Xenoblade Chronicles X - Codename Z | Reacting To Video Game Music!
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The soundtrack of Xenoblade Chronicles X is done by Hiroyuki Sawano, who is mostly known for doing soundtracks for anime/TV shows like Attack On Titan, Thunderbolt Fantasy, and most fittingly with X's giant robots; Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, Narrative and Hathaway.
He is also my favorite composer of all time, so you bet I was hyped as HELL when it was announced he was doing the soundtrack to Xenoblade Chronicles X. This game was the sole reason I got the WiiU, actually. 😅
NO WAY ? That's him ?? Damn I didn't know !! But I can hear it, yeah, it sounds like him !! Damn, damn !! I really hope we get an X remaster on the Switch, I wanna finally see what it's all about !
XCX was the sleeper hit of the Wii U, this game had so fuckin much you could do. If it ever got remade I'd sell my left nut to get it.
Man I only find people reacting to attack on titan ost when searching reactions on hiroyuki. It sad there are not more reactions of other ost like gundam unicorn, gundam hathaway, kabaneri of the iron fortress, re creators, guilty crown and more.
They only had enough money to pay Sawano for like....a dozen songs, which is why the soundtrack is so short lol
Xenoblade X and Splatoon are the best justifications I could have asked for for buying my Wii U.
"Big Sound" is pretty much Sawano in a nutshell.
Xenoblade X has a ton of bangers. He usually composes for anime, but this definitely made for a unique game soundtrack.
And then you watch Aldnoah Zero and wonder why the f*** it has Xenoblade Chronicles X music.
Uncontrollable is a great song in that game it’s one of my favorites
XCX sounds different because it's a different composer, the famed Hiroyuki Sawano, best known for his work on anime.
X came out between XC1 and XC2.
I was wondering when he would hit a Sawano track. I love his Hathaway's flash and Unicorn Gundam OSTs.
@@Alex.Holland He makes it pretty clear he only does reactions for game music (at least right now). I think XCX might be the only game that Sawano worked on. But it was bound to come up because the Xenoblade games all have great music.
@@thenonexistinghero it is the only soundtrack he's done for a major console game but he's also done stuff for mobile games like Iron Saga. ua-cam.com/video/B8rvazEnbJg/v-deo.html
@@thenonexistinghero I think he did some for a Dragonball mobile game and some other stuff. Nothing as crazy as X though.
There's a version with vocals called "In the forest" and there's even another called "X→Z", which is a lot more metal. Xenoblade X's soundtrack is full of unique bangers by Hiroyuki Sawano, definitely to look forward to!
unfortunately they aren't played often enough, such good songs!
Xenoblade X has a lot more of a high-tech electronic sound than the other Xenoblades. The game takes place in the year 2054 after humanity abandons Earth, they land on a planet named Mira, and... a lot goes wrong. The music for X is, dare I say, more "epic" than the other Xenoblades, due to the game's extreme focus of open-world-ness on planet Mira. Regardless, all music in this series is awesome, glad you like it as much as others and I do!!
honestly, Hiroyuki's music is super recognizable; punchy, energy-fueled, stylish.
You listen to a couple of his compositions for games/anime and you'll start to recognize his work all over the place. I dont know how many copyright-protected songs he's made but i wouldnt be surprised if it's like in the high hundreds (maybe would raise an eyebrow if >1000, but wouldn't be that surprised). And YET, each song feels distinct and new. I never get bored of his music
You can tell instantly that the composer is Hiroyuki Sawano
the choir ahhs seem to be his goto sound
@@peterpnutz6691 And the huge drums are so him
"Z29 Battle", "Black Tar", "Melancholia", "Mono X" & "Ares Boss" would be my picks to react to for Xenoblade X.
Personally my pick would be Primordia's day theme. But Noctilum's themes are great too.
I would also add RAOKIMERATERESIA.
"THEMEX", "Uncontrollable", "Your Voice" and "The Key We've Lost"... I love Sawano's vocal tracks and insert songs. i find it really funny that "Melancholia" is just for a menu you spend 30 seconds in, it's not even from the game and he just pulled it from his archives because he has too many bangers I guess. So now the game has the most boppin menu music ever.
Bloody black tar. Just to get hyped ou t of nowhere
I stan wir fliegen forever, but Black Tar is quite good.
The game’s soundtrack sold me on getting the game in 2015. First ever Xenoblade game I played, and now hooked on the series! There are so many good terrain themes (Oblivia & Sylvalum night). Uncontrollable and Theme X are my favorites!
The soundtrack for XCX wasn't just done by a different composer, but the type of soundtrack that the other 2 Xenoblade games have wouldn't work for this game either. This is all about discovering a giant planet filled to the brim with danger. It's quite a different game, but it's one of the best open world games out there. Other Xenoblade games have huge areas and are often called open world... but they actually aren't. This one allows you to go anywhere in the world after you get past the beginning chapters and the size of the world is actually bigger than Xenoblade Chronicles, Xenoblade 2 and their expansions (Future Connected for XC1 and Torna from XC2) combined.
It's incredible a Wii U ran this game and the fps is actually a pretty good mostly 30 fps (XC1 and 2 do suffer regular fps drops). I hope to see it get ported to the Switch or get a sequel.
Hell yeah, Xenoblade X Music, hope youll listen to Uncontrollable or other tracks soon
I need a bigger gun
It is very different from XC1 and 2 because it is a different composer. Hiroyuki Sawano is probably one of the best composer of the world, well known for his work on Attack on Titan and Gundam Unicorn.
Depends on your taste, I guess. I love the XCX soundtrack, but there's quite a few composers I would personally put above him. But he does have a very unique sound and he's no doubt the very best at making grand-sounding songs.
@@thenonexistinghero I would say for Sawano, he's not really somebody the average person can just sit down and listen to whenever they feel like. His music is tense, drama-filled and as you said, grand. Part of the charm is that it draws the listener into the moment with battle music that won't let you breathe or relax for barely a second, because for the entire duration it's this really intense thing.
One of my FAVOURITE location based tracks for this game is probably the one for Sylvalum. Like all locations in the game, it has a day time version of the song and then a night time version. Listening to Sylvalum day, and then hearing the changes as it transitions to night is one of the most transcending songs I've ever had the pleasure to soak my ears in. I hope someone requests that you listen to that soon.
Well, obviously we need Black Tar and Wir Fleigen now.
Among others, sure, Uncontrollable works too. All from XCX. Oblivia Day is another one (the track there is technically [亡KEI却KOKU心] (yes, seriously) but that has both the day and night themes put together.)
As familiar as I am with XCX's music my memory isn't too sharp on when the fight- or story-specific tunes occur; outside from the maps or more generic battle tunes you hear repeatedly, there's just a lot of music you hear once and then never again. Rather upsetting because the track overall is pretty solid.
And who doesn't want to pilot a huge-ass mech? (Even if you are, literally, significantly stronger on foot due to stat shenanigans..)
I can smell the Hiroyuki Sawano lol, Awesome song.
Wow I was not expecting more Xenoblade this soon, and one of my favourites no less lol
As others have mentioned, the composer is Hiroyuki Sawano most popular for his anime works. The first time I heard him was in the 2011 anime "Guilty Crown" (holy crap, it's been 10 years) and I was also blown away; the anime wasn't that great but the music was absolutely fantastic. For better or for worse, Sawano has a very unique style. His songs are usually epic or bombastic which generally just means it's a banger but to some who've been exposed to his music for a long time (over 10 years in my case) the music tends to blend together and sound relatively samey. For me personally, if I see Hiroyuki Sawano is composing for something new, I immediately know that the music is going to be good but at this point he just sets the bar that I want to see other composers exceed.
All of the games have amazing soundtrack but X has some of my favourites! Hope you do uncontrollable from x!
Hiroyuki Sawano.
That's it, that's the comment. No going back now!
God, I love Hiroyuki Sawano.
BLACK TAR
Xenoblade X is IMO the most underrated out of the three Xenoblade Chronicles games. I think it's the 2nd best one after the 1st. The gist of it is basically two alien factions choose space near Earth as a battleground, so Earth gets caught in the middle. Humanity, in order to escape the destruction of Earth in the war between these two alien races, construct gigantic spaceships that contain replicas of entire cities to escape the planet. One of these ships, carrying "New Los Angeles" finds its way to a habitable planet, but they're pursued by and shot down by one of the alien factions, forcing them to crash land. A special part of the ship called the "Lifehold" separates from the rest of it as it breaks apart upon entry. While some of the humans are awake and around to get things up and running, the Lifehold core contains the majority of humans in cryogenic sleep; and it's slowly losing power. So it's a race against time to explore, survey and brave the alien dangers of the planet to find the lifehold and secure the future of the human race.
Because of the scope and technology in the game the music feels real different. More electronic, but also a bit more epic to fit you sprinting across the vast plains and otherworldly landscapes, running past gigantic lifeforms or even driving and sprinting or flying around in your mechs, and even more epic tracks when you get into battle with certain monsters.
Xenoblade X is a sorta spinoff. It has a very different style and feel to the main series, but similar gameplay. Where as Xenoblade 1 and 2 take place in fantasy worlds, X takes place in a fictional real world future. X's music has a lot of electronic sounds mixed with very heavy orchestra and epic choirs (And occasionally rap of all things…). The soundtrack was composed by the same guy who makes the music for the anime Attack on Titan, and shares a lot of elements with AOT's music.
Sorta spinoff with strong emphasis on the sorta, since it will inevitably be brought into the main series canon _somehow_ we just don't know how yet.
@@badlatency9979 My money's on Klaus being either born on Mira or being one of the people on the Lifehold.
this was a nice surprise, love XCX
X has one of my favorite soundtracks of all time, really hope you get the chance to react to more of them
See, now that you have _expectations_ for what Xenoblade sounds like I have to recommend the songs One Last You and Drifting Souls from 2, and Wir fliegen from X.
This game is an outlier, or black sheep, of the series, but hoooooly balls I love it. Best combat (for me), amazing exploration, and this OST is godlike.
It felt almost like a tech demo with it's barebone plot (for a Xenoblade), so some didn't click with it but easily one of my faves.
When i said i would watch you react to every xenoblade song i meant it, Lets freaking go
You're awesome you're really getting around to all my favorite bangers. Uncontrollable is one of the best from this game. Would love to see your reaction to smt 4 battle b2. Anyway keep up the awesome content.
Thank you for your videos.
This was the first Xenoblade game I played, and for a long time was the only game I really had on the Wii U (I was broke). I really hope one day that it gets ported to Switch so I can have them all in one place.
I have to recommend THEMEX from this game, it’s used in the establishing shot of the world during the beginning of the game with the title card. Absolute banger
makes me wish i could pick XB X up again, but my wii u controller charger cord died during transit between moving houses
I LOVE this song, the very definition of epic!
Z37 Battle and Black Tar are among my favorites, alongside NLA Shigai which is the main hub theme.
Speaking of open-worldness, I'll never forget when my bro and I had basically just started and we Googled "how do we get to one of the other continents", expecting boats or a quest or something, and the answer was 'just swim lol'. 20 minutes across the ocean and there we were, in some zone that had nice little easy enemies on shore just for fools like us even tho the story would have surely put us there many hours later. What a gaaaame.
I did the SAME THING!!!
X is often a forgetten part of the Xenoblade franchise, but it's my favourite of the three games. I'm so glad you've gotten to it, because its soundtrack is wild.
Well, the Wii U didn't sell that much and it came out over 6 years ago. It's actually pretty amazing that it does get mentioned as much as it does after all this time. And a sequel and port are still heavily requested among the Xenoblade fanbase as well.
It will come back, the current Switch just can’t handle this game much better than the Wii U could without a major money investment so they are waiting.
You can’t just make a game and a whole new world that is as big and different as X’s and just allow it all to die on an unsuccessful console, especially when they can make a ton of money on a successful console.
This makes me imagine in the 18th-19th century in a battle where your troops are losing ground and then the cavalry launch an epic flank charge aganist an army with the commander pointing their sword forward to tell the men to charge and then the trumpet in this song plays.
Adore your channel man, fellow bgm enthusiast here! From this game, I would recommend you listen to Black Tar, Uncontrollable, No. EX01, and Wir Fleigen
"If it was in a movie it'd be selling box office records," meanwhile, Promare (which you should check out the ost of as well) is composed by the same guy, and, while an anime movie, was shown numerous theatrical rereleases in the US in a time period where that was unheard of. Love Xenoblade and Promare. Sawano, Monolithsoft, and Trigger the goats.
Cool channel btw. Love how passionate your deconstruction is. Brought joy to my heart watching you experience this and the Torna battle theme.
That "eventually" from yesterday came sooner than expected lmao
The best way to describe xenoblade chronicles X's ost is "raw".
We've yet to have a reaction to the magnum opus of Xenoblade music: You Will Know Our Names
Funnily enough this is the instrumental version of "In the Forest," but this is basically the main theme for the game, while the lyrics hardly ever play.
This one is quite sick.
Most of the music you've reacted to so far have been battle themes, Xenoblades Field and emotional cutscene themes are just as good!
Bionis' Awakening is such an amazing track no one talks about because everything about it is a major spoiler.
Man discovers Sawano - Feb 2022
Hiroyuki Sawano has a distinctly relentless style to it. His music has this constant drive, mainly carried by aggressive percussion and droning sweeps of trumpets.
And for Xenoblade X, it was an excellent fit. You are one of just a small number of survivors, crashed on an unknown planet full of hostiles, with a strong military presence, and aconstant struggle to make it to the next day.
Where Xenoblade 1 & 2 have a strong sense of fantasy and wonder (and animé), Xenoblade X is more about sci-fi themes, tension, and discovery.
so in XBX its entirely separate from the other two its more based on a universe where earth was an actual thing, but it was attacked by aliens, one of the colony ships with the sleeping humans inside crashes on a planet and from there they want to establish a foothold to continue the human race, However, an important part of the ship nessecary for humanity's survival is lost during the crash , and thus you go on a quest just roaming the land, exploring places, planting nodes to expand your map and scanning capacity, Farming resources to fuel the human city . and meet and make friends and enemies with other sentient alien races on the planet. eventually even getting giant robots that can transform into cars, for both an extentioin in combat, as well as even upgrading them into flying machines to finally be able to explore absolutely everywhere. its a game all about exploration,
Xenoblade Cronicles X, WiiU version its a biggest and apic Sci-fi game, Your map, and explorable area, its a biggest map from in game at Your generation, most biggest from The Witcher 3, GTA V, Red Dead Redemption and other games from Your generation. This OST folow The Path of game: EPIC.
xenoblade chronicles X is amazing, one of the best soundtracks of all time
'Incoming!!' has to be heard by this man. The song is just a gift from god
So true
I want AoT season 5 now...
If I could get three people in a room to make epic music it would be: Hans Zimmer, Hiroyuki Suwano, and John Williams.
Damn, if you're gonna do some X music, I'll ask for Uncontrollable or Wir Fliegen, cus thems my favorites
man I really hope this game gets ported over to the switch.
Xenoblade Chronicles X is a beautiful game. Unfortunately, due to it being on the Wii U, it didn't have great sales. Monolithsoft poured so much time and love into this game, and the fact that they'll be making a Switch port, really excites us all. This game should have the flourishment it deserves!!
so last comment i will make on this, since you wont react to it on stream, but check out the entire ost for GUndam unicorn, done entirely by this composer, its all absolutely massive. it is effectively what you mean with if a movie or show had this sort of music,
Someone please show him Incoming! from xenoblade 2
I see XC X and think its black tar, I guess not... its a weird song that I despised at first but throughout the 120 hours of playing it I kinda slowly came to like it.
I like Black Tar but can never hear it over the gunfire, angry dinosaur and constant yelling for Soul Voices.
I always loved the underlying song of black tar, but it's the rapping that's awkward for me. I can appreciate the work rappers put in, but I've never had the end result gel with me the same way other genres do.
@@Qazqi yeah the rapping, I was like "RAPPING IN MY JRPG!? WHY I NEVER!" and clutched my pearls but you keep hearing it and battles sometimes get long enough for the song to start and it just grows on you. Along side the werid mix of Western quest styles Korean MMO looking game and the anime story it just feels alright.
I just feel like Black Tar isn't good as a normal battle theme because of how intense it is, but you hear it so much that it feels really underwhelming when it's used for major sidequest battles.
WE STUCK ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT PLAAAANET
Man, you should give a shot to "Growth S.F.K.O" or "Satorl Marsh - Night". You won't dissapointed.
Xenoblade X is the middle sibling to Xenoblade Chronicles (Definitive Edition) & Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Released on the WiiU it went for a very open world game and musically wise there was a lot more of an electronic influence, plus some rap here and there. A lotta of the songs have vocals, and while the lyrics make no sense I love the songs all the same (even the Night theme for New L.A)
NLA night is an underrated jam
you are more openminded than me , the new LA night theme really bothered me , but it also got stuck in my head, i always preffered the vocal lacking tracks myself
@@nathanperquin9910 for me I just sorta went from hating it when I initially got the game to singing along with it as I was running around years later
yeah anything by sawano is the big theatrical sound
Yes just getting into the X OST? 🗿🗿 nice
Please do tantal night or land of morytha from xenoblade. Nice vid!
This theme plays at one of my favorite part of the game.
Spoiler
When the City in the Thumbnail is under attack and there is a action packed huge cutscene where all characters you know try to defend it. Very epic indeed.
I know you don't do anime soundtracks on your channel, but you should check out the Attack on Titan OST on your own. You won't be disappointed! :)
It's criminal that this track is only used once and its remix is only used for a single time gated boss fight.
Wait, time-gated? Who was it?
@@GURGLEGUY12345 In the Forest ＜X→Z ver.＞ and it's Yggralith Zero's boss theme. I'm pretty sure that's the only time that version plays.
@@brianssong5382 What made it time-gated?
@@GURGLEGUY12345 I believe he's an online boss that only spawns like once every 2 months.
@@brianssong5382 Ah, right. Thanks.
You can just hear Sawano Hiroyuki's style. Rather surprised he's also doing game music.
Hey I know you have done some other Xenoblade songs, Most of the time people requests you to react to the most niche... songs from the saga... But This song.. Oh this is a good one! :)
I'd really recommend another FFXIV Ost called tsukuyomi's theme. I recommend The whole fight version uploaded by dudewhereismyspoon
PLEASE REACT TO ABRACADAVRE BY ELENA SIEGMAN
Man... Sawano is great. Wish I could sugest "Mobile Armor" or "Gundam Unicorn", very similar feels to this too, but alas it's only anime and I don't think it was in any Super Robot Wars game...
Although I think they were in Maxi Boost On, but that is cheating the system
maybe some of them are in the japanese verisons for srw
Uncontrollable.
Wer Fligen (sp?) and Uncontrollable are some of the best battle themes I've ever heard.
Monolith is truly one of the greatest studios out there.
Xenoblade X is honestly a pretty good game.
Nah, this one is just generic Hiroyuki Sawano. All of his favorite cliches and techniques are here, literally all of them. If you heard this specific track - you heard many of his OSTs at once. Even more into the area of his older works, with less interesting finds and tricks he likes to use nowadays. He did improve slightly over the years, though.
Not telling that XCX doesn't have any things with some unique taste to them. You probably got the worse part of the soundtrack here, there are more interesting ones. Say, Black Tar or Uncontrollable.
This would only apply if you're already used to hearing Sawano's music. If you're not familiar with his work, this song has a very unique sound to it and it's just epic. There isn't another composer I know of that has the same style. Of course, if you are used to his music, there are definitely better songs in Xenoblade X's soundtrack, but this isn't a bad song to start with by any means.
@@ShallBePurified...yeah, you're definitely right here. Nice addition.
Xenoblade X's OST is weird, i would say that it is the most extreme of the xenoblade games so far, having both the worst and best music in the series, while 1 and 2 are more stable but don't reach as far up or down in terms of quality, at least imo
fun fact, there are actually 3ish versions of this song that include vocals