This is so true, the moment when you finally get to the General Systems Bus, you hear the heavily distorted main menu theme, it gets louder until you get to the center of it and see one of Looks To The Moon's kind, that appears to be in significantly better state, then you get a communication mark, only for your first dialogue to be about the purpose of live and death itself, then you look at pictures, labeled with karma symbols, that finally explain what they actually mean, you get a dream sequence where you stand upon a mighty purposed organism, Five Pebbles, and, finally, you get to the surface and take a look at an abandoned city above the clouds, while this plays. This is the moment when you truly start loving this game if you still didn't before. This is the moment when you don't feel like a primitive animal, a slugcat, anymore, you have became a higher being and your goal is now much bigger, rather than simply surviving.
In the words of Big Sister Moon, "None of us really miss the times when our cities were populated. Imagine having skin parasites that also ask for advice and have opinions..." It's sort of odd to see the Ancients' cities being so similar to ours. It's like they prevailed in different technology than we did. Perhaps they devolved slightly after packing their homes atop the Iterator cans. One could expect as such from a society so obsessed with effortlessness and giving up. One thing is clear, that this place is empty. Both beautiful and frightening, imagine what it could of been like when it was populated. A sky-bound city, overlooking the shores and old city shrouded in fog.
The ancients were probably made to parallel ourselves. After all, rain worlds whole reincarnation thing is based off of buddhism, which also states that someones attachment to the world is what causes them to reincarnate, so many try to live simple lives with no attachment to the world.
They're all gone. By now there's only the dust your tiny little feet stir, feet that were perhaps never meant to ascend you so high as to see this glimpse of this civilization that wasn't yours, and that you'll never meet. You do you feel like so ? The stars can only watch as something deep within feels some form of remorse or sadness for what you never knew.
The departure of the Ancients was no apocalypse, and I think this track symbolizes that well. One day they just... felt like leaving. All their structures weren't set ablaze in some world-ending war, they're just empty, in about as pristine a condition as the passage of time will allow.
Which raises the question: Where did they go? The Iterators seem to have no recollection of the event, or simply don't find it worth communicating to the player. Did the Ancients collectively decide to take a dive into the Void, regardless of the consequences? Did they leave this world, deciding to seek their answers among the stars?
@@randomnerd4211 one of Spearmaster's broadcasts says that there where iterator cities with not the best living conditions and literally dictatorship. So it's possible that mass accession was forced
@@randomnerd4211 The iterators do know exactly how it played out. They refer to it as “public ascension”, where collectively they all dived into void fluid. I doubt they were exactly forced to go, but shortly before public ascension, all the supply lines that fed the cities (and many that fed the iterators for non-essential materials) were simply shut off, so nobody would have been able to survive for too long anyway if they chose not to go.
@@randomnerd4211 They ascended. It's pretty well known what they did. But you're right. Where did they go? What is ascension? Nirvana? Something else?
this really makes you feel the s p a c e of the top of the world. It’s creepy, but that’s fitting, because there’s so much that it’s almost overwhelming, and so the creepy vibe it gives me makes this a very good song.
Nothing will top the dread i felt hearing this after struggling so hard to climb to the top of the wall. Seeing what looked like various cities atop large structures (that I now know to be "cans(?)") had me wondering if there would be some sort of active civilization waiting for me. "...I don't know what I expected," I told myself, soon after looking upon the distant metropolis completely devoid of any signs of life. The utter isolation I felt hit me harder than the many lizards that had thrown me off my trek countless times prior.
Amazing fucking track, honestly. This OST alone is good, but it just goes perfectly with that scenery, especially when you see it for the first time after a long play through.
A land devoid of life, filled now with naught but sorrow and echos of the past. A shell of what once was a thriving civilization, who became hell-bent on suicide. Now all you can do is look on in awe, as the great city atop the massive iterator can lies dead.
Really nice to see some other OGs here from back not long after the game came out. Took ages to get the recognition it deserves. This was the moment that made me decide to stick with the game for 7 years, the first view of a clear sky you ever get to see, the first time you get to see the world beyond the immediate surroundings of the character, and the first time you *really* get to look at it for long, moments after your characters consciousness has been literally expanded.
this theme really fits the location, going through the abandoned city so alone that the dust flowing by the wind on the floor of the city is visible, looking at what was full of life in the past. About to meet the administrator of this city, this location feels almost end-game like if not already end-game
Ho, just remembered my very first time playing through the game, and this moment, seeing the city in the background, it all felt so human. That feeling was incredible to me, especially since I had just departed from a sentient supercomputer in an abandoned technological overgrowth on my way to ascend from this plane of existence. Having a moment of grounded-ness was really impactful.
Probably my favorite part in the entire game, next to the viewpoint in Outer Expanse. Such a chilling moment for this song to play as you run through eons of dust and rubble, looking over at a place where the Ancients used to live, still standing. It's like being in an alien world compared to the reclaimed wreckage on the surface. SO MUCH ATMOSPHERE. The song itself also kinda reminds me of the music from SOMA, specifically the end theme.
Yeah! The architecture up to that point is an aIien mess. And then you see something so cIose to normaI that it's downright _uncanny_ in the context of Rain WorId. This pIace is nothing Iike the industriaI wastes.
Adore that extremely subtle weird strange rhythmic beeping noise ❤️. A mechanical bird, possibly? A comment under the Memory Crypts track or on another earlier than this one points out maybe something Moon said about “have you ever heard a scissorbird’s call?” Oooo I find that especially haunting 👀✨
this game needs more recognition, just found out about it a month ago already beaten it multiple times its a very difficult game to love but i love difficult things
I still remember playing through this and streaming it to my friend. Hearing this and gazing out at the distant city behind me… we both agreed it was quite dystopian. And after learning more about the lore…I don’t think there’s a better word to describe it all.
I always expected to be attacked by vultures up there, Im perfectly exposed after all. On top of all the atmosphere of the area, I felt a sort of exposure I could only imagine being felt by a rabbit in too open of a field, anything up above can see you with not even another creature to distract. Of corse this never happened, the vultures evidently never bother searching the top of the can for prey.
Best song in the game not because of the music itself but because of everything else the atmosphere it brings the moment it plays just as you finally get atop the wall after dying over and over again you finally make it to this dead abandoned wasteland of a city in the background ,finally above the rain which pummeled you into the ground. Its a sheer overpowering moment of somberness and pure melancholy this is a truly special experience of a game.
Ehhhh that doesnt make any sense. The ancients created the rain through the iterators, and prepared for it by building on top of them. The ancients died willingly to free themselves of the cycles.
pov: you have started loving the game
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^ this, so much
That happened when I played it for the first second
This is so true, the moment when you finally get to the General Systems Bus, you hear the heavily distorted main menu theme, it gets louder until you get to the center of it and see one of Looks To The Moon's kind, that appears to be in significantly better state, then you get a communication mark, only for your first dialogue to be about the purpose of live and death itself, then you look at pictures, labeled with karma symbols, that finally explain what they actually mean, you get a dream sequence where you stand upon a mighty purposed organism, Five Pebbles, and, finally, you get to the surface and take a look at an abandoned city above the clouds, while this plays. This is the moment when you truly start loving this game if you still didn't before. This is the moment when you don't feel like a primitive animal, a slugcat, anymore, you have became a higher being and your goal is now much bigger, rather than simply surviving.
Pebbels after killing moon:
In the words of Big Sister Moon, "None of us really miss the times when our cities were populated. Imagine having skin parasites that also ask for advice and have opinions..."
It's sort of odd to see the Ancients' cities being so similar to ours. It's like they prevailed in different technology than we did. Perhaps they devolved slightly after packing their homes atop the Iterator cans. One could expect as such from a society so obsessed with effortlessness and giving up.
One thing is clear, that this place is empty. Both beautiful and frightening, imagine what it could of been like when it was populated. A sky-bound city, overlooking the shores and old city shrouded in fog.
The ancients were probably made to parallel ourselves. After all, rain worlds whole reincarnation thing is based off of buddhism, which also states that someones attachment to the world is what causes them to reincarnate, so many try to live simple lives with no attachment to the world.
We meet again
Welp, soon we’ll actually get to see what the cities are like up close!
They're all gone. By now there's only the dust your tiny little feet stir, feet that were perhaps never meant to ascend you so high as to see this glimpse of this civilization that wasn't yours, and that you'll never meet. You do you feel like so ? The stars can only watch as something deep within feels some form of remorse or sadness for what you never knew.
The departure of the Ancients was no apocalypse, and I think this track symbolizes that well. One day they just... felt like leaving. All their structures weren't set ablaze in some world-ending war, they're just empty, in about as pristine a condition as the passage of time will allow.
Which raises the question: Where did they go?
The Iterators seem to have no recollection of the event, or simply don't find it worth communicating to the player. Did the Ancients collectively decide to take a dive into the Void, regardless of the consequences? Did they leave this world, deciding to seek their answers among the stars?
@@randomnerd4211 one of Spearmaster's broadcasts says that there where iterator cities with not the best living conditions and literally dictatorship. So it's possible that mass accession was forced
@@randomnerd4211 The iterators do know exactly how it played out. They refer to it as “public ascension”, where collectively they all dived into void fluid.
I doubt they were exactly forced to go, but shortly before public ascension, all the supply lines that fed the cities (and many that fed the iterators for non-essential materials) were simply shut off, so nobody would have been able to survive for too long anyway if they chose not to go.
@@randomnerd4211 They ascended. It's pretty well known what they did. But you're right. Where did they go? What is ascension? Nirvana? Something else?
@@pezvonpez yea I made that comment when I was new to the game, ik now what happened.
this really makes you feel the s p a c e of the top of the world. It’s creepy, but that’s fitting, because there’s so much that it’s almost overwhelming, and so the creepy vibe it gives me makes this a very good song.
Yeah. It's a very eerie and disturbing reminder of the fact that the Ancients basically committed mass suicide...
BlueSkyhawk14 that too.
Nothing will top the dread i felt hearing this after struggling so hard to climb to the top of the wall. Seeing what looked like various cities atop large structures (that I now know to be "cans(?)") had me wondering if there would be some sort of active civilization waiting for me.
"...I don't know what I expected," I told myself, soon after looking upon the distant metropolis completely devoid of any signs of life. The utter isolation I felt hit me harder than the many lizards that had thrown me off my trek countless times prior.
I’m pretty sure this music track only plays if you come from 5P. If you climb the Wall, it won’t play.
@@oneirical3483 Yeah it doesn’t. It really should tho 😭
@@BigMastah79 it does wdym
upon the distant WHAT. HUH. i need an explanation rn how did you know this
play artificer
One of my many favourite parts in this game.
They all left, a long time ago.
There is a possibility that at least 1(one) iterator can had a bungee jumping attraction.
This track is what actually inspired me to play Rain World
When did you start playing. I think the time you posted this comment is around that which I did.
@@tobyk5091 October 16ish
_It was at this moment that the rain world player, truly couldn't breathe, and got extreme goosebumps and chills down their spine_
Amazing fucking track, honestly. This OST alone is good, but it just goes perfectly with that scenery, especially when you see it for the first time after a long play through.
A land devoid of life, filled now with naught but sorrow and echos of the past. A shell of what once was a thriving civilization, who became hell-bent on suicide. Now all you can do is look on in awe, as the great city atop the massive iterator can lies dead.
Really nice to see some other OGs here from back not long after the game came out. Took ages to get the recognition it deserves.
This was the moment that made me decide to stick with the game for 7 years, the first view of a clear sky you ever get to see, the first time you get to see the world beyond the immediate surroundings of the character, and the first time you *really* get to look at it for long, moments after your characters consciousness has been literally expanded.
this theme really fits the location, going through the abandoned city so alone that the dust flowing by the wind on the floor of the city is visible, looking at what was full of life in the past. About to meet the administrator of this city, this location feels almost end-game like if not already end-game
Listening to this as the sun goes down on top of pebble's superstructure hits so different
Ho, just remembered my very first time playing through the game, and this moment, seeing the city in the background, it all felt so human. That feeling was incredible to me, especially since I had just departed from a sentient supercomputer in an abandoned technological overgrowth on my way to ascend from this plane of existence. Having a moment of grounded-ness was really impactful.
Probably my favorite part in the entire game, next to the viewpoint in Outer Expanse. Such a chilling moment for this song to play as you run through eons of dust and rubble, looking over at a place where the Ancients used to live, still standing. It's like being in an alien world compared to the reclaimed wreckage on the surface. SO MUCH ATMOSPHERE.
The song itself also kinda reminds me of the music from SOMA, specifically the end theme.
Yeah! The architecture up to that point is an aIien mess. And then you see something so cIose to normaI that it's downright _uncanny_ in the context of Rain WorId.
This pIace is nothing Iike the industriaI wastes.
“You’re halfway done now”
Adore that extremely subtle weird strange rhythmic beeping noise ❤️. A mechanical bird, possibly? A comment under the Memory Crypts track or on another earlier than this one points out maybe something Moon said about “have you ever heard a scissorbird’s call?” Oooo I find that especially haunting 👀✨
The scissor bird comment probably refers to a Miros Vulture, which stay below the iterator cans.
@@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544
ough yeah :0!
this song is truly one of the most special ones in the soundtrack
Haunting.
“The top of the world, isn't it?
The end that nobody reached,
Abandoned forever lay the cities here,
Over the clouds, it's all gone.”
Ah yes, the music that plays after I don't listen to what five pebbles says
this game needs more recognition, just found out about it a month ago already beaten it multiple times
its a very difficult game to love but i love difficult things
Oh.
Everyone up here is dead.
Oh no.
post-utopian ruins :D
I still remember playing through this and streaming it to my friend. Hearing this and gazing out at the distant city behind me… we both agreed it was quite dystopian. And after learning more about the lore…I don’t think there’s a better word to describe it all.
I always expected to be attacked by vultures up there, Im perfectly exposed after all. On top of all the atmosphere of the area, I felt a sort of exposure I could only imagine being felt by a rabbit in too open of a field, anything up above can see you with not even another creature to distract.
Of corse this never happened, the vultures evidently never bother searching the top of the can for prey.
Best song in the game not because of the music itself but because of everything else the atmosphere it brings the moment it plays just as you finally get atop the wall after dying over and over again you finally make it to this dead abandoned wasteland of a city in the background ,finally above the rain which pummeled you into the ground. Its a sheer overpowering moment of somberness and pure melancholy this is a truly special experience of a game.
this is peak post nut clarity music ngl
when a whole civilization gets that post nut entropy
the ceiling
Imagine this on the start up screen of a horror game...
When you realize youre more than just a wandering lost slugcat
no you are still just that
but not that lost anymore
you finally know and have a goal to achieve
@MerlowMeow ok that's true
"Our towns used to be thriving, until the rain..."
Ehhhh that doesnt make any sense. The ancients created the rain through the iterators, and prepared for it by building on top of them. The ancients died willingly to free themselves of the cycles.
Actually, the ancients aren't dead, they are only "semi transcended" leaving the husk of them in some kind of fetal position, though, Good point!
@@samortank4090 Only some of them, the echoes, are like that. The rest have ascended.
@@pezvonpez and there are many itarators, so we dont know if all the cities sit on a wall.
There’s a furry porn artist that has this name! Good song btw
uh.... why do we need to know?
@@GoldballIndustries Useful information.
:(
thanks for that Waluigi HebtaiLover69
@@SgtZook No prontlem