To be fair, this could be applied to several mobile games lol. Pokemon Masters has fastastic aranges, Final Fantasy Record Keeper had a fantastic sound track, genshin Impact has great music, just to name a few.
@@legeul The point is not that arknights has a good soundtrack, but that it actively produces music, and specifically vocal tracks, that show up NOWHERE IN THE GAME.
The Singer's name is Airton Araujo, he's Brazilian, also, this song is fire, the opening of it really fits the character and the rest of the song without corrupting the original song from Schubert
It's so nice to hear that someone whose worked professionally in the classical music industry say that this song pays homage to the original Schubert piece! Thank you! Also you mentioned phantom of the opera vibes. If you enjoyed the theatrical aspect of this piece, I highly recommend taking a listen to another Arknights OST called: Rhythm in Literature next. Cheers Marco!
Agree so much, Rythm in Litterature really has that vide to it and the word "phantom" is even quite fitting there. Hope marco will listen to more Arknights in the future!
The fact you can recognized at the opening part is the same as Schubert's Ständchen is freakin' great. They really love to make historical references, Truly a Music Company!!!
Just a little explanation: In Arknights there are equivalent parties to our world and the country that represents Germany in this world is very focused on researching and perfecting 'arts' (the worlds magic system) and they do this by manipulating 'arts' with music. That is why Leithanians lore (the name of the country in Arknights world) is heavily based on German classical music and art. I'm even a bit pissed at this event because in their new event, that is based on the Italian mafia, they actually use Italian (and add Italian voice actors for the characters of the area), while they used English for this clearly German inspired event.
Tbh, I don't think they considered that when the event first came in CN. But when they decided to add EN voices for the first time, they then considered to add VAs from other countries as well.
@@Floofrer really? I always got the idea that the Sarkaz were supposed to be the Ottoman Empire. Both in the idea of them being the opposites of catholic Christianity and Laterano as well as their sort of ruling structure.
I love this song so much! I listen to it often since I love Classical music and this event is beautiful when it comes to it. Him and the event haven't released in Global but his name is Ebenholz. This song is perfect for him due to the fact that he is cursed by the Witch King and his voice forever lives in his mind trying to control him. I'm happy seeing the Arknights songs especially characters I absolutely love 💜
@@Kaneki3678-s7s Sorry tried to keep it to Ebenholz only since there's a lot to the event but it's a beautiful event. Especially if you love Classical music, it's absolutely perfect
@@hessianqrow7977 How's your pull on [Roaring Cliff]? And are you prepared... to give it all for *[Abyssal Corrosion]* banner? The way I say it was reference to Giancarlo Esposito on Far Cry 6 promotion
The reason i love Marco's reactions so much(as well as other such content creators) is because they are able to give insight into some aspects of music that i already like but would never know otherwise. They manage to deepen my appreciation further.
I've been hoodwinked, ive been bamboozled and I love it. The event this song is from hasn't come to global yet so I'm exited to see what other classical music they'll have when the event drops.
This song is one of my favorites and you got it right! The character is associated with the musical stage along with his best friend. I can't delve into the story since it will spoil people and non-Arknights players but the story of that character, named Ebenholz, is pretty much angst. I guess it's one of the reasons Arknights developer chooses Ständchen as his character song. We should be able to read his story sometime around December because that's when his event & story will be released globally. Thank you for your video and I started to understand more about what Ständchen is about!
There's a joke in the community that Hypergryph (the developer of Arknights) is actually a music company that makes a game on the side. This is a great showing of it!
Ah you're going to enjoy this story arc of Arknights. Classical Music & Orchestra is the main theme of the nation they're currently at in the story here. Their battle theme is literally "Flight of the Bumblebee" (SPOILER) The character's name is Ebenholz and the song saying "Under my skin" is literally what it means, cuz the Witch King is constantly trying to take over him, whispering in his ear thus "Killing him from within"
Actually in that event, all the stages are named after famous classical music chapter name. Such as "Valse Brilliante, op.18" "Op.599" "Polka schnell" etc. They even got a new character named Czerny (I think was named after Carl Czerny). Really interesting.
I’m glad you picked up on the angst of the cello next to Ebenholz in the song. Ebenholz was a flautist alongside his cellist relative Kreide who passed away from oripathy (the mineral disease present in most of the game’s story) with his body being used as an originium arts catalyst by the antagonists of his story. The names Ebenholz and Kreide themselves are likely references to the ebony keys of the piano and the chalk used in string instrument maintenance
YES! I've been waiting for this since the first Arknights video. Thank you for this and all the other Arknights content. I love these videos and I appreciate the willingness to go through all the songs you have.
The sheer amount of information I learn from these is incredible on its own, let alone the incredible singing he occasionally gives us, IN ADDITION to the emotion and story deductions he makes just from breaking down the music and the techniques involved. These videos are so good and the more I see of games I already loved the better they seem to get. Not to mention the music that I haven't seen but learn about through these.
Arknights has always been very referential in both its music and story, and one of my favourite parts of the community is just seeing people go, "Whoa, that's my language! I know that guy! I know that thing!" Recently, a new update was showcased, and one of the biggest creators in the global community was absolutely giddy to hear his language and see his culture in the game (trying to keep it spoiler free, but I'm talking about Kyo for those who know). It's just a great thing to see. If you're doing more Arknights, there's actually another piece heavily inspired by classical music called "Winter Absolution." It's in direct reference of the Gregorian chant, "Pange Lingua," and I think it's one of the best, definitely one of the most unique, in Arknights' repertoire.
Winter absolution is a pleasure to hear no doubt,what a love of arknights music is it's wide range of musical styles and is always telling something about someone about somewhere or about a certain moment or cirscuntance,how many times i just paused to hear the music i lost the count .
As a Arknights player and fan, I'm very enjoyed by the fact that you, as a professional, litteraly says this song is an homage to the original one! Thanks again for the video Marco and I hope you'll listen to more Arknights in the future! (and do more "music/character analysis too, it's always nice towatch 👀) As always, a few song I would recommend that *should* fit your style are : - Requiem (a must-listen-to, really) - Ensheath - March On! - Прощание - Silver Lining - Winter Absolution
Ah, Standchen, the EP or character leitmotif for our boy, Ebenholz. The EP isn't released yet for the EN server, just for CN for now. The event, where this song and character were released, is called "Lingering Echoes," and from the trailer it is heavily music based, heck, the music that they used for the trailer started slow with a female singer then later transitioning to an orchestra as they introduced the new characters. Great trailer to watch, again, Hypergryph does not mess with their music.
Arknights got an insane amount variety in their music to the point it's almost impossible to not like at least like one of them, i'll be looking foward to see your takes on the other arknights music.
Hadn't heard this yet since it's not yet out globally, but it's such a great song. Another piece of arknights music that's forever going to be stuck in my music playlist once it releases alongside like 50 others. As an arknights fan since it's release globally, I never expected it would get me into so many songs and music genres. Love the arknights videos, hoping to see more soon :)
Dear Marco. The only thing I can ask of you is to listen to the song "Прощание". It’s another Arknights ost, that just left me devastated. As a person who is completely far from that kind of music, I was incredibly shocked by this composition. Honestly, I just sat there, feeling empty, and thought about what I just heard (song is performed in my native language) for a while. I hope that you will appreciate this work of art.
A bit disappointed that you didn't analyze the lyrics like you aways do but learning about the song's history is also interesting. Please react to more arknights song!
i can't wait for you to check out more of their ost, it's one of the cases where the tracks aren't just background noise but something truly enriching for the fun you have in the game
Thank you, thank you so much for covering more arknights music!!! Getting a professional opera singer react to my favorite songs feels surreal. Arknights music has a lot of genres including pop, hip hop, jazz, ballad, rock metal, techno, and orchestral songs. If I may, I'm very excited for you to hear arknights' most iconic theme called Towerfierce. It is composed by Go Shiina, the composer who made music for God Eater and Demon Slayer. Another epic song I'm excited to see is Arknights' own bloodborne inspired song, called Voices. Again, thank you so much for checking out standchen!! ❤
I might also recommend you take a look at "Radiant" and "Operation Lead Seal" (or any of the "Operation" songs - they are lobby themes for Contingency Contract events, think Events where you can apply buffs to the enemies or debuffs to your Operators for better rewards) Arknights has a wide span of genres, so there is a ton to look at, depending on what you feel like.
Thanks for the insight about this song, it's really nice to hear that from someone who understand it. I'll wait for your another arknights reaction, especially "awaken"
Now that the event has been released there is an additional context, you see Ebenholz, the featured character of the song essentially has an eldritch voice being, a work of the monstrous witch king residing in his head. After the featured event was over it turns out the voice cant bear rock rock music and is quiet when its up soEbenholz went well then, Imma do a rock opera to spite you!
Nice! Recommended this in the last Arknights reaction video, probably just a coincidence lol. Arknights has so many other tracks that are great and so Diverse. I strongly recommend Winter Absolution, it’s got this sacred vibe to it combined with the Greek Vocals. Another one of my favorite is “And Yet It Wines”, Traditional Chinese instrument mixed with Jazz
It’s so mind blowing and hits different when hearing a song and then seeing a music proffesional discuss the song and it’s origins and what it stands for. It really makes me appreciate the music and effort Arknights puts into there songs. Anytime Arknights drops a new genre I always walk out with a new genre of music I enjoy.
@@MarcoMeatball I commented before, then deleted it because I saw you did it on your other video, then realised it was the incorrect piece, but 'Rhythm in Literature' is an excellent theme. ruclips.net/video/KY0zMHk5lXA/видео.html
I really like your explanation about standchen and again, thank you so much! as a part of AK community, I really like you react AK music lately. please reach another Arknight music. "minima" or "awaken" or "invitation to wine boss theme" can't wait to see your another react!
Marco, I love Arknights music a LOT. Like many comments already said Arknights is just the facade of a really good music company. And you wouldn't belive how hyped I am for more reaction's to Arknights Music, especially some of the Character Theme Songs, since the lyrics of the song are essentially telling the Story of the Character. (Also I want to see how much you can guess the personality and motivation of the Characters based on there Songs)
Your reactions and insight is immensely interesting! Been going through a bunch of your videos recently. Very well done and enjoyable. If you havent heard I would recommend Serpent Eating The Ground from Bravely Default. One of my all time favorite.
People have been raving over Arknights music, so I'm glad you're covering it. This is my first time listening as well, and it's just so good. On a separate note, there's a really cool video I stumbled upon called "Mozart vs Pokémon" and it really highlights the evolution of classical music into videogame music.
Its wild. Not very familar with this type of music or arknights, but been exploring all their amazing songs. This one was on repeat for a few days and I thought to myself this reminds me of Marco, and here it is on the channel! Awesome to learn about the background of the song, I didnt know it had a bit of history
for whatever reason I could sadly only hear/understand 50% of your Ständchen acustic wise but the other half sounded really great/good to understand compared to so many other attempts on the german language I heared on yt^^ great job looking forward to more ak ost/songs in the future mfg Olli
standchen.... such a beautiful song... tbh, I didn't expect to hear this classic song in tower defense game at first but well, this is arknights after all, always full of surprised. I'm excited to see how reaction in another Arknight song, try "minima" or "invitation of wine boss ost", those two are really cool as heck! note : I really like when you also sing standchen. it's really rad! hope to see your another sing again!
I found your channel a week or so ago and am just hooked on listening to your breakdowns. You do such a great job. I would recommend checking out the Arknights song 'Awaken' if you get the chance.
The event is finally out and found this video in my recommendation. I learned about this song thanks to you, you are also an amazing singer Hypergyph should HIRE YOU!!
Arknights is a musical game disguising itself as tower defence game with great plot full of deaths, despair, partings, betrayal, the darkness of hearts and..., sometimes goofiness.
Oh wow, what a gorgeous song, I love it! THat's another cool thing about following this channel, I'm introduced to songs from games I don't play, and sometimes we have gems like this one. I was also surprised to see that the singer is Brazilian, too! I don't think Ive heard of him before, but that name is 200% BR haha. Apparently he's indeed a more metal-inclined singer, which shows a lot here. So cool!
I haven't looked through your channel but Kings Raid has some very beautiful and powerful music that embodies the story, the characters heart break, the resolve and change, and the desperation that they experience. Would be cool to see you react to that.
Arknights is just a music company that happened to have a game with a ridiculously good cast and story added on lmao, i love just how stupidly diverse and well done every piece is and every time a new char gets announced half the hype for me is just trying to m Imagine what beautiful work of art the music associated with them is going to be like lol
i love arknights and his music no matter the genre they release its always interesting to hear, marco i love your reactions and today i learned one or two things about classical music, didn't knew the first part of the song was already a fragment of an already existing song wow! and a very popular one, can't wait to see you reacting to Requiem and Прощание from this game
Oho, I’m not too familiar with Schubert (tho I definitely have to change that) so it’s very interesting to find out that Arknighth’s Standchen is a variation on an existing song. Loved its vibe so I’m sure I’d quite enjoy the original too! Loved the reaction too :3
I really hope you can react to Arknights Shining's theme "Winter Absolution" to hear your thoughts about it. The song is sung in Latin, and it is a rendition of a famous hymn "Pange Lingua" but with a twist
Yes, more Arknights music! Love hearing your impressions of them with the perspective and insight of a musical professional, and I've discovered many rocking tunes through your channel! If you enjoy reacting to more of Arknights' soundtrack, I'd like to suggest more from the Abyssal Hunters' story (Stultifera Navis: Awaken and The Golden Age Will Return Again, and Caerula Arbor's boss battle theme 02) but there's really too many bangers to mention in that game's soundtrack. Cheers!
Since I didn’t see others mention it, here’s some detail on the character this song is the theme of. Spoiler warning for anyone waiting for this event’s release in English. As the song implies, it’s a classic tale of tragedy. The pictured character is Ebenholz, one of two individuals who survived a decade of child experimentation. Despite being close, they separate once free in order to forget their past. Years later they meet again but after becoming close once more, lasting effects from the experiment start corrupting Eben’s friend. Ultimately leading to Eben having to kill his first friend/“brother” to stop his endless pain and rampage.
Damn, I never went and listened to this song before now. Maybe that was for the best since it took me a good long time to start tolerating English lyrics in video game soundtracks for some reason. I was absolutely not prepared for the whole ass electric guitar and everything. Hypergryph is truly beyond comprehension. Funniest part of it all is that, as far as I’m aware, they actually are a music company lol That or the people they employ do music for a lot of other things, not completely sure They just up and decided to make Arknights once upon a time and holy SHIT. The music, the story, character designs, audio effects, animations…all of it is done by Hypergryph as far as I know and all of it is of simply astounding quality.
Wow what a coincidence, just listened to this song a few days ago and thought it was beautiful, played Arknights for a few weeks and gotta say their operator themes are really good
Love this content, Arknights is basically a music company masquerading as a game. Would LOVE to see more Arknights content covered, there's so many different genres.
This is one of my favourite EP from Arknights tbh, a leitmotif for a charcter named Ebenholz who had a pretty depressing story in the Lingering Echoes event, as you can see in the lyric...
I found your channel yesterday and I'm absolutely in love in how much history, knowledge and funfacts you can share. You've earned a sub! I do absolutely adore the music pieces from Arknights, they are way better than you'd expect from a Anime tower defense gacha game. You said that if we like this, we like classical music. Can you recommend some pieces to get into classical music from this?
Arknights has like every genre so it's not surprising it has classical music. I'm waiting for the day they do symphonic metal. I haven't heard anything regarding this event since it hasn't released in global. The next event we are getting is Stultifera Navis, which has a sea shanty for a boss theme. If you plan on doing more Arknights music, I highly recommend duskdragon from the Who is Real? event. It uses traditional Chinese instruments as the event is for the region of the game based on China. Honestly though, it might be worth listening to the whole soundtrack for that event since its just so good.
It's funny you mention Phantom of the Opera, when there's a whole character named Phantom based around that play in the game. Would highly recommend Curtain Call and "Rglk1phantomcastle", the latter being the theme that plays during the event based around Phantom.
It's always fun to learn classical music from you, you seem really passionate talking abt it, and I also appreciate the insight I get from listening to you. Might I recommend you Ensheath? :D
Hell yeah i love classical music. The first ever piece of classical music i remember listening to is Vivaldi's Four Seasons in my elementary school. Fell in love ever since \o/
I don’t actively seek out classical music, but I like it when modern artists covers classic stuffs. As far as I know, My Chemical Romance did a cover of Romance
Bloodborne OST were the ones who awoken my taste for classics, and Arknights becomes the ones who lit my love for it. HyperGryph have always got "memed" for being a music company instead of game, solely because despite Arknights being a RTS tower defense game, the OST and BGM they made are always quite a banger!! You might want to check out the BGMs, and I recommend that you try the Boss BGM of the current event of new story campaign
thank you so much to review this song and give explanation about standchen is. I really appreciate it. the character in this song, ebenholz is from leithania (the country based on German in RL) and his event is around classical music with touch of fantasy,magic,and angst spice. He has a friend and with his friend, he enter classical music competition but unexpectedly, there's conspiration around this competition that force him to kill his friend in order to save people in that city. his friend also ask ebenholz to kill him so he can't be a monster that hurt people around him. In the end, ebenholz's friend died and he got depression for a while though his friend dead make him see the value of life better than before. people get saved by sacrifice his friend is kinda angst isn't it? anyway, I want to see your another reaction in Arknight song! please react "stultivera navis boss theme". this event will come to global server in early next month. or react "minima" from summer event in arknight.
Oh wow, haven't heard this track yet, it's really nice And I once again recommend "Stay Gold", also from Arknights I think you would like it, it has a really uplifting vibe to it, imo
I won't believe ARKNIGHTS is a tower defense mobile game at first, until I heard its song. The song that draws me into the game is Renegade and the story seal the deal for me.
So it's probably been suggested a bunch, but I would love to hear your thoughts on the wild ride of a song that is Awaken. It takes heavy influence from musicals and is just a blast to listen to!
Oh shit... I was wondering why I thought that music from Signalis sounded familiar: I've watched this video before, which is where I first learned about Standchen.
When I hear this and I know the latest main story is based on Britain…. God I can not wait to possibly hear what they do with Wales music wise cause Wales is also known as the land of song, a welsh choir would be right up Hypergraph’s alley.
At this point, Arknights is a glorified add for a music company, so if you play Arknights, you like music, whatever the genre.
It's a long standing meme that hypergryph is a music company. Heck we already had a Collab with cytus, a rthym game.
Dude they have their own label record... a true music company indeed
To be fair, this could be applied to several mobile games lol. Pokemon Masters has fastastic aranges, Final Fantasy Record Keeper had a fantastic sound track, genshin Impact has great music, just to name a few.
Music company when Arknights dropped: *Vince McMahon entrance video*
@@legeul The point is not that arknights has a good soundtrack, but that it actively produces music, and specifically vocal tracks, that show up NOWHERE IN THE GAME.
Classical music + Arknights, insta click. This season is truly a time to be an Arknights fan
Indeed my friend!!!!
Bro, im looking forward to season 3 while we arent even done with season 2 on global 😭
The Singer's name is Airton Araujo, he's Brazilian, also, this song is fire, the opening of it really fits the character and the rest of the song without corrupting the original song from Schubert
And he commented on this video, showed a few comments under yours.
Thank you so much for this amazing video. Very proud to have been part of this beautiful project. I loved your channel! Greetings from Brazil 🤘
Glad you enjoyed the channel and fantastic job!!!
Aí meu mano, Brasil tá em todo lugar, até no meu jogo favorito, nosso país é foda 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
It's so nice to hear that someone whose worked professionally in the classical music industry say that this song pays homage to the original Schubert piece! Thank you!
Also you mentioned phantom of the opera vibes. If you enjoyed the theatrical aspect of this piece, I highly recommend taking a listen to another Arknights OST called: Rhythm in Literature next. Cheers Marco!
Agree so much, Rythm in Litterature really has that vide to it and the word "phantom" is even quite fitting there. Hope marco will listen to more Arknights in the future!
The fact you can recognized at the opening part is the same as Schubert's Ständchen is freakin' great. They really love to make historical references, Truly a Music Company!!!
Just a little explanation:
In Arknights there are equivalent parties to our world and the country that represents Germany in this world is very focused on researching and perfecting 'arts' (the worlds magic system) and they do this by manipulating 'arts' with music. That is why Leithanians lore (the name of the country in Arknights world) is heavily based on German classical music and art.
I'm even a bit pissed at this event because in their new event, that is based on the Italian mafia, they actually use Italian (and add Italian voice actors for the characters of the area), while they used English for this clearly German inspired event.
Tbh, I don't think they considered that when the event first came in CN. But when they decided to add EN voices for the first time, they then considered to add VAs from other countries as well.
Wasn't the Sarkaz more of Saxon Germans?
Man just be patient.. if there is another leithania story I'm sure they will add german voices
@@Floofrer really? I always got the idea that the Sarkaz were supposed to be the Ottoman Empire. Both in the idea of them being the opposites of catholic Christianity and Laterano as well as their sort of ruling structure.
We gonna have Italian VA hehe
I love this song so much! I listen to it often since I love Classical music and this event is beautiful when it comes to it. Him and the event haven't released in Global but his name is Ebenholz. This song is perfect for him due to the fact that he is cursed by the Witch King and his voice forever lives in his mind trying to control him. I'm happy seeing the Arknights songs especially characters I absolutely love 💜
spoilers.
@@Kaneki3678-s7s Sorry tried to keep it to Ebenholz only since there's a lot to the event but it's a beautiful event. Especially if you love Classical music, it's absolutely perfect
@@yukokiryuhanabi6702 it's OK, if that's only a small piece to the story then it's cool. I'm still very excited to see what happens.
The event hasn't hit Global yet this song is just screams rage and sorrow 😭
It's close brada... VERY CLOSE
@@SirGacha Yee but first 🎶THE GOLDEN AGE WILL RETURN AGAIN!🎶
@@hessianqrow7977 How's your pull on [Roaring Cliff]? And are you prepared... to give it all for
*[Abyssal Corrosion]* banner?
The way I say it was reference to Giancarlo Esposito on Far Cry 6 promotion
@@rezafebriansyah8620 Got Horn in 20 pulls and got a bunch left over :3
@@hessianqrow7977 T-T 50 pulls and no Horn, only Blaze from recruitment tag... sad and pain, good luck for Spectral!!
What a blessing to be a Fan of Arknights
Are you excited for the anime?
The reason i love Marco's reactions so much(as well as other such content creators) is because they are able to give insight into some aspects of music that i already like but would never know otherwise. They manage to deepen my appreciation further.
I’m glad :)
I've been hoodwinked, ive been bamboozled and I love it.
The event this song is from hasn't come to global yet so I'm exited to see what other classical music they'll have when the event drops.
Indeed my friend!!!!
This song is one of my favorites and you got it right! The character is associated with the musical stage along with his best friend. I can't delve into the story since it will spoil people and non-Arknights players but the story of that character, named Ebenholz, is pretty much angst. I guess it's one of the reasons Arknights developer chooses Ständchen as his character song.
We should be able to read his story sometime around December because that's when his event & story will be released globally. Thank you for your video and I started to understand more about what Ständchen is about!
There's a joke in the community that Hypergryph (the developer of Arknights) is actually a music company that makes a game on the side. This is a great showing of it!
Ah you're going to enjoy this story arc of Arknights. Classical Music & Orchestra is the main theme of the nation they're currently at in the story here. Their battle theme is literally "Flight of the Bumblebee"
(SPOILER)
The character's name is Ebenholz and the song saying "Under my skin" is literally what it means, cuz the Witch King is constantly trying to take over him, whispering in his ear thus "Killing him from within"
Actually in that event, all the stages are named after famous classical music chapter name. Such as "Valse Brilliante, op.18" "Op.599" "Polka schnell" etc. They even got a new character named Czerny (I think was named after Carl Czerny). Really interesting.
I’m glad you picked up on the angst of the cello next to Ebenholz in the song. Ebenholz was a flautist alongside his cellist relative Kreide who passed away from oripathy (the mineral disease present in most of the game’s story) with his body being used as an originium arts catalyst by the antagonists of his story. The names Ebenholz and Kreide themselves are likely references to the ebony keys of the piano and the chalk used in string instrument maintenance
YES! I've been waiting for this since the first Arknights video. Thank you for this and all the other Arknights content. I love these videos and I appreciate the willingness to go through all the songs you have.
The sheer amount of information I learn from these is incredible on its own, let alone the incredible singing he occasionally gives us, IN ADDITION to the emotion and story deductions he makes just from breaking down the music and the techniques involved. These videos are so good and the more I see of games I already loved the better they seem to get. Not to mention the music that I haven't seen but learn about through these.
Thank you so much Blake!!!!!
Arknights has always been very referential in both its music and story, and one of my favourite parts of the community is just seeing people go, "Whoa, that's my language! I know that guy! I know that thing!" Recently, a new update was showcased, and one of the biggest creators in the global community was absolutely giddy to hear his language and see his culture in the game (trying to keep it spoiler free, but I'm talking about Kyo for those who know). It's just a great thing to see.
If you're doing more Arknights, there's actually another piece heavily inspired by classical music called "Winter Absolution." It's in direct reference of the Gregorian chant, "Pange Lingua," and I think it's one of the best, definitely one of the most unique, in Arknights' repertoire.
Winter absolution is a pleasure to hear no doubt,what a love of arknights music is it's wide range of musical styles and is always telling something about someone about somewhere or about a certain moment or cirscuntance,how many times i just paused to hear the music i lost the count .
Kyo as in KyostinV? What update was it?
@@wonderlilane3724 Il Siracusano probably
@@eeroke12 wait, what? He is?
@@VIOLET-fi7kt Kyostin is Italian yea lol. His accent is pretty clear
As a Arknights player and fan, I'm very enjoyed by the fact that you, as a professional, litteraly says this song is an homage to the original one! Thanks again for the video Marco and I hope you'll listen to more Arknights in the future! (and do more "music/character analysis too, it's always nice towatch 👀)
As always, a few song I would recommend that *should* fit your style are :
- Requiem (a must-listen-to, really)
- Ensheath
- March On!
- Прощание
- Silver Lining
- Winter Absolution
I hope you get hired by Hypergryph to sing for a composed song now that would be awesome.
oh i'd love that.
probably ask MSR or Adam Gubman to hire this man
CROSSING FINGERS, marco already got recognized by hyv, i hope he gets more game stuff to do
@@SirGacha This song was actually produced at Hexany Audio by Robert Wolf. Adam Gubman instead works for Moonwalk Audio.
Aged well
"The song is about getting your love to come to you" "There's a cello" Rip Kreide
Ah, Standchen, the EP or character leitmotif for our boy, Ebenholz. The EP isn't released yet for the EN server, just for CN for now. The event, where this song and character were released, is called "Lingering Echoes," and from the trailer it is heavily music based, heck, the music that they used for the trailer started slow with a female singer then later transitioning to an orchestra as they introduced the new characters. Great trailer to watch, again, Hypergryph does not mess with their music.
Arknights got an insane amount variety in their music to the point it's almost impossible to not like at least like one of them, i'll be looking foward to see your takes on the other arknights music.
Hadn't heard this yet since it's not yet out globally, but it's such a great song. Another piece of arknights music that's forever going to be stuck in my music playlist once it releases alongside like 50 others. As an arknights fan since it's release globally, I never expected it would get me into so many songs and music genres. Love the arknights videos, hoping to see more soon :)
Dear Marco. The only thing I can ask of you is to listen to the song "Прощание". It’s another Arknights ost, that just left me devastated. As a person who is completely far from that kind of music, I was incredibly shocked by this composition. Honestly, I just sat there, feeling empty, and thought about what I just heard (song is performed in my native language) for a while. I hope that you will appreciate this work of art.
Glad you decided to cover more Arknights. I'll always be here for those videos!
A bit disappointed that you didn't analyze the lyrics like you aways do but learning about the song's history is also interesting. Please react to more arknights song!
I was too excited about standchen as a whole that I didn’t even consider the lyrics
i can't wait for you to check out more of their ost, it's one of the cases where the tracks aren't just background noise but something truly enriching for the fun you have in the game
Thank you, thank you so much for covering more arknights music!!! Getting a professional opera singer react to my favorite songs feels surreal. Arknights music has a lot of genres including pop, hip hop, jazz, ballad, rock metal, techno, and orchestral songs. If I may, I'm very excited for you to hear arknights' most iconic theme called Towerfierce. It is composed by Go Shiina, the composer who made music for God Eater and Demon Slayer. Another epic song I'm excited to see is Arknights' own bloodborne inspired song, called Voices. Again, thank you so much for checking out standchen!! ❤
I’ve heard this melody before but never knew what it was. Sounds so familiar, I just don’t know where I have heard it. Now I know.
I might also recommend you take a look at "Radiant" and "Operation Lead Seal" (or any of the "Operation" songs - they are lobby themes for Contingency Contract events, think Events where you can apply buffs to the enemies or debuffs to your Operators for better rewards)
Arknights has a wide span of genres, so there is a ton to look at, depending on what you feel like.
Thanks for the insight about this song, it's really nice to hear that from someone who understand it.
I'll wait for your another arknights reaction, especially "awaken"
Now that the event has been released there is an additional context, you see Ebenholz, the featured character of the song essentially has an eldritch voice being, a work of the monstrous witch king residing in his head. After the featured event was over it turns out the voice cant bear rock rock music and is quiet when its up soEbenholz went well then, Imma do a rock opera to spite you!
Nice! Recommended this in the last Arknights reaction video, probably just a coincidence lol. Arknights has so many other tracks that are great and so Diverse. I strongly recommend Winter Absolution, it’s got this sacred vibe to it combined with the Greek Vocals. Another one of my favorite is “And Yet It Wines”, Traditional Chinese instrument mixed with Jazz
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We eating good tonight. Still hope you give Eternal Flame from arknights a listen
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@@hessianqrow7977 thats the main part I want him to experience. Soooo muych emotion in just those few words
@@runningwild09 The Birbs rage is all consuming 👀
@@hessianqrow7977 So mad she yells at you Pēdīcābo ego vōs et irrumābō!
Oh dang, I've been really looking forward for you to react to this, this is definitely a good way to start my day!
It’s so mind blowing and hits different when hearing a song and then seeing a music proffesional discuss the song and it’s origins and what it stands for. It really makes me appreciate the music and effort Arknights puts into there songs.
Anytime Arknights drops a new genre I always walk out with a new genre of music I enjoy.
I have only just discovered your channel and am absolutely loving it both as an Arknights fan and amateur musician
Thanks for the great video!
Welcome aboard!
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I commented before, then deleted it because I saw you did it on your other video, then realised it was the incorrect piece, but 'Rhythm in Literature' is an excellent theme.
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I love how Ständchen was done and how the background music of it. Loved you singing to it!
I really like your explanation about standchen and again, thank you so much!
as a part of AK community, I really like you react AK music lately. please reach another Arknight music. "minima" or "awaken" or "invitation to wine boss theme"
can't wait to see your another react!
Marco, I love Arknights music a LOT. Like many comments already said Arknights is just the facade of a really good music company.
And you wouldn't belive how hyped I am for more reaction's to Arknights Music, especially some of the Character Theme Songs, since the lyrics of the song are essentially telling the Story of the Character.
(Also I want to see how much you can guess the personality and motivation of the Characters based on there Songs)
Your reactions and insight is immensely interesting! Been going through a bunch of your videos recently. Very well done and enjoyable.
If you havent heard I would recommend Serpent Eating The Ground from Bravely Default. One of my all time favorite.
Mhm!
I'm so happy you listened to this one
People have been raving over Arknights music, so I'm glad you're covering it. This is my first time listening as well, and it's just so good.
On a separate note, there's a really cool video I stumbled upon called "Mozart vs Pokémon" and it really highlights the evolution of classical music into videogame music.
I watched it!!!
@@MarcoMeatball W! How'd you like it?
Aw man, I love this song so dang much AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Its wild. Not very familar with this type of music or arknights, but been exploring all their amazing songs. This one was on repeat for a few days and I thought to myself this reminds me of Marco, and here it is on the channel! Awesome to learn about the background of the song, I didnt know it had a bit of history
for whatever reason I could sadly only hear/understand 50% of your Ständchen acustic wise but the other half sounded really great/good to understand compared to so many other attempts on the german language I heared on yt^^
great job
looking forward to more ak ost/songs in the future
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standchen.... such a beautiful song...
tbh, I didn't expect to hear this classic song in tower defense game at first but well, this is arknights after all, always full of surprised.
I'm excited to see how reaction in another Arknight song, try "minima" or "invitation of wine boss ost", those two are really cool as heck!
note : I really like when you also sing standchen. it's really rad! hope to see your another sing again!
I found your channel a week or so ago and am just hooked on listening to your breakdowns. You do such a great job.
I would recommend checking out the Arknights song 'Awaken' if you get the chance.
Thanks so much Benjamin!
I'm totally unspoiled for Ebenholz event and it is almost here on EN server, i can't wait to actually know his story.
Great video, as always!
Btw, I recommend you check out Awaken, the song for our beloved shark nun Specter!
The event is finally out and found this video in my recommendation. I learned about this song thanks to you, you are also an amazing singer Hypergyph should HIRE YOU!!
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I haven't played Arknights or anything, but I guess now i've learned a little bit more of Standchen and Schubert : )
Arknights is a musical game disguising itself as tower defence game with great plot full of deaths, despair, partings, betrayal, the darkness of hearts and..., sometimes goofiness.
Golden age next? great vid as always
Oh wow, what a gorgeous song, I love it! THat's another cool thing about following this channel, I'm introduced to songs from games I don't play, and sometimes we have gems like this one. I was also surprised to see that the singer is Brazilian, too! I don't think Ive heard of him before, but that name is 200% BR haha. Apparently he's indeed a more metal-inclined singer, which shows a lot here. So cool!
Oooo thanks for sharing this lovely comment!
I haven't looked through your channel but Kings Raid has some very beautiful and powerful music that embodies the story, the characters heart break, the resolve and change, and the desperation that they experience. Would be cool to see you react to that.
Arknights is just a music company that happened to have a game with a ridiculously good cast and story added on lmao, i love just how stupidly diverse and well done every piece is and every time a new char gets announced half the hype for me is just trying to m
Imagine what beautiful work of art the music associated with them is going to be like lol
i love arknights and his music no matter the genre they release its always interesting to hear, marco i love your reactions and today i learned one or two things about classical music, didn't knew the first part of the song was already a fragment of an already existing song wow! and a very popular one, can't wait to see you reacting to Requiem and Прощание from this game
Oho, I’m not too familiar with Schubert (tho I definitely have to change that) so it’s very interesting to find out that Arknighth’s Standchen is a variation on an existing song.
Loved its vibe so I’m sure I’d quite enjoy the original too!
Loved the reaction too :3
wow your singing voice is so good!!
I really hope you can react to Arknights Shining's theme "Winter Absolution" to hear your thoughts about it. The song is sung in Latin, and it is a rendition of a famous hymn "Pange Lingua" but with a twist
this best male voice artist in arknights that i really love
One really good one you need to react to is Arknights’ login screen theme, both the old and the new version if you want to
Yes, more Arknights music! Love hearing your impressions of them with the perspective and insight of a musical professional, and I've discovered many rocking tunes through your channel!
If you enjoy reacting to more of Arknights' soundtrack, I'd like to suggest more from the Abyssal Hunters' story (Stultifera Navis: Awaken and The Golden Age Will Return Again, and Caerula Arbor's boss battle theme 02) but there's really too many bangers to mention in that game's soundtrack. Cheers!
Since I didn’t see others mention it, here’s some detail on the character this song is the theme of. Spoiler warning for anyone waiting for this event’s release in English.
As the song implies, it’s a classic tale of tragedy. The pictured character is Ebenholz, one of two individuals who survived a decade of child experimentation. Despite being close, they separate once free in order to forget their past. Years later they meet again but after becoming close once more, lasting effects from the experiment start corrupting Eben’s friend. Ultimately leading to Eben having to kill his first friend/“brother” to stop his endless pain and rampage.
Damn, I never went and listened to this song before now. Maybe that was for the best since it took me a good long time to start tolerating English lyrics in video game soundtracks for some reason.
I was absolutely not prepared for the whole ass electric guitar and everything. Hypergryph is truly beyond comprehension.
Funniest part of it all is that, as far as I’m aware, they actually are a music company lol
That or the people they employ do music for a lot of other things, not completely sure
They just up and decided to make Arknights once upon a time and holy SHIT. The music, the story, character designs, audio effects, animations…all of it is done by Hypergryph as far as I know and all of it is of simply astounding quality.
I've been tricked, I've been backstabbed and I've been quite possibly... bamboozled... now inject more of this in my veins.
Wow what a coincidence, just listened to this song a few days ago and thought it was beautiful, played Arknights for a few weeks and gotta say their operator themes are really good
I love how the subtitles are just "Marco sings in German" lol
Arknights even made Flight of the Bumblebee the most epic part about the boss fight
Standchen is definitely up there for my favourite songs Arknights has made. It's Top 5 at minimum, possibly in the Top 3.
I've said this every time i've heard this song, from the first time I heard the vocals; It's Kamelot lol
Arknights is literally that person who will say "Yes" after asking what genre of music they play.
Love this content, Arknights is basically a music company masquerading as a game. Would LOVE to see more Arknights content covered, there's so many different genres.
Ebenholtz E2 splash art goes hard as fuck. Love his design.
This is one of my favourite EP from Arknights tbh, a leitmotif for a charcter named Ebenholz who had a pretty depressing story in the Lingering Echoes event, as you can see in the lyric...
Please do more Arknights! I love your reactions to them
I found your channel yesterday and I'm absolutely in love in how much history, knowledge and funfacts you can share. You've earned a sub!
I do absolutely adore the music pieces from Arknights, they are way better than you'd expect from a Anime tower defense gacha game. You said that if we like this, we like classical music. Can you recommend some pieces to get into classical music from this?
looking forward to you reacting to Ensheath :D or.... maybe even covering this one? :D
Arknights has like every genre so it's not surprising it has classical music. I'm waiting for the day they do symphonic metal. I haven't heard anything regarding this event since it hasn't released in global. The next event we are getting is Stultifera Navis, which has a sea shanty for a boss theme.
If you plan on doing more Arknights music, I highly recommend duskdragon from the Who is Real? event. It uses traditional Chinese instruments as the event is for the region of the game based on China. Honestly though, it might be worth listening to the whole soundtrack for that event since its just so good.
It's funny you mention Phantom of the Opera, when there's a whole character named Phantom based around that play in the game. Would highly recommend Curtain Call and "Rglk1phantomcastle", the latter being the theme that plays during the event based around Phantom.
It's always fun to learn classical music from you, you seem really passionate talking abt it, and I also appreciate the insight I get from listening to you. Might I recommend you Ensheath? :D
New subscriber and the first video on your channel I watch was the frostpunk and I love Opera
Hell yeah i love classical music. The first ever piece of classical music i remember listening to is Vivaldi's Four Seasons in my elementary school. Fell in love ever since \o/
I don’t actively seek out classical music, but I like it when modern artists covers classic stuffs. As far as I know, My Chemical Romance did a cover of Romance
Bloodborne OST were the ones who awoken my taste for classics, and Arknights becomes the ones who lit my love for it. HyperGryph have always got "memed" for being a music company instead of game, solely because despite Arknights being a RTS tower defense game, the OST and BGM they made are always quite a banger!!
You might want to check out the BGMs, and I recommend that you try the Boss BGM of the current event of new story campaign
Nice explanation about the historical story behind the song. I wanna see how you react with Arknights OST "Keep the Torch"
thank you so much to review this song and give explanation about standchen is. I really appreciate it.
the character in this song, ebenholz is from leithania (the country based on German in RL) and his event is around classical music with touch of fantasy,magic,and angst spice.
He has a friend and with his friend, he enter classical music competition but unexpectedly, there's conspiration around this competition that force him to kill his friend in order to save people in that city. his friend also ask ebenholz to kill him so he can't be a monster that hurt people around him.
In the end, ebenholz's friend died and he got depression for a while though his friend dead make him see the value of life better than before. people get saved by sacrifice his friend is kinda angst isn't it?
anyway, I want to see your another reaction in Arknight song! please react "stultivera navis boss theme". this event will come to global server in early next month. or react "minima" from summer event in arknight.
Oh wow, haven't heard this track yet, it's really nice
And I once again recommend "Stay Gold", also from Arknights
I think you would like it, it has a really uplifting vibe to it, imo
I won't believe ARKNIGHTS is a tower defense mobile game at first,
until I heard its song. The song that draws me into the game is Renegade and the story seal the deal for me.
Now we need Arknights ep - requiem. It’s on Russian language and it’s so good
So it's probably been suggested a bunch, but I would love to hear your thoughts on the wild ride of a song that is Awaken. It takes heavy influence from musicals and is just a blast to listen to!
Your German singing sounds so good
Elvis was stationed in Germany so it makes sense for him to make his to make his own version of Sändchen
Oh shit... I was wondering why I thought that music from Signalis sounded familiar: I've watched this video before, which is where I first learned about Standchen.
I feel that you would enjoy Arknights Winter Cleansing.
My favorite musical producer is arknights 😳
When I hear this and I know the latest main story is based on Britain…. God I can not wait to possibly hear what they do with Wales music wise cause Wales is also known as the land of song, a welsh choir would be right up Hypergraph’s alley.