What I love about this particular theme is that it isn’t insanely grandiose or violent or volatile. No, it’s exalted, it’s celebratory, it’s melodic. Stark difference from Scaramouche last time.
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What I love about this particular theme is that it isn't insanely grandiose or violent or volatile. No, it's exalted, it's celebratory, it's melodic. Stark difference from Scaramouche last time.
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Hoyoverse really should make u have a role for major characters in fontaine cause ur an amazing talent just my thoughts
This boss having 3 waves is not bad i like this song right after raiden, scara, azdaha and then signora.
Apep nah we fighting Zygarde. Apep lore sounded like the great leviathan from Yugioh man that orchalculous dude was real.
Is it me or that 2:37 part is from Xiao demo theme?
Outside the expansive and epic part, in the quieter parts leading up to it, there are those bouncy, high-frequency turns of rhythms (sorry I'm musically illiterate and can't describe what it is) which really has that mysterious/mystical quality to it, reminded me of Secret Garden's White Stones. It feels like you're alone in a dense forest at night, you saw light at a distance so you run towards it but that blurry light never gets closer so you just run and run, feeling leaves brushing your arms as you're passing through (But unlike Secret Garden, in the Genshin soundtrack you do catch up to that light eventually cuz there's that epic part)
A fun fact about this track, it was found in the files ever since The Chasm was introduced. It didn’t include any of the flutes or eastern instruments.
this quest line. THIS FUCKING QUEST LINE! makes me feel bad about fungis. FUNGIS! I'm lucky my Nahida is 90 already
I guess this theme echoes with Photon of Fluctuation (aka Slime's anthem),
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because we fight not with Apep itself, but with Guardian of Apep's Oasis, who is elemental spirit/essence like slimes
Hey Marco thank u for that Reaction. I just got through all of the new region added in this patch. The music there is also really amazing. Had a weird Star Wars feeling throughout the whole thing. Have fun exploring! 🙂
Had to loop this giant flying sea slug boss theme (as I do with every track). Epic.
Have you heard these BGM from Vourukasha Oasis region yet? So good…as always. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmiXVY2RmDY
As usual, you leave me the knowledge to listen the theme with a musical insight that I had not glimpsed before…
At the risk of being wrong, it seems to me that the electronic tones at the end are due to the fact that we fight with our team, but also with Nahida… Nahida is a dendro (vegetable) goddess, however her ability is directly related to knowledge and with some mastery of a kind of "natural computing". Even her abilities have effects with that style.
That's why the hypothesis of this theme having more to do with the traveler fighting the snake seems more than correct to me.
I love the music SO MUCH too bad the boss it’s self is just a green childe
Apep: the Egyptian serpent of chaos
Also Apep: A leaf snek
Dvalin which is an anemo dragon, azdhaha which is a geo dragon and now apep which is a dendro dragon. I wonder where the electro dragon is?
It’s a Shame that I won’t be able to hear the whole ost 😭
genshin does not miss with the music, the moment i heard it i knew itd be one of my faves
When the boss theme is so good you'd hear twice to analyze it.
I really like this one. I think those "synthesized" sounds are very computer-y kinds of tones meant to invoke the idea of information or data. Sumeru is the nation of "wisdom"–of knowledge, information, and memory. But it reflects those concepts both in human ways (academic learning, almost sci-fi information systems, etc.) and in nature (the patterns in nature, the memories of the forest, etc.) Without getting into story spoilers this boss has themes of "evolution" and "adaptation", and you can see from the trailer it has various helix motifs in it's attacks and the corkscrew-seed elements in the boss design–very literally the information embedded in nature. To me this song is very much about the clash and dance between the knowledge of man and the knowledge of the natural world and whether they can find common ground…
I just finished the story quest where you fight Apep and I’m definitely glad that I experienced it in game before watching this video. Now watching your reaction to it, I am hearing these themes for the first time without gameplay sounds over it
Marco vibing to the music is such a mood.
Genshin is Just so good when it comes to making music for their Game. Not only in genshin Impact but also in honkai Impact
some parts remind me a little bit of hints of Xiao's music in his character demo. I don't know why lol.
Marco : shocked*
Also marco : vibing with music*
Just wanted to let u know ur the only youtuber the honkai community doesnt hate while simutaneously also not being hated by the genshin fans either Super impressive
Yeah, its our theme!!
This track to me felt majestic and a battle of trust between two deities. It's powerful as you said, Marco.
But sadly, the actually fight was so easy that I didn't get to listen to the whole track in full 👌😂
they say the anime would be about the archon war
and they're working with the studio that made the demon slayer anime
I expect the eyegasm and eargasm to be overwhelming
I think this has become my favourite Genshin theme. It has a memorable melody and it steady builds into the booming heroic music in the 3rd phase, much like a seed growing into a tree. And to me this song has a lot of heart, which is fitting considering what the story behind this boss battle is. It's like the more you dance in battle, the greater your heart and emotions become, until every step taken in battle and every swing of the sword becomes full of what you are as a warrior and a hero.
La sound di Apep è bellissima davvero, peccato solo che il boss nella fase 3 abbia così pochi hp che nn si ha il tempo di goderla in pieno durante il fight.. 😅
Anyway i love ur reactions ahah
5:30 it pains me to know that his iteration is not in the finalized boss fight, this track is from the beta version of the boss, it sounds so fucking badass and inline with sumeru city’s technological feat with the robotic synth in the background along with the heavy muddy bass at the beginning, this version symbolizes the temporary Alliance between the desert dragon and the rainforest archon for me
This track gives me a nostalgic feeling. Chrono trigger vibe. Idk why but it's really soothing to listen to. Not very boss like but i like it anyway
Wait a second! It's just remixed theme from chasm update battle ost! I heard that ost year ago – https://youtu.be/w-e9H-GnbM0
As a bassoonist, it is really a treat and ear opener to hear a bassoon as the main soloist against the boss music, adds more to rich and utter melodic contrast to the environment of this piece. Being a bassoonist, you’ll only have some rare chances in spot light in modern day pieces, so, it is ever lovely to hear pieces like this; to provide notion to a not-so-rare though rich wood sound in an orchestra environment~