Please don’t feel like you need to apologize for pausing to appreciate and analyze the themes, if it bothers people they can just skip ahead! Guilty Gear songs are always packed full of details about the characters and the story down to even the instrumentals, but not all of us are able to fully understand what’s going on, so it’s amazing to have someone as experienced as yourself break it down in a way we can digest!
I think the impact of music is so much greater if you just experience it uninterrupted for the first time. You can even see that here - by the time the song ends, he's forgotten that the jazzy part at the end also appears at the start (but distorted) which makes sense because that was almost 20 minutes ago at that point. My preferred way of doing things would be that Tony first listens to the song in full (while still giving live reactions) before going back and going through it with a finer toothed comb, pausing and replaying pieces of it. Let him (and viewers who haven't heard the song before) experience the music just as someone listening before putting on the analysis hat.
If you wanna listen to the song why not just click off and listen to actual song The point of this video is to analyze it and talk about his opinions of course hes gonna pause it to share his words, he aint gonna let the song keep playing while he talks
"Did anything suggest that we'd get the strong 6/8 feel at the end?" Interestingly enough, yes! If you go back to the beginning of the song you can actually hear the 6/8 piano line in the background along with the same lyrics as at the end. This is a nod to Zato still having a small shred of his humanity and emotions after what happens to him which is incredible.
Alone Infection❌ Armor Clad-Faith✅ Crawl❌ Drift✅ Extras❌ Find Your One Way❌ Hellfire❌ Just Lean❌ Let Me Carve Your Way✅ (Finally!) Like a Weed, Naturally, as a Matter of Course✅ Love the Subhuman Self❌ Mirror of the World✅ Necessary Discrepancy✅ Out of the Box❌ Perfection Can't Please Me❌ Play the Hero❌ Requiem❌ Rock Parade❌ Smell of the Game✅ Symphony✅ The Circle✅ The Disaster of Passion❌ The Gravity✅ The Hourglass❌ The Kiss of Death❌ The Roar of the Spark❌ The Town Inside Me❌ Trigger❌ What do you fight for✅
"Let Me Carve Your Way" is such a wild ride that it's easy to miss that it effectively bookends itself, it's just that the first time the jazzy bit shows up, it's muted and distorted. It's only at the end that you hear it clearly, as though the two halves of the song have finally come into sync.
It feels like two different songs were fighting with the darker more violent one dominating most of the song until the end where they come together and that initial song finally shines through.
Hey DrumrollTony, I play Zato and your technical description of the song draws a lot of parallels with how he is played in game as we as his background story. Your videos allow me to appreciate the game in even more ways, thanks!
@@DrumRollTonyReacts Just a fun fact elaborating on this point - Zato is a character that controls two different characters, hence why the voice and the instruments are all over the place and in different tempos - it is supposed to illustrate how there are 2 different entities in display here
A short summary of who Zato is. Zato is the leader of a assassin's guild, using ancient magic, he summoned a living shadow named Eddie but he gives up his eyesight in the process. Eddie eventually takes over Zato's body and accidentally kills him. Zato is somehow revived, but he loses all of his emotions, but one. Love Zato us trying to remember what love feels like. By trying to protect his "lover" Millia Milla's theme is 'Love the subhuman self' Also at the very end of this song, you can hear the singer of millia's theme
As a self proclaimed GG nerd, ackhyually... - Magic isn't ancient really, sice Eddie is speculated to have been created to hunt gears (100 years before game takes place) - Eddie Killing Zato, I am pretty sure was intentional. He just didn't expect that, as a parasite, he would have to follow his old master soon. - Feeling is not necessarily love. It is just the fact he has any feelings towards anything or anyone at all is of importance.
Finally haha, it was just a matter of time until you get to this point. (and yes! Stop apologizing for pausing to explain your thoughts and going back; it's what makes those videos more interesting!)
Love your Guilty Gear videos to death, man. All your content is great, but I've listened to these tracks a thousand times with the full character context, and you're still showing me completely new details to love about them. Thank you for that.
this song always makes me tear up a little bit cause of the last part. the vocals and instruments sound so gutwrenchingly yearning kinda? idk how to word it
The thing about strive songs in particular is that they are phenomenal pieces of music by themselves but get elevated even more when one is aware of the character's backstory and themes that they represent. I am sure someone will write out the background to who Zato (the guy this theme is for) is, but this theme perfectly encapsulates his tragic story using musical themes and clever writing. It's why guilty gear just has the best OST
Fun little fact about Zato’s theme, the final section of the song will almost never play in a normal game match, it’s too long, even if you time out every stock (which is just under 5 minutes) it will just barely start the piano section. Knowing Daisuke’s style, that’s probably symbolism of Zato’s real thoughts never being able to come out
The ballad at the end is the same lyrics as the out of place sounding lyrics that begin the song. They clash with the song in the beginning only to be overwhelmed but then come back front and center by the end. ArcSys recently had a concert at the finals of their tournament circuit and I so badly wish this was one of the songs they played, it would've blown the roof off the venue, especially the ballad at the end. There's a lot of songs that you could make an argument for being Daisukes and Naokis magnum opus, but of all of those I think this is the most appreciated one by most people and for good reason. Usually reactors listen to Love the Subhuman Self, and then get told to listen to this because Millia and Zatos stories are so closely connected to eachother, but in your case the opposite is happening lol. You should definently listen to Love the Subhuman Self either next or soon, it's incredible and also the only song you've listened to with Aisha on it so far is Necessary Discrepancy which she was only in the first 3rd of the song. Shes the lead singer of Love the Subhuman Self and it's probably her best work on the whole soundtrack. Zato was a member of the assasins guild, an organization created by a dandy vampire named Slayer with the intention of fighting for the people by toppling corrupt world leaders, but when Slayer left the guild Zato inherited leadership and the group took a darker more greedy turn. Zato was sadistic but very charismatic and a womanizer. He brought Millia into the guild and became her teacher and her lover, and they both invoked forbidden magic to obtain the power of forbidden beasts. In Zatos case he sacrificed his eyesight to wield the forbidden beast Eddie aka that shadow creature you saw. These forbidden beasts are like parasites and seem to be natual enemies to Gears, and Eddie is exceptionally ferocious even to Zato. Millia eventually escaped the guild and then later she killed Zato out of revenge for the abuse she suffered and the life he made her go down. Eddie controlled Zatos corpse for awhile but then was captured by a group called the conclave who experimented on them for their own goals, and ended up resurrecting Zato, except his emotions and personality are now shattered, and his memories feel only faintly there. That is until he encounters Millia again and the memories all came back. Now *he* follows *her* and helps her with her dreams and goals, hense "let me carve your way". His personality post-ressurection is so different than his old self that it honestly feels like it counts as a different person. To him it must feel like a normal person being dropped into the body of someone with immeasurable sin but also some sweet memories. Btw Slayer the dandy vampire is the next DLC character coming to Strive on May 30th and just from the trailer his theme titled "Ups and Downs" sounds fucking amazing definently check it out once it drops.
Please, stop a million and a thousand more times. That's what makes your analysis so good, you always find things I really can't find because I have no musical background. And that analysis makes me appreciate the music even more.
the sporadic riffs and stuffs at 0:40 paint a very cool visual image of life slowly flowing back into a corpse, making the muscles twitch, the drums, the heart slowly starting back up. (which considering zato's story is very fitting) Naoki really can tell stories by composition, its so insane
Man, please continue pausing all you want to analyze, that's what a lot of us come for. If I wanted to hear the song I'd just listen to it, because I absolutely appreciate your commentary, it helps me and a lot of other people understand songs beyond we could do on our own. Keep up the great work!
Let me detail to you exactly how I reacted when I saw the notification. Swiped it away at first, then froze. I literally dropped everything when I realized it was Zato. "Was that Let Me Carve Your Way? Was that Let Me Carve Your FREAKING Way?" Went onto RUclips. It's Let Me Carve Your Freaking Way. I'm filled with joy.
Love the GGST reaction video as always, and if anything I was disappointed it wasn't longer. You spent a lot of time stopping and starting at the beginning, and then just listened to the entire ending section all the way through, and only once. I was sure you were going to have more to say about that part! The thing I most enjoy about your "reactionalysis" videos is that you point out new things in every song that I had been appreciating as part of the whole, but not really noticing as individual elements, and that extra depth of understanding lets me enjoy the songs even more. You actually turned me around on "Iron-clad Faith," which I previously hadn't been a big fan of, and I expect if you ever do "Trigger" you might be the RUclipsr who gets me to actually like the song instead of just accepting it as part of the soundtrack as a whole. So, you know, thanks for doing what you do in such a smart and detail-oriented way. 😁
I'm glad to hear you find value in it. Lol I was worried sly the ending as I had already stopped so much. I have to remind myself that some folks are OK with longer vids
Out of all the people i’ve seen cover guilty gear strive’s soundtrack, you have done a phenomenal job in comparison. I really appreciate your constant pauses to break down and analyze the music, you should not have to apologize for that. It really gives you legs to stand on instead of being someone who watches through it with little commentary besides at the end adding little beyond “i like it”. I’m gonna have to see what you have to say about some of the other songs because you really add to these.
I've been combing through your videos and I have come to EXPECT you to pause a bunch. Please continue to do so, I (and a lot of other people probably) learn so much just listening to you make noises and talk about sound design composition, etc. It like a seminar or lecture, very cool.
I live for your considered analysis with the pauses and everything, its why I come here! You keep doing you brother, its great to watch, this was super cool to get your take on such a complicated piece
Im glad you took your time with this song. Thanks to you I heard stuff I had never heard before, like the guitar in the background because i was distracted by the melodic/singing moments.
I don't know a whole lot about Guilty Gear lore, but I do know Zato does have this fight between dark and light inside him. And, I feel the major shifts between the metal sounds, and then the melodic, piano sections and voiclines represent the dark and light fighting within him for control. In the beginning, the melodic lines and piano, when they do appear, are buried under the heavy metal tones, showing how much the dark has control, and by the end the song has swung almost fully to the light side, with no more of that metal sound, and it becomes that really beautiful, melodic version again. It is absolutely a unique and different song, and I enjoy it quite a bit. Seems very fitting for the character too
I'm rewatching this one several times just to bump up the analytics for longer stuff. Love the vids regardless of length but longer videos means more of your insight on the songs which is ultimately better than reactors going "oh that's sick!" without elaborating. You already mentioned how you pause a lot at the start of the vid so you don't really need to apologise for it. The fact that you do though is kinda endearing since you get so excited you feel like you gotta apologise just to geek out (don't gotta though)
The song is very in tune with what the character story is, more than usual. This guy was a pretty big villain, and he was an abuser towards Millia ( a character whose theme you haven't seen yet but echos this one a lot ). he died, and got resurrected. After these events, he has no memories ( Those sweet memories ), but feels unexplicably attracted towards Millia because she's the only person making him still feel any emotions. The first lyrics being muffled, and then redone at the end but very clear, show his progression in those events.
I loves this song since the release of the game mainly because it is builty magnificently: During the first minute of the song you get the two flavours of the piece, the vals and the death metal, BOTH AT THE SAME TIME AND WITH DIFFERENT TIME SIGNATURES. And it sound PERFECT. Ans as you progress through the song, you get to hear them again in a more developed way. Truly spectacular
I've played this game for a grand total of 10 hours so far, but I still consider myself a huge fan of this character and his theme. Something about Zato-1 just speaks to me. I love him.
And if you notice, the voice at the end is the same of the intro of the song, and sounds amazing. I think that the piece describes exactly how character is, with both personalities combined
The even craziest part to me is that every single detail in the songs compositions are always considering the character story and what they are going through, and I'm not talking just about lyrics.
I really love the fact that you enjoy doing these reviews, most GGS songs are fully packed with the feelings of the characters and/or their backstories and current motivations. This one in particularly is a weird song because of Zato himself is, and how messed up his past up to strive was, and the fact that you still enjoyed it without having a lot of context of the lore behind it tells a lot about how well done were these themes made. Hope you enjoy the rest, because there is still a long list to analyze.
Keep the Guilty Gear music coming, your reactions/first listen analysis videos are the best in both presentation and content on RUclips! Love it when true music enthusiasts make reaction content
Hey tony i would highly recommend reading the wiki for these characters before hearing the theme; the themes are heavily based on characters stories and emotions. Zato in particular, is possessed by a shadow beast who at first forcefully controls him (discordant opening) but by the end they are one and working together (the ending being in sync) and that is really scratching the surface
Well that sounds cool and all but my videos are about first time listens with analyzing the music from a layered listening standpoint. Having no context allows straightforward processing of the music without any bias that might shift interpretation
@@DrumRollTonyReacts and that is fair, i watch ya for the musical breakdown. Just think it is interesting how daisuke translates character themes into music
This is one of my favorites too, it’s a very complex and very different piece compared to anything I’ve heard before and by the end you’re feeling this emotional ballad that you wouldn’t see coming.
The protagonist of the song LOVE THE SUBHUMAN SELF and the character of this song are lovers. This song is also a song in response to this film. I hope the next GGST song will be about this song.
The muffled old-timey verse you heard at the beginning is your only foreshadowing for the end, it’s of course character related and a concept of romance made in song form - as it’s revisited in that last section but made clear and filled out! Really glad you enjoyed this one, I saw the video length and immediately knew you thought this one was cool!
Anybody who knows what this channel does, and who knows Zato's theme already knew coming into this that we were going to spend a huge amount of time pausing. Its a hell of a dense song.
Fun fact about this song is that its one of the longest songs in the game. So much so that even if you play out the timer in all the rounds you won't hear it all
I know this song is great, and I like it, but it was never one of my favorites. I think I now have a newfound appreciation for it, thanks to this video. Also, I love the amount of pausing, going back and explaining that you do. That's what makes your videos so great.
What always sold me on this song was the ending, it’s so nice. Another of my favorite tracks from this game are Alone Infection and Just Lean, both have permanent homes on my playlist
I always viewed this song as a pure representation of zato and eddie fighting for control over the body and thus zato's fate. The lyrics after the melodic intro with eddie literally shouting zato down forcing him to "vanish into dark" as you can no longer hear the original melody. And then the final section being zato finally getting his voice heard after being shut out for so long and that feeling of freedom.
Let Me Carve Your Way, is definitely a chaotic song but it grew on me. I enjoyed how it changes so much, but this was after learning Zato's story, that I started to pick up the interesting sounds. It's a very challenging song to get use too. 😆 Keep up the work in breaking the songs down, I even pick up somethings that I missed from watch this. 😆
This is basically unrelated to the video, but I thought I'd just point out that I really appreciate you pronouncing the name of the Japanese artists so well. Most people just say the names as if they were English words (which is totally fine, too, if you ask me), but you pronouncing them correctly really shows how respectful you are, and I appreciate that.
Man I was so excited to see this one. Ever since you started doing Guilty Gear Strive themes this was the one I was waiting for, easily one of the more beloved because of that ending piece. I think context helps understand this lyrically and that kind of menacing vibe you picked up but it's not that beneficial vs. some other characters. Big fan of this review of guilty gear themes, not a ton left for strive which is kind of sad but there's a number of other vocal tracks somebody will hopefully kick in for. Love the Subhuman Self next!
The electric guitar, bass and drum are Eddie's parts. He's the shadow demon you see around zato, and why those parts are so loud and aggressive. The vocals and piano are zato. And they are very different beings working in a symbiotic relationship. But that's why there feels like a huge disjoint in the song at parts, and unison in others.
If you like guilty gear music i highly recommend you Freesia from Guilty Gear Xrd, is a song so different from the rest of Guilty gear music, you should check it! nice video :)
Yeah, the end is the beginning but finally played clearly. Zato spends the whole song trying to cover up his true emotions with violence and rage in the guitars and drums. Hense "Vanish into Dark" but the song isn't called Vanish into Dark, it's called Let Me Carve Your Way, which is the jazzy ballad with the piano. I know you said you don't care about the characters or lyrics but this whole song is Zato trying to live without his ex (Millia).
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Please don’t feel like you need to apologize for pausing to appreciate and analyze the themes, if it bothers people they can just skip ahead! Guilty Gear songs are always packed full of details about the characters and the story down to even the instrumentals, but not all of us are able to fully understand what’s going on, so it’s amazing to have someone as experienced as yourself break it down in a way we can digest!
Yeah if they want to listen to it just look it up and listen by itself
Took the words right out of my mind
Fr! If I wanted to listen to the whole song uninterrupted I would just listen to it on its own! I’m here for analysis and reaction!
I think the impact of music is so much greater if you just experience it uninterrupted for the first time. You can even see that here - by the time the song ends, he's forgotten that the jazzy part at the end also appears at the start (but distorted) which makes sense because that was almost 20 minutes ago at that point.
My preferred way of doing things would be that Tony first listens to the song in full (while still giving live reactions) before going back and going through it with a finer toothed comb, pausing and replaying pieces of it. Let him (and viewers who haven't heard the song before) experience the music just as someone listening before putting on the analysis hat.
If you wanna listen to the song why not just click off and listen to actual song
The point of this video is to analyze it and talk about his opinions of course hes gonna pause it to share his words, he aint gonna let the song keep playing while he talks
The one guy that's been asking for Zato theme forever is finally happy.
Hehe
u right
I wasnt asking, but you right
“The guitars talk to each other it’s unsettling” BECSUSE ITS EDDY AND ZATO TALKING I never thought of it that way before and it’s so hype I got chills
A fight for the tonal center is crazy.
This video is so hype I have to keep commenting I never noticed Zato and Eddys clash was happening in the music
If this guy knew ZATO-1 as a character the music would make so much sense and I bet he would also be just as excited lol
They're in different time signatures, too. Zato is in 3/4, eddy is in 4/4. More or less.
LET ME! LET ME! LET ME CARVE YOUR WAY!
I'M A SHADOW ALWAYS WITH YOU~ 😭
song hits different when you know zatos backstory
still can't avoid shedding tears during last part
"Did anything suggest that we'd get the strong 6/8 feel at the end?"
Interestingly enough, yes! If you go back to the beginning of the song you can actually hear the 6/8 piano line in the background along with the same lyrics as at the end. This is a nod to Zato still having a small shred of his humanity and emotions after what happens to him which is incredible.
Alone Infection❌
Armor Clad-Faith✅
Crawl❌
Drift✅
Extras❌
Find Your One Way❌
Hellfire❌
Just Lean❌
Let Me Carve Your Way✅ (Finally!)
Like a Weed, Naturally, as a Matter of Course✅
Love the Subhuman Self❌
Mirror of the World✅
Necessary Discrepancy✅
Out of the Box❌
Perfection Can't Please Me❌
Play the Hero❌
Requiem❌
Rock Parade❌
Smell of the Game✅
Symphony✅
The Circle✅
The Disaster of Passion❌
The Gravity✅
The Hourglass❌
The Kiss of Death❌
The Roar of the Spark❌
The Town Inside Me❌
Trigger❌
What do you fight for✅
Wow I have lots to do
and soon to add Ups and Downs on may 30th
@@DrumRollTonyReacts I'm so unbeliveably hype for when you get to Alone Infection my man
@@DrumRollTonyReacts That list doesn't even account for pre-Strive songs, so you have even more.
And Slayer is coming.
something else to appreciate is that Zato's VA is also DIO from JJBA lol that guy's in everything
Oh wow that is cool
Lmao and then his English VA is Matt Mercer who is equally everywhere
@@xlandedit7639 His English VA is Jotaro, ironically
@@Envy_Dragonand mcree, and levi ackerman, and leon kennedy, and yusuke from persona, and espio from sonic, and...
@@Ohokk0MAJIMA GORO
"Let Me Carve Your Way" is such a wild ride that it's easy to miss that it effectively bookends itself, it's just that the first time the jazzy bit shows up, it's muted and distorted. It's only at the end that you hear it clearly, as though the two halves of the song have finally come into sync.
It feels like two different songs were fighting with the darker more violent one dominating most of the song until the end where they come together and that initial song finally shines through.
That one guy who’s been asking is freaking our rn
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Hey DrumrollTony, I play Zato and your technical description of the song draws a lot of parallels with how he is played in game as we as his background story. Your videos allow me to appreciate the game in even more ways, thanks!
That's awesome 👌
@@DrumRollTonyReacts Just a fun fact elaborating on this point - Zato is a character that controls two different characters, hence why the voice and the instruments are all over the place and in different tempos - it is supposed to illustrate how there are 2 different entities in display here
oh damn the ever elusive zato main
@@Ohokk0 not elusive enough
@@joemogley character is bottom 3 relax
A short summary of who Zato is.
Zato is the leader of a assassin's guild, using ancient magic, he summoned a living shadow named Eddie but he gives up his eyesight in the process.
Eddie eventually takes over Zato's body and accidentally kills him.
Zato is somehow revived, but he loses all of his emotions, but one. Love
Zato us trying to remember what love feels like. By trying to protect his "lover" Millia
Milla's theme is 'Love the subhuman self'
Also at the very end of this song, you can hear the singer of millia's theme
I didn't notice AISHA at the end there! Good catch!
As a self proclaimed GG nerd, ackhyually...
- Magic isn't ancient really, sice Eddie is speculated to have been created to hunt gears (100 years before game takes place)
- Eddie Killing Zato, I am pretty sure was intentional. He just didn't expect that, as a parasite, he would have to follow his old master soon.
- Feeling is not necessarily love. It is just the fact he has any feelings towards anything or anyone at all is of importance.
I know the analytics suggest that people don't watch your longer stuff, but I loved this being 20+ minutes long. Great stuff as always!
Finally haha, it was just a matter of time until you get to this point. (and yes! Stop apologizing for pausing to explain your thoughts and going back; it's what makes those videos more interesting!)
yes another guilty gear reaction. love it.
Love your Guilty Gear videos to death, man. All your content is great, but I've listened to these tracks a thousand times with the full character context, and you're still showing me completely new details to love about them. Thank you for that.
this song always makes me tear up a little bit cause of the last part. the vocals and instruments sound so gutwrenchingly yearning kinda? idk how to word it
I do know how to discribe it : FEELS
20:19 the train goes into a tunnel, thus "vanishing into dark," and then shows up in a station halfway across the country. this happens multiple times
The thing about strive songs in particular is that they are phenomenal pieces of music by themselves but get elevated even more when one is aware of the character's backstory and themes that they represent. I am sure someone will write out the background to who Zato (the guy this theme is for) is, but this theme perfectly encapsulates his tragic story using musical themes and clever writing. It's why guilty gear just has the best OST
Fun little fact about Zato’s theme, the final section of the song will almost never play in a normal game match, it’s too long, even if you time out every stock (which is just under 5 minutes) it will just barely start the piano section.
Knowing Daisuke’s style, that’s probably symbolism of Zato’s real thoughts never being able to come out
This theme is definitely a favorite! Ending kills me every time
The ballad at the end is the same lyrics as the out of place sounding lyrics that begin the song. They clash with the song in the beginning only to be overwhelmed but then come back front and center by the end. ArcSys recently had a concert at the finals of their tournament circuit and I so badly wish this was one of the songs they played, it would've blown the roof off the venue, especially the ballad at the end. There's a lot of songs that you could make an argument for being Daisukes and Naokis magnum opus, but of all of those I think this is the most appreciated one by most people and for good reason.
Usually reactors listen to Love the Subhuman Self, and then get told to listen to this because Millia and Zatos stories are so closely connected to eachother, but in your case the opposite is happening lol. You should definently listen to Love the Subhuman Self either next or soon, it's incredible and also the only song you've listened to with Aisha on it so far is Necessary Discrepancy which she was only in the first 3rd of the song. Shes the lead singer of Love the Subhuman Self and it's probably her best work on the whole soundtrack.
Zato was a member of the assasins guild, an organization created by a dandy vampire named Slayer with the intention of fighting for the people by toppling corrupt world leaders, but when Slayer left the guild Zato inherited leadership and the group took a darker more greedy turn. Zato was sadistic but very charismatic and a womanizer. He brought Millia into the guild and became her teacher and her lover, and they both invoked forbidden magic to obtain the power of forbidden beasts. In Zatos case he sacrificed his eyesight to wield the forbidden beast Eddie aka that shadow creature you saw. These forbidden beasts are like parasites and seem to be natual enemies to Gears, and Eddie is exceptionally ferocious even to Zato. Millia eventually escaped the guild and then later she killed Zato out of revenge for the abuse she suffered and the life he made her go down. Eddie controlled Zatos corpse for awhile but then was captured by a group called the conclave who experimented on them for their own goals, and ended up resurrecting Zato, except his emotions and personality are now shattered, and his memories feel only faintly there. That is until he encounters Millia again and the memories all came back. Now *he* follows *her* and helps her with her dreams and goals, hense "let me carve your way". His personality post-ressurection is so different than his old self that it honestly feels like it counts as a different person. To him it must feel like a normal person being dropped into the body of someone with immeasurable sin but also some sweet memories.
Btw Slayer the dandy vampire is the next DLC character coming to Strive on May 30th and just from the trailer his theme titled "Ups and Downs" sounds fucking amazing definently check it out once it drops.
Please, stop a million and a thousand more times. That's what makes your analysis so good, you always find things I really can't find because I have no musical background. And that analysis makes me appreciate the music even more.
Any Guilty Gear track is a welcome video - thanks for keeping em coming
the sporadic riffs and stuffs at 0:40 paint a very cool visual image of life slowly flowing back into a corpse, making the muscles twitch, the drums, the heart slowly starting back up. (which considering zato's story is very fitting) Naoki really can tell stories by composition, its so insane
Daisuke is the one that does the composing and Naoki sings, but yes, you're definitely right :)
Man, please continue pausing all you want to analyze, that's what a lot of us come for. If I wanted to hear the song I'd just listen to it, because I absolutely appreciate your commentary, it helps me and a lot of other people understand songs beyond we could do on our own. Keep up the great work!
Let me detail to you exactly how I reacted when I saw the notification.
Swiped it away at first, then froze. I literally dropped everything when I realized it was Zato. "Was that Let Me Carve Your Way? Was that Let Me Carve Your FREAKING Way?" Went onto RUclips. It's Let Me Carve Your Freaking Way. I'm filled with joy.
LOL
Gotta slow down that swipe away habbit 😂👀👉
Love the GGST reaction video as always, and if anything I was disappointed it wasn't longer. You spent a lot of time stopping and starting at the beginning, and then just listened to the entire ending section all the way through, and only once. I was sure you were going to have more to say about that part!
The thing I most enjoy about your "reactionalysis" videos is that you point out new things in every song that I had been appreciating as part of the whole, but not really noticing as individual elements, and that extra depth of understanding lets me enjoy the songs even more. You actually turned me around on "Iron-clad Faith," which I previously hadn't been a big fan of, and I expect if you ever do "Trigger" you might be the RUclipsr who gets me to actually like the song instead of just accepting it as part of the soundtrack as a whole. So, you know, thanks for doing what you do in such a smart and detail-oriented way. 😁
I'm glad to hear you find value in it. Lol I was worried sly the ending as I had already stopped so much. I have to remind myself that some folks are OK with longer vids
Guilty Gear music will never disappoint. I love this series.
Out of all the people i’ve seen cover guilty gear strive’s soundtrack, you have done a phenomenal job in comparison. I really appreciate your constant pauses to break down and analyze the music, you should not have to apologize for that. It really gives you legs to stand on instead of being someone who watches through it with little commentary besides at the end adding little beyond “i like it”. I’m gonna have to see what you have to say about some of the other songs because you really add to these.
hearing the end for this song really makes me want to hear you review either "the name of heaven" or "freesia", the more tonal song from guilty gear
I’ve been waiting for this one. Great reaction as always!
Appreciate it
I've been combing through your videos and I have come to EXPECT you to pause a bunch. Please continue to do so, I (and a lot of other people probably) learn so much just listening to you make noises and talk about sound design composition, etc. It like a seminar or lecture, very cool.
Will do! Thx
I live for your considered analysis with the pauses and everything, its why I come here! You keep doing you brother, its great to watch, this was super cool to get your take on such a complicated piece
I appreciate that
As a zato main this video was extremely satisfying loved hearing your thoughts on the song
You are a dying species, you’re one of the few Zato mains remaining.
@ObviousEnzo For now, yes, but just you wait after this patch we zato mains shall be feasting indeed!
Im glad you took your time with this song. Thanks to you I heard stuff I had never heard before, like the guitar in the background because i was distracted by the melodic/singing moments.
I don't know a whole lot about Guilty Gear lore, but I do know Zato does have this fight between dark and light inside him. And, I feel the major shifts between the metal sounds, and then the melodic, piano sections and voiclines represent the dark and light fighting within him for control. In the beginning, the melodic lines and piano, when they do appear, are buried under the heavy metal tones, showing how much the dark has control, and by the end the song has swung almost fully to the light side, with no more of that metal sound, and it becomes that really beautiful, melodic version again. It is absolutely a unique and different song, and I enjoy it quite a bit. Seems very fitting for the character too
I'm rewatching this one several times just to bump up the analytics for longer stuff. Love the vids regardless of length but longer videos means more of your insight on the songs which is ultimately better than reactors going "oh that's sick!" without elaborating. You already mentioned how you pause a lot at the start of the vid so you don't really need to apologise for it. The fact that you do though is kinda endearing since you get so excited you feel like you gotta apologise just to geek out (don't gotta though)
Thx for the rewatch. I appreciate it
The song is very in tune with what the character story is, more than usual.
This guy was a pretty big villain, and he was an abuser towards Millia ( a character whose theme you haven't seen yet but echos this one a lot ). he died, and got resurrected.
After these events, he has no memories ( Those sweet memories ), but feels unexplicably attracted towards Millia because she's the only person making him still feel any emotions.
The first lyrics being muffled, and then redone at the end but very clear, show his progression in those events.
I loves this song since the release of the game mainly because it is builty magnificently: During the first minute of the song you get the two flavours of the piece, the vals and the death metal, BOTH AT THE SAME TIME AND WITH DIFFERENT TIME SIGNATURES. And it sound PERFECT. Ans as you progress through the song, you get to hear them again in a more developed way. Truly spectacular
You always manage to put proper knowledge and words to what I can only ever say "sounds amazing".
I've played this game for a grand total of 10 hours so far, but I still consider myself a huge fan of this character and his theme. Something about Zato-1 just speaks to me. I love him.
Now we just need a little "Extras" (Elphelt's theme)
Extras is so sick.
Rub a Dub Dub🗣️
@@Anthem34 YEAH YEAH
Too late my baby🗣️🗣️
yes bro, I totally agree with you
And if you notice, the voice at the end is the same of the intro of the song, and sounds amazing. I think that the piece describes exactly how character is, with both personalities combined
A SONG PARTLY WRITTEN IN A POLYRHYTHMIC TIME SIGNATURE
LOSS IN 3/4, NIHILISM IN 4/4
Pretty sure it's a lot of 6/4 as written, not 3/4, but they can count the same way so the difference doesn't matter too much @Sushiman118
FINALLLY!!!!! Now we need Alone Infection (Faust Theme)
The even craziest part to me is that every single detail in the songs compositions are always considering the character story and what they are going through, and I'm not talking just about lyrics.
Also dont ever be sorry for the longer videos, the longer the better!!!
I absolutely LOVE longer, more in-depth reactions with lots of commentary like this. Please keep this up!
Love your reactions. Helped me notice a lot more when I listen to other music. Thank you!
I really love the fact that you enjoy doing these reviews, most GGS songs are fully packed with the feelings of the characters and/or their backstories and current motivations. This one in particularly is a weird song because of Zato himself is, and how messed up his past up to strive was, and the fact that you still enjoyed it without having a lot of context of the lore behind it tells a lot about how well done were these themes made. Hope you enjoy the rest, because there is still a long list to analyze.
I'm here for all the pauses for analysis and commentary. It helps me appreciate and understand the music more.
Man I wish I heard more of that creative kick drum rhythm in music.
Keep the Guilty Gear music coming, your reactions/first listen analysis videos are the best in both presentation and content on RUclips! Love it when true music enthusiasts make reaction content
Your enthusiasm is infectious and your analysis insightful, keep up the good work!
Wow, this is the first time ive seen you somewhat struggle to explain whats going on😂. I dont blame you though, this song fucking insane
On the note of guilty gear please check the song freesia. It's a sort of rock ballad very beatiful and sentimental.
If that songs ever catches me in a bad place I will bawl my eyes out, very beautiful piece
Straight facts
FREEEEESIAAAAAAA
@@ChronicallyTweaking HEEEREEE I AAAMM
@@Mironescu-ul6bd AND SORRY!! SORRY!! SOOOOORRYYYYY
Brought me in tears every time singing along with the last part
Hey tony i would highly recommend reading the wiki for these characters before hearing the theme; the themes are heavily based on characters stories and emotions.
Zato in particular, is possessed by a shadow beast who at first forcefully controls him (discordant opening) but by the end they are one and working together (the ending being in sync) and that is really scratching the surface
Well that sounds cool and all but my videos are about first time listens with analyzing the music from a layered listening standpoint. Having no context allows straightforward processing of the music without any bias that might shift interpretation
@@DrumRollTonyReacts and that is fair, i watch ya for the musical breakdown. Just think it is interesting how daisuke translates character themes into music
This is one of my favorites too, it’s a very complex and very different piece compared to anything I’ve heard before and by the end you’re feeling this emotional ballad that you wouldn’t see coming.
The protagonist of the song LOVE THE SUBHUMAN SELF and the character of this song are lovers. This song is also a song in response to this film. I hope the next GGST song will be about this song.
The muffled old-timey verse you heard at the beginning is your only foreshadowing for the end, it’s of course character related and a concept of romance made in song form - as it’s revisited in that last section but made clear and filled out!
Really glad you enjoyed this one, I saw the video length and immediately knew you thought this one was cool!
if they wanted to just hear the song they can go listen we're here for ur opinion man
Anybody who knows what this channel does, and who knows Zato's theme already knew coming into this that we were going to spend a huge amount of time pausing. Its a hell of a dense song.
Fun fact about this song is that its one of the longest songs in the game. So much so that even if you play out the timer in all the rounds you won't hear it all
So fun to watch when it's so clear that you're enjoying yourself!
Because of this legendary track I got into GUILTY GEAR and the rest is HISTORY. Thank you Daisuke sama ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
I know this song is great, and I like it, but it was never one of my favorites. I think I now have a newfound appreciation for it, thanks to this video.
Also, I love the amount of pausing, going back and explaining that you do. That's what makes your videos so great.
Yess!! thank you, i didnt expect this!!!
I'VE BEEN WAITNG FOR THIS AAAHHHH this made my day instantly better
Extras, alone infection, requiem, subhuman...too many bangers in the ist not touched yet 😂
7:05 I love how we’re all here to listen to his thoughts but he argues with himself like he’s talking to an annoying brother, it’s comedy gold
What always sold me on this song was the ending, it’s so nice. Another of my favorite tracks from this game are Alone Infection and Just Lean, both have permanent homes on my playlist
I always viewed this song as a pure representation of zato and eddie fighting for control over the body and thus zato's fate. The lyrics after the melodic intro with eddie literally shouting zato down forcing him to "vanish into dark" as you can no longer hear the original melody. And then the final section being zato finally getting his voice heard after being shut out for so long and that feeling of freedom.
Been waiting for this one!!!
Let Me Carve Your Way, is definitely a chaotic song but it grew on me. I enjoyed how it changes so much, but this was after learning Zato's story, that I started to pick up the interesting sounds.
It's a very challenging song to get use too. 😆
Keep up the work in breaking the songs down, I even pick up somethings that I missed from watch this. 😆
Finally! I have been waiting to see you listen to this, pauses included
This is basically unrelated to the video, but I thought I'd just point out that I really appreciate you pronouncing the name of the Japanese artists so well. Most people just say the names as if they were English words (which is totally fine, too, if you ask me), but you pronouncing them correctly really shows how respectful you are, and I appreciate that.
Hell yeah! I hope you react to Freesia at some point
I think you'd really love Elphelts theme from guilty gear called Extras. It's amazing and has a lot of new instances for your channel!
I once had some sweet memories...
i feel like this song gets even better on the second listen, because the beginning becomes an obvious foreshadowing for the end part
Alas, the best guilty gear theme
Absolute cinema
It’s not 1 to 1 but the ending ballad part sounds very reminiscent of “My Melancholy Blues” by Queen.
I know everyone was patiently waiting for him to arrive at the final minute and a half or so, I sure was.
Man I was so excited to see this one. Ever since you started doing Guilty Gear Strive themes this was the one I was waiting for, easily one of the more beloved because of that ending piece.
I think context helps understand this lyrically and that kind of menacing vibe you picked up but it's not that beneficial vs. some other characters.
Big fan of this review of guilty gear themes, not a ton left for strive which is kind of sad but there's a number of other vocal tracks somebody will hopefully kick in for.
Love the Subhuman Self next!
The last minute of this song is pure heaven's material
Ishiwatari Daisuke also did Blazblue themes. I'd say GG themes are harder rock, but both are amazing. Thank you for the upload! ❤
it feels like listening to a king krimson or zappa track, theres just so much
The electric guitar, bass and drum are Eddie's parts. He's the shadow demon you see around zato, and why those parts are so loud and aggressive. The vocals and piano are zato. And they are very different beings working in a symbiotic relationship. But that's why there feels like a huge disjoint in the song at parts, and unison in others.
I've been waiting for this one!
If you like guilty gear music i highly recommend you Freesia from Guilty Gear Xrd, is a song so different from the rest of Guilty gear music, you should check it! nice video :)
Please do some of the older Guilty Gear songs like Freesia, Icarus etc
Gotta dissect the feeling of getting your dp baited
The holy Trinity:
Lily
Icarus
Freesia
20:19 The best trains take shortcuts.
Chills everytime with this one❤️
There’s a new character theme for guilty gear called: Ups and Downs- Slayers Theme. Just released today👍
👀👀
Me to man I love crazy weird songs, I've been hooked on all of strives songs.
I love this song so much because it's EVERYWHERE, like if schizophrenia had a theme song
Yeah, the end is the beginning but finally played clearly. Zato spends the whole song trying to cover up his true emotions with violence and rage in the guitars and drums. Hense "Vanish into Dark" but the song isn't called Vanish into Dark, it's called Let Me Carve Your Way, which is the jazzy ballad with the piano.
I know you said you don't care about the characters or lyrics but this whole song is Zato trying to live without his ex (Millia).