I'll be the timestamp guy this time around 1:10 Fleeting Words Family 7:34 Fleeting Words Outsider 16:42 Repose 22:08 Song of the Ancients Hollow Dreams 28:36 Dispossession Music Box Ver 32:19 Shadowlord's Castle 39:58 Dance of the Evanescent 43:49 Song of the Ancients Fate 50:31 Emil Karma 55:02 Emil Sacrifice 59:29 Shadowlord 1:08:02 Analogous Memories 1:13:35 Grandma Reunion 1:19:36 Kaine Escape 1:24:58 Ashes of Dreams Aratanaru
Shadowlord's castle is a favourite for mine but the way it happens in the game is nothing short of it being a FULL experience. The events that lead up to it, the voice acting, the transitioning of the music, the mixing, the characters, to just as it moves into the gameplay after the cutscene; was one of the most memorable moments in the entire game.
I appreciate you listening to entire ost’s and not just the good songs. It helps you pick up on themes and, in some cases, almost pick up on the story without actually playing the game. It’s something I can’t do, but it’s fascinating seeing you do it!
I'm a little sad we didn't get to hear Shadow Lord Music box but there's only so many bonus tracks we can listen to. It's one of my favourite final boss fights especially with how the music shifts from somber to fight and then goes into music box in the last phase. It's so good and so emotionally charged
I can't believe the songs from the DLC arenas weren't included in this album, they're such absolute bangers that it's unreal. Five of Nier's most iconic songs that were remixed into Devil May Cry-style fast paced techno themes.
@@samuelrodriguez5282 The original version of Replicant/Gestalt had a DLC dream section where you played as the opposite version's MC and did some small challenges to unlock costumes for the MC, Kaine, and Emil. It's also included in the remaster and you get to play as Gestalt's version of the MC with the new graphics.
Fleeting Words ~Outsider~'s choir uses a letimotif borrowed from Final Fantasy XIV (almost surely intentionally, since Keiichi Okabe and Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV's composer) collaborated on a set of Drakengard/Nier themed raids during FFXIV's "Shadowbringers" expansion around the same time the Nier remake was in production). That song is the theme for the city of Ishgard: "Solid". You can hear it in the brass at the beginning. If you want a time commitment, but some real good music, check out FFXIV's soundtracks. There's like a dozen of them but they're all excellent.
1:04:24 I still just find it extremely cool that they added in "Ashes of Dreams" Into Shadowlord. Really adds so much more weight to the song than it needed.
the start of grandma reunion made my head explode the first time i heard it LOL to this day it remains one of my favorite songs from the remake it's so powerful
Hollow Dreams. You've heard Devola's version of Song of the Ancients, you heard Popola's, and now you've heard Hollow Dreams sung by both of the twins.
🤔 The Forest song in Nier Automata (the one used near the Castle where the robot baby is, where A2 is seen for the first time) I swear has the exact same percussion/xylophone-ish score as "The Incomplete Stone" from the original Nier. Might be the same recording used for that specific layer too.
Repose is one of my favourite songs in Nier ost. It has some relaxing tone but also feel sorrow for this world. It make you want to cry alone in the rain.
It's been like 7 months since this came out, but if you're still checking the comments, there's a video by Jonathan Barouch that goes into why Fleeting Words sounds kinda weird and it's mainly key signature funkiness (blurring F# minor and C# major)! It does have some spoilers for Route B of the game, but it's a great analysis.
16:29 it's definitely intentional, the entire track is crafted to the tiniest, most insignificant, detail. The character the track is for is extremely conflicted and struggling with her current and past nature, fighting her urges until her wish prevents her from doing it anymore and destroying everything she was fighting for in the first place... not that she could have ever achieved it.
Hello! I'm looking for a term in which was used in a previous video game soundtrack video. The term had to do with the notes moving in a scale, staircase motion, I feel like they were called something like "syncracism" or something like that... I've spent about an hour now trying to go back, but no beans. I thought it was in Minecraft or Terraria Calamity, but I couldn't seem to stick it (Sorry, not a music theory person, just like the videos!)
I think I still prefer the original arrangement of Shadowlord over the remake's version, but that won't stop me from keeping the albums on loop. I just prefer the more in your face drums.
It took a while, especially since this is the first time I've heard Grandma: Reunion, but my GOODNESS. Shadowlord remains among my favourite songs ever for just the deep, vaguely religious sense of loss and tragedy that is carried along by orchestral bombast. I said it in my previous comment about Grandma, but the remastered OST that undercut the simplicity of that song absolutely pushes Shadowlord out of the park. The dense mix that you were talking about, I do tend to hear those kinds of things up in the corners of the space, the little organ flourishes and runs, and where it doubles the melody (Fortissax from Elden Ring, anyone?) But either way, Shadowlord is the theme of the ending of the human race, brought down to a conflict between two brothers who love their sister very, very much and would d *anything* to protect her. Just so happens that you're playing the brother that is arguably ideologically in the wrong, but your mileage may vary on that note, and it fits so completely and utterly. Additionally, not mentioned on the OST but in versions I enjoy that are extended out, the various different arrangements of the central melody that cut out different pieces of the full Shadowlord to give a feeling of reduction and diminishment (emotional, not musical - not necessarily? I forget what diminished chords sound like anyways, LOL) over time. In both the original and the remaster, Shadowlord is also a place where multiple characters sacrifice their lives to the very same music. That the same piece can be both a driving, powerful boss theme, and a quiet organ/choir lament, AND THE HIGHLIGHTING OF BASS VOICES OMG IN THE REMASTER, and then finally wind down and shed layers until only a solitary music box is playing over the last run across the arena to defeat... Well, to defeat your own soul. Damn shame, that.
I actually had a patron at my bar who'd get drunk to the point of not being able to stand, and still re-play any melody i put on the speakers on his guitar after hearing it once. Really clean too.
Not a musician by any means but I totally agree on your opinion about the remastered OST, it sounds fuller and just more impactful to me. And I heard the original before playing and I also understand why a fan might not like those changes. This is one of those old good, new better scenarios imho
Nah there’s some changes where it IS a(n) (slight) upgrade over the OG, for example Songs of the Ancients but on other songs like Wretched Automatons the OG is better. In general I think they’re both equal, so neither version is genuinely better or superior than the other, just different versions of the same songs.
@@firstamongsuckers23 I just listened to both versions and I don't know how you can say that lol. The industrial sounding percussion could be louder maybe.
hey man! if you have some time, why dont you try listening to The Binding Of Isaac Antibirth OST? theyre really good, i just love “innocence” one a lot 👍🏽
l hope he'll react to SonicHeroesOST some day,, l'm surprised he hasnt done any sonic games other than mania yet actually, l guess his biggest audience are jrpg-fans and those people are less interested in sonic in general..?
I really wish there was a reaction tot he english version of Ashes of Dreams. That song, knowing what the lyrics say, what they mean. It hits me hard every time. And much of it is lost not being able to understand, even though the song still hits hard in this version.
some random little kid snuck in near the end + somehow donated 20 bucks from his mom's credit card and it really took me out of things, chat seriously needs moderators (or the existing ones need to sit up in their chairs)
Dont see the problem lol, his streams are about fun, learning, and amazing music, let people do their thing. If you have a problem with childish behavior then simply ignore it. Life won't cater to your needs and neither will people.
I'll be the timestamp guy this time around
1:10 Fleeting Words Family
7:34 Fleeting Words Outsider
16:42 Repose
22:08 Song of the Ancients Hollow Dreams
28:36 Dispossession Music Box Ver
32:19 Shadowlord's Castle
39:58 Dance of the Evanescent
43:49 Song of the Ancients Fate
50:31 Emil Karma
55:02 Emil Sacrifice
59:29 Shadowlord
1:08:02 Analogous Memories
1:13:35 Grandma Reunion
1:19:36 Kaine Escape
1:24:58 Ashes of Dreams Aratanaru
There’s also 1:31:28 Song of the Ancients Fate (original)
1:36:43 Shadowlord (original)
Hell yeah dude
Shadowlord's castle is a favourite for mine but the way it happens in the game is nothing short of it being a FULL experience. The events that lead up to it, the voice acting, the transitioning of the music, the mixing, the characters, to just as it moves into the gameplay after the cutscene; was one of the most memorable moments in the entire game.
From Shadowlord Castle, to Emil Karma, to Song of the ancients Fate, to Emil Sacrifice and finally Shadowlord OST, what a roller coaster emotions
I appreciate you listening to entire ost’s and not just the good songs. It helps you pick up on themes and, in some cases, almost pick up on the story without actually playing the game. It’s something I can’t do, but it’s fascinating seeing you do it!
Thank you for hanging out and for watching!
The twin's song of the ancient really hits me in the feels, everytime I pass to them It just makes me stop and chill in with them singing.
I'm a little sad we didn't get to hear Shadow Lord Music box but there's only so many bonus tracks we can listen to.
It's one of my favourite final boss fights especially with how the music shifts from somber to fight and then goes into music box in the last phase. It's so good and so emotionally charged
It’s a shame, although the real loss was that we didn’t get any of the remixes from the DLC/15 Nightmares album.
I can't believe the songs from the DLC arenas weren't included in this album, they're such absolute bangers that it's unreal. Five of Nier's most iconic songs that were remixed into Devil May Cry-style fast paced techno themes.
Wait what. What dlc??? This is replicant right???
Aren't they in a different album?
@@samuelrodriguez5282 The original version of Replicant/Gestalt had a DLC dream section where you played as the opposite version's MC and did some small challenges to unlock costumes for the MC, Kaine, and Emil. It's also included in the remaster and you get to play as Gestalt's version of the MC with the new graphics.
@Wibby Yeah I thought that was the Nightmare Album.
In the original one, they released 3 versions, one of the white book, the black book and the red book.
Maybe they release the other 2 versions.
I wish Dan had watched the actual battle alongside song of the ancients at 43:49 it really brings it to another lvl when u see the actual choreography
We need 500 volunteers from this channel to LARP the game on real time on the stream.
these reactions are always such a nice way to reexperience a game a little
Thank you for watching!
I know it's chaos language, but that one line in Shadowlord always sounded like "You are a monster" to me. And it's so fitting.
Emil's Sacrifice is such an integral song it feels, enough to reappear again in the next game.
Fleeting Words ~Outsider~'s choir uses a letimotif borrowed from Final Fantasy XIV (almost surely intentionally, since Keiichi Okabe and Masayoshi Soken (FFXIV's composer) collaborated on a set of Drakengard/Nier themed raids during FFXIV's "Shadowbringers" expansion around the same time the Nier remake was in production). That song is the theme for the city of Ishgard: "Solid". You can hear it in the brass at the beginning.
If you want a time commitment, but some real good music, check out FFXIV's soundtracks. There's like a dozen of them but they're all excellent.
Shadowlord = best final boss song ever.
No contest tbh.
Zanza the divine
After despair and hope
I’d say it’s in a four way tie, one of the other competitors is the older version.
Serpent eating the ground.
The Greatest Jubilee. Thank me later.
1:04:24 I still just find it extremely cool that they added in "Ashes of Dreams" Into Shadowlord. Really adds so much more weight to the song than it needed.
the start of grandma reunion made my head explode the first time i heard it LOL to this day it remains one of my favorite songs from the remake it's so powerful
Hollow Dreams. You've heard Devola's version of Song of the Ancients, you heard Popola's, and now you've heard Hollow Dreams sung by both of the twins.
Shadowlord's Castle always makes me think of a Flower Blooming
Dance of the Evanescent is a Smile with intense eyes that stare through you
I knew about the Organ in Shadowlord because I have listened to the separate layers of that track a 1000 times.
Hahahaha that is one way to pick out every detail 😁. Thank you for watching!
i really missed this live man such a shame
Next time! I will be glad to see you on a stream.
🤔 The Forest song in Nier Automata (the one used near the Castle where the robot baby is, where A2 is seen for the first time) I swear has the exact same percussion/xylophone-ish score as "The Incomplete Stone" from the original Nier. Might be the same recording used for that specific layer too.
Hey, the chapters are back! Nice! 😄👍
For the moment yes! Let’s see if YT let’s them stay. In the meantime views and engagement and growth are getting back to where they were 6 months ago
@@MusicTheoryforGamers Would UA-cam get rid of the chapters? How come?
God fleeting words is so damn beautiful and sad
Fleeting Word family reminds me that tragtic storyline. OMG! I want to cry!
I've already head this OST before, but this was an amazing experience!
Is that the scrubs/scrubby mascot sticker thing?
@@SpoglBop if you're referring to their profile picture, it's Sly from Sly Cooper :)
Is it just me or does Nier Automata & Replicant osts feels like they are on epic level 🤩
Keiichi Okabe - the composer for both soundtracks is a literal OST god
Repose is one of my favourite songs in Nier ost.
It has some relaxing tone but also feel sorrow for this world.
It make you want to cry alone in the rain.
Damn I really wanted him to listen to Shadowlord White Note Remix
Whenever you get the chance, you should listen to Shadowlord -White Note Remix-. It's a piano focused jazzy remix of the Shadowlord theme
Repose hits different when you know the story of the light house lady
Analogous Memories sounds like it's straight out of Yuki Yunna is a Hero. If you guys want more team Monaca/Okabe Check that sound track out.
It's been like 7 months since this came out, but if you're still checking the comments, there's a video by Jonathan Barouch that goes into why Fleeting Words sounds kinda weird and it's mainly key signature funkiness (blurring F# minor and C# major)! It does have some spoilers for Route B of the game, but it's a great analysis.
42:07 mirage/being tricked spot on
Shadowlord's castle starts: me questioning my own existence 🙃
16:29 it's definitely intentional, the entire track is crafted to the tiniest, most insignificant, detail. The character the track is for is extremely conflicted and struggling with her current and past nature, fighting her urges until her wish prevents her from doing it anymore and destroying everything she was fighting for in the first place... not that she could have ever achieved it.
Does anyone else cry when they hear Emil's Sacrifice? 😢
The last quarter of dance of evanescent sounds a lot like music from Drakengard.
Hello! I'm looking for a term in which was used in a previous video game soundtrack video.
The term had to do with the notes moving in a scale, staircase motion, I feel like they were called something like "syncracism" or something like that...
I've spent about an hour now trying to go back, but no beans. I thought it was in Minecraft or Terraria Calamity, but I couldn't seem to stick it
(Sorry, not a music theory person, just like the videos!)
Do you mean syncopation? I'm not a musician either, so I don't know 😅
I think I still prefer the original arrangement of Shadowlord over the remake's version, but that won't stop me from keeping the albums on loop.
I just prefer the more in your face drums.
Art is art! There is not right or wrong version. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and for watching!
Hey is there a way a viewer could recomend something, cause i would like to recomend Everhood, its kinda long quick warning
I beleive its mostly super chats
@@minimanbeast1014 ok I just wanted him to check out everhood
SHADOWLOOOOOOOOORD! More to say after watching the video~
It took a while, especially since this is the first time I've heard Grandma: Reunion, but my GOODNESS. Shadowlord remains among my favourite songs ever for just the deep, vaguely religious sense of loss and tragedy that is carried along by orchestral bombast. I said it in my previous comment about Grandma, but the remastered OST that undercut the simplicity of that song absolutely pushes Shadowlord out of the park. The dense mix that you were talking about, I do tend to hear those kinds of things up in the corners of the space, the little organ flourishes and runs, and where it doubles the melody (Fortissax from Elden Ring, anyone?) But either way, Shadowlord is the theme of the ending of the human race, brought down to a conflict between two brothers who love their sister very, very much and would d *anything* to protect her. Just so happens that you're playing the brother that is arguably ideologically in the wrong, but your mileage may vary on that note, and it fits so completely and utterly.
Additionally, not mentioned on the OST but in versions I enjoy that are extended out, the various different arrangements of the central melody that cut out different pieces of the full Shadowlord to give a feeling of reduction and diminishment (emotional, not musical - not necessarily? I forget what diminished chords sound like anyways, LOL) over time. In both the original and the remaster, Shadowlord is also a place where multiple characters sacrifice their lives to the very same music. That the same piece can be both a driving, powerful boss theme, and a quiet organ/choir lament, AND THE HIGHLIGHTING OF BASS VOICES OMG IN THE REMASTER, and then finally wind down and shed layers until only a solitary music box is playing over the last run across the arena to defeat...
Well, to defeat your own soul. Damn shame, that.
I actually had a patron at my bar who'd get drunk to the point of not being able to stand, and still re-play any melody i put on the speakers on his guitar after hearing it once. Really clean too.
😭😆🫣
You should really do the kingdom hearts soundtrack
Soon!
Playing this for the first time tomorrow! Can't wait. Been listening to bits of the OST for years on UA-cam
@@MusicTheoryforGamers you should also go for the Shadow of the Colossus
59:30 MEGA BOMB
Hey, great video. Have you thought about doing the original OST for Ratchet and Clank? I think those old songs have some interesting features in them.
YES! The OG Ratchet trilogy slaps with its soundtrack
praying you react to bloodborne in the near future
I hope he does the nier reincarnation ost as well
59:26
Someday we'll make him listen through the entirety of drakengard 1, right?
Not a musician by any means but I totally agree on your opinion about the remastered OST, it sounds fuller and just more impactful to me. And I heard the original before playing and I also understand why a fan might not like those changes. This is one of those old good, new better scenarios imho
Nah there’s some changes where it IS a(n) (slight) upgrade over the OG, for example Songs of the Ancients but on other songs like Wretched Automatons the OG is better.
In general I think they’re both equal, so neither version is genuinely better or superior than the other, just different versions of the same songs.
@@firstamongsuckers23 I just listened to both versions and I don't know how you can say that lol. The industrial sounding percussion could be louder maybe.
A fishing game precussion?
hey man! if you have some time, why dont you try listening to The Binding Of Isaac Antibirth OST? theyre really good, i just love “innocence” one a lot 👍🏽
l hope he'll react to SonicHeroesOST some day,, l'm surprised he hasnt done any sonic games other than mania yet actually, l guess his biggest audience are jrpg-fans and those people are less interested in sonic in general..?
Me and another channel viewer have actually been upvoting Sonic Adventure for awhile now, we’ve almost got it to the top of the list.
@@J2ojuiced95 ah sweet,, l hope that'll get the ball rolling for a 3d sonic ost-streak :]
A game soundtrack you should react to is xenoblade chronicles 3 trust me it won’t disappoint
I really wish there was a reaction tot he english version of Ashes of Dreams. That song, knowing what the lyrics say, what they mean. It hits me hard every time. And much of it is lost not being able to understand, even though the song still hits hard in this version.
your chat is really cringe sometimes
some random little kid snuck in near the end + somehow donated 20 bucks from his mom's credit card and it really took me out of things, chat seriously needs moderators (or the existing ones need to sit up in their chairs)
Someone roleplaying as a Pikachu in a live chat doesn't do it for you? 😅
@jun_ok uh oh anti fun police, what's the issue? Took you out of what??? The donation readings?????
Dont see the problem lol, his streams are about fun, learning, and amazing music, let people do their thing. If you have a problem with childish behavior then simply ignore it. Life won't cater to your needs and neither will people.
he’s mostly reacting to chat. 😅
bwahaha him struggling to end the stream
aren't you like 9? what are you doing here?