0:09 Introduction 0:45 Primitive Mountain 4:03 Ayla’s Theme 5:23 Rhythm of Wind, Sky and Earth 7:10 Burn! Bobonga! 8:35 Burn! Bobonga! (Second Listen) 10:01 Magus’ Castle 10:28 Confusing Melody 11:51 Battle with Magus 15:57 Singing Mountain 18:46 Tyran Castle 23:15 At the Bottom of Night 28:02 Corridors of Time 31:24 Zeal Palace 35:33 Schala’s Theme 38:49 Sealed Door 42:29 Undersea Palace 46:42 Far Off Promise 48:28 Wings That Cross Time 51:42 Black Omen 54:41 Determination 55:35 World Revolution 59:28 Last Battle 1:03:59 First Festival of Stars 1:07:23 Epilogue ~ To Good Friends 1:10:14 To Far Away Times 1:15:36 BONUS: Schala’s Theme - Live Version
I love how you can hear a story being told just by listening to Magus's Theme, Battle with Magus, Zeal Palace, and Schala's Theme. You don't have to play the game to recognize that there's a relationship between those characters and that place.
I honestly never noticed that. I knew Battle with Magus and Schala's Theme shared the same starting notes albeit played at different speeds. I only just realized after reading your comment the same thing with Zeal Palace. That (leit?)motif really solidifies them all being a part of the Kingdom of Zeal. Always clever how game composers are unwittingly able to tell a story through their music, even if those not musically educated like me are likely to notice it even through multiple playthroughs.
Also in main theme ! Magus is the co-protagonist of the victory over Lavos, therefore in his songs there is also the leitmotif that represents the epic fight against evil
Tyranno lair reaction did not disappoint. 😁 also I would pay a modest sum for someone to splice together every instance of Dan going “wut” at how awesome this OST is.
It took until I heard it to realize it was the Tyranno Lair song. I was looking at the timestamps and was like, “Tyran Castle… why don’t I remember a place called Tyran Castle? Was that the name of that castle where you finish the Frog sidequests? Ohhhhhh, it’s Tyranno Lair!”
57:56: "I dunno if they had pitch shift in 1995" They definitely did. These soundtracks would not have been possible without it. Basically, each instrument you hear is made of a single sample at a single pitch, played back in a stream of pitch-shifts to the various different notes in its track. If you have any familiarity with MOD/S3M/IT style tracked music, that's essentially how the SNES sound chip operates, which is why converting between IT and SPC (SNES music format) is so easy.
Yeah the snes has such a small amount of sound allocated ram (64K for samples, echo and the music program) that being able to pitch samples is huge. The compressed sample format helped a bunch too. I converted a bunch of amiga mods to spc recently and getting those big amiga samples to fit is pretty tricky.
@@MusicTheoryforGamers Hey there brother. May I make a humble request? Please listen and react to the Jet Set Radio Future OST. It is legendary and funky and I guarantee your viewers would love it. Thank you for reading and I hope to see it some time soon.
Not something you can pick up on quite as easily only hearing the OST, but in Last Battle, the final enemy/boss is more of a wild parasite than something really sentient, the loud scream like noise is literally the creature roaring at you and is heard a few different times throughout the game. I've always loved that the final battle starts and intersperses this being just roaring at you.
That's sort of an inherent problem with a music teacher listening to these tracks out of context. Because this music wasn't really designed to be an album for broadcast or home listening. It's all BGM (Back Ground Music) that's supposed to fit a scene. So if he was to see the opening to the fight with Magus in front of him instead of just hearing the track, I doubt he would have made that confused face in the beginning. That track was so tailored to that scene that the game auto progressed the dialog in tune with the track and took control away from the player. That's how proud they were of that scene.
I'd argue that the final boss battles reveal that Lavos was actually a maliciously intelligent creature that has been aggregating all the world's knowledge to make itself stronger and devise countermeasures and stratagems to keep itself safe from attack. It defends itself with the memories of all the powerful entities you've encountered through the ages to wear you down before fighting you directly if you approach it on your own, and even pulls a bait and switch tactic on you with it's final form. It's been knowingly manipulating the development of the entire world in order to have more valuable samples to collect for its own self evolution, only wiping the slate clean once independent technology has advanced far enough to possibly pose a threat to it if allowed to continue. While it is still a force of nature as well (the other side of the coin of Lavos destroying to world on that fateful 1999 event was preparing the land for the Lavos Spawn to mature enough to make their own journeys to devour other planets, after all... and because they kicked the beehive and made it angry), it's just as insidious as something like Jenova from FF7. (I'd even theorize/headcanon they might be the same species as each other across the two game series?) Regardless, while saying Lavos is intelligent is supported by evidence in Chrono Trigger's events alone, it's also outright confirmed in Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger DS that it had a will and plans of its own, not just instincts. It's like a multiclassed wizard/barbarian, using rage and cunning in equal measure to dispatch anyone or anything that gets in its way.
@@Shalakor I haven't played Cross personally so I can't speak on anything it introduces to that conversation, but what does the DS version add that leans that way? That's the version I've played the most of and thought it was still fairly ambiguous if not pretty blunt with party members even directly saying it's acting on instinct
Well with Chrono Cross it's implied/stated that the human race should've died out long ago, leaving the Reptite race as the dominant species. After Lavos landed and triggered an ice age the Reptites died off, being cold blooded and all. The humans would've been soon to follow, but it seems that Lavos was subtly influencing their evolution, making them smarter over the ages. They survived and spread, furthering their technology, living longer lives. It was essentially cultivating this life that it could feed off of to eventually trigger what happens in 1999 AD. Though the Zeal dynasty got a little too greedy in 12,000 BC, using their magic to siphon energy from Lavos. And he responded appropriately, razing their palace and robbing the Enlightened Ones living in Zeal of their magic to prevent that from happening again.
My God I had never heard that live version of Schala's Theme at the end before. My eyes instantly started watering when the bass came in. What a performance. 😭
It's very nice, but I feel like her theme needs the bells. It's such a delicate sound, just gives you a feeling of how fragile Schala is, how very easily she could leave the world--the princess who cannot be saved once lost.
When I even think about this music my eyes water. I would argue that its possible some of this progression is possibly the most beautiful resolutions in all of gaming music, if not all soundtracks of anything ever.
A co-worker and I have the same tradition of replaying Chrono Trigger every few years. It's a masterpiece and coincidentally, has stood the test of time.
For those interested, there's a youtube channel that's being doing a "restoration" of every song of CT, is called Mathew Valente. He already did it for FF6 and some other old games.
Mathew does great work, he has done restorations of all 3 mainline SNES FF games so far and they sound fantastic. He was actually the composer/arranger for the Chrono Trigger fangame "Chrono Resurrection" which was sadly shut down by Square back in the day. On a similar note, I also highly recommend Jammin' Sam Miller's restorations of the Donkey Kong Country SNES trilogy's soundtracks.
FYI Kara Comparetto is in the process of arranging and recording the entire Chrono Trigger OST for grand piano, pipe organ, and harpsichord so if that’s sounds awesome you should go and subscribe to her channel
Mathew Valente is also currently in the process of restoring the soundtrack after finding what they can of the sources of those instruments. Go sub to that channel as well !
Chrono Trigger is still one of the greatest JRPG’s there is, the game has aged very well. Looking forward to seeing Dan check out more of Mitsuda’s work, as Chrono Cross and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 are on the list.
0:09 Introduction 0:45 Primitive Mountain 4:03 Ayla’s Theme 5:23 Rhythm of Wind, Sky and Earth 7:10 Burn! Bobonga! 8:35 Burn! Bobonga! (Second Listen) 10:01 Magus’ Castle 10:28 Confusing Melody 11:51 Battle with Magus 15:57 Singing Mountain 18:46 Tyran Castle 23:15 At the Bottom of Night 28:02 Corridors of Time 31:24 Zeal Palace 35:33 Schala’s Theme 38:49 Sealed Door 42:29 Undersea Palace 46:42 Far Off Promise 48:28 Wings That Cross Time 51:42 Black Omen 54:41 Determination 55:35 World Revolution 59:28 Last Battle 1:03:59 First Festival of Stars 1:07:23 Epilogue ~ To Good Friends 1:10:14 To Far Away Times 1:15:36 BONUS: Schala’s Theme - Live Version
I highly, highly, highly recommend giving the Chrono Cross OST a listen. Yasunori Mitsuda does not disappoint when it comes to any of his music from the Chrono games to the Xenogears/saga/blade games
You’re legitimately the only person on this website that I watch for OST reactions because no one else really gives every track a chance like you do. Also, I highly recommend Dying Light 1’s OST; it’s great. Keep up the great work and I’m loving the tutorials!
Yes, I love the Magus fight in the past, and especially Corridors of Time. I do also like Schala's theme, the daughter of the evil queen of Zeal kingdom, she did not subscribe to such evil ways. It's a sad theme. Eventually, the kingdom of Zeal, to where most people could use magic was destroyed.
WHAT THE HECK I've played Chrono Trigger COUNTLESS TIMES since it came out in 95, even speedran it for a little while and somehow I've NEVER HEARD the guitar in the left ear during the first part of the wings of time theme This is blowing my mind it just made me stop full in my tracks to make sure you weren't playing along or something
If you're having trouble keeping up it might be because, in addition to the weird chord progressions and left-right shifting, the time signiture also changes periodically, and sometimes the drums aren't in the same as the melody.
It's funny how much harder "Battle with Magus" hits orchestrated. Some songs just sound iconic in their original state, but that you can tell that theme is meant to be as bombastic as possible. Also, that Zeal Palace note...I got there in the middle of the night as a kid and it unnerved the hell out of me. It is the most ominous damned thing in a video game.
The composer actually made To Far Away Times to a woman he had been in love with and then decided to add in the game. It was not originally composed as soundtrack.
Could we possibly see a Halloween edition this year? I'm thinking Silent Hill 2 OST just because of how different Akira Yamaoka composed it compared to how others had composed other games during the same time/era. Something different but amazing, and I'd love to know your thoughts and teachings on it!
The last few themes are so good, glad you enjoy it, I hope for the best when you listen to Mother 3 OST, and I wish that someday you may listen to Super Mario RPG OST
Something Chat never brought up is that a few of the tracks in the game have "implied lyrics" for lack of a better way to put it, such as Gato's Theme and Burn! Bobonga, where in-game dialogue provides lyrics that while unvoiced, can be applied to the song in question as if sung with it, Bobonga isn't exactly hard to guess, but Gato's is "My name is Gato I have metal joints Beat me up And earn 50 Silver points!" A little chant before you fight the training bot
I think you are really fantastic !! I study music in a musical high school, I generally play classical music, but I go crazy for movie / series / video game soundtracks, and I enjoy composing songs all the time, and finding a video that reacts to the soundtracks I go for crazy, and who talks about music as I do, is simply unique. I've never found videos like this, and I just think it's a really great thing. Congratulations indeed and you have a new subscriber
You should give the BlazBlue ost a shot, I think it has great music, which is needed in a fighting game. It’s always a delight landing a combo and defeating your opponent in sync with the song.
some old games that I totally love the OST : - Chrono Trigger - Xenogears - Valkyrie Profile - Legend of Mana - Saga Frontier / Saga Frontier 2 - Grandia / Grandia 2 - Wild Arms series - Final Fantasy Tactics - Armored Core series - Front Mission series - Atelier series - Ar Tonelico 1 & 2 - etc.
Is this the SNES version of the soundtrack? It sounds way cleaner than any version i've heard uploaded on YT lol Last Battle specially sounds so crisp it's unreal.
Man, given that you're already into Uematsu's work, this deep, I can't wait for the day you continue down the square enix rabbit hole and get to bravely default, octopath traveler, and Triangle strategy I feel like Revo, Yasunori Nishiki, and Akira Senju, the respective composers for those games, are some of the best in modern Jrpgs, easily
I'll never understand how Chrono Cross, one of the best video game soundtracks of all time, the sequel to Trigger and from the same composer, is stuck in limbo all the way down the voting list.
You should try listening to the pokemon mystery dungeon explorers of sky soundtrack sometime I think. It's pretty good and I like the use of leitmotifs
You know how there’s always that one song on a video game soundtrack that burned itself into your memory when you played it as a kid then you hear it as an adult and you’re immediately like, “Oh my god! THIS song!” Watching this made me realize that Undersea Palace is that song for me with Chrono Trigger.
Do you have any plans to listen to the new Final Fantasy 7 Remake soundtrack now that you've listened to the old one? They redid all those songs with orchestra melodies and its marvelous
You should really listen to the Binding of Isaac: Repentance soundtrack and also the Antibirth soundtrack (which is better than Repentance) they are both INCREDIBLE soundtracks, it would be super cool :)
If you are looking for another absolutely gorgeous soundtrack to dive into, might I recommend Legend of Mana? And the original, not the recent remaster.
Would looove to see your reaction to the Zelda soundtrack, perhaps Skyward sword or Ocarina of time mostly. If not pokemon throughout the years would be cool :)
"The bass really slaps in this song!" - comment for 95% of CT songs, and I love it. I also know jack diddly about music theory and just love Chrono Trigger, which is why I'm here. But I also learned about sus chords from this video. I never knew what the term was for it or what the heck it was, but I LOVE them in every song I hear them in. I instantly could just "feel" it as Dan played it while he described it at 27:25. So for Dan, even if you think you are explaining something so basic and think everyone is going to get it, I'm so glad you explained it anyway! I learned something really cool. Thank you for that!
It would be so cool if you reacted to cave story's OST, it's one of the first indie games as we know it today, made by only one guy, Including the soundtrack which he made without any music knowledge, arranging notes until it sounded great, could interesting to analyse it knowing rhat
He mentions Corridors of Time sounding like a sitar. I didn't even think of the Kingdom of Zeal being a criticism of the caste system! But the names of the villages fit that. And the magic users were called the Enlightened ones. How am I still learning new bits of genius after playing through this game 8 times already?
Chrono Trigger is my favorite game of all time. Music is so good. I never really paid attention to the bass lines as much as I am watching this video. Of course you can't miss that bass line from Secret of the Forest - from part 1 video. Tyran Castle has the bass showing off.
I know this might get buried and never happen, but I think Astral Chain has a super cool guitar soundtrack and I would love too see your reaction on it. Love the vids, keep doing what your doing
its so interesting to see someone who has never played Chrono Trigger, to listen to all the music. i cannot unlink the story and characters' moments with the songs. its quite emotional, which shows how strong the impact of the game is. wonder how you feel about the songs with just audio
Hey, do you mind doing a review on Deepwoken's OST even though it's a small game Albeit. The music is there and fits extremely well with the lore of the game.
I get a big smile, feeling it incredibly apropos, that you just jammed out with Corridors of Time. It's my favorite song in pretty much all of video games, and it's a really great example of how you can just let the music speak for itself.
Ayo someone tell this man about fnf mod music especially indie cross. Fnf is cool and fun like playing ddr, except on keyboard on your computer. I dunno if this is the right place to be putting this but man would love the songs. Also listen to ddlc music. Highly reccomend fnf though.
Chrono Trigger is one of those games that would likely explode in popularity if remade to the effect of FF7R - There are a lot of amazing retro games that would also shatter limits like-wise.
I really suggest you to react to divinity original sin 2 (the whole ost feels like an orchestra) and metal gear rising (great music overall), I'm sure you would enjoy them a lot.
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0:09 Introduction
0:45 Primitive Mountain
4:03 Ayla’s Theme
5:23 Rhythm of Wind, Sky and Earth
7:10 Burn! Bobonga!
8:35 Burn! Bobonga! (Second Listen)
10:01 Magus’ Castle
10:28 Confusing Melody
11:51 Battle with Magus
15:57 Singing Mountain
18:46 Tyran Castle
23:15 At the Bottom of Night
28:02 Corridors of Time
31:24 Zeal Palace
35:33 Schala’s Theme
38:49 Sealed Door
42:29 Undersea Palace
46:42 Far Off Promise
48:28 Wings That Cross Time
51:42 Black Omen
54:41 Determination
55:35 World Revolution
59:28 Last Battle
1:03:59 First Festival of Stars
1:07:23 Epilogue ~ To Good Friends
1:10:14 To Far Away Times
1:15:36 BONUS: Schala’s Theme - Live Version
Thanks
You wanna be in the description huh
@@GamingTranceSeer Would be fine by me if he wanted to copy paste it into the description, would be more quickly accessible that way
@@stikkysosage9125 yeah hopefully he finds it soon cause I was having to scroll around to find this
I love how you can hear a story being told just by listening to Magus's Theme, Battle with Magus, Zeal Palace, and Schala's Theme. You don't have to play the game to recognize that there's a relationship between those characters and that place.
I honestly never noticed that. I knew Battle with Magus and Schala's Theme shared the same starting notes albeit played at different speeds. I only just realized after reading your comment the same thing with Zeal Palace.
That (leit?)motif really solidifies them all being a part of the Kingdom of Zeal. Always clever how game composers are unwittingly able to tell a story through their music, even if those not musically educated like me are likely to notice it even through multiple playthroughs.
Also in undersea palace
Also in main theme ! Magus is the co-protagonist of the victory over Lavos, therefore in his songs there is also the leitmotif that represents the epic fight against evil
Corridors of Time is one of the best video games pieces of music of all time.
It's just so serene. So other worldly.
Gonna add to that: one of the best pieces of music of all time.
28:02
Easily my favorite
Corridors of time and eternal wind are among the best video game pieces in history
Tyranno lair reaction did not disappoint. 😁 also I would pay a modest sum for someone to splice together every instance of Dan going “wut” at how awesome this OST is.
Few songs in this OST go as hard as Tyranno Lair and I knew he would dig it
World Revolution... what an amazing track. Easily one of most remarkable tracks of the history of video-games.
I love that it does the _1812 Overture_ thing of having the two musical themes doing battle symbolic of the characters they represent also battling.
@@HollowGolem Wrath of Khan also did that.
I thought I had heard this whole soundtrack through osmosis, but Tyran Castle took me completely off guard. What a dope song.
It's underrated for sure, I love tyran castle theme
It's one of the best tracks in the whole game.
i like how the audio goes right to left. it tickles my brain
It took until I heard it to realize it was the Tyranno Lair song. I was looking at the timestamps and was like, “Tyran Castle… why don’t I remember a place called Tyran Castle? Was that the name of that castle where you finish the Frog sidequests? Ohhhhhh, it’s Tyranno Lair!”
57:56: "I dunno if they had pitch shift in 1995"
They definitely did. These soundtracks would not have been possible without it. Basically, each instrument you hear is made of a single sample at a single pitch, played back in a stream of pitch-shifts to the various different notes in its track. If you have any familiarity with MOD/S3M/IT style tracked music, that's essentially how the SNES sound chip operates, which is why converting between IT and SPC (SNES music format) is so easy.
Looks like I need to do a deep dive into this era of tech! Thank you!
Yeah the snes has such a small amount of sound allocated ram (64K for samples, echo and the music program) that being able to pitch samples is huge. The compressed sample format helped a bunch too. I converted a bunch of amiga mods to spc recently and getting those big amiga samples to fit is pretty tricky.
@@MusicTheoryforGamers Hey there brother. May I make a humble request? Please listen and react to the Jet Set Radio Future OST. It is legendary and funky and I guarantee your viewers would love it. Thank you for reading and I hope to see it some time soon.
28:00
Thanks I was looking for this one
Exactly
Not something you can pick up on quite as easily only hearing the OST, but in Last Battle, the final enemy/boss is more of a wild parasite than something really sentient, the loud scream like noise is literally the creature roaring at you and is heard a few different times throughout the game.
I've always loved that the final battle starts and intersperses this being just roaring at you.
It’s such a surreal, otherworldly track
That's sort of an inherent problem with a music teacher listening to these tracks out of context. Because this music wasn't really designed to be an album for broadcast or home listening. It's all BGM (Back Ground Music) that's supposed to fit a scene. So if he was to see the opening to the fight with Magus in front of him instead of just hearing the track, I doubt he would have made that confused face in the beginning. That track was so tailored to that scene that the game auto progressed the dialog in tune with the track and took control away from the player. That's how proud they were of that scene.
I'd argue that the final boss battles reveal that Lavos was actually a maliciously intelligent creature that has been aggregating all the world's knowledge to make itself stronger and devise countermeasures and stratagems to keep itself safe from attack. It defends itself with the memories of all the powerful entities you've encountered through the ages to wear you down before fighting you directly if you approach it on your own, and even pulls a bait and switch tactic on you with it's final form. It's been knowingly manipulating the development of the entire world in order to have more valuable samples to collect for its own self evolution, only wiping the slate clean once independent technology has advanced far enough to possibly pose a threat to it if allowed to continue.
While it is still a force of nature as well (the other side of the coin of Lavos destroying to world on that fateful 1999 event was preparing the land for the Lavos Spawn to mature enough to make their own journeys to devour other planets, after all... and because they kicked the beehive and made it angry), it's just as insidious as something like Jenova from FF7. (I'd even theorize/headcanon they might be the same species as each other across the two game series?) Regardless, while saying Lavos is intelligent is supported by evidence in Chrono Trigger's events alone, it's also outright confirmed in Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger DS that it had a will and plans of its own, not just instincts. It's like a multiclassed wizard/barbarian, using rage and cunning in equal measure to dispatch anyone or anything that gets in its way.
@@Shalakor I haven't played Cross personally so I can't speak on anything it introduces to that conversation, but what does the DS version add that leans that way? That's the version I've played the most of and thought it was still fairly ambiguous if not pretty blunt with party members even directly saying it's acting on instinct
Well with Chrono Cross it's implied/stated that the human race should've died out long ago, leaving the Reptite race as the dominant species. After Lavos landed and triggered an ice age the Reptites died off, being cold blooded and all. The humans would've been soon to follow, but it seems that Lavos was subtly influencing their evolution, making them smarter over the ages. They survived and spread, furthering their technology, living longer lives. It was essentially cultivating this life that it could feed off of to eventually trigger what happens in 1999 AD. Though the Zeal dynasty got a little too greedy in 12,000 BC, using their magic to siphon energy from Lavos. And he responded appropriately, razing their palace and robbing the Enlightened Ones living in Zeal of their magic to prevent that from happening again.
My God I had never heard that live version of Schala's Theme at the end before. My eyes instantly started watering when the bass came in. What a performance. 😭
It's very nice, but I feel like her theme needs the bells. It's such a delicate sound, just gives you a feeling of how fragile Schala is, how very easily she could leave the world--the princess who cannot be saved once lost.
When I even think about this music my eyes water. I would argue that its possible some of this progression is possibly the most beautiful resolutions in all of gaming music, if not all soundtracks of anything ever.
My dad played chrono trigger and shared his love and im glad i played it, its amazing! Glad you reacted to this masterpiece.
Yay! Chrono Trigger is officially a “dad game”
Haha! I'm trying to do the same with my 12yo son right now. LOL : D
Ive tried to get my cousins to play it, no luck :/
@@ChrisAshtear i guess its a rpg and its tough for him to put time in thia chrono trigger
I played it when I was a teenager. Amazing game, and music.
A co-worker and I have the same tradition of replaying Chrono Trigger every few years. It's a masterpiece and coincidentally, has stood the test of time.
You’d probably also love the dragon quest series (the director of those wrote most of ct)
Love this
@@at0micl0bster I've been meaning to do that actually! I only briefly played one on the PS2 that I borrowed from a friend but did like it.
CT, moreso than any other JRPG, really stood the passage of time, it's still perfectly playable today in it's default form.
My last play through was prob 10 years ago. It’s time
For those interested, there's a youtube channel that's being doing a "restoration" of every song of CT, is called Mathew Valente. He already did it for FF6 and some other old games.
Mathew does great work, he has done restorations of all 3 mainline SNES FF games so far and they sound fantastic. He was actually the composer/arranger for the Chrono Trigger fangame "Chrono Resurrection" which was sadly shut down by Square back in the day.
On a similar note, I also highly recommend Jammin' Sam Miller's restorations of the Donkey Kong Country SNES trilogy's soundtracks.
you should check out malcom robinsons versions of the chrono trigger ost. ill def check out your suggestion as well!
So many remixes or reorchestrations dont include the clock tick in to far away times which annoys the hell out of me.
@@Eversoul12 Oh yes. Robinson is one of the few arrangers who actually kept the sitar in Corridors of Time!
@@Eversoul12 I second Malcolm's versions. They're amazing and stay faithful as well.
FYI Kara Comparetto is in the process of arranging and recording the entire Chrono Trigger OST for grand piano, pipe organ, and harpsichord so if that’s sounds awesome you should go and subscribe to her channel
Mathew Valente is also currently in the process of restoring the soundtrack after finding what they can of the sources of those instruments. Go sub to that channel as well !
Chrono Trigger is still one of the greatest JRPG’s there is, the game has aged very well. Looking forward to seeing Dan check out more of Mitsuda’s work, as Chrono Cross and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 are on the list.
And Xenogears :)
If you like chrono trigger go check out the Dragon Quest games (the director of those wrote most of ct)
Hopefully MGS first, but I wouldn't mind Xenogears cutting in line. As long as he also listens to both of the vocal tracks.
@@at0micl0bster Ahh, so no wonder Toriyama-sensei was in charge of the art
It really did "age" very well
0:09 Introduction
0:45 Primitive Mountain
4:03 Ayla’s Theme
5:23 Rhythm of Wind, Sky and Earth
7:10 Burn! Bobonga!
8:35 Burn! Bobonga! (Second Listen)
10:01 Magus’ Castle
10:28 Confusing Melody
11:51 Battle with Magus
15:57 Singing Mountain
18:46 Tyran Castle
23:15 At the Bottom of Night
28:02 Corridors of Time
31:24 Zeal Palace
35:33 Schala’s Theme
38:49 Sealed Door
42:29 Undersea Palace
46:42 Far Off Promise
48:28 Wings That Cross Time
51:42 Black Omen
54:41 Determination
55:35 World Revolution
59:28 Last Battle
1:03:59 First Festival of Stars
1:07:23 Epilogue ~ To Good Friends
1:10:14 To Far Away Times
1:15:36 BONUS: Schala’s Theme - Live Version
Thank you!
I highly, highly, highly recommend giving the Chrono Cross OST a listen. Yasunori Mitsuda does not disappoint when it comes to any of his music from the Chrono games to the Xenogears/saga/blade games
You’re legitimately the only person on this website that I watch for OST reactions because no one else really gives every track a chance like you do.
Also, I highly recommend Dying Light 1’s OST; it’s great. Keep up the great work and I’m loving the tutorials!
Yes, I love the Magus fight in the past, and especially Corridors of Time. I do also like Schala's theme, the daughter of the evil queen of Zeal kingdom, she did not subscribe to such evil ways. It's a sad theme. Eventually, the kingdom of Zeal, to where most people could use magic was destroyed.
You know it’s a good soundtrack when you can’t decide on your favorite song
So true :D
I never noticed the string in 31:24 Zeal Palace is VERY similar to
10:01 Magus’ Castle
10:28 Confusing Melody
11:51 Battle with Magus
Makes sense.
WHAT THE HECK
I've played Chrono Trigger COUNTLESS TIMES since it came out in 95, even speedran it for a little while and somehow I've NEVER HEARD the guitar in the left ear during the first part of the wings of time theme
This is blowing my mind it just made me stop full in my tracks to make sure you weren't playing along or something
I believe this is the 2009 rerelease of CT OSV which used the DS reinstrumentation.
Hope you do the FF6 soundtrack soon, you'll notice so many great similarities with the Chrono Trigger & FF7 OST.
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You should also react to Crypt of the Necrodancer ost, there's so many good music on that stressful game!
Hope to see Chrono Cross on your channel too, the best soundtrack of the 90s games in my humble opinion
I think Wild Arms is super under appreciated. That game also has a killer ost.
He should react to the Hotline Miami 1 and 2 soundtrack
If you're having trouble keeping up it might be because, in addition to the weird chord progressions and left-right shifting, the time signiture also changes periodically, and sometimes the drums aren't in the same as the melody.
It's funny how much harder "Battle with Magus" hits orchestrated. Some songs just sound iconic in their original state, but that you can tell that theme is meant to be as bombastic as possible.
Also, that Zeal Palace note...I got there in the middle of the night as a kid and it unnerved the hell out of me. It is the most ominous damned thing in a video game.
The composer actually made To Far Away Times to a woman he had been in love with and then decided to add in the game. It was not originally composed as soundtrack.
*Schala's Theme plays*
"Man, that is *so* Donkey Kong."
Could we possibly see a Halloween edition this year?
I'm thinking Silent Hill 2 OST just because of how different Akira Yamaoka composed it compared to how others had composed other games during the same time/era.
Something different but amazing, and I'd love to know your thoughts and teachings on it!
Was hoping one of the bonus tracks you listened to was from the Brink of Time Jazz version of Chrono Trigger, a great listen.
YES! That album is a masterpiece of a masterpiece.
The last few themes are so good, glad you enjoy it, I hope for the best when you listen to Mother 3 OST, and I wish that someday you may listen to Super Mario RPG OST
The Lavos Core Final Battle theme is a masterpiece
It's unfortunate the Chrono Trigger streams didn't blow up because they deserve it so much.
Kids these days just don’t know 😔
Something Chat never brought up is that a few of the tracks in the game have "implied lyrics" for lack of a better way to put it, such as Gato's Theme and Burn! Bobonga, where in-game dialogue provides lyrics that while unvoiced, can be applied to the song in question as if sung with it, Bobonga isn't exactly hard to guess, but Gato's is
"My name is Gato
I have metal joints
Beat me up
And earn 50 Silver points!" A little chant before you fight the training bot
To this day, "To Good Friends" and "To Far Away Times" still make me tear up.
Why does he constantly have this look of "UGGGGGGHHH EWWWW THIS MAKES MY EARS BLEED!" Then comment how much he loves it?
I think you are really fantastic !! I study music in a musical high school, I generally play classical music, but I go crazy for movie / series / video game soundtracks, and I enjoy composing songs all the time, and finding a video that reacts to the soundtracks I go for crazy, and who talks about music as I do, is simply unique. I've never found videos like this, and I just think it's a really great thing. Congratulations indeed and you have a new subscriber
28:02 The magical kingdom of Zeal, where dreams come true. But at what cost?
You should give the BlazBlue ost a shot, I think it has great music, which is needed in a fighting game. It’s always a delight landing a combo and defeating your opponent in sync with the song.
What were your top 3 songs on the OST? And why were they Too far away times, schala's theme, and corridors of time? :)
I know you probably don't take requests but it would be really interesting for you to listen to the Rain World OST some day
The new pfp looks great
some old games that I totally love the OST :
- Chrono Trigger
- Xenogears
- Valkyrie Profile
- Legend of Mana
- Saga Frontier / Saga Frontier 2
- Grandia / Grandia 2
- Wild Arms series
- Final Fantasy Tactics
- Armored Core series
- Front Mission series
- Atelier series
- Ar Tonelico 1 & 2
- etc.
Cmon, throw a big one out there! Golden Sun or GS: The Lost Age! Incredible music in the second one! ❤️👍🏻👍🏻
That would be amazing !
Uematsu's style is so distinctive. Every time I'm thinking "I wonder if this one was him" I look it up and yup, it was
Is this the SNES version of the soundtrack? It sounds way cleaner than any version i've heard uploaded on YT lol
Last Battle specially sounds so crisp it's unreal.
first thing I skipped to was my first hype track of the game - Magus.
he has to listen to the risk of rain 2 ost. i want to see his reaction to "the rain formerly known as purple" specifically
Man, given that you're already into Uematsu's work, this deep, I can't wait for the day you continue down the square enix rabbit hole and get to bravely default, octopath traveler, and Triangle strategy
I feel like Revo, Yasunori Nishiki, and Akira Senju, the respective composers for those games, are some of the best in modern Jrpgs, easily
@@LifeonEarthBand People give Uematsu way too much credit for CT. Let Mitsuda shine! It's his. And I like Uematsu. Plenty of other great OSTs of his.
it'd be awesome if you could react to the Furi soundtrack, it's one of my favourite games
Trigger will always be one of the best OSTs of all time, but Chrono Cross is, in my opinion, even better.
I'll never understand how Chrono Cross, one of the best video game soundtracks of all time, the sequel to Trigger and from the same composer, is stuck in limbo all the way down the voting list.
Dark Souls Next?
I don't know how recommendations work or if you see this, but I really hope you listen to the Paper Mario: TTYD OST! Some crazy good tracks in there
You really gotta do Xenogears after this so you can see how similar the themes/instrumentation is etc... Xenogears is my fav soundtrack of all time.
After you finish Chrono Trigger you HAVE to do Chrono Cross! It's a fantastic OST. Sooo good!
You should try listening to the pokemon mystery dungeon explorers of sky soundtrack sometime I think. It's pretty good and I like the use of leitmotifs
You know how there’s always that one song on a video game soundtrack that burned itself into your memory when you played it as a kid then you hear it as an adult and you’re immediately like, “Oh my god! THIS song!” Watching this made me realize that Undersea Palace is that song for me with Chrono Trigger.
Everyone forgets to mention the Epoch song. I get goosebumps from that track.
Do you have any plans to listen to the new Final Fantasy 7 Remake soundtrack now that you've listened to the old one? They redid all those songs with orchestra melodies and its marvelous
It is in voting now!
@@MusicTheoryforGamers Oh this is soooooo excitinggg, I hope it gets voted on
Yasunori Mitsuda’s arrangement album “Brink of Time” is also worth a listen.
He's gotta listen to that bacon and eggs soundtrack, 100%.
You should really listen to the Binding of Isaac: Repentance soundtrack and also the Antibirth soundtrack (which is better than Repentance) they are both INCREDIBLE soundtracks, it would be super cool :)
great video, so glad you really enjoyed this iconic OST
Please react to Metal gear rising soundtrack
You should definitely react to the Crypt of the Necrodancer OST if you haven't done it yet, every theme is really worth listening
Listen to the risk of rain 2 ost its really unique
Are you gonna do Zelda Music aswell?
you should do metal gear rising :)
PLEASE listen ULTRAKILL ost
If you are looking for another absolutely gorgeous soundtrack to dive into, might I recommend Legend of Mana? And the original, not the recent remaster.
Would looove to see your reaction to the Zelda soundtrack, perhaps Skyward sword or Ocarina of time mostly.
If not pokemon throughout the years would be cool :)
Some day
He'll have to listen to the Sea of Thieves soundtrack, can't go wrong with a pirate game
Right?
"The bass really slaps in this song!" - comment for 95% of CT songs, and I love it.
I also know jack diddly about music theory and just love Chrono Trigger, which is why I'm here. But I also learned about sus chords from this video. I never knew what the term was for it or what the heck it was, but I LOVE them in every song I hear them in. I instantly could just "feel" it as Dan played it while he described it at 27:25.
So for Dan, even if you think you are explaining something so basic and think everyone is going to get it, I'm so glad you explained it anyway! I learned something really cool. Thank you for that!
It's so funny how enjoyed pretty much every pre historic song so much xD
To Far Away Times ❤️
Tyrano's Lair is the best
dude, u gotta do one of these for "bully". the soundtrack to that game is just amazing and masterful
It would be so cool if you reacted to cave story's OST, it's one of the first indie games as we know it today, made by only one guy, Including the soundtrack which he made without any music knowledge, arranging notes until it sounded great, could interesting to analyse it knowing rhat
He mentions Corridors of Time sounding like a sitar. I didn't even think of the Kingdom of Zeal being a criticism of the caste system! But the names of the villages fit that. And the magic users were called the Enlightened ones. How am I still learning new bits of genius after playing through this game 8 times already?
You have to listen to Final Fantasy VI's OST (preferably the most recent Pixel Remaster version, which is stunning) next!
Chrono Trigger is my favorite game of all time. Music is so good. I never really paid attention to the bass lines as much as I am watching this video. Of course you can't miss that bass line from Secret of the Forest - from part 1 video. Tyran Castle has the bass showing off.
You should 100% listen to the Subnautica soundtrack next. PURE gold.
I know this might get buried and never happen, but I think Astral Chain has a super cool guitar soundtrack and I would love too see your reaction on it. Love the vids, keep doing what your doing
*Can you check Them's Fightin' Herds ost? I think you like it ;>*
I would recommend anyone who likes the Chrono Trigger soundtrack to listen to Erutan's tribute version of Epilogue - To Good Friends
its so interesting to see someone who has never played Chrono Trigger, to listen to all the music.
i cannot unlink the story and characters' moments with the songs. its quite emotional, which shows how strong the impact of the game is.
wonder how you feel about the songs with just audio
Hey, do you mind doing a review on Deepwoken's OST even though it's a small game Albeit. The music is there and fits extremely well with the lore of the game.
You should check out Ark music it is the top, mainly Genesis part2 DLC and Main Soundtrack.
Should check out Runescape 3 - The Glory of Combat. I think it'd be interesting to hear your thoughts on the sound and how it progresses.
I get a big smile, feeling it incredibly apropos, that you just jammed out with Corridors of Time. It's my favorite song in pretty much all of video games, and it's a really great example of how you can just let the music speak for itself.
Ayo someone tell this man about fnf mod music especially indie cross. Fnf is cool and fun like playing ddr, except on keyboard on your computer. I dunno if this is the right place to be putting this but man would love the songs. Also listen to ddlc music. Highly reccomend fnf though.
Chrono Trigger is one of those games that would likely explode in popularity if remade to the effect of FF7R - There are a lot of amazing retro games that would also shatter limits like-wise.
Pleasee react to Chrono Cross music that were made by Yasunori Mitsuda. Chrono Cross is like part 2 of Chrono Trigger!!!
I'd like to see a reaction to Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling's OST, it's very underrated imo
I think you definitely need to check out the Chrono Trigger musical on UA-cam. They made the entire songs based on each track, it's really well made!
I really suggest you to react to divinity original sin 2 (the whole ost feels like an orchestra) and metal gear rising (great music overall), I'm sure you would enjoy them a lot.
Hey man, i wanted to beg you to put the dicey dungeons soundtrack on your google doc, even if its the last i BEG YOU to check it out eventually