What Gareth Coker did was make every part of the piece correspond to one moment of the battle, with a few parts that link them to each other. Then, during the game, if you are killed, say, during the first part of the battle (before the 'escape' sequence' where you change platforms), the part corresponding to that point loops back. It would only move onto the next part when you, the player, actively reach the next part of the battle. That way, and unless you are a pro who is tearing Shriek apart, you'll get to the final, climatic part of the battle at the same time the track hits the sweet point where both Ori and Shriek's theme's literally and figuratively clash for the final time. It happened for me and boy! Was it an experience! Especially with the ending afterwards.
I forgot that, and each boss fight it's like that too unless the musical theme changes with the restart, but this fight especially the fact it doesn't is SO good.
You do not understand how much I love this song. Shriek is the name of the antagonist of the game, a malicious enormous Owl, similar to Kuro from the first game - however they are driven by Hatred and Hurt unlike Kuro. A very sad finale considering violence is the only thing Shriek ever knew, and in the end it retreats to the only place of comfort it had ever known; the petrified remains of its parents.
What makes this theme the best final boss theme in video gaming ever is a very simple technique they used. In the first phase its all shrieks theme, its hopeless its dramatic and its desperate, but in phase two you can hear just a bit of ori's theme leaking in as an undertone of hope, and then in phase three its even more obvious until it comes to a dramatic clash of shriek and oris motifs as a final duel between desperation for destruction and hope for life. ...utter beauty.
8:21 i love this part from the music, its a remix from the shriek theme and the main theme so ppl get the feeling of "is this the end? do i finally did it? is it done?" a short feeling of hope in the damatic and intense moment in my opinion
What it makes this battle my favorite in the world of video games is how it is built from the first Ori indirectly, and Ori as a peaceful creature that prefers to avoid conflict, at the end he is tired, he is desperate for the context of the moment. He simply goes to Death against the owl in raw fury. A fight where there are no winners and victory means nothing, simply emptiness. It is just perfect. 🔥
Yaaasss finally and spot on as always. One of my favorite boss battle themes in the OST. I also recommend the other battle themes like "Mora the Spider" and "Kwolok's Malaise". Can't recommend the Ori games enough, they're such beautiful and emotional games.
Shriek (not the owlet on the cover) is an owl physically corrupted by the decay of the land and psychologically scarred by the fear and rejection coming from his physical deformity. A very tragic main villain.
@@buusinhojr.9555Though tragic and unfair, it was somewhat warranted. No parent would willingly allow their kid to interact with another one that basically shows all the symptoms of lepracy for example. The small chance of it not being contageous in that one owlet is not worth it for any one of them who has a child of their own.
@@adamski6139 they’ve mentioned that will of the wisps was the last ori game. It does wrap up the story. Maybe in-universe some day but no more ori. No rest for the wicked is a top down rpg like Diablo, but handcrafted world, hand painted like ori, voice acted, etc but it’s gonna be early access in april
Shriek is the main antagonist of the second game. It is a sort of owl, though not the one on the cover image, so in that sense, you were right. I can't wait to see you react to the OST of both games in context. I know platformers aren't your style, but these games are little gems.
I literally can't listen to this song without crying. It's this culmination of all of these motifs that have so much emotion and meaning behind them, all wrapped in one of my favorite boss fights ever in a game. The last 30 mins of this game are pure genius and art.
Gareth Coker once said something like "Yeah when we made the Guinso Tree(Ori 1, tree escape) theme there was something missing and then I added Oris theme on it" That is something he perfected for all the boss battles in Ori 2. You can hear the dark menacing corrupted monster and the little light of hope, which ori literally is, in those themes
Second part of the song when it sounds heroic is the music when you are actually in second phase of the battle after a classic Ori escape sequence in between. At the end music changes again meaning that Ori might not win at all and it finishes unclear who will prevail at the end. Masterful song.
When the main theme comes in towards the end it never fails to give me chills and/or make me teary eyed. You should really play these games if you're at all interested Marco. Edit: typed this before I finished the video, so glad they're already on the list!
Thank you for doing this track! One of my favourite video game tracks ever made and it gets overlooked way too much imo. It definitely is helped by being built up throughout the entire game, but even alone it stands up so well.
This is one of my top, "the fight perfectly choreographs with the song" boss fights, next to Darkeater Midir. The ebb and flow matches the rhythm of the fight perfectly, with Shrieks flying going well with the quieter parts/ It feels so good In the game, and the battle of the two motifs that have been established throughout the game is brilliant. With Shrieks theme dominating during the beginning during the chorus(?) bits, and then ori's theme slowly overtaking hers. Still probably my favorite final boss theme of all time, just the way it encapsulates the game so well.
As soon as I saw the purple feather on the stump I clapped my hand over my mouth, and started tearing up, only to be much more potently crying at the ending of it.
The reason this is so dramatic is because it's the final boss theme. This game is fantastic at creating emotion through its art and music, the ending genuinely made me cry which is something no other game has ever managed to do.
didn't know you made another ori related video, can't get enough of these. man, ori deserves morr attention and i can't wait for moon studios new game releasing in april
Spoilers for those who have not played the game. This piece was triumphant and dramatic throughout, but it truly shines in the way it shows how truly DESPERATE the entire battle is. Shriek is known to be a force to be reckoned with, her attacks crack the earth, you can feel the viciousness and the full impact of every strike she makes. She's not just a monster, she's a literal force of nature. You have to spend so much of this fight on the defensive as Shriek harries you barely giving you a window to hit her back and the part where Ori's leitmotif kicks in (which is normally played during a turning point in the fight for other boss themes) is when you have to flee from her as the very ground itself crumbles beneath you. The final climax of the song happens when Shriek shatters the last bit of ground you have to stand on and you have to fight her on her terms - in the air without being able to fly as she dive bombs you and LITERALLY CALLS DOWN BLACK RAIN FROM THE SKY, you can hear her theme desperately trying to break through into being the main melody again as she sits in the background visibly winded and exhausted. And even at the end, there's no satisfying conclusion to the theme, it's just this massive rush of noise that echoes as Shriek tumbles from the sky and crashes down into the earth. No victory, no triumph, no honour. Just the relief that it's finally over. Absolute masterpiece of a song, Gareth Coker outdoes himself once again.
I remember when I saw the teaser for the sequel I kept thinking "god, the composer set a tremendously high bar for himself in the first game, how can he even match it?" and then he just absolutely blows the first game's soundtrack out of the water and I was stunned.
I would honestly love it if you did reactions to every single track from both Ori games. Gareth Coker is brilliant, one of the best video game composers of the last decade, and these OST are just a joy to listen to.
My favorite thing with all the boss themes in Ori and WotW (Kwolok, Mora, and Shriek) is how the music starts with a feeling of Ori being scared, hesitant, intimidated, anxious, but towards the end it’s like he’s accepted his role and rises as the hero he needs to be. Pure perfection of story telling through music
yes absolutely get around to playing these two. some of my favorites of all time, and I cried so hard in that second swelling of Ori's part of this piece.
I literally just finished this game yesterday. Hearing this theme during the fight made me wanna tear up because of how good it sounds and how it brings back the main theme.
These two games are easily some of my favorite games. Even without the great platforming, I still think I would love them just for the gorgeous art and soundtracks. I routinely listen to music from both games in my day-to-day life, and Kuro's Rage from the first game is easily one of my favorite pieces of music period.
I love this music because I can vividly recall the bossfight for each section as well as the ending. Ori's music is not very complex, but very pretty in its simplicity
A little mix of ori's theme and shriek's. You can feel the calm and the wrath overlapping each other every few moments, the hope and the dread. This was the final confrontation to save the forest of Niwen, so as the player it instills one idea into you: you will face the darkness and either you will save the forest the darkness or see all hope of salvation crushed under the wrath of Shriek
A personal favorite from this OST is "Escaping a Foul Presence" . Easily best experienced whilst playing the sequence, but epic in it's own right for how Ori's theme is recomposed to reflect their experience and confidence gained during the first game.
I love how over the course of the music, more and more voices come in and at the end almost completly overtake the music. Especially because Vocals are almost always present in Oris Ost, it makes it so much more epic.
The best part of the Ori sountrack is that this is _maybe_ my 15th most favorite song from it, and it's still basically a 10/10 Just about every single song in both games are perfect _and_ used perfectly in the game
I love so much the soundtrack of this game, so glad to see an analysis on your channel. Another game that is less known but pretty awesome is the game Child Of Light. The music is composed by Coeur de Pirate, an artist from my home place Québec. If you decide to try it out, I suggest you either The Deep Dark Well, The Highest Of The High, Hymn Of Light or Path to the Sky, which are one of my favorites of the game.
Late to the party, but I just want you to know that this whole final song sequence in the game gets me so hyped and then absolutely wrecks me by the end. I'm a sobbing mess, every time I hear it. Coker knows how to tug on them heartstrings....
Man gareth coker did such an incredible job with these games and shriek is such a fantastic villain. I know you tried to play blind forest and bounced the first time, some of its mechanics havent aged the best. But I do look forward to you playing it and WOTW. They are utterly unparalled in terms of art and music.
Shriek is a giant owl born with the affliction of the Decay - the antagonistic force that threatens the forests of the Ori games. Rejected by every living being from birth, and with part of her natural armor plating broken off late in the story by the light spirit Seir, Shriek finally explodes in rage against Ori - starting the final combat by snatching up Seir in her talons and attempting to crush them; knocking over Niwen's life-sustaining tree halfway through the battle; and finally destroying the very ground that Ori stands on, leaving nothing for the player to maneuver except for the falling particles of Shriek's own condensed dark power. To me, the music tells the story of a struggle of hope - first faltering, then resolute - against a blazing misery that wants only to reject it.
no way. i’m so happy you made a video on this. the whole soundtrack for this game is a masterpiece. it unfortunately got very overlooked because the second game didn’t get as much traction although i think it is actually a better game.
For those who don't know, imagine fighting a bird in the middle of the air ... and winning lol. Also in the art is lil' owlet Ku, Shriek is a much bigger and badder owl.
can't remember how the phases in the music goes. But during the final part of the fight, you have no ground to stand on. Your only way to not fall into the abyss is a feather of an owlet's mother, who was killed by Ori, because of misunderstanding. Letting you float on gusts of wind. Intermission: shriek was an owl born into a world where the life tree had died. This caused severe deformaties and her parents to die shielding her nest. Shriek was born into a dying world and sought revenge for the spirits that allowed her to live in tvhe first place, in this dying world. After the fight, she went back to her petrified parents and died alongside them.
Kuro and Shriek are the only antagonist that i feel bad for: Kuro just wanted to protect her last child, and almost set the entire island of Nible ablase. Shriek is heavaly deformed and never knew what kindness is.
HEY Marco, i think i have a song you would really enjoy analysing: Grommash Hellscream theme from World of Warcraft: Warlords of draenor. I feel like it tells a story of a brutal war band or leader - figure, but with touch of guilt or shame, like inner battle but it's vilanous, or heroic... and chilling at the same time ;) Thought i'd mention it here because it reminds me of this song, but slow and proud, villanous
As much as I love Ori I hated what they did to Shriek. Ori was all about light and hope, i was not very satisfied with "Well u can't save everyone" after we saw Shrieks Story, it was only pain all along. Not one good thing ever happend to Shriek. That was a bit to much for my little heart, so I never played the second part ever again. Also I much more enjoy the first Jump and Run Style of the Game, but the music tho - You can never go wrong with that. Gareth Coker did it again
As unfortunate as it is, I think it was more realistic in the end; I can't imagine someone easily turning away from darkness if that was their comfort all their life. As an example, I for one have grown accustomed to being alone after years of not having any friends to hang out with - even though I've learned to talk to other people, if I was suddenly asked to hang out, I wouldn't feel comfortable just jumping into it even if I wanted to, I need to get used to the idea first. I also think that if Shriek was saved, there would be people complaining about it being too similar to Kuro's redemption, arguing that it happened too easily and fast etc.
Shriek is an orphan owl who was horribly mutated in the egg because of a corrupting force Her appearance matches this : she's called the Stonewing because she's covered in stone and she walks by using the stone on her wings like stilts, and it's really freaky She's alone from birth, cursed from birth, and spreads the corruption that struck her wherever she goes When Ori reaches his hand to her after the stone around her face cracks, she reels back and flees In the final fight, Shriek and Ori fight to the death, Shriek trying to drag everyone down with her misery, the fight is gut-wrenching because of all the buildup and the music matched this And you know what the worst is ? You can see the corpses of her parents in the game and compare their size to Shriek, and she's much smaller ; in human years she would be 12-14 years old, she's just a teen...
Thing is shriek is a owl, but was infected by some sort of poison from the world at birth and because of it she was rejected by her own kind and went mad from being alone and longing for love and comfort to the point she rejected ori's love and compassion when he offered it
Play. them. I cannot understate just how good both games are, even the first game is amazing although it's gameplay is slightly different when it comes to combat. If you're a gamer at heart, or even a first time gaming casual, THIS OF ALL GAMES, is a game you MUST. PLAY. The music, the visuals, the emotional story, even the gameplay itself is so damn good and I literally can't gush enough about how good it is. This game is a golden example of why music is so important for a game to be a complete package and succeed.
You should check out the mythic path themes from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. It's a CRPG kinda like Baldur's Gate 3 and there are 10 mythic paths you can uncover and choose to become. Everything from an Angel, to a Demon, Lich, a literal walking swarm of demonic insects, Gold Dragon, the list goes on. But the cool thing about the music is you can tell just by hearing the themes which theme goes with which mythic path. Incredibly well done music.
Shriek is the final boss of the game. She is an owl, (not the one on the cover, that's Ku) but mutated, malformed. Unlike Kuro, the antagonist of the first game, whose motivations were maternal, Shriek's are hate and spite. She was shunned as a child, hated out of fear of her appearance, which made her hate life. This game's primary goal is to once again reignite the light of the great tree, in a new land named Niwen. However, as we try to, this fight occurs as Shriek tries to stop us. We, the final hope for a dying land, verses Shriek, a hateful, spiteful creature who, due to past trauma, wants to stop him. It's a glorious end to a game I personally consider one of the greatest works of art in the entire gaming industry. If I may, I would highly recommend you play this game on stream. It is a glorious game, and every second of the soundtrack is just as majestic as the beautiful artwork and landscapes.
Hey Marco, I know this video was posted 19 hours ago so you might not see this, but I just found out something very interesting. Apparently Dark Souls 3 has an unused boss ost called “Crimson Bat” and in my opinion, it’s the best boss ost in the game. It’s wild that this masterpiece didn’t make it into the final game.
If you loved Gareth's work on that, you should really give a try to some ARK osts, particularly the overseer theme, i wish someone gives interest to that pure epicness of a soundtrack 🙏
shriek is the main and end "boss", i say "boss" because.. yeah ppl that played the game understand what i mean.. 5:12 no the owl is ku, a important part from the first game.
Out of all the games I played, War Thunder's new Air Force OST surprised me the most. If you don't know, War Thunder is a vehicle shooter simulation game known for its vast selection of Planes, Tanks, and battleships from the 20s to the 90s, as well as being notorious for being the only game that had players leak real classified military documents for arguments on the forum. I have no clue why those OST slaps so damn HARD ua-cam.com/video/6NtlNV3MZbo/v-deo.htmlsi=W--VVy4A8tTJP7Wa
keygen chruch made a song called "La Chiave Del Mio Amor" about a month ago. i think you'd really enjoy it, though its not something that would get many views i think
Hey! I have a good prince of music I recommend you listen to. (This actually made me cry fr). It’s called: Flight, by Vincent Diamanté for the game Sky: Children of the light. Kind regards, Occyugqi. 😊
Some tracks from the game Path of Exile could also be neat to see you react to. While not everything from the OST is something i'd listen to by itself often, and the tracks tend to be very short, there's some stand out ones for me. My personal picks would be Legion (ua-cam.com/video/wkFLXBOBJrk/v-deo.html) and Orion (ua-cam.com/video/SRq4T1r2Qlg/v-deo.html) Since they're so short, if there were to be reactions to them, could probably fit both in the same video
hi from mexico, have you try to listening OST from anime series?? are a lot of really good song, like the songs you enjoy to analyze from video games!! if you can, try whit this song " dance of curse from Yoko Kanno" bye, i love your chanell
Whenever you play these games, if platformers are not your thing, just skip the race challenges. They're the most frustrating part. The rest should win you over easily with charm and beauty.
Initially was gonna describe Shriek's plot but upon hearing you'll play it eventually I'll refrain from spoiling. She is such a great antagonist, and I really appreciate what moon studios did with her. It's an odd thing to celebrate I realize but Ori games are incredibly good at engaging with deep sadness without losing themselves to it. And that is what Shriek's theme embodies to me; an irreconcilable hurt. Very very few games make me start playing through them again immediately after finishing and I did it like 5 times with will of the wisps.
The best thing about this game's music is by far that it doesn't restart when you die
it keeps the pacing up so well. more games should do stuff like this. it certainly makes failing a lot less frustrating
100%
What Gareth Coker did was make every part of the piece correspond to one moment of the battle, with a few parts that link them to each other.
Then, during the game, if you are killed, say, during the first part of the battle (before the 'escape' sequence' where you change platforms), the part corresponding to that point loops back.
It would only move onto the next part when you, the player, actively reach the next part of the battle. That way, and unless you are a pro who is tearing Shriek apart, you'll get to the final, climatic part of the battle at the same time the track hits the sweet point where both Ori and Shriek's theme's literally and figuratively clash for the final time.
It happened for me and boy! Was it an experience!
Especially with the ending afterwards.
I forgot that, and each boss fight it's like that too unless the musical theme changes with the restart, but this fight especially the fact it doesn't is SO good.
I never actually thought about that, but yeah I’d agree.
The Ori games are what initially got me to think of games as an art form; always glad to see them get recognition.
You do not understand how much I love this song.
Shriek is the name of the antagonist of the game, a malicious enormous Owl, similar to Kuro from the first game - however they are driven by Hatred and Hurt unlike Kuro. A very sad finale considering violence is the only thing Shriek ever knew, and in the end it retreats to the only place of comfort it had ever known; the petrified remains of its parents.
I absolutely love when the main theme starts coming in at the end with the choir
What makes this theme the best final boss theme in video gaming ever is a very simple technique they used. In the first phase its all shrieks theme, its hopeless its dramatic and its desperate, but in phase two you can hear just a bit of ori's theme leaking in as an undertone of hope, and then in phase three its even more obvious until it comes to a dramatic clash of shriek and oris motifs as a final duel between desperation for destruction and hope for life.
...utter beauty.
8:21 i love this part from the music, its a remix from the shriek theme and the main theme so ppl get the feeling of "is this the end? do i finally did it? is it done?" a short feeling of hope in the damatic and intense moment in my opinion
What it makes this battle my favorite in the world of video games is how it is built from the first Ori indirectly, and Ori as a peaceful creature that prefers to avoid conflict, at the end he is tired, he is desperate for the context of the moment. He simply goes to Death against the owl in raw fury. A fight where there are no winners and victory means nothing, simply emptiness. It is just perfect. 🔥
Yaaasss finally and spot on as always. One of my favorite boss battle themes in the OST. I also recommend the other battle themes like "Mora the Spider" and "Kwolok's Malaise". Can't recommend the Ori games enough, they're such beautiful and emotional games.
He has created one for Mora the Spider already a while ago, really awesome I have to say!
@@adamski6139 oh?? I must've missed it.
Shriek (not the owlet on the cover) is an owl physically corrupted by the decay of the land and psychologically scarred by the fear and rejection coming from his physical deformity. A very tragic main villain.
SHE WAS CUTE WHEN SHE WAS A BABY!! HER REJECTION WAS OUTRAGEOUS! IT WAS UNFAIR!
@@buusinhojr.9555Though tragic and unfair, it was somewhat warranted. No parent would willingly allow their kid to interact with another one that basically shows all the symptoms of lepracy for example. The small chance of it not being contageous in that one owlet is not worth it for any one of them who has a child of their own.
Finally more Ori, can’t wait for Moon studios next game coming soon! Art and music have always been #1 with them
Are they making a new Ori game? Or just a new game in general?
@adamski6139 if I remember right they're doing an RPG next
@@adamski6139 new game called "no rest for the wicked" and as far as trailer gets it's not ori 3
@@adamski6139 they’ve mentioned that will of the wisps was the last ori game. It does wrap up the story. Maybe in-universe some day but no more ori. No rest for the wicked is a top down rpg like Diablo, but handcrafted world, hand painted like ori, voice acted, etc but it’s gonna be early access in april
@@brassknucklehead1083 Definitely sounds great, I'll probably have to try it when it releases!
Shriek is the main antagonist of the second game. It is a sort of owl, though not the one on the cover image, so in that sense, you were right. I can't wait to see you react to the OST of both games in context. I know platformers aren't your style, but these games are little gems.
Shriek and Ori represents Shriek's fury, hatred, pain and loneliness. And this is the final battle, final moment between her and Ori.
I literally can't listen to this song without crying. It's this culmination of all of these motifs that have so much emotion and meaning behind them, all wrapped in one of my favorite boss fights ever in a game. The last 30 mins of this game are pure genius and art.
Gareth Coker once said something like "Yeah when we made the Guinso Tree(Ori 1, tree escape) theme there was something missing and then I added Oris theme on it" That is something he perfected for all the boss battles in Ori 2. You can hear the dark menacing corrupted monster and the little light of hope, which ori literally is, in those themes
When Ori's motif pierces through in Kwolok's Malaise, Escaping the Sandworm, and Shriek and Ori it elevates the tracks to high art IMO.
Second part of the song when it sounds heroic is the music when you are actually in second phase of the battle after a classic Ori escape sequence in between. At the end music changes again meaning that Ori might not win at all and it finishes unclear who will prevail at the end.
Masterful song.
When the main theme comes in towards the end it never fails to give me chills and/or make me teary eyed. You should really play these games if you're at all interested Marco.
Edit: typed this before I finished the video, so glad they're already on the list!
Thank you for doing this track! One of my favourite video game tracks ever made and it gets overlooked way too much imo.
It definitely is helped by being built up throughout the entire game, but even alone it stands up so well.
The Ori games are the first games that made me cry. So much emotion in this series.
This is one of my top, "the fight perfectly choreographs with the song" boss fights, next to Darkeater Midir. The ebb and flow matches the rhythm of the fight perfectly, with Shrieks flying going well with the quieter parts/ It feels so good In the game, and the battle of the two motifs that have been established throughout the game is brilliant. With Shrieks theme dominating during the beginning during the chorus(?) bits, and then ori's theme slowly overtaking hers. Still probably my favorite final boss theme of all time, just the way it encapsulates the game so well.
It was absolutely captivating the first time I played it, the sense of struggle and desperation is so powerful!
I obsessively listened to this song for about a year after I beat the game. Absolutely LOVE it
I still remember that the E3 2017 teaser was one of the only few times I had cried to a trailer. The music was so beautiful and the end...
As soon as I saw the purple feather on the stump I clapped my hand over my mouth, and started tearing up, only to be much more potently crying at the ending of it.
just heard a life performance of that song, i had tears in my eyes the whole time, so powerful and beautiful.
The reason this is so dramatic is because it's the final boss theme. This game is fantastic at creating emotion through its art and music, the ending genuinely made me cry which is something no other game has ever managed to do.
didn't know you made another ori related video, can't get enough of these. man, ori deserves morr attention and i can't wait for moon studios new game releasing in april
Spoilers for those who have not played the game.
This piece was triumphant and dramatic throughout, but it truly shines in the way it shows how truly DESPERATE the entire battle is. Shriek is known to be a force to be reckoned with, her attacks crack the earth, you can feel the viciousness and the full impact of every strike she makes. She's not just a monster, she's a literal force of nature.
You have to spend so much of this fight on the defensive as Shriek harries you barely giving you a window to hit her back and the part where Ori's leitmotif kicks in (which is normally played during a turning point in the fight for other boss themes) is when you have to flee from her as the very ground itself crumbles beneath you.
The final climax of the song happens when Shriek shatters the last bit of ground you have to stand on and you have to fight her on her terms - in the air without being able to fly as she dive bombs you and LITERALLY CALLS DOWN BLACK RAIN FROM THE SKY, you can hear her theme desperately trying to break through into being the main melody again as she sits in the background visibly winded and exhausted.
And even at the end, there's no satisfying conclusion to the theme, it's just this massive rush of noise that echoes as Shriek tumbles from the sky and crashes down into the earth.
No victory, no triumph, no honour. Just the relief that it's finally over.
Absolute masterpiece of a song, Gareth Coker outdoes himself once again.
I remember when I saw the teaser for the sequel I kept thinking "god, the composer set a tremendously high bar for himself in the first game, how can he even match it?" and then he just absolutely blows the first game's soundtrack out of the water and I was stunned.
Gareth Coker is just so fucking good man. EVERY game he does- he just makes it known his work is still Peak.
I would honestly love it if you did reactions to every single track from both Ori games. Gareth Coker is brilliant, one of the best video game composers of the last decade, and these OST are just a joy to listen to.
My favorite thing with all the boss themes in Ori and WotW (Kwolok, Mora, and Shriek) is how the music starts with a feeling of Ori being scared, hesitant, intimidated, anxious, but towards the end it’s like he’s accepted his role and rises as the hero he needs to be. Pure perfection of story telling through music
yes absolutely get around to playing these two. some of my favorites of all time, and I cried so hard in that second swelling of Ori's part of this piece.
I literally just finished this game yesterday. Hearing this theme during the fight made me wanna tear up because of how good it sounds and how it brings back the main theme.
Yooooo i did NOT expect you to return to Ori's OST, but i am very glad you did :D
These two games are easily some of my favorite games. Even without the great platforming, I still think I would love them just for the gorgeous art and soundtracks. I routinely listen to music from both games in my day-to-day life, and Kuro's Rage from the first game is easily one of my favorite pieces of music period.
God i would love for you to do a music playthrough of ori, such wonderful games and among some of my favorites of all time
I love this music because I can vividly recall the bossfight for each section as well as the ending. Ori's music is not very complex, but very pretty in its simplicity
A little mix of ori's theme and shriek's. You can feel the calm and the wrath overlapping each other every few moments, the hope and the dread. This was the final confrontation to save the forest of Niwen, so as the player it instills one idea into you: you will face the darkness and either you will save the forest the darkness or see all hope of salvation crushed under the wrath of Shriek
A personal favorite from this OST is "Escaping a Foul Presence" . Easily best experienced whilst playing the sequence, but epic in it's own right for how Ori's theme is recomposed to reflect their experience and confidence gained during the first game.
The water wheel scene with the tentacle dude in the back is peak
I love how over the course of the music, more and more voices come in and at the end almost completly overtake the music. Especially because Vocals are almost always present in Oris Ost, it makes it so much more epic.
The best part of the Ori sountrack is that this is _maybe_ my 15th most favorite song from it, and it's still basically a 10/10
Just about every single song in both games are perfect _and_ used perfectly in the game
I love so much the soundtrack of this game, so glad to see an analysis on your channel. Another game that is less known but pretty awesome is the game Child Of Light. The music is composed by Coeur de Pirate, an artist from my home place Québec. If you decide to try it out, I suggest you either The Deep Dark Well, The Highest Of The High, Hymn Of Light or Path to the Sky, which are one of my favorites of the game.
Also I’m putting two cents in for a reaction to “A Shine Upon Inkwater Marsh”. One of my favs
Late to the party, but I just want you to know that this whole final song sequence in the game gets me so hyped and then absolutely wrecks me by the end. I'm a sobbing mess, every time I hear it. Coker knows how to tug on them heartstrings....
Man gareth coker did such an incredible job with these games and shriek is such a fantastic villain.
I know you tried to play blind forest and bounced the first time, some of its mechanics havent aged the best. But I do look forward to you playing it and WOTW. They are utterly unparalled in terms of art and music.
As you can probably see from my profile pic, I love the Ori games. This song in particular is one of my favorites from the sequel
One of the most beautiful games I've ever played. Now I'm hyped for No Rest for the Wicked and what music it brings.
Shriek is a giant owl born with the affliction of the Decay - the antagonistic force that threatens the forests of the Ori games. Rejected by every living being from birth, and with part of her natural armor plating broken off late in the story by the light spirit Seir, Shriek finally explodes in rage against Ori - starting the final combat by snatching up Seir in her talons and attempting to crush them; knocking over Niwen's life-sustaining tree halfway through the battle; and finally destroying the very ground that Ori stands on, leaving nothing for the player to maneuver except for the falling particles of Shriek's own condensed dark power. To me, the music tells the story of a struggle of hope - first faltering, then resolute - against a blazing misery that wants only to reject it.
1:41 actually uses leitmotif (i think that’s what it is) from the first game’s antagonist theme
There is a reason I have this album on Vinyl. Truely some incredible music.
no way. i’m so happy you made a video on this. the whole soundtrack for this game is a masterpiece. it unfortunately got very overlooked because the second game didn’t get as much traction although i think it is actually a better game.
I would also recommend you "Kwolok's Malaise", another great battle theme
For those who don't know, imagine fighting a bird in the middle of the air ... and winning lol.
Also in the art is lil' owlet Ku, Shriek is a much bigger and badder owl.
winning you say? Couldn't be me. For at least 50 tries
Imagine thinking this is a game for children
can't remember how the phases in the music goes. But during the final part of the fight, you have no ground to stand on. Your only way to not fall into the abyss is a feather of an owlet's mother, who was killed by Ori, because of misunderstanding. Letting you float on gusts of wind.
Intermission: shriek was an owl born into a world where the life tree had died. This caused severe deformaties and her parents to die shielding her nest. Shriek was born into a dying world and sought revenge for the spirits that allowed her to live in tvhe first place, in this dying world. After the fight, she went back to her petrified parents and died alongside them.
Kuro and Shriek are the only antagonist that i feel bad for:
Kuro just wanted to protect her last child, and almost set the entire island of Nible ablase.
Shriek is heavaly deformed and never knew what kindness is.
I love it it feels so fatal fillt with hatred it give the feeling shriek is a calamity perfekt for the final act
HEY Marco, i think i have a song you would really enjoy analysing:
Grommash Hellscream theme from World of Warcraft: Warlords of draenor.
I feel like it tells a story of a brutal war band or leader - figure, but with touch of guilt or shame, like inner battle but it's vilanous, or heroic... and chilling at the same time ;)
Thought i'd mention it here because it reminds me of this song, but slow and proud, villanous
yessss, more Ori soundtrack reactions, thank youuu
I absolutely love Ori and can't wait for you to play it! ❤️❤️❤️
As much as I love Ori I hated what they did to Shriek. Ori was all about light and hope, i was not very satisfied with "Well u can't save everyone" after we saw Shrieks Story, it was only pain all along. Not one good thing ever happend to Shriek. That was a bit to much for my little heart, so I never played the second part ever again. Also I much more enjoy the first Jump and Run Style of the Game, but the music tho - You can never go wrong with that. Gareth Coker did it again
How would have you done it differently, if saving shriek was an option how would you write that
As unfortunate as it is, I think it was more realistic in the end; I can't imagine someone easily turning away from darkness if that was their comfort all their life. As an example, I for one have grown accustomed to being alone after years of not having any friends to hang out with - even though I've learned to talk to other people, if I was suddenly asked to hang out, I wouldn't feel comfortable just jumping into it even if I wanted to, I need to get used to the idea first. I also think that if Shriek was saved, there would be people complaining about it being too similar to Kuro's redemption, arguing that it happened too easily and fast etc.
Davi Vasc: Pumping his hand with the beat. ua-cam.com/video/0dU_I7LIr6s/v-deo.html
Marco: Bouncing with the beat. 1:43
Shriek is an orphan owl who was horribly mutated in the egg because of a corrupting force
Her appearance matches this : she's called the Stonewing because she's covered in stone and she walks by using the stone on her wings like stilts, and it's really freaky
She's alone from birth, cursed from birth, and spreads the corruption that struck her wherever she goes
When Ori reaches his hand to her after the stone around her face cracks, she reels back and flees
In the final fight, Shriek and Ori fight to the death, Shriek trying to drag everyone down with her misery, the fight is gut-wrenching because of all the buildup and the music matched this
And you know what the worst is ? You can see the corpses of her parents in the game and compare their size to Shriek, and she's much smaller ; in human years she would be 12-14 years old, she's just a teen...
Thing is shriek is a owl, but was infected by some sort of poison from the world at birth and because of it she was rejected by her own kind and went mad from being alone and longing for love and comfort to the point she rejected ori's love and compassion when he offered it
Play. them. I cannot understate just how good both games are, even the first game is amazing although it's gameplay is slightly different when it comes to combat.
If you're a gamer at heart, or even a first time gaming casual, THIS OF ALL GAMES, is a game you MUST. PLAY.
The music, the visuals, the emotional story, even the gameplay itself is so damn good and I literally can't gush enough about how good it is.
This game is a golden example of why music is so important for a game to be a complete package and succeed.
Ori Will of the Wisps has to be one of my favourite games of all time and the music is a big part in that.
I love how you are saying this songs has rocks throwing and whirlwinds and that is basically 90% of the boss battle lol
You should check out the mythic path themes from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. It's a CRPG kinda like Baldur's Gate 3 and there are 10 mythic paths you can uncover and choose to become. Everything from an Angel, to a Demon, Lich, a literal walking swarm of demonic insects, Gold Dragon, the list goes on. But the cool thing about the music is you can tell just by hearing the themes which theme goes with which mythic path. Incredibly well done music.
Shriek is the final boss of the game. She is an owl, (not the one on the cover, that's Ku) but mutated, malformed. Unlike Kuro, the antagonist of the first game, whose motivations were maternal, Shriek's are hate and spite. She was shunned as a child, hated out of fear of her appearance, which made her hate life.
This game's primary goal is to once again reignite the light of the great tree, in a new land named Niwen. However, as we try to, this fight occurs as Shriek tries to stop us. We, the final hope for a dying land, verses Shriek, a hateful, spiteful creature who, due to past trauma, wants to stop him. It's a glorious end to a game I personally consider one of the greatest works of art in the entire gaming industry.
If I may, I would highly recommend you play this game on stream. It is a glorious game, and every second of the soundtrack is just as majestic as the beautiful artwork and landscapes.
yes! been waiting for this!
Hey Marco, I know this video was posted 19 hours ago so you might not see this, but I just found out something very interesting. Apparently Dark Souls 3 has an unused boss ost called “Crimson Bat” and in my opinion, it’s the best boss ost in the game. It’s wild that this masterpiece didn’t make it into the final game.
Ori games should be nominated as state of art pieces
Yes!, he finally listened to the Ori games!
If you loved Gareth's work on that, you should really give a try to some ARK osts, particularly the overseer theme, i wish someone gives interest to that pure epicness of a soundtrack 🙏
shriek is the main and end "boss", i say "boss" because.. yeah ppl that played the game understand what i mean.. 5:12 no the owl is ku, a important part from the first game.
Best thing about ori is the cut content 💀
Out of all the games I played, War Thunder's new Air Force OST surprised me the most. If you don't know, War Thunder is a vehicle shooter simulation game known for its vast selection of Planes, Tanks, and battleships from the 20s to the 90s, as well as being notorious for being the only game that had players leak real classified military documents for arguments on the forum.
I have no clue why those OST slaps so damn HARD ua-cam.com/video/6NtlNV3MZbo/v-deo.htmlsi=W--VVy4A8tTJP7Wa
If you like Gareth Cocker's musics you should definitely check his work on Darksiders Genesis. Main theme and Astarte are super amazing !
Macro you have to check out Grime osts
Grime is such an underrated beautiful game
'The final performance'
'Grime'(menu theme) are my recommendations
I still need to finish this game 😢
keygen chruch made a song called "La Chiave Del Mio Amor" about a month ago.
i think you'd really enjoy it, though its not something that would get many views i think
I don't play but music create in my mind scenes of fable story where main characters step into final acts
You should heard punishing gray raven (in my memory) that song sounds like movie with good ending
Highly recommend Ori games. I would also ask you try Ender Lillie’s too?
For you want to know who shriek is
It was a zombie owl that ori defead before and help her baby became vengeful spirit animal that all i know 😅😅😅
Marco needs to analyze the Opening Theme of TNO or even the Burgundy Lullaby
Marco, wold you be privy to listening to some Splatoon music? i think there are a few tracks that would be quite interesting for you to listen to!
I misread the title as Shrek and Ori
*classic*
Hey! I have a good prince of music I recommend you listen to. (This actually made me cry fr). It’s called: Flight, by Vincent Diamanté for the game Sky: Children of the light.
Kind regards, Occyugqi. 😊
So is it time to do Kwolok's malaise now? :D
i love ori even though I played very little of it (don't own a xbox)
Shreik is the main big bad of Ori and the Will of the Wisps and is the final boss
Yay Ori! ❤
Some tracks from the game Path of Exile could also be neat to see you react to. While not everything from the OST is something i'd listen to by itself often, and the tracks tend to be very short, there's some stand out ones for me.
My personal picks would be Legion (ua-cam.com/video/wkFLXBOBJrk/v-deo.html) and Orion (ua-cam.com/video/SRq4T1r2Qlg/v-deo.html)
Since they're so short, if there were to be reactions to them, could probably fit both in the same video
you better fuckin play them or else
FINALLY
hi from mexico, have you try to listening OST from anime series?? are a lot of really good song, like the songs you enjoy to analyze from video games!! if you can, try whit this song " dance of curse from Yoko Kanno" bye, i love your chanell
wait you havent listened to this one?
It's good but too much looping idk. I feel like 3 to 4 minutes would have been perfect. Wish there was a shorter version on YT.
Please react to child of light ost too
Can we see left 4 dead ost please
Whenever you play these games, if platformers are not your thing, just skip the race challenges. They're the most frustrating part. The rest should win you over easily with charm and beauty.
Dang it I wasn't the first
Initially was gonna describe Shriek's plot but upon hearing you'll play it eventually I'll refrain from spoiling. She is such a great antagonist, and I really appreciate what moon studios did with her. It's an odd thing to celebrate I realize but Ori games are incredibly good at engaging with deep sadness without losing themselves to it. And that is what Shriek's theme embodies to me; an irreconcilable hurt. Very very few games make me start playing through them again immediately after finishing and I did it like 5 times with will of the wisps.
I think I cried more with her ending scene than with Ori's ending scene.