Game Composer (FAILS TO) Breakdown 2ND WARNING from LOBOTOMY CORPORATION 

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About what this theme is about. Short Answer: Panic. Long Anwer: All the things you mention about tension and fear are accurate to when this would play. As a Monster Management Simulator, means sometimes the monsters escape and wreck havoc. First Warning is played when the situation is simple and maybe under control. Second Warning on the other hand is when sh*t has already hit the fan and you need to work extra hard to salvage what you can (And then Third warning is when everything is lost). Imagine a point where monsters beyond human comprehension are roaming and all your employees are either in panic or getting hurt.

2nd warning basically plays when your in the heat of the moment completely consumed by panic and chaos. It’s quite literally designed to amplify that and switch your mindset from “peaceful management simulator” to “rts monster fighter”

I think is better to listen the other warnings to complement this one. Nice video as always Davi!

Very interesting, you will find that this is a smaller, but EXTREMELY vocal community. Happy to see my favorite company get attention though. :D

Loved the reaction, Love that the person suggesting this was called QHatred as in Queen of Hatred

Project Moon (the developers) have some incredible music in their games. I can recommend the following tracks from their games: 1st and 3rd Warning (also from Lobotomy Corporation) Any of the Battle themes (Library of Ruina) And then is heard no more (Library of Ruina) Children of the City (Library of Ruina) Iron Lotus (Library of Ruina)

If you're picking up Project Moon, I would recommend the following tracks from Library of Ruina; - Floor Realization Theme (Briah Layer) - Gone Angels - And Then is Heard No More

A little bit of context for when this song would play! Lobotomy Corperation is a management simulator game where you manage dangerous creatures in a facility, similarly to the SCP Foundation. These creatures can sometime break out of their containment and wreak havoc in the facility, and the game has different warning levels for the situation, with themes that go along with each one. The 1st warning theme plays when something is currently causing problems in the facility, but can be quickly and easily dealt with. (a creature broke out, and employees has died, etc) The 2nd warning theme starts playing when things get out of hand. (more then one creature has escaped, several of your employees have died, etc) The theme is meant to get the player to take action by fixing the situation and suppressing the escaped monsters. The 3rd warning theme plays when situation becomes hopeless, or when you suffer major losses that make the situation nigh unwinnable. (the majority of your employees are dead leaving you unable to suppress the breaching monsters, several creatures are roaming the facility picking off the few underequipped employees that are still alive)

It has very strong "SCP-682 has breached containment" vibes. From what I know of the game, that makes sense.

1-st Warning: Keeping control. 2-nd Warning: Losing control. 3-rd Warning: Lost control.

As one russian streamer once described it, "Mindf*ckery of pain".

I can't help but find it really funny when you say, "Where's this going?" and then the song ends.🤣 (BTW the answer is into 3rd warning.)

Yes, YES you get the exact emotion of this track, even if you couldn’t guess the exact context. This track more then anything is made to make you panic. It actually has two sister tracks, First and Third warning that go much heavier on the dread, but this one is for when you don’t have the time to even **be** scared, because so much is happening at once and so many dangerous creatures are escaping that you either fight, or everyone dies. It honestly gives me such a rush hearing it described so perfectly, and i really hope it’s piqued your interest to explore this game and this universe even more.

To put this in perspective, there are 4 backing tracks to this game. The first is business as usual. Nothing's really going on, move about your day. It's the most calming track by far, fitting for normal 'scientific' work on the monsters under your 'care'. The second track is "First Warning". Something has gone wrong. A monster has broken containment and is attacking your employees. Someone screwed up and died. ETC. It's well known for a very discordant screech throughout the track, which mutates into the recurring chord in Second Warning. It's a big inducer of anxiety. Second Warning plays when things have spiraled out of control. Dangerous monsters have broken containment and are causing mass death. Your security teams are fighting for their lives and even if they DO suppress the monster, there will be a cost. And finally, Third Warning plays only when you've completely lost control. Too many monsters have broken out, or the ones that have broken out are leagues more powerful than your entire security team. It'll take a miracle to come back from this, and even then you might consider letting the game over come because the cost of continuing is so high. The tracks seamlessly play into each other as the situation develops. (Though every monster in your facility can break out in the endgame and the game decides it's not enough to call Third Warning for some reason)

This track is a Fight or Flight trigger for me at this point, i cannot hear it without going in hyper focus mode, and its all because of Lobotomy Corperation. The game, altough its a bit scuffed, is a master at playing with sacrifise, fear, and humanity

Second Trumpet is more appreciable in context, given that in Lobotomy Corporation it tends to play when shit is going south.

Lobotomy corporation is a monster management simulator where you manage these terrible monsters that are kind of uncontrollable. I find the warnings to be the most impactful and influential tracks in the game as the story they tell is directly tied to the players failure. 1st warning starts it off when you make a mistake filling you with unease and dread. Then you make another mistake and 2nd warning plays, people are dead and there is a monster rampaging. And finally 3rd warning, the culmination of all of that failure filled with complete hopelessness as you can do nothing but watch as your facility is filled with nothing but monsters and corpses. The warnings are such good tracks and and in my opinion are the perfect representation of the game. I’d highly recommend checking out the other two warnings to get a clearer picture of the story they tell.

YES YES YES! MORE PROJECT MOON, PLEAAAASE!!!

"I still have no clue what this game is about" Promoon fans and Promoon itself: "neither do we"

Facinating! I enjoy following your analyses of music.

As the old saying goes: Background Music: Build the Future First Warning: Face the fear, Build the future. Second Warning: Face the fear. Third Warning: The Fear.

Project Moon themes always sort of adds to the story and the context, Second Warning, as it implies, means that there's a first and third warning. The game has an algorithm that determines how bad the situation is currently and plays a different warning music accordingly. Second Warning is basically a non-trivial situation that could be devastating if not handled well. They have a lot of other great music that are also very interesting to go through, though Second Warning is by far one of the most iconic due to how instinctively players will press the spacebar to pause time and assess the situation when it starts to play.

Oh man I am excited that you are doing music from this game. Never actually played it myself (not my sort of game and just watched a lets play instead for story and context on the sequel which is totally different gameplay) but man I love the series and world. If you end up ever going in the sequel, you'll also be doing a breakdown from one of my favorite music groups too which I am also very excited about if that does happen.

you have an amazing ear, this video was very helpful for me and an eye opener since I have been thinking about making something like this but I did not really know how I should go about approaching this, but now I have some ideas going

This song about urgency. About panic. You, the manager, must act. Now.

You finally made a video on this track! Project Moon (the game company) has a ton of great music, but I was looking forward to this one specifically. If you ever make a video on goldenslaughterer or Golden Nocturne from the VN Umineko no naku Koro ni, I'll be the happiest person ever.

i can see why he would think that its fighting game music, ive heard a fair amount that sounds similar in many ways. however, the overall goal is not purely beatem' up, the rhythmic speed of indicates that a lot is happening (which is true of pretty much any intense action game) but the chaos and instruments and transitions ultimately translates to a feeling of being overwhelmed by chaos(specifically in an aggressive fashion... which describes the game well i feel)

This was a fascinating video because it is absolutely on point... but Project Moon makes games with such unusual concepts that even perfectly understanding what the music is about is not enough to take a guess at the game x') It was a very good breakdown, though! Totally spot on!

Like what other comments have already mentioned, your analysis of the tension and danger is quite on point. And the moment you said that the Phrygian scale is to show a foreign, alien feeling, I smashed that like button. It really shows how well the composor is at conveying the unfamiliar natures of the monsters with musical languages (which is also shown in later Project Moon games) and how talented you are to pinpoint this exact emotion. Well done, sir!

Never seen a channel analyzing a song this detailed before, nice vid!

hey! I love the way you break down and analyze music, it's awesome! I'd love to hear you break down some of the music of halo! especially something like halo 3 odst's Deference for Darkness, or halo 3's One Final Effort, or my personal favorite halo reach's Epilogue!!

I am sure it was requested a billion times already, but damn, so soaked to hear your analysis on Slave Knight Gael :0 :0

You should totally llook into more of Limbus Company and Library of Ruina's soundtracks, most of it is sung by Mili. Some recommendations Mili - In Hell We Live, Lament (Limbus) Mili - From a Place of Love (Library of Ruina, 'Lovetown' Bossfight) Mili - String Theocracy (Ruina's Opening) Mili - Children of the City (Ruina again, but this bossfight's music is a lot more cryptic- I think it'd be funny to hear you try to break it down.) There's more I think you'd enjoy breaking down, not to mention the actual floor themes and their build up (IE: Binah 1, 2, 3 and the other floors).

Hell yeah, I never expected you to listen to this soundtrack! I have never managed to finish Project Moon's games, but love them all the same. I want to point you to the Library of Ruina version of the warning themes as well.

Thank you very much for the video, your breakdowns are always very fun to listen to, and for a student of music who's starting to learn harmony, they're very insightful and some good references. If you're taking suggestions, what about Waterfall from the game Koudelka? Let's say it's a very unconventional song for what it's for. I'm really curious as to what conclusions you'd get about the game from it.

It's great to see you listening to this game's soundtrack, I recommend checking out the first and third warning as well to get a fuller picture.

Hah, the video starting the second warning by pressing the button, peak LC moment

Ayyy lobotomy Corp! Really love this game and it's music. Has confusing lore too. Although lobotomy co. is kinda SCP management in nature, it sequel Library of Ruina is really different and the tracks are remixed as well. Whenever these tracks play it was always moment of panic.

If you like this song, a few remixes of it appear in future games on the series Library of Ruina has “Second Warning (Library of Ruina Version)” and Limbus Company has “Canto 1 battle theme C1 and C2”

Great video as always! I know very little about this game, but I like this cool track. I feel both a sense of urgency and an uplifting feeling that boosts my morale, like I don't know if I should run or fight. Looks like a pretty cool game. Too bad it’s only on PC. Thanks for the video, Davi. Really enjoyed your reaction!

Project Moon? Unexpected, but not unappreciated. 2nd warning is actually its least dramatic song. 1st Warning and 3rd Warning set the tone better, but they are for very different situations. Light Spoilers: The game revolves around managing an energy production company called Lobotomy Corporation, which takes its energy from cryptids and artifacts called Anomalies or Aberrations. Think if SCP was made mundane, or at the very least, a company secret for a state power plant. The world is run on myth magic, if that is familiar to you, and everything that is implanted into the human mass mind has the potential to become physical. In fact, this is so common that every anomoly is based on what it manifested from, is assigned a danger level, and is given an ID number in the hundreds to thousands. This is referred to as EGO manifestation. For example, let's say that something terrible occurs, or a story is changed after a few decades. With enough similar interpretations and bit of random chance, the metaphysical or theoretical becomes reality. Every ghost story, every historic tragedy, every nightmare or misinterpretation, can manifest into something capable of anomalous physicality. The more people are aware of this same interpretation, the more powerful the manifested anomaly. Once manifested, though, they become permanent in the world. Anomalies cannot be destroyed or killed, and many of them are deadly. 1st Warning is much more mathematical and unsettling, reminiscent of a cold intercoms warning alerting the facility to a breach. You will here this often, and its a bop. 2nd Warning occurs after substantial danger accrues, after multiple escapes or dangerous events. You've probably lost agents and the loss of life is calculated in this. This is more of the Red Alert of the facility, where you would employ all the firepower you have to contain the situation now that you've already, probably, made a serious mistake. 3rd Warning, well, I'm sure you could figure it out.

"Where is this going?" That would be Third Warning

Incredible

Love the D'n'B genre from the songs like this, it was a great game to play through. Loved the Story, playing through the sequel now even better songs.

Davi awoke the lurking Project Moon fans with this one. Glad to see it

I started playing Lobotomy corp today. The timing is insane.

This is the perfect analogy for the track

Warning 1, warning 2 and warning 3 from Lobotomy Corporation actually share some similarities with abnormality battle 1, 2 and 3 from Library of Ruina, later released by the same company. It might be interesting to see how those songs got remastered.

love how he's just confuse and scared over this, it's like the first time I hear it in the game just being scared and confused panicking wtf did I do wrong

It's a management game lol

To make a long answer short: First Warning plays when trouble arises that can cost your facility a few casualties. Second Warning happens when numerous deaths are either inevitable or likely, usually due to several different monsters escaping their cells simultaneously. Third Warning sounds like the lamentation of God because even He weeps for you at that point. Expect many deaths, and possibly even complete vacancies of several departments. There's lore for four other threat levels, all seven of which are also called Trumpets, but these are unused in-game: The Fourth Trumpet signifies that the facility at large is beyond any hope of salvation, and your role as Manager is terminated. Originally planned to be used as the basis for a game over screen. The Fifth Trumpet and beyond are purely theoretical; Fifth represents several branch facilities of Lobotomy Corporation experiencing the Fourth Trumpet. The Sixth Trumpet is an uncontrollable situation in which Lobotomy Corporation loses its position as a Wing. (The game takes place in The City, a single hub housing essentially all human life, split into districts for each letter of the alphabet; Lob Corp is the Wing of L's District, and Wings are the big corporations that allow The City to "prosper".) The Seventh Trumpet exists only to remind Managers that their actions (and failures) in Lobotomy Corporation are ENTIRELY CAPABLE of causing a human extinction event. "Everything is over. It is impossible for mankind to survive this situation."

As a drum and bass guy, that was sick! Holy shit, what a track!

So are we gonna ignore that this was suggested by "QHatred" a.k.a. Queen of Hatred a.k.a. Magical Girl from Lobotomy Corporation, for which this song is most associated with or

"This is the difficultly cliff, bad managers get off here." -Hokma

when you accidentally send someone to do instinct work on blue star then suddenly the sound cuts off.

I love your videos, I'm surprised you haven't done Eric Barone's Stardew Valley. Also I think the Half Life: Alyx soundtrack is really underrated

Love this one

Oh wonderful, this came out like a week after I finished day 46 of lobcorp.

HO I REMEMBER ASKING TO YOU TO LISTEN TO LOBOTOMY CORPORATION WARNINGS It is an incredible games and I can't wait to see you analyze others musics from Project Moon ! I advise ''Love Town'', not the song but the music Everyone who knows about Love Town has shivers down their spines RN And you were right about tension and all ! But you have no idea the horrors this game has... No...

You did get it right the part about fear, tension, something alien and the bells signaling death

Id say this one is about "everything's going to shit, but you can fight hard and possibly recover" the manic panic of dealing with several outbreaks while trying not to let the squishies die or anything else breach containment. Its so intense because its when the careful planning failed and your fighting your hardest!

another game made by project moon is called library of ruina they have really good music there aswell, a lot of the bigger bossfights are entire songs aswell such as gone angels

This is the OST that makes me stop slouching on my chair while playing and go full on focus mode on whatever is breaching their containtment.

Woah, we're getting projectmoon music now! If you're looking for music, you should go for library of ruina (the sequel of L corp), it has a lot of good music My favorite is reverberation ensemble, gone angels, and string theocracy If you don't like L corp's song, then don't worry since LOR's are totally different than this game's song If you're wondering about the story, it's as complicated to explain as bloodborne lore, so you better just played them yourself If you like story-driven game with dystopian and dark lore, i can't recommend these games enough! Just a warning, these games are hard, especially L corp There's also the third game called limbus company, but i haven't played it yet, so I can't say anything about it, but i do know that they also have great songs

I love the genre. No idea what's it's called, but I listen to music in this genre or similar genres when I do work at school.

There's a video called Full Qlipoth Meltdown which perfectly sums up the game. I recommend watching it after you listen to 1st warning and 3rd warning too.

you should also do the 1st and 3rd warning from this game too!

Oh man Lobotomy Corporation has such an amazing OST.

honestly i think he should started for the first warning to "know" what vibe the game was going for

I know he hasn´t done any Genshin soundtracks, but man. Imagine THE Davi Vasc analyzing Polumnia Omnia without any prerequisite knowledge about the deeper story, would be extremely interesting what he hears from the track alone since it´s chock-full of all kinds of emotions.

since you reviewed a ost from a very underground and unknown game like lobotomy corporation (I love this game) then I'll make my sugestion here of a ost from another quite unknown/forgoten game. If I could make a sugestion for you to review a song then my sugestion would definitely be "Avatar Beat" from the indie RPG-maker game called "OFF". OFF as a game is a very underated sureal masterpiece about a baseball player who purify ghosts by killing then with a baseball-bat in a world made out of plastic, smoke, steel and meat ... and there's also a talking cat. I just hope you listen to this OST without making any search about the game's story to have your honest opinion on it, but the only thing I'm willing to say about this song "Avatar Beat" without spoiling anything is that it's the final boss theme ... that's all ... have fun (^: (yes, I copy pasted my comment from another more recent video)

This analysis is quite correct though!

God how much i also wanna watch this guy react to library of ruina floor ost's now. I also still love 1st warning/1st trumpet. and 3rd warning. and their counterparts in library of ruina. honestly i need to get into limbus but gacha scares me even though i know i won't have to spend i know i will at some point.

You did a pretty good job on everything except the genre! And nobody could have expected you to guess the genre blind. Though you got close by guessing action/horror. Yes, action, panic, and tension. In this game you do science on eldritch horrors, strange artifacts, and other weird things. And sometimes, they break loose and start roaming your base, killing your dudes. This is not YOUR action theme song. It's THEIRS. It ends abruptly after all that buildup because you died. First Warning is "Oh nah, there's nothing there to worry about. Just get its back in its cage." Second Warning is "Oh shit, there's Nothing There to worry about. Can we hide in its cage?" Third Warning is "Oh well, there's nothing left to worry about. Activate the self-destruct."

Face the Fear, Build the Future

OMG, It happened. I never thought it would without interventions.

0:52 “Then in the middle of all the chaotic cries, someone shouted: “It’s the monster! Big, terrible monster lives in the dark, black forest””

From someone that's played since the legacy version of the game this games soundtracks can be sad/stressful/anxiety inducing, 1st warning- bad things are starting to so it's best to deal with it asap, 2nd warning- occurs when things are very out of control but might be fixable, 3rd warning- all hope is lost, most if not all employees are dead or panic, there's nothing you can do. some other soundtracks I suggest from this game would be: Insignia Decay, Circle Romb Oxygen and Jukai

Curious on what your take on some of the tracks from Fate Grand Order. Especially Oberon and Cernunnos Theme. But honestly if you gonna do fate soundtrack takes, you should probably start with EMIYA

I too, never watched anything about this game! This track is pretty fast paced! Sounds like an alarm, an emergency or escape sequence, something like that.

if you play this game, the music is heavily suited to when it occurs

When will you hear Bury the light? it really deserves

From playing the game myself and listening to the track, it's like a break out theme, something got out and it shouldn't have and now everything is now going to hell.

don't shoot yourself down. with how irregular this game is, you did an amazing job at getting the core emotion of the music. you get an applause from me!

Hello i would like to suggest the ost from a game called dead by daylight specifically the song called "legion chase" (maybe its just legion im not sure) and if you like it you could react to other songs from the game

In regards to the game being called "Lobotomy corporation", it's about you, the player, recieving the metaphorical lobotomy: you start the game trying your best to keep employees alive, but as time passes and more and more problems/entities to keep track of are added you slowly stop feeling anything about them because keeping them alive is not worth the trouble or time most of the time

Cool！

QHatred is a fitting name for someone suggesting this track

This track has only one meaning: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Absolute chaos, essentially. You were dead on; just not in the way you were anticipating.

this ost gives me ptsd from that time when half of waw and aleph abnormalities breached containment (right bf that little piece of fetal shit became whiteNight and i didnt know that i had to confess to one sin and one hundreed good deeds, so i had to reset)

This song is basically Damage Control put in music form

Truly, I doubt anyone could analyze this piece of music.

This is not chaotic enough, let's call out the apocalypse bird!

hi Davi Vasc suggest a hollow knight sound track called "hive knight" from gods and nightmares DLC also you never went here in your playthrough

This is the Rabbit Theme and you know it.

I'm somehow a few months late to this video. I, as I'm sure many others down in the comments, am a huge fan of Project Moon's work. I'm sure people have already explained what's going on with the track but I wanna throw my hat in the ring! In the game there are three warnings that play depending on the current risk to your facility. The First plays when the issue could be pretty minor, able to easily be controlled and contained. Very simple. The Second plays when the threat of the breakout(s) is tangible. You could lose a lot of people here, and its going to get worse if you don't stop it soon. A lot of the time it plays when you have multiple things breakout and the situation is beginning to snowball. You'll have an uphill battle. The Third plays when there is essentially no coming back. You will be facing significant losses if you haven't already. Either your most dangerous abnormalities have all been let loose or you have already experienced mass casualties. This warning typically plays when all hope is lost, you won't be getting out of this without being crippled. When this theme plays it's almost always time to hit ESC and restart your day. Lobotomy Corporation is hard and grueling, but I recommend it to all of my friends. If you enjoy facility management games than I suggest you give it a try too! The game has great world building and a very interesting story! You can even try Project Moon's other works if that style of game isn't your fancy. They all play differently, but are linked to the same world. All of their OSTs are amazing too!

Hey davi. So this id a strange request from your usual but could you cover the songs from cod zombies by kevin Sherwood. They dont get nearly enough appreciation

I dont think it would be possible for someone to guess what the genre / gameplay of the game is purely off of the Warning soundtracks but you absolutely are correctly guessing the feel and the energy and the emotion with what the game is about. fear. dread. otherworldly presence. tension. very actiony, in its own weird way. there is *A LOT* at stake every time one of these soundtracks plays and it DEFINITELY puts you into a "primal" mindset of pure survival mode. a very tight and precise moment where one wrong move can cost you _a lot_

no person would even think this game is a management game from second trumpet(i didnt when maxor used it in first ultrakill video)