Music Producer SHOCKED by Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty OST
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After spending dozens of hours in this amazing world, I still can't get enough of Cyberpunk 2077! And it seems like you too, since you all asked for this video. Here's my musical analysis and reactions to themes from the Phantom Liberty expansion, include the new theme song called "Phantom Liberty", "Force Projection", "Never Looking Back", and "I'm a Netrunner"!
Phantom Liberty's composers are P.T. Adamczyk and Jacek Paciorkowski
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After finishing the DLC for the first time, this song + credit sequence just floored me even more than I already was. (Went Moon ending)
Now do the other end please. Very different atmosphere compared to everything else in the game, more "survival horror" without wanting to spoil more, a real experience to live. SPG unfortunately did not mention You Can't Hide From Us which fits extremely well into the atmosphere of this phase of the game.
Or just suggest a part 2 like normal people do.
moon ending is mid
@@StringPlayerGamerOfficialI Highly recommend Contra La Luna
@@MagnumFr Last year on the first of october it was literally 4am, and it was absolute rollercoaster, from the choice in the stadium, all the way to the Cerberus bot mission, my only thoughts was just "Wtf just happened", the final nail was the epilogue with Johnny, after finishing i just sat and stared directly into my steam library for good several minutes before proceeding to continue the overthinking in the bed lmao
This game is the FIRST to get me to get close to tears. The ending of phantom liberty song and cutscene is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever experienced. Masterpiece
What was your ending just curious?
@@michael99765 okay well if you must know but lemme get a warning…SPOILERS SPOILERS!!!🚨🚨🚨I got the one where b makes it out alive. It’s the only ending in the game where she lives, but I refuse to go into more detail.
100% Agree, Beautiful but Tragic
@@jimhalpert3409 a tip, after adding a spoiler warning, skip a few lines so the spoilers will be added after "read more".
@@revemb4653 If you don't know about the ending, you can experience it. You will get it after taking Reed's side.
what I love the most about Cyberpunk's soundtrack is something I caught way after my first playthrough. it's that soundtracks are CONNECTED to each other and tell the story on their own. for example, The Rebel Path's main solo is based on The Ballad of The Buck Ravers riff. The Voice In My Head is basically dark versions of The Rebel Path and V merging into one - exactly as the characters are. and so on. it's really crazy, how much thought they've put into something most people will likely never even see!
The Rebel Path - Buck Ravers connection is one of my favourite details as well. Each lends weight to the other. The Rebel path is iconic and powerful in it's placement but the Ballad adds a diegetic connection that a simple score doesn't have.
@@Todesnuss there is also a ton of similar stuff in unreleased soundtracks. like ambience in Kerry's villa being based on Black Dog's solo
You just described a leitmotif. It's not that unusual.
@@LazzyVamples I know what a leitmotif is and was looking for them from the moment I started playing the game. It's still tough to spot them with the variety of the soundtrack. Besides it's not a typical application of a leitmotif because these similarities don't recur in the right way. Instead it seems more like there's pairs of tracks that share certain elements where one is part of the sountrack and the other is by Samurai or it's members. More like musical easter eggs than leitmotifs as with some of them you'll only ever hear one of the pair without diving into optional content.
TL,DR A shared motif between two pieces of soundtrack you have to find seperatly isn't *really* a leitmotif.
Gate K9 by P.T. Adamczyk is my favorite soundtrack to Phantom Liberty. This track completely immersed me in the fight with Kurt Hansen.
Gate K9 then followed by Never Looking Back in that final part of the DLC is peek gaming experience
as great as that one is, it is easily topped by contra la luna
Nuh uh@@fl4shblade
Just noticed, at 3:50 the guy V bumps into is Dawid podsiadło the singer, also the face and polish voice for Dante caruso in the shot by both sides gig
Dawid is actually playing a minor character in Phantom Liberty's sidequests.
@@Calsann yeah he says that in the comment
Never looking back is just so ambient and emotional while being still pretty simple to hear, it's just so great. And of course in the story it's used at the climax of emotion and works perfectly. 100/100
It’s so good and I haven’t even played phantom liberty yet. It’s gonna hit me like a truck once I get to the part where this song is played
Easily my favorite track from Phantom Liberty! So good!
This track still haunts to this day esp. when the chanting starts. I remember I felt as if I had to decide of the fate of real people, not video game characters. This expansion really put Cyberpunk 2077 to completely new highs for me. I don't remember any game ever gave me such difficult decisions to make and that's about 30 years of video games out of my total life so far.
@@sylwesterpastuszka5593 i literally never even gave cyberpunk a look, randomly picked it up while it was on sale, and a week later Phantom Liberty dropped. Fell in love with the game ever since then
@@spiddlymcdiddly4201 Glad to hear it👍
They should've performed it at the game awards. More VGM acts definitely helps elevate the experience.
I'm happy that Dawid Podsiadło ( the singer of the credits song) is getting recognition abroad! He's well known in Poland, but he's too talented to stay in this bubble of his own country. I'm glad people got to know him through Cyberpunk (the Anime and the DLC). His "winding" vocals are kinda his signature and are very present throuought his albums.
Certainly wouldn't be the first Polish talent introduced to the world by CDPR
Never Looking Back is a beautiful, haunting piece, and the moment where it plays in the game is forever BURNT into my mind
I'm old. I've heard them all. Bond songs that is. This might be my favorite Bond song even though it isn't a Bond song.... because we know it is. lol.
Oh it's gonna be good !
I have to thank CDPR to let me discover Dawid Podsiadło , he sang Phantom liberty and Sorry to let you down ( from Edgerunners), i've gone through his entire discography and such a good good singer!
And for the build i played, Gunslinger here !
ngl my Spotify Wrapped city this year was Krakow simply because of how amazing all of Cyberpunk's soundtrack is, between P.T. Adamcyzyk (I never remember how to spell his name lmao) and of course Dawid Podsiadło, though my top song was IRWTSAYH
My wife before playing the expansion described "Never looking back" as pure depression.
I absolutely love it. This White Singing (Slavic folk style singing) is so haunting.
Female group Tulia is a great example of mixing classic Polish folk White Singing with modern songs
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Listening to "Never Looking Back" after knowing the context (talking about somewhat damaged mission) this song becomes even more sad and haunting.
Escaping the stadium with songbird going ham with my LMG build while Gate K9 is blasting was peak gaming experience. It just doesn't get better.
Absolutely! It was such an amazing finale. I enjoyed it more than the base game Arasaka tower battle.
@@happycompy leave
That electric violin part you added was fire
The hard techno track that plays during the last fight in phantom liberty 'contra la luna' is perfect for the sequence and gets the blood pumping. This game has great music.
All the music done for Cyberpunk 2077 is on a whole nother level. It's beautifully done. This song hits me in the feels hard everything I hear it. Cyberpunk 2077 left a mark in my life for reasons. Either way, the story, the characters, everything about the World they created will always have a special place in my memories. Best game story written imo. I always keep going back for more.
*Panam my girl lol
What Cyberpunk did to my life the most was to make me hate the company I work for...and every other for that matter😂
Finished the DLC yesterday (Call Reed ending), man... been some time since a game made me tear up that much. The choices I had to make by the end of it with that last soundtrack banging in my headphones was a ethereal experience for sure
after playing Phantom and hearing this song.
the haunting vocals, make's me cry every time.
cyberpunk has crept into first play as one of my favorite games of all time.
I can't wait for Project Orion.
Dammmm when you played the violin omg !!! Perfect
“Phantom Liberty” and “Hardest to Be” were both added to my playlist the first time hearing them. The latter had me grabbing my guitar so quick to figure out the chords lol.
Great video as always!
Choosing between this, Herald of Darkness and Raphael's Final Act for the Game Awards must have been excruciating
To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't be surprised if whoever was responsible for choosing the song, originally wanted to have all 3 of them at different points of the event.
"Herald of Darkness" as it was, since it's a stage performance - "Raphael's Final Act" as the Orchestra Performance - and "Phantom Liberty" as a seagway between one group of awards towards the next.
But then, they also had to play the Theme Somg for FF7: Rebirth, and that probably took the spot.
Force Projection is SUCH a banger!! It's actually incredible for combat music. It loops seamlessly, feels FRESH but still Cyberpunk-y. I think one of the coolest parts of this song is the kinetic motion of it - it feels like the beat ebbs and flows with a pace that accentuates the combat of the game so well. The song feels like the perfect accompaniment to V's combat movements.
19:00
man i really wanted more people to react to this song....
This is amazing
also with headphones it sounds even better with muffled/electronic burn effects especially this part
23:05
I had the video on in the background for just the audio and was completely flabbergasted when I heard you play over the song and it sounding like brass. Had to look and see if I was hearing it right. Super awesome work!
My favorite game of all time. I wish you also reacted to Gate K9. It's my favorite music from the game :)
Just graciously request for a part 2,
@@StringPlayerGamerOfficialPlease do a part 2! I was really hoping for you to do a commentary on Gate K9.
@@StringPlayerGamerOfficialPlease do a part 2! I was really hoping for you to do a commentary on Gate K9.
wow, me have a very different emotional response in some of the songs. In the song "never looking back" you said you got kind of homesick, i felt haunted by cybernetic ghosts, feeling overwhelmed by sorrow and guilt.
What a wonderful videogame. Certainly the videogame that has hit me deeper than any other.
So glad you reviewed this!!! PL has had an amazing soundtrack and am thankful it’s getting the recognition it deserves.
The electric violin added an undertone of Blade Runner into a very James Bond sounding piece, which sums up Phantom Liberty better than words ever could. Fantastic work!
For context 'I'm a netrunner." is essentially Songbird/So Mi's theme.
3:49 the guy bumping into V is the song composer's in-game character, Dante. He's in the sidejob "Shot by Both Sides".
Also (sorry I'm putting it into a different comment) the "tribal style singing" in "Never looking back" is something called "white voice technique" which is very prevalent in Slavic cultures. It's "white" (flat) beacause it's without vibrato, from the throat, screaming. It was very heavily featured in the Witcher 3 soundtrack (I'm kinda 80% sure the music director got the same vocalists from the Witcher to work on this track) as it has a lot of Slavic ifluence since the franchise and the Devs are from Poland. A lot of folk songs, especially from the region I live in have this way of singing so I kinda sung like this too when I was younger.
Dude what the heck!!! the parts where you were playing along to the tracks actually blew me away!! was not expecting that!! That was a great video!!
I absolutely loved this game and this DLC was such a good excuse to come back to it. This ending was so emotional!
My build for my most recent playthrough for this DLC was a stealthy throwing knife/silenced pistol build, kinda fitting for this dlc imo haha
Cyberpunk music is the best gaming soundtrack Ive ever heard IMO, its perfect in every way. I've played it through several times and the music wows me everytime, its so immersive.
There's something incredibly magical for me to see you just sit down and freestyle a violin into an existing song, love it so much!
I don't have words to describe how cool this video was to watch and to listen to your versions of the song, had chills go down my spine when you started playing the main theme.
P.T Adamczyk is on FIRE 🔥
such a good reaction with insight into the topic, I also like how you complement the composition with your violin playing
I think not enough people have covered this OST and I'm really thankful to the few that have!
Even though the most important tracks have been covered in this video I would love to see a part 2 with the rest more overlooked ones especially from the Deluxe edition of the OST album on Spotify that weren't in the original album for some reason.
There's so many amazing pieces from the original non-dlc OST that I haven't seen a single reaction to on YT as well, like Atlantis and Been Good to Know Ya.
Never looking back.. the kind of chanting is called white singing, esp. known here in SLAVIC nations :) where the CDRP are from :D. Look at Tulia for example or Żywiołak, or Laboratorium Pieśni. Therere are several groups which derives from our Slavic Folklore. That particular chanting in the song reminds somewhat of wheeping like call to it... It is very fitting to the main theme of the game :)
Never Looking Back and Never Fade Away (Cover) made me cry a lot!
I love this game and you! Thank you for your commentary
I am literally in love with Phantom Liberty OST, it's illegal to make good OST like this and I love it, I forgot when I was listening to soundtrack for hours from any game.
To some extent, if go further :
V is an emotional relay of Johnny's feelings and when the violins shimmer with the distortions of the rock riffs, it is felt somewhere at such subconscious depths that it all comes together to work like a fine-tuned mechanism for the souls orgasms.
The main effect is, as the channel author correctly points out, listening to the whole thing - the baseline. You'd be surprised, but basically if you scratch together pretty much everything you hear out there you'll also get one unified track. Great thought out idea of a musical "organism" that was divided into soul, heart, anger, joy and so on, but it's all part of one flow of energy that changes its patterns, but not the main "nerve" that they put into the narrative in terms of directing.
In truth, the pressure is on all points and the music is just there as a separate couch for your feelings, which are already being blasted by the plot and the staging of dialogs and scenes.
Phantom Liberty was no exception, more than that, it's just another part of the melodic "organism" responsible for the despair that flows out in a sweet stream to an oasis of pain and regret. Huge respect to the composers who signed with the devil (only in a good way, because to get to such a level of inner existance you have to tear your soul from inside yourself to pieces more than once), but have made incredible contributions to the entire music gaming industry as a whole.
The whole DLC is just a big ass spy movie. You have disguises, meetings during some big G party, spy base under a bar, betrayal, cars, guns and MORE JOHNNY
I think at least the intro of I'm a Netrunner plays when So Mi greets V at the gate of Dogtown by popping in Vs head through relic.
Also great tracks are Gate K9 and Contra la Luna and upgraded Scavengers theme. The thing with Contra la Luna track is, it's a bomb boss fight track, but your character is in the place of the boss...
Absolutely amazing game and Phantom Liberty took it to a whole new level, amazing gameplay and amazing music!
Man phantom liberty is one of the best songs from a game I’ve ever heard. It’s just got a fantastic structure and composition as well as a perfect voice that encapsulates the feeling the game gives. Ugh. Goosebumps every time.
Oh yeah. I'll never forget what I felt getting hit with the ending sequence after an emotionally draining campaign. I was staring at the screen throughout the entire sequence without moving a muscle. Mesmerized by the song and the visuals. But also, it felt like I just lost something important. I mean that in the best way possible (from a story-telling perspective).
in 17:57 you nailed it 🤘
Thx for another CP2077 video! That one is really terrific, I loved it so much.
Battle music that sound like V going into cyberpsychosis at some time it's Contra la Luna 2:20
one of the best things in cyberpunk 2077 was always its music and how it used it to build the world
Jeez dude. Thx for your music reactions. While i listen "Never Looking Back" my skin covered by goosebumbs, and now this is one of my favorite songs from CyberPunk 2077. My build in game is semi Netrunner semi Sangavistan with Sniper Rifle, Russian Revolver (Yup, im Russian from Estonia :D ), and Katana.
Anways, see ya in the future, Chumba! :)
ABSOLUTELY check out test of loyalty from the same dlc
Музыка в Киберпанке отдельный шедевр,который хочется слушать бесконечно. Очень атмосферно. Эта игра гениальна во всём,она очень много передаёт в себе скрытого смысла,которому не дано понять каждому. Надеюсь,что автор послушает Cyberpunk 2077 OST ,но уже не DLC . Лайк!
For me this track is a mix of all the vibes from Radiohead's amnesiac meets a James bond/spy track (looking at you snake eater)
if you haven't listenned to "Test of Loyalty", I think that alongside "Never Looking Back" it is my favourite piece of music made for this soundtrack. Just so so good I can't even put that into words
It's not Tribal... it's Slavic/Central-Eastern European
Wanted to say just that
Couldn't agree more. It was so James Bond-esk music. I have it downloaded, listening to it often. It's just such an amazing song
This game is a masterclass. Also nice react and good video
Did you inspire in some song to make that electric violin part? It was awesome and made remember something similar
2023 was a year that really gifted me personally. First my favorite combat track became Twisted Force from BG3 then Phantom Liberty released and Force Projection became my favorite one. Before that it was Valentino's and Militech themes in og Cyberpunk 2077. Both have the word "force" in their names coincidentally ❤
I just started watching your videos man they're really good . I recommend listening to Closing the distance and Footfalls two songs from the Endwalker expansion in Final Fantasy XIV.👍
Interesting commentary on the "I'm a netrunner" and is pretty much spot on, since you are in fact getting quite brutally hacked during this ost and introduced to a very powerful netrunner in the process. The theme imo shows that mystery, that detective part of the story and the sheer power of that netrunner at the same time, still one of my favourite moments in any video game. Phantom Liberty is an incredible masterpiece on it's own, but the ost thoughout it just elevates that experience to 11.
My man need to listen to both album of the 2 Deus Ex games (Human Revolution & Mankind Divided), great ambiant stuff.
Netrunner & the credit song are just *chef's kiss* material. During the game, netrunner song is just on point. without spoiling, let's say the nightmare is 200% augmented with that one.
The credit song felt like a James Bond yet still a Cyberpunk.
fyi "i'm a netrunner" is the song at the beginning of the dlc when you meet songbird
i love your reactions! :)
In the video game endings that use actual songs, Under Stars from Aurora at the end of Mass Effect Andromeda, comes to mind. That fit beautifully.
Of all the things I was expecting from Phantom Liberty, I was not expecting the story to progress the way it did. I was going into it thinking "escape from New York" and when the story got rolling it really drew me in, the accompanying music really driving the points home.
As for my build, I ran between shinobi and solo. Quiet assassination with a lot of shotgun in my back pocket should something go wrong.
❤❤❤❤ thank you for this
Fun fact. The singer, was included in the game as an NPC called Dante Caruso, and also appears in this video at 3:47, he is the man whom V bumps into.
Now I feel bad for killing him in the game lmao
@@yogo6208 In a certain way, it's the type of dark humor that the studio incorporates into its narratives.
You are an excellent reviewer. Should have also highlighted Never Looking Back
glad you asked
my main V started as stealth runner became a mighty net-gunner and is now -collecting solo xp- using Meredith's gift to literally fu-...
i remeber finishing theDLC being emotionally broken from the story i just had been trough and then they trew this song in ur face as end credits. making me even more emotionally unstable, and unsure about my desicions. 10/10
goosebumps still
My favorite song from the expansion is by far "Hardest to be" . It makes me miss the damn game everytime I hear the song. There is a youtuber who made a fan music video for the song.... and it is so damn good imho
Mate you gotta review Gate K9 and Contra La Luna as well. Those are the most banger tracks of the DLC period!
Im glad we are getting another Cyberpunk Game from them, lets hope they have more time to release it "finished" this time.. the soundtrack was already perfect.
When V gets surrounded by the 4 key characters and starts to panic by not knowing who to trust is so beautiful. My favorite part of this clip
Imagine getting a movie with Keanu and Elba mix of Matrix, Bond, Cyberpunk. A lot of responsibility though. Need a right person to realize a movie like this.
I dont know if you've listened to any of the killer instinct 2013 ost but it was made by Mick Gordon the same guy that produced the Prey and Doom games soundtracks its pretty amazing.
I would do anything to hear this for the first time again
Damn goosebumps all the time
With all the problems Cyberpunk 2077 has had since launch , There Is Absolutely No Faulting the amazing Music so moving .
Many a time playing Cyberpunk I have ended sitting in Tears .
A Truly Beautiful ,Emotional Amazing story.
My first time watching your video , excellent 😊
Very Much Bond esque and done Masterfully
You should definitely listen to the soundtrack to Otxo. Roguelike hotline miami shooter, some very awesome melodies and leitmotifs in the soundtrack
Need you to listen to “Gate K9” P.T. Adamczyk in the special edition ost. This was the most intense moment in the entire game.
22:20 kapwa Pinoy here, not a lot of people have pointed out the indigenous-esque chanting in Never Looking Back. Definitely one of my favorite OSTs in the past decade. The combinations of all styles cloaked with post-modern brutalism and that overarching bass that gives a sense of unease, some people calling it even creepy or horror is nuts.
Hearing it with a good pair of headphones/IEMs really elevates the despair I felt for Songbird
are you gonna make a part 2? there’s other phantom liberty songs i would love to see your reaction to
I did love for him to react to the delicate weapon preformence from the dlc. someone made a 4k cinematic out of it.
when you wanna stealth delta out asap and gonk up pinging for cameras
been there, choom
3:47 The singer (Dawid Podsiadło) who sings this song appears in this game and even appeared in this video for 3 seconds.
idk something about cyberpunk soundtrack makes me really emotional you should check out delicate weapon if you havent already lizzy wizzy preformence in the dlc. ok the part at 17:50 was even more beefier , Never looking back made me almost cry idk why xD
rock-covered violin triggered a new batch of secret emotions. Thank you
At 3:52 it's actually the singer of this song Dawid Podsiadło. I think you can see him in the game too.
24:04 LET HIM COOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry I'm a bit behind on watching this one. If you love the classy, James Bond style intros, I cannot recommend enough the intro songs for the I Expect You to Die VR game franchise. All three are amazing and fit this style really well.
25:00 you gotta try a body gorrila arm build
Imagine times where non-James Bond product is more James Bond than the James Bond itself (talking about the credits scene and music)😂