As an avid Guilty Gear fan™, your reviews of the Strive soundtrack is one of my favorites because you aren't afraid to speak your mind on each song. Some people might not like your take-aways from each song, but music is to be enjoyed however the listener wants to enjoy it! It doesn't matter if you tune out the lyrics or not, listen to the music how you feel best
Thank you very much, I really appreciate that! I completely agree with your view on music and I am really glad that you have been enjoying the GG reactions, there are plenty of them by this point! 🤣
I really like your unique perspective on the music of Strive, and appreciate that you don't try to sound more excited to match viewers' expectations Strive's themes are very character-based, we are talking about a song writer here who's *also* the story writer- but if we're gonna judge them as music period this kinda perspective is apt, too! So I hope my explaining lore sometimes doesn't come across as trying to lecture you, and you're always free to scroll past anything ^^ On that note, one aspect of this track is that Dizzy was a "tragic boss" character in her debut game, and so this song actually uses a lotta motifs of her old boss theme "Awe of She" but changed to be triumphant and optimistic. At 4:28 we get a direct callback to the main melody of that old theme as it was back in the day. (And then 6:04 imo is a notable moment where we hear it referenced triumphantly, but it's everywhere) The main deal with Dizzy is that she's of mixed Gear/human heritage in a world where Gears aren't recognized as people, and she's had to hide herself for most of her early life as a result. Eventually she met Ky Kiske, a veteran of the Gear-human war who's recently changed his perspective on Gears, and he inspires her to have faith that there is a future for folks like her. Together they're working to build a world where humans and Gears both can live in peace- and in turn Dizzy's Strive theme is about her reflecting on the past while feeling happy and grateful about the present.
There are 2 other songs in this patch which imo are a bit better. Being "Shelter from the rain" which is a massive Piano man reference and "Get Over Nightmares" which is more like Roar of the spark
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As an avid Guilty Gear fan™, your reviews of the Strive soundtrack is one of my favorites because you aren't afraid to speak your mind on each song. Some people might not like your take-aways from each song, but music is to be enjoyed however the listener wants to enjoy it! It doesn't matter if you tune out the lyrics or not, listen to the music how you feel best
Thank you very much, I really appreciate that! I completely agree with your view on music and I am really glad that you have been enjoying the GG reactions, there are plenty of them by this point! 🤣
4:28 is a brief callback to her original theme Awe of She from Guilty Gear X
I really like your unique perspective on the music of Strive, and appreciate that you don't try to sound more excited to match viewers' expectations
Strive's themes are very character-based, we are talking about a song writer here who's *also* the story writer- but if we're gonna judge them as music period this kinda perspective is apt, too!
So I hope my explaining lore sometimes doesn't come across as trying to lecture you, and you're always free to scroll past anything ^^
On that note, one aspect of this track is that Dizzy was a "tragic boss" character in her debut game, and so this song actually uses a lotta motifs of her old boss theme "Awe of She" but changed to be triumphant and optimistic. At 4:28 we get a direct callback to the main melody of that old theme as it was back in the day. (And then 6:04 imo is a notable moment where we hear it referenced triumphantly, but it's everywhere)
The main deal with Dizzy is that she's of mixed Gear/human heritage in a world where Gears aren't recognized as people, and she's had to hide herself for most of her early life as a result.
Eventually she met Ky Kiske, a veteran of the Gear-human war who's recently changed his perspective on Gears, and he inspires her to have faith that there is a future for folks like her.
Together they're working to build a world where humans and Gears both can live in peace- and in turn Dizzy's Strive theme is about her reflecting on the past while feeling happy and grateful about the present.
LET'S GOOOO! For me Dizzy's theme one of my top 3 character song.
Waiting reaction to "Get over Nightmare"
Daughter of Sol
Wife of Ky
Mother of Sin
BFFs with Testament
There are 2 other songs in this patch which imo are a bit better. Being "Shelter from the rain" which is a massive Piano man reference and "Get Over Nightmares" which is more like Roar of the spark
isn't dizzy's birthday on christmas?
Think that's Elphelt
@@fadedkz2904They both have Christmas birthdays
Presumed bday by her adoptive parents