All "Photon of Fluctuation" leitmotifs in Genshin Impact (trailers, demos, cutscenes, in-game music)
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:32 Photon of Fluctuation
0:40 Kaeya Trailer
0:58 Xiangling Trailer
1:14 State of Play Trailer
1:29 Qiqi demo
1:45 Mona demo
1:57 Keqing demo
2:16 Rite of Battle part 1
2:41 Rite of Battle part 2
2:59 Gallant Challenge
3:21 Razor Story Quest act 1
3:44 Liyue Archon Quest act 1
4:01 Accolades Trailer part 1
4:13 Accolades Trailer part 2
4:25 Version 1.1 Trailer
4:48 Diona demo
5:20 Tartaglia Story Quest act 1
5:44 Xinyan demo
6:04 Albedo demo
6:33 Version 1.3 Trailer
6:48 Xiao demo
7:03 Version 1.4 Trailer
7:23 Rosaria demo
7:48 PS5 trailer
8:29 Eula Story Quest Act 1
8:47 Yanfei demo
9:15 Eula demo
9:41 Version 1.6 Trailer
10:04 Teyvat Style - Beachside Ballad
10:19 Kazuha demo
10:58 Version 2.0 Trailer
11:53 Overlord of the Vortex part 1
12:32 Overlord of the Vortex part 2
12:54 Fiery Pursuit part 1
13:19 Fiery Pursuit part 2
14:08 Aloy demo
14:35 Version 2.2 Trailer
14:50 Version 2.3 Trailer
15:10 TGA entry video
16:17 Arataki Itto demo
17:04 Liyue Archon Quest Interlude: Perilous Trail cutscene
17:23 Teyvat Style: Silhouettes of the Night
17:45 Version 3.0 Trailer
18:00 Swirls of Shamshir
18:54 Tighnari demo
19:09 Sumeru Camescomm trailer
19:38 Swirls of the Stream
20:04 Candace demo
20:14 Wrathful Streaming Gold part 1
20:35 Wrathful Streaming Gold part 2
20:58 Wrathful Streaming Gold part 3
21:37 God-Devouring Mania part 1
22:15 God-Devouring Mania part 2
turn on captions if you feel like it
get ready for a trip down memory lane!
if you didn't read the notes in the beginning i can summarize them real quick
1. i have no music experience, please correct me if u find anything wrong
2. turn on captions!
3. travelers with headphones in the bottom right means the motif is playing
super glad i made this video because i got super nostalgic while making it
i have not listened to the ost for the new region (hopefully it has a new photon remix! we're kinda due for one, by the time it releases it'll be about 4 months of photon drought)
my doctor diagnosed me with "photonitis" (i hear photon of fluctuation in everything now)
demos with vocals:
4 anemo, 2 dendro, 3 hydro, 1 electro
kazuha, wanderer, faruzan, sayu
nahida, baizhu
childe, neuvillette, furina!
yae
credits:
thank you @Reitsuna for your Photon playlist! it helped a lot with finding some of the music
thank you @gab6965 for the inspiration ( • Demos, Trailers, and S... ), i really wanted to make an updated one
thank you to all the creators who upload their cutscenes
• Genshin Impact - All A...
• GENSHIN IMPACT | Cinem...
• Childe's Cutscene (Mon...
• Eula First Appearance ...
• Tighnari's New VA - Ar...
if you made it to the end thanks so much for watching! hope you enjoyed
thank you for everything Yu-Peng Chen and we all wish you good luck in your future endeavors!
the soundtrack is in good hands and can’t wait to see what the rest of the Hoyo-Mix team delivers.
We’ll miss you :’]
have a good day!
#genshinimpactedit #genshinimpactmusic #genshinimpact #yupengchen - Ігри
i'm working on an updated Photon of Fluctuation leitmotif compilation that covers up to the release of Natlan.
hoping i can finish the video before Natlan releases but i am currently working on a Fontaine leitmotif video and would like to finish that one first.
Timestamps:
0:32 Photon of Fluctuation
0:40 Kaeya Trailer
0:58 Xiangling Trailer
1:14 State of Play Trailer
1:29 Qiqi demo
1:45 Mona demo
1:57 Keqing demo
2:16 Rite of Battle part 1
2:41 Rite of Battle part 2
2:59 Gallant Challenge
3:21 Razor Story Quest act 1
3:44 Liyue Archon Quest act 1
4:01 Accolades Trailer part 1
4:13 Accolades Trailer part 2
4:25 Version 1.1 Trailer
4:48 Diona demo
5:20 Tartaglia Story Quest act 1
5:44 Xinyan demo
6:04 Albedo demo
6:33 Version 1.3 Trailer
6:48 Xiao demo
7:03 Version 1.4 Trailer
7:23 Rosaria demo
7:48 PS5 trailer
8:29 Eula Story Quest Act 1
8:47 Yanfei demo
9:15 Eula demo
9:41 Version 1.6 Trailer
10:04 Teyvat Style - Beachside Ballad
10:19 Kazuha demo
10:58 Version 2.0 Trailer
11:53 Overlord of the Vortex part 1
12:32 Overlord of the Vortex part 2
12:54 Fiery Pursuit part 1
13:19 Fiery Pursuit part 2
14:08 Aloy demo
14:35 Version 2.2 Trailer
14:50 Version 2.3 Trailer
15:10 TGA entry video
16:17 Arataki Itto demo
17:04 Liyue Archon Quest Interlude: Perilous Trail cutscene
17:23 Teyvat Style: Silhouettes of the Night
17:45 Version 3.0 Trailer
18:00 Swirls of Shamshir
18:54 Tighnari demo
19:09 Sumeru Camescomm trailer
19:38 Swirls of the Stream
20:04 Candace demo
20:14 Wrathful Streaming Gold part 1
20:35 Wrathful Streaming Gold part 2
20:58 Wrathful Streaming Gold part 3
21:37 God-Devouring Mania part 1
22:15 God-Devouring Mania part 2
You know the lemotif is good when you dont notice it, but you listen to the songs and no matter how foreign it may sound you would be like “I dont know why but these songs still fit in Genshin”
Undertale had been bewilderingly good at that, too, where I think that was the case for me more often than not. Like, how the heck do "CORE" and "Death by Glamour" have _anything_ in common?!
This type of genshin content is definitely my all-time favourite, thanks for the effort you put in to compile all arrangements of the popular leitmotif
glad you enjoyed it!
My headcanon for Apep having the leitmotif compared to other bosses is like others have said, it's the teyvat leitmotif. And Apep is probably one of the truest "representations" of Teyvat given they've been around for aeons on Teyvat and used to be one of its rulers, so giving it the teyvat leitmotif would make sense if you looked at it like this
thats a cool interpretation
kinda sad that characters are getting lesser and lesser photon leitmotifs in their themes, but that means they now have their own for themselves and i think that's nice :)
The one thing I'm looking forward to when Natlan is unveiled is to hear this leitmotif set to the tango rhythm.
Good news bro.....
well guess what
Wait wtf how
@@bingusenjoyer1161 leak ost
I like to think that this Leitmotif is the Teyvat theme and a totally epic and cinematic version will play during the final battle. Similar to this version of it: 7:06
yea they gotta bring the leitmotif back for a boss fight with the twin / unknown god
so excited for what they do with it
YESSS I'm so excited, I need an epic cinematic version!!
This is not a video, this is a historical document!!! Thank you for putting so much effort into compiling this showcase!
I love how you didn't skip the shogun scene from the 2.0 thousand morn trailer, no one dares or wants to not show that! Hahahaha
Compared to Final Fantasy XIV, where the leitmotif is always the center of the melody, which gets very tiresome, to the point that nowadays it feels like each expansion only has like 3 melodies, I love how Genshin instead has such a wide variety of music but just occassionally references this battle motif to tell you, "Hey, heyyy". I now associate this leitmotif with whenever elemental energy is being unleashed in Teyvat. So cooll
It's also so cool to even just hear the evolution of Genshin music over just a short three years. Many games don"t even get an expansion in that time and we've heard suchhhhh a gargantuan list of music already...
It's super impressive that someone with or without a musical background identified all of these. You definitely have a natural talented ear, you'd do well if you put effort into learning music I think!
thank you!
I've been waiting for someone to cover something like this. Thanks for being the one to start the discussion and educate the genshin community about the power of leitmotifs. Leitmotifs play such a huge role in story telling and representing the concept of time and place. Especially with the new release of Fontaine, you can once again identify where the "Photon of Fluctuation" motif plays in the piece "Rondeau des fleurs et des rapieres".
The motif itself is kind of like a reminder you that you're fighting in the world of Teyvat (relating to the concept of time and place) and then the multiple variations and layering on top of the motif then narrow the place of where you are at. It's genius musical story telling that Yu-Peng Chen purposefully reminds you of where in the world throughout the Traveller's journey. It constantly reminds us players the we are currently in the time and place of Teyvat.
Overall, Yu-Peng Chen is the goat + you're also the goat for letting people know and recognize musical cues in story telling. My respects.
thanks! hoping that more people notice Yu-Peng Chen and all the other exceptional composers at Hoyo-Mix :]
Wait till you hear the leitmotifs in the (leaked) Fontaine Battle OST! They are so, so whimsical and elegant
yea i’m waiting for official release, super excited to hear it in game!
No problem, as someone who loves this leitmotif I'm looking forward to many more arrangements to come! (no leaks pls)
of course! i've got a sumeru themed one and a fatui one to work on eventually, once stuff gets less busy
just curious, how do you make your thumbnails? there's so many genshin OST's to upload that i'd imagine it's pretty difficult to make all the thumbnails manually.
@@NLZ3 Ooh don't mind my lengthy response, I can go on for things I'm passionate about xD
I create a "pre-set template" photoshop doc for each nation (includes subregions like Dragonspine, Chasm, Enkanomiya, etc.)
I recently finished creating the Veluriyam Mirage pre-set template and now I'm just waiting until the Shimmering Voyage Vol. 3 album gets released next month for those tracks~
I change the text for the name of each track, and change the colors, emblem, & background for the different regions.
As you can imagine, creating the very first initial pre-set template FROM SCRATCH (a completely blank canvas) was the most challenging. >.<
I looked at a variety of the vids on Genshin's official youtube channel AND from other media sources that HoYoverse puts out for Genshin, and studied their graphic design for inspiration!
@@Reitsuna that makes sense, thanks for the response! the thumbnail style you have is really recognizable as genshin related while also having its own flair to it.
i really appreciate all the work you put into archiving Genshin's OST. All the composer and musician credits, leitmotif notes, thumbnails, and the region graphic stingers don't go unnoticed!
your videos were an inspiration for this compilation (and to other leitmotif compilations i make in the future)!
@@NLZ3 Thank you so much for the kind words! ^^
My love for both live orchestral music and Genshin Impact is why I wanted upload and archive the soundtrack. I know uploading game soundtracks to youtube is nothing new and many other people have genshin ost channels too, but I wanted to try and stand out by organizing the tracks into regional chapters like the game itself.
I wanted to achieve a familiar but unique professional look for the channel, and...to just do my best at identifying leitmotifs and noting them down when certain themes are being used in specific tracks for other music enthusiasts to geek out about with me~ :3
@@NLZ3 Nice! I was about to ask about one for the Fatui leitmotif, cuz thats my favorite. Huge respect!
The travellers with headphones on are so cute
the endings of hangout quests make lumine and aether look so good
i still havent done any of the hangouts tho LOL
REAL
5:30 the energy orb is come from YOU fighting earlier, it will always stay still when in dialogue scene (although many cutscene is pre-rendered, I don’t think this one is the case, that’s why it still there)
This is my type of content. I'm such a huge music nerd and finding others who talk about the genshin music, especially this leitmotif, makes me so happy!
Now that Fontaine is out, how are you liking those osts?
loving them! it never ceases to amaze me how hoyo-mix adds their special touches to make their region music feel unique
if you haven't seen it yet paimon's phonograph posted the full 4.0 OST
ua-cam.com/video/wIHCkKWPuLo/v-deo.htmlsi=GPpJc0pwKxjyTxOP
Personally i prefer this motif to be called, Teyvat's battle theme.
Because if you go to region other that Teyvat, say Enkanomiya or Chasm Deepest part,
You can't hear this leitmotif anywhere.
And it is used everwhere combat related haha xD
This is so cool! I'll be on the lookout for this in the fontaine ost when it comes out for sure, I never noticed how prevalent this was. Also respect or using the Zachary Gordon re-recording, I didn't know they did that so quickly.
I think the reason why the desert theme in my own headcanon has a lot of references to Photon is that the desert is the place where most of the playable characters are 'absent', leaving only the traveler to explore the whole place to themselves to resurface the secrets of the place.
On another note, I really was waiting for the remixed version of the "Photon of Fluctuation" at about the 3.0 music festivals since the Leitmotif from there is so badass
i forgot how much of a banger that genshin concert was, thanks for the reminder!
thank you so much for making this video! when fontaine came out and i heard this leitmotif in game i immediately felt a wave of nostalgia and thought "hey i should make a video compiling all the leitmotifs". i decided to check if someone already had the same idea and you did it 1000x times better than i would have, the effort put into this video is insane
the captions were really entertaining too btw!
thanks! means a lot :]
They just used this in the recent fontaine concert, the motif returns
This is awesome! Really high effort analysis and comments in the CCs!
Oh this is great,good work putting all of this together!And yeah Apep having the leitmotif is interesting
(also was nice reading your comments in cc haha)
THANK YOU LITERALLY EXACTLY WHAT IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THANK YOU THE AUTISM IS BEING QUELLED
This is so cool, thank you for compiling this together!
of course! ive got other leitmotif compilations in the works as well :)
FONTAINE ARCHON QUEST SPOILERS
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Fontaine's Travail theme is interesting because we've seen that it doesn't match Fontaine's overall main theme. In fact, the Fontaine Travail theme is more similar to Snezhnaya's Travail theme, which is pretty much the Fatui theme. This was a pretty cool hint that the Fatui are very tightly tied into Fontaine's storyline, since Lyney and Lynette are part of the Fatui. This is some INSANE musical storytelling here which I will never stop obsessing over.
This makes me pretty excited to hear Snezhnaya's theme, because it might actually be different to the Fatui theme.
Archon Quest ACT 2 spoilers and WORLD QUESTS: ancient colors + Ann of the Narzissenkreuz spoilers:
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thanks for adding a spoiler disclaimer :]
yea i was going crazy when i heard it during that court scene reveal
im so curious to see how everything lines up with the House of the Hearth. there's so many sides to the conflict in Fontaine, with whoever is supplying Primordial Water, Jakob Ingold, Furina, Neuvillette, and the House of the Hearth. They all seem to have their own agendas and with the Fatui theme being in the Travail theme im inclined to believe the Fatui will take a stance that's more aligned with the Traveler.
i might be wildly off with the speculation but i think the game is pushing towards the traveler begrudgingly allying with the Fatui. They're pretty buddy buddy with Tartaglia, and Paimon's hesitancy to agree with the Traveler's harsh treatment of Lyney, Lynette, and Freminet makes me think the Traveler will have some sort of temporary team up at the end of the quest. Not to mention Capitano being framed as a honorable warrior and Pucinella having a high chance of being playable?
I'm also super curious to hear what Snezhnaya's main theme will be. It's interesting because Snezhnaya's travail theme is not the Fatui one either, but I can't tell if that theme corresponds to the Khaenri'ah part or not.
ua-cam.com/video/3v4KnL75JzQ/v-deo.htmlsi=9hpL37PJDr_XNJbx
here's a lore video by Roosevelt that's really interesting, it covers the world quest lore and has some theories too. Highly recommend checking them out if you don't get spoiled!
great video !! I loved reading your comments as I listened to the music, it added a really nice personal touch :] and it was really cool to look back and see just how prevalent this motif is
thank you! :]
i ALWAYS get excited or have this little omg moment when i hear a leitmotif in genshin, esp here and inazuma
Just 22 minutes of bangers! Awesome ❤
thanks again for making that original video :)
@@NLZ3 And thanks for this video! I think it's a great way to look forward to Fontaine :)
always wanted someone to make this video, thank you so much!!
Really appreciate this video, it is definitely well made. Thanks a lot!
omg i've been waiting for someone to compile them all together, thank you so much for your hard work!! it's crazy how despite all these variations it still doesn't sound repetitive
There is a significance as for why God Devouring mania had this letimoff. Apep is one of the 7 sovereign dragons who ruled Tevyat before the Primordial one came. She is also one of the witnesses regarding what happened in the ancient times, similiar to both Travellers witnessing what was happening that they ultimately decided to leave Tevyat but got stopped by the Unknown God. It signifies the origin of Tevyat, that's why this letimoff shows up everywhere. Dvalin and Azdaha weren't one of the Sovereigns, despite being dragons though, that's why they got unique boss themes.
wow thank you for the collection! I didn't even notice many of them are the same lemotif before
Wow! You did such a thorough work in discovering Traveller's leimotifs. Some I wouldn't even have recognised had it not been for your vids. Keep up the good work! Looking forward to your next videos for sure;)
this is a great video thank you for making it
This is an awesome compilation! Thank you for putting it all together.
glad you enjoyed! :]
You can really notice the Chasm music elements and style in God-Devouring Mania haha, amazing.
This was very fun to watch! Love the attention to detail spotting them all and your commentary was really enjoyable
thanks sm!
This was really well done. Enjoyed the subtitles. Thanks!
thanks!
so glad this came up on my recommendations, really really great work!!!
really glad you enjoyed!
nice i really like this leitmotif and this video explain some other music that i dont even realize has those leitmotifs, amazing
nice profile picture
the nostalgia is overflowing!! what a great recap
Thank you so much for making this. ^^ I noticed the themes in some of the character themes and trailers, but it did not hit me that it was in at least one battle theme in each region. It's also amazing to hear this theme played in different instruments based on the region it's in. It really does feel like the main leitmotif of the game.
Fascinating and impressive research.
really amazing and ambitious video, good work! dehya's theme actually also has the photon of fluctuation leitmotif, its in the oud backing track :3
thanks! i'm probably gonna do a follow-up one closer to natlan's release that'll also include all the stuff i missed :]
Wow really cool video! I knew genshin had a leitmotif but I only heard them in very early game, like Mondstat and liyue. Also I really like apeps music, but I had NO idea that it was meant for chasam. Crazy lol
glad you enjoyed!
ua-cam.com/video/eZjQnrhUdsM/v-deo.html
here's the beta version of apep's theme, when it was intended for chasm release
gotta love this iconic motif. i believe cyno's demo theme has a variation of the motif along with combat beneath the waves, kinda similar rhythmically to rite of battle
Thank you 😊
literally the coolest genshin video about the music, i can't imagine all the work that went into this but i can feel all the memories rushing through me for each version. i hadn't even realized how many times it showed up
thanks! making this video was a huge nostalgia trip and im glad you enjoyed it :]
man i actually love this, used to love these kinds of videos covering undertale/deltarune and im super glad theres coverage of it in genshin too :D
yea it always made me happy to see people talk about leitmotifs in the comments section of other games :]
the undertale ones are crazy because that entire game is so interconnected with their motifs, it must have been super difficult to make compilations of those
Good shit my dude!
ah so cool and informative! tcg trailer also uses this leitmotif (at the very end)
you're right, thank you! completely forgot that trailer existed LOL
A fellow 2.8 event quest enjoyer! That was my first flagship event, which I barely got to Inazuma to play, binging it for the last two or three days, and not quite finishing everything before it cut off. Did finish the quests with the boat, which that furniture is still on display in my teapot (and always shall be!), and _how cool is it_ that you could incidentally pick up the entire stageplay after that one sidequest? Like, damn, Summertime Odyssey was *so good*, and it ought to be 8criminal* that new players can't experience any of it, but ESPECIALLY the focal characters' domains. I mean, FISCHL'S!! WHY, MIHOYO, BRING IT ALL BACK!
Their mics have high S pop sounds because they all have different equipment, and Mihoyo doesn't appear to be sending them the same recording equipment that you'd expect from a big company doing remote voice recording. Plus most of the voice actors are clueless when it comes to sound setup. In the end though, its on Mihoyo to edit and re-record issues with the lines. Remember a ton of this is done remotely and during covid too.
that makes sense, there's way more logistics to audio recording than i expected
Oh god seeing the Kaeya trailer is so cursed. Back when they didn't know exactly how to make a character look appealing... But it is nice to hear and appreciate one large motif! And I'm also glad someone else than me (in my personal playlist) documented it
yea those older demos were kinda rough around the edges
i think the point when they started making their demos more stylized was Klee's demo
I recognize most of these, but some were mind-blowing. Listening again i can absolutely hear the moif In the songs i didnt before. Some wete even super obvious and i Listen to alot 😂 How did I miss some of these?
Great vid!
Whoaaaa im seeing a new parallel between gallant challenge and one of the inazuma battle themes (that isn't including photon of fluctuation)
ooh which inazuma battle theme? i dont think i've noticed that before
this person made an extremely cool video about some other leitmotifs that aren't Photon of Fluctuation based, I think you'd enjoy it a lot
ua-cam.com/video/A7mo9M2m0DI/v-deo.htmlsi=WBmYOAWSp6Q7k-69
You missed some and I'd just like to point them out
Contemplation in Snow at 0:16 the guitar at the left side plays a variation of the motif
I might be called delusional, but the bassline of Mujji-Muji Chaos(Sayu's teaser) especially at 0:22 (for the OST. 0:24 for the trailer) the bassline is the exact same rythm and movement of the motif it has to be a reference to photon of fluctuation
In Kaveh's trailer at 0:43 (where his butt, I mean vision is shown) there's a descending motif which is a slowed version of Photon of Fluctuation
A really large reach, but in Dehya's trailer in 0:53 there's a melody line in the background which starts off as photon of fluctuation but then changes into something else. It repeats a few times.
thanks for pointing these out!
out of all the ones you mentioned, surprisngly, i hear the most photon motif in dehya's demo.
i definitely hear what you're talking about in kaveh's demo but I feel like it's too much of a fragment of the motif instead of the full thing.
sayu's i definitely hear. that's a crazy catch!
weirdly enough i don't hear the motif in Contemplation in Snow, at the timestamp you mentioned.
@@NLZ3 The one in Albedo's at 0:16 is really faint. If you have headphones, crank it up to full volume and listen to the ost, not the trailer to catch it better. It's played by a guitar panned to the left and repeats 4 times.
This leitmotif is like the Genshin Impact branding
Oh man that Itto one blew my mind. I couldn’t hear it for like 20 minutes and then I finally hear it and can’t unhear it anymore
yea when i saw the comment pointing out the photon motif i was so surprised
it's such a cool easter egg
i'd have to say keqing's version is my most favourite one, along with some notable ones such as albedo's and eula's.
also i'd like to point this out maybe for future leitmotif videos, but would you mind adding in the concert versions as well? Just an idea for you. keep up the great work :D
i'll consider using concert versions in additon to the battle themes but i dont think i'll do demos? might change my mind tho
I'm pretty sure the reason the elemental orbs appeared in the cutscene is because all cutscenes are done in engine rather than being pre rendered. Any changes to the world will appear in the cutscene. You can best demonstrate this by Raiden shoguns 1st story quest cutscene where the room has several destructible walls, the ones that you dont break will remain in the cutscene but the rest are gone.
Those orbs were likely from your fight prior, and failed to be unloaded during the cutscene.
"Consistency is key"
- Sun Tzu
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The thing is right when i here keqing's demo ost and some other osts, it reminded me of the Honkai Impact 3rd battle music and it shows how significant Honkai Impact 3rd is to genshin through it's music and i love the small details and leitmotif of it every time a new song or ost includes it, it'll always reminds me of HI3rd
I hope this video was posted to reddit. For the effort and the organization and commentary, it deserves more views
yea i posted it to reddit using the shorter medley version a month ago
"this part goes so hard"
YES! The Algorithm has directed me to this video after I had searched up the Apep battle music, and I'd been sharing the link around with the note of "song goes SO HARD", because IT DOES. Shame I can't dump all three of my 30-resin Weekly Boss redeems at the Oasis so I can get more of that battle music...and Dendro gems.
ok i actually thought i was going crazy when i noticed those same notes in a lot of the character demos 😭😭 glad its like an actual thing
Diona's scene taking place in Liyue could be foreshadowing towards her ancestor having been found frozen in a cave by an event Cryo Regisvine on the Liyue side of the border during Xiangling's Story Quest.
Leitmotifs are my favorite thing that could ever grace my ears and this only proves my braincells further
That's why every battle theme for each nation sounds so familiar to me, they follow the same leitmotif
10:48 🤔 Other than Kazuha, the vocal havers are Albedo, Yae, Nahida, Wanderer, and Faruzan?
12:45 I think the more pronounced drums/bass/low notes in general (but especially drums) are a great choice for Inazuma because they create that feeling of thunder. (For the instruments of Snezhnaya, I'm coping for theremin SO hard)
Thanks for your hard work ✊
Edit: I love how Fontaine theme went about it :D While I was listening to the 4.0 concert I was like "🤔 where did they hide the Photon this time, did they not include it? Lore implications?" and then the last 10 seconds or so were "YOU THOUGHT" :D
wait thunder and inazuma makes so much sense that's such a cool analogue
i'll give u a hint about the vocal havers: you got them all right except albedo. the other vocal haver is hydro!
i'd love to hear theremin in a region, it's a haunting but calming instrument. imagine hearing it in the house of the hearth with fireplace ambience, like this video: ua-cam.com/video/w5qf9O6c20o/v-deo.htmlsi=P9yfO1hJW9KqtbPa
yea Fontaine has 2 themes in it with Photon! it's pretty prevalent in both of them, which is a really nice surprise
@@NLZ3 Hm. Would Childe be the last vocal haver then? (I swear I could hear the vocals in Albedo's, when he's floating in the void and talking about soil and chalk. Unless it's synths imitating voices.)
(get it)
(synthetic human)
@@whistlegirl5726 yea its childe!
i can kinda hear what you're saying with albedo? i could see it being interpreted as short whispers
@@NLZ3 I was thinking Kazuha, Yae, Nahida, Wanderer, and Baizhu which gave me 5 out of the 6 you originally said. It turns out that there's 7 instead of six because Faruzan and Childe completely slipped under the radar for me
@@Outlaw58D completely forgot about baizhu, i'll add it to the list! just to make sure, it's the "ooooo" sound around the 1:57 timestamp?
Huge respect for not cutting out raiden shogun's part of the trailer 11:36 both my eyes and my ears are blessed
Sayu's theme has this leitmotif too, like at 0:20 it's played in the background so it's kinda hard to pick out
Idk if anyone noticed, but the Honkai Impact 3 trailer called v4.9 Outworld Traveler also has the lemotif at 1:00 timestamp
wait thats actually so cool
@@NLZ3 yessir have been a fan with this leitmotifs been following since 2021
My favorite version of this leitmotif is the one used in Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine's Exercise theme. /hj.
No, seriously, go listen to this one. I think it's more pronounced in the Game Gear port.
But also, yeah, great video. I don't know if you've done a Fatui leitmotif video yet, but I wanna see that, too.
oh i hear it LOL
i'm planning on doing a Fatui one but it won't be released until at least 4.3 or whenever the Fontaine archon quests end, since I'd imagine there will be more Fatui moments in the future
11:10 one of the reason could be that your earphone/headphone was tuned to have very high treble
the hissy s-es were fine for me, or rather, absent. her voice was rather pleasant
i could see that, i had to EQ my headphones to have more bass and less treble since it was giving me ear fatigue previously
Some of these I didn't even realize like Albedo's and Xiao's themes
One of honkai star rail’s ost also kinda sounds like it has the photon fluctuation leitmotif too.
ua-cam.com/video/LeTbScPXYr8/v-deo.html
is it this one?
@@NLZ3 No, I was thinking of Thundering Chariot, since the beginning of it sounds like a Liyue version like Xianglings trailer vid. In that comment I forgot the name and now I remember it. But I’ve noticed Blade also has it in his.
blade's trailer!
I miss hearing the lemotif so much 😭😭😭 And thank you for replacing Voldemort's voice 😊
22:00 actually maybe there is a reason apep got the leitmotif unlike other weeklies... this is such a "teyvat" theme and apep is one of the OG dragons thst ruled this land before humans came around, perhaps this is why she got this particular leitmotif. Or maybe i read into it too much and since it was supposed to be a battle theme for the chasm (and main battle themes for each region all have the leitmotif so far) and decided to reuse it for the boss instead, well, the already got the motif in and didnt though much about it
It's really a bummer that Yu-Peng Chen quit Hoyoverse.
yea we’ll all miss him but i’m happy that he has the creative freedom to pursue what he wants
hoyo-mix has done an incredible job and i’m super excited for what’s in store for the rest of genshin’s OST!
And now it’s in the new Fontaine battle theme!
and it's a BANGER
that battle theme is so good
I really feel like Photon of Fluctuation is the Traveler's theme. Since photon is light and Lumine and Aether's names come from light.
The other characters with vocals in their themes is Childe (in his character demo) and Nahida (in her character demo. I am too lazy to find the other ones so I’ll edit this comment when I find another one.
Edit: I think Faruzan has some vocals in her character demo theme (idk)
Edit 2: Wanderer has some whispering vocals in his character demo theme
Edit 3: I think I found one in Sayu’s theme
Edit 4: idk if the thing in Albedo’s theme is a vocal but I’m just gonna put it here ima put time stamps later
Edit 5: I know this was made before Fontaine but after seeing Furina’s trailer, I can confirm that her theme has vocals in it. It is another thing I wanted to point out.
somehow it didnt process in my head that the "YOOOO" in Sayu's theme was a vocal, nice catch!
Hey NLZ, I think you missed one. First 16 seconds of "Path of Yaksha" (Xiao's theme) kinda have that leitmotiff, too. Or maybe I'm just hearing things, lol. Awesome viedo anyway!
yea, it does! i felt that it was a bit too similar to the part later in xiao’s trailer so i didnt include it
I had no idea photon of fluctuation was in SO many places
I never realized how often thisbwas used
ABout Qiqi theme, it actually fit her well.
The music is kinda chaotic, and unpredictable, as if she doesn't remember the next part
that's a cool way of thinking about it
so i wasn't crazy, you CAN hear it in Apep's boss theme. I wonder why you can only hear it for Apep's boss theme, and no other, not even Azdaha's. Could it be because Apep is an elemental dragon, maybe the Photon of Fluctuation is representing the original Teyvat from before the Archon War or even from before the arrival of the Primordial One, back when the world was ruled by the seven dragon sovereigns
Please make a combined one with fontaine too
i'll add fontaine songs and the ones that i missed around 4.8, thinking of doing one of these kinds of videos at the end of each region
_Thank God for your caption for God-Devouring Mania_
I haven't played since the second desert expansion came out, but stumbled across the song on UA-cam and I was like "hey this sounds familiar" in the first few seconds but didn't know from where - even asked on the Genshin discord but they just said "well yes the part later is Photon of Fluctuation" which I was already aware of... Somehow I was thinking of Chasm or maybe the Fischl part of GAA but couldn't put my finger on it, thanks for telling me I'm not crazy and it's actually repurposed from the Chasm
Do you happen to know when exactly this played? It's not on the Chasm OST at least
ua-cam.com/video/eZjQnrhUdsM/v-deo.html
apep's theme was in the leaked OST for 2.6 Chasm. i don't think the theme showed up in game until its official release in 3.6
@@NLZ3 ah well, that explains a lot
This is absolutely insane, truly. Props to you on keeping track of all of this. Though I do have one question, I don't remember God-Devouring Mania originally being a chasm track? Was it only in the beta??
ua-cam.com/video/eZjQnrhUdsM/v-deo.htmlsi=GwmHkZjWzgkzoVj1
yup, it was only in beta
This proves Mondstadt is important to the story and explains why we haven't got a second story quest for venti. You wouldn't put a letmotif in EVERY nation if it wasn't important
Qiqi's music is a match for her because its a robot type theme, and Qiqi is a zombie, so she's very stiff without her exercises.
never thought of this, that's a cool interpretation
Well we have a new one already in Fontaine battle OST.
hopefully more to come!
The true "Genshin Impact Main Theme"
The use of Photon of Fluctuation in Perilous Trail ending cutscene is so fucking good, that cutscene to me is the "Holy Pinacle" of Genshin Impact, the absolute best writing, screenplay, scene-oriented music design, a true testament of what they're capable of doing when they put actual effort into the game
that cutscene gives me the chills
"Actual effort"?
That is to say, none at all.
Getting paid to do the bare minimum, right?
I forgot qiqis theme is a bop compared to what qiqi actually does
19:48 it’s a sitar not a santoor but yes it is a sitar
There are 3 Fontaine battle themes that have leaked and the best (out of the 3) uses the leitmotif. 🤟🏼
lets goooo can't wait to hear it in game
@@NLZ3 Me too. The finalized versions just leaked and tbh I’m not inoressed with the battle themes of Fontaine. 🫣
Its just me or the photon of fluctuation motif on itto`s demo sounds more like a megalovania remix on guitar 💀