A little fun fact for those who don't know, the piano in Soul of Cinder is actually the piano from Gwyn, Lord of Cinder form Dark Souls 1, and the main motif (what we call the plin plin plon) can also be heard in Nameless King's theme, as he's Gwyn's firstborn son
The Soul of Cinder is, in a sense, what remains of Lord Gwyn -- every person who has _ever_ linked the First Flame is a part of the Soul, which is why it's able to use so many familiar techniques.
10:03 I have never played Dark Souls 3, but I recognize this from the meme of the Russian chess kid that starts crying when they bring a chess grandmaster on the stage to challenge him. 😂
@@webpombo7765 DS3 was my first game, and let me tell you, you might be right in the absolute sense, but I will not stand by those words. I died way too many times on Vordt for you to say he's pretty easy. I think I died less to Nameless King.
@@MDMarcus yeah she have been doing the vocal and some of the instrument herself even back in the armored core day though at that time the main composer was Kota Hoshino whom became the sound designer and now he might be back as the main composer again
The phase change at 10:17, in game, happens when Vordt reaches half health, dynamic music for the win. But you've likely seen it in various internet memes or videos on the internet. There's a famous video of a young boy who's on a TV show that likes chess, and the host says "I can't play you. We need someone of your skill level to play you, so please bring out a Grandmaster Chess Player", and people put this music over the shot of the chess player walking out, as if he were a video game boss. It also helped the meme that it then cuts back to the child who's just started crying, because if you're six, you would be terrified of a grandmaster chess player coming to whoop you on national TV. Love seeing you react to DS3's music though, it's some of the best in the series. Any chance we could see you reacting to the Astro Bot soundtrack in the future? It's an extremely whimsical platformer with some of the best music I heard last year ^^ EDIT: Just got to your Nameless King reaction, absolutely blessed. The first half of the theme is a Phase 1 where the King rides atop a dragon, while the second half of the theme is a 1v1 duel against the King after you slay the dragon. That track, specifically, is by Motoi Sakuraba, who did the soundtrack for Dark Souls 1, as well as the Mario Sports games & my personal favourite gameboy advance games, Golden Sun. Would highly recommend - I'm not versed on music theory, but his compositions are absolutely insane.
The Main/Menu theme is said to have been the theme for the first draft of the final boss, but that boss was replaced entirely and this song no longer fit anywhere, so they put it in the title screen.
Once again I see how people confuse this moment. The game menu plays the original main theme of Dark Souls III. The original final boss, the Pontiff, had it in the form of an alternate main theme for Dark Souls III. Which was preserved in the game files and which people got out of them. Please remember this for the future. I'm tired of seeing comments like this that don't even see the difference in them.
The story of the Nameless King is that hes the first born son of Gwyn, whose name has been removed from history after he betrayed his father and sided with the dragons. You find him at the top of a mountain, where he flies in, riding on top of the king of the storm, a dragon.
Minor added context because this is my all-time favorite game: 1. The Abyss Watchers' fight within themselves is also a fight against each other. They swear upon the blood of "the first wolf knight" to always fight the abyss, which is within themselves, causing them to mostly lose their minds. But they are undead, so they are endlessly killing each other and coming back repeatedly. They are lost in the bloodshed. 2. Vordt is a knight controlled by a tyrant, far away, sent to distant areas for unknown ultimate purposes. Like all other knights of his order, he is constantly watched by the tyrant's eyes. Under the gaze of the tyrant, the knights all lose their humanity over time, becoming beasts, their armor fused to their hide. It's likely they've forgotten their purpose, and have become mere hunters. 3. The Nameless King was once a god of war who fought against the first dragons when his family gained power, but his deific status was stripped from him "for his foolishness" after he allied himself with the dragons. Every trace of his existence was wiped away by his family, statues removed, histories rewritten, supporters killed or banished. Today, not even his name is known. 4. Firelink Shrine is a place dedicated to sacrifice. It is your home base because your aim is to sacrifice yourself to continue the Age of Fire. This is where the undead and unkindled gather to strengthen themselves in their quests. The Fire Keeper is bound by the bonfire to serve the Shrine and serve you, turning souls into strength. 5. The Soul of Cinder is not just every previous Lord of Cinder. A Lord of Cinder is one who has sacrificed themselves to the Age of Fire in the past, which is the more-or-less canon ending of the first Dark Souls. You are fighting yourself from Dark Souls 1, along with everyone else who completed the game.
Number 5 is the reason Soul of Cinder is pretty much my favourite boss in the entire Eldensoulsborne series I absolutely love what they stand for. A defense mechanism, an amalgamation of everyone who ever fueled the First Flame with their very soul. The moment they switched their build from sword to sorcery to miracles to pyromancy, I knew this is it, the curtain call. At least from a narrative standpoint Also, they have backflips, Flame Within, and a freaking parry! The latter is such a rarity in the series. And it's better this way. To use it selectively, strategically. A boss who represents player characters from previous games would be incomplete without it. And the fact that they have it make them so, so special
8:08 YO ITS THE SONG!! I mostly hear "bore-ree-al" but both work great. And the 2nd phase change you talk about at 10:17 has been memed with more than anything else in Dark Souls history at this point! Feel free to watch some of them in your spare time, we love sharing the laughs!
the Abyss Watchers are in a very sad state when you find them. sealed away in the entrence to a catacombs, floor littered with the dozens of bodies of their slain comrads. two yet remain, locked in combat with eachother, trying to kill the Abyss they sense in eachother. as one lands a final blow on te other, it turns to you and raises its sword and prepares for combat. as you fight, the undead bodies of the other Avyss watchers slowly rise and join the fight, one even fights the other Abyss watchers, seemingly on your side. once the last Watcher falls, the remaining embers in all the slain Watchers coalesce into one and the final Abyss Watcher rises, no emboldened by the dying embers, to battle you one last time.
Honestly, the entire _world_ is in a sad state in _DS3._ But what's always made the Watchers stand out to me is that, even as corrupted as they've become, they remain true to their duty: *the Abyss **_cannot_** be allowed to escape.* They endlessly battle against one another to stop any one of them from letting the Abyss break free, trapping themselves in an endless cycle rather than risk failing in their sworn duty; none of the _other_ wayward Lords of Cinder bothered with their duties after getting called back, yet the Watchers refused to answer the call of the Firelink Shrine until their original task was complete. That's why I called them 'noble' in the description Em read out: *even when naught remains but duty, they carry that duty out until it's done.*
Nameless King is a secret boss but also one of the most important characters to the story of the dark souls trilogy. (he is the son of Gwyn (the first lord of cinder), nameless king was actually teased all the way back in the first game and he betrayed his father while they were at war with the dragons, nameless king then went on to befriend a drake of his own called the king of storms, and is one of the hardest bosses in the entire trilogy, he is also the god of war in the dark souls trilogy).
Also many of these songs are composed by Yuka Kitamura, and any song that has a strong solo violin and a prominent solo female vocalist were likely performed by Yuka herself
I don’t know if you noticed it, but there is a moment where the piano motif falters (or “flickers”) slightly behind in tempo towards the end. They are even telling you with the music that the world just can’t keep going like this anymore. It’s tired. It wants to end.
It lines up with the visuals of the First Flame across the entire series, too. If you choose to link the Fire in the first game, it's like you're setting off a _volcano_ for how much the Flame bursts back into life -- but by the third, as reality itself is collapsing into a tired heap around you, the First Flame can do little more than _smolder_ around you. 'Tired' really is the word for the world of this game. It _wants_ to end. It _should've_ ended _ages_ ago, but for the arrogance of one man who feared the Dark more than anything -- but much like the Hollowed Undead that trudge wearily along its paths, it's just been forced on, again and again, long past its natural end. ...I bloody *_love_* these games' narrative aesthetic.
This game has one of my favourite OSTs in any game honestly. My three fav tracks "Sister Friede" from the Ashes of Ariandel DLC, Slave Knight Gael from the Ringed City DLC (and canonically the final boss of the Dark Souls trilogy) and "Secret Betrayal" which replaces the Firelink Shrine music if you perform a long and convoluted quest involving several hidden areas and difficult boss fights. There's something about "Secret Betrayal" that feels so special. The quest involves giving the Firekeeper of Firelink Shrine a pair of eyes from another dead Firekeeper, which is portrayed as being heinous, unnatural and very wrong to do... and the way the music in Firelink Shrine, the hub area, changes just feels like something is very wrong about the world now.
My personal favorites of the game: Opening Theme Soul of Cinder Abyss Watchers The Twin Princes Secret Betrayal (Soulsborne peak imo) Slave Knight Gael
Twin Princes and Midir are probably my favorites from the game but all are good. The one thing I enjoyed about a lot of the boss fights are that the boss fights or the music were designed with the other in hand. All I know is I felt like I was fighting in tune with the music. They abandoned that rhythm mindset completely in elden ring.
By the way you missed the best one (Yes, the best one) which is "Twin Princes", is so far the best piece of the series. Highly recommend My Top 5; 1; Twin Princes 2; Abyss Watchers 3; Darkeater Midir 4; Yhorm 5; Slave Knight Gael
23:45 This piano segment is actually Gwyn's theme from DS1. The attack pattern of Soul of Cinder even switches to be reminiscent of Gwyn. That is because Soul of Cinder is an amalgamation of all the previous Lords of Cinder who linked the first flame, including your own character from Dark Souls 1 and Gwyn. In my opinion one of the best bosses to ever finish a god tier franchise.
here's a fun fact about soul of cinder that nobody ever talks about because everyone is too pre-occupied with plin plin plon. The first 6 notes of the song is DS1's firelink shrine.
The Nameless King fight is a powerful, bearded old wizard/warrior/king who rides a lightning breathing dragon dozens of times your size. The fight is extremely difficult because it's hard to lock on to and even get a hit on A FLYING DRAGON, and the fight is set in the epic location of a castle ruin surrounded by a thunderstorm. The music really nails the sense of dizzying, impending doom within the fight, thanks to its crazy strings and booming brass. I'm on my 5th playthrough of the game and still have not beaten this boss.
The reason Vordt might seem familiar is because the start of phase 2 it’s one of the most used songs in “boss fight memes” probably because of how aggressive it is immediately lol
Dark Souls III is basically like the end of the world, hence the main menu theme is that epic, it is like it is time to put to an end, this is "The End of The Age of Fire". After this there others fron DSIII; Pontiff Sulyvahn. Champion Iudex Gundyr. Twin Princes. Sister Friede. Dark Eater Midir. Slave Knight Gael Epilogue Ringed City Version.
I can name a couple of good tracks from the main game that you haven't listened to; Pontiff Sulyvahn, Yhorm the Giant, Twin Princes, Dragonslayer Armor, etc. I hope you pick them up too someday.
Hearing Gwyn's theme in the Soul of Cinder, that tragic piano, it always makes me feel something. That ending theme in Dark Souls 1 was so impactful and hearing it called back to in such a way for the close of the series was just... it capped off the story well.
This ost was peak Yuka Kitamura. It's a shame you didn't post a reaction of the Twin Princes track, my favorite of the game. Yuka Kitamura eventually collaborated with Alex Roe, a long time Souls track remixer and original musician in his own right, and they put out a EP mini album together! Each did 2 tracks.
It's always such a treat watching people react to Dark Souls 3 music. I'm so happy and glad that from soft is finally getting the attention that they deserve, because as someone else pointed out in the comments section, from soft never misses, especially when it comes to their music.
One thing I love about the Abyss Watchers OST it's its difference in phases Phase 1 you're battling the leader, one sane member, and one mad member (who attacks everyone), and thus you have the orchestra, the main vocals, and the accompanying vocals. Phase 2 the blood of all members flows into their leader, and you fight him powered up one on one. The OST now only has a few, strong, instruments and the lone main vocalist. The only one that remains.
To set the scene for the nameless king boss battle, the moment you step into the arena (you are walking on a field of clouds) this guy swoops in on a dragon fighting you from its back, and throwing lightning bolts at you from the sky. After the health bar drops to 0, you've actually just mortally injured the dragon. He kills it himself to take its power, then puts on a clinic kicking your butt with his spear skills. Every sweep sends waves of wind billowing through the clouds and every slam sends lightning down on you. Unlike a lot of fights there is no gimmick, just a 1 on 1 between you and a former god of war. He's old and withered to the point of looking like a mummy, but still maintains his will and regality unlike almost every other person (or deity) in this world.
Just imagine being those selected for the network beta test for Dark Souls 3, and the first thing you hear when the BANDAI NAMCO whitescreen fades away and DARK SOULS III comes onto the screen is the main theme blowing your ear drums out
What I love about the Nameless king is that in the first phase the strings are meant to invoke the feeling of a tornado or a storm because the king is riding a dragon who is basically controlling a storm that you fight the boss in
I love how the sense of bleakness is always present throughout the music of DS3... you're walking through the ashes of a desolate, broken, weary world; and the music never lets you forget it.
The piano at the end is a callback to Gwyn's theme from Dark Souls 1, the boss at that point begins to fight like Gwyn, Soul of Cinder itself is a culmination of all beings who sacrificed themselves to keep the fires alive, including the player character from Dark Souls 1 which is why it sounds so much sadder than just Gwyn's theme, you literally have to destroy your original character from the first game.
17:30 The Nameless King was the first son of Gwyn (Lord of the Sun and final boss of the first Dark Souls). He was a fierce warrior specialized in lightning and killing dragons, but when he realized that the war against the dragons declared by his father was just to kill the dragons and gain more power, the Nameless King decided to go against Gywn and fight alongside the dragons. Because of this, Gwyin erased any track of him from history books and pretended he never had a son.
The lead violin and lead vocalist in these pieces (aside from Nameless King which I believe is from Motoi Sakuraba) is the composer herself, Yuka Kitimura. It just makes her that much more impressive.
Vordt's theme is one of the few in DS3 composed by the same composer, Motoi Sakuraba, as the whole DS1 soundtrack, and he is very famous for his work on classic JRPG's. You can really tell how much of that DNA comes through here.
Fun fact the piano in gwyn's theme and the soul of cinder plin plin plon was only played on the LIGHT keys because Gwyn was afraid that DARK would take over
Nameless King boss fight starts out with the boss flying on a dragon and throwing lightning bolts and swooping down on you. 2nd phase phase starts after you kill the dragon and its a ground fight.
The nameless king is the outcast son of Gwynn. He was striped of his title and heritage. He was nearly forgotten throughout the entire kingdom for god knows how long to the point of pure obscurity. He sided with the dragons if I remember correctly. Pretty sure there is much more on his lore.
19:18 I don't even know how someone discovered how you can get to the area of the Nameless King. It's not even secret like a normal "side quest boss". Towards the middle part of the game there is a place where you have to sit down using a gesture called "The Path of the Dragon" to get to the Nameless King area. The funny thing is that you only get this gesture or emote towards the end of the game in an area which is also optional, which means somebody went back to a seemingly random place in the middle of the game, and did the right gesture in the right place, I'm guessing completely randomly. Then the game teleports you to Archdragon Peak, where you can fight the Nameless King. There are 25 bosses in the base game (without the expansions), and you can easily miss at least 5 of them off the top of my head.
All Fromsoftware's games since Bloodborne have had incredible soundtracks, the games before Bloodborne didn't have bad music, not at all, but they're nowhere close to what they put out now
The Nameless King is the son of the God Of Sunlight Gwyn who disowned him after he made peace with the ancient dragons instead of killing them in the war between Gods and Dragon. So he is isolated up on Arch Dragon Peak, a place completely seperated from the rest of the games map pretty much.
The Abyss Watchers lost the battle against the Abyss, it rooted inside them and made them kill each other, only to be revived and continue the battle forever, and then, you arrive to put and end to their eternal curse.
Don't suppose there's any chance at all of persuading Em to try _playing_ any of the _Souls_ series after she's done with the reactions? I know these games aren't for _everyone,_ but seeing how much the OSTs have bowled her over, I can't help but wonder what her reaction would be to experiencing them in the full context.
Nameless King is considered the most difficult boss in the game, no contest. You need to get through an entire bonus zone after solving a puzzle to unlock it (and the Souls games are known for being difficult to begin with) if you want the chance at fighting him, and he's one of the most notoriously frustrating fights in gaming history. The first person to fight him would've had to go pretty damn far out of their way off the path of the main game to hear that bit of the soundtrack.
The Nameless King is a secret optional boss. He is the firstborn son of Gwyn the Lord of Sunlight, later to become the first Lord of Cinder. A title given to a person who sacrifices themselves to be burned alive by the First Flame to keep it going, and stall the onset of the coming age of dark. The Nameless King was a god of war who fought against the dragons, but betrated his father to side with the dragons. He is nameless because his father redacted his name from the history books because of his betrayal. And he is a king because his father and almost all of his family are dead, making him the heir to whats left of his father's kingdom. Not that it means much by the time of the 3rd game. He begins the fight riding his wyvern, the king of storms. But once the wyvern is dead he fights you one on one.
Go back and listen to Gwyn's theme from DS1 and understand that was the final boss fight of DS1, and imagine coming to the end of DS3, halfway through the Souls of Cinder bossfight (with design inspired by the Gwyn fight), music changes to piano (with orchestra this time) with Gwyn's theme. It's a perfect end to the DS3 trilogy. Also, Twin Princes is best track IMO from DS3, with elements similar to title theme. Title theme was initially meant for an end game boss fight but when they changed the order of the fights and totally rescripted the stories, that track was no longer used as a bossfight and instead we are blessed with an epic title track
would personally like to you react to Secret Betrayal from this ost, its an alternate theme to Firelink Shrine that plays when certain criteria ingame are met.
Found the channel recently and I love the reactions to the Xenoblade and Dark souls stuff specifically (highly recommend Disgaea music, specifically the first game) Dark Souls 3 is kinda shat on for being arguably the most flawed of the trilogy, but it always felt nostalgic despite releasing only 9 years ago. Abyss Watchers was my favorite track in the game until I heard Soul of Cinder, the melancholy feel while still keeping the suspense and the vocals which gave a sad, but also slightly triumphant feeling, like you are destined to win this battle because of how the odds are stacked against the watchers. Btw I was hoping you'd made the connection with the last one, but the piano portion of Soul of Cinder is actually Gwen's theme from DS1, but I understand not catching that since it's been a hot minute since then, we may never get another DS game but I feel like ending on the combined strength of all previous kindlers (including your DS1 character) is a really sweet way to end the trilogy.
Vordt is the first boss outside of the tutorial area and the reason you recognize his theme is because it's very often used in meme edits. Yes, Nameless King is a side quest, in fact it is very easy to miss him... he also happens to be Gwyn's firstborn son who was exiled, so he is essentially the heir to the kingdom, not to mention a literal god of war. Soul of Cinder is an amazing piece, but Slave Knight Gael is arguably even better. Soul of Cinder is the final boss of Dark Souls 3, but Gael is the final boss of the series as a whole.
Feel the culmination of 10 years of souls game, from DS1, DS2, Bloodborne and DS3 as you listen to the Soul of Cinder and the cries of all who sacrificed themselves to keep the flames burning.
Ok, I've been floating sround for too long, its time for me to subscribe. Also, a little context for the Nameless King: in the first game, Gwyn God of Sunlight, waged war with the everlasting dragons. One of the greatest warriors on his side was his son, a mighty god of war. It's not known exactly why, but his son betrayed him, and so he was stricken from history. Statues of the god of war were destroyed, his name forgotten, and few speak of him at all. Now, in Dark Souls 3, we arrive at Archdragon Peak to face the Nameless King, the forgotten son of Gwyn and one of the harder bosses in the game
Nameless King is the first son of Gwyn. A god of war that hunted dragons until he decided to ally with them and for that, his father exiled him and took his name. Abyss Watchers are fighting the abyss corrupting themselves. In the middle of the boss fight, a corrupted Abyss watcher will rise and start fighting the others. Soul of Cinder is the amalgamation of everyone that linked the fire. That means, he is Gwyn, he is you from DS1 and you from DS2. In the first phase we fight those versions of ourselves and in the second phase, we fight Gwyn (the piano is the same as in DS1) You need to make another video, not only about the DLC tracks but also some tracks you missed, like: -Lorian and Lothric -Pontiff Sulyvahn. -Epilogue.
Oh hollow ash! Grant us ears, so we can hear this art! Oh, the Nameless King. It was discovered rather late. And I mean very late after the game is released. It is said people lost their minds, learning there was a whole new part of the game. Wich I mean a huge place wich 2 sections.Then, he was called the hardest boss in gaming. He is Gwyn's firstborn. Instead of fighting dragons, he sided with them. In his fight he rides a dragon, while you both inside a strom... On the clouds. itself? Anyways his name is "Strom King" while he is on tbe dragon. Then after you kill the dragon, the hard part starts. His name changes to "Nameless King", then you fight the once hardest souls boss ever. ...wich if you didn't know, Fromsoft is making a new game. Elden Ring Nightreign. Elden right is a complete different story with different characters, different gods. It's kind of like Greek myth and norse myth, they are separate. But then... Nameless King just appears on the trailer... For no reason?? I guess he decided that he didn't beat enough ass in Dark Souls 3 and decided to join Elden Ring to make people suffer more. By the way, between all the games 1, 2 and 3 they are very apart in time. Between the first game and the last at least few 1000 years have passed... Probably? (In Dark Souls time is a suggesttion, you can just chat with a guy 10 minutes before you and fight someone 2 weeks further. One of the very jolly character in Dark Souls 1 said "The flow of time itself is convoluted, with heroes centuries old phasing in and out") So yeah, Gwyn (and his theme) being part of Soul of Cinder is a neat thing. (By everyone who linked the fire, it doesn't mean hust Gwyn and counts every player from DS1 wich choose the link fhe flame ending and few boss characters such as Abby's Wathers. So Soul of Cinder can just do all kind of weapons, magic and pyromancy on you, wich you can do too. He also looks like the knight armor version of the player character from Dark Souls 1... I didn't had to point that out haha, he is already on the thumbnail and every cover!) This comment was suppose to only have "Grant us ears!" but couldn't stop myself from ranting about a really awasome game!
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A little fun fact for those who don't know, the piano in Soul of Cinder is actually the piano from Gwyn, Lord of Cinder form Dark Souls 1, and the main motif (what we call the plin plin plon) can also be heard in Nameless King's theme, as he's Gwyn's firstborn son
yes we all never heard that before!
The Soul of Cinder is, in a sense, what remains of Lord Gwyn -- every person who has _ever_ linked the First Flame is a part of the Soul, which is why it's able to use so many familiar techniques.
@@benrehe was explaining it for her, not the rest of us.
Lies....
@@colinnixon7739 Nope, that's what the games' lore suggests!
10:03 I have never played Dark Souls 3, but I recognize this from the meme of the Russian chess kid that starts crying when they bring a chess grandmaster on the stage to challenge him. 😂
ANATOLY KARPOV !!!!!!!
*Incredibly large healthbar appears*
The funniest part is that this is one of the hardest and most terrifying tracks, but Vordt himself is a pretty easy early game fight, lmao
@@webpombo7765yep, beat him yesterday in 4 minuts
@@anthonyst-onge "Momma!"
@@webpombo7765 DS3 was my first game, and let me tell you, you might be right in the absolute sense, but I will not stand by those words. I died way too many times on Vordt for you to say he's pretty easy. I think I died less to Nameless King.
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Opening theme: 0:09
Firelink shrine 4:55
Vordt of the Boreal Valley 8:17
Abyss Watchers 12:22
Nameless King 17:15
Soul of Cinder 21:31
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everytime you hear the solo female vocal it's actually the composer Yuka singing
Wait what?? seriously? How did I not know this? Nobody I follow has ever mentioned that, if true that's an incredibly cool fact
@@MDMarcus yep if you've heard gaels's ost thats her singing, she does most of the female vocals in songs she composes aside from the choir obviously
@@Fuzzywuzzyking that's crazy! I love it!
im pretty sure the violin you hear in most of her osts are her too
@@MDMarcus yeah she have been doing the vocal and some of the instrument herself even back in the armored core day though at that time the main composer was Kota Hoshino whom became the sound designer and now he might be back as the main composer again
Before the DLC: "Twin Princes", "Dancer of the Boreal Valley" and "Epilogue" are some of the best tracks in this game. I recommend strongly.
Pontiff Sulyvahn also has a great theme
Secret Betrayal Secret Betrayal
I think epilogue is slept on. Still, every track in this game can arguably be the best one lmao.
Yhorm the giant, Pontiff Sulyvahn, Twin Princes
@ couldn’t agree more.
All souls games have good osts but DS3 and Elden ring are on another level.
Dark souls 3 and Bloodborne tbh
@@t.o.g21 can’t argue with that
and for me sekiro asw
@@t.o.g21Absolutely, Elden Ring has bangers but these two games ARE the banger.
Bloodborne has one of the greatest with Ludwig, Father gascoigne, Gehrman, Lady Maria, Laurence etc.
The phase change at 10:17, in game, happens when Vordt reaches half health, dynamic music for the win. But you've likely seen it in various internet memes or videos on the internet.
There's a famous video of a young boy who's on a TV show that likes chess, and the host says "I can't play you. We need someone of your skill level to play you, so please bring out a Grandmaster Chess Player", and people put this music over the shot of the chess player walking out, as if he were a video game boss. It also helped the meme that it then cuts back to the child who's just started crying, because if you're six, you would be terrified of a grandmaster chess player coming to whoop you on national TV.
Love seeing you react to DS3's music though, it's some of the best in the series. Any chance we could see you reacting to the Astro Bot soundtrack in the future? It's an extremely whimsical platformer with some of the best music I heard last year ^^
EDIT: Just got to your Nameless King reaction, absolutely blessed. The first half of the theme is a Phase 1 where the King rides atop a dragon, while the second half of the theme is a 1v1 duel against the King after you slay the dragon. That track, specifically, is by Motoi Sakuraba, who did the soundtrack for Dark Souls 1, as well as the Mario Sports games & my personal favourite gameboy advance games, Golden Sun. Would highly recommend - I'm not versed on music theory, but his compositions are absolutely insane.
Oh hey Billy's here, I can't hide that I read this entire comment in your voice, I'm just so used to it by now 😅
Yooo! I can't believe how small the world is.
Happy to see you here! I love your vids!
MOTOI SAKURABA DID MARIO MUSIC?????????????????????? I CANNOT BELIVE XD
Billy! I love your videos and was not expecting to see you here
The Main/Menu theme is said to have been the theme for the first draft of the final boss, but that boss was replaced entirely and this song no longer fit anywhere, so they put it in the title screen.
Not necessarily replaced, but repurposed.
The final boss was supposed to be Pontiff Sulyvahn.
@@methanoIit wasn’t Pontiff, it just used Pontiffs model. It was called Old King of the Eclipse
@@Detriax ..Yeah, that is Pontiff, just a model or not, it is what we know him as.
@ true, but it wasn’t the character OF pontiff. Thag was my point
Once again I see how people confuse this moment. The game menu plays the original main theme of Dark Souls III. The original final boss, the Pontiff, had it in the form of an alternate main theme for Dark Souls III. Which was preserved in the game files and which people got out of them. Please remember this for the future. I'm tired of seeing comments like this that don't even see the difference in them.
Vordt of the Boreal Valley's 2nd phase music has been used as a meme for "Why do I hear Boss Music?"
*That's where the song came from.*
The story of the Nameless King is that hes the first born son of Gwyn, whose name has been removed from history after he betrayed his father and sided with the dragons. You find him at the top of a mountain, where he flies in, riding on top of the king of the storm, a dragon.
Minor added context because this is my all-time favorite game:
1. The Abyss Watchers' fight within themselves is also a fight against each other. They swear upon the blood of "the first wolf knight" to always fight the abyss, which is within themselves, causing them to mostly lose their minds. But they are undead, so they are endlessly killing each other and coming back repeatedly. They are lost in the bloodshed.
2. Vordt is a knight controlled by a tyrant, far away, sent to distant areas for unknown ultimate purposes. Like all other knights of his order, he is constantly watched by the tyrant's eyes. Under the gaze of the tyrant, the knights all lose their humanity over time, becoming beasts, their armor fused to their hide. It's likely they've forgotten their purpose, and have become mere hunters.
3. The Nameless King was once a god of war who fought against the first dragons when his family gained power, but his deific status was stripped from him "for his foolishness" after he allied himself with the dragons. Every trace of his existence was wiped away by his family, statues removed, histories rewritten, supporters killed or banished. Today, not even his name is known.
4. Firelink Shrine is a place dedicated to sacrifice. It is your home base because your aim is to sacrifice yourself to continue the Age of Fire. This is where the undead and unkindled gather to strengthen themselves in their quests. The Fire Keeper is bound by the bonfire to serve the Shrine and serve you, turning souls into strength.
5. The Soul of Cinder is not just every previous Lord of Cinder. A Lord of Cinder is one who has sacrificed themselves to the Age of Fire in the past, which is the more-or-less canon ending of the first Dark Souls. You are fighting yourself from Dark Souls 1, along with everyone else who completed the game.
Number 5 is the reason Soul of Cinder is pretty much my favourite boss in the entire Eldensoulsborne series
I absolutely love what they stand for. A defense mechanism, an amalgamation of everyone who ever fueled the First Flame with their very soul. The moment they switched their build from sword to sorcery to miracles to pyromancy, I knew this is it, the curtain call. At least from a narrative standpoint
Also, they have backflips, Flame Within, and a freaking parry! The latter is such a rarity in the series. And it's better this way. To use it selectively, strategically. A boss who represents player characters from previous games would be incomplete without it. And the fact that they have it make them so, so special
@@nolanstrife7350 You mean Soulseldenborne series
@@ShaggyDabbyDank Don't YOU mean The Soulseldenbornekiro IV the Old Shadows Die Erdtree series?
Miyazaki: okay, this is the second boss. Hes pretty easy and not that special, can you make a simple theme for him?
The composer: 10:02
"Is this the main theme?" - well, that's actually the "press any button" theme for DS3,
Thank you for the reaction, Emily. Love your videos!
The piano in the Soul of cinder theme is actually Gwyn's theme
I think you can see now why people were so insistent that you check out this OST. FromSoft music _does not _*_miss._*
Kind of sad that their reign appears to be at an end, what with the studio trying to buy them out.
8:08 YO ITS THE SONG!!
I mostly hear "bore-ree-al" but both work great.
And the 2nd phase change you talk about at 10:17 has been memed with more than anything else in Dark Souls history at this point!
Feel free to watch some of them in your spare time, we love sharing the laughs!
SHE DIDNT REACT TO SLAVE KNIGHT GAEL NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I just heard what she said about DLC themes oops
Yeah, you gotta give the base game a chance to shine _before_ letting the DLC upstage it!
@@Nitrinoxus nothing upstages the main theme, but to each their own.
Fromsoftware DLC ost always upstages the base game. Idk how, this they manage to pull a hat out of a rabbit every time.
at least there's a chance it will appear on the DLC video. Unfortunately, it seems she won't ever react to Twin Princes :(
10:03 Anatoly Karpov !
*Montage of Chess prodigy child crying his fucking eyes out*
'plin plin plon' (Gwyn's theme) always in my ❤
17:15 -1000 yard stare flashbacks, "Johny! he's on the dragon!"
And he's coming back in Elden Ring to haunt us again!
18:39 Dark Souls may be the only thing that makes me headbang with orchestral music LMAO specially Nameless King theme.
the Abyss Watchers are in a very sad state when you find them. sealed away in the entrence to a catacombs, floor littered with the dozens of bodies of their slain comrads. two yet remain, locked in combat with eachother, trying to kill the Abyss they sense in eachother. as one lands a final blow on te other, it turns to you and raises its sword and prepares for combat. as you fight, the undead bodies of the other Avyss watchers slowly rise and join the fight, one even fights the other Abyss watchers, seemingly on your side. once the last Watcher falls, the remaining embers in all the slain Watchers coalesce into one and the final Abyss Watcher rises, no emboldened by the dying embers, to battle you one last time.
Honestly, the entire _world_ is in a sad state in _DS3._ But what's always made the Watchers stand out to me is that, even as corrupted as they've become, they remain true to their duty: *the Abyss **_cannot_** be allowed to escape.*
They endlessly battle against one another to stop any one of them from letting the Abyss break free, trapping themselves in an endless cycle rather than risk failing in their sworn duty; none of the _other_ wayward Lords of Cinder bothered with their duties after getting called back, yet the Watchers refused to answer the call of the Firelink Shrine until their original task was complete.
That's why I called them 'noble' in the description Em read out: *even when naught remains but duty, they carry that duty out until it's done.*
From one of the most bad*ss groups in all of Soulsborne to... that. And they're still one of the best early/mid-game bosses in existence.
One of mine of my favorite themes from this game is Iudex Gundyr. He’s the tutorial boss but his music slaps so much
Nameless King is a secret boss but also one of the most important characters to the story of the dark souls trilogy. (he is the son of Gwyn (the first lord of cinder), nameless king was actually teased all the way back in the first game and he betrayed his father while they were at war with the dragons, nameless king then went on to befriend a drake of his own called the king of storms, and is one of the hardest bosses in the entire trilogy, he is also the god of war in the dark souls trilogy).
Please let there be a part 2, you need to hear Slave Knight Gael's theme.
Just watched the rest of the video, yep, I heard, DLC reaction confirmed.
Also many of these songs are composed by Yuka Kitamura, and any song that has a strong solo violin and a prominent solo female vocalist were likely performed by Yuka herself
Will always remember how speechless I was when hearing the Abyss Watchers theme for the first time
I finished last night and i will say abyss is peak
Bloodborne still the God tho
Not just the main theme.
It's the Start Menu.
Lovely video, Abyss Watchers is one of my favs from all the souls games for sure
I don’t know if you noticed it, but there is a moment where the piano motif falters (or “flickers”) slightly behind in tempo towards the end. They are even telling you with the music that the world just can’t keep going like this anymore. It’s tired. It wants to end.
It lines up with the visuals of the First Flame across the entire series, too. If you choose to link the Fire in the first game, it's like you're setting off a _volcano_ for how much the Flame bursts back into life -- but by the third, as reality itself is collapsing into a tired heap around you, the First Flame can do little more than _smolder_ around you.
'Tired' really is the word for the world of this game. It _wants_ to end. It _should've_ ended _ages_ ago, but for the arrogance of one man who feared the Dark more than anything -- but much like the Hollowed Undead that trudge wearily along its paths, it's just been forced on, again and again, long past its natural end.
...I bloody *_love_* these games' narrative aesthetic.
This game has one of my favourite OSTs in any game honestly. My three fav tracks "Sister Friede" from the Ashes of Ariandel DLC, Slave Knight Gael from the Ringed City DLC (and canonically the final boss of the Dark Souls trilogy) and "Secret Betrayal" which replaces the Firelink Shrine music if you perform a long and convoluted quest involving several hidden areas and difficult boss fights. There's something about "Secret Betrayal" that feels so special. The quest involves giving the Firekeeper of Firelink Shrine a pair of eyes from another dead Firekeeper, which is portrayed as being heinous, unnatural and very wrong to do... and the way the music in Firelink Shrine, the hub area, changes just feels like something is very wrong about the world now.
My personal favorites of the game:
Opening Theme
Soul of Cinder
Abyss Watchers
The Twin Princes
Secret Betrayal (Soulsborne peak imo)
Slave Knight Gael
Twin Princes and Midir are probably my favorites from the game but all are good. The one thing I enjoyed about a lot of the boss fights are that the boss fights or the music were designed with the other in hand. All I know is I felt like I was fighting in tune with the music. They abandoned that rhythm mindset completely in elden ring.
By the way you missed the best one (Yes, the best one) which is "Twin Princes", is so far the best piece of the series. Highly recommend
My Top 5;
1; Twin Princes
2; Abyss Watchers
3; Darkeater Midir
4; Yhorm
5; Slave Knight Gael
I'm not sure I could even recognize the twin princes theme; I thought it was super forgettable
@@TheNomad94 It's literally the best one 😢
Nah, Champion's Gravetender solos.
Hot take: Ds3 doesn't have as many memorable songs bc unlike Elden Ring, they all use the same instruments and vocals
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23:45 This piano segment is actually Gwyn's theme from DS1. The attack pattern of Soul of Cinder even switches to be reminiscent of Gwyn. That is because Soul of Cinder is an amalgamation of all the previous Lords of Cinder who linked the first flame, including your own character from Dark Souls 1 and Gwyn. In my opinion one of the best bosses to ever finish a god tier franchise.
here's a fun fact about soul of cinder that nobody ever talks about because everyone is too pre-occupied with plin plin plon.
The first 6 notes of the song is DS1's firelink shrine.
You are right about hearing Vordt's song in other stuff, it became a meme for abrupt and intense situations
The Vordt of the Boreal Valley sound is used in a few memes likely you know it from there
The Nameless King fight is a powerful, bearded old wizard/warrior/king who rides a lightning breathing dragon dozens of times your size. The fight is extremely difficult because it's hard to lock on to and even get a hit on A FLYING DRAGON, and the fight is set in the epic location of a castle ruin surrounded by a thunderstorm. The music really nails the sense of dizzying, impending doom within the fight, thanks to its crazy strings and booming brass. I'm on my 5th playthrough of the game and still have not beaten this boss.
I've only managed to beat the S.O.B. _once,_ and I'm half-convinced it came down to _luck._ The King is *_tough._*
The reason Vordt might seem familiar is because the start of phase 2 it’s one of the most used songs in “boss fight memes” probably because of how aggressive it is immediately lol
10:05
POV: you just flushed the Toilet and the water starts rising
Australian living in Canada problems and vice versa, amirite?
Slave Knight Gael from the Ringed City DLC! It's honestly one of the best tracks in Dark Souls 3 and is another 6 minute whirlwind of chaos!
Dark Souls III is basically like the end of the world, hence the main menu theme is that epic, it is like it is time to put to an end, this is "The End of The Age of Fire".
After this there others fron DSIII;
Pontiff Sulyvahn.
Champion Iudex Gundyr.
Twin Princes.
Sister Friede.
Dark Eater Midir.
Slave Knight Gael
Epilogue Ringed City Version.
Prithee be careful, I don't want to see m' work squandered. HAHAHAHA
10:17 you definitely have heard that before, it was used in the "Dark Souls boss" meme that was huge when DS3 came out
I can name a couple of good tracks from the main game that you haven't listened to; Pontiff Sulyvahn, Yhorm the Giant, Twin Princes, Dragonslayer Armor, etc. I hope you pick them up too someday.
Hearing Gwyn's theme in the Soul of Cinder, that tragic piano, it always makes me feel something. That ending theme in Dark Souls 1 was so impactful and hearing it called back to in such a way for the close of the series was just... it capped off the story well.
I literally had to listen to the whole opening theme every time I booted up the game lol
This ost was peak Yuka Kitamura. It's a shame you didn't post a reaction of the Twin Princes track, my favorite of the game.
Yuka Kitamura eventually collaborated with Alex Roe, a long time Souls track remixer and original musician in his own right, and they put out a EP mini album together! Each did 2 tracks.
It's always such a treat watching people react to Dark Souls 3 music.
I'm so happy and glad that from soft is finally getting the attention that they deserve, because as someone else pointed out in the comments section, from soft never misses, especially when it comes to their music.
One thing I love about the Abyss Watchers OST it's its difference in phases
Phase 1 you're battling the leader, one sane member, and one mad member (who attacks everyone), and thus you have the orchestra, the main vocals, and the accompanying vocals.
Phase 2 the blood of all members flows into their leader, and you fight him powered up one on one. The OST now only has a few, strong, instruments and the lone main vocalist. The only one that remains.
To set the scene for the nameless king boss battle, the moment you step into the arena (you are walking on a field of clouds) this guy swoops in on a dragon fighting you from its back, and throwing lightning bolts at you from the sky. After the health bar drops to 0, you've actually just mortally injured the dragon. He kills it himself to take its power, then puts on a clinic kicking your butt with his spear skills. Every sweep sends waves of wind billowing through the clouds and every slam sends lightning down on you. Unlike a lot of fights there is no gimmick, just a 1 on 1 between you and a former god of war. He's old and withered to the point of looking like a mummy, but still maintains his will and regality unlike almost every other person (or deity) in this world.
Just imagine being those selected for the network beta test for Dark Souls 3, and the first thing you hear when the BANDAI NAMCO whitescreen fades away and DARK SOULS III comes onto the screen is the main theme blowing your ear drums out
The PLIN PLIN PLON gets everyone
The composer of the main theme and Firelink Shrine is also the main female vocalist in it.
IT HAPPENED!!!
Good to see that the Plin Plin Plon still causes me immense emotional damage, haven't gone hollow yet lads!
What I love about the Nameless king is that in the first phase the strings are meant to invoke the feeling of a tornado or a storm because the king is riding a dragon who is basically controlling a storm that you fight the boss in
I love how the sense of bleakness is always present throughout the music of DS3... you're walking through the ashes of a desolate, broken, weary world; and the music never lets you forget it.
The piano at the end is a callback to Gwyn's theme from Dark Souls 1, the boss at that point begins to fight like Gwyn, Soul of Cinder itself is a culmination of all beings who sacrificed themselves to keep the fires alive, including the player character from Dark Souls 1 which is why it sounds so much sadder than just Gwyn's theme, you literally have to destroy your original character from the first game.
17:30 The Nameless King was the first son of Gwyn (Lord of the Sun and final boss of the first Dark Souls). He was a fierce warrior specialized in lightning and killing dragons, but when he realized that the war against the dragons declared by his father was just to kill the dragons and gain more power, the Nameless King decided to go against Gywn and fight alongside the dragons. Because of this, Gwyin erased any track of him from history books and pretended he never had a son.
The lead violin and lead vocalist in these pieces (aside from Nameless King which I believe is from Motoi Sakuraba) is the composer herself, Yuka Kitimura. It just makes her that much more impressive.
Vordt's theme is one of the few in DS3 composed by the same composer, Motoi Sakuraba, as the whole DS1 soundtrack, and he is very famous for his work on classic JRPG's. You can really tell how much of that DNA comes through here.
Fun fact the piano in gwyn's theme and the soul of cinder plin plin plon was only played on the LIGHT keys because Gwyn was afraid that DARK would take over
Nameless King boss fight starts out with the boss flying on a dragon and throwing lightning bolts and swooping down on you. 2nd phase phase starts after you kill the dragon and its a ground fight.
the nameless king is the final boss of an entire secret area as large as the other areas
The nameless king is the outcast son of Gwynn. He was striped of his title and heritage. He was nearly forgotten throughout the entire kingdom for god knows how long to the point of pure obscurity. He sided with the dragons if I remember correctly. Pretty sure there is much more on his lore.
19:18 I don't even know how someone discovered how you can get to the area of the Nameless King. It's not even secret like a normal "side quest boss". Towards the middle part of the game there is a place where you have to sit down using a gesture called "The Path of the Dragon" to get to the Nameless King area. The funny thing is that you only get this gesture or emote towards the end of the game in an area which is also optional, which means somebody went back to a seemingly random place in the middle of the game, and did the right gesture in the right place, I'm guessing completely randomly. Then the game teleports you to Archdragon Peak, where you can fight the Nameless King. There are 25 bosses in the base game (without the expansions), and you can easily miss at least 5 of them off the top of my head.
If you enjoyed this, definitely check out Bloodborne's and Elden Ring's sound track too
Vordt's theme is the song from the famous "Why do I hear boss music" meme video
I always listen to the main theme all the way through when starting the game
OMG ITS HAPPENING EVERYONE CALM DOWN
All Fromsoftware's games since Bloodborne have had incredible soundtracks, the games before Bloodborne didn't have bad music, not at all, but they're nowhere close to what they put out now
Cool tid bit, the main theme was originally the theme for the Pontiff Sulivan boss fight.
The Nameless King is the son of the God Of Sunlight Gwyn who disowned him after he made peace with the ancient dragons instead of killing them in the war between Gods and Dragon.
So he is isolated up on Arch Dragon Peak, a place completely seperated from the rest of the games map pretty much.
The Abyss Watchers lost the battle against the Abyss, it rooted inside them and made them kill each other, only to be revived and continue the battle forever, and then, you arrive to put and end to their eternal curse.
The dancer of boreal theme is simple but awesome, fits the boss fight perfectly, give it a listen
Let’s. Freaking. Gooooo!!!
Don't suppose there's any chance at all of persuading Em to try _playing_ any of the _Souls_ series after she's done with the reactions? I know these games aren't for _everyone,_ but seeing how much the OSTs have bowled her over, I can't help but wonder what her reaction would be to experiencing them in the full context.
twin prince, yhorm the giant, and epilogue is beautiful so defo include in the DLC vid
Nameless King is considered the most difficult boss in the game, no contest. You need to get through an entire bonus zone after solving a puzzle to unlock it (and the Souls games are known for being difficult to begin with) if you want the chance at fighting him, and he's one of the most notoriously frustrating fights in gaming history. The first person to fight him would've had to go pretty damn far out of their way off the path of the main game to hear that bit of the soundtrack.
The Nameless King is a secret optional boss. He is the firstborn son of Gwyn the Lord of Sunlight, later to become the first Lord of Cinder. A title given to a person who sacrifices themselves to be burned alive by the First Flame to keep it going, and stall the onset of the coming age of dark.
The Nameless King was a god of war who fought against the dragons, but betrated his father to side with the dragons. He is nameless because his father redacted his name from the history books because of his betrayal. And he is a king because his father and almost all of his family are dead, making him the heir to whats left of his father's kingdom. Not that it means much by the time of the 3rd game.
He begins the fight riding his wyvern, the king of storms. But once the wyvern is dead he fights you one on one.
Man, heard pretty much all of the must-listens for base DS3.
Epilogue alternate version it's a piece not many people give attention , worth hearing for sure
Go back and listen to Gwyn's theme from DS1 and understand that was the final boss fight of DS1, and imagine coming to the end of DS3, halfway through the Souls of Cinder bossfight (with design inspired by the Gwyn fight), music changes to piano (with orchestra this time) with Gwyn's theme. It's a perfect end to the DS3 trilogy.
Also, Twin Princes is best track IMO from DS3, with elements similar to title theme. Title theme was initially meant for an end game boss fight but when they changed the order of the fights and totally rescripted the stories, that track was no longer used as a bossfight and instead we are blessed with an epic title track
This is the one I was most excited about. Ever since you first did the dark souls episode several weeks ago.
would personally like to you react to Secret Betrayal from this ost, its an alternate theme to Firelink Shrine that plays when certain criteria ingame are met.
Found the channel recently and I love the reactions to the Xenoblade and Dark souls stuff specifically (highly recommend Disgaea music, specifically the first game) Dark Souls 3 is kinda shat on for being arguably the most flawed of the trilogy, but it always felt nostalgic despite releasing only 9 years ago. Abyss Watchers was my favorite track in the game until I heard Soul of Cinder, the melancholy feel while still keeping the suspense and the vocals which gave a sad, but also slightly triumphant feeling, like you are destined to win this battle because of how the odds are stacked against the watchers.
Btw I was hoping you'd made the connection with the last one, but the piano portion of Soul of Cinder is actually Gwen's theme from DS1, but I understand not catching that since it's been a hot minute since then, we may never get another DS game but I feel like ending on the combined strength of all previous kindlers (including your DS1 character) is a really sweet way to end the trilogy.
this theme literally hits you before you even started the game
You NEED to do the DLC btw, at least Friede, Midir, and Gael
I hope we get more of your reactions to this game's soundtrack.
Imagine how much more she could hear if she had good headphones
Vordt is the first boss outside of the tutorial area and the reason you recognize his theme is because it's very often used in meme edits.
Yes, Nameless King is a side quest, in fact it is very easy to miss him... he also happens to be Gwyn's firstborn son who was exiled, so he is essentially the heir to the kingdom, not to mention a literal god of war.
Soul of Cinder is an amazing piece, but Slave Knight Gael is arguably even better. Soul of Cinder is the final boss of Dark Souls 3, but Gael is the final boss of the series as a whole.
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Feel the culmination of 10 years of souls game, from DS1, DS2, Bloodborne and DS3 as you listen to the Soul of Cinder and the cries of all who sacrificed themselves to keep the flames burning.
I am the only one who listen Gwyn's plin plin plon in second part of Nameless King ost?
Ok, I've been floating sround for too long, its time for me to subscribe.
Also, a little context for the Nameless King: in the first game, Gwyn God of Sunlight, waged war with the everlasting dragons. One of the greatest warriors on his side was his son, a mighty god of war. It's not known exactly why, but his son betrayed him, and so he was stricken from history. Statues of the god of war were destroyed, his name forgotten, and few speak of him at all. Now, in Dark Souls 3, we arrive at Archdragon Peak to face the Nameless King, the forgotten son of Gwyn and one of the harder bosses in the game
I was looking forward for this day. YES!
The best OST of the saga it's here 🥂
Darkeater Midr and Slave Knight Gael are must have for your dlc video!
Nameless King is the first son of Gwyn. A god of war that hunted dragons until he decided to ally with them and for that, his father exiled him and took his name.
Abyss Watchers are fighting the abyss corrupting themselves. In the middle of the boss fight, a corrupted Abyss watcher will rise and start fighting the others.
Soul of Cinder is the amalgamation of everyone that linked the fire. That means, he is Gwyn, he is you from DS1 and you from DS2. In the first phase we fight those versions of ourselves and in the second phase, we fight Gwyn (the piano is the same as in DS1)
You need to make another video, not only about the DLC tracks but also some tracks you missed, like:
-Lorian and Lothric
-Pontiff Sulyvahn.
-Epilogue.
Twin Princes, best music in the gaaaame!
Oh hollow ash! Grant us ears, so we can hear this art!
Oh, the Nameless King. It was discovered rather late. And I mean very late after the game is released. It is said people lost their minds, learning there was a whole new part of the game. Wich I mean a huge place wich 2 sections.Then, he was called the hardest boss in gaming. He is Gwyn's firstborn. Instead of fighting dragons, he sided with them. In his fight he rides a dragon, while you both inside a strom... On the clouds. itself? Anyways his name is "Strom King" while he is on tbe dragon. Then after you kill the dragon, the hard part starts. His name changes to "Nameless King", then you fight the once hardest souls boss ever.
...wich if you didn't know, Fromsoft is making a new game. Elden Ring Nightreign. Elden right is a complete different story with different characters, different gods. It's kind of like Greek myth and norse myth, they are separate. But then... Nameless King just appears on the trailer... For no reason?? I guess he decided that he didn't beat enough ass in Dark Souls 3 and decided to join Elden Ring to make people suffer more.
By the way, between all the games 1, 2 and 3 they are very apart in time. Between the first game and the last at least few 1000 years have passed... Probably? (In Dark Souls time is a suggesttion, you can just chat with a guy 10 minutes before you and fight someone 2 weeks further. One of the very jolly character in Dark Souls 1 said "The flow of time itself is convoluted, with heroes centuries old phasing in and out") So yeah, Gwyn (and his theme) being part of Soul of Cinder is a neat thing. (By everyone who linked the fire, it doesn't mean hust Gwyn and counts every player from DS1 wich choose the link fhe flame ending and few boss characters such as Abby's Wathers. So Soul of Cinder can just do all kind of weapons, magic and pyromancy on you, wich you can do too. He also looks like the knight armor version of the player character from Dark Souls 1... I didn't had to point that out haha, he is already on the thumbnail and every cover!)
This comment was suppose to only have "Grant us ears!" but couldn't stop myself from ranting about a really awasome game!