I can honestly admit that I was hesitant when I began covering Genshin Impact. The first time I had played it, I thought it was nice, but felt a little….stupid? Silly? A year later, I’m in love with this game and there is so much I genuinely appreciate about it. In this video I explore what makes Genshin Impact so great: The Music.
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When I first started playing Genshin Impact, I can admit, I thought the game was stupid. Over time, I've fallen madly in love with it. Thanks to Yela..The Music. The Music feels so good after a decade of advocating and promoting the arts and classical music, It feels so good to hear this neo–neo classical music in a game. Fully orchestrated, fully human. This is amazing. I love listening to it, nearly every day. As you can see: this is a new style and direction for the channel focusing on overarching concepts regarding the games we love. Likes would be very appreciated.
Without genshin I think my musical appetite will worse than anyone lol and also your channel when it comes reacting about music has meaning inside of it I m very interested in musical and I keep following ur channel. Sadly I don't have a budget to buy music tools 🥲
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I agreed with you!!!
Genshin Impact is an interesting game. It looks good, plays good, SOUNDS good. It IS good. The music is a part of this, and Genshin has a soundtrack that competes with other games. Tracks like Caelestinum Finale Termini and Symphony of Boreal Wind are some of my all-time favorites.
But.
It's a gacha game, and this ruines it for me. Yes, you can play the game without spending money, but that is like watching a movie where most of the characters are locked behind a paywall for me, a randomized paywall at that. The game is predatory in these practices, using multiple currencies and other strategies to make you spend money in it.
Seeing the full-blown support for Genshin gets worries me honestly, because it signals that this is what gamers want; microtransactions. And big companies will follow this trend. Mobile gaming is seriously tainted.
One other aspect I loved about genshin aside from its unique combat is definitely music. I found deep enjoyment of this game's music since hearing Stormterror's lair, the dvalin fight, andrius, liyue's battle theme, tartaglia's first phase and the lists goes on.
Despite genshins few flaws, Music is one thing I would always know they would always be a banger. Congrats to HOYO-Mix team and Yu Peng Chen for making me fell in love with your music.
There were many things I expected Marco to say in this video…
C6 Yelan was not one of them, haha!
Great video, and it's always nice to hear someone grow to love something they never expected to.
I must say that I loved (and still do) Genshin since it came out. The lore, characters, landscape, stories, and most definitely the music.
But thanks to you, Marco, with your understanding of music and sharing those views with us (for the other games' music as well), I appreciated it even more.
Glad to have you here with us for the long haul!
Also, did you voice the senpai samurai for this recent combat event? He did sound familiar…
Genshin has its flaws, any gacha can be inherently problematic, but I still really like Genshin. I started because I was am a HUGE fan of Honkai Impact, so I kept up with news from MiHoYo. I actually fell off of it for about a year because I was totally caught up on content, but I’ve played it daily since I came back, and the music is definitely a big part of the appeal for me. The story has been getting better, it’s fun to explore the beautiful world, but my main draw is getting characters, leveling them and trying new team compositions.
I wonder if I have missed you experiencing the music and story of tsurumi island? I guess since it is spanned out over 5 days I think it might be a choice for a day when you do concurrent live streams daily for a week 🙂
I would honestly love to get into this game, I love the music, I love the characters. but my biggest issue isn't the game itself, it's the anticheat it uses. If I recall correctly, the anticheat was what caused that big leak a while ago. The security aspect of what this game does to one's computer is what's keeping me away from Genshin and it's quite sad. I do enjoy the music however, I've never heard something so familiar yet so different than what I've heard before when it comes to classical music. I wouldn't consider myself a pro like you are but I can say I've been singing and playing different instruments for the better part of 15 years. But hey, I can experience the game thru your videos and your streams. I'm mostly a lurker, I kinda never type but I'm enjoying your content a lot. Here's for more years of great content and music from you and Genshin.
Can i request?
Can you a Break of Honkai Impact OST Called Fantasy Note..
I've been silently following you for awhile, it's only thanks to this video that I've learnt you voiced Dvorjak! Have to say the cast couldn't be any more canon. Didn't get to hear you in game, because I play with Japanese dub. But the next time we see Dvorjak in Fontaine I'll make sure to switch to English!
My congratulations to C6 Yelan and condolences to your wallet. Have you pulled for her weapon as well?
the music of this game IS SO GOOD and has kept me in this game
Fontain? Definitely needs some Cancan 😉
Genshin changed some of our lives that's a fact. It's been a great ride.
Since you love advocating for the arts, I think you will love Nilou once you reach to Sumeru
Nice vid👍🏼
Fun fact, some of the musicians who worked on this game have their own channels as well, such as Kasumi Watanabe. She plays the koto in the Inazuma soundtracks, at least most of them. You can see her in this video at 2:15
In elementary, I was fortunate enough to have music class and we studied classical bach and Beethoven.
That experience helped me appreciate just how well made hoyo-mix is at making sound tracks and how each song is strong enough to make me nostalgic of events and quests in the game and feel an emotion or story tell.
My favorites being Say My Name, Desire for Calm, Inevitable Conflict, Undersea Encounters, Journey into sweet dreams and more.
Inevitable Conflict in my opinion is the best stand alone soundtrack in the game (right next to port ormos and combat beneath the waves). All world class soundtracks that are more than good enough to be heard and played in a symphony hall
As a Arknights,Genshin y Honkai fan is so pure and nice this video hits like a truck <3 uwu
Being a musician that studied classical for over a decade (I wish I had more time to practice the piano) I had a very similar feeling.
Listening to Genshin Impact's music has that distinctive seal of classical that I couldn't really hear in most videogame soundtracks with very few exceptions. It just hits different to listen to a soundtrack and say "wow this sounds like this piece of Schumann" or "is this freaking Brahms?" or "what the hell is Vivaldi doing here??"
The composition quality is really high, worthy of being considered the natural evolution of such a sublime and incomparable genre.
Clearly it has its vast audience but still I feel it deserves even more attention. Yu Peng Chen and the entirety of Hoyo-mix team made a game in which lowering the sfx and voices is actually a plus, a feat quite deserving of praise.
Good view.
Oh ya now I was confuse when that character appeared I swear to myself I've heard that voice before now I understand
My favorite place in Genshin is Dragonspine (at the Skyfrost nail peak), Stormterror Liar, and Tsurumi Island. Their ost is soothing my ears from a heavy day, and it sounds heavenly sad, and peaceful. I don't really care about the gacha system. I mean, the game is free so it makes a lot more sense.
I must admit🤣. This is the best and most on point endorsement i've ever see soo far.
All the Narukami goddess's islands music sounds like it has the Raiden or her impact in it
I must say I was dubious when I started the game because I was going through a phase where I was, maybe, fed up about gaming in general and any game bored me after 10 minutes. But some people were playing it, and I was "welp, it's free so might as well try". And OH MY GOD. Narrative is one of the aspects I love the most in videogames, and this one is overflowing with that. Didn't pay much attention to the music early on, but when I did after some months, It blew my mind. The one music that made my jaw literally drop in awe has been "Die Mittsommernacht Fantasie", and it still does everytime I listend to that. Fischl is already one of my favorite character, but that song… Wow… I don't even have words to describe how grandiose it is to me.
Also the elements playstyle, in fantasy context I always love elemental magic, and this game is heavily focused on that. So Yeah, I'm in love with this game. I didnt think a game could make me spend the same amount of money I used to spend to wow, but Hoyoverse deserves that in my opinion.
And Marco, did you hear Dehya's demo song? That's beyond greatness
I love the characters and exploring the ancient lore of the lands and the music always carries us through the journey. Many times I stopped at a beautiful spot just to listen and take it all in. A memorable one was underneath the desert night sky with the songs sweeping over me like sand.
Genshin pay you for saying this?
Thank you for putting to words the feelings of love I have for the game. Just saying “I love the game” sometimes feels insufficient how deeply I adore the vast world that hoyoverse has built for us to enjoy. The little details… I notice them! it’s amazing the sheer scale of care that’s put into the game
Genshin music fills me with so much joy. I'm someone who quit playing music due to boredom with the pieces I was playing. Every time I hear genshin music, some regret pools inside of me. Had I known classical music could sound like this, maybe I would've kept at it….
I don't know what to say and I usually comment only if I do but I want to help this video be promoted like you said so I'm leaving this comment like this 😅
OMG I loved your performance in the lantern rite!!
honestly in my opinion, instead of just genshin impact. Game Original Soundtracks in general are evolutions of Classical music. granted there's a lot games that doesn't use Classical instrument, but generally Game Soundtracks usually doesn't have lyrics but manage contain a lot of emotion just like a lot of classical music back then.
I remember first opening Genshin and relishing in the login screen theme for at least 30 min, and to think many of the other tracks can make you do the same …
When Genshin first came out on ps4 I didn’t even give it a few minutes, it was just a stuttering mess. Meanwhile you gave it an hour at least lol. Eventually I came back and gave it another try this time on ps5 and I’m glad I did because of the gameplay and of course it’s astounding music. Also if not for Genshin I wouldn’t have found Marco Meatball on YouTube.
When my friend introduced me to Genshin, I was like "Eh … that's a Chinese mobile game, not a real game …", but he insisted for me to try it, and … the rest is history. Been playing Genshin EVERY DAY since 1.3. The music, story, and production quality of the content in-and-outside of the game are what makes me fall in love with it.
Looking forward to your musical journey in Genshin as well, Marco! Congrats for the C6 Yelan!
When I was just a Honkai mobile player back then (now I play Honkai on PC, rip to my phone), I sorta heard some news that Mihoyo wanted to make a vast open world RPG that's fully for PS4 and PC. The idea was that it was going to be a love letter to the Zelda series, and also to introduce its playerbase to the beauty of multiculturalism. Then, the project somehow didn't fit the ideal of the country's citizens about "gaming" (China has a vast majority of players who only play mobile games and MMOs, many completely oblivious to the notion of "single-player"). So, they tweak the Gacha back into the game, and also into the mobile system. Yet, this didn't stop themselves from making the game into a mix blend of beautiful art.
In the years to come, like how novels became literature, like how movies became art, Mihoyo's work could be one of the pages of the art of video game designs in human cultural history.
I first fell in love with this game when I first saw mondastat, and the windmills and just how alive the city was. Later the story caught me , and then I slowly started to note how good the music was without letting me know about it and then I completely fell in love with the masterpieces that gives me that feeling… Yess that feeling which I'm not good at explaining properly. All the little attention to detail hoyo puts in is outstanding
Thanks to everybody who made the genshin experience better, mihoyo, the community, my friend who introduced me to it , etc … Pretty sure you'll end up loving the music even more in sumeru. All the Best!!!