“I’ve never met one of your kind before. It’s an honor to speak with you! I particularly admire your four eyes. There are many questions I would ask, if I could comprehend your language. You have my gratitude for understanding mine.” Can I just say this is the first time a game made me cry? Fucking amazing.
Solanum played very well for someone who was left out of the discussions with the rest of the band and had no idea what they were going to play until 5 minutes before the concert.
Probably because it wasn't really her :( The "real" Solanum doesn't speak Hearthian. The entire ending seemed to be happening in the main character's psyche.
@@sofer2230 I'm not entirely sure of this. My interpretation was just that the Eye has all possibilities, and what was occurring was the understanding of all. I think it really was her. The Eye was acting as a middleman for communication and knowledge of what was happening.
@@sofer2230 it really feels like The Eye is a conduit for a few chosen souls to reboot the universe. It feels kind of purposefully constructed as a way for one to unravel the minds of the people who enter it and project it into a new universe. I think the whole ending is a “projection” as in these characters are ally having their consciousness projected into this meta space where they can all communicate together, unravel, and superimpose this new projection into a new reality.
Solanum's part is so incredible to me because it is in ignorance of that song that the people of timber hearth know. It's completely different, with a different rhythm and a different sound aesthetic-- synthesized piano instead of folk instruments. She never knew your friends or your world and her song is not your song-- but it harmonizes. It's so perfectly the song of a stranger, and yet also the song of a friend.
"It's tempting to linger in this moment, while every possibility still exists. But unless they are collapsed by an observer, they will never be more than possibilities."
To me, that seemed to refer to hope. Before the game finally ends, you're still holding out hope that one of the many conceivable endings results in you and your friends surviving. That the eye will still somehow be able to spare us. But you don't know that, and once you do collapse the possibilities, it becomes clear that you're only given a chance to observe the birth of the new Universe. You and your friends don't come back... How unfortunate indeed, to have been born at the end of the Universe.
@@chrisb5005 I think it's more of a general life lesson. Often, people don't do what they want to do because they're afraid it might be the wrong choice. They hold on to all possibilities, waiting for either more information or more courage to come to them. Many instead end up stuck, and time eventually decides for them. Who hasn't let a dream or goal pass them by because they never took the deciding step? We need to realize that before making a choice, you don't really have anything at all. It's the choice that makes it real.
Holy hell wait I know im late to this party but this is a genius quote. Combining wave function collapse with philosophy is Mental. Essentially its saying that while it's enjoyable to linger in one state since in said state every other possibility proceeding it is possible at the same time so it can feel kind of powerful and liberating - but those are all just probabilities. And you, the observer (as in wave function collapse), are responsible for collapsing all those potential states into a singular one. That's the power you have and it's decided by the universe. While it can be fun to dream of the infinite hypothetical possibilities of the world it's ultimately you who makes any one of then an actual, tangible reality and that won't happen if it's just another of many "possible" futures beyond the initial moment you fixate on.
After beating the game a few weeks ago, I am realizing that the one thing I regret most is that I cannot play this game blind again. Experiences such as this game are a once-in-a-lifetime deal, and you need to cherish them. The feelings I have felt during this whole game have changed my life - changed the way I think about the world - changed my interpretation of everything. Thank you, Solanum, and the Travelers, for changing my life, and thousands of other's lives too.
I love the way her theme takes elements from the other Nomai motifs in the game and reshapes them from melancholic and haunting to hopeful and reassuring. It's so distinctly different from the other Travelers but it perfectly completes the performance. It's the sound of the past and present meeting at the nexus of time and space to greet the future as long-lost friends, together for just this moment.
As one door closes, another opens. Old friends part, only to meet new people, passing on their connections. Those from our past, brace our feet to continue to the future, and we, in turn, do so for those who come after us. These six beings sat at the end of everything, sing one final song, and create something new in their image.
@@tuatarian6591 there's at least two, Castaways (plays at tragic sites like the floating bodies of the Nomai who died trying to find the mothership in the Bramble) and The Nomai (plays at almost every major Nomai ruin)
@@tropicalhorizongaming5459 I watched my little brother play this game (he has it on XBox where it was free. I'm PS4, so I'm waiting for it to go on sale). I cried at the ending, not gonna lie.
solanum's theme really does capture the beautiful, caring nature of the nomai. the fact that they refused to mine certain parts of Timber Hearth because little water creatures (the future hearthians!) were inhabiting the water is so sweet! they even lost track of time just watching them with curiosity and admiration. warms my heart!
to me, the most breathtaking moment of this game was finally entering the interloper's core and realizing with silent shock how every Nomai in the system all died at once. that moment and the ending are the two times I almost cried
My favorite moment in the ancient glade. You literally stand on the shoulders of the Nomai before you to help reach the final piece of the puzzle. Just like you did in the rest of the game, only figuratively in that case. Then the ship appears! And you launch into space to find solanum's mask... I sat and stared at the mask just listening to this gentle piano for a while. It felt like I was meant to honor it for a second. For everything they had done to help me.
when i was in the ancient glade and heard this theme on its own when gathering the travelers, i was scared. partially because i had no idea what was happening, and it was a theme i had never heard before. along with the darkness of the glade and the sense of finality that i got, i had no idea what this song was. once i found out it was solanum's theme, and in knowing she was a friend, i felt comfortable. this made me think about the nomai as a whole. they aren't scary or hostile, but they are an unknown. and meeting one on the quantum moon made me anxious. the same feeling i had when i heard this theme in the glade. but she isn't scary. the player and the other travelers welcome her with open arms -- as a friend of the hearthians. and flying towards her signal in the glade -- i felt like i was rescuing her. from the moon, from her endless cycle. at the campfire, she played her song along with everyone else, and the two cultures met. although we just met, i felt comfortable around her, as if she had been my friend forever. we were both born in that system, and we were both trying to reach the eye. the last of her kind, and not having made it to the eye as all nomai dream of, i felt as if she was guiding me there, telling me i could succeed where she and her people did not. and i did. and we made it to the end together, regardless of whether or not she was physically there with me.
i am sorry but she is not the last of her kind on the vessel you can find a message from present day naomi saying that the universe is dying and they now sticking together in a system with a fairly stable star
I love that it really shouldn't be possible to even meet a Solanuim as we are in game. We are species that gained sentience relatively late in our universe's lifestyle and nearly all the nomai are already dead, but through sheer luck and determination we found a way. It makes me hope that somewhere in our own universe there is sentient life if only to be a conscious Observer of the universe.
A conscious observer enters the Eye, and as their mind becomes the Universe, we'll remain alongside you. For no other reason beyond friendship, because we had the chance to meet at least in the end. Maybe also because we want to do it all, all over again.
If there's ever an experience I would like to relive all over again, in the exact same way I did it, it would be this game. Everything I did was just perfect and apt for someone with major fears about space, the ocean and the dark, yet I braved it all anyway. At the beginning, I was piss scared of falling into Brittle Hollow's black hole, but now I play hopscotch with it, using my jetpack along with it's gravitational pull to avoid falling in as much as possible.
This song means a lot to me, it's meaning in the game is wonderful. My grandfather got dementia and passed away afterwards, he couldn't connect with much because of the dementia, so I decided to play this song for him on the piano, it was one of the only things he could still connect with. This was one of the last memories I had with my grandfather and I'm glad he was able to appreciate the song.
I am fascinated by the difference between Solanum's theme and the main theme which is wistful yet melancholic. Solanum's theme is somehow more profound, with the steady beat on the left hand, as time marches slowly through the eons and through countless time loops, moving up the scale, bringing the story to the end of the universe when past and present come together at last and a new universe is born. It is only meet and right that Solanum's theme joins with the main theme as the friends gather around the campfire. They are ready.
This song here. This fucking song was such a huge breath of air in the dollar coaster of emotions leading up to this. The tension and fear from bringing the warp mod through the Dark Bramble. The fear of being eaten a fifth time by the damned things. The wary curiosity that pushed me further forward This entire game subtly teaches you that death is inevitable. But so is life. We spent so much time trying to uncover why we are in this struggle for survival, and surrounded by death in the ruins of the Nomai... yet we learn to embrace what we learned and move forward, no matter how scared we are. To hear this melody after witnessing the death of the universe.... there’s sorrowful joy to be had.
Going to find solanum at the eye and seeing the whole nomai race represented as if they were trying to help you reach her was beautiful Shame that if anyone at the eye had a chance of being the real person itd be her....but it still wasn't her... TnT.
@@CeraphineLuna solanum admits herself that she cant understand hearthian and uses her writing device so you can at least translate what she writes. But at the eye she speakes hearthian just fine. And since everyone else at the eye is also a fake cus of their at this point irreversible death it makes sense that the solanum there is also fake (although her actual self is definitely still alive on the moon)
@@CeraphineLuna oh. Yeah by going to find her i meant the part at the eye where you see the skeletons and the ship and its super symbolic of how the nomai race got both you and"her" to that moment But i see how you though that. Lemme fix that real quick
I loved her theme, and when they all came together, it was frikin amazing, i just wish i could hug her after she called me "friend" i honestly felt sad ending the game, the ride was incredible. "still, this encounter feels special, I hope you won't mind if I think of you as a friend."
Part of me wishes we got to see more of Solanum. Another part of me believes that barely getting to know her is what made her character and her song so impactful, aside from it being just a beautiful song in the first place. “We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.”
There has always been a theme I’ve wanted to attach to this game that would do it justice, and truly encapsulates just how absolutely phenomenal this game is. And after about 1 year, I eventually settled on, “No matter what you believe, whatever happens once you are gone is going to be beautiful in its own special way.” I really like how the game made me feel this way because it applies to basically any religion that believes in a life after this one, or if there is no higher power, and the universe dies a cold quiet death, with nothing but black holes left every now and then. This game made me at peace with my mortality, and I am grateful for that.
I imagine your purpose here is the same as mine, to hear and experience this moment again. I'm unsure how you arrived here, however. Perhaps you came from another related video, as I originally did?
i beat this game only a couple days ago, and this piano reallly threw me off track during the final puzzle. then when i realized it was her, i was shocked, in a good way. it means the nomai had accomplished their goal. and now, her melody can be shared amongst the last beings of the universe. it actually made me cry. she said she thinks of the player as a friend. id say that feeling is mutual. to the other hearthians, she may be a stranger, but if it werent for the legacy her people had left, then there wouldnt have been a torch for us to carry. and to this i ask; i wonder if she would enjoy a marshmallow
Just finished this game... Wow. Wow is all I can say. A breathtaking experience from start to finish, and hearing the ending music caused emotions I haven't experienced from a video game before. This game is pure art.
I do 3 year timelapses where I don;t think about it at all and then the next playthrough is almost fresh. If you are hardcore... I have some friends who have done this for watchin One Piece again from the beginning... you can go to a trained Psychologist that specilizes in Hypnotism and do around 7 sessions of concise memory erasing. And you will be able to experience whatever you tell your Psychologist/ Hypnotist you want to forget like the first time again (This technique is used for people with traumas but it works for other purposes such as this )
Is it weird that instead of solanum, I call them friend...just friend Also this is freakin amazing, this will be on loop for hours, I really appreciate this.
Well, she specifically asked if you don't mind her calling you a friend. Also, i say "SHE" as polish translation of the game used feminine version of words.
Its only weird if she forgets you in the next rewind which given her state probably not lol I don't blame you though I was really hoping for a hug prompt after she says that friend line lol "since by then i had seen nomai hugging by pod 3
While playing this game initially, I found the soundtrack and began listening to the Travelers theme nearly constantly. Incredibly enough, despite the fact that Solanum's role is present in the soundtrack's version of the song, I never noticed it until after I finished the game and heard her song independent from the rest of them at which point I realized it was there the whole time, just hidden. It made me realize just how much of the gameplay is available from the start, yet hidden from the player through ignorance. You don't know what you don't know, and you can only uncover it through exploration.
I didn't want to save myself from the end, I just wanted to give the hearthians a real shot at life. So unlucky... To be born at the end of the universe. Everything has a beginning, and everything has an end, even if the time in between was short.
Piano wires need to be made of metal in order for them to have enough tensile strength to work in a piano. Since Timber Hearth had all of its metals mined out by the Nomai, the Hearthans’ instruments all can be constructed without metal. It’s only by connecting with the Nomai of the past that the song can be pulled together with the sound of a piano. Pretty insane how deep the symbolism goes in this game.
Real Solanum died on the quantum moon, a picture of her remains also on the moon, this probably vanish with the supernova because the moon is real, it always orbits around a planet that's why it's calle a moon, the Solanum at the end making the song is in our main character's mind, that's why she speaks our language. That's probably to tell people live in our hearth even when they are dead, so friendship is a way to bypass death.
What a game! One of the best I have ever play. Hope I can find more games as beautiful as this. Thank you for posting this! It's already in my playlist!
It really is such a simple melody yet it must be the connection we feel with the character and game that just makes this so impactful to listen to. It's not necessarily sad but it really has a melancholy feeling to it.
I honestly think this is the best composition I have ever heard. It's so beautiful and calming,. I am trying to play this song on the piano too, to spread these great music. To our universe that will end, and start a new beginning.
at the ("real") end of the game you can choose which of the travelers play first, they just recorded that. (or they got the sound track and put the song on loop :L)
Like someone said, her song doesn't "sound" like the other but fits into it. It's because she is from an other race and an all other history. This game emphasizes that every culture in the universe has their own theme, but that every theme fits into each other when played altogether. This is beautifully echoing the "creation by music" from Tolkien. The adventurous and contemplative theme of the hearthian, the contemplative and melancholic theme of the Nomai, the melancholic and mournful theme of the strangers, all carve the next univers ephemeris.
I've been listening to the soundtrack basically on repeat in between playing the game and i never noticed about the piano untill i finished the game 💔💔💔
I hope one day to create something even half- no, a third as good as what Andrew Prahlow made for this game. What a devastatingly beautiful, bittersweet sound. I'm crying. You're crying.
that piece of beautiful and music, the incredible Nomai all gone except for Solanum, the amazing experience that this game was... all of this make me tear up when I listen to this sound. a true gem of an experience, that could be life changing and that I which everyone would experience as well makes you realize the value of life, the end of the word? beginning of something else, acceptation and so on
Riebek's was my favourite song until i experienced solanum's story and her song, and I'm upset that I can't enjoy riebek and solanum together because their songs are so different.
J aime tellement cette musique son ton mélancolie me fait me dire qu au fond elle est un peu triste elle aurait probablement aimé pouvoir vivre sans aucun regret et c est pour ça que j aime cette musique on vie tous avec des regrets et c est dur mais cette musique me fait me dire qu il faut que j en ai le moins possible merci à tous et merci a outerwild d avoir changé ma vie😄
For anyone who wants to play the game, I recommend that you do not look at guides/walkthroughs when you stuck at a puzzle/challenge. If you cant do it, it just means you didnt (yet) find the information that would help you complete it. Just keep exploring hatchling! And send regards to the other travelers you find on your way..
could you please make a buildup without riebek and esker, because i really like solanum's traveller song but riebek and esker's tunes are really different sounding. Please and Thank you. (literally greatest game ever made by the way). oh and anyone else's favourite players solanum, feldspar and riebek?
When I saw solanum I was shocked because well this is a "living" nomai so I talked to her and ye then I went to riebeck and telled him about it and so on
Me fije que el outer wilds estaba en el game pass y recordé el video de joseju así que me lo instale solo para ver mas o menos como era. 4 días después me quedo con un sabor agridulce, lágrimas en los ojos, la experiencia de haber vivido mi mejor y mayor aventura hasta el momento y un agradecimiento eterno a joseju. Le e recomendado el juego a todos mis amigos
"We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won't mind if I think of you as a friend."
i would die for solanum
I want to hug her :v
lol wtf
So little time with her and yet I feel such a deep connection.
@@john5311 you clearly haven't played the game
"This song is new to me, but I am honoured to be a part of it"
Now that I think about it, I feel bad for the hearthians and nomai. But with great endings, come new beginnings.
I'm exited for the dlc
they are going to release a DLC?
@@PhantomDog-td9pu Yep!
@@aeroelxyer Holy shit
Ok solanum
“I’ve never met one of your kind before. It’s an honor to speak with you! I particularly admire your four eyes. There are many questions I would ask, if I could comprehend your language. You have my gratitude for understanding mine.”
Can I just say this is the first time a game made me cry? Fucking amazing.
Solanum played very well for someone who was left out of the discussions with the rest of the band and had no idea what they were going to play until 5 minutes before the concert.
Probably because it wasn't really her :(
The "real" Solanum doesn't speak Hearthian. The entire ending seemed to be happening in the main character's psyche.
@@sofer2230 yeah, it surprised me that solanum can talk all of a sudden. That's when I know it's not really them
@@sofer2230 I'm not entirely sure of this. My interpretation was just that the Eye has all possibilities, and what was occurring was the understanding of all. I think it really was her. The Eye was acting as a middleman for communication and knowledge of what was happening.
@@sofer2230 it really feels like The Eye is a conduit for a few chosen souls to reboot the universe. It feels kind of purposefully constructed as a way for one to unravel the minds of the people who enter it and project it into a new universe. I think the whole ending is a “projection” as in these characters are ally having their consciousness projected into this meta space where they can all communicate together, unravel, and superimpose this new projection into a new reality.
@@thecousinwithaforesakentit1999
I like this idea a lot better than "they are all what you remember of your friends."
Solanum's part is so incredible to me because it is in ignorance of that song that the people of timber hearth know. It's completely different, with a different rhythm and a different sound aesthetic-- synthesized piano instead of folk instruments. She never knew your friends or your world and her song is not your song-- but it harmonizes. It's so perfectly the song of a stranger, and yet also the song of a friend.
"It's tempting to linger in this moment, while every possibility still exists.
But unless they are collapsed by an observer, they will never be more than possibilities."
You have to move forward and try in life, and make the possibilities into some kind of reality.
To me, that seemed to refer to hope.
Before the game finally ends, you're still holding out hope that one of the many conceivable endings results in you and your friends surviving. That the eye will still somehow be able to spare us.
But you don't know that, and once you do collapse the possibilities, it becomes clear that you're only given a chance to observe the birth of the new Universe.
You and your friends don't come back...
How unfortunate indeed, to have been born at the end of the Universe.
This made me tear up. Thank you, Friend.
@@chrisb5005 I think it's more of a general life lesson. Often, people don't do what they want to do because they're afraid it might be the wrong choice. They hold on to all possibilities, waiting for either more information or more courage to come to them. Many instead end up stuck, and time eventually decides for them. Who hasn't let a dream or goal pass them by because they never took the deciding step? We need to realize that before making a choice, you don't really have anything at all. It's the choice that makes it real.
Holy hell wait I know im late to this party but this is a genius quote. Combining wave function collapse with philosophy is Mental. Essentially its saying that while it's enjoyable to linger in one state since in said state every other possibility proceeding it is possible at the same time so it can feel kind of powerful and liberating - but those are all just probabilities. And you, the observer (as in wave function collapse), are responsible for collapsing all those potential states into a singular one. That's the power you have and it's decided by the universe. While it can be fun to dream of the infinite hypothetical possibilities of the world it's ultimately you who makes any one of then an actual, tangible reality and that won't happen if it's just another of many "possible" futures beyond the initial moment you fixate on.
After beating the game a few weeks ago, I am realizing that the one thing I regret most is that I cannot play this game blind again. Experiences such as this game are a once-in-a-lifetime deal, and you need to cherish them. The feelings I have felt during this whole game have changed my life - changed the way I think about the world - changed my interpretation of everything. Thank you, Solanum, and the Travelers, for changing my life, and thousands of other's lives too.
Here's to hope Mobius Digital Games will bless us with another masterpiece, this time I swear not to look anything up.
You have no idea how mad I am at myself when I let myself getting spoiled…
@@greenpotatyou mean “when I looked up spoilers on my own accord”? Be honest lmao.
I love the way her theme takes elements from the other Nomai motifs in the game and reshapes them from melancholic and haunting to hopeful and reassuring. It's so distinctly different from the other Travelers but it perfectly completes the performance. It's the sound of the past and present meeting at the nexus of time and space to greet the future as long-lost friends, together for just this moment.
deep
I ain't understand shit but this is noice
As one door closes, another opens.
Old friends part, only to meet new people, passing on their connections.
Those from our past, brace our feet to continue to the future, and we, in turn, do so for those who come after us.
These six beings sat at the end of everything, sing one final song, and create something new in their image.
There isn't nomai leitmotif iirc
@@tuatarian6591 there's at least two, Castaways (plays at tragic sites like the floating bodies of the Nomai who died trying to find the mothership in the Bramble) and The Nomai (plays at almost every major Nomai ruin)
"Let's find out together."
So glad i got her into the ending
@@tropicalhorizongaming5459 I watched my little brother play this game (he has it on XBox where it was free. I'm PS4, so I'm waiting for it to go on sale). I cried at the ending, not gonna lie.
I cry every bloody time. Beautiful game.
@@honestylowkeye1171 After the credits gives me chills, too. A new campfire is lit. Perhaps it's time for a change. ❤
And Rapes?
solanum's theme really does capture the beautiful, caring nature of the nomai. the fact that they refused to mine certain parts of Timber Hearth because little water creatures (the future hearthians!) were inhabiting the water is so sweet! they even lost track of time just watching them with curiosity and admiration. warms my heart!
you're forgetting the part where they wanted to blow up the sun
@@pajarsbgdYeah, but if their project worked, they could have stop it when they wanted, thus stopping the Sun from blowing up
@@pajarsbgd C'mon, it was for Science™!
to me, the most breathtaking moment of this game was finally entering the interloper's core and realizing with silent shock how every Nomai in the system all died at once. that moment and the ending are the two times I almost cried
My favorite moment in the ancient glade. You literally stand on the shoulders of the Nomai before you to help reach the final piece of the puzzle. Just like you did in the rest of the game, only figuratively in that case. Then the ship appears! And you launch into space to find solanum's mask... I sat and stared at the mask just listening to this gentle piano for a while. It felt like I was meant to honor it for a second. For everything they had done to help me.
when i was in the ancient glade and heard this theme on its own when gathering the travelers, i was scared. partially because i had no idea what was happening, and it was a theme i had never heard before. along with the darkness of the glade and the sense of finality that i got, i had no idea what this song was.
once i found out it was solanum's theme, and in knowing she was a friend, i felt comfortable. this made me think about the nomai as a whole. they aren't scary or hostile, but they are an unknown. and meeting one on the quantum moon made me anxious. the same feeling i had when i heard this theme in the glade. but she isn't scary. the player and the other travelers welcome her with open arms -- as a friend of the hearthians. and flying towards her signal in the glade -- i felt like i was rescuing her. from the moon, from her endless cycle.
at the campfire, she played her song along with everyone else, and the two cultures met. although we just met, i felt comfortable around her, as if she had been my friend forever. we were both born in that system, and we were both trying to reach the eye. the last of her kind, and not having made it to the eye as all nomai dream of, i felt as if she was guiding me there, telling me i could succeed where she and her people did not. and i did. and we made it to the end together, regardless of whether or not she was physically there with me.
i am sorry but she is not the last of her kind on the vessel you can find a message from present day naomi saying that the universe is dying and they now sticking together in a system with a fairly stable star
@@datrandomdugggy5537 yes, but the comment still deep.
I love that it really shouldn't be possible to even meet a Solanuim as we are in game. We are species that gained sentience relatively late in our universe's lifestyle and nearly all the nomai are already dead, but through sheer luck and determination we found a way. It makes me hope that somewhere in our own universe there is sentient life if only to be a conscious Observer of the universe.
@@datrandomdugggy5537 well shes the last of her ‘tribe’ of nomai who know of the eye of the universe
@@MS31459 true
A conscious observer enters the Eye, and as their mind becomes the Universe, we'll remain alongside you. For no other reason beyond friendship, because we had the chance to meet at least in the end.
Maybe also because we want to do it all, all over again.
01100110 01110101 01110010 is your name really just fur in binary?
If there's ever an experience I would like to relive all over again, in the exact same way I did it, it would be this game. Everything I did was just perfect and apt for someone with major fears about space, the ocean and the dark, yet I braved it all anyway. At the beginning, I was piss scared of falling into Brittle Hollow's black hole, but now I play hopscotch with it, using my jetpack along with it's gravitational pull to avoid falling in as much as possible.
@@physical_insanity Beautiful comment
@@physical_insanity I feel the same, only I still feel that vertigo every time I fall into the black hole
@@CANEL1125 Same here, but the difference between me from back then and now is that now I'm used to that feeling of vertigo.
This song means a lot to me, it's meaning in the game is wonderful. My grandfather got dementia and passed away afterwards, he couldn't connect with much because of the dementia, so I decided to play this song for him on the piano, it was one of the only things he could still connect with. This was one of the last memories I had with my grandfather and I'm glad he was able to appreciate the song.
May he rest in peace, you did well mate
Two people disliked this. I didn't know the Interloper had friends.
This game makes me weep even after i finished it. A genuine 10/10 from me.
I am fascinated by the difference between Solanum's theme and the main theme which is wistful yet melancholic. Solanum's theme is somehow more profound, with the steady beat on the left hand, as time marches slowly through the eons and through countless time loops, moving up the scale, bringing the story to the end of the universe when past and present come together at last and a new universe is born. It is only meet and right that Solanum's theme joins with the main theme as the friends gather around the campfire. They are ready.
Beautiful!
This song here. This fucking song was such a huge breath of air in the dollar coaster of emotions leading up to this.
The tension and fear from bringing the warp mod through the Dark Bramble. The fear of being eaten a fifth time by the damned things. The wary curiosity that pushed me further forward
This entire game subtly teaches you that death is inevitable. But so is life. We spent so much time trying to uncover why we are in this struggle for survival, and surrounded by death in the ruins of the Nomai... yet we learn to embrace what we learned and move forward, no matter how scared we are.
To hear this melody after witnessing the death of the universe.... there’s sorrowful joy to be had.
man it would have been cool to have a 1/6 chance to hear solanum's theme in the title theme when you start the game up
''a song composed by someone who has never heard one''
that's quite poetical isn't it?
that is very poetical
@@MatheusSoares-nk1zm well i'm just a normal shitposter but thank
@@rafael442542 exato
Um Ser Humano woah
é muito triste
It is simply incredible how hauntingly beautiful and tragic this simple melody is all at the same time.
This game is truly a piece of art.
Going to find solanum at the eye and seeing the whole nomai race represented as if they were trying to help you reach her was beautiful
Shame that if anyone at the eye had a chance of being the real person itd be her....but it still wasn't her... TnT.
It is her though, she may have died in every other instance but the version we saw avoided the ghost matter while orbiting the eye
@@CeraphineLuna solanum admits herself that she cant understand hearthian and uses her writing device so you can at least translate what she writes.
But at the eye she speakes hearthian just fine.
And since everyone else at the eye is also a fake cus of their at this point irreversible death it makes sense that the solanum there is also fake (although her actual self is definitely still alive on the moon)
@@vVAstrAVv oof, thought you meant in general my bad. Misinterpreted it
@@CeraphineLuna oh. Yeah by going to find her i meant the part at the eye where you see the skeletons and the ship and its super symbolic of how the nomai race got both you and"her" to that moment
But i see how you though that. Lemme fix that real quick
@@vVAstrAVv Maybe the Eye made it so that she can speak Hearthian. I WANNA BELIEVE!
it really made me cry seeing the dead members of the Nomai pointing up to the moon, to let you pick up Solanum :(
It hurts my heart like hell too
I loved her theme, and when they all came together, it was frikin amazing, i just wish i could hug her after she called me "friend" i honestly felt sad ending the game, the ride was incredible.
"still, this encounter feels special, I hope you won't mind if I think of you as a friend."
Part of me wishes we got to see more of Solanum. Another part of me believes that barely getting to know her is what made her character and her song so impactful, aside from it being just a beautiful song in the first place.
“We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.”
There has always been a theme I’ve wanted to attach to this game that would do it justice, and truly encapsulates just how absolutely phenomenal this game is. And after about 1 year, I eventually settled on, “No matter what you believe, whatever happens once you are gone is going to be beautiful in its own special way.” I really like how the game made me feel this way because it applies to basically any religion that believes in a life after this one, or if there is no higher power, and the universe dies a cold quiet death, with nothing but black holes left every now and then. This game made me at peace with my mortality, and I am grateful for that.
I imagine your purpose here is the same as mine, to hear and experience this moment again. I'm unsure how you arrived here, however. Perhaps you came from another related video, as I originally did?
i beat this game only a couple days ago, and this piano reallly threw me off track during the final puzzle. then when i realized it was her, i was shocked, in a good way. it means the nomai had accomplished their goal. and now, her melody can be shared amongst the last beings of the universe. it actually made me cry.
she said she thinks of the player as a friend. id say that feeling is mutual. to the other hearthians, she may be a stranger, but if it werent for the legacy her people had left, then there wouldnt have been a torch for us to carry. and to this i ask; i wonder if she would enjoy a marshmallow
“I’m glad you remembered me.”
When does she say this?
this alone makes me emotional. The rest of the game is one hell of a ride. a ride i can never get enough of
I'm glad you remembered me.
I legit want this played at my funeral.
Just finished this game... Wow. Wow is all I can say. A breathtaking experience from start to finish, and hearing the ending music caused emotions I haven't experienced from a video game before. This game is pure art.
Who else has to cry when they listen to this song? I can't describe the feeling , just that I feel so intensely it makes me emotional.
thank you.
can't have been that long, game only came out like a week ago lol
@@NickHa ages as in just a few hours as i had to complete the game to hear the music
I can't believe how now this melody feels incomplete without the Prisoner's part.
What a masterpiece of a game.
Sounds... lonely.
what adds more dread is the fact that you really cant ever play the game again after finishing it. A true once in a lifetime experience.
I do 3 year timelapses where I don;t think about it at all and then the next playthrough is almost fresh. If you are hardcore... I have some friends who have done this for watchin One Piece again from the beginning... you can go to a trained Psychologist that specilizes in Hypnotism and do around 7 sessions of concise memory erasing. And you will be able to experience whatever you tell your Psychologist/ Hypnotist you want to forget like the first time again (This technique is used for people with traumas but it works for other purposes such as this )
Hope is always present, even you think its not here. Explore the stars like your predecessors, young hearthian!
Mint, I was so damn happy hearing this in game. Doughy eyed grinning mess. Loved it
And I only cried for about 10 minutes, which is the longest I ever cried in years.
Never cried but felt like i was, this was the only game to effect me emotionally in.. Well years.
I come here when I need something to help me cry.
Is it weird that instead of solanum, I call them friend...just friend
Also this is freakin amazing, this will be on loop for hours, I really appreciate this.
Well, she specifically asked if you don't mind her calling you a friend. Also, i say "SHE" as polish translation of the game used feminine version of words.
@@ninjakivi2 The Ship's log also calls her "her" in English. It's canon - Solanum uses female pronouns.
@@joshandrews6839 Or at least, the translator thinks she does
Its only weird if she forgets you in the next rewind which given her state probably not lol
I don't blame you though
I was really hoping for a hug prompt after she says that friend line lol "since by then i had seen nomai hugging by pod 3
i call "her" friend, go to school to learn proper english
would have been funnier if it was a 22 minute loop
I wanted to like your comment but there were already 22 likes
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@@bentheoldfriend ok
This song always makes me tear up. It's just so beautiful to hear this somber counterpoint to that familiar melody, a tale of kinship across eons.
its been damn near five years since a song has made me bawl my eyes out just from hearing a few notes but here we are
While playing this game initially, I found the soundtrack and began listening to the Travelers theme nearly constantly. Incredibly enough, despite the fact that Solanum's role is present in the soundtrack's version of the song, I never noticed it until after I finished the game and heard her song independent from the rest of them at which point I realized it was there the whole time, just hidden. It made me realize just how much of the gameplay is available from the start, yet hidden from the player through ignorance. You don't know what you don't know, and you can only uncover it through exploration.
What a magical experience. Even though I was reluctant to play it at first, this game quickly became one of my favorite games of all time.
I have no name for the feeling this stirs within me.
I want to hug Solanum :(
I didn't want to save myself from the end, I just wanted to give the hearthians a real shot at life. So unlucky... To be born at the end of the universe.
Everything has a beginning, and everything has an end, even if the time in between was short.
There's something about the particular melodic figure at 0:05 that feels especially elegiac to me.
It's amazing how, out of all the music in the world, this simple piano melody just WRECKS me emotionally.
This song is so hopeful and beautiful. Really captured the joy nomai found in exploring
"I'm glad you remembered me."
Piano wires need to be made of metal in order for them to have enough tensile strength to work in a piano. Since Timber Hearth had all of its metals mined out by the Nomai, the Hearthans’ instruments all can be constructed without metal. It’s only by connecting with the Nomai of the past that the song can be pulled together with the sound of a piano.
Pretty insane how deep the symbolism goes in this game.
Real Solanum died on the quantum moon, a picture of her remains also on the moon, this probably vanish with the supernova because the moon is real, it always orbits around a planet that's why it's calle a moon, the Solanum at the end making the song is in our main character's mind, that's why she speaks our language. That's probably to tell people live in our hearth even when they are dead, so friendship is a way to bypass death.
Those eleven dislikers all got eaten by an anglerfish after they pulled the warp core out of the ATP-
It might sound strange, but I have a hypothesis that I'm not entirely alive. Perhaps my journey has reached an end.
I’m crying 😢
What a game! One of the best I have ever play. Hope I can find more games as beautiful as this.
Thank you for posting this! It's already in my playlist!
This game made me cry when it ended, I don't know why but hearing all of them playing together made me really sad.
I listen to this song in total darkness when I need to relax, really helps me from overthinking stuff sometimes.
"This song is new to me, and I've waited far too long to be a part of it"
-The Prisoner
It really is such a simple melody yet it must be the connection we feel with the character and game that just makes this so impactful to listen to. It's not necessarily sad but it really has a melancholy feeling to it.
Came here 20 minutes after the DLC was announced
Oh, I would have probably missed it, thanks a lot for letting me know about the DLC!
@@ninjakivi2 glad to know :)
Solanum knew that the universe was ending and joined this random alien in making it incredible.
I honestly think this is the best composition I have ever heard. It's so beautiful and calming,. I am trying to play this song on the piano too, to spread these great music. To our universe that will end, and start a new beginning.
I think I have looped this way too much, the music of this game is lovely
at the ("real") end of the game you can choose which of the travelers play first, they just recorded that. (or they got the sound track and put the song on loop :L)
@@spooderman4008I tried that, but I had no idea of how to isolate the instruments from other sounds, like the campfire or the static xD
@@Aduard use the scanner
OH GOD WHY AM I CRYING SO MUCH
This will be my new alarm song
Like someone said, her song doesn't "sound" like the other but fits into it. It's because she is from an other race and an all other history. This game emphasizes that every culture in the universe has their own theme, but that every theme fits into each other when played altogether. This is beautifully echoing the "creation by music" from Tolkien. The adventurous and contemplative theme of the hearthian, the contemplative and melancholic theme of the Nomai, the melancholic and mournful theme of the strangers, all carve the next univers ephemeris.
The scout you lost landed on the dislike button.
traitorous bastard
I love this game so much...
I finished the game first without finding Solanum........ Can't believe that I missed that part.
"The universe is, and we are"
I've been listening to the soundtrack basically on repeat in between playing the game and i never noticed about the piano untill i finished the game 💔💔💔
I hope one day to create something even half- no, a third as good as what Andrew Prahlow made for this game. What a devastatingly beautiful, bittersweet sound. I'm crying. You're crying.
For me this song makes me feel like Im being lulled to sleep by a mother figure. Its calming and beautiful to hear.
that piece of beautiful and music, the incredible Nomai all gone except for Solanum, the amazing experience that this game was...
all of this make me tear up when I listen to this sound.
a true gem of an experience, that could be life changing and that I which everyone would experience as well
makes you realize the value of life, the end of the word? beginning of something else, acceptation and so on
Riebek's was my favourite song until i experienced solanum's story and her song, and I'm upset that I can't enjoy riebek and solanum together because their songs are so different.
My favourite game that I never played... Maybe one day..
Play it, you won’t regret it
J aime tellement cette musique son ton mélancolie me fait me dire qu au fond elle est un peu triste elle aurait probablement aimé pouvoir vivre sans aucun regret et c est pour ça que j aime cette musique on vie tous avec des regrets et c est dur mais cette musique me fait me dire qu il faut que j en ai le moins possible merci à tous et merci a outerwild d avoir changé ma vie😄
I was really looking for this
una joya oculta en algún rincón de YT :)
For anyone who wants to play the game, I recommend that you do not look at guides/walkthroughs when you stuck at a puzzle/challenge. If you cant do it, it just means you didnt (yet) find the information that would help you complete it. Just keep exploring hatchling! And send regards to the other travelers you find on your way..
this makes me wish i could take riebeck to see solunum
i love how different solanums instrument compared to the hearthians because she is a completely different species
how nice
I wish you could hug Solanum in the game :(
Masterpiece
If you would make a video with a few similar tracks bunched together it's all I would ever need on as my bgm
This song is beautiful, but boy does it sound cursed on 2x speed
I listened to this having a relaxing big poo
Why am cry?
sounds like my default ringtone
이 곡 미쳤음.. 나 잘때 맨날 튼다
could you please make a buildup without riebek and esker, because i really like solanum's traveller song but riebek and esker's tunes are really different sounding. Please and Thank you. (literally greatest game ever made by the way). oh and anyone else's favourite players solanum, feldspar and riebek?
When I saw solanum I was shocked because well this is a "living" nomai so I talked to her and ye then I went to riebeck and telled him about it and so on
Where did I hear a tune like this before?
patata14 ya no está aquí?
Me fije que el outer wilds estaba en el game pass y recordé el video de joseju así que me lo instale solo para ver mas o menos como era.
4 días después me quedo con un sabor agridulce, lágrimas en los ojos, la experiencia de haber vivido mi mejor y mayor aventura hasta el momento y un agradecimiento eterno a joseju. Le e recomendado el juego a todos mis amigos