First Listen Reaction: Serpent Eating The Horizon (Bravely Default) 

It’s basically a one song greatest hits medley that somehow manages to be it’s own thing at the same time.

Nothing will ever compare to that one moment hearing it for the first time

kinda like a song eating the others

Then the victory theme kicks in an you know the battle has turned

It's even BETTER during the actual fight, when those themes come up during the fight. When the big plot twist happens and your allies come in from beyond the fourth wall, and that theme kicks in...

I'm thinking Hikari to Yami no Märchen (the first track from Ido e Itaru Mori e Itaru Ido) could be a good introduction to the absolute BEAST that is Sound Horizon. Honestly, Revo's work is so cool and lots of things he mentions in this video are basically his musical signature and easily recognizable once you've listened to enough of his music.

He also did Gureb No Yumiya!? Holy shit i thought i felt a similarity in the creative spirit but the same dude damn!

I second this! Sound Horizon was my jam back in the day and definitely miss those REVO stories

YES!!! PREACH!!!!

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Can i get a link to that interview?

When they started doing the thing that incorporated all the other players whose data you ran into online? Hoooooooly crap, that was some Yoko Taro-level shit!

This song is also a masterclass in returning leitmotifs.

I don't think it's underrated, just underheard cause it was somewhat of an underground gem in the US. People who've played the game rave about the soundtrack.

Definitely anything but underrated. Everyone who played the game, they love the soundtrack

I love when people say "underrated" and they don't really know what that means XD

All the songs are awesome

It is being made but god damm they ruined it, they changed the combat to octopath traveler combat. Bravely default is letting faith, take over what happenes and if it doesn’t go well try again use all strategies as possible and never give up because there’s always something crazy that is bound to happen

@@crislikesbigcoke2939 bro stop telling people the game is going to suck in the comments, they released the demo to get feedback on how to further redesign the system, it wasnt the final product. We wont know until it comes out

@@crislikesbigcoke2939 you say that like it’s a bad thing. Octopath Traveler had amazing combat, to say nothing of its music and art. Shoot, the story was amazing too, even if it was just 8 stories combining into 1

@@someclevername8167 bravely default and second are two of my favorites games ever, i couldn't end octopath traveler at all

I'm one of the few people who actually really enjoyed the loops, but I TOTALLY get why people didn't, yet I feel bad for everyone who dropped off because of it, because they missed out on one of the greatest finales in video game history.

@@JackgarPrime Honestly, it's frustrating that the loops don't have a more solid handholding to all of it. Like, hear me out on this one: When the first loop comes around, you are guided by the "Oy vey, the fuck?" of the world being reset. You also get a truckload of little side-battles with the bosses as an extra "Okay, something's wrong with the world" kind of deal. The first loop is shocking, arguably annoying to have literally the whole world reused but it's still cool. The tendency would be to push through this one ASAP because... well, it's a curious situation, and one you'll want to resolve quickly. You can see even the boss battle scenarios are very short and straightforward, harder repeats rather than anything new. The second loop is the "okay, there's something wrong" moment. Ringabell also starts getting his flashbacks that pretty much scream of a traitor in your midst, and the more clever player can easily see what must be done, because as we all know Airy Lies. It's arguably likely that the first ending will happen here. But the third loop is there for those that haven't noticed yet. Here's where the problem lays, however. Because in the 2-4 loops the sidebosses are interesting, you can see how there's still some noticeable effort put into the game, it's not like the devs have been doing nothing here... but the main story cutscenes are straight up the same. And that is the big issue, because the game is pretty much shouting at you "DO THE THING" which is sensible, but there are technically three results out of this. A) The player Does The Thing. Good Ending happens, player is relatively satisfied, maybe even too much so they stop playing not even aware that there's a True Ending! B) The player keeps playing, and goes on to chapter 4. The difficulty increase slams into their face even harder than in chapter 3, so they either drop the game or Do The Thing because the game is pretty much rubbing it on their faces by this point. C) The player *pushes on* and skips straight to the True Ending. The issue here is that you have three scenarios, and only in one of them _some_ people will walk out of things satisfied. Like, good god I appreciate the effort put into the scenario but they really screwed the pooch designing it.

The moment that Ouroboros ripped open a hole in realities and the hole showed me staring back, and I realized my 3DS camera came on I almost shat a brick. What a finale, so worth the initial slog.

@@dawk7 The second loop is the big problem, IMO. It's basically a more fleshed out version of the first loop. The first loop shouldn't be there. The second loop is just a better version of the first. The third is completely different, as is the fourth. But the first one doesn't have enough of your characters wondering what is going on to really play into it.

@@Skyblade12 I can see the idea that the first loop was meant to embody, but they really shouldn't have placed any of the Asterisk rematches in it. The looping aspect itself wasn't the issue, it was the implementation... and right from the start it trips, yeah. I think it would've been easier to make the first loop just a rush to the crystals, have the characters be laser-focused and not notice the whole dimensional travel aspect yet. Which they _kinda_ did, sure, but the issue is that they didn't bother making the player feel that way by slamming you in the face with a truckload of sidequest bubbles all over the place.

The live performances of the character themes, ESPECIALLY Love's Vagrant, are also extremely awesome. In fact, I'm gonna go listen to it again right now!

@@JackgarPrime great decision :D I really love Ai no Hourousha too, but they're all so cool. Can't wait for BD2's character themes, Seth's already sounds awesome !

Combine it with the events going on during the final boss, which run through the whole gamut of emotions you can possibly have during a fight, and it really was worth everything it took to get to that grand finale.

There has never been a better final boss theme sequence ever written, I stand by that and your explanation of this is exactly why. Daughter of the Dark God from Octopath is insane but themes like that as good as they are still remain static throughout the fight and don't tell a story, they simply set a mood. Serpent Eating the Ground sets a mood while telling a story as the fight goes on and to simply hear it without playing the game doesn't do it justice even though its still incredible.

*"That Person's Name is" trumpets intensify*

I totally agree. Time for Sound Horizon to be noticed 😎🤙

PREACH IT

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Yooo i loved the games and listening to this theme again brings sooo many good memories... this game is sooo amazing

@@jjsolis8484 definitely gonna bust this out again in the future. i know lots of people didn't like a certain part of the game....but the payoff was totally worth it

@@EclipseMeteor Repeatedly doing the same thing over and over got old fast but once you go past that point, it becomes amazing.

and Fantasy Life too

I'd say SMT, Radiant Historian and Etrian Odyssey is up there too.

@@wubbawubba3396 I agree, though RH was a DS title first so not sure if it counts.

Bravely Second s writing and script are so disappointing after the very good BD. BS is good only for the QoL improvements, imho.

Even tho the game almost drove me fucking mad, the ending was worth it.

Slight addendum: Revo is just one man. The whole band is named Linked Horizon. Which just makes the whole thing even more impressive, imho.

Revo is the leader of Linked Horizon, man.

Revo is one man dude

@@NakuruKouChannel technically he also fronts a band that recorded the battle themes

@@oscarisbestboi8118 Linked Horizon is more of a project by Revo than a band. Linking different horizons together, corresponding to Sound Horizon, where the stories are original by Revo. Of course, there is some band recording the music, but there is no fixed member in the band except for Revo.

Y E S

Bravely is how I got into Marty & Metal in general... I met Marty last year & he was impressed that I knew what Bravely was & that I knew of Revo... He signed my Bravely stuff. Best dude ever!

I wish the creators didn’t make the combat to octopath traveler combat it ruined it imo bravely default is fun because you never know what is bound to happen

I feel so bad I sold my copy a few years ago and wish I still had it lol

It's a good ost and it gets too much hate but it's definitely not as great and memorable as the one in first game. Like, I can't remember any of the characters themes while the once in the first game got stuck in my head right away. As a game bravely default 2 is better though, too bad it only has an ok soundtrack.

wbgospel Can’t really argue about the character themes tbh, but I go with the take that they were made to transition smoothly into each other and show the group’s unity as a team rather than their individual traits, and succeeded at that. But yeah, I wouldn’t remember them either if I didn’t listen to them on YT, especially because I never used specials in the game.

I still think Kaiser Oblivion’s theme is fire.

@Nill Null yeah but how can I chain them if I can't tell when they are ending. I don't think they are bad, not at all, but I think they could have put a different instrument for each character in them like Bravely default to make them easier for the player to understand when each theme ends. Like, I'm in the middle of battle and thinking how to chain attacks, BP and strategize, I just have 2% of my attention for the music.

wait wait wait wait wait wait WAIT Praising BS ost (or BS in general) in THE BD comment section ? I- Sir. This is illegal but so appreciated. Thank you, sincerely.

Sim.

SE wasnt even going to release the game in the west until nintendo published it for them here.

Why the spoiler tho

it is

Etrain odyssey is good yes

I love that video!