A Non-Gamer Hears VIDEO GAME MUSIC for the First Time
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- Grateful to have brought my friend Lee Anne on the channel, she's a wonderful human being with an enormously open mind. She enjoyed this so much she even is considering how to program final fantasy in the future.
Lee Anne Myslewski, joined Wolf Trap Opera in 2006, and has cultivated new partnerships and programs to uphold the company’s widespread acclaim as the country’s most venerated summer training program for emerging artists. She conceived of the Untrapped series of programming which has featured artistic partnerships with the Shakespeare Theatre, Taffety Punk, Children’s National Medical Center as well as ongoing partnerships with The Phillips Collection and the National Orchestral Institute, created the Artistic Advisor position for Chamber Music at the Barns, and has participated in the casting and programming of operatic productions for over a decade. As VP of Opera and Classical Programming, Lee Anne oversees all aspects of Wolf Trap Opera, an artist-centric program whose alumni are singing in every opera house in the nation and in the most prestigious houses in the world.
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Hi, I'm Marco Meatball, a former pro opera singer, turned voice actor, turned RUclipsr. I grew up loving video games and video game music after first discovering them when I was 7 years old. Since then, I have lived and breathed all things video games. This channel is all about video game music and the beauty of modern composition, how it allows us to connect more deeply with the games we love, and how we can better learn to understand ourselves through it and the experiences it provides.
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2:18 [Original Tetris Theme (Originally a russian folk song called Korobeiniki, it was arranged by Hirozoku Tanaka for Tetris in 1989)]
7:32 [Terra's Theme - Final Fantasy VI]
12:14 [Terra's Theme - Distant Worlds II (Distant Worlds is a set of albums featuring a live orchestra playing the music of Final Fantasy)]
18:24 [Schala's Theme - Chrono Trigger]
24:29 [Gerudo Valley - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]
30:18 [Techo Syndrome (Mortal Kombat) - The Immortals (For the 1995 movie, also a "hidden" song in the Sega CD version of Mortal Kombat)]
32:56 [Hikari - Punishing: Gray Raven]
46:28 [Nerevar Rising - The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]
50:53 [Main Theme - Super Smash Bros: Brawl]
56:44 [The Best Is Yet To Come (Vocals: Aoife Ní Fhearraigh / Writer: Rika Muranaka) - Metal Gear Solid 1/4]
1:05:25 [God Shattering Star - Fire Emblem: Three Houses]
1:10:15 [Grandma - Nier: Gestalt/Replicant]
1:17:17 [Lady Maria of the Astral Clock Tower - Bloodborne]
1:23:52 [Adrift - Stray Gods]
1:32:48 [Astalgia of Phantasm - Lost Ark (Performed at Lost Ark Concert, Dear Friends)]
1:40:35 [Alicorn - Ace Combat 7]
1:46:55 [Last Surprise - Persona 5]
1:51:03 [Tenebre Rosso Sangue - Ultrakill]
1:57:36 [Raphael's Theme - Baldur's Gate 3] *NOTICE:* This is not the name of the song, the song name contains what I believe to be is a spoiler, so Raphael's Theme it will stay. You can easily find the original by searching with the name provided.
2:06:24 [They May As Well Be Dead - Risk of Rain 2: Survivors of the Void DLC (Written and performed by Chris Christodoulou)]
Thank you to huhreally5771 and the commenters under him for making this easy peasy. All I had to do was confirm the songs, fix some titles, and put my own little touches here and there.
Damn, that Lost Ark one was really good. I also think I developed a crush on the woman singing in opera, she is absolutely stunning, and while I don't know enough about music to say what technique she is using, it sounds divine to me.
56:44 the best is yet to come from metal gear solid 1 end credits, is the original source, they only reused it in mgs4.
@@zolisassi2861 Aye, it's been edited.
the goat
Grandma from nier makes my cry everytime...
I think this one was so great. Great collection and a lot to talk about as usual. Thank you for doing these, I bet that it's a lot of work and you don't always know how it will turn out.
PS: Don't listen to the haters. It's a privilege to have these unedited ones, because there is so much discussion and reaction going on, I always like to soak in every second!
Thanks for continuing with this series(I think it's a series?). Really love just putting it in the background and listening to professionals in the music talk about their thoughts on game music.
Man, as soon as Gerudo Valley started I was hit with the instant nostalgia of me just standing still and listening to this for sooo long. It was such an instant classic for me back then
My wake alarm to this day.
Watching how different guests react to Ace Combat OST is just so delightful I wonder when Marco will drop The Unsung War to a guest. I'd love to watch a reaction from that
Nevermind I just saw your video with Ryan McKinny's reaction. It's incredible fun to watch a person looking so serious and focused but involuntarily vibing and nodding at that piece of work. Just wonderful.
I bought the game just for the soundtrack. I haven't played it yet but I hope to get to it soon.
Nobuo Uematsu's background and the results is what makes him so interesting. He grew up listening to hard rock and progressive rock from America, joined a prog rock band and made music for commercials, and sure enough he found his niche in video games in his mid 20's. The fact that he came out as one of the greatest composers of all time is always incredible.
I think Lee Anne is onto something with her take of Schala's theme. in a story about time travel where people's lives are saved by changing history, Schala is the one truly tragic figure because (canonically at least) she's the one person that you want to be able to use time travel to save but can't, at least not in Chrono Trigger.
To quote the Doctor... "It's a fixed point, i'm sorry, i'm so sorry..."
I really enjoy you showing pices from the LoZ franchise because so many of the games (especially in the early and mid 2000's ) focus on musical instruments that help you solve puzzles and fight bosses. OoT with the Ocerena, Windwaker where you use a conductors baton, and Spirit Tracks using the Pan Flute where you literally have to blow into the DS microphone to play the instrument.
I loved this!!! Always happy to see more of these!!!
I loved all songs and Lady Maria caught me by surprise and now I'm wondering how someone who knows nothing of the series would react if shown the piece before her boss fight aka the Human Faliures.
I was super surprised myself listening to such a piece!!!!
i love the holst influence in living failures, would love to see a classically trained musician's reaction
Ad a Fire Emblem fan, I'm happy that she was floored by God-Shattering Star. As far as villain themes go, I actually like it more than One-Winged Angel.
Love seeing the unexpectedly positive reactions to Tenebre Rosso Sangue. What a unique track, god I wish we had more talented artists just mashing classical with heavy contemporary like that.
"Why do we malign Pop?" is a question I believe applies directly to video game music. Even though games have gone relatively mainstream and have largely escaped being labeled as childish, they're generally considered a form of Pop media and they're treated as such. There are also major problems with the discoverability and distribution of video game music. They're viewed as a subset of a broader piece of media and are primarily accessible via that media while often not being made available via the tradition pipelines for music distribution.
yep it sometimes can be a hassle to find the albums even if they are on streaming platforms, sometimes the album is in another language and you have to pray someone else saved it on a playlist or is incomplete in some ways, last I checked the bloodborne ost was up to "vanilla"/"on release" ost, so no DLC tracks or even tho this one is not videogames exactly the ost for made in abyss was there for a time, then it was completely gone and one day it reappeared, same as, IIRC, the aot ost on tidal; it was there and then it wasn't
We don't malign pop, for the most part, we just don't think much about it at all. That's why it's pop. Pop is a sort of non-genre containing all art that is made with an eye towards it's disposability. If something is released as a pop song, but has real staying power we all quietly shuffle it into a different genre by a largely unspoken consensus.
It's disposability that really links video games and pop music. Metal Gear Solid couldn't be sold for years because the licence for some historical footage ran out in 2008 and Konami didn't elect to renew it until 2023. What's important to understand about this is that they could have bought a perpetual licence for this footage. It's actually the more common type sold, it's only very marginally more expensive than a limited licence. Konami chose the cheaper option because they knew that Metal Gear Solid wouldn't work on whatever computers were going to be common in 10 years, and they were mostly right about that.
Video games are built with an understanding that their days a numbered by the constant advancement of technology.
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I really love the idea of showing the music in the order of game releases. I think it's an interesting idea to show how video game music has evolved over time.
Love seeing Stray Gods on the playlist! It's a lovely game! The songs dont only take new paths lyrically when you make your choices but they can switch melodies, vocal styles, instrumentation and even genres. Each 3 ish minute track had about 30 minutes of music written to it! 🤯
I don't know what it is about Terra's theme, but that particular theme song always hits my feels and I didn't even play the game! I know next to nothing about Terra as a character but her theme song gets to me. Music is such a strange and amazing thing. I guess it speaks volumes about the ability of Nobuo Uematsu as a composer.
Aerith's Theme on Piano instantly turns me back into a 14 year old in 1997, and Terra's theme is just perfect with the context of first hearing it in the opening march/credits of FF6 just makes it that much more memorable.
The Tetris theme is a russian music called Korobeiniki, and it is a russian game
Yeah, it was developed in the Soviet Union. I think Marco mixed it up with Japan because the game's best selling version was on the Gameboy.
@@mr2Dman Yes, but the original version of Tetris didn't have any music. Nintendo's Hirokazu Tanaka implemented music in the NES version, and the GameBoy version is the first to feature Korobeiniki, again implemented by Hirokazu Tanaka. So the iconic Tetris Theme is a Japanese arrangement of Nikolaï Nekrassov's Korobeiniki!
Love how often you've had Chris Christodoulou in your line ups! He really deserves the recognition and I personally feel beyond just his ror2 track, his original RoR tracks are fantastic and his OST to Deadbolt is probably my second favorite album of all time, the remake of RoR has both the original and new tracks, remade some with vocals, and all with everything he's learned musically since the original RoR. I've also heard that apparently when he get hired on for work, he just disappears for like a few months, and just reappears at some point in development of a game with the full OST finished.
A couple weird sounds happening in the background, 3x during the Mortal Kombat track ~33m, also 46:35, some beeping around 44:50 (still present at 56 minutes)
I think they audio corruption might be intentional for copyright but I dont think this channel is monetised..So I dont know. There were voices and sounds through out the video but definitely ignorable. Just that I never heard that before in similar video.
I noticed the same thing. I'm really curious what was going on there.
Sounds like talking played backwards... and someone moving things in the background.
@@rabbit2686 I'm pretty sure what's happening is that her microphone has some kind of auto leveling (whether software or the mic itself) and there's other people doing stuff around her, which she even points out and explains at the very beginning of the interview. The mic is seemingly really trying to pickup anything it can when she isn't speaking, and when she does, you can notice the auto leveling anytime she starts speaking even a bit louder.
@@fenrirwulf9266Or a wonky noise cancellation. although the children playing in background was nicely picked up and definitely nice to hear because its very rare to hear those kind of ambient noises. definitely doesn't live in some shutoff apartment.
Love the VODs and your guests Marco!
awsome reaction and conversation :)
btw... what are these weird voices in the video sometimes? I first thought they are on my end but its from the video. ^^
I love how your guests are so pleseantly surprised with Brawl's theme.
Man 'The Best is Yet to Come' sure does hit some nostalgic notes. It reminds of the return to Shadow Moses level from MGS4, which makes me nostalgic for MGS1. It's like Nostalgia within Nostalgia. Nostalception!
MGS tends to do that, a LOT
Thank you again for the great content, Marco :) I like this chronological approach a lot, it feels like the more gradual introduction to modern pieces helps illustrate where video game music started out and where it is now. I think it takes some of the 'edge' off, if that makes sense.
I'd love to see some more atmospheric/background music. The Dwarf Fortress Soundtrack is a personal favorite and the Main Theme will forever live in my head rent free.
I hope people like Lee Anne do bring video game music into the classical music space. It will help bridge the old generations and new generations of musical audiences.
Another really fun video. I loved the addition of more live pieces this time around.
Marco, I highly recommend checking out the cover of God-Shattering Star by Gametal, with operatic voice guest, Nicolas Daoust. It's probably my favorite cover of the theme ever, it's shockingly good, especially considering Gametal is a one-man band(he also usually does the vocals because he has a wonderful singing voice, but I think GSS is slightly outside of his range, so he collabed for this one)
The way I immediately went "!" when you said "celtic" - Excellent to see this amazing track featured here
I know, same here!
I almost started gleefully shouting, "The Best is Yet to Come!"
Thanks so much for doing this with your friends. I love this series a lot. Also for putting the vods up here on RUclips.
Loved your selection of tracks here, some of my favorites with a great variety of time periods and genres. Especially liked seeing Raphael's theme added to the list, though it's a shame that its presence lead to your audio getting possessed by demons. You should probably get an exorcist for that.
That Astalgia of Phantasm - Lost Ark has got to be my favorite. So incredible. Makes me want to play the game. Alicorn, feel the same way, but the Lost Ark just blew me away. That director was jamming and so into it. Probably how I would be directing that song as well. And the Super Smash Bros, I always love. And God Shattering Star is incredible as well. Grandma, just so lovely to hear. And Lady Maria of the Astral Clock Tower is amazing. I love to play with music that has a choir in it. It's so memorable and epic and my emotions are tense cause when the choir starts singing in latin you know it got real and you'll probably die a few times before you beat them. Video game music is just so great.
Love seeing this series come back, it's always great fun! I'd love to see a video oft his series check out the Anthem music as well. It was a terrible video game but it genuinely has some of the most fantastic music in it I'd heard in a long time, extremely worth checking out!
Love these vids. I wish you followed up on her comment about liking the title "Ocarina of time" to mention that the ocarina and music in general is a pretty strong piece of the game itself.
Listening to risk of rain stuff, i just realized there's some great pieces of music that's just like a "vibe" from hearthstone that i think classical-minded people will find very easy to get into
This was sick I’ve been to wolftrap more than a few times cool to see someone who runs it interacting with vgm
You keep showcasing Nier music and I'll keep tuning in! In case you see this comment, I recommend checking out the Berserk 1997 OST - I'd especially recommend checking out the tracks "Earth" and "Murder". Berserk itself has an incredible tragic story too.
That was a lovely guest. I hope you invite her again some time.
Second best person you've had on it, she were fantastic😂
Love this episode. I think introducing or just talking with musician, music writer, writer, sound engineer to these soundtracks in both skill or musicality wise and also,new melody, new genre, story-telling would be great too. Have a nice day y'all. Mrs Lee Ann is such a lovely guest and open-minded music lover. Your music picks were great man., I have a good time woring and listening to this episode.
Hey Marco, I saw your reaction to Baba Yetu from Christopher Tin for Civilization 4. He actually did another one called "Sogno di Volare" for Civilization 6. I think you will find that enjoyable.
32:00 The Mortal Kombat Soundtrack was made for the first movie, and the composer basically rush-hacked it together in a week as the original wasn't liked by the director - or something along those lines. What came out is one of the most iconic "video game" soundtracks of all time, even though it was not part of the first Mortal Kombat game per se.
Nerevar Rising always gets me emotional. I still remember the first time walking out of Seyda Neen and staring in wonder at the mushroom trees and wondering what the haze would reveal next.
Just finished watching this! Great video!
Oh, I have many fond memories of Wolf Trap! I grew up nearby and in the summers my family would get a bucket of fried chicken and have a picnic on the lawn and listen to whatever performance was happening that weekend.
An archaic way of saying "it's gonna hurt way more" is such a genius description
Marco's attempts to describe things in the games are so wild xD I get it though, explaining something in a game to someone who doesn't know what the game is.. is tricky.
Love the insights I get from your conversations! Wish you the best
Love this! Marco, if you ever get to read this and want to listen to a "faithful" flamenco version of this, you can check out Retro Remix Revue's take on it.
I don't know how I ended up here but I'm glad I did. Third video I Watched now in a row with guests listening to game music. You gotta let them hear Nightsong from world of warcraft!
I would recommend any of the arrangements from risk of rain 2 specifically “con lentitud ponderosa” or “the rain formerly known as purple”, would think you guys would like that a lot!
Ah, Gerudo Valley. The best hidden boss theme in all of video gaming. This is Ganon's theme. The solitary masculine guitar/trumpet theme surrounded by the more feminine flamenco accompaniment is the perfect representation of a once in a century male being born into a world where he is destined to be king without anyone to show him what being a king is. A great man who wants his struggling people to prosper... at any and all costs.
I love listening to these VODs while at work
I'd love to see Marco's take on the Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous soundtrack. "The Cosmic Balance", in particular, is a work of art.
lee anne seems a delight. if she wanted to say the songs that reminded her of the others, i would have liked that
also the older to new thing seemed to serve as a great way to present the songs
I again have to recommend Medal of Honor, the first video game with an entirely orchestrated symphonic soundtrack. It was composed by Michael Giacchino, who went on to score films for Pixar and Star Wars.
Uh is there a timestamp guy for this? There were some amazing track in this one that I would love to get the names of. I loved how she responded to each one of them.
Someone else is making them. Marco stopped making them, he mentioned in the condensed version on his main channel that he's omitting them on purpose for retention.
You have to show your next guest The Unsung War or Megalith! I highly doubt that they won’t have a smile on their face at the end of it!
Ok, Raphael's Final Act is so hilarious, but so awesome haha, I was taken aback there, super creative use of Devil :P
Thank you Marco!! I would really like to hear dark souls 3 OST and detroid become human music on the next reactions)
What an endearing personality she has :)
fun fact the guy yelling
"MORTAL KOMBAT" is bit that they took from an ad FEATURING that song iirc (i know, crazy) where like a kid that would be around...14, 15 max comes out on a deserted street and yells MORTAL KOMBAT as a signalling cry that the game was available to buy, i guess, and as he does children start coming out from everywhere as they run to the store? sorry for all of these fuzzy details but the point is that they liked that scream and so they took it for the song that wasfeatured on that very ad (IIRC that was the only time they used the song without the scream)
"We can stop here."
"Do we have to?"
If nothing else, we got her with that one.
Fantastic guest
Great guest, great discussion!
One word Wild Arms. Especially the ending theme.
don't know why, but there is some strange popping of sound or a voice every now and then, any idea what's causeing it?
otherwise awesome vid as always.
Gotta do some "To Zanarkand" from FFX, a fun oldie is "Neclord Battle" from Suikoden 1 or 2, "Scars of Time" from Chrono Cross, and "Dearly Beloved" from Kingdom Hearts.
i always cry when i hear The Best is Yet to Come...
Some of y'all are not hating the game (RUclips) instead of the player. The algorithm is cruel.
What do you mean? What's going on?
@@classyrobot5648 RUclips buries content that doesn't sell ad revenue. When you pick a section of a video, then leave? Less pop-up ads. So less payout and also less reach (much bigger deal, probably).
Tell us when and where the protest is or where to sign the petition and I’ll be there.
@@geovaughan8261 I mean, RUclips ain't a democracy. And they really /do not care/ as long as people watch and ads sell. But we stop watching (not happening anyway) and the creators suffer first and most. It's a nice little quagmire.
@@geovaughan8261we gonna smear poo under their car door handles!
there is no such thing as "too much Ace Combat". I can never get enough of it. Especially watching people react to it the first time
Fun fact about Raphael's Theme. The voice actor sang this despite not being a singer. Hes also actually singing it in the game. If you cast a silence spell on him, it stops him singing.
Gerudo Valley is a BANGER! I used to go there just to listen to theme!
I'd really like to hear people who are non-gamer professionals react to Valkyrie Profile and Dragon Quest music. :)
I think when a guest ask about what's Ace Combat is about, you need to show a clip of the game, cause describing it by words lessen the impact
i wish i had more live video game orchestras around me. i'd totally go to a live performance of Ace Combat Music
A german twitch streamer has played a game in a concert hatt and the game music has been played live by an orchestra in the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. you have to react to that video. The name is "Let´s Play mit @Staiy in der Elbphilharmonie | Live-Gaming Konzert mit dem Ensemble Reflektor"
You should check out the Tetris Effect soundtrack at some point. It's got some amazing songs in it.
@MarcoMeatballVods Hi, you ever heard the OST from Octopath Traveler 2? Especially The Song of Hope :P
For male vocals, gotta play her some Hades!
What's up with the eldritch noises along this VOD? At first I thought I was imagining it... then I checked if it was something else in another tab, but no, it's in this.
Feedback?
Not sure if you have listened to the Bastion and Transistor Soundtracks, those are great too :D
Who is always talking over the audio when the music is playing? I noticed it in almost ever "non gamer hears game music" video now
also Baba Yetu
and the Surviving Mars OST by George Strezov
So at 1:25:00, is that Laura Bailey then? Where's the clip/concert from?
1:09:34 It's from Nier Automata, but it's not A Beautiful Song.
Damn. You can see Terra theme hit her in the feels.Damn. You can see Terra theme hit her in the feels.
100% she plays Adrift
I adore her energy
Astarte song from the game Darksiders Genesis its a master piece.
One day he will play Debt of Honour from Anno 1800
You should include Orpheus lament in the next react!!!!!
For Gerudo Valley, try the remix from Super Smash Bros ULTIMATE. The instruments breathe a new life into an already great piece.
This version: ruclips.net/video/9uTpKhOe4KY/видео.html
(I'm not sure if links to a RUclips video will go through so I'm posting as a comment)
Have you listened to FF15 OST yet? probably my all time favorite from the series
Video games have a general cultural perception issue that extends to the music as well, but if I give it a thought...
Video game music in it's infancy was best suited to "blips and bloops" as they unaffectionately call it as well as a focus on short loops that don't have the traditional structure of more conventional music. Now technology progressed rapidly during videogames infancy so these didn't last very long but unfortunately that first impression has hang on through a lot of peoples mind. This is especially bad for those who viewed them as throwaway toys and only interacted with them as young children with your Mario Bros and Tetris and the like, locking that in their mind as "what video games are".
It certainly doesn't help culturally there's a lot of video games individuals both creators and players who want to be "as cool as their big brothers" of film, an almost shame of what video games are to them and want to be respected for the wrong reasons. We've got a long way to go sadly to treat video games for what they are instead of the shallow idea many latch onto.
Whats with the weird voice coming up at the beginning of the Morrowind theme? Sounds like an AI trying to translate noise.
Since you pointed out the stereotypical use of male and female voices in video game music, I thought you might like a little change of pace and appreciate the opening of Romacing Saga: Minstrel Song, which does the game's title justice: ruclips.net/video/vOpAbG6W26o/видео.htmlsi=siuORJ8Uo2LbBFib
Please show some Masterduel songs
Hey Marco...!!!
Make a Special Ace Combat with your friends...!!!
There's no shortage of pieces to impress them...!!!
Tetris literally mady by soviet guy and this is russian folk music Korobeiniki
That version of Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat) was not from the 1995 movie. Maybe from the next one of the series.
Ayeee can’t wait to watch after work. I love these! ❤