Andrius is both majestic and sad. He was a noble creature. And he's long dead. We're fighting what's left of his spirit This theme has always felt a bit underrated to me, it's gorgeous.
I’m so glad we don’t fight Andrius as an enemy but as a trial for him to test our strength. While his story is sad I’m glad we’re not enemies with him. Besides I’d feel bad to beat up a big, fluffy, dead wolfgod each week if he didn’t want to as well. He’s very chill (metaphorically and literally) and I wish he was in more story stuff.
The land of Mondstadt in the game is closely related to the god of time, which probably explain the ticking sound. This ticking also present in another Mondstadt boss
Basically Andrius is a boss we fight for challenge, not because he's a threat unlike other bosses like Signora or Scaramouche. He's a long dead god, only his spirit still lives in Wolvendom.
8:06 actually the official one ends with a typewriter ticking sound. Since it's not official video, it ended like that . Also the ticking sound is also noticed in stormterror's theme, well simply it symbolizes time. Wind and time are intricately interconnected to both the bosses since they're both rulers
One reason I love watching these reactions is how people just say some comments about how they feel hearing the theme and how it just gets so accurate. Like, he said this feels like fighting an old friend. That's exactly what happens
3:04 Because it is kind of a test and training offered by Andrius, not a deathmatch. And Andrius is long dead - What we are fighting is his soul with only a fraction of his power.
My prayers have been answered! I don't know what to say I didn't think I'd get this far- I don't know why but this is the first thing that came to mind when I saw that you're a drummer
Nailed the interpretation once again, it really shows the amount of language hoyomix weaves into their music that, even with no context, talented musicians can pick up on so damn much. Every other boss in genshin is you beating them, and refighting them weekly for gameplay purposes is a "memory" recreation and not actually a rematch. Andrius is the only weekly that you actually rematch with, because you are never beating him, he's testing your progress as an old godly being seeing if you have what it takes to do what he can't. The clock ticking shows up in both of Mondstat's weeklies, and while it may come back to have lore regarding a God of Time, my interpretation with current information is that it evokes one of the main themes of Mondstat's story: the issues born of forgetting the past, not in any fancy mindwipe way, but the natural loss of memories and culture to the ticking clock.
This sound really blends well into the next boss song for Dvalin, it sounds so good to listen to them back to back. Andrius's theme ends abrupt but then Dvalin's picks it up.
As a character, basically Andrius is like a spirit of his former "godly" self who over time has lost much of his power and has even been abused by evil forces many times before. In this fight, you as the main character are challenging his soul to a duel to be proven worthy and yes in a way he is corrupted as well when you fight him in a few other cases. This is probably the reason for the ticking sounds representing time passing. Also, the chaotic feels would be because he is a wolf and kind of embodies rage and power of a hunter. After fighting Andrius, his story and time is never over with him degrading and VERY slowly fading away, so that's a reason for why there might not have been a peak or climax really. Love how the music can convey these things to you.
This was the music where I learned perfect evasion as a melee character (Razor main) 😂. I'd never forget my struggle of fighting Andrius weekly when the game was new. Now that I thought of it, it's kinda make me sad that Andrius has been long dead.
I recommend listing to Caelestinum Finale Termini (Or Dvalin/Stormterrors theme) next as it’s technically the first major boss right before Andrius’s boss right It is arguably the saddest/melancholy sounding boss track the game has to offer
As a player you are first confronted with this battle when you do a quest about a boy named Razor, who lives and was raised in Wolvendom ( a forest region) by the wolves and starts to realize the differences between him and the wolves. Andrius is like the leader of wolves, who pointed out Razors differences and that he's not a wolf, attempting to send Razor back to the humens. It ends in Andrius giving Razor a trial to prove that he's strong enough to survive and protect himself and others. At least that's how roughly I remember that, without looking it up again, please do correct me if I'm wrong :) That's barrely covering the surface of this quest, but yeah, I hope it's not too confusing. Basically it's the inner conflict from Razor about weather or not he's a wolf or human and where he belongs and Andrius is trying, in a rather kinda harsh and heartbreaking way, to help Razor understand his situation and to find an answer for Razor himself. I think the feeling of fighting with an old acquaintance comes from Razors relationship with the wolves, who practically raised him almost his entire life and the depressing atmosphere could be because of the cause for this fight or the fact that it's like telling Razor that he doesn't belong with the wolves... That's just my personel estimation on why it is like that and how I myself feel about it. I'm not an expert...
You should try to listen to « inevitable conflict », it’s a zone fight theme of Genshin Impact and it’s so beautiful… honestly I don’t understand why it is making me (and lots of other players) feel this much since the instrumentation does not seem anything crazy to me but it is so amazing in terms of feeling I can’t get enough of it honestly
When you said it feels like you're fighting an old friend, it's so close to Andrius' story. He's not the friend of the main character but of the character, Venti, from who's perspective we see a lot of the first act of the game. Andrius was an adversary but eventually he became the protector of a part of Venti's realm. He wants to make sure we, as main characters, are ready to face what's to come. Also, the bitterness in the theme might also come from the fact that the enemies we're facing in Act I tried to poison Andrius and turn him and all his destructive power against the land he swore to protect. Your analysis and how you picked up on the vibes were, as so many times, spot on! :3
That old wolf died long ago, nothing left of it except its soul. Its sad that it made itself not to rule his territory (uk wolves are territorial creatures and not letting one have a territory is basically saying them to fucc off) it's sad in that way
i love this theme. It was easily the best piece of music to me till end of inazuma plot line and enkanomiya. And only Scaramouche and Apep theme replaced 'best Genshin score' place in my heart. I love how both phases makes you feel melancholic. Feel like you're farewelling an old friend. Feel like you try to reach to someone in this furious blizzard just to say bye. Feel like the TIME has come.
When I first got to this boss I didn't hear the theme because I was too busy dying Also the ticking could represent the passing of time to Andrius who was a mjestic God in his prim and now is but a shadow of his past self
The feelings you’re picking up on likely come from two places. The initial fight comes from Razor’s story quest. He’s a boy raised by wolves, and Andrius, also known as Boreas, Great Wolf King of the North, is one of his parental figures. In that quest we and Razor have to fight Andrius. The other place it may be coming from is that Andrius is a fallen god, and one of the only ones remaining. In Genshin, below the actual Celestial Gods who preside over everything, are the gods of the mortal realm, and a few thousand years prior to the game they were culled in an event called the Archon War, where the 7 victors would be granted the title of Archon and given rule of the remaining territory of the game’s central world/continent, Teyvat. Andrius fought a god named Decarabian for many years, with Andrius going on the offensive and creating a perpetual blizzard that engulfed the entire nation, and Decarabian going on the defensive and creating a storm barrier around his capital city. Decarabian later began to be viewed as a tyrant by his people who yearned for the world beyond their city, leading to a revolt that ended in his deposition and death. Several of the key figures in this revolution died during the process, including their leader. Andrius was technically a winner of the Archon War because of the death of his rival, but found he didn’t have the love of humans required of an Archon, so he let a wind spirit named Barbatos that had aided in the revolution and was close to its leader ascend to godhood and become the Anemo Archon, whereas Andrius became one of his servants, the North Wind, Lupus Boreas. His physical body died long ago, so what we see and fight is his spirit. He is one of the few non-Archon gods who was allowed to remain after the Archon War, and one of the only ones of those who is still around (though not “alive”).
the great wolf of the north he abandoned his physical body and decided to serve the Archon Anemo in exchange for not being killed or exiled like the rest of the other fallen gods
This piece always makes me want to cry, it's so beautiful. I get a similar feeling with Celestinum Finale Termini, I would love to see you react to that one! Also you got it right! You fight the wolf Andrius (or rather what's left of his spirit) as a trial to prove your strength to him, previously in the quest you meet a boy, Razor, who was raised by the wolves, and the trial is for him (I don't remember details, but I think Andrius wanted Razor to realize he's not actually a wolf and belongs to the humans, but Razor doesn't agree completely with that), you as the main character are there to help him as a friend. The sad part is Razor sees the wolves as his family, and Andrius also sees him as family, and you get to know Andrius as this big-intimidating-but-actually-pretty-chill-wolf-spirit during the quest. So when the fluffy wolf decides it all needs to be resolved with a battle you can't help but wonder "why did things have to end up like this?" At least that's how I felt, I love wolves, I get easily attached to wolf characters, and he's an ice wolf! I felt really conflicted! ... Also Andrius was SO INTIMIDATING as a low level beginner, I had multiple reasons to not want to fight him lol
i feel like you been in genshin rabbit hole for a while now but still have not reacted to the genshin impact Character Demo! theres a lot of characters so maybe you can do 3 or maybe 5 character per video if you ever react to it. Also do it in chronological order so you can feel how the animation and music evolve! or lvl up! basically it gets better and better if you do it on chronological order.
I recommend you for React and Check out of the next one, Vimara Village - Bgm Genshin Impact. That bgm have Day and Night version too,. You gonna loved it.
I'm gonna start being a Mili stan. I request an eventual listen to "Between Two Worlds" from Limbus Company. Or any Mili song from the game before it, Library of Ruina.
If u loved port ormos listen to more of the sumeru region osts from genshin impact. I'd recommend guilded runner it's a brilliant ost and probably gonna leave u confused untill u figure out what u just witnessed from the comments 😂
Your interpretation is not entirely accurate. I can definitely see where the interpretation comes from, but we're not fighting Andrius after knowing him for a while or anything like that. The battle starts and ends as a chance encounter and has every right to be bombastic or action-packed and have "fighting for your life" kinda music. The fight is very much a misunderstanding, but nothing that elicits melancholy or anything like that. The fight ends on very amicable terms. I think the piece is instead focused more on the atmosphere that Andrius has around him. In lore, Andrius is an old, noble, very taciturn god who fought alongside Venti to end the tyranny in Mondstadt. He preferred to be left alone back when he was alive, but now that he's dead and his spirit is tied to Wolvendom (the battle arena), he's become something of a vague, forgotten legend, hence the more majestic-sounding parts of the piece. When Andrius and Venti won their revolution, a new god was meant to be chosen. Andrius was noble enough to sacrifice his position to Venti because he though he didn't have enough love for humanity. In present day though, Andrius' spirit raises an abandoned boy named Razor, showing that Andrius has more than enough love for humanity after all. The ticking clock in the music symbolizes the passage of time, accentuating just how ancient Andrius is, but also how forgotten he has become since he made his sacrifice.
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"Fighting an old friend" was so on point it sent chills down my spine
Same here
Exactly what I thought
"Depressingly majestic"
Yep describes the boss perfectly.
Andrius is both majestic and sad.
He was a noble creature. And he's long dead. We're fighting what's left of his spirit
This theme has always felt a bit underrated to me, it's gorgeous.
it was one of the songs that made me fall in love with the soundtrack
I’m so glad we don’t fight Andrius as an enemy but as a trial for him to test our strength. While his story is sad I’m glad we’re not enemies with him.
Besides I’d feel bad to beat up a big, fluffy, dead wolfgod each week if he didn’t want to as well. He’s very chill (metaphorically and literally) and I wish he was in more story stuff.
I would have felt about beating up Razor's dad
makes sense he's not in the story much. Either trouble goes to him or he's chilling. Goals tbh
The land of Mondstadt in the game is closely related to the god of time, which probably explain the ticking sound. This ticking also present in another Mondstadt boss
Basically Andrius is a boss we fight for challenge, not because he's a threat unlike other bosses like Signora or Scaramouche.
He's a long dead god, only his spirit still lives in Wolvendom.
Every time I battle Andrius, I can't help but admire the atmosphere he has on his battlefield, so unique and ethereal, unlike any other bosses.
8:06 actually the official one ends with a typewriter ticking sound. Since it's not official video, it ended like that . Also the ticking sound is also noticed in stormterror's theme, well simply it symbolizes time. Wind and time are intricately interconnected to both the bosses since they're both rulers
This and stormterror theme is have that ticking time signature. Both were really suit each other
One reason I love watching these reactions is how people just say some comments about how they feel hearing the theme and how it just gets so accurate.
Like, he said this feels like fighting an old friend. That's exactly what happens
3:04 Because it is kind of a test and training offered by Andrius, not a deathmatch. And Andrius is long dead - What we are fighting is his soul with only a fraction of his power.
My prayers have been answered! I don't know what to say I didn't think I'd get this far-
I don't know why but this is the first thing that came to mind when I saw that you're a drummer
thanks so much for being the one to request it- totally one of my favourite boss themes in all of genshin
Nailed the interpretation once again, it really shows the amount of language hoyomix weaves into their music that, even with no context, talented musicians can pick up on so damn much.
Every other boss in genshin is you beating them, and refighting them weekly for gameplay purposes is a "memory" recreation and not actually a rematch. Andrius is the only weekly that you actually rematch with, because you are never beating him, he's testing your progress as an old godly being seeing if you have what it takes to do what he can't.
The clock ticking shows up in both of Mondstat's weeklies, and while it may come back to have lore regarding a God of Time, my interpretation with current information is that it evokes one of the main themes of Mondstat's story: the issues born of forgetting the past, not in any fancy mindwipe way, but the natural loss of memories and culture to the ticking clock.
This sound really blends well into the next boss song for Dvalin, it sounds so good to listen to them back to back. Andrius's theme ends abrupt but then Dvalin's picks it up.
the interpretation of the boss theme was so spot on
Ok, this is epic.
As a character, basically Andrius is like a spirit of his former "godly" self who over time has lost much of his power and has even been abused by evil forces many times before. In this fight, you as the main character are challenging his soul to a duel to be proven worthy and yes in a way he is corrupted as well when you fight him in a few other cases. This is probably the reason for the ticking sounds representing time passing. Also, the chaotic feels would be because he is a wolf and kind of embodies rage and power of a hunter.
After fighting Andrius, his story and time is never over with him degrading and VERY slowly fading away, so that's a reason for why there might not have been a peak or climax really.
Love how the music can convey these things to you.
I think the ticking sound is referencing the winds of time which is an important concept in the lore of Mondstadt
9:00 I was hearing strong hints of the Lacrimosa motif in that last phase, so that may have been a big thing driving that feeling
This was the music where I learned perfect evasion as a melee character (Razor main) 😂. I'd never forget my struggle of fighting Andrius weekly when the game was new.
Now that I thought of it, it's kinda make me sad that Andrius has been long dead.
This was easily the best song in the game for a WHILE.
Oh what the fuck he got it that he is fighting an old friend from the music.
Insane.
I'm what gamers would call "big brain"
I recommend listing to Caelestinum Finale Termini (Or Dvalin/Stormterrors theme) next as it’s technically the first major boss right before Andrius’s boss right
It is arguably the saddest/melancholy sounding boss track the game has to offer
Please do some character demo reactions!
(Both music and animation)
I forgot to specify from genshin or honkai impact 3rd
I love this soundtrack so much and second phase is just beautiful!❤
You can listen to national theme songs, such as “Inazuma theme”
As a player you are first confronted with this battle when you do a quest about a boy named Razor, who lives and was raised in Wolvendom ( a forest region) by the wolves and starts to realize the differences between him and the wolves. Andrius is like the leader of wolves, who pointed out Razors differences and that he's not a wolf, attempting to send Razor back to the humens. It ends in Andrius giving Razor a trial to prove that he's strong enough to survive and protect himself and others.
At least that's how roughly I remember that, without looking it up again, please do correct me if I'm wrong :)
That's barrely covering the surface of this quest, but yeah, I hope it's not too confusing.
Basically it's the inner conflict from Razor about weather or not he's a wolf or human and where he belongs and Andrius is trying, in a rather kinda harsh and heartbreaking way, to help Razor understand his situation and to find an answer for Razor himself.
I think the feeling of fighting with an old acquaintance comes from Razors relationship with the wolves, who practically raised him almost his entire life and the depressing atmosphere could be because of the cause for this fight or the fact that it's like telling Razor that he doesn't belong with the wolves...
That's just my personel estimation on why it is like that and how I myself feel about it. I'm not an expert...
You should try to listen to « inevitable conflict », it’s a zone fight theme of Genshin Impact and it’s so beautiful… honestly I don’t understand why it is making me (and lots of other players) feel this much since the instrumentation does not seem anything crazy to me but it is so amazing in terms of feeling I can’t get enough of it honestly
When you said it feels like you're fighting an old friend, it's so close to Andrius' story. He's not the friend of the main character but of the character, Venti, from who's perspective we see a lot of the first act of the game. Andrius was an adversary but eventually he became the protector of a part of Venti's realm. He wants to make sure we, as main characters, are ready to face what's to come. Also, the bitterness in the theme might also come from the fact that the enemies we're facing in Act I tried to poison Andrius and turn him and all his destructive power against the land he swore to protect. Your analysis and how you picked up on the vibes were, as so many times, spot on! :3
That old wolf died long ago, nothing left of it except its soul. Its sad that it made itself not to rule his territory (uk wolves are territorial creatures and not letting one have a territory is basically saying them to fucc off) it's sad in that way
Thats so interesting, while watching this video I think i heard a little piece of "lacrimosa" in this theme for the first time ever😮
i love this theme. It was easily the best piece of music to me till end of inazuma plot line and enkanomiya. And only Scaramouche and Apep theme replaced 'best Genshin score' place in my heart. I love how both phases makes you feel melancholic. Feel like you're farewelling an old friend. Feel like you try to reach to someone in this furious blizzard just to say bye. Feel like the TIME has come.
Next is Celestinum Finale Termini, right? 😂
Whatever the most people mention, usually 👀
omg yes, that track truly screams "fighting a friend". And they used a typewriter as the instrument there!
@@CatharsisYT yeah caelestinum finale termini
@@CatharsisYTthere are Caelestinum finale termini Live version orchestra too 🎉❤❤
this boss is so easy i cant even get past the 30 second mark on the music so this was cool to hear LMAO
When I first got to this boss I didn't hear the theme because I was too busy dying
Also the ticking could represent the passing of time to Andrius who was a mjestic God in his prim and now is but a shadow of his past self
Sumeru Symphony orchestra performance...
Then the soundtrack named "Liyue". It's a masterpiece
Next go for celestinum finale termini .. the stormterror theme
The feelings you’re picking up on likely come from two places.
The initial fight comes from Razor’s story quest. He’s a boy raised by wolves, and Andrius, also known as Boreas, Great Wolf King of the North, is one of his parental figures. In that quest we and Razor have to fight Andrius.
The other place it may be coming from is that Andrius is a fallen god, and one of the only ones remaining. In Genshin, below the actual Celestial Gods who preside over everything, are the gods of the mortal realm, and a few thousand years prior to the game they were culled in an event called the Archon War, where the 7 victors would be granted the title of Archon and given rule of the remaining territory of the game’s central world/continent, Teyvat. Andrius fought a god named Decarabian for many years, with Andrius going on the offensive and creating a perpetual blizzard that engulfed the entire nation, and Decarabian going on the defensive and creating a storm barrier around his capital city. Decarabian later began to be viewed as a tyrant by his people who yearned for the world beyond their city, leading to a revolt that ended in his deposition and death. Several of the key figures in this revolution died during the process, including their leader. Andrius was technically a winner of the Archon War because of the death of his rival, but found he didn’t have the love of humans required of an Archon, so he let a wind spirit named Barbatos that had aided in the revolution and was close to its leader ascend to godhood and become the Anemo Archon, whereas Andrius became one of his servants, the North Wind, Lupus Boreas. His physical body died long ago, so what we see and fight is his spirit.
He is one of the few non-Archon gods who was allowed to remain after the Archon War, and one of the only ones of those who is still around (though not “alive”).
It's already been said, but
6:04 👀 dang
the great wolf of the north he abandoned his physical body and decided to serve the Archon Anemo in exchange for not being killed or exiled like the rest of the other fallen gods
This piece always makes me want to cry, it's so beautiful. I get a similar feeling with Celestinum Finale Termini, I would love to see you react to that one!
Also you got it right! You fight the wolf Andrius (or rather what's left of his spirit) as a trial to prove your strength to him, previously in the quest you meet a boy, Razor, who was raised by the wolves, and the trial is for him (I don't remember details, but I think Andrius wanted Razor to realize he's not actually a wolf and belongs to the humans, but Razor doesn't agree completely with that), you as the main character are there to help him as a friend. The sad part is Razor sees the wolves as his family, and Andrius also sees him as family, and you get to know Andrius as this big-intimidating-but-actually-pretty-chill-wolf-spirit during the quest. So when the fluffy wolf decides it all needs to be resolved with a battle you can't help but wonder "why did things have to end up like this?"
At least that's how I felt, I love wolves, I get easily attached to wolf characters, and he's an ice wolf! I felt really conflicted! ... Also Andrius was SO INTIMIDATING as a low level beginner, I had multiple reasons to not want to fight him lol
There's also a remixed version of this for a Honkai Impact 3rd crossover
It hangs at the end because you’re listening to the incomplete version😂😂😂
i feel like you been in genshin rabbit hole for a while now but still have not reacted to the genshin impact Character Demo! theres a lot of characters so maybe you can do 3 or maybe 5 character per video if you ever react to it. Also do it in chronological order so you can feel how the animation and music evolve! or lvl up! basically it gets better and better if you do it on chronological order.
Here’s something completely new to react to: Warhammer 40K Darktide Main Theme
There used to be some longer and more awesome boss themes like this one until they realized nobody fought a boss for that long
I'm still hoping for Gilded Runner 🤞
Have you reacted to stormterror's theme yet? it's hella good
I recommend you for React and Check out of the next one, Vimara Village - Bgm Genshin Impact.
That bgm have Day and Night version too,. You gonna loved it.
I'm gonna start being a Mili stan. I request an eventual listen to "Between Two Worlds" from Limbus Company. Or any Mili song from the game before it, Library of Ruina.
If u loved port ormos listen to more of the sumeru region osts from genshin impact. I'd recommend guilded runner it's a brilliant ost and probably gonna leave u confused untill u figure out what u just witnessed from the comments 😂
Caelestium Finale Termini next pleasee
Genshin concerts when????
Do the official genshin concerts
Your interpretation is not entirely accurate. I can definitely see where the interpretation comes from, but we're not fighting Andrius after knowing him for a while or anything like that. The battle starts and ends as a chance encounter and has every right to be bombastic or action-packed and have "fighting for your life" kinda music. The fight is very much a misunderstanding, but nothing that elicits melancholy or anything like that. The fight ends on very amicable terms.
I think the piece is instead focused more on the atmosphere that Andrius has around him. In lore, Andrius is an old, noble, very taciturn god who fought alongside Venti to end the tyranny in Mondstadt. He preferred to be left alone back when he was alive, but now that he's dead and his spirit is tied to Wolvendom (the battle arena), he's become something of a vague, forgotten legend, hence the more majestic-sounding parts of the piece. When Andrius and Venti won their revolution, a new god was meant to be chosen. Andrius was noble enough to sacrifice his position to Venti because he though he didn't have enough love for humanity. In present day though, Andrius' spirit raises an abandoned boy named Razor, showing that Andrius has more than enough love for humanity after all. The ticking clock in the music symbolizes the passage of time, accentuating just how ancient Andrius is, but also how forgotten he has become since he made his sacrifice.
I love how this piece just places you at the edge of the seat and then pushes you down😂