CHAOS MAGNVM and UMBRA MORTIS are great EPs for this type of music from Team Grimoire without going too aggressive. Anything by Laur and Sakuzyo is great though.
Yes, for Metal Hellsinger it is the same singer. Fans of Arch Enemy have this meme where they say that Alissa has the voice of an angel... and the voice of a demon.
it gave me the vibes of the sleeping with sirens singer (who sings the sonic frontiers songs) and the singer for this jmetal band called hanabie (who can switch from high pitched anime girl voice to metal scream so seamlessly... she's insane in the best way possible)
Also, i'd like to recommend you to listen to songs from Chapter Symphony of Cytus. The entire Chapter theme is basically "remixed classical music", which i think you'd be interested
Metal Hellsinger is one of if not my favourite rhythm game ever. The way each part of the track comes in with higher score multipliers makes for such a satisfying rhythm game experience. When you get into a groove, hit that 16x mult and the vocals kick in it feels SO GOOD
OH YOU GOT PATAPON JUST RIGHT! The percussion is basically the four controller face buttons (originall the psp in that case) that when done in a certain order, issues a command to the patapon. Yes, you're issuing the command, they don't know you, but believe you. Basically you're their war god in a sense. Oh I miss patapon so bad, good thing we're getting Ratatan soon!
it's terrifying just how accurate Marco got it, you are literally their "Almighty" (quoting the game here) and you lead the tribe of Patapons on a war path to the ends of the earth, they listen to your commands absolutely and unquestioningly, the fact he said "maybe not necessarily trust" got a chuckle out of me cause yeah I would not trust myself either (f*** you last dungeon of patapon 3). Each call is responded to in kind, each percussion, or war drum, has an assigned sound and they repeat it in the song at the start but as the song goes into fever they stop repeating the command and instead starting singing their own little ditties in between, gaining confidence in your orders, getting empowered in the flow of fever. It's kind of interesting how Marco mentioned merging with the power, because that's basicly what happens in patapon 3 with the uberhero in the game's intro.
All the tracks in Deemo II deserves more recognition. Not only does it represent a niche identity and genre in rhythm game, but they are all genuinely amazing. Songs like Graves Ancient Memories by Juggernaut and Secret Place by ARForest highlights the beauty of orchestral, and acoustic instruments as opposed to the general Electronic direction of most rhythm games. Definitely one to explore. Love the vid!!
Background behind rhythm game music is actually very strong and fits VERY good overall. Speaking of Cytus II, DEEMO and Arcaea exactly (because I know these games better than others). All these games have plot, lore, story and etc things and they are straightly connected to the music you play between storytelling sections. They are connected to the story IN SUCH good details that you are literally crying while playing and reminding all tons of text you read before playing that some-minute-pieces-of-perfection. Like... Literally. And I don't get why this music is still known only by rhythm gamers mostly (this community is not that huge actually). I think we should push aside popular music a bit (in a good mean) to give at least a little of World's oxygen to that "beautiful black swans" of music world. Speaking of your explanations while listening. As always, you read the background behind tracks PERFECTLY and you will be much more impressed when experience all of this by yourself. Thanks for promoting such unpopular music into huge media masses, I love your will to explore more and really appreciate it.
I love Final Song but, man, it also makes my eye twitch to this day. I like to imagine Yoko Taro can sense whenever anyone dies to that fight and laughs maniacally. I also imagine he senses when someone wins and gets as excited about it as that time SquareEnix made a NieR Automata t-shirt.
Rhythm Thief mentioned! Yes! That was such a fun game with music to boot. My personal favorite was sneaking through the museum and needing to match the same pose with the statues to avoid detection.
I'm surprised no one brought up Tempestissimo from Arcaea, also the artist called xi and LeaF are straight classic for rhythm games. God there's so many music track I discovered from rhythm games that grew to be one of my favorite pieces of music in general. Like Aegleseeker and Catalinesie.
@@aayyyooooo It's called II. The artist is called Cytus; this is because the track is made by the entirety of Rayark's Sound Team. II is the final track of Cytus 2's 3.0 storyline and is coined as the "boss song" of the game. It is difficult to say much because Cytus 2's storyline, much like Cytus 1, heavily relies on its track list to enhance narration. Music is part of the games' stories. With story context, II hits absolutely hard and is gut-wrenching. But saying anything about Cytus 2's story would ruin the magic.
Really enjoyed this video Marco. While watching through the Final Song (Drakengard) and Freedom Dive sections though I felt "something is lacking" and realized that I was expecting the "hit" sounds from the game to be present as well. Personally, the play charts / "beatmaps" and sound effects that are associated with tunes like Freedom Dive play a huge part in what makes them memorable too, to the point where they are almost like a layer of instrumentals themselves. The intensity and difficulty the rhythm gamer (and the audience, to some extent,) experiences enhances the connections we form with the music, and I believe rhythm games are one of the most direct ways to "feel" the music. Watching and listening to a top-level rhythm gamer full-combo a difficult song is another different experience altogether from just listening to the track alone. As an example, there are youtube videos of perfect run of The Final Song with the sound effects of the gameplay in. Please give it a try and see if the addition of the gameplay sound effects influences your experience compared to listening just the vanilla version.
regarding grevious lady, it's normally only 2:30 like most rhythm game songs, so you don't hear it repeat as often also you should check out more of arcaeas terminal songs (just look at the wiki if you need the understanding) or stuff from segas rhythm games or konamis, there's a lot more artcore all over rhythm games
The first Drakengard had a simmilar thing for one of the endings, and in a TTRPG campaign I played with friends our dungeon master used the song for a specific very powerful enemy, so it gave PTSD to our party XD
your reaction to grievous lady is one of my favorite things from this year and its only just started XD i hope you react to either halcyon, happy end of the world or anima by xi one day, anima and halcyon are relatively known given they're licensed for rhythm games but HEotW is one of the most underrated yet beautiful pieces by them from the same album as freedom dive yet impossibly different in genre, i'm sure you'd love it
I'm surprised you haven't mentioned a SINGLE rhythm game song from the Arcades - Chunithm, ongeki, maimai, Jubeat, Dance Dance Revolution, pump it up, Groove coaster.
I highly recommend you check out Frey’s Philosophy from the game Lanota. It’s an awesome piano-focused song that screams “this is an epic showdown” without being too overwhelming or noisy. It’s the first “boss song” in that game
Also you’re definitely going to see people recommending songs by the artist Camellia. He is one of my favorite rhythm game music artists but a lot of his songs are notorious for being really difficult in games and can definitely be overwhelming out of context. I recommend you check out one of his less chaotic songs “Looking for Edge of Ground”. It’s a gorgeous track blending several different genres and features Hatsune Miku for the vocals
I'd love to see you go through all of Metal Hellsinger's tracks one day, but particularly Burial At Night, it's also one vocalist going between harsh and clean vocals like Stygia, but Tatiana has a very different flair to it than Alissa does. I'm definitely curious who the other female vocalist you heard doing harsh vocals was, was it also in a game's music or just in passing? Also the game is a blast to play, so much fun
there are many deep songs in Yakuza series, notable "As long as you are happy" and "pure love in Kamurucho" heck, outside of context "24 Hours Cinderella" is a silly song, but when put in the context the story of Yakuza 0 and a certain couple is around each other only a day or two and fell in love, the lyrics paint a different story
Considering my primary exposure to Rhythm Games was DDR and Pump It Up! in the late 90's/early 00's, I hadn't heard most of what you showcased here, exception being Drakengard 3. Quite a fun ride hearing these for the first time.
Please check out more rhythm game music! I used to play beatmania/IIDX and some of the tracks are worth checking out (The Tatsh and Zektbach songs comes to mind first)
Im so glad you enjoyed grievous lady so much, the song is one of my favorites from the game, then again all of arcaea's songs are INSANE. Another arcaea song you can check out is alter ego by yuta imai.
Fun note of Drakengard 3, you have no control over the camera, so it moves entirely on its own...even when your character disappears off screen. Which is why the note guy is so helpful. And the final note HAS to be hit after the ending cutscene starts and everything is black, or you die and have to restart from the VERY BEGINNING of the song.
if you're looking for amazing rhythm game songs, can't go past Beatmania IIDX (there's about 40 versions now?) Zektbach has an amazing anthology of songs in the game, as do DJ Taka, TaQ, Ryu*, Kors K. Check 'em out!!
My favorite track from Metal: Hellsinger still has to be the final boss fight, "No Tomorrow" (not just because they got Serj to go back to his roots for that song). It is just such a powerful song and amazingly sung by Serj as a perfect finale song for the game.
Oh man, that Deemo II soundtrack was purely amazing. There were moments where it also reminded me of Joe Hisaishi’s compositions, especially towards the end. The whole track was so mind blowing in every way possible from a musicians perspective.
Yeah it was beautiful, I was about to click off the video, then that part appeared and I was blown away 🤯. I'm so glad I didn't stop the video because thanks to that i discovered this game and I want to hear more of it now. The piece from this vid sounded so much like it came from a piano concerto from the romantic era.
42:20 I would *love* more "if this is your jam, check out..." I played violin in student orchestras through undergrad and we covered a lot of the repertoire, which I guess makes me more familiar with the classical canon than a lot of your audience, but there's *tons* of stuff I don't know, especially music that features other instruments (like piano or woodwind or brass concerti, or most choral or operatic music, or...).
Highly recommending Hi-Fi Rush if you haven't played it; and play it in streamer mode if you want original pieces inspired by the songs used for the non-streaming soundtrack!
I always keep hearing such amazing things about Deemo, but this might have finally sold me, at least on the soundtrack. GORGEOUS stuff! Even though there wasn't any Everhood on the table today, the mention still made me happy. Really fun ost! Another rhythm game I hope gets more attention one day is Mad Rat Dead. Electroswing is such a good genre for rhythm games, and Camellia even did a multiple songs for it! (My personal pick being Yellow Invitation). Can only hope you dive into rhythm game stuff more so I can get some recommendations, heheh
Crypt of the Necrodancer is my go to rhythm game. My personal pick for best song has to go to Fungal Funk. A new game is getting put together called Rift of the Necrodancer. I think its in beta, but some of the songs are out there. What I think is the best is Glass Cages by Josie Brechner and Sarah Hubbard.
Oh, I really need to re-listen to that ost! I really can't think of one song I would recommend over the others because it has so many bangers with so many different genres of music to choose from, you'd be hard-pressed to not find at least one song you can vibe with. Some favorites of mine are Rhythmortis, Crypteque, Mausoleum Mash, Metalmancy, Dance of the Decorous/March of the Profane, The Wight to Remain, Deep Sea Bass, For Whom the Knell Tolls, and Momentum Mori/Last Dance.
You should REALLY check XI's songs, he is in a lot of these rythm games and every single song is absolutely insane and Im sure you are gonna love them to death lol I can type you a few that I recommend you check here if you want
Really hope you'll listen to something from Rhythm Heaven next! My personal recommendation: "WISH Can't Wait for you" from the Japan only first entry "Rhythm Tengoku".
Hey, Slight correction! Freedom Dive is from the album Parousia by the musician xi, and its first game appearance was... I think sound voltex? But the game shown off is Osu!
Was honestly surprised to see Patapon here. The song here was from Patapon 1, and for both sequels, the composer of the game made even more and more crazy level themes. In the third installement, they even did rock remix of the already existing songs, and they're really good. I'd recommend checking out even more of the OST, most of the songs being structured like Gyorogyoro's theme. It also was interesting to see these new games that I didn't know about (especially Drakengard).
Love how we both had that "OH IT'S THAT SONG FROM IRONPINEAPPLE'S VIDS" Really need to get some of these rhythm style games and pay more attention to mobile phone games honestly, I do know that Deemo was brought to Steam recently though
gmtn (gumtune) makes a lot of gothic hardcore, so if you want to you can go check out a few other of their songs. i recommend trappola bewitching which is also a song from arcaea
I have a recommendation on a game that's quite literally the spectral opposite of all the examples shown in the video: it's a little rhytmic platformer called "140" (as in 140 BPM), pretty short to complete like 2 hours tops, but IMO it's one of the coolest rhythm-centric games I've ever played due to the fact it just strips it all down to the core of things: it's you and the rhythm itself (and pattern recognitions of course). You can't get more minimalistic than that (in the literal sense, you'll understand that once you see the trailer).
that Cytus song is such a vibe I love it so much, I haven't play Cytus for very long time, maybe I should go back and play it, same with deemo too. I would love to hear what do you think about DJ Max songs, I think out of all musical game that I played, I love DJ Max the most. my picks are (that I think you will like) Heart of Witch, [Proposed, Flower, Wolf (part 1 and 2)], Oblivion, blythe, ask to wind (live remix), and The Clear Blue Sky (original one and Hiroshi Okubo Remix). *Interestingly, Djmax songs are actually in game lies of P, it sounds very gorgeous and sad there
The entire soundtrack if cadence is an absolute delight. 100% recommend taking a listen at ALL of the tracks. Especially Kakariko Crypt :3 That ones is.... Special
Ix, ice, tpaz, sakuzyo, camellia, silentroom. Id say i had listen to them all my life. I recommend u listen to nhelv (the rainbow frontier ver)by silentroom. It feels almost like freedom dive
To add to this, you should really watch how the tracks look to play it will blow your mind. Also Cytus has a great motif that's carried through both games, you should 100% listen to more Cytus-opriginals
I love that he doesn't pick up on the lyrics of the Patapon song being 'Pata Pata Pata Pon' just a silly thing that I enjoyed. There's a great GDC talk about HI-FI Rush and how their entire game's development process was built around the music that I think you might enjoy.
Rhythm doctor, a dance of fire and ice and Rhythm journey have some great OST's. Try dream's don't stop from rhthym doctor, third sun from a dance of fire and ice.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is one of my all time fave games and now I want the Marco Meatball Shopkeeper Remix lol! Now I hope my other favorite rhythm game, Bandori, will show up at some point - it has the usual music you'd hear in a Japanese rhythm game featuring idol characters: cutesy pop vocals and such, which is cool already; HOWEVER at the same time, Bandori also stands out for having the actual character voice actresses singing AND playing the songs in INCREDIBLE live performances; my favorite bands being "Raise a Suilen", "Roselia" and "Ave Mujica", all of them have different genres of metal. That "cute anime girls Rhythm Game with a side of visual novel" had no right to have such freaking good, talented bands!
If you do another video on rhythm games, you should check out some stuff from the Parappa the Rapper series. I’d recommend the Car Rap from Parappa 1, Fright Flight from Um Jammer Lammy, and either Big or Hair Scare from Parappa 2
Isnt it not a rhythm game OST? From what I know it’s a standalone piece with custom charts in basically every rhythm game that has custom charts so it doesn’t really fit the video
so i wonder if you realize this or it's just beyond having to say it but rhythm games have their own music type specifically made to not be in the background specifically to work with the gameplay, at least for the once that aren't just anime cover no. 9. there are musicians who specialize in this type of music creation
I don't play that many rhythm games, but I really like three. And those I play a lot. Beat Saber, Synth Riders and Pistol Whip. I know, I know those are all VR games, but great ones. I also enjoyed Hi-Fi Rush very much. It's not a pure rhythm game, but much more fun if played as one.
Love that you listened to some metal hellsinger but PATAPON what a lovely game, the game kinda plays itself as you are in a literal sense their god and you just type in music commands and they sing back to you obeying certain actions, as they vibe (and you combo)they trust your judgement wholeheartedly thats when they just start riffing
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Just noticed the gameplay footage for Grievous Lady was a fanmade chart
Please do not be discouraged from trying the game, the actual in-game version is not 7 minutes long
While i agree the full song is long, the full version reaction is what i'm here for.
Don't worry, the gameplay video was just edited to his reaction video. He wasn't actually watching any video in the actual reaction video, just the music. As you can see he's not commenting to the visuals, just the audio.
pbthhhh so, im simple: i see kiryu on a thumbnail, i click. FIRST SONG IS A CYTUS 2 SONG?? hells yeah!
only at the MarcoMeatball's YT channel
It's so peak
Fun fact: Laur (one of the two composers of Grievous Lady) is classically trained, so you will definitely hear a ton of classical references in his discography.
For Gothic Hardcore stuff please check Laur, Team Grimoire (the other composer of Grievous Lady), and Sakuzyo out.
Personally I find that Japanese rhythm game composers take a lot of classical composition ideas as inspirations and just go wild with them. Very delightful indeed.
Yeah, there's an absolutely massive amount of influence from classical music in rhythm gaming music. Some of that is in the composer's/producers either being classically trained in some capacity or having an appreciation for it, and some of that is in the need to get music made quickly so we get tons of remixes or arrangements of actual classical music too.
japanese rhythm game composers certainly desevere waaaay more light than they get currently, i love them dearly... would be so amazing to see more of it on here
@@Bobbiascase in point lachryma requiem by kaneko chiharu or flower
Don't forget BlackY and Yooh. My fav is Yooh - Dynasty -al fine- (the 9 min version]. It's so good I almost cried. The whole music is like a story.
CHAOS MAGNVM and UMBRA MORTIS are great EPs for this type of music from Team Grimoire without going too aggressive. Anything by Laur and Sakuzyo is great though.
Yes, for Metal Hellsinger it is the same singer. Fans of Arch Enemy have this meme where they say that Alissa has the voice of an angel... and the voice of a demon.
it gave me the vibes of the sleeping with sirens singer (who sings the sonic frontiers songs) and the singer for this jmetal band called hanabie (who can switch from high pitched anime girl voice to metal scream so seamlessly... she's insane in the best way possible)
1:12:05 Parousia is the album name, the artist name of Freedom Dive (and the album) is "xi"
Also, i'd like to recommend you to listen to songs from Chapter Symphony of Cytus. The entire Chapter theme is basically "remixed classical music", which i think you'd be interested
Metal Hellsinger is one of if not my favourite rhythm game ever. The way each part of the track comes in with higher score multipliers makes for such a satisfying rhythm game experience. When you get into a groove, hit that 16x mult and the vocals kick in it feels SO GOOD
just watching gameplay gives me that vibe, I can't even imagine what it's like when you're actually immersed
the person in the footage has no rhythm haha
He's just like me frfr @@Uhcip
@@kelmirosue3251It's incredible. Blasting demons with the shotgun and pumping it while matching the beat to death metal feels amazing
It's such a unique experience that you have to try first hand to understand. This is the definition of "getting in the zone"
I hope you react to more rhythm game music because there's a ridiculous amount of amazing music in these games
Definitely under represented
OH YOU GOT PATAPON JUST RIGHT!
The percussion is basically the four controller face buttons (originall the psp in that case) that when done in a certain order, issues a command to the patapon. Yes, you're issuing the command, they don't know you, but believe you. Basically you're their war god in a sense.
Oh I miss patapon so bad, good thing we're getting Ratatan soon!
Patapon is one of my favorite concepts ever. Commanding an army via strategic 4/4 bars is one of the best feelings.
it's terrifying just how accurate Marco got it, you are literally their "Almighty" (quoting the game here) and you lead the tribe of Patapons on a war path to the ends of the earth, they listen to your commands absolutely and unquestioningly, the fact he said "maybe not necessarily trust" got a chuckle out of me cause yeah I would not trust myself either (f*** you last dungeon of patapon 3). Each call is responded to in kind, each percussion, or war drum, has an assigned sound and they repeat it in the song at the start but as the song goes into fever they stop repeating the command and instead starting singing their own little ditties in between, gaining confidence in your orders, getting empowered in the flow of fever. It's kind of interesting how Marco mentioned merging with the power, because that's basicly what happens in patapon 3 with the uberhero in the game's intro.
The vocalist in "Stygia" from Metal Hellsinger is Alissa White-Gluz (vocalist in the group Arch Enemy)
And yes, she's such an incredible singer 💙
All the tracks in Deemo II deserves more recognition. Not only does it represent a niche identity and genre in rhythm game, but they are all genuinely amazing. Songs like Graves Ancient Memories by Juggernaut and Secret Place by ARForest highlights the beauty of orchestral, and acoustic instruments as opposed to the general Electronic direction of most rhythm games.
Definitely one to explore. Love the vid!!
Freedom Dive was a surpriser, didn't think Xi would show up, mans a great Pianist, you should check out his songs man. highly recommend that madlad
Background behind rhythm game music is actually very strong and fits VERY good overall.
Speaking of Cytus II, DEEMO and Arcaea exactly (because I know these games better than others). All these games have plot, lore, story and etc things and they are straightly connected to the music you play between storytelling sections. They are connected to the story IN SUCH good details that you are literally crying while playing and reminding all tons of text you read before playing that some-minute-pieces-of-perfection. Like... Literally.
And I don't get why this music is still known only by rhythm gamers mostly (this community is not that huge actually). I think we should push aside popular music a bit (in a good mean) to give at least a little of World's oxygen to that "beautiful black swans" of music world.
Speaking of your explanations while listening. As always, you read the background behind tracks PERFECTLY and you will be much more impressed when experience all of this by yourself.
Thanks for promoting such unpopular music into huge media masses, I love your will to explore more and really appreciate it.
I really appreciate that and am very happy with how this video has done!
thank you! I'm a huge fan of Laur works and seeing you react positively with Grievous Lady really made me happy.
I love Final Song but, man, it also makes my eye twitch to this day. I like to imagine Yoko Taro can sense whenever anyone dies to that fight and laughs maniacally. I also imagine he senses when someone wins and gets as excited about it as that time SquareEnix made a NieR Automata t-shirt.
Rhythm Thief mentioned! Yes! That was such a fun game with music to boot. My personal favorite was sneaking through the museum and needing to match the same pose with the statues to avoid detection.
oh yeah, that song was also used in those cursed images memes.
I'm surprised no one brought up Tempestissimo from Arcaea, also the artist called xi and LeaF are straight classic for rhythm games.
God there's so many music track I discovered from rhythm games that grew to be one of my favorite pieces of music in general. Like Aegleseeker and Catalinesie.
The first track is Cytus 2's finale song?
Oh, boy. Now he has to play the game and get a load of its story from 1.0 to 3.0.
This song is gonna hit so different when he revisits from 1.0 to 3.0 oh boy
Oh god, you are for a TREAT. Played it myself from beginning to end, was damn obsessed for a couple of months.
Do you know the name of the particular track Marco listened to?
@@aayyyooooo It's called II. The artist is called Cytus; this is because the track is made by the entirety of Rayark's Sound Team.
II is the final track of Cytus 2's 3.0 storyline and is coined as the "boss song" of the game. It is difficult to say much because Cytus 2's storyline, much like Cytus 1, heavily relies on its track list to enhance narration. Music is part of the games' stories.
With story context, II hits absolutely hard and is gut-wrenching. But saying anything about Cytus 2's story would ruin the magic.
@@y.matocinos8448 II was made by KIVA though wasn't it? it's on their channel too
Really enjoyed this video Marco. While watching through the Final Song (Drakengard) and Freedom Dive sections though I felt "something is lacking" and realized that I was expecting the "hit" sounds from the game to be present as well. Personally, the play charts / "beatmaps" and sound effects that are associated with tunes like Freedom Dive play a huge part in what makes them memorable too, to the point where they are almost like a layer of instrumentals themselves. The intensity and difficulty the rhythm gamer (and the audience, to some extent,) experiences enhances the connections we form with the music, and I believe rhythm games are one of the most direct ways to "feel" the music. Watching and listening to a top-level rhythm gamer full-combo a difficult song is another different experience altogether from just listening to the track alone.
As an example, there are youtube videos of perfect run of The Final Song with the sound effects of the gameplay in. Please give it a try and see if the addition of the gameplay sound effects influences your experience compared to listening just the vanilla version.
regarding grevious lady, it's normally only 2:30 like most rhythm game songs, so you don't hear it repeat as often
also you should check out more of arcaeas terminal songs (just look at the wiki if you need the understanding) or stuff from segas rhythm games or konamis, there's a lot more artcore all over rhythm games
you would really want to check out sakuzyo
@@goizord I would personally love to hear his opinion of onoken’s felys, as it’s practically the seed of the entire genre
The first Drakengard had a simmilar thing for one of the endings, and in a TTRPG campaign I played with friends our dungeon master used the song for a specific very powerful enemy, so it gave PTSD to our party XD
Great opportunity to revisit this category with a focus on the bemani games (e.g. beatmania iidx + pop'n music)
your reaction to grievous lady is one of my favorite things from this year and its only just started XD
i hope you react to either halcyon, happy end of the world or anima by xi one day, anima and halcyon are relatively known given they're licensed for rhythm games but HEotW is one of the most underrated yet beautiful pieces by them from the same album as freedom dive yet impossibly different in genre, i'm sure you'd love it
Nice to see some appreciation of artcore, such a good genre. Also hoping to see more Deemo songs.
I'm surprised you haven't mentioned a SINGLE rhythm game song from the Arcades - Chunithm, ongeki, maimai, Jubeat, Dance Dance Revolution, pump it up, Groove coaster.
@@jugemujugemugokonosurikire4735 keep an eye out for his community posts and streams: these are highlights from those!
WACCA, SDVX, Taiko no Tatsujin :(((
I highly recommend you check out Frey’s Philosophy from the game Lanota. It’s an awesome piano-focused song that screams “this is an epic showdown” without being too overwhelming or noisy. It’s the first “boss song” in that game
Also you’re definitely going to see people recommending songs by the artist Camellia. He is one of my favorite rhythm game music artists but a lot of his songs are notorious for being really difficult in games and can definitely be overwhelming out of context. I recommend you check out one of his less chaotic songs “Looking for Edge of Ground”. It’s a gorgeous track blending several different genres and features Hatsune Miku for the vocals
@@jryan913or Observatory by him as well.
I love Grievous Lady, I love Laur, and I absolutely love that he freaked out once Laur's bass shenanigans entered full force.
I recommend Patapon 3 - Soundtrack 04 - Uberhero March from the original Patapon Sountrack channel, it's a really good bop
I love Metal Hellsinger, one of my favorite games. All of the songs are so good, its criminal the game isn't more popular
I love your choice of unconventional "rhythm game" songs. Both Black Song White Scales and Baka Mitai are incredible pieces of music
I'd love to see you go through all of Metal Hellsinger's tracks one day, but particularly Burial At Night, it's also one vocalist going between harsh and clean vocals like Stygia, but Tatiana has a very different flair to it than Alissa does. I'm definitely curious who the other female vocalist you heard doing harsh vocals was, was it also in a game's music or just in passing?
Also the game is a blast to play, so much fun
2:00 If you live near a Round1 you should go play all the rhythm games there, I think you'll like them
there are many deep songs in Yakuza series, notable "As long as you are happy" and "pure love in Kamurucho"
heck, outside of context "24 Hours Cinderella" is a silly song, but when put in the context the story of Yakuza 0 and a certain couple is around each other only a day or two and fell in love, the lyrics paint a different story
Surprised you didn’t mention “Today is a Diamond” from 6.
@@thesalsaguy4395 I don't want to spoil too much
Tonight Restart from this Night
Considering my primary exposure to Rhythm Games was DDR and Pump It Up! in the late 90's/early 00's, I hadn't heard most of what you showcased here, exception being Drakengard 3. Quite a fun ride hearing these for the first time.
These are mostly Mobile and Console Rhythm Games.
Please check out more rhythm game music! I used to play beatmania/IIDX and some of the tracks are worth checking out (The Tatsh and Zektbach songs comes to mind first)
Im so glad you enjoyed grievous lady so much, the song is one of my favorites from the game, then again all of arcaea's songs are INSANE.
Another arcaea song you can check out is alter ego by yuta imai.
Fun note of Drakengard 3, you have no control over the camera, so it moves entirely on its own...even when your character disappears off screen. Which is why the note guy is so helpful. And the final note HAS to be hit after the ending cutscene starts and everything is black, or you die and have to restart from the VERY BEGINNING of the song.
if you're looking for amazing rhythm game songs, can't go past Beatmania IIDX (there's about 40 versions now?)
Zektbach has an amazing anthology of songs in the game, as do DJ Taka, TaQ, Ryu*, Kors K. Check 'em out!!
My favorite track from Metal: Hellsinger still has to be the final boss fight, "No Tomorrow" (not just because they got Serj to go back to his roots for that song). It is just such a powerful song and amazingly sung by Serj as a perfect finale song for the game.
Hellsinger has a song with Serj Tankian too, it's fantastic
OMG Patapon! I waited for this day for so long! I really hope to see more in the future!
We now need a Crypt of the Necrodancer Marco Shopkeeper DLC
To this day i still hear them....
Those bells...
Those fricking bells.....
Oh man, that Deemo II soundtrack was purely amazing. There were moments where it also reminded me of Joe Hisaishi’s compositions, especially towards the end. The whole track was so mind blowing in every way possible from a musicians perspective.
Can I also get the video link to it? I can’t seem to find it, sorry.
Yeah it was beautiful, I was about to click off the video, then that part appeared and I was blown away 🤯. I'm so glad I didn't stop the video because thanks to that i discovered this game and I want to hear more of it now. The piece from this vid sounded so much like it came from a piano concerto from the romantic era.
You were about to WHAT?
@@MarcoMeatball Sorry 💀. It was 1:00 am and had to go to bed lol
42:20 I would *love* more "if this is your jam, check out..."
I played violin in student orchestras through undergrad and we covered a lot of the repertoire, which I guess makes me more familiar with the classical canon than a lot of your audience, but there's *tons* of stuff I don't know, especially music that features other instruments (like piano or woodwind or brass concerti, or most choral or operatic music, or...).
Dammit Marco, now I have to play drakengard 3 that song did something to my heart and I want to experience it in context now as well
I think it's finally time for me to get back to Cytus 2 and buy the expansions and stuff XD I remember loving the game so much
Highly recommending Hi-Fi Rush if you haven't played it; and play it in streamer mode if you want original pieces inspired by the songs used for the non-streaming soundtrack!
I always keep hearing such amazing things about Deemo, but this might have finally sold me, at least on the soundtrack. GORGEOUS stuff!
Even though there wasn't any Everhood on the table today, the mention still made me happy. Really fun ost! Another rhythm game I hope gets more attention one day is Mad Rat Dead. Electroswing is such a good genre for rhythm games, and Camellia even did a multiple songs for it! (My personal pick being Yellow Invitation). Can only hope you dive into rhythm game stuff more so I can get some recommendations, heheh
You should ABSOLUTELY check out Soundodger 1 and 2! They're rhythm games too, and there are some unique tracks!
FINALLY SOME CYTUS RECOGNITION RAHHHHHHHHHH
God, I love you for putting Patapon here, such a niche and underrated Trilogy (with a spiritual successor, in form of Ratatan incoming).
We NEED Camellia; ANYTHING from Camellia and A LOTTA rhythm gamers will be ECSTATIC
If you do another video on rhythem games, I'd recommend Colorful Voice from Voez, which is also the title song for the game
Crypt of the Necrodancer is my go to rhythm game. My personal pick for best song has to go to Fungal Funk.
A new game is getting put together called Rift of the Necrodancer. I think its in beta, but some of the songs are out there. What I think is the best is Glass Cages by Josie Brechner and Sarah Hubbard.
Oh, I really need to re-listen to that ost! I really can't think of one song I would recommend over the others because it has so many bangers with so many different genres of music to choose from, you'd be hard-pressed to not find at least one song you can vibe with. Some favorites of mine are Rhythmortis, Crypteque, Mausoleum Mash, Metalmancy, Dance of the Decorous/March of the Profane, The Wight to Remain, Deep Sea Bass, For Whom the Knell Tolls, and Momentum Mori/Last Dance.
I'm so obsessed with this game, my fav pieces of the ost would be the ones that play in 1-3 and 4-2
You should REALLY check XI's songs, he is in a lot of these rythm games and every single song is absolutely insane and Im sure you are gonna love them to death lol
I can type you a few that I recommend you check here if you want
Really hope you'll listen to something from Rhythm Heaven next!
My personal recommendation: "WISH Can't Wait for you" from the Japan only first entry "Rhythm Tengoku".
Hey, Slight correction! Freedom Dive is from the album Parousia by the musician xi, and its first game appearance was... I think sound voltex? But the game shown off is Osu!
Freedom Dive first appeared as a BMS song
As for commercial rhythm games, iirc the first appearance was Cytus
mirumizure Thanks!
The Hellslinger footage being JUST BARELY out of sync drives me a little insane.
The best Song in my opinion from Metal Hellsinger is Dissolution.
ARCAEA!!!! Theres so many different songs, and oh god, a testify reaction...😂
stygia is such a badass song
Was honestly surprised to see Patapon here. The song here was from Patapon 1, and for both sequels, the composer of the game made even more and more crazy level themes. In the third installement, they even did rock remix of the already existing songs, and they're really good. I'd recommend checking out even more of the OST, most of the songs being structured like Gyorogyoro's theme. It also was interesting to see these new games that I didn't know about (especially Drakengard).
Love how we both had that "OH IT'S THAT SONG FROM IRONPINEAPPLE'S VIDS"
Really need to get some of these rhythm style games and pay more attention to mobile phone games honestly, I do know that Deemo was brought to Steam recently though
gmtn (gumtune) makes a lot of gothic hardcore, so if you want to you can go check out a few other of their songs.
i recommend trappola bewitching which is also a song from arcaea
I have a recommendation on a game that's quite literally the spectral opposite of all the examples shown in the video: it's a little rhytmic platformer called "140" (as in 140 BPM), pretty short to complete like 2 hours tops, but IMO it's one of the coolest rhythm-centric games I've ever played due to the fact it just strips it all down to the core of things: it's you and the rhythm itself (and pattern recognitions of course). You can't get more minimalistic than that (in the literal sense, you'll understand that once you see the trailer).
Honestly the entire soundtrack of Metal: Hellsinger is INSANE and deserves it’s own video
that Cytus song is such a vibe I love it so much, I haven't play Cytus for very long time, maybe I should go back and play it, same with deemo too.
I would love to hear what do you think about DJ Max songs, I think out of all musical game that I played, I love DJ Max the most. my picks are (that I think you will like) Heart of Witch, [Proposed, Flower, Wolf (part 1 and 2)], Oblivion, blythe, ask to wind (live remix), and The Clear Blue Sky (original one and Hiroshi Okubo Remix). *Interestingly, Djmax songs are actually in game lies of P, it sounds very gorgeous and sad there
Bro please you gotta check out super battle worm insomniac from Rhythm Doctor
The entire soundtrack if cadence is an absolute delight. 100% recommend taking a listen at ALL of the tracks.
Especially Kakariko Crypt :3 That ones is.... Special
Ix, ice, tpaz, sakuzyo, camellia, silentroom. Id say i had listen to them all my life. I recommend u listen to nhelv (the rainbow frontier ver)by silentroom. It feels almost like freedom dive
Came in here to recommend Cytus 2 but it's literally the first game!
To add to this, you should really watch how the tracks look to play it will blow your mind. Also Cytus has a great motif that's carried through both games, you should 100% listen to more Cytus-opriginals
I love that he doesn't pick up on the lyrics of the Patapon song being 'Pata Pata Pata Pon' just a silly thing that I enjoyed.
There's a great GDC talk about HI-FI Rush and how their entire game's development process was built around the music that I think you might enjoy.
Mad rat dead is a rythmn game with an amazing soundtrack. Most of it is swing jazz and I love it, I think you'd like it
Kind of surprised that L from Cyrus isn't here. That'd be right up Marco's alley.
Funfact about Cadance of Hyrule: The electric guitar in its music is played by a popular youtube metal game OST arranger Family Jules!
Finally some Patapon!!
You should take a look at Patapon 3 OST (specially Dodonga's theme a.k.a. Freakout Rock)
CYTUS 2 MENTIONED, FINALLY
I love rhythm thiefs songs
the drakengaurd song always gives me shivers when it starts
Rhythm doctor, a dance of fire and ice and Rhythm journey have some great OST's.
Try dream's don't stop from rhthym doctor, third sun from a dance of fire and ice.
The number of metal sub-genres is only rivaled by the number of electronic sub-genres.
yup lol. by far the 2 most diverse genres, in terms of subgenres
please check out Aegleseeker by Silentroom and Frums, it's from Arcaea like Grevious Lady, and it's honestly *incredible*
I love metal hellsinger, i would love a review series of the other songs, that would be great!!
Crypt of the NecroDancer is one of my all time fave games and now I want the Marco Meatball Shopkeeper Remix lol! Now I hope my other favorite rhythm game, Bandori, will show up at some point - it has the usual music you'd hear in a Japanese rhythm game featuring idol characters: cutesy pop vocals and such, which is cool already; HOWEVER at the same time, Bandori also stands out for having the actual character voice actresses singing AND playing the songs in INCREDIBLE live performances; my favorite bands being "Raise a Suilen", "Roselia" and "Ave Mujica", all of them have different genres of metal. That "cute anime girls Rhythm Game with a side of visual novel" had no right to have such freaking good, talented bands!
oh my god i watched the vod for this yesterday!! what greatt timing
Marco I speak for the entire world population when I say that we need a full cover of Baka Mitai from you
I always said this, but artcore is the new classical music
Now that you're listening to rhythm game music, I recommend L by Ice.
Anything from the IIDX franchise by Konami is pretty goated
22:34 those are the localized lyrics not the translated lyrics. those lyrics are the version of the song they sing for the english dub.
If you do another video on rhythm games, you should check out some stuff from the Parappa the Rapper series. I’d recommend the Car Rap from Parappa 1, Fright Flight from Um Jammer Lammy, and either Big or Hair Scare from Parappa 2
i'm kinda surprised not to see Scattered Faith or Galaxy Collapse from Kurokotei on here
Isnt it not a rhythm game OST? From what I know it’s a standalone piece with custom charts in basically every rhythm game that has custom charts so it doesn’t really fit the video
You should listen to Distorted Fate by Sakuzyo from Phigros
Cytus mentioned
57:49 No you were right.
Instantly thought of Iron Pineapples souls-like video intros. Never expected to find that song here
so i wonder if you realize this or it's just beyond having to say it but rhythm games have their own music type specifically made to not be in the background specifically to work with the gameplay, at least for the once that aren't just anime cover no. 9. there are musicians who specialize in this type of music creation
I don't play that many rhythm games, but I really like three. And those I play a lot. Beat Saber, Synth Riders and Pistol Whip. I know, I know those are all VR games, but great ones. I also enjoyed Hi-Fi Rush very much. It's not a pure rhythm game, but much more fun if played as one.
I love synth riders!
Drakengard was not what I expected when clicking this video, awesome
Love that you listened to some metal hellsinger but PATAPON what a lovely game, the game kinda plays itself as you are in a literal sense their god and you just type in music commands and they sing back to you obeying certain actions, as they vibe (and you combo)they trust your judgement wholeheartedly thats when they just start riffing
TEAM GRIMOIRE SPOTTED GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH