Echoes of the Eye Soundtrack - Echoes of the Eye
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2021
- Composed by Andrew Prahlow for Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye
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One eye called out. Two eyes locked it away. Three eyes sought to find it. Four eyes witnessed its conclusion.
There's some sick fanart built around that fact
@@quantumblur_3145 Really? Link?
@@quantumblur_3145 I am also waiting for a link :)
@@quantumblur_3145 you MONSTER LINK IT
@@quantumblur_3145 link it coward
After spending the whole game learning, you become the teacher.
*YES,* it's such a good moment
This is a brilliant summary
Considering the nature of the game, and especially with how the meeting with Solanum went, I didn't think it's something the game would let you do, and it wouldn't have worked in a text-based format, but by god, those glorious bastards at Mobius Digital did it.
@@Leafia_Barrett yeah
This was the moment that sold the DLC to even arguably being better than the main game. When the Prisoner presents you the memory staff. It does a rare thing that even with having a silent first person main character you can describe the totality of your story. Like the game presented exactly what all of us wanted to tell the Stranger and it is just so perfect.
The howl the prisoner gives out is exactly what I needed in that moment. Such a special moment that no doubt made an enormous impact on the feelings towards both characters stories.
and the third character... me ;(
howl? i thought it was yawning lmao
@@BIGBWAR2929 It's a cry similar to an elk
It killed me.
And then when he walked to the door and asked for his staff back, I immediately knew what was going to happen. I desperately tried to think of something that I could do, to change his mind or make him stay or find a way to ask him more questions, but then I realized that I could never take him with me. Not only did my curiosity drive me to *die* to get there, but the prisoner, the *real* prisoner locked in the real coffin, has been dead for hundreds of thousands of years. Everyone he ever knew is dead, and his actions indirectly caused the deaths of hundreds of others.
There was nothing left for him but to go out on his own terms.
It looked and sounded like he was overwhelmed with emotions.. same as I..
"My role in this ended long ago, and now I’ve learned my efforts weren’t in vain. Thank you for facing what was hidden in the dark."
Just found out where this quote came from and I... _disagree with,_ but respect, your choices
@@quantumblauthor7300 where is it from?
@@IWatchVideosWithThis not remember the owl guy
@@dou5397 I still don't get who in their right mind would choose that...
@@dou5397 oh i see the option to not include him. would never pick that so never seen that line
When the Traveler's Theme kicks in at 1:31 is when I lost it. The visuals, the mood, not to mention the raw emotional power of all of this knowledge being basically beamed into the Prisoner's head... Like a literal song of hope and validation after all those years of despair and loneliness.
I was extremely skeptical when the DLC was announced, but it fits so damn perfectly. I'm going to be incredibly nostalgic for this song 10 years from now.
It's also mixed with the Outer Wilds theme as a whole, what with the woodwind like instrument at the end.
@@abbywindy There's also pieces of space theme in the background of Traveler's one. As a result, Traveler's theme + Space theme = Outer wilds. I love this so much.
I'm nostalgic for it now!
For me it was the nomai theme being included that broke me
Well, it'll be nostalgic in 22 minutes depending on how you look at it. ::)
Seeing the parts of this sequence that showed all of the Hearthian's history was incredibly heartwarming. As much as I love the Nomai and the Strangers, seeing Feldspar discovering some Nomai ruins felt special
This song in particular has the harmonica play at a part too
@@Klavin I noticed that too, it was a great detail
@@Klavin I didn’t even notice that! My jaw just dropped! Andrew Prahlow is a genius
@@Klavin Actually, I think it mainly plays in the dark bramble slides which he was very connected to. I’d like to think because of our memory of him, beasties will exist in the next universe
@@FearlessGamer27 If you hadn't visited the Vessel before meeting the prisoner, since that part of the slideshow would be missing, the harmonica would land on the moment before Feldspar arrives.
It was truly beautiful how both the story and the music of this DLC reiterated and built upon the themes of the original game. This is a masterclass in what a DLC should be; something that builds upon and completes a work that you already thought was whole until you experienced this missing piece.
Im becoming increasingly more appreciative of how they did EVERYTHING different in the dlc. Not JUST new mechanics. But not even using old mechanics not even your ship! Not just new writing. But telling the whole narrative WITHOUT writing. Not space. But still a tremendously compelling world that maintains the core games dynamism and small size but huge impression.
And all still in complete support of the main theme of death
@@vVAstrAVv Death, Discovery, and Defeating the Ever-Present Fear of the Unknown
So true... Everyone thought outer wilds was over, but no one noticed how even the nomai mencioned that the eye suddently stopped emmiting its signal
Yes, best dlc I ever played honestly.
If only its gameplay was less irritating...
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
Being able to tell the Prisoner that their actions were not in vain was probably the most emotionally powerful moment I've ever experienced in any game.
Ripples in time
When the Kestrel sank in Ace Combat 5 is a close contender for me.
I was too confused to cry at the ending. But reading your comment relit the flame in me to keep thinking about how insane this dlc is. I never even realised how significant this was for them. It never crossed my mind even though this was obvious.
Thanks! that was the missing thing to the dlc that makes it as good as the rest of the entire game.
I dont really get it. Isnt eye responsible for the end of all life after all?
Or life in the end of the cycle will be almost over coz ALL stars (im not talking about just our homestar) go supernova anyway, and the only chance is to reset universe with eye?
@@fareastman8127 ALL the stars are going supernova, and there seems to be no way to stop it. It's quite literally the end of the universe, or at least the end of all life in it. So the universe must be "reset" by the Eye, which can only be done when a conscious observer (in this case, our Hearthian) creates endless possibilities for a new universe and collapses them into a single reality. This creates a Big Bang, birthing a new universe.
All they had to do was give you the option to hug the prisoner at the end and it would've been a 10/10
*11/10, its already 10/10 :D
@@colekavanaugh4559 so true lol
The fact you can't hug the Prisoner or Solanum is a crime. Each of them are trapped by time and space, and for the first time in thousands of years, they aren't alone. They deserve hugs.
Well at least Solanum doesn't feel like she's been trapped for 400,000 years
Sadly they are all quantum images except the Protagonist (the observer in this case).
Feldspar inspired so many hearthians to become travellers and explore the stars. What a legend.
Just wanted to hunt some beasties, instead became a part of something so much more.
@@Murmarine Oh man, I can totally see a whole mini subplot of feldspar just wanting to adventure, and then becoming this legend to everyone back home. No wonder they want to keep chilling in Dark Bramble for a bit longer, to avoid the pressure. Makes them a lot more "human" too in a way
In my head I read all his lines as Typhon DeLeon from Borderlands 3
A friend of mine who knows nothing about this game saw Feldspar and called him the Doom Slayer because of his helmet. I paused and said "I want to say you're wrong, but you're not exactly."
I demand a Feldspar spinoff
I think one of the most underrated parts of this is at 0:38 when the Nomai theme comes in right as the signal reaches them, followed by Feldspar's harmonica at 0:55 when the ship warps into Dark Bramble. Just really subtle motifs that bring it all together.
it gives me chills
Notice the next section, as the Nomai are building new homes: a new banjo joins the existing one, alongside some percussion. Brittle Hollow and Ember Twin
@@Failuigi41Chert and Riebeck
@@Failuigi41 so this is all about the Hatchling (banjo+guitar) retelling the story?
you mean the part where I started crying
Imagine being shown through someone's memories, that your actions had such a massive effect on not only the solar system, but the entire universe.
I like to think the music is part of the actual vision. The Prisoner hands this strange four-eyed fish thing the vision torch and is treated to a beautiful, haunting melody, using instruments wildly different from anything they had experienced back before their imprisonment. The Prisoner responds with a brief cover of the main melody of the song in their vision torch up above, using their native instruments with a touch of yours, alongside their farewell message.
That makes so much sense it hurts because one fundamental level music is a universal language.
It's fair to assume that "Vision" torch is a misleading term. Have you noticed how few writings there are around the Stranger? It makes sense when you think about it. I believe Vision torch technology is an empathetic system that shares feelings and sounds just as well as pictures. Why bother with primitive writing when you can share what's literally on your mind, without the need for a flawed medium?
It also explains a lot about Elk culture, like how they are more devout and less scientific than the Nomai. It makes sense that a society built around hyperempathy is less prone to self-examination and distanciation from their own emotions.
@@FadingZebra I think it's part of the DLC design too. A large portion of the base game is just spent reading through all the nomai writings. In order to try something new, mobius went for a more visual way of storytelling in the dlc and I think it worked out phenomenally.
you made me cry
I think you're right, because in the final vision with the Prisoner and the Hearthian riding on a raft together, you can hear the Prisoner's attempt at recreating the traveller's theme, so I think music is added based on the vision torch holder's emotions at that moment
For a space game DLC, the themes of this were surprisingly down to earth. Just because we are faced with truths that horrify us, that doesn't mean we should deny them or escape from them. The healthy thing to do is face them head on. Because maybe these truths actually have good to them in the end.
I mean a lot of the base game themes were almost literally down to earth as well though. The whole hearthian philosophy is basically that =)
i see what you did there
There is something so Hearthian when the prisoner shows you his race's history, and then you add a circle in between the beginning and the end of his neatly spaced out circle. Just a small detail I noticed.
Strapped together with sticks and tape, you're so right
@@quantumblur_3145 The epitome of Hearthian - Messily strung together with seemingly incongruent components, yet it works all the same.
@@fragrantwinter8233 space orcs
@@quantumblur_3145 Ha!
i may be crying, but so are you
I didn't really cry, but GODDAMN did I feel so much
I didn't cry (damp emotions) but i did one better
I smiled
i'm not crying... it's stardust...
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”
This game took that quote to a whole new level, and that's why I love it so much
And the Nomai "puzzle" at the ending section of the game represents exactly that :)
D'oh! I just got the title... literal echoes of the eye. They're the signals the Nomai picked up.
Nah i think theyre being less literally. The echoes are the effects of the eye itself not just the signal.
How it made one stranger rebel. And how it inspired civilizations after that. With just moments no less
I feel like the last signal isn't the echo, but rather we are.
The eye used to send out its signal loud and clear until the inhabitants of the stranger (I like to call them Owlks) silenced it (save for one burst let out by the prisoner); The Nomai detected the signal from the eye long after it has been silenced for good and came to search for it; and now we're picking up the search where the Nomai left off because of the writings they left behind, even though we have never detected a single original signal from the eye (well, I guess the quantum signals are in the same frequency but I don't think they count).
So even though the eye has gone silent long ago the echoes of its calls are still heard across the solar system, waiting for someone to hear them and pick up the search until they find the source or bounce the echo for someone else to hear.
@@navetal right, i was thinking the same thing. An echo is a reflection of sound. Not the sound itself. Us reaching the eye is only from the work of the previous species. The protagonist saw both stories reach its end, completed their journey, and was even able to tell them about it, in one form or another. Coming back, thousands of years later to tell the Prisoner the information we gathered. The echo of the eye finally returning to him.
The three vault seal symbols are waves reverberating off the interior of an enclosed space
I see it as a metaphor for the strangers as a whole.
In their pursuit to flee from the eyes prediction, they became echoes of their former selves.
Echoes of the eye.
As a sidenote I personally believe that the prisoner is the last surviving members of a species, as it was ghost matter that killed all the rest but he was underwater and ghost matter cannot travel through water…
So ironically the only one who excepted the truth was the only one who truly stayed alive…
what a fucking legendary expansion
there is never ever going to be a game like Outer Wilds again.
God I hope that isn't true.
True.
But there will be games and experiences that will be just as unique and beautiful in their own ways. Which is kind of the point, I feel like.
The past is past, now, but that’s… you know, that’s okay! It’s never really gone completely. The future is always built on the past, even if we won’t get to see it. Still, it’s um, time for something new, now.
What amazes me about Echoes of the Eye it is that is a story told entirely without any words, and because of that, it is universal. Anyone could understand the story of Echoes of the Eye, even entirely different species, just like the communication between the prisoner and the hearthian. It is an amazing piece of art and game that I just don’t know how it could ever be topped.
This actually is probably my favorite moment in a video game ever
y'know, the prisoner and the hearthian aren't really that different in the end. both given the gift of effective immortality against their will, but both still more or less trapped and completely isolated from the rest of the solar system
And Solaanum! :-)
@@geggiiis Inmortality through the death of the physical body but perpetuity of the consciousness in a digital space, due to the betrayal of their kind; death of the body in 5 of 6 possible quantum states, rendering the 6th state in a state of perpetual youth, caused by pure chance during a pilgrimage; and a single, perpetual memory and consciousness living on through continued and repeated death thanks to an information sending time loop that started by pure chance.
Also gabbro
@@WD_Gaster66 sorry, the quantum states death... wut? I didnt catch that
@@joseignacioreallozano348 Solanum dead on the Quantum moon that orbits the Hourglass, Timber, Brittle, Deep and Bramble, but alive on the moon that orbits the Eye.
A Schrodinger cat and box situation (Solanum and the moon respectively) but the cat is dead 5 out of 6 times
Deng Riebeck went HARD in this one.
This part especially 0:39
This game will forever stay in my heart.
I can only say thanks.
Thanks to the devs.
Thanks to Andrew Prahlow.
For me this game marks an unforgettable point of my life.
Hope my kids will able to play it.
"I hope that that a child inspired by it will grow up and make a fantastic game one day. I'd love to play it."
-Toby Fox, on Undertale (Paraphrased)
@@karhu7581 that's really sweet, almost makes the borderline psychotic community more bearable
@@luckerowl8990 What the internet did to Undertale is a travesty. I am now embarassed to say that it is one of my favorite games of all time and one of my go-to examples of how video games can be high art. As it happens, another great example of games as art would be Outer Wilds.
@@karhu7581 I remember watching lets plays of it in 2014 and thinking it was super cool and then looking back 4 years later to see some disturbing shit
@Mzartek Ketrazm I couldn't have said it better myself.
That intro and first minute or so really sounds like the “Final Voyage” of this DLC. Someone said it really well a while back; “the universe must be put to rest, it will wait no longer.”
Perfect quote, really
@@shlunk5187 thanks, it’s not mine, it’s somewhere in the comments of a remix of 14.3 Billion Years and Outer Wilds Reprise.
Edit: it’s actually in the comments for Final Voyage, I was thinking of a longer one that is equally as touching.
That ending slide showing you that his efforts weren’t for nothing and that his sacrifice did mean something and then him howling in joy and walking out to be free for the little amount of time he gets. God this game and dlc were good and just created I narrative I connected with deeply.
"You couldn't have known it at the time, but what you did... set in motion... a chain of events... spanning across space and time... across the lives and deaths of entire civilizations... inspiring the creation of entire new technologies... all culminating in this. Very. Moment. With me here before you. You did what you thought was right, and they locked you away for eternity. But now, thanks to you, we have a chance to reach the place so many have tried and failed before us. And maybe, just maybe, we'll find a way for everything to be alright in the end. It's time for the both of us to face our fears."
*i may not Have long in this loop*
*but i will keep the memories*
*T h a n k y o u*
i just realized. the banjo is playing the nomai motif heard throughout the game. the music itself is reflecting hatchling recalling the story of the nomai. god the soundtrack of this game is cool!
I never even noticed that! Thanks for pointing that out! 💖💖
This is just beautiful, I expected a lot from the DLC and I think my expectations were exceeded, thank you Mobius for the amazing DLC and Andrew for the great music.
The running away from deer-owls in the pitch dark then falling into a lake and resetting your progess was a bit terrible, but I think at the end, it was worth it.
@@squishy1706 yeah the stealth parts of the game might be its weakest point, but still a masterpiece
@@squishy1706 Gets you an achievement though
@@squishy1706 tbf. The stealths only really unforgiving once.
Once you know everything youre walking over hidden bridges to skip 3 4ths of it and shutting your light to skip the last 4th.
Even before all that its not tooooo bad. The owls dont seem to see your light from far away unless youre focusing it. Or see you unless youre in their own light. You could basically just focus lure them and run around their back lol
@@elli072002 I don't think you're supposed to actually stealth in those areas, there are much easier and fair (and probably intended) ways to complete them.
I can't breathe. I did it!
It wasn't finding the codes that I had to do - I had to use what I found in those archives. It should've been obvious, I had to apply the rules. They weren't going to make it easy to get into something that they spent so long to seal.
I thought I was going to find something, but I found someone. He looked broken. One of his antlers was broken, too. He told me what they did to him, why he was locked in here, and I almost started crying when I saw that he deactivated the signal blocker. He didn't realize the implications of that.
And then I showed him. I showed him the signal that he released, and that the Nomai heard it. I showed them coming to our solar system, and the escape pods. I showed them setting up their civilization, them researching the eye... and then the ghost matter, and then a Hearthian discovering their notes and taking it back to Timber Hearth, and how everything led back to me. I told him how we were connected. I told him how he caused us to meet. I showed him how his actions got me to where I was now.
He howled and thanked me, and I knew he was grateful. I know there are timelines where we will have never met. I know every other one will be like that. Every other timeline results in him dying from the death of the universe in this coffin, never knowing what he was able to do.
...but in this one, he did know. He died knowing. And after everything I've been through, that's good enough for me.
Hey, I just want to say I've seen your comments on other videos in this playlist, and they capture the sentiments of each part of their story so well. But this one in particular has a single moment that it hits you, fittingly for such a pivotal song, at the very peak of this story, this medley of everything that makes the game sound and feel so good.
"He didn't realise the implications of that. *beat* And then I showed him."
Excellent work, honestly.
Would you believe me if I told you I cried reading this?
This is the definitive track of the whole game for me, can't watch this part without tearing up. The scene encapsulates the central feeling of the whole game for me. "I'm glad to have lived". We show the prisoner that his efforts weren't in vain, that because of him we got to exist and know wonder and awe and beauty and love. Yeah we might fly crappy little wooden ships and play dinky banjo music, but that shows just how much we love to explore and learn and LIVE.
Echoes of the Eye is the perfect name for this song and DLC as a whole. Even when the fearful tried to hide the Eye away, the rebellion of the one among them that believed in the Eye's premise led a new clan to this system, whom driven by their curiosity of what the Eye held, would ultimately pave a new path for the traveler to follow and find it.
This is probably an unpopular opinion but i enjoyed this more then the base game.
Don't get me wrong, i love the base game like everyone else, but playing Echoes of the Eye made me feel like a kid again. And finally learning about the prisoner and his story moved me, it was the perfect finale, after spending all your time learning about the world, universe, characters, meaning and life, you become the teacher.
And the music, this song especially is a joy to hear.
Incredible.
I think its better because you got a second chance to experience something for the first time again, so now you know to savor it this time.
I imagine most of us looked up guides less and took our time soaking things in knowing there is not way we will get this feeling again.
Echoes of the Eye took OW from maybe my favorite game to 100% definitely my favorite game. Absolute masterpiece.
I loved echoes of the eye, but I'm sure the main reason people didn't like it as much is for the same reason I struggled with it. The fear that is core to its story and gameplay. Its terrifying, but that's the point. I think it impacted me just as much if not more than the original experience in the end.
Both the base game and echoes of the eye have you going against your fears, be that the strangers, the anglerfish, the crushing sands of hourglass twins, the murky skies and waters of giant's deep. All because you are determined to see what's at the end, determined to discover every bit of the fully realized worlds that have been put before you. The base game you learn it has to come to an end and have to let it go for the sake of a new future beyond the end of everything.
Echoes of the Eye uses that same drive to explore everything that's been well engrained from the core experience to make you conquer the feat of the unknown where those before you couldn't. Everything about the Stranger is alien and unknown to anybody, and unlike the Nomai they are not welcoming either, possibly due to a fear of you, a Hearthian, a stranger appearing after 300,000 years into what they had thought to be their own well guarded secret. All to end with coming face to face with the one stranger who's been suffering for showing that same courage you needed to muster just to cross their path all those years ago.
Bit long, but this is the first time I think I've been able to express what exactly made me fall in love with this work of art, what exactly made my bawl my eyes out as a grown man several times while playing a silly space exploration video game. Its so much more than anyone could've come into it thinking, but at the same time the best way to keep it going is to keep what makes it so good secret.
This DLC broke me. I felt fear, stress, Joy, sadness, freedom. And when I did the ending with the travellers and my new owl friend... yeah... I cryied.
Video games are art.
0:54 - Feldspar's harmonica note in the background. I _just_ noticed that.
Feldspar did bring the Nomai ruin back to the Museum so it’s fitting
@@Klavin Also, very fittingly, the harmonica comes in right as the Vessel teleports into Dark Bramble and fades away when we see Escapepod 1 fly away
isn't that the distress beacon sound?
@@reksapluss716 It's definitely Feldspar's harmonica. Although It's possible the harmonica is being used to make a similar sound as the distress beacons. That wouldn't surprise me, since right before the harmonica starts we hear the nomai theme played on a guitar or banjo instead of a piano.
@@reksapluss716 No, what you're hearing is the quantum 'eye' motif in the background, shortly after. Y'know, Nomai searching for the Eye
The combination of themes in this is godly. This is what I would personally say is the magnum opus of this soundtrack.
God, this is probably one of my favorite pieces of music in any game ever.
It captures everything perfectly,
The Strangers and their attempts,
The Nomai and their end,
And finally the Hearthians, you, finishing the story.
This couldn't be more perfect.
Melancholy, tragedy, hope.
In three movements, the song tells the entire story of the Hearthian solar system
I like the use of every theme of the game in this song, it really tells a story on its own, it still gives me goosebumps when the nomai theme plays. Bur most of all, this song also changed my interpretation of the space theme, which is not just the sound of the space, but also the theme of curiosity, the curiosity the player and the main character have towards the universe and its endless possibilities. This song is a masterpiece.
Can you timestamp exact times of each theme? I'm having a hard time pin-pointing most of the themes except for the various variations of the travelers' theme...
@@navetal Nomai theme starts at 0:40
@@Veldaren oh damn you're right. I didn't recognize it when not played on their piano-like instrument...
@@navetal Not sure if I got all of them, but here it goes:
00:00 The main menu background notes, I think
00:16 River's end version of the traveler's theme
In 00:29 I think I can hear some synths used in the "space" track in the background
00:39 to 00:51 there is the nomai theme
In 00:53 I think the harmonica might represent feldspar, even though they are not in the scene yet
After 01:00 there is the synth of the beginning of "castaways" (which I think plays when you use the projection pools, and may also represent the nomai)
In 01:03 I think I can hear some sounds which are also used in the track "space" in the background (the paper sound thing idk)
01:20 the main menu theme comes back
01:31 the outer wilds main theme
01:54 the "space" theme joins
02:05 is just the space theme
These are the ones I could recognize.
@@ecom6ao Wow, that's a nice catch! Thanks!
This mans getting caught up on thousands of years of history in one vision
man this sequence was so cool. i loved being able to see the hatchling's point of view on everything, and the little bit of insight into their past and why they became an astronaut was phenomenal. amazing dlc.
this is such a good song, especially love the use of leitmotifs, but played with the Hearthian banjo/guitar because it's from the Hatchling's memories, and tinted by their own perspective, and every leitmotif fits so well, you can look at the ending vision and reference each leitmotif:
Here's each leitmotif that I can hear:
* 0:09 - 0:17 part of the main leitmotif of the Strangers
* 0:17 - 0:28 main theme of Outer Wilds in minor (I think) coupled with the Strangers' leitmotif. You can really hear the choir motif, most easily heard in The First Seekers, at 0:20 with the higher pitch strumming
* 0:28 - 0:37 I think you can hear a bit of "Sealed Away" here, which I could consider the Prisoner's leitmotif,
* 0:39 - 0:51 Nomai leitmotif
* 0:54 you can hear Feldspar's harmonica
* 0:57 - 1:20 Nomai city leitmotif, most easily heard in "The Nomai" in the intro segment
* 1:20 - 1:54 the Outer Wilds' main theme/leitmotif, heard in "Travelers" and in the opening title
* 1:54 a slower rendition of "Space"
The beginning of "Castaways" (The projection pool ambience music) can also be heard far in the background from 1:00 to 1:20
You have amazing ears! Knowing all the leitmotifs of the species are in the song makes it even better.
Didn't notice most of these, holy. Thanks for the writeup!
Ohhh right, the harmonica. I tought the part at 0:54 was the sound the distress signals from the Nomai escape capsules since that's what the slides were showing while playing that part
This is the best track in the game. By far. It felt like finally letting out all the pent up knowledge inside, and drawing a clear line of how the torch was passed between three races with how the hope, ingenuity and bravery lifted each other and reached the other side.
I likin this to what Final Voyage is. The rise in intensity for the task ahead of you. You know what needs to be done, now is the time to act. I got absolutely fired up once this starts playing during the story reel. The prisoner being the reason the Nomai heard the signal from the eye. The Nomai being the reason the Hearthian can finally find the truth and reach the eye. You stand on the shoulders of giants and they're rooting for you.
This shit is so good. Captures everything that's happened in your journey up till now so perfectly. I think the DLC cemented this game as one of my favourites of all time if not already.
The guitar that kicks in at 0:58 brings me indescribable emotions. At such a low point of my life, can’t even afford this DLC.. but playing this and other songs from this soundtrack and looking up at the stars brings me the last bit of joy and emotion I can feel at this point.
Yo do you have the base game on Steam or the Epic Store? Give me your handle, I'll take care of the DLC
@@INeedUrTurnips That’s really cool of you to offer but I play on Xbox one :/ ... I appreciate the offer though, you’re a good person
@@Diablopray No worries, best of luck with whatever you're going through
when i saw the whole story in pictures instead of words, it made me love this game even more than i already did, i couldnt thank the creator enough for this game
This song, along with 14.3 Billion Years, are the best songs of Outer Wilds, hands down.
I was reading a forum thread about times in video games which have made you cried-- and this was one of the first linked. You have to be some other level of skill if you're able to give somebody who's never heard much about this game MASSIVE goosebumps. If this can do that, then only god knows the sad, yet powerful bliss given to those who've completed this DLC. Amazing song.
I never realized it because I'm stupid, but it's pretty obvious the the prisoner jumped in the water an essentially killed himself (since he's probably dead in the real world). It makes the ending a bit sadder.
I think I subconsciously knew it, but never really wanted to believe it.
I'm honestly not sad about it. Give the poor guy some rest, he's been forced to stay alive for thousands of years in the virtual vault. Him turning off the blocking device for the eye had the same intention behind it. He knew things would have to come to an end at some point and that the other elks had a hard time accepting it, so he just acted on it. He really symbolises letting go of the things that have gone on for too long, no matter how much you'll miss them. In a way, that's what the devs want us to do with the game as well.
It's not suicide. He'd been dead a long time now. And the universe is going to end in less than half an hour anyway. Besides, so long as you remember him, he's not really gone. He lives on, just like everyone else, in the eye, or the song unceasing.
He held on for as long as he needed, kept going by a sense of duty - to set the Eye free, allow its song to reach the Universe again, after his people's fear caused them to seal it. I think in showing him that his act _was_ meaningful, that his imprisonment _did_ serve a purpose (bringing the Nomai) we're giving him catharsis, confirmation that he wasn't in vain. And with that achieved, with that knowledge, he ended his life in peace.
At least, that's my interpretation.
I know this was 2 years ago, but yeah I thought that as well. Thats actually how I decided to leave the realm as well, by jumping into the water!
Forget the DLC, this may very well be the best piece of music in the entirety of Outer Wilds. Also, I love how you can hear a bit of the Alpha menu music at the very end.
This wouldn't be as impactful without the main theme (Travelers) to recall to.
@@HKJeffer Yes, but I love what this track does with the theme. I switches up the scale, making it sound more dramatic than ever before, and then it also incorporates a banjo rendition of the Nomai theme. And the Feldspar's harmonica kicks in... It's just so beautiful all the way through. It's made up of simple riffs and melodies, but it tells a complex story.
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It is incredible.
How one person's defiance, short lived as it was, saved the next universe. They were the reason the Nomai caught the Eye's signal. They were the reason the Nomai began their search for the Eye, leaving their technology for the Hearthians to find. They were the reason the Protagonist was inspired by the Nomai and left to explore space. They were the reason the Protagonist found the Eye of the Universe and allowed a new universe to flourish.
One small action was all it took.
It is the most spectacular form of the butterfly effect I have ever seen in any media; one small choice by this otherwise insignificant person is the reason a new universe exists at all. Holy shit, I love this game.
Indeed
All it took
And us showing them it wasnt for naught told them he did his job
The Prisoner deserves their spot by the fire. I mean, if even one Stranger was as curious and brave as us or the Nomai, how bad could they be for the next universe?
@@HowlingWolf518 I misread this as “A spot by the fire” so glad I went and checked to see if our Dreamer Friend was there or not
I saw a reddit post that said the ending of Outer Wilds seemed to fly in the face of the whole insignificance thing because the new universe only exists due to your actions. One person managed to rebirth a whole new universe. But I just figured out why I disagree with that assessment so much. The message in Outer Wilds isn't that we are insignificant, but that we can achieve great things only with the help of others. The Nomai discovered the Eye because of one action by the Prisoner. We only found the Eye because of the monumental efforts of countless Nomai. And even when we do these great things, the best we can hope for is not to save ourselves, but to make the world a little better for those around us. This is what Outer Wilds is about, not the insignificance of life, but the ability to do great things that make the future brighter when we join together.
@@nevinmyers1245 indeed
I feel like the true "Echoes" of the Eye are all the lives and the worlds that the old Big Bang created. That is why they're echoes, they're all derived from it. They're civilization after civilization, thriving, having its problems, eventually falling and leaving matters in the hands of other civilizations by passing the torch as the universe goes on. The Echoes of the Eye went from the Elk people, to the Nomai, to the Hearthians, and who knows how many there were before them. It's like a distant signal, from the old Eye to the new one, continuing the course of death and rebirth.
Seeing the circle finish, with a Hearthian twist, seeing Feldspar recover the Nomai relic that started the progress on the translator, the Hatchling growing up and becoming an astronaut themselves. God, how can this game do everything right?
1:31 holy shit I started tearing up at this moment just from listening to the song. What an incredible soundtrack and DLC.
I heard this for the first time two days ago, and I can't stop playing it. Also my eyes really need to stop watering *every time*.
What an *incredible experience*.
This is easily my favourite on the sound track. It makes the original theme sound almost Keltic with a "wooden" addition to it. (if that makes sense)
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The vision you share with the prisoner is truly beautiful. Him finding out everything good and bad that happened is summed up perfectly in the howl afterwards. Is he happy the nomai found the signal? Is he sad his entire species is LONG dead? Is he happy you've found him and set him free? All of this leading to his death afterwards made it feel like a sweet release rather than a loss. Love this game. Thank you Mobius, Annapurna and Andrew Prahlow. You guys have made the world a little brighter :)
It's in that howl the answer is
That answer is
*It wasn't for Nothing*
@@seantaggart7382 Came back to this comment and I kid you not, this reply gave me goose bumps. Thank you, friend.
@@simpleastrophotography1301 thanks!
Goddamn this game has every emotional high and low. I’ve laughed my ass off at physics in this game, and I’ve cried because of how bleak and depressing parts are. Ive been scared out of my mind many times, and I’ve seen the most beautiful sights in any game ever. There will never be another game like this, and thats ok. Just be happy you could experience it.
Goodbye, outer wilds.. and thank you, for everything
Felt like my heart skipped a beat the *second* this track started playing. My god I love this game so much.
at 0:53 its the freaking distress beacon sound and its the part when the escape pods try to escape dark bramble its perfect
The overall story for me, has been an entire state of sadness. Not the type of sadness that you're happy, and not something that makes you entirely morn. The story of Outer Wilds is about realizing the mortality of those around us, even though we have difficulty in realizing our own mortality. Regardless of our own beliefs and convictions, we should ALWAYS be super appreciative of those we love and love us (no matter how hard it maybe). All we can do is hope to show our actions to be something they would be proud of as a whole. Not by some "great deed," but by our common acts.
Live EVERY DAY as if it were your last, and the only thing that mattered was to show those you love how much they matter to you. The love you gave may be the only thing that shows them to continue the love, and not let the cycle end.
If you live every day as if it were your last, you'll always feel like you're not using your time wisely, and always feel the need to say goodbye to everything just in case.
Live every day as if you'll never have it again, because you won't.
@@axie545 I wasn't meaning to live every day in sorrow. Just to show love to those who matter. Everyone will get into tiffs with one another, even those they love. Just try your best to think and live above yourself.
I like how the "antagonists" of the DLC, the inhabitants of the Stranger, were people who just simply couldn't accept this truth. Instead of savoring life, the precious and fragile thing it is, they couldn't face their own mortality and retreated in a shallow approximation of life, living out the same false memories again and again. Only the Prisoner had the courage and foresight to realize that perhaps for the universe to live, one has to move on from the past.
@@dinozone7373 exactly, thank you. It stun for me at the end how The Prisoner was alone in the back, scared that he wasn't allowed with the group. But it was done well, kinda like he felt guilty that his actions are what killed the Nomai.
@@axie545 Yes
Live it like every day is something new you might not experience the next
This sounds like an adventure.
A crumb of dread, a bit of excitement, but predominantly curiosity, determination, and hope.
The beginning is probably the best sounding guitar music I have ever heard
you should listen to Elliott Smith. I love him so much and I wanted to make the guitar tone very similar in honor of the ending of Outer Wilds.
@@andrewprahlow i was wondering what did it remind me of
Now i know, thanks Andrew
This song's twisting of the original OST's motif strikes such a note of inescapable sadness. It's so fucking good.
1:31 is when I started to cry, because I experienced everything that were in that moment, and I had a giant smile on my face :)
Can’t put into words how this beautiful song makes me feel. It’s a somber embrace of the efforts and love that were done to explore the unknown, with all the misfortune and hardship it carries. The clash of excitement and wonder that persists in the melody contrasts beautifully with the minor notes that remind us of a haunting reality that the Nomai never achieved the apotheosis they deserved. At which point the baton is carried forward; the thudding arrival of the Hearthians unknowingly and vicariously crossing the line, bringing the souls of the giants that came before them. Fundamentally, this song to me conveys that curiosity is never in vain, it is a eventuality, and every feeling that is experienced during such a exploration is necessary for such eventualities to blossom. We may be, excited, scared, angry, disappointed, in awe, but no matter what, we propel forward in the understanding that we are more than the emotions that decipher reality. We are ever more.
One of few songs guaranteed to give me goosebumps. Just perfect in every way.
god i love this song and the visuals that go with it so much
Just like the creators of this game were inspired by their experiences, playing this game shall leave a Mark that future developers will want to recreate, further spreading outward.
I love this story so very much.
What you just said is really inspiring
a few brilliant uses of outer wilds' leitmotifs in this song, aside from the obvious uses of Travelers:
- Feldspar's harmonica plays a long note during the Dark Bramble slide (0:54 to 1:00)
- the entire Nomai section from the end of Dark Bramble at 1:01 until their extinction at 1:20 is underlaid with the "Nomai technology" sound that plays when using projection stones (the first bit of Castaways on the OST)
please reply if there's more I didn't notice! Andrew Prahlow is so incredibly skilled, I can't wait to hear whatever he composes next.
After the harmonica, as the Nomai rebuild, two more instruments join. A second banjo, and some percussion - Brittle Hollow and Ember Twin, the worlds where the survivors landed.
Im not crying i just miss those 22 minutes
I love the note progression at 0:47
Mobius, Andrew Prahlow: thanks.
I'm so obsessed with song and specially with the beginning, it feels so nostalgic and I really feel the time passing from 0:09 to 0:30
Main game: "You walk on the footsteps of those who came before you, and your path guides those who will follow later..."
DLC: "...and death is a natural and necessary part of that cycle, so it should not be feared"
1:30 god that transition was where I began to lose it
I'm going to milk every drop of dopamine out of this song that I can or I'm gonna die trying.
There is no better reward for solving the mysteries of the DLC than this soundtrack and the accompanying cutscene. Also the one near the water after this. No better reward.
I just wish we could do the same to Solanum, showing her her people’s life work of finding the Eye is still being continued by us, that their efforts are not in vain.
Also the soundtracks of this game are just divine. The first part always gives me chills and the 1:43 part just makes me tear up every time.
God, this song feels so emotional
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This was such a fantastic moment. I remember finally piecing there story together and thinking: I HAVE to explain what's happened, what's going to happen to them, and to us. They must know they are not alone out here. And then I got to the this point. He told his story, and I told mine. Two people trapped in a puzzle they were unsure of how to solve. Unsure of how to save their people. I have never felt more kinship with an NPC that doesn't even speak. And I was greatly comforted knowing I (my character) wasn't the only one in that universe burdened with the knowledge of what befell the Nomai.
in a world full of darkness, the Prisonner was the bright light who guided us. I fell deeply in love with this character. This game is just a pure masterpiece. It's the first time I saw a DLC who manage to perfectly complete the main story. Thanks to all the people who worked on this.
I never loved so much a videogame
the only game that ive felt genuine fear and the only piece of media that i can say made me cry
Hearthian seriously didn't tell the Prisoners about the time loop lmao.
He was stopped by the Prisoner :(
thats pretty abstract to communicate in a visual powerpoint lmao
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I dunno I think I could do it. Show that you're waking up, going to the museum, the sun, getting linked up with the statue.
Then show the sun exploding, yourself dying, then waking up at the campfire again.
I like to think that either A) the telling of the time loop was implied or B) A ‘tasteful’ omission of the truth, because how would you feel if someone told you you have incarcerated literally til the end of time
@@gabrielquinto4185 oh no. Why did you have to put it that way. I didn't need to feel sad today
After the entire cutscene with us telling the Prisoner about the entire story we knew, I remember in SovietWomble's playthrough, he said "We're the Hearthians. Nice to meet you!" Right when the Prisoner bowed his head before crying out. That was one of my favourite quotes from any outer wilds playthrough ever. Even though it wasn't philosophical or deep, just the thought of the Prisoner getting to meet us, the very culmination of his efforts, someone who has all the tools available to reach (or, well, has reached ) the Eye, is so overwhelming to me.
Pure and unadultered kino right there.
Im not crying, YOURE CRYING
Even though I was far from the world's biggest fan of this DLC, it really had it's moments, and this was the peak for me
The moment you are told it wasn’t all for nothing
shaking crying sobbing etc
favourite scene in literally any game. obviously my favourite game as well
The only thing I would add to the solar system's history is a temple dedicated to the Eye in the part the Nomai start building their civilization after crashing
Thanks God for showing this game to me that day on Steam. I am happy.
I came here to cry...
I can't fucking take it, this song randomly appeared on those "your mixes" playlists and immediatly started crying, come on youtube, you didn't need to do this
Just like the original game, I felt myself tear up at this. You can see how inevitability is such a strong impact here. That even with the fear of the truth. One would accept it and try to show it.. and he was hated for it.
In the end; the Truth would be shown to all. And the light of a new dawn would reach even the darkest depths.
I cried at this point and I've never cried at a video game before. This moment was so powerful... truly thank you Mobius.