Game Composer Hears REGAL ANCESTOR SPIRIT for the First Time - ELDEN RING 

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it always makes me smile when Davi understands the boss themes without seeing or playing it. Just goes to show the artistry devs and composers pour into their work.

The music really lets you know that, well yeah you’re killing something sacred and ancient. Definitely up there as underrated.

I really like how Yuka Kitamura went way outside the box for some of the themes she composed in Elden Ring. This theme, as well as Malenia's and Rennala's, really show that she has a lot more range than just "Fromsoft bombast"

This track is strongly supported by boss attacks' SFX too. Sounds much better when accompanied with that one magical butterfly-bubbly-watery sound

A lot of people interpret this boss fight as sad and upsetting but i think this bossfight is much more complex and nuanced. I personally interpret this boss as a ritualistic step in an ancient culture's death rite. By fighting and defeating the Ancestral Spirits you are partaking in the Ancestral Follower's cycle of death and rebirth that culminates in the Spirits becoming trees. That's why this track starts rather lonely and sad, but becomes more intense and finally reaches the home cord at it's climax. Through death the Spirits find that sense of relief and conclusion through the cycle of rebirth, becoming stronger and closer to ascending into trees.

This track hits me on an almost indescribable emotional level, it’s absolutely breathtaking. I’m willing to bet that Yuka Kitamura actually performed all of the strings in this herself, she did that with vocals too in some of the other games (mainly in DS3). The ending of the track always sends a huge shiver up my spine, it’s not this bombastic finale, but one of true melancholy and if I’m to be quite frank here, peacefulness. One of the most amazing moments in all of FROM’s games for me, it’s up there with the first time I stepped into Ash Lake. Just incredible

This is one of the most gorgeous pieces of music in FromSoft history, imho

This track is so good it could be the main theme for an entire game.

I had no idea of the complexity of music. You’re very knowledgeable and talented. I’m really enjoying this. Thanks

Ancestral spirits in Elden Ring are actually a manifestation of life itself as pure force of energy, concentrating the very definitions of life, death and rebirth of flesh, all in a single being, 'cause this spirits came from the Primordial Crucible, wich is in turn the sorce of all life in the Lands Between, men how i love talking about soulsborne lore😊

I’ve been waiting so long for this one! The piece is so unique and ethereal, I’m glad you’re taking a look at it!

Yuka Kitamura went full atmospheric and experimental with Renalla Queen of the Full Moon, Ancestor Spirit, Lyndell

This just sounds like the perfect theme for a lonely shaman. Rattling tribal instruments, ethereal strings, and an air of magic and melancholy like a spiritual embodiment of sadness and loss.

I really love how diverse Elden Ring OST is, this is one of those tracks that really makes you wish the fight continues for longer.

The theme of The Dancer of the Boreal Valley from dark souls 3 is a track that usually gets brought up when discussing the soulsborne soundtracks

I am so glad you did this piece! This is my personal favorite boss music in the game. I love it so much, never fails to illicit an immediate emotional response.

This will be a strange analogy but bear with me: the first time I fought the regal ancestor spirit and saw it lumbering towards me I stopped in a moment of reverence before partaking in the spirit-dance. Then the music began and immediately it took me back to 2014 when I was visiting Brazil and met the indigenous Guarani people. I was welcomed into their house of prayer and their leaders (shamans) instructed me to join the rest of the tribe in their dances. The sound of the shaker and the fluidity of the movement takes me back to those dances & it has a very sacred (set apart) feeling to it. It’s incredible for a piece of fantasy work to be able to seamlessly evoke such intimate memories in a person. Truly masterful & the sign of a true artist.

Finally!!! Great analysis as always! This boss fight was a truly mystical and wonderful experience, just like Divine Dragon in Sekiro. The boss itself, the arena, and the music were all breathtaking! The finely honed beauty and serenity of the theme creates an aura of mystique, and gives you some room for your sensibility and imagination. It shakes you emotionally and overwhelms you more than any intense music could ever do. It lingers long after the fight is over, just like ripples on the water, spreading silently and surely. Absolutely stunning. Thanks for the video, Davi!

I love that no other track in the entire game is like this one, it stands out so well and tells a story. A story of a world long left behind, but still there at the foundation, passing on its knowledge and experience in the final moments. It begins almost like a random, but hauntingly beautiful composition that gets more... form as it goes on and an understanding between the Tarnished and the Spirit is made through their engagement.

I really like that this boss theme is so different from the rest of Elden Ring. The Regal Ancestral Spirit is essentially a deity/object of worship from a time before the Erdtree - before the conquest of the Lands Between by the Golden Order, and the culture it's part of has been forced to live underground just barely maintaining their existence; all of which seems to fit with the soft, somber, tribal/primitive vibes you were getting.

after my first playthrough this became my favorite fight. it's not a hard fight, but the music and the way the boss is presented felt like a rite of passage and is probably my most fond experience of a game i absolutely adore. thanks for the breakdown.

I love Elden Rings music so much, and to see somebody going so in depth with some of the best themes is amazing, I highly recommend Dragonlord Placidusax’s theme, if you checked that out that would be incredible!

You gotta do either the Balteas or Steel Haze theme from the new Armored core game. Both are badass

One of those special OST’s. Unexpected and beautiful. Shouldn’t belong in a Soul’s game which is why I wonder it’s not talked about more. Game composers like yourself instantly get it. So satisfying hearing you break it down.

Your analysis really made me rethink the purpose of this boss and the lore implications. I really wonder if this track is supposed to take you through the evolution of the tribe that resides in the underground of Elden Ring. You find them all over the underground, singing, harvesting, and kind of worshiping/praying to the corpses of these ancestor spirits. Really really great analysis like always!!

So glad you decided to cover this track! I think it's really cool that you pointed out the songs apparent use of different cultures in the music, as it not only gives the song a feeling of awe and fantasy, it is also in line with the nature of the Regal Ancestor Spirit, as it is in the presence of many different animals and takes on their attributes in the 2nd phase.

I totally missed you reacted to this! This is by far my most favorite track of the game, it is absolutely unique!

I have a lot of the Elden Ring soundtrack on my Spotify playlist, but this one, Morgott and Maliketh really get a lot more play than the rest.

I think the boss sounds should be part of the OST. it's like old cries of Indian tribes or ancient peoples with also the sound of moose. in short, the best boss atmosphere of all the games.

I really wanted you to make a video about this music ! I thought it was really unique compared to the others in the whole series of souls. It feel really spiritual, wich is really in harmony with the boss ! :D Keep going the great job.

I've been dying to hear this one discussed since I saw it on the poll. Great video, Davi!

I've loved bosses in Elden Ring, but the two that stood out to me stood out partly because of the message behind their music. The Regal Ancestor Spirit (and the Ancestor Spirit) was one of the two boss groups that stood out to me as standing for something different, not just participating in the cycle of conquest and throne-sitting that is demanded of you and all other Tarnished. Regal Ancestor Spirit and Godskin Apostles are my favorite tracks in both games, and you, Davi, have my favorite analysis videos for these two tracks :D

Thank you so much for doing a reaction video of this OST! It is one of my utmost absolute favorite OST's from Elden Ring You caught on the essence of the theme so well, Regal Ancestor Spirit is actually a boss fight but first you need to do a puzzle to be able to access it. And if you would see the arena and what the Ancestor Spirit is and it's abilities and all, it's 100% correct as to what you just described. It is a rather mystic and peaceful creature and you feel like you're in the middle of nature hearing this and ancestral. Which he is, if you ever see him, and he is also venerated by the Ancestral Followers. If you go through the area on the map you can actually see a multitude of people singing to the dead head of the "beast". Absolutely amazing and on point, thank you so much!

If mountains and trees could sing… Feels not just like a blend of ancient cultures, but like the primal basis upon which all these cultures were built. I count this among my favorite songs, period.

Yes! I’ve been waiting for you to cover this!

I just love your breakdowns and I really hope you someday react to ”Dark sun Gwyndolin“ and after that „Aldrich, devourer of gods“. Those are pretty much the same thing but one of them happens many years and many horrible events later. The contrast is insane and one of the most disturbing sounding things in the trilogy of Dark Souls.

My personal favorite boss, glad you reacted to it! When you mentioned the tribal elements i was really suprised by how accurate you got it lol

I was so impatient to see your vidéos about this beautiful music

This is the song I’ve wanted you to review for so long, I love it to an almost unreasonable degree

Yeah Man , I Love your soulsborne Analysis Videos You Just Nail it every time I am Looking Forward to more😁

This song was immediately so special when I heard it! SO DIFFERENT, SO SOMBRE, SO WILD, and my lord every time it hits hard

Hey look at that, now this track can finally rest peacefully in the Patreon page Xd

i love this boss and the music, it just hits different

I like to think the blending of cultures pairs well with the identity of this boss as a vestige of the crucible era, a time when all the different cultures and traditions of The Lands Between began to converge, mix, and war with one another before the Golden Order’s Byzantine inspired culture began to overtake and suppress the others.

This is one of my fav theme's from this game i love the feeling you get from this it really touches you❤🙏🙏

Glad you and everyone else liked this song Davi! I personally enjoy the underrated tracks of the souls series that are either beautiful or downright evil sounding (Divine Dragon, Deacons of the Deep, Gravetenders Champion) and of course RAS is no exception. We'd be here all day if i'd list my personal favorites but let's just say there are more tracks to come from Soulsborne that others are suggesting. Hope we can keep sharing all that we love to ya!

That boss is really cool in it's design, I think the music represents it's "vibe" really well, too!

Amazing video! Another unique track from Elden Ring is Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon. It'd be neat to see your reaction to that one as well

When I first encountered the Ancestral Spirit, something with my game had just completely broken I guess and it literally just sat idle honestly just the experience of sitting in its arena, slowly approaching this eldritch deer as it just SAT THERE, listening to this track was incredibly surreal, and I honestly thought it was some kind of gimmick encounter when it didn't aggro it wasn't until I fought one of the other ones that I realized it was supposed to actually do stuff lmao

I love this song and fight, it was disappointingly easy but man when you first fight this boss it just feels special. Its like you intruded on a different realm that is sacred and you are experiencing a spirit that doesn't want you there but isn't willing to destroy you. The animation, sounds, colors, even the little ground details and other spirits, its such a unique experience.

This is one of my favourite tracks in Elden Ring, especially when that second half kicks in it's glorious. The fact this track is so different to everything else in the game is very much a deliberate choice as those Ancestral Sprites are stated to exist beyond the reach of the Erdtree and therefore get a completely different style of music to every other entity in the game. I love this theme so much but it often gets overlooked I feel, probably because the boss is somewhat hidden and not easy to reach.

Ancestor Spirit is so majestic and beautiful I cry a little every time I have to kill it. You never want to kill something like that. Hence, sad chord.

Kitamura really hit her stride in this game. Regal Ancestor Spirit and Rannala of the Full Moon are just absolutely stunning pieces.

This was hands down my favorite piece of music from the game. Not the hardest fight but it felt so magical.

Fighting a literal nature spirit in it's own demense. The whole fight feels like a huge juxtaposition to everything else. It's not a hard fight, at all, but it's probably the most beautiful one in the game. The boss is large, but graceful compared to anything else it's size. Jumping around and even leaping ON the air to get around you.

The second part is just soooooooo good!

the more videos I watch from him the more I want this man to react to the Ultrakill soundtrack

Some of these videos make me curious about your reaction after listening to the themes then actually looking at the gameplay footage when you're editing

This is one of my favourite themes of the game as it’s quite different from the others. (And it sounds really good)

I love this song, it is so much more memorable than just "this thing is bad, kill it" sort of generic epic choir. The music and visuals portray certain beauty and haunting elegance of the boss, and it's such a nice change of pace, it makes me sad that Fromsoft don't do more of these out of the box designs. Thanks for the video, I'm always stoked to see someone fully appreciate and understand the wonderful work of composers in game OSTs.

Let's go. Best ost imo

Was excited to see you react to and breakdown this track! I’d like to see a Pontiff Sulyvahn (Dark Souls 3) reaction, it’s a really great music piece.

Love these videos! I'd love to see your analysis of DragonLord Placidusax. I always felt the boss theme isn't just exciting and evil. It has a wierd feeling to it I can't explain

Just a dew more thoughts i had while watching the video: - The second ohase score reminds me a lot of mysic in Team ICO games - The strings in the first phase are extremely similar to the background score for Leyndell. For me they evoke a very strong feeling of sorrow and mourning, but in sort of a resteained and defeated way. - I might be way off base but a lot of the instruments have an eastern/east-asian sound tonthem, which stands in pretty heavy contrast to the western orchestral sound that Fromsoft usually goes for. As you mentioned this helps five a sense of a fantasy culture, but I think in the game it also serves to separate it from the modern culture of the Erdtree era, and cements it as an urterly different and more ancient culture

_Life sprouts from death, as it does from birth. Such is the way of the living._

This actually helped me beat this boss

One word to describe it: amazing.

I love your breakdowns! I don't know if you take suggestions but a game called Sea of Stars just released and it has some great music that I think would be cool to breakdown. Hope you are well :)

cant wait for you to do Rennala, queen of the full moon

Maliketh's soundtrack and the Godskin Duo soundtrack are also very complex nice compositions to listen to and even analyse. Not your average orchestra moments. In my opinion high end quality and very creative in combination with choir.

Hey Davi! I'm a fan of yours, have been following you for quite a while. Just so you know, YT unsubscribed me from your channel. Dunno if you are aware of this, but here you go. Love your work, man! Keep it up! Obrigado!

This sou ds like something you'd hear when watching Made in Abyss. Very cool and emotive.

This theme sounds to me like nature itself. The Tarnished (humans) disturbing an ancient creature existing way long before us, peacefully (nature), trying to kill it. Thus the sad music in the 1st 'phase'. When 2nd 'phase' enters, it reminds me that, again, nature will always find a way of continuing to exist no matter what cause it sounds to me more promising rather than sad which the 1st phase was. (it doesnt matter that we kill the spirit in game :P). The enemies guarding the arena and the animals accompanied by them and the whole environment of this area makes me think of that when it comes to an explanation of the track and the boss. Now back to the actual fight, beautiful colors, kinda 'ghosty' and a very nice design of the actual boss. One of my favorite tracks, truly magnificent and haunting in a beautiful way.

Man I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Leyndell theme. It's a level them, so it's pretty subdued, but I think it's really interesting and worth a look, one of my favorites in the game.

👍My favourite track

Since I have no money to give to a patreon, I am stuck suggesting songs in your comment section in hopes that you actually do one of them. It's repetitive and a bit annoying, but the track I want to have reacted to comes from a series most people don't even know exists. Pain from anima gate of memories and its sequel the nameless chronicles.

I have no musical talent whatsoever but you explain so well that almost I understand. 😂

I once read a comment saying that there is a Brazilian rainmaker in the track as well

PLEASE do more elden ring themes! There's so many good ones yet to go through! Like godfrey, elden beast, maliketh, rykard, radahn, rennala, morgott, fire giant, placidusax etc.

Nice episode.

Se você gostou da música dos jogos Souls eu tenho certeza que vai gostar das músicas de Blasphemous, que retrata muito bem a cultura espanhola (com um toque de guitarra elétrica)

i have no idea how this hasent happened yet, but you need to check out literally any theme from the terraria calamity mod! their all great, some even including lyrics. some very popular ones for people to check out are 1: stained, brutal calamity. 2: roar of the jungle dragon, and 3: devourer of gods nonstop mix. for stained brutal calamity, you can find the lyrics in the description (their a bit hard to make out in the song unless your reading along, but tell a story sorta). honestly i recommend checking out the whole soundtrack since 1: their just all great, and 2: alot of them are a great example of finding loop points in songs like you talked about in prior videos

If you're looking for another Elden Ring boss theme to react to, I'd vote for Godfrey or Malenia

It's a bit out of the zone of what you'd usually do, but I highly you take a look at the Furi soundtrack. "Make this right" and "My Only Chance" specifically are songs I'd highly recommend, I'd love to see how you'd tackle them.

Hey Davi! Love your content and would love to see you listen to the Darkest Dungeons OST it's a very intricate and I'm currently in love with it, just a suggestion. Keep up the amazingly educational content!

Hey Davi, i know you dont usually take the requests of one person, But i thought it would be really cool to see you react to a song from one of my favorite games gravity rush. Its also has one of my favorite soundtracks and i really want to see you react to Night gale, or Angel. I love the vid btw keep it up❤❤❤

hey davi i really enjoy your videos and i see you havent done a video about withcer 3 music which surprising can you please do hunt or be hunted or kearmorhen theme| plz thnx

Easily one of my favorite scores in elden ring, if not my absolute favorite. I always felt it was such a shame this boss is so easy, people blaze right through it and never get to hear the beautiful music in full (or experience the cool boss phases).

Something I only thought of recently regarding the 'fake-outs' in Soulsborne games, the more mellow parts tend to play continuously until you get the boss to their second phase, and then the more bombastic music starts when the bosses step it up. When the music is just put out on its own with both phases playing one after the other it appears as a fake out, but in the games, depending on how powerful you are compared to the boss you may or may not even hear parts of the song, like I always kill this boss pretty quickly, so I've barely even heard parts of this song. Sorry if that came off like gibberish, I've been suffering a lot of headaches lately, so expressing thought has been a bit blegh lately.

@DaviVasc I think you should do 14.3 Billion years from Outer Wilds. It is an amazing song and I think it would be great on your channel. Love your content!

I have a few suggestions you should definitely do: The One Reborn (Bloodborne), Beast Clergyman (Elden Ring), Pontiff Sulyvahn (Dark Souls III), Godfrey, First Elden Lord (Elden Ring)

Don't know if you tried Armored Core VI but you should really listen to some of its OST particulary the Balteus Theme 😄

Just a point of understanding and acceptance. Tribal =/= primitive. We tend to associate the two because it was more prevalent in the past, but such peoples, cultures, and music still exist, and despite all we wish to admire the evolution of music, it’s folly to say one form of it is greater or lesser than another. That said, I know you didn’t mean it in that way. Wonderful video as always

Ziak - Même pas un grincement. French rapper sampled that boss fight music and it goes hard

Still waiting on that Hyper Light Drifter episode…😢

You should do God Devouring Serpent!

Dude, The Regal Ancestor Spirit is so distracting in the best way. It sounds like no other boss in the game and is the most memorable. Seriously, give this composer an award for Most Beautiful Track.❤️

This track is straight out of a Ghibli film, like Princess Mononoke.

Hi Davi, what model are your headphones? :)