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The theremin sounding instrument is confirmed to be made from "a guitar loop, the signals of a synth, and a bayou slide guitar made out of an antique door from New Orleans"
Is that for real? I do remember hearing that Andrew confirmed it _wasn't_ a theremin but something stranger, but that sounds so much like a meme I'm unsure 😂
In all honesty, Outer Wilds is quite possibly the best game ever made, and the DLC is just... somehow, it tops that perfection with an extra masterpiece on top. If there's ever a game you could play on stream if you decide to do so, it's this one. Keep in mind, the blinder you are when you play it, the better it is. And also, this is a game that can only ever be played once.
After playing Outer Wilds two years ago, making it my favorite game of all time, and then this DLC last year, allowing me to call this game the greatest game of all time, listening to the track "End of the Wilds" for the first time made me cry.
@@SamMcPieVTOL when I finished the game, activated the piano part of "Travelers" first, and then just sat there bawling my eyes out for the next 30 minutes. And I'm *NOT* an emotional person, I rarely cry at all. This game is such a masterpiece.
I dare say the music is what makes it the best game. It's SO effective it gives everything in the game so much more emotional impact, if you played it without the music it would just fall apart. The emotions I felt when reading the logs at the interloper while the second half of Castaways played would not have happened if it wasn't for that song
@@_paradr0id 100% the music in an atmospheric game like outer wilds is easily as important as the dev work to make the game run smoothly. Music is such an important part these days (has been for a long time but it's still getting more and more) because you can create a very very unique and special experience just by having a great composer in your team!
Travelers encore really kinda speaks to the whole expansion. An addition you didn’t know you needed but once you have heard it it’s hard to imagine it ever not being there.
I feel the same way about solanum's part. Listening to the normal theme without both Solanum and the prisoners parts is just incomplete. My brain fills them in. They're my favorite parts. Andrew did such a phenomenal job blending so many instruments together that all have their own parts and they all work perfectly together. Love it love it love it
It's an amazing game but any info about the game is a potential spoiler. If outer wilds was well known several people and publications would actively spoil the game for others. The best thing you can do is recommend it to others
theres something about a game that is best played blind being the main reason why its not so well known is oddly calming. its nice to be a part of this niche fanbase
Something I always thought was cool and unique to the medium of games. Just as the narrative and pacing can be controlled by the player, so many games lately have these interactive soundtracks that loop and progress as you do. Unachievable and unrepeatable in other forms of media, so cool
Time Stamps! 1:00 Into Shadow 2:53 The River 6:19 River's End 10:09 The First Seekers 12:20 The Premonition 14:43 Strange Flames 18:50 A Dream of Home 21:43 Eternal Halls 26:08 Elegy for the Ring 28:55 The Forbidden Archives 31:40 Test Chamber Three 33:51 Sealed Away 35:50 Fear and Ashes 38:05 The Lost Waltz 40:55 Dark Passage 42:54 Into the Vault 43:18 Secret Ways 45:16 The Sound of Water 48:56 Echoes of the Eye 54:15 Departure 54:45 Traveler's Encore 58:45 End of the Wilds 1:01:40 Postlude Great stream, sadly I couldn't watch it, but I love Outer Wilds and I enjoy watching your content so, it's a win either way.
Love how quickly you picked up on the minor version of the main theme, and how many of the intricate sound design details you immediately noticed. These are always great to watch and make me appreciate these soundtracks I already love even more.
Especially impactful when you realize DLC's story is a "minor" perspective on the events from the base game. Curiosity and optimism vs fear, anger and sadness.
Just dropping it here FYI, Andrew Prahlow (composer of Outer Wilds ost) dropped 6 new songs made after the DLC's release. Just putting it on your radar.
Here's a detail that took me forever to notice; The guitar melody that starts at 49:37 is a variation on the theme heard in The Nomai and Castaways from the main game's soundtrack. It's their piano melody again! On a different instrument, in a different time signature, probably in a different key, but it's definitely their song. Just retold by someone else, in a very different context.
Spoilers . . . . I noticed that too; I believe that's the part where you give the prisoners your memories and it plays during the story of the Nomai dying out so it's thematically relevant.
Echoes of the eye as a tune is a Mashup of the songs surrounding each storybeat you see as it plays, if you watch carefully you can see the story beats for each event that unfolds in the slide has its associated music with either the the owlks, the nomad, or the hearthians
This is actually a very important thing you noticed, as that part of the song plays during a very impactful scene that tells about the nomai from your perspective, hence the instruments being different
timestamps! 0:00 - Start 1:02 - Into Shadow 2:53 - The River 6:19 - River's End 10:09 - The First Seekers 12:20 - The Premonition 14:42 - Strange Flames 18:50 - A Dream of Home 21:48 - Eternal Halls 26:08 - Elegy for the Rings 28:56 - The Forbidden Archives 31:40 - Test Chamber Three 33:54 - Sealed Away 35:50 - Fear and Ashes 38:06 - The Lost Waltz 40:56 - Dark Passage 42:54 - Into the Vault 43:20 - Secret Ways 45:17 - The Sound of Water 48:57 - Echoes of the Eye 54:16 - Departure 54:46 - Travelers' Encore 58:41 - End of the Wilds 1:01:41 - Postlude 1:04:33 - Final Thoughts 1:06:33 - Superchats
16:43 - "It actually sounds like something is burning" I've listened to this soundtrack at least once a week for the past few months, and I NEVER realized that!
@@quantumblur_3145 I feel that noise is more present in Fear and Ashes, I see this one more as the dream world static that shows up in like the vision torches or memories that show the dream world
Echoes of the Eye is the perfect DLC, to Outer Wilds and just in general. And it's music fits it to a T, in terms of mood, in terms of themes, everything - saying it "fits like a glove" seems almost insuficient. They're inseparable. Ya'll, please play it if you can :,) I know the DLC is a little spooky, but at it's core it's still a beautiful, life-affirming story. The theremin-like instrument in the Travelers Encore is just so good, man. It adds to the original theme a kind of sadness that just wasn't there before.
Hearing the Echos of the Eye start up gives me chills every damn time I listen to it. I can just remember what it was like in game when this track plays, so good!!
At the risk of saying too much, one of the major themes of the DLC is how time obscures and destroys information; the soundtrack leaning so heavily into static and distortion leans into that, like the music itself is filtered through the fog of time.
Very cool to see that despite you never playing the game, the vibes and ideas you get from the music are extremely appropriate. Just goes to show how well the music fits.
I would love it if you streamed this game. The music is added to so much by the game. It gives context to so many of Andrews choices, and it honestly is a beautiful holistic experience.
I might have something to add on to this, if you ever feel like adding it to this game's OST: there's a 20 minute live performance from 2 years ago (almost to the day), for the "summer game fest x day of the dev" events back then, where Andrew (and cellist David Tangney) play a live "riff" of sorts on the OW theme. Fully findable here on YT, on Annapurna's official channel, might be worth having as a final reaction if you want to do any more on this game? Thanks for your breakdown of the whole OST, it was very interesting to hear your reactions and the things you both did and didn't notice. (such as how many songs in the DLC tracks actually had background bits from the main songs hidden in them, if you listen for it)
there are several major events that happen in the game at certain fixed times, at least in some instances in sync with those compositional changes. also i do love that comment at 37:30 is basically exactly describing the DLC's plot.
Yeah I can’t tell you how many times I just said “I’m not here to progress the story. I’m gonna sit on this raft and listen to the music see you next time.”
Echoes of the Eye is such a good track to have in the background of *that* cutscene. I can still visualize each part of the cutscene as i listen to the song
33:13 I spy interlacing. You should check your camera's settings, make sure it's recording in progressive and not interlaced. It's the difference between 720p and 720i. Interlaced is for old CRT TVs that draw a frame twice using every other line, instead of modern monitors which draws the whole frame at once.
Do you think you will react to The Lost Reels? Andrew Prahlow recently made 6 bonus tracks for EotE and they are really good. In total they are 40 minutes long.
I'm glad I stumbled across this. OW is genuinely one of the most profound moments I've ever had in my 30 years of gaming. If you have not played this game please do so. Its as much a life lesson as it is a wonderful game. Genuinely one of the best games ever made.
I love how his reaction to the music is basically the same reactions people had when seeing what triggers said music. They did such a good job that you can experience the game purely through its songs.
I love how you have never played this game but you often get very close to what's happening on screen by just listening to the music. Masterfully crafted music but I'm also very impressed by your ability to piece it all together.
The base soundtrack was in Dev for around 6-7 years and the dlc was 2-3 years (the dlc came out 2 years after the base game but there was a bit of overlap in development)
I have an OST that I’ve been thinking of for a while. I would love to see you react to the OST of a game called ULTRAKILL, especially the song “ORDER” (which sadly isn’t included in the main OST). I hope you’ll consider listening to it!
So the 1/3rd thing is actually because depending on what you're doing in that location, the song changes to match whatever is happening, so think back to ash twin project. The drums actually get louder as you approach the climax of that location. And the SECOND you activate the thing, the music drowns out.
I hope you've had the chance to play this game and its DLC in the time since this it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience in the most literal sense because the way the game is built entirely off of player knowledge means you only get once chance to play it properly, and as such you shouldn't look up anything about it before or during playing after finishing both the game and the DLC, that Travelers theme and especially the "Echoes of the Eye" theme leave me so incredibly emotional
5 minutes of video and I'm already back into the game. You're really understand what Andrew want to spread with his musics without playing the game. That's just fantastic. It will be for sure a wondefull time seing your reactions to this masterpiece. (Sorry for my hypothetics mistakes of langage, English is not my main.) A French viewer.
@@MusicTheoryforGamers Ohhh okay, thanks for seeing my comment. I will watch your others reactions for sure. PS : I prefere writing English comment under an English video to give all my respect to the RU-vidr, even if it's sometimes very difficult to find the right word😅
27:36 does sound like scarborough fair but my first reaction was that it sounds like shostakovich's waltz no. 2, which tracks given the kind of instrument it's played on in the game :)
Andrew Prahlow is honestly a genius. His music is like half of the equation of the game. The game was already 10/10 without him, but he made it a 100/10. The emotion is causes is just PERFCTION.
This is such a special piece of musical genius!! They are so rare. Only exceptional games have these sorts of soundtracks. Minecraft with C418, Crusader: No Regret/Remorse series, Outer Wilds...but only outer wilds just makes me cry from the sheer beauty!
I wonder how much the Strangers' instrument is inspired by Paolo Angeli's prepared guitar. It has multiple built in instruments like those and is also held like a cello
I'm only 17 hours into the game, but the soundtrack is easily one of the best I have ever heard. Don't know the full story of the game yet, but some songs already give me goosebumps as soon as they shuffle
I noticed that you have Half-Life as a soundtrack you have queued up in your spreadsheet. While you’re at it, I would recommend also listening to the Half-Life 2 soundtrack and its 2 episodic expansions (Episode 1 and Episode 2). Something to keep in mind is the Half-Life 2 and its episodes reuse a lot of soundtracks from the original game. Also, its fan remake Black Mesa has completely original music and has some really interesting choices by the composer, I would like to hear your insight on that
Honestly the fact that you can appreciate the beauty of the music without ever having played the game really speaks to just how amazing the OST is. PLEASE play this game. As beautiful as the OST is, it really is just one component to a masterpiece.
Another killer soundtrack. I especially love The River suite and it’s beautiful melody. J Solo does an incredible cover of those two songs with a unique twist. A must hear!
Hey, dude! Loving the reactions to music series you make! There is one game I'd like to recommend and that is Zero Escape 999 ost, the game itself is pretty overshadowed but it's a very well written game with amazing OST, hope you'll check it out! 😉
Love your videos, I sometimes just slap on a video of you reacting to terraria or calamity mod ost in the background, was wondering if you've ever considered or heard of Starbound? It's a 2d game with looks that will probably you of Terraria, but just like Terraria, it has amazing OST. It'd make my week, thanks :>
Man, very nice reaction! If you want more Outer Wilds, then check out The Lost Reels. It's kinda what Outer Wilds Reprise was for original game, but it's whole album for dlc. It's so good!
This is a random soundtrack suggestion but I'd love to see you reacting to Mary and the Witch's Flower soundtrack it's very beautiful, I don't get it why it doesn't have so mutch views
personally the dlc didnt click with me but i still wanted to know what happend so i watched a streamer play it and i feel like ive missed out on so much even if you hate it play the dlc it imporves the game so much and eventually itll click just give it time
Yo, it would be really cool to see you react to the Pokémon Black and White 2 soundtrack! In my opinion one of the best video game soundtracks ever made.
I know I've said it before, but you should react to the madness: project nexus soundtrack! Not the classic one, that doesn't have any original music I don't think.
may I suggest you listen to the rain world soundtrack? (not risk of rain (just in case(also not telling you not to listen to risk of rain soundtrack, just clarifying that I'm suggesting rain world.)))
Alright question. How do we go about requesting sound tracks for you to react to? I just finished watching this one and the Calamity OST and I just KNOW that the OST for The Binding of Isaac: Antibirth will absolutely floor you like it does everyone
Thank you so much for your very nice reaction. This is a request, but I need you to react to the OST called The Moment a Star Is Born (Fate/Grand Order OST). It is a very magnificent song.
Would love to see you checkout the Ultrakill soundtrack, because quite honestly, for a small team project, it has banger upon banger, with many different types of music on top, from 30s-40s dance music to breakcore to rock, the game has it all.
You REALLY need to PLAY THE GAME. Yes, the soundtrack is a banger, but it's also a *masterclass* in using a soundtrack within a interactive context. Some of the tracks are diegetic, and the rest are dynamically cues to the environment and moments of the game in a way that is absolutely unparalleled. I would posit that you can't really fully experience the OST without hearing it in the context of the game it was meant to be in. (also it's a great game to stream hint hint nudge nudge)
This (combined with main game of course) is still the best of all the ones I've watched him react to. Final Fantasy 7 gets up close, but that might be biased because of fond nostalgic memories. Sadly he just seem to react to just react to eastern (anime?) games music now, I know they have really impressive good video-game music. It's just not games I've been playing. Hope he'll mix it up a bit more soon. I do understand it's all probably been voted on, and since his base fans has grown on "anime" games music, that's probably just gonna vote in more of the same kind. That's ok, I'm not against it, good music is good music. :) Little Nightmares I & II can look a little bit anime-ish, and it got pretty nice score, I'd like to see him react to that.
