MUSIC DIRECTOR REACTS | Ace Combat Zero - Zero 

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When you hear "Buddy" In Armored Core VI : 🤩 In Ace Combat Zero : 😨

The flamenco is because in this game you fight as a mercenary instead of as the usual military member. It adds a sense of danger and mystery that the mercenary life has over the other military protagonists in the series.

Man I love this track, it's so unique (especially for being used at the climax of a combat flight sim). One of the most memorable and insane boss fights! The dialogue is wild, nukes are being launched, you're trying to joust the final boss to hit its weak spot, it's got everything.

This is the title that accompanies the final climactic battle between the protag against his former friend. A duel between aces in their planes, raging over the Belkan Priority One Strategic Airspace B7R aka the 'Round Table '.

May the ace combat fans bless you with views. One of the best songs to capture the clash between two friends on different sides of an idealogy. This blew my mind when I was a kid playing it. Still one of the best by Keiki Kobayashi in my book,

While the final battle in which this plays is an epic, decisive battle where the fate of the world is at stake, it is also an emotional 1 vs 1 duel with your ex-wingman turned enemy, so mixing up with flamenco seems so fitting

Zero is definitely my most favorite Ace Combat song. In the end, Zero is a BGM for fast paced air battle video game and it's played on one of the most climatic moment (final battle against Pixy iinm), so it have to be bombastic and high tension to the point of overloading our senses.

Every Ace Combat Game Soundtrack have their own identity, and this flamenco style is the Zero one. To set the tone, this is the track from the very final mission of the game, a dogfight between the player and the most memorable character (imo) in the series. In my opinion, what's most impressive is *when*. Ace Combat Zero is from 2006 and has this amazing track. Ace Combat 4 is from 2001 and has a very good OST too, also is the one who set the soundtrack tradition with Megalith. Before other Ace Combat games, I really suggest for Megalith to be checked first. It's three (or four) tracks meant to be played in sequence: Rex Tremendae (Very short introduction track) Megalith -Agnus Dei- (Loops through the mission) Heaven's Gate (The "heroic moment" and wrap up) Victory (Optional, if you consider the victory theme part of the track) Everyone who reacts to Megalith forgets about Heaven's Gate for lack of information.

Zero is indeed, an extremely heavy song, but it has to be. It plays during a HUGELY stressful and emotionally loaded moment. The wingman that's been with you for the past few mission just got shot down, slain in combat. By the very same wingman you started the game with, who checks up on you after every battle and calls you buddy, the first person to respect you and who defended you and your actions, regardless of which way you chose to go (you can attack non-combatants for extra money, which some react poorly to, but your wingman will defend your actions by explaining logical reasons for why you'd choose to do that). This man was your friend, and he defected after witnessing a nuclear detonation right in front of you, even going as far as sending messages to check on you while you were still working for the military. And now he's your enemy. Worse than that, if you don't stop him, if you don't shoot him down and kill him, the world is fucked. A nuclear missile powerful enough to wipe out most of the civilized world was launched, and is in the process of reentry. It is this heavy, with a ton of overlapping elements, because it represents just how much is going on at the time at which it is played. In many ways, it represents what the player himself is going through and their journey up to this point.

someone gotta suggest Daredevil next

This song rocks because it's this wild culmination of a thematic trinary between the military rock sounds with that electric skittering, brass, and drums, classical with the choir and strings, and then flamenco. In game there's this grading system that ranks your behavior as either Soldier, Knight, or Mercenary based on how you play, and here in the climax of the story it all comes to "Zero" and all 3 of these really distinct soundscapes are combined into one.

Great track from a long running series. Looking forward to the reaction.

I think this is my fav ace combat piece of music :) While there IS a lot going on once the male and female voices join, I think its NOT too much and all works really well. I can still clearly hear all the distinct layers working together, it doesn't just become noise.

I was a kid when I first played this game and the impression this song and the battle it accompanies has never left me. To set the scene: it's the final mission. You, as a mercenary, have been hired to stop a nuclear attack from taking place. You arrive, do what you can to prevent it but despite your efforts the nuke is ultimately launched. The only way to stop it? Destroy the plane that's commanding it, piloted by your former wingman who you spent most of the game with, who left you during a previous defensive nuclear strike you were both witness to The plane he's piloting is a technologically advanced weapon of mass destruction in its own right, fitted with state of the art jamming technology and a powerful laser cannon. Its only weak point? The very front. To even make a dent in it, you have to face it head-on like you're jousting, dancing around each other vying to be the one who truimphs To say this mission and this song blew my mind back then is an understatement. Every time I listen to this song it's like I'm back there for the first time, no matter how many years pass and times I replay the game

I love this song. It has elements of different songs from other AC games. The male voices for example are singing the hymn of Razgriz or "The Unsung War" from AC5. As AC Zero and AC5 are directly connected with having the same players involved, Zero being the prequel to Ace Combat 5. Hope you will do more AC songs at some point. I love me some Ace Combat 4 or 5 personally.

Yo, Buddy. Still alive?

Ace Combat 0 is a somewhat modern setting, it's set in the fictional world of the Strangereal but in its version of 1995... Where it is currently experiencing the equivalent of WW2. The game is a huge web of themes and ideas but in short, this song is for the final duel against your old wingman. He's seen and participated in the horror of war firsthand and lost all hope in humanity, leading to him forming a group that plans to nuke the planet back into the stone age. Restart from "Zero"

Its cold war/war on terror jet age Any AC fans gotta admit there have been many amazing pieces of music with this series..... Zero is THE song

Ace Combat Zero is about mercenary pilots fighting in a large war in the 1980s of an alternate universe. The gameplay aspects definitely emphasized the dueling involved in a dogfight, much like how two partners in a dance work off of each others' motions. The music really emphasized that, and the layering with the varied stories of all the different ace pilots interviewed through the course of the game pushed that point home. It's definitely an excellent series to look into for some fantastic music that pushes story telling through sound.

I think you did a Project Wingman song which is a fan-made spiritual successor to AC, but no other AC songs. The composer for the AC series has been with it for 20 years at this point and every game usually has a standout track or two like Zero.

The lyrics in the choral parts of "Zero" are actually a cameo from a song featured in the game that came before ACZ, Ace Combat 5, called "Unsung War". They're actually in Latin and the singers are overlapping the first two verses of the song over one another (in what is probably a symbolic representation of the fight between the Player Character and his Old Wingman). *Latin:* Cum historia mutat valde Razgriz revelat ipsum: Primum daemon scelestus est. Cum potentia Sua Daemon fundet mortem in terram: Deinde moritur. *English:* When history witnesses a great change Razgriz reveals itself first, as a dark demon With his power The Demon rains death upon the land: then the Demon dies at last. In context with Ace Combat 5, the full poem of Razgriz is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy about a warrior that initially fights for a destructive cause and is slain for it, but then arises from the ashes of their defeat with wisdom to be a true hero and protector of good, one that if people squint their eyes at the plot of Ace Combat will notice the motif showing up more than once following the release of AC5.

Keiki Kobayashi does a lot strings work with his music, it adds an incredible amount of gravitas to the soundtrack. There’s very few instances of Ace Combat music that has high-octane rock that one would associate with fighter nets (Comona being the perfect example of this). Ace Combat Zero has many “knight” motifs, including multiple references to Arthurian legend. In the last battle, which Zero is the theme for, you are dogfighting with an enemy airplane with a power jamming system that can jam any missiles fired at it-except for those launched at the plane from its front. In essence, the last battle has you “jousting” with another plane like knights of old. Now as an Ace Combat fan who used to be good enough to _sequence the boss battle to the music,_ let me set the setting for this song (these timings will NOT match this video, go find Zero and go there): The song begins. You face off against the enemy ace. Words are exchanged, missiles are launched, battle commences. 1:03 the ace explains himself, gives you his philosophy during the battle, explains WHY he did what he did during the game: he was a major character that up until certain events was _your wingman._ 1:50 “It’s time.” A hatch in the enemy base opens up and a ballistic missile is launched, a missile which can hit every capitol city on the continent, and his fighter has the control device. He has also activated a powerful electronic countermeasure in his plane: missiles will be almost impossible to score hits on. Almost. Your AWACS tells you that they found a weak point in his ECM: it protects from everywhere but the front. You will have to attack him with head-on attacks, and as you are -as in-game events will have dubbed you-the “Demon of the Round Table,” you’re the only one who can do this. 2:58 And so do two knights of the sky charge forth and joust with missile and cannon fire, bout for bout, blow for blow, until the enemy ace’s plane takes a direct hit and is blown from the sky. The control device for the ballistic missile is destroyed, the missile self-destructs, and the day is saved until the next Ace Combat game.

ace combat serie has the best tracks in the gaming industry you must hear "liberation of gracemeria", "alicorn" and "daredevil"

Hopping to see more AC music video coming

This is one of the most beautyfull ost i've ever listened to in a game. I just recentily picked the game up again cus of nostalgia and it surprised me that afer more than 10 years i still remember and love this track. The way it hits and the boss fight wich is associated with blend perfectlily.

The setting of Ace Combat: Zero is in the mid-1990’s (the last mission, Zero (also where the song comes from) is on New Years Eve in-game, 1995)) Edit: also you mentioned if the end of the song should be heavy: The final boss is your best friend and wingman you have been with for a long time, until the events of June 6th, 1995

Ace Combat is a series I want to try one day but never got round to ... must say it's cool to see someone appreciating this game as you do! ^.^

To answer your question this game takes place in 1995

Thanks for the vid, as always!

This game is Set in 1995, made for a Documentary 10 years after

Welcome to the amazing music of Ace Combat. Im so glad you enjoyed it. I highly suggest Daredevil From Ace Combat 7, Liberation of Gracemeria from Ace Combat 6 and Unsung War from Ace Combat 5

Give Moon over the Castle a shot its the Intro for all the Gran Turismo Parts, fantastic Pice!

Along the lines of Ace Combat, I'd love to hear you listen to "Comona" from AC4.

You should check out "mimic (rage and scream) from "ace combat 7: sky unknown" the base and drum in that soundtrack are insane

Praise the Lord! I wanted you to react to this for so long! I’m excited!

(yo buddy you still alive)

the tech era the game works with is modern day with sprinkles of scifi, but the game runs with a very medieval knight theme in regards to how combat and characters are presented. as a matter of fact, during the last part of the final battle with your former wingman, you are told that the high tech experimental fighter he's flying has an advanced defense system that protects him from all angles except the front, forcing you to make head on passes at him as if you're jousting.

If you like this style of the undertones of flamenco, I’d really recommend checking out the Espada themes from Bleach and similar music from bleach, particularly Nube Negra, Clavar La Espada and Moonshield

I like seeing completely fresh takes like this. However, part of me wishes someone would sit through the the games as intended, because this piece hits so much harder within that context. The main leitmotif of Ace Combat Zero is the first soloist's performance at 3:36. That's woven in and out of various mission themes, menus, and cinematics in the game itself. The game is also a prequel to the previous game, Ace Combat 5, which of course has its own leitmotif woven throughout its soundtrack. At 7:10 the full choir comes in, and they're singing a modified version of the Ace Combat 5 leitmotif, which is a call-back (call-forward?) and ties the two games together. It's a very thoughtfully composed piece.

Hehe, funny plane pulling 15g's

The music in Ace Combat usually really helps brings out the story of the series. Ace Combat Zero takes place in a similar time period of the 90s of our Earth. To sum up a lot of information the jist of the story is wars have always happened and this one they were fighting really just didn't feel like there was right or wrong at times. You fight as a mercenary with your buddy solo wing pixy and over time they begin to question both sides. A lot of the veterans from different countries break off and go awol after the main enemy country belka detenates several nukes in their own country to stop the "allies" advance into their country. Your ex wingman and other ace pilots starts a organization dedicated to stop more wars by getting rid of political powers. Their ultimate plan was to launch an ultimate nuke aimed at the capitals of all the nations to give the world a fresh start. After several hours of intense fighting you make it to the facility and you take out the controls of the weapon. While flying back your ex wingman kills your new one and this starts the finale battle between you and him as he all along had the controls of the super nuke weapon on his new craft which was a secret war weapons. Top of the line state of the art fighter plane. The music plays as you have an intense dogfight to stop him from basically destroying the known world all the while he is talking to you and the typical reasons why he is right but also knowning that you his buddy is the only one really capable of stopping him. The soundtrack is telling this story in its own way. I really wish they would remake this game or at the least make an animation. The story was good.

There's another wingman/rival theme to check out from a different AC series, "Rusted Pride", V.IV Rusty's theme from Armored Core 6

I still have to listen to this on my headphones during takeoff every single time I take a flight.

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“Zero” takes place in the last mission where you fight against your friend, your wingmen, your brother in arms to save the world from destruction. Galm 1 and Galm 2 are known has Galm Squadron, Usito Air Force, 6th Air Division, 66th Air Force Unit. Also, here is some facts; “Galm" is a mistranslation of the name "Garm/Garmr", a demonic hound in Norse mythology that guards Niflheim/Hel; a stylized version of the hellhound appears in Galm Team's squadron emblem.

Seriously first Ace Combat? Oh man, this rabbit hole you found is no joke...

In answer to your question at 0:57 just in case no one has yet (I would doubt it after 2 months but I didn't see any in the top responses) Its modern era jet fighters but in a made up reality that isn't directly tied to any real life conflicts or events. I've played 4, 5 and 7. All of them were amazing and the series has a real flair for the dramatic and creating emotional moments, a rare thing for a game which is ostensibly about dogfighting in modern military jets.

The concept represented by the music reflects the combat style. It's modern and recent jets (60s and newer) but the combat is the old dog fighting type, close range, rockets and missiles fired without regard, guns used with slightly realistic air maneuvers. Lol.

I always kinda say it but I’m of the belief Ace Combat has probably some of the best single track composed OSTs in the history of most games, every single game has a masterpiece in it, some have a few

How does this only have 4 likes? Come on y’all, thumbs up this guy some!

The Near the border song is the best one, you must hear it

Probably too late to say this, but for anyone still curious about the question around a minute in about when the game takes place, I guess lol. Game takes place in 1995

should Definity check out" Daredevil" from the Ace Combat 7, its a banger

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I really recommend you to react to the soundtrack of Gravity Rush, which is a gorgeous game with gorgeous music composed by Kohei Tanaka (the composer of One Piece's music), and it also has a super unique and beautiful orchestral vibe. That is the most underrated modern game I know, because it's not very popular, and also didn't go quite well in sales, which means that not a lot of people would recommend you to listen to it, but here I am😂. If you read this, pleas give it a try. I promise you'll be delighted by the beauty of it, and I would be so happy if you do a reaction video. You could listen first to the piece "Old Town" or "Discovery of Gravitation" Have a great day man, mad respect for you🤝🏽👑

Just know this, when the skies are singing in Latin, sh!t is about to get real so buckle up! You should check out Archange next.

Maybe we can check " Invasion of Gracemeria, and Liberation of Gracemeria"

The same way people here are mentioning "The Unsung War" as a prequel song to this song, the rabid (I say that affectionately, I am one) Ace Combat fans will eventually recommend to you "Daredevil". Daredevil has a song that plays right after it that almost no one ever talks about called "Hush". In the unlikely event someone recommends Daredevil to you, you should spend a few minutes listening to Hush afterwards; they pair well, and are how that game wraps up its soundtrack from a mission standpoint.

Scream and Rage may be my favorite AC song for the action, but Zero is just so barely behind it for the emotion.

Please please please do yourself a favor and react to Mimic - Rage & Scream from Ace Combat 7. I'm sure, as a drummer, that you gonna love it.

Speaking of ZERO You're next beatbox reaction should be to Zer0. He's one of the best percussive beatboxers in the world, if not the absolute best.

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sir, can i request you to review Fear & Hunger 2: Termina, monologue with the moon ost after i heard it it gave me nightmare 😂

Maybe, you should react to Ace Combat 5 - The Unsung War.

Please do the " near the border" ty 🙏

listen to Underfell Theovania by BenyiC03 (underfell its just a fan made undertale alternate universe)

Your face reminds me of Soldier Boy from The Boys for some reason

Please do Showdown from Project Wingman !

I like the flamingo mix in this but I still think (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C8-FnLJxiPI.htmlsi=-A3hLpZA7UQZsUrU) is the best flamingo combo I have heard. The flamingo music is very passive/aggressive so it fits well in any dance with the death -battle. Never played the game, but as you said, the music gives the sense of retro aerial dog fight in the planes from the flight-shows and they are doing some acrobatics maneuvers in a flaming sunset. I getting some great scenes in my head.

Should check out megalith from ace combat 4

Play the game the soundtrack makes perfect sense. You need the proper background music to play the demon of the Round Table

not gonna lie, but you gotta check "can you hear the music" from oppenheimer

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Yo buddy, you still watching reactions to Zero?

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Day 1 of suggesting you say run from my hero academia ost by Yuki Hayashi.

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