Oopsie, I forgot to make a comment and pin it! 😅 HELLO and thank you all for watching! I made a poll asking which video you'd like to see first, and this vid won by a landslide! 🎶 As for other DS3 tracks, this is what I have on the list: •Lord/Soul of Cinder (dedicated video) •Yhorm the Giant •Champion's Gravetender •Secret Betrayal •Dancer of the Boreal Valley •Iudex Gundyr •Oceiros, The Consumed King •Halflight •Firelink Shrine •The Demon Prince •Nameless King And of course, we have Epilogue and Gael as our last 2 🎶 Am I missing any? Let me know! Next week will be a Hollow Knight Reaction video (will most likely film it tonight) so be on the lookout! Members will get access a few days early 🎉
Slave knight gael is the last track most players will have heared as it is the final boss of the final dlc, and epilogue is the track that plays after completion. I just wanted to add some context to why people might want gael after epilogue.
@あせお00 bad theory imo. Patches was never in it for the money, he hated the greed of mankind which is why he was constantly tricking people with promises of treasure. I dont think he would torture anyone for money.
@あせお00 Except you're conflating Patches from the Dark Souls universe with Patches from Elden Ring. Despite having the same look, attitude and voice actor, they are completely different characters. I was talking about Patches from Dark Souls, which you quoted: "Every age, it seems, is tainted by the greed of men. Rubbish, to one such as I, devoid of all worldly wants!” Whereas when he is telling you to cough up your coin, that is a line from Elden Ring. It's easy to confuse since they seem to be the same character but in reality they are completely different. So again, the Patches from DS3 would not be the type of person to torture Gael for money, and it also makes no sense for Gideon to have been involved in that situation because he doesn't even exist in the Dark Souls universe.
@あせお00 It's a reused joke character, yes, I'm not denying that. But within the context of the different games, Patches' character is written differently each time. You yourself prove that he is NOT the same person within each different universe because of the clear contradictions that you have listed when it comes to his beliefs and how he portrays himself. Obviously Patches is a meta joke for the developers and Fromsoft fans to appreciate, but if you're solely looking at the context of each individual game, each version of Patches is his own individual character, despite the similarities. My main point being that it makes absolutely no sense for the Patches from Elden Ring to have been paid by Gideon to torture Gael, because none of those characters have any relation to each other. Also, there actually is no evidence that the universes of Elden Ring and Dark Souls are linked in any way, apart from Nightreign which is a non-canon alternate reality.
@あせお00 Brother, the manga is not canon either. And that also implies that Demon Souls, Bloodborne, Armored Core, and Kingsfield are all linked simply because Patches exists as a character in each one. No, that's not how it works.
@あせお00 So you're saying that canonically the Tarnished, instead of killing Godrick, got into a grafting competition with him? Do you realize how ridiculous your claim is? Or how about the fact that Aseo himself breaks the 4th wall multiple times in his own dialogue, questioning whether Fromsoft's devs would even be okay with the story being told this way. Or the fact that the main title page for chapter one clearly states that it is a PARODY manga. No, it is not canon. It contradicts many things from the actual game.
Darkeater Midir is the epitome of "humanity" in Dark Souls; humanity and its will to keep going without losing purpose is in some shape or form spawned from the Abyss. By the time you fight Midir, he has been holding back the Abyss so long to protect the gods that gave him this task, that he's being consumed by it. His scales are dark purple, his wings are decaying and crystals are sprouting from his body. So all in all, Midir is "human", as the Abyss, which is the source of humanity, has consumed him. In the soundtrack you hear a constant heartbeat rhythm which signifies this humanity, yet another case of storytelling in the music
Hey, Atlas! Thanks for the comment! 💜 Been doing video game covers for well over a decade now, but there are still so many game OSTs I have never heard before! It's been super fun to delve into those tracks and broaden my knowledge 🎶
Pity for most players they may get to hear the full track once or twice on their first playthrough, and not on subsequent playthroughs because they beat Vordt too quickly
most people assume that vordt is the 1st official boss of this game , but the based gamers know that the dancer is actually the 1st boss after iudex gundyr
That rise at 10:24 is my favorite part. There's so much raw power to extract mentally as you listen to it, and it makes me feel like I can fucking do anything. Been watching some reactions to this theme and no one really seemed to take note of that part, so very happy to see someone who does. Same thing with the violin at 07:01, is stunningly beautiful to listen to.
Lore Rants (TLDR warning): Vordt is a character we know almost nothing about directly but a lot can be gleaned from context. He comes from a place called "The Boreal Valley" and that he was a knight who served Pontiff Sullyvan. He has a ring from Sullyvan that empowered him but also slowly drove him mad. These rings were only given to knights Sullyvan sent out to do his bidding far from home (presumably because the outcomes were so horrific, however effective). Vordt would have been a towering imposing knight, if he were standing, but he faces us on all fours and moves like a boar. Vordt has a linking to The Dancer which is obvious from their titles but also because despite facing them ten to thirty hours of gameplay apart (depending on the player's skill and/or thoroughness of exploration) you face them about five yards from eachother. One blocking your way out of Lothric, and the other blocking your way into the castle on your return where you will face the Twin Princes. You also see ghosts of them later on when you visit the Boreal Valley proper repeating their exit from the city eternally as phantoms together. Given they are a gendered pair of opposites (one massive and hulking and the other fluid and graceful) so closely paired it has given rise to speculation that the two were romantically entwined. Dark Eater Midir like so many Dark Souls characters is a subject of tragedy. There is a cosmic horror called The Abyss which has in all the games up to this point acted almost like a rot of reality slowly eating away at the very existence of the world, driving characters mad, giving rise to horrors (it is likely also the source of humanity, but that's another rant). To understand Midir you need a bit of quick history (watching the Dark Souls 1 intro cinematic would be a good start, but I'll summarize the relevant bits) before the world of man there was a world of grey twilight that was ruled by everlasting dragons. Then the gods rose from the first flame and eventually declared a war upon them. Gwyn in particular devised the method of killing dragons using his bolts of lightning which shredded off their stone scales which granted them their immortality (fun fact, you smith all your weapons in all the dark souls games from titanite, which is actually the fragments of these scales). There are a few dragons who survive but for all intents and purposes it was a complete genocide. Midir however was an egg at the time and was taken by the gods and raised as a weapon. He was like his ancestors an immortal and over the eons he grew attached to the gods, and mankind. When we encounter him we have traveled to what is essentially the end of time (in Dark Souls time is kind of running on a loop, so that's debatable) the world is melting into the abyss or being burned to ash or ground to sand and this is the main part of his tragedy. His kind was slaughtered by the gods but he fights for the entirety of time to defend them, going so far as to attempt to single handedly hold back the abyss to allow them more time. He failed however, nothing can hold back the inevitable, and by the time we face him he is mad, thoroughly corrupted by the abyss, but still trying to hold the abyss back. (and btw rightfully one of the hardest fights in the game, and incidentally the largest amount of souls that can be gained from killing any creature in the entire game, fitting given his age and how many he must have slain).
@@ArgyleR04D I cannot wait to listen to Dancer of the Boreal Valley then! 🎶 And wow, Midir is quite a tragic character too, isn't he? I had no idea he'd be a dragon when I listened to his track!
@@TeraCMusic Also the Dancer of the Boreal Valley is such a great and 'different' track to most of the others! I also read, but not confirmed, that the boss is pretty difficult due to how the music is arranged but can elaborate on that video with context!
@@TeraCMusic a big theme among the dragons in dark souls is that every single one we encounter in the games is in some way sick, corrupted or lesser than what they are supposed to be (perhaps with the exception of the black dragon Kalamet who just like Midir roamed in a land touched by the abyss, though it might only have been a matter of time untill he to would have been corrupted). Midir himself is the closest we ever get to facing the legendary power of an ancient stone dragon.
@@vincentpey3929I mean, we do fight Kalameet right with a broken wing because Gough felled it with his mighty bow, so I would say that the Black Dragon is indeed lesser than what it used to be lmao
Something tragic about Midir was that he was an Archdragon, raised by his enemies so he can defend against an unyielding abyss. His loyalty to the Gods meant he kept fighting even after everyone he knew decayed and withered away. The music kinda shows that unrelenting nature of a dragon and the sudden end to the song might symbol that nature when we kill him in game.
Everything about midir is so fantastic and well thought. The amazing video game art of making you sad over a gigantic mystical creature. The boss fight of midir is so overwhelming, every swing of his claws makes you canera shake, and sometimes the ost synch soo well that feels that his roars are leading the chorus, so phenomenal
Epilogue is definitely last, actually the first ever track in a Dark Souls game was called "prologue" so epilogue is even more fitting as the last track of the trilogy. Also, if you planning on doing Elden Ring after DS3, just a bit of context, Yuka Kitamura took a more secondary role in ER as she actually was leaving the company to go freelance after the DLC. In Elden Ring there are many composers, but the one that takes the trophy is certainly Shoi Miyazawa, his work is legendary, on par if not greater than Yuka's work at times. Otherwise, Sekiro awaits.
In my opinion Slave Knight Gael is so important, as Gael's technically is the last theme, he's most likely the last boss we ever fought and so the last song we listened to in the Dark Souls franchise. It's my favorite song in the franchse.
Gael is technically the last track one will hear and it would absolutely mean ending on a high note. However I do feel like Epilogue should come last. It's such a soothing song that wraps everything up nicely thematically. Truly a fitting end to a long and arduous journey.
Midir's ost is deffinetely my favorite piece from yuka kitamura. Shoi miyazawa is another Godly composer and you should deffinetely listen to his work in the elden ring dlc !
Funny thing is its kinda hard to enjoy both of these when playing the game lol. Bordt is like the first non-tutorial boss and you can kill him very easily. Midir is the hardest DS3 boss period (maybe ever), so you are either missing out on most Bordt music or sweating and not paying attention to Midir ost.
@@sataniccereal falls over you? You mean when he charges you? That's like one move. Like i said Friede can be staggered with anything, Midir is hard to hit sometimes and does an absolute load of damage, while friede has no HP to compete. Her only difficult part is having 3rd phase, but thats only if you got hit way too much in 2nd which is.....well subjective.
I think if we want to give the dark souls 3 soundtrack a sentimental end, slave knight gael is probably as good as it gets. Both from a lore and gameplay perspective as he is the last boss of the ringed city dlc. This also makes him the last dark souls boss for most players.
Epilogue, definitely. Gael is the last fight in the franchise but its music is not necessarly relates to that. There is literaly content (dialogue) you unlock after Gael, so it's not even the last thing you do, even if we don't count the activities there are around the boss arena. Epilogue is what represents the true End.
So glad you got to Darkeater Midir, you need to see that boss fight its epic. I heard you're doing Slave knight Gael, perfect. Two others I highly recommend and think you'll love are Champion Grave tender and Yhorm the Giant.
Also, a cool little factoid, the bosses attacks in the game seem to also correspond to their theme(as in attacking “on beats” for combos), with the Dancer being one of the more difficult due to her time signature.
Great video, as always 😃🖤! I might be the only one again with this suggestion, but the DS3 track "Secret Betrayal" is sooo beautiful 🖤🖤✨️. Most of the DS3 tracks are always epicness to the max and that's ok, but they all sound a bit like the same. And "Secret Betrayal" does the epicness in a different way, wihch I absolutely love (and I bet you also think so😊)🖤
Other tracks that I really recommend from Dark Souls 3 are Champion's Gravetender and Halflight, Spear of the Church. Both are SUPER underrated, probably cause they're both pretty boring and bad bosses, so nobody really pays attention to their music. Which is sad, cause they have both INCREDIBLE music!!!
The best way to explain the "Gael is the Epilogue to the Epilogue" thing in a less unserious way, but without giving away too much: The Epilogue was the last piece one would have heard in basegame after continuing the cycle of Ages of Fire and Ages of Dark that has defined the games since Dark Souls 1--even if the fire is fading and time, even if cyclical, is nevertheless running out. It's the final music you hear in an ending that's not exactly an ending. The Epilogue, in this sense, is the Epilogue to the cyclical reiteration of events that makes up Dark Souls 3, but is NOT the Epilogue to the series. Slave Knight Gael plays at the end of the final Dark Souls DLC, The Ringed City, which was meant to be a full capstone and proper ending to the series as a whole. The other way I've heard it said: "The ending of DS3 is the ending of DS3--an experience of one of the last--but never explicitly THE last--cycles that have defined the history of Dark Souls's world since DS1's intro cutscene; the ending of the Ringed City DLC, by contrast, is the legit end of the world, and the final ending of Dark Souls as a series."
@@thechapterzee That makes a LOT of sense, thank you for breaking it down like that! I guess I'll do the last DS3 reaction video with Epilogue first and then go to Gael after. 🎶
at 09:26 when the tempo goes off the rails and you're like "oh?" its actually perfectly synched up with the game, if you have been consistently hitting midir in the face, he will stagger right at this moment, and then the music syncs up with your critical hit
I'm a huge fan of Yuka Kitamura, and I spend a lot of time listening to her OSTs, I would recommend "slave knight Gael" and "champion gravetender", if you decide to listen to them I hope you like them. (sorry for my english)
People say epilogue is the second to last thing you hear and that gael is the actual last, but they are incorrect. There are 2 versions of the song "epilogue" When the DLC came out with slave Knight gael, it changed the epilogue track to a slightly altered version. So the Ringed City version of Epilogue is the actual last thing you hear in the game
i killed vordt so fast it's the first time i heard that last part. but i definitely heard midir in it's entirety multiple times if you know what im saying 🤣 can't wait for soul of cinder
Pleeeease do Epilogue last, it's such an incredible and different piece of music! Gael is incredible as well, don't get me wrong, but Epilogue really speaks to what - not just Dark Souls 3 - but all the games in the trilogy are about. Without spoiling, you really feel this neverending cycle, while a glimmer of humanity struggles on, battered again and again, but never quite giving up. And again, it's so, sooo unique for the series; powerful and emotional in its on way, not in an adrenalinic and blood-pumping way.
Lord of cinder, slave night gael, and the epilogue ,are a great conclusion.And for the left ones you can choose the 2 or 3 that attract you more by name or lore.
MIdir's story is tragic, the last of his kind raised to literally eat the creeping abyss and you are tasked to put him down out of mercy and give him a dignified end at the end of all things.
To emphasise how fitting Midir‘s theme is; He‘s a massive dragon who was swallowed by the abyss and is one of the toughest, scariest bosses of all time
The two songs I'd love to hear your reaction to the most are definitely Slave Knight Gael and Secret Betrayal. One that's an epic massive conclusion to the trilogy, and one that is a quiet piece that replaces the Firelink Shrine hub music after a convoluted questline that leaves you feeling like you've genuinely done something you should not have. Secret Betrayal is one of my absolute favourite pieces of video game music of all time, and it's so well hidden both behind the amount of work you have to do to get to it, and behind the game telling you that what you are doing is _wrong_ on a moral level.
Darkeater Midir's story is peak. His fight even more peak. As the final out of the way secret boss of the Dark Souls franchise, he lived up to it in every way. Gael is the true epilogue however, the epilogue prior is from base DS3. Gael is the definitive end and for most people, is the final track unless they proceeded to also finish with Soul of Cinder for the credits again.
Some Lore on Vordt: he and the other Outrider Knights were given special rings by Pontiff Sulyvahn that give them a bit of a boost, but slowly ate away at their minds. By the time the player encounters them, they're moving on all fours, howling, and essentially rabid. Eventually, they fully turn into gigantic beasts. one such beast is guarding the entrance of the Boreal Valley itself. Sulyvahn knew what the rings would do when he gifted them to his knights.
@@TeraCMusic Don't worry, he gets worse. He partnered with Aldritch, devourer of gods, fed kids to him, and corrupted a religion as well. he's probably done more, but i can't remember off the top of my head. if you're interested in Fromsoft games lore, i'd recommend Vaatividya. he has a knack for making the lore really engaging.
Amazing video, I love to watch musicians react to thsi type of work of art ! I'm thinking of a music, the Safi'Jiiva theme from Monster Hunter Wolrd:Iceborne. Midir made me think of him.
Ik you have so many tracks to get through so no rush or anything but my favourite ER ones are Lichdragon Fortissax (mightve spelt that wrong), Divine Beast Dancing Lion and Promised Consort Radahn. All quite different vibes but they all bang. Id think youd quite like the last 2.
If you wanna talk insane violin runs, I was listening to the DLC soundtrack for Elden Ring again earlier and the track "Saint of the Bud" has some of the most absurd violin sections in the whole From catalogue, and it's also just an incredible track. Honestly the Elden Ring DLC might be the absolute culmination of all of From's soundtracks up to this point, it is some of their best work from start to finish.
I'd very much like to see a reaction to the boss fights, particularly Abyss Watchers, Lothric & Lorian, and Friede, because of how the cutscenes tie in with the soundtrack.
Leave Gael for last. It's the last soundtrack most people hear. It's the final boss of the final DLC, which is also the final boss of the Dark Souls series. A fitting end to it all.
bravo Other pieces of music to react to from the DS world ( in no specific order ) : Great grey wolf Sif, Ornstein and Smoug, all 3 epilogues from each game ( for some reason DS2 has not been reacted in Yt a lot, so it would be cool see someone react to it ), Moonlight butterfly, Nashandra, The four kings, Knight Artorias and Gwyn's theme.
4:51 So, a bit of a disappointing detail about this part of Vordt's theme: Vordt is an early game boss that either kills you immediately during his transition to 2nd stage (at the 2:50 part) or dies too quickly for you to even get this far in his theme. I'm pretty sure no one ever hears this part in game and you would have to look for the soundtrack to even know about it
Vordt of the Boreal Valley is one of the Outrider knights sent by Pontiff Sulyvahn to foreign lands to impede any from trying to Link the First Flame again. Linking the First Flame has been the objective of the Dark Souls series, as it's seen as the only way to continue the Age of Fire, but doing so seems to have horrid side effects on the land and people, as the Age of Fire was meant to end ages ago. To this end, Sulyvahn is brutal and cunning, and uses his Outrider knights such as Vordt viciously, as they all but lose their minds and enter a battle frenzy once being sent out with his cursed rings.
For the VERY last track, i would suggest a secret track thats only on the OST, and listen to it right after Slave Knight Gael, youll hear why. Its called "For the Dark Soul", and its quite short, but almost noone knows about it. One of my fav tracks now, tying together the entire game, and the entire souls series, for me. Maybe make it a secret planning to listen to it too, right until you do. C:
Please react to Nameless Song and Longing, from Dark Souls 1 and 2. They are the credit themes of those games, and are gorgeous pieces of music, and very unique from the intensity of the boss themes. I would love to watch that.
I think the best tracks left are skave knight gael and soul of cinder, by far the best tracks in ds3 Also, cant wait for the next stellar blade video, im unhealthily obsessed with that soundtrack
These tracks have their reputations solidified by the bosses they go with, personally prefering Midir's theme for both its tasteful violin and key-changing 2nd phase :) As for the last DS3 reaction, I'll die in the Epilogue hill. I know Gael will likely win, but I humbly disagree with him being the closure of the series. You may fight him at the end of everything, but that's not the last thing the Ashen One (our protagonist) does. I think of it as our greatest revelation before choosing our final cutscene, because after Epilogue, there's nothing left (unless we count NG+). Either way, I'll be happy when the day of said reaction comes 💙
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HELLO and thank you all for watching! I made a poll asking which video you'd like to see first, and this vid won by a landslide! 🎶
As for other DS3 tracks, this is what I have on the list:
•Lord/Soul of Cinder (dedicated video)
•Yhorm the Giant
•Champion's Gravetender
•Secret Betrayal
•Dancer of the Boreal Valley
•Iudex Gundyr
•Oceiros, The Consumed King
•Halflight
•Firelink Shrine
•The Demon Prince
•Nameless King
And of course, we have Epilogue and Gael as our last 2 🎶
Am I missing any? Let me know!
Next week will be a Hollow Knight Reaction video (will most likely film it tonight) so be on the lookout! Members will get access a few days early 🎉
Add dragonslayer armor too pls
@@Awenier Done!
@@TeraCMusic Thx, u are the best!
@Awenier Dragonslayer Armor is super slept on, probably top 5. Epilogue is king though
I know this is a list of DS3 tracks but you should check out Iron Golem theme in DS1. I think it's really interesting.
Slave knight gael is the last track most players will have heared as it is the final boss of the final dlc, and epilogue is the track that plays after completion. I just wanted to add some context to why people might want gael after epilogue.
@あせお00 bad theory imo. Patches was never in it for the money, he hated the greed of mankind which is why he was constantly tricking people with promises of treasure. I dont think he would torture anyone for money.
@あせお00 Except you're conflating Patches from the Dark Souls universe with Patches from Elden Ring. Despite having the same look, attitude and voice actor, they are completely different characters. I was talking about Patches from Dark Souls, which you quoted: "Every age, it seems, is tainted by the greed of men.
Rubbish, to one such as I, devoid of all worldly wants!”
Whereas when he is telling you to cough up your coin, that is a line from Elden Ring. It's easy to confuse since they seem to be the same character but in reality they are completely different. So again, the Patches from DS3 would not be the type of person to torture Gael for money, and it also makes no sense for Gideon to have been involved in that situation because he doesn't even exist in the Dark Souls universe.
@あせお00 It's a reused joke character, yes, I'm not denying that. But within the context of the different games, Patches' character is written differently each time. You yourself prove that he is NOT the same person within each different universe because of the clear contradictions that you have listed when it comes to his beliefs and how he portrays himself. Obviously Patches is a meta joke for the developers and Fromsoft fans to appreciate, but if you're solely looking at the context of each individual game, each version of Patches is his own individual character, despite the similarities.
My main point being that it makes absolutely no sense for the Patches from Elden Ring to have been paid by Gideon to torture Gael, because none of those characters have any relation to each other.
Also, there actually is no evidence that the universes of Elden Ring and Dark Souls are linked in any way, apart from Nightreign which is a non-canon alternate reality.
@あせお00 Brother, the manga is not canon either. And that also implies that Demon Souls, Bloodborne, Armored Core, and Kingsfield are all linked simply because Patches exists as a character in each one. No, that's not how it works.
@あせお00 So you're saying that canonically the Tarnished, instead of killing Godrick, got into a grafting competition with him? Do you realize how ridiculous your claim is? Or how about the fact that Aseo himself breaks the 4th wall multiple times in his own dialogue, questioning whether Fromsoft's devs would even be okay with the story being told this way. Or the fact that the main title page for chapter one clearly states that it is a PARODY manga. No, it is not canon. It contradicts many things from the actual game.
Darkeater Midir is the epitome of "humanity" in Dark Souls; humanity and its will to keep going without losing purpose is in some shape or form spawned from the Abyss. By the time you fight Midir, he has been holding back the Abyss so long to protect the gods that gave him this task, that he's being consumed by it. His scales are dark purple, his wings are decaying and crystals are sprouting from his body. So all in all, Midir is "human", as the Abyss, which is the source of humanity, has consumed him. In the soundtrack you hear a constant heartbeat rhythm which signifies this humanity, yet another case of storytelling in the music
You spelled Slave Knight Gael wrong
More musicians doing video game music, yes!
The goat himself
Hey, Atlas! Thanks for the comment! 💜 Been doing video game covers for well over a decade now, but there are still so many game OSTs I have never heard before! It's been super fun to delve into those tracks and broaden my knowledge 🎶
@@Grunbeldknight thank you 🙂, but we know Alex is the GOAT 😆
@@TeraCMusic Absolutely, looking forward to it
The parry king is here!
Actually, Motoi Sakuraba did all the OSTs for Dark Souls 1 so I think you will enjoy listening to those !
@@qwixel_d7874 That's SO cool omg! Can't wait!
For Dark Souls 1, Great Grey Wolf Sif's theme is a must.
So that’s why they sounded similar.
He didnt do the Character creation music, but everything else yes!
@@skyhornet8677 Thank you for the callback! A Moment's Peace is such a great track but I keep forgetting it for no reason.
Vordt of the boreal valley is pretty much the first Dark Souls 3 boss, except the tutorial boss, which is kinda crazy 💀
Pity for most players they may get to hear the full track once or twice on their first playthrough, and not on subsequent playthroughs because they beat Vordt too quickly
@vincent4805 yeah 😭
most people assume that vordt is the 1st official boss of this game , but the based gamers know that the dancer is actually the 1st boss after iudex gundyr
@@jeofthevirtuoussand if you're skilled enough 😈
2:49 ANATOLY KARPOV
A friend of mine just sent me that video LOL
"You're not entering the fog gate, but the boss is approaching you" moment
"Sir Alonne" ost (ds2) and "Great Wolf Sif" ost (ds1) 10/10🤜🤛 loving the videos
I did it, became a member just for choosing these great games and their music.
@@lucasdenis8655 Lucas!! Welcome to the Members club and thank you so much! 🎶
It's really cool how Vordt's music gives off an imposing vibe and in the middle when the choir comes in it just explodes, it even gives you goosebumps
Midir was one of my favorites to remix
Bro u goated fr fr
Love your remixes homie
That rise at 10:24 is my favorite part. There's so much raw power to extract mentally as you listen to it, and it makes me feel like I can fucking do anything. Been watching some reactions to this theme and no one really seemed to take note of that part, so very happy to see someone who does. Same thing with the violin at 07:01, is stunningly beautiful to listen to.
Ah Vordt the boss theme of many memes
Vordt's theme always reminded me of Demon's Souls Tower Knight theme, literally laughing at you.
Lore Rants (TLDR warning):
Vordt is a character we know almost nothing about directly but a lot can be gleaned from context. He comes from a place called "The Boreal Valley" and that he was a knight who served Pontiff Sullyvan. He has a ring from Sullyvan that empowered him but also slowly drove him mad. These rings were only given to knights Sullyvan sent out to do his bidding far from home (presumably because the outcomes were so horrific, however effective). Vordt would have been a towering imposing knight, if he were standing, but he faces us on all fours and moves like a boar. Vordt has a linking to The Dancer which is obvious from their titles but also because despite facing them ten to thirty hours of gameplay apart (depending on the player's skill and/or thoroughness of exploration) you face them about five yards from eachother. One blocking your way out of Lothric, and the other blocking your way into the castle on your return where you will face the Twin Princes. You also see ghosts of them later on when you visit the Boreal Valley proper repeating their exit from the city eternally as phantoms together. Given they are a gendered pair of opposites (one massive and hulking and the other fluid and graceful) so closely paired it has given rise to speculation that the two were romantically entwined.
Dark Eater Midir like so many Dark Souls characters is a subject of tragedy. There is a cosmic horror called The Abyss which has in all the games up to this point acted almost like a rot of reality slowly eating away at the very existence of the world, driving characters mad, giving rise to horrors (it is likely also the source of humanity, but that's another rant). To understand Midir you need a bit of quick history (watching the Dark Souls 1 intro cinematic would be a good start, but I'll summarize the relevant bits) before the world of man there was a world of grey twilight that was ruled by everlasting dragons. Then the gods rose from the first flame and eventually declared a war upon them. Gwyn in particular devised the method of killing dragons using his bolts of lightning which shredded off their stone scales which granted them their immortality (fun fact, you smith all your weapons in all the dark souls games from titanite, which is actually the fragments of these scales). There are a few dragons who survive but for all intents and purposes it was a complete genocide. Midir however was an egg at the time and was taken by the gods and raised as a weapon. He was like his ancestors an immortal and over the eons he grew attached to the gods, and mankind. When we encounter him we have traveled to what is essentially the end of time (in Dark Souls time is kind of running on a loop, so that's debatable) the world is melting into the abyss or being burned to ash or ground to sand and this is the main part of his tragedy. His kind was slaughtered by the gods but he fights for the entirety of time to defend them, going so far as to attempt to single handedly hold back the abyss to allow them more time. He failed however, nothing can hold back the inevitable, and by the time we face him he is mad, thoroughly corrupted by the abyss, but still trying to hold the abyss back. (and btw rightfully one of the hardest fights in the game, and incidentally the largest amount of souls that can be gained from killing any creature in the entire game, fitting given his age and how many he must have slain).
@@ArgyleR04D I cannot wait to listen to Dancer of the Boreal Valley then! 🎶
And wow, Midir is quite a tragic character too, isn't he? I had no idea he'd be a dragon when I listened to his track!
@@TeraCMusic Also the Dancer of the Boreal Valley is such a great and 'different' track to most of the others! I also read, but not confirmed, that the boss is pretty difficult due to how the music is arranged but can elaborate on that video with context!
@@TeraCMusic a big theme among the dragons in dark souls is that every single one we encounter in the games is in some way sick, corrupted or lesser than what they are supposed to be (perhaps with the exception of the black dragon Kalamet who just like Midir roamed in a land touched by the abyss, though it might only have been a matter of time untill he to would have been corrupted).
Midir himself is the closest we ever get to facing the legendary power of an ancient stone dragon.
Seath betrayed his kind by telling their weakness.
@@vincentpey3929I mean, we do fight Kalameet right with a broken wing because Gough felled it with his mighty bow, so I would say that the Black Dragon is indeed lesser than what it used to be lmao
Something tragic about Midir was that he was an Archdragon, raised by his enemies so he can defend against an unyielding abyss. His loyalty to the Gods meant he kept fighting even after everyone he knew decayed and withered away. The music kinda shows that unrelenting nature of a dragon and the sudden end to the song might symbol that nature when we kill him in game.
Everything about midir is so fantastic and well thought. The amazing video game art of making you sad over a gigantic mystical creature.
The boss fight of midir is so overwhelming, every swing of his claws makes you canera shake, and sometimes the ost synch soo well that feels that his roars are leading the chorus, so phenomenal
Epilogue is definitely last, actually the first ever track in a Dark Souls game was called "prologue" so epilogue is even more fitting as the last track of the trilogy.
Also, if you planning on doing Elden Ring after DS3, just a bit of context, Yuka Kitamura took a more secondary role in ER as she actually was leaving the company to go freelance after the DLC.
In Elden Ring there are many composers, but the one that takes the trophy is certainly Shoi Miyazawa, his work is legendary, on par if not greater than Yuka's work at times.
Otherwise, Sekiro awaits.
Miyazawa is definitely the better composer, Kitamura is great but every Miyazawa track is a banger.
In my opinion Slave Knight Gael is so important, as Gael's technically is the last theme, he's most likely the last boss we ever fought and so the last song we listened to in the Dark Souls franchise.
It's my favorite song in the franchse.
Gael to listen to last for sure! It's the final moment in the series so definitely appropriate!
Gael is technically the last track one will hear and it would absolutely mean ending on a high note. However I do feel like Epilogue should come last. It's such a soothing song that wraps everything up nicely thematically. Truly a fitting end to a long and arduous journey.
Dark Souls and Bloodborne tracks are just amazing at capturing what honestly feels and sounds like terror incarnate in musical form.
Midir's ost is deffinetely my favorite piece from yuka kitamura. Shoi miyazawa is another Godly composer and you should deffinetely listen to his work in the elden ring dlc !
Funny thing is its kinda hard to enjoy both of these when playing the game lol. Bordt is like the first non-tutorial boss and you can kill him very easily. Midir is the hardest DS3 boss period (maybe ever), so you are either missing out on most Bordt music or sweating and not paying attention to Midir ost.
@@DrClef_1 I would probably be one of the few who would hear Midir's music and get myself killed while trying to intently listen to it LOL
I think Friede is 3x harder than Midir
@@ellisg5623 naaah you can stagger her to death with every weapon there is, Midir is the largest health sponge
@@DrClef_1 midir is way easier than friede what, he falls over if you just go for the head
@@sataniccereal falls over you? You mean when he charges you? That's like one move. Like i said Friede can be staggered with anything, Midir is hard to hit sometimes and does an absolute load of damage, while friede has no HP to compete. Her only difficult part is having 3rd phase, but thats only if you got hit way too much in 2nd which is.....well subjective.
MIDIIIRRRR❤❤❤
I think if we want to give the dark souls 3 soundtrack a sentimental end, slave knight gael is probably as good as it gets. Both from a lore and gameplay perspective as he is the last boss of the ringed city dlc. This also makes him the last dark souls boss for most players.
I recently discovered your work and your channel here in RUclips and it's amazing. I would really like to see a Slave Knight Gael OST analysis.
Epilogue, definitely. Gael is the last fight in the franchise but its music is not necessarly relates to that. There is literaly content (dialogue) you unlock after Gael, so it's not even the last thing you do, even if we don't count the activities there are around the boss arena. Epilogue is what represents the true End.
So glad you got to Darkeater Midir, you need to see that boss fight its epic. I heard you're doing Slave knight Gael, perfect. Two others I highly recommend and think you'll love are Champion Grave tender and Yhorm the Giant.
Also, a cool little factoid, the bosses attacks in the game seem to also correspond to their theme(as in attacking “on beats” for combos), with the Dancer being one of the more difficult due to her time signature.
Me: "oh, man!! I have to play ds3 again!!"
*Gets one-shot in less than 10 seconds*
Me: "nevermind..."
Level vigor
Epilogue definitely
Great video, as always 😃🖤! I might be the only one again with this suggestion, but the DS3 track "Secret Betrayal" is sooo beautiful 🖤🖤✨️. Most of the DS3 tracks are always epicness to the max and that's ok, but they all sound a bit like the same. And "Secret Betrayal" does the epicness in a different way, wihch I absolutely love (and I bet you also think so😊)🖤
Other tracks that I really recommend from Dark Souls 3 are Champion's Gravetender and Halflight, Spear of the Church.
Both are SUPER underrated, probably cause they're both pretty boring and bad bosses, so nobody really pays attention to their music. Which is sad, cause they have both INCREDIBLE music!!!
The best way to explain the "Gael is the Epilogue to the Epilogue" thing in a less unserious way, but without giving away too much:
The Epilogue was the last piece one would have heard in basegame after continuing the cycle of Ages of Fire and Ages of Dark that has defined the games since Dark Souls 1--even if the fire is fading and time, even if cyclical, is nevertheless running out. It's the final music you hear in an ending that's not exactly an ending. The Epilogue, in this sense, is the Epilogue to the cyclical reiteration of events that makes up Dark Souls 3, but is NOT the Epilogue to the series.
Slave Knight Gael plays at the end of the final Dark Souls DLC, The Ringed City, which was meant to be a full capstone and proper ending to the series as a whole.
The other way I've heard it said: "The ending of DS3 is the ending of DS3--an experience of one of the last--but never explicitly THE last--cycles that have defined the history of Dark Souls's world since DS1's intro cutscene; the ending of the Ringed City DLC, by contrast, is the legit end of the world, and the final ending of Dark Souls as a series."
@@thechapterzee That makes a LOT of sense, thank you for breaking it down like that! I guess I'll do the last DS3 reaction video with Epilogue first and then go to Gael after. 🎶
Slave knight Gael is a must
at 09:26 when the tempo goes off the rails and you're like "oh?" its actually perfectly synched up with the game, if you have been consistently hitting midir in the face, he will stagger right at this moment, and then the music syncs up with your critical hit
I'm a huge fan of Yuka Kitamura, and I spend a lot of time listening to her OSTs, I would recommend "slave knight Gael" and "champion gravetender", if you decide to listen to them I hope you like them. (sorry for my english)
Lord of Cinder DS1
+Soul of Cinder DS3
and Yhorm the Giant
People say epilogue is the second to last thing you hear and that gael is the actual last, but they are incorrect. There are 2 versions of the song "epilogue"
When the DLC came out with slave Knight gael, it changed the epilogue track to a slightly altered version. So the Ringed City version of Epilogue is the actual last thing you hear in the game
Vordt ost the greatest meme of all time
i killed vordt so fast it's the first time i heard that last part. but i definitely heard midir in it's entirety multiple times if you know what im saying 🤣 can't wait for soul of cinder
Aint that the truth haha
I'm so excited for more DS3 reactions! One underrated track I would reccomend is Aldrich, Devourer of Gods
Pleeeease do Epilogue last, it's such an incredible and different piece of music!
Gael is incredible as well, don't get me wrong, but Epilogue really speaks to what - not just Dark Souls 3 - but all the games in the trilogy are about.
Without spoiling, you really feel this neverending cycle, while a glimmer of humanity struggles on, battered again and again, but never quite giving up.
And again, it's so, sooo unique for the series; powerful and emotional in its on way, not in an adrenalinic and blood-pumping way.
Would love to see your reaction to Ornstein and Smough!!
Lord of cinder, slave night gael, and the epilogue ,are a great conclusion.And for the left ones you can choose the 2 or 3 that attract you more by name or lore.
MIdir's story is tragic, the last of his kind raised to literally eat the creeping abyss and you are tasked to put him down out of mercy and give him a dignified end at the end of all things.
I don't think it was recommended to you but Halflight has a very good OST too, one of the best I think.
I just checked and it's on the list!
@TeraCMusic Great, I take this opportunity to say that I knew you with your dark souls videos, you make very good content. Have a nice day✌🏻
To emphasise how fitting Midir‘s theme is; He‘s a massive dragon who was swallowed by the abyss and is one of the toughest, scariest bosses of all time
The two songs I'd love to hear your reaction to the most are definitely Slave Knight Gael and Secret Betrayal. One that's an epic massive conclusion to the trilogy, and one that is a quiet piece that replaces the Firelink Shrine hub music after a convoluted questline that leaves you feeling like you've genuinely done something you should not have. Secret Betrayal is one of my absolute favourite pieces of video game music of all time, and it's so well hidden both behind the amount of work you have to do to get to it, and behind the game telling you that what you are doing is _wrong_ on a moral level.
Wow, I never knew how extensive Vordt's theme was! The Deep Battle Axe usually does him in in a handful of seconds....
Yeah people have said you never truly get to hear the entire piece when fighting him cause he is so easy haha. Such a shame!
another banger vid tera! also for the last song Slave knight gael all the way hands down :D
Can't wait for you to play Dark Souls 3 as well!
Vordt of the Borreal Valley, really, really memed that hard back in the days of early DS3 😅😂
love your DS reacts
Darkeater Midir's story is peak. His fight even more peak. As the final out of the way secret boss of the Dark Souls franchise, he lived up to it in every way.
Gael is the true epilogue however, the epilogue prior is from base DS3. Gael is the definitive end and for most people, is the final track unless they proceeded to also finish with Soul of Cinder for the credits again.
Since you love strings, I think you're in for a treat with Gael's track. I can't wait for the video!
2:45 it the best entire videos games history 😂
Sir Alonne from Dark Souls 2, Promised Consort Radahan from Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree DLC.
Some Lore on Vordt: he and the other Outrider Knights were given special rings by Pontiff Sulyvahn that give them a bit of a boost, but slowly ate away at their minds. By the time the player encounters them, they're moving on all fours, howling, and essentially rabid. Eventually, they fully turn into gigantic beasts. one such beast is guarding the entrance of the Boreal Valley itself. Sulyvahn knew what the rings would do when he gifted them to his knights.
Jeez Sulyvahn was quite the character, wasn't he lol
@@TeraCMusic Don't worry, he gets worse. He partnered with Aldritch, devourer of gods, fed kids to him, and corrupted a religion as well. he's probably done more, but i can't remember off the top of my head. if you're interested in Fromsoft games lore, i'd recommend Vaatividya. he has a knack for making the lore really engaging.
Midir is my favorite boss in souls and one of my favorite boss osts ever
Midir's ost ends like that because it's supposed to be looped
Told you are going to love it
Amazing video, I love to watch musicians react to thsi type of work of art ! I'm thinking of a music, the Safi'Jiiva theme from Monster Hunter Wolrd:Iceborne. Midir made me think of him.
For your next video, you should check out Gravetender's Champion and Greatwolf theme. There's some crazy violins in that one
Gael should definitely be the last
Ik you have so many tracks to get through so no rush or anything but my favourite ER ones are Lichdragon Fortissax (mightve spelt that wrong), Divine Beast Dancing Lion and Promised Consort Radahn. All quite different vibes but they all bang. Id think youd quite like the last 2.
If you wanna talk insane violin runs, I was listening to the DLC soundtrack for Elden Ring again earlier and the track "Saint of the Bud" has some of the most absurd violin sections in the whole From catalogue, and it's also just an incredible track. Honestly the Elden Ring DLC might be the absolute culmination of all of From's soundtracks up to this point, it is some of their best work from start to finish.
Oooh thanks for the rec! I just added it to my playlist~
Slave knight gael for sure. I love it so much.
How have we gotten this far and NOT done Dancer of the Boreal Valley yet??
Loving these reactions though, the music in DS3 is SOOOO good!!
@@UserOfTheZune That's the one I am most excited to listen to!! Chances are it'll be in the next DS3 reaction 🎶
great video.. 700+ hours in dark souls 3🙃
Holy cow, 700 hours?!?! 🤯
@TeraCMusic yes, I've been playing for about 2 years 😁
@@TeraCMusic i have over 3000 hours in dark souls 3 😅
@@thunder_pika1783 omfg Thunder 😂😂 I can't even fathom that, what even
I'd very much like to see a reaction to the boss fights, particularly Abyss Watchers, Lothric & Lorian, and Friede, because of how the cutscenes tie in with the soundtrack.
@@giannixx Are Lame Ansari's videos ok to react to? I'm actually building my boss fight reaction list right now!
Leave Gael for last. It's the last soundtrack most people hear. It's the final boss of the final DLC, which is also the final boss of the Dark Souls series. A fitting end to it all.
bravo
Other pieces of music to react to from the DS world ( in no specific order ) : Great grey wolf Sif, Ornstein and Smoug, all 3 epilogues from each game ( for some reason DS2 has not been reacted in Yt a lot, so it would be cool see someone react to it ), Moonlight butterfly, Nashandra, The four kings, Knight Artorias and Gwyn's theme.
Gael boss fight is the best music in the game. midir close 2nd
Midirs so cool. Dragon that shoots exploding lasers and shit
I really hope you also do the Dancer of the Boreal Valley as well
And then I see the comment from the channel, 😆 🙃
Hahaha all good! I'm really excited to listen to that one tbh!
I love music
4:51 So, a bit of a disappointing detail about this part of Vordt's theme: Vordt is an early game boss that either kills you immediately during his transition to 2nd stage (at the 2:50 part) or dies too quickly for you to even get this far in his theme. I'm pretty sure no one ever hears this part in game and you would have to look for the soundtrack to even know about it
Really like Midir, the only boss in the series that I can do barehanded xd
Vordt of the Boreal Valley is one of the Outrider knights sent by Pontiff Sulyvahn to foreign lands to impede any from trying to Link the First Flame again. Linking the First Flame has been the objective of the Dark Souls series, as it's seen as the only way to continue the Age of Fire, but doing so seems to have horrid side effects on the land and people, as the Age of Fire was meant to end ages ago. To this end, Sulyvahn is brutal and cunning, and uses his Outrider knights such as Vordt viciously, as they all but lose their minds and enter a battle frenzy once being sent out with his cursed rings.
For the VERY last track, i would suggest a secret track thats only on the OST, and listen to it right after Slave Knight Gael, youll hear why. Its called "For the Dark Soul", and its quite short, but almost noone knows about it. One of my fav tracks now, tying together the entire game, and the entire souls series, for me. Maybe make it a secret planning to listen to it too, right until you do. C:
DLC 🫀slave knight gael/Halflight, Spear of the Church/ Demon Prince🔥🆙
Listen to Dragonslayer Armour ost. The two phases are vastly different but both insanely awesome.
Midir is my favorite
Please react to Nameless Song and Longing, from Dark Souls 1 and 2. They are the credit themes of those games, and are gorgeous pieces of music, and very unique from the intensity of the boss themes. I would love to watch that.
Midir is a black flame seraphime dragon
Yhorm the giant
If you search for next songs check Primised Consort from Elden Ring, thats one is hell yea
Midir is Fromsosft’s best dragon fight easily.
HELL YEAH!!!💯💯💯❤❤❤
I think the best tracks left are skave knight gael and soul of cinder, by far the best tracks in ds3
Also, cant wait for the next stellar blade video, im unhealthily obsessed with that soundtrack
Maybe Midra Lord of frenzy flame and Bayle from elden ring someday? 2 of my favorite ost of all time along with ludwig but you already did that one 🎉
These tracks have their reputations solidified by the bosses they go with, personally prefering Midir's theme for both its tasteful violin and key-changing 2nd phase :)
As for the last DS3 reaction, I'll die in the Epilogue hill. I know Gael will likely win, but I humbly disagree with him being the closure of the series. You may fight him at the end of everything, but that's not the last thing the Ashen One (our protagonist) does. I think of it as our greatest revelation before choosing our final cutscene, because after Epilogue, there's nothing left (unless we count NG+).
Either way, I'll be happy when the day of said reaction comes 💙
Souls of cinder
Try Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos. You'll enjoy the amount of dissonance throughout the score!😊
@@cristianlares936 Already got that video done and uploaded! Should be posted later in the month 🎶
@TeraCMusic I'm looking forward to it! I always cry near the end. 🥲
Why do I hear boss music??
Epilogue is 100% the better choice, but I guess people will mostly say Gael
If you are thinking of doing Elden ring soon, I feel like you’d have a really fun time listening to Bayle the Dread from the Elden ring DLC
You should listen to Slave Knight Gale- my favorite souls OST 🫠🤩🤩🤩
Slave Knight Gael last for sure. It's a banger and is a great way to end the DS3 OST