Opera Singer Reacts: Sword of Destiny from The Witcher 3 

I’ve played the Witcher 3 through at least 3 times and now my fiancé has all of the songs memorized. Especially the Gwent songs lol. Truly the entire game including the music is a work of art.

Witcher 3 music feels personal, as if you were experiencing some kind of live tribal ritual.

"Silver for monsters, Music for Marco." - This one Witcher of the Gryphon School

This game’s soundtrack never fails to give me goosebumps. Truly masterful game.

I'm from Poland and I am happy that you reacted to this fantastic soundtrack 🖤 I love your videos

you werent lying when you said "this is the best part" every hair on my body instantly stood up. what a beautiful mix of instrumentation and vocals. just wow

As a Polish - this kind of music speaks to me, to my "soul" for the lack of better expression. Why? Normally I don't listen folk music on day to day basis. I do not necessarily love folk music. But when I hear something I (or my feelings) know and understand on some unxeplainable basic level it does trigger something in me. I "get it". I understand it and I love it. It is like a part of my nation heretige. Like it is a part of myself. Thanks for Your video about it. Oh and if You would like to explore more of "white scream" teachnic of singing then check out band "Tulia". They have a few fun covers of modern (well known) songs that they sing in that folk style. :)

My wife will start singing this when she hears it while I’m playing 🤣🤣

I really really hope folk music, same as historical accurate literature, will never die out Also the female singer in Percival have such INCREDIBLE voices, I cant get enough of it

This ''yodel'' like you called it it's called ''white voice/white singing'' it's a slavic method of singing resembling controlled, musical screaming. And the song I would recommend is from The Witcher 3 too, it's called ''The Fields of Ard Skellig'' and contains beautiful haunting singing in Gaelic ^^

The Witcher music is truly amazing

The biggest problem with the Witcher 3 OST is that some of the best pieces were not officially released for purchase on the album.

Thanks for watching! Not sure why the camera occasionally zooms in and out.

This is probably my personal #1 game the music, story, characters are so well done it's hard for me to pick something over this game

For the first time in my life, I took a OST to hiking, biking, or simply travelling. Impossible not to speed up when I hear the horse race song, Cloak and Dagger. The adventure spirit takes over like fire! Best game ever!

Amazing video Marco. Marcin Przybyłowicz is a Great Composer.

What I feel when listening to this track is pain, which turns into anger and then a pure drive to do something. At the start, the dissonant voices shout out in lamenting pain and the slow drums add a sense of hopelessness, beating it down. In the next section, the way the instrumental music ramps up reminds me of heavy, fast breathing when you try to suppress anger. This isn't followed by an explosive climax, but a drop - a deep breath, the calm before the storm, the realization that you can't keep the emotions bottled up. Now it turns into an infectious chant which is joined by more voices, some shouting, some whispering, but all sharing the emotion and pushing into the same direction.

best game, best background music, best story, best side quests that ever created by any game developer in any platform ....no game can top that ...thats 20 years of my gaming knowledge telling you.

I couldn't agree more with your statements in other videos, games and movies have songs in them that should be held up with the classics in class rooms and discussions.

Another band that was working on Witcher is Zywiolak and their song Czarodzielnica is pure primal energy. You can totally imagine crazy witches dance naked in the woods on the full moon...

The image that pops into my head when I listen with my eyes closed is something like an old naval battle in the middle of a storm with ships lit on fire and breaking apart. A very strong track with a lot going on. Especially the throat singing in the beginning is super intense. Still like sorcery to me.

Love these videos Marco!

Pure Slavic rhythm, my culture my heritage

I don’t game, but I love the music of video games. I’m constantly listening to it (the Witcher is my personal favorite), and the songs inspired by them, and singing at the top of my lungs as I do my work around the house and yard. Also, I so enjoy watching your videos! Thank you for sharing your love and enthusiasm.

I remember when I played Witcher 1 and the music in there was a masterpiece-I especially love River of Life, Witcher 2 had good music too, but then Witcher 3 is so beautiful too! Definitely speaks to my Slavic soul ^^ Every time I listen to the music, I get goosebumps all over my body

The Music from the Blood and Wine DLC is incredible and blows the main game music away.

that one was hands down my favorite trailer, the music makes you wanna ride into battle on a horse, chopping heads of enemies :D

Also, I love the videos man! Keep it up. I'm glad you're getting so much support! I've learned about so many new songs and so much from them because of you.

Slav here. When you said "impending doom" I thought "this guy gets it!". This phrase epitomises the slavic culture. The Witcher 3 is a masterpiece and the soundtrack is the best collection of music ever put together. Please make sure you see Percival live. It was one of the best experiences of my life. I traveled to Poland from London just to witness it. Every man and woman cried during Perscillas song.

I also have about 500 hours in the game, played all 3 games when it came out back then , 2007... So I got familier with the band back then BEFORE the first game ( who does the music eastern european part) Percival. Also see them live, and they such amazing people and doing beautiful atmosphere. I'm hungarian so I'm not so far from Poland ,and we love each other so much. (love you polish people

I'm genuinely of the opinion that the Witcher 3 soundtrack is among the best of the best video game soundtracks. So much unique instrumentation that most games overlook, such rich texture and grit in the music that fits the setting so well. And not just that, but the way that leitmotifs/themes are meshed and thrown against each other (see Hearts of Stone (track)) is just... UGH genius Editing to add: the scales used in Eastern European folk music is so striking (especially for someone trained in "mainstream" classical music) and in the examples you brought up, it's so rousing and hype. Also, i love dissonance and i think avoiding dissonance is like cooking without salt.

Btw, there is another game about Witcher universe by CDPR, that isn't the part of The Witcher trilogy - Thronebreaker. It's basically Wild Hunt's gwent but much improved. The game is barely known among people but nevertheless amazing - the plot, the characters, THE MUSIC that can rival Wild Hunt ones. I highly recommend to listen to some OSTs!

Hands down the music in The Witcher 3 was something else 🔥🔥🔥

I really, loved the analysis! I hope this channel grows a lot, then I'll be able to say to everyone I was one of the first hundred subscribers! Keep on going, man! If you are willing to do reactions based on comments, I would say to do a Elden Ring song analysis, as the game is great and trending right now, perhaps you could gain the attention of some gamers to the channel! The song I would recommend is the Regal Ancestor Spirit. Thanks!

Thanks for listening to my suggestion and I didn’t expect video to be uploaded so quickly. I loved your analysis and your reaction regarding music. I hope your channel grows.

I adore the Witcher 3 soundtrack so, so much! I'd like to suggest "In the Blood" from Hades, another of my favorite game soundtracks.

The second it starts, I have the image in my head from the trailer. It never leaves my mind. This is the best game I have ever played. The game is a masterpiece, and so is the soundtrack it’s just too good for words

i fI FEEL YOU , BRO!! im from poland and i love this song!!

I read a book about the Nintendo music specifically for the original Mario game and would love to see a video about evolution of the Mario/Nintendo music!

The music from this game is still among my all time favourite.. I must have listened daily to the OST for months after my first playthrough. It triggers in me a visceral response that sends shivers through my body, as if calling my spirit to adventure. I would love to see your reaction to any version of One-Winged Angel from Final Fantasy VII if you haven't already. Found your channel today and am enjoying picking through your prolific backlog.

The Witcher 3 has the best soundtrack ever hands down.

Hands down W3 has the best music in video gaming history! Pure art and class

This music always made me feel like I was pursuing something. That’s what I get from all the elements

"You're imortal" is also very incredible

The memoriesssssss😭

É IMPOSSÍVEL um corpo vivo não se emocionar e arrepiar todo ao ouvir qualquer OST de The Witcher. É simplesmente pra mim a melhor trilha sonora de todos os tempos da história dos games.

Watching you react to lelelele was amazing

I am eastern Slavic men. And this game are face of our culture. Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Czechia, Slovakia, Burglary. This is our culture, our music, our past. This is beautiful

nice video :) as a die hard Percival fan, you should go to the Percival concert called Wild Hunt Live when they're playing Witcher 3 music live.

No exaggeration, even this many years and hours played later, the opening intro voices from Sword of Destiny still gives me goosebumps while I fist pump the air on the big beat. Love this soundtrack so much. I have been humming a mashup of The Banks Of The Sansretour and The Slopes of Blessure to my granddaughter for naptime since she was born. I know at some point when she's older she will come across The Witcher 3 Blood and Wine and be "WTH, Grammie!?!"

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as soon as the song started, I felt that the music was conveying like. danger, tension, a fight between two opposing sides, battle, a war. and then the song progressed and I realized that's EXACTLY what it is. pieces of this song are used as the in game battle music, so that is 100 percent what they were going for. I know you said to separate the music from the in game context but that just isn't possible considering how much we hear this in game jvhchcgf I love tw3 so much though, I have around 200 hrs in it, it's one of my favorite games rn. it's so good

I love your takes on these pieces. I wish you did songs from The Witcher Blood and Wine DLC. Some songs like the Slopes of the Blessure, Musty Scent of Fresh Pate are beautiful. I can't figure out what they evoke, but they're so good.

I don't know if anyone has said this already, but this song, I think, is played every time you're in a fight... it's perfect for a fight, isn't it?😍 correct me if I'm wrong 😬

Been playing games for 30 years. Witcher 3s ost is the best hands down

Great to hear that I am not the only one crazy for this song! It really triggers the monster slayer in you! In my mind I'm always dancing with silver and I need to be careful not to break something. The long version is called "silver for monsters" right? So sword of destiny is a mix of other witcher songs and I couldn't find it in the soundtrack you get with the game. Where did you get it from?

My favorite sounds are blood and wine ambient and skellige ambient musics. Edit: Oh I forgot kaer morhen ones as well. Im not into those folklore musics, but ambient ones are just so melody, like they add so much depth to the world making it feel so magical vast and mysterious.

You can tell this song was cut for a trailer because of the way it sort of pulls from several of the combat tracks, kind of giving a preview what you're in for. I get danger and uncertainty but also boldness, striding forward? Like you're being pulled into an adventure against your better judgment. Really fitting for the feel of Geralt's arc specifically but actually dissonant with where he begins the game - in a sense I think he's outgrown that in his search for and dedication to Ciri.

I played the Witcher when I was still a child and I beat the game over and over and i still can't get over the music and I had so many hours in that game that I've lost track All I know Is that i have a year worth of hours on that game

Dude this guy really feels music.

Am I the only one who also feels an Arabian feel to this as well, not sure what it is, but a serious undertone of sand and heat.

Speaking of "Folk music mixed with modern" there's this track from a game that made me discover you (Honkai Impact) called Domineer. It's an eighty second long track that is mixing modern music with Chinese folk music. That studio has way more of that style available as well but Domineer is something special.

I'd love for you to react to "The Banks of the Sansretour" from the Blood and Wine DLC. Such a vibe.

Have you ever read the Artesia comic? A warlord's concubine uses the powers of Fury-like deities to seize control when he kills the rest of his harem, then leads the warlord's army out to take on the forces that lead to her lord's downfall. It's pretty intense. But this music makes me think about that book. I've never played any of the Witcher games, but have read many of the stories. My mother's family is Slovak, so I definitely hear that Eastern European thing. It makes me think of Howard's Red Sonja (not the bikini-clad comic-book woman, but Howard's survivor of the Ottoman invasions of Eastern Europe) wreaking vengeance on those who have harmed her, and finally leading an army to drive the invaders from her home.

Opera singer reacts: Pam Pa Ram from The Witcher 3.

Yes. Just yes

now i wanna play witcher again. it's the best game. this world is so amazing

The music still gives me goosebumps, i'm on my 7th playthrough? 8th? I've lost track.

My top favorit soundtrack from The Witcher 3 is "Ladys in the woods" I love that ost so much

"The Lady's of the Wood" is my favorite.

As for Parcival. I'm not sure if it's true, but apparently their relationship with folk music is a coincidence. They were originally a ... rock band, I guess. Their song "Satanismus" has a very heavy sound, and "Pani Pana" has such ... sharp sound that my throat hurts while listening. The story is that the band once wanted to take part in a competition. But it turned out to be only for folk (and folk rock) bands. So they got into it and got so caught up in it that in the end they even made their own instruments like the old ones. As for the vocal technique. I am not sure because I do not know music at all. But I think it's something called White Voice. This technique is very famous in traditional Slavic singing.

Hi Marco. I love all your stuff especially about Witcher 3, Dark Souls or Nier Replicant/Automata. Have you ever reacted to "Steel for Humans"?? Is one of my favorites from Witcher.

Central! Central Europe! Joanna Lacher is having a beautiful scream tone.

The Group, Percival, or sometimes Percival Schuttenbach (on Spotify) are even named after the same character from the Witcher books. They were perfect for this game!

ou shit i now realize i played witcher 3 for 8 times now i playing agian and i got chills evrytime i tought its story but i know now its music becose i m slavic and music is very close to me !

I do yoga with witcher soundtrack, all 3 parts. Perfect 🥰

three songs in the witcher 3 that i like the most, or at least they are in the top 5 in my list are: Aen Seidhe, kaer morhen theme and 'you are immortal?'.at least those 3 songs i really do like.

My absolute favourite witcher 3 song is gaunter o'dimms theme especially the one that plays at the end of the hearts of stone dlc if you pick to not help olgierd

It's the name of one of the books from The Witcher series. Sword of Destiny. I forget which part.

I use Witcher music a lot for the D&D setting I run for some friends and it really hammers home the idea of the setting I've made where the world has become a dark and untamed place after the fall of many great empires and kingdoms. To use a quote I wote for it "The woods aren't ours anymore, haven't been for quite an age. No more Kingsmen with their longbows patrolling the woods and with the dragons no longer being the caretakers of the land and sky,dark things grow where the forests are deep. You might not see them,but they see you." There are beasts lurking just off the beaten path and nearly every kingdom, city-state or empire's troops are spread far too thin to do anything about it. And the Witcher series music fits it perfectly,though I do also throw in some Darkest Dungeon for when the party has truly goten themselves into the deep dark.

I wished the Netflix show looked like this game. It could've been something great...

Just from the beginning there is a pain and suffering of war vibe. Then it becomes eldritch and occult. Best video game of all time.

Think they use a tagelharpa in a lot of the songs for the witcher. Probably my favourite instrument tied with the erhu. Lol its weird I have such an intrest in all kinds of music instruments but all I have is a keyboard I barely use lol. Would honestly be a dream job to compose stuff like this but I dont know how I would get there.

OST for possible consideration: The Legend of Dragoon has quite a few tracks at least from my childhood that'll last with me forever. Specifically the boss + normal battle tracks They don't have specific names for the boss ones, merely numbered as they're used alot throughout the game. Several vids on RU-vid that are only 2-3 mins long so if you wanted to throw all 4 in a vid (At least I believe) would be more then possible. I'm partial to 2 and 3 for my personal favourites >.>

You should listen to "Hanezeve Caradhina" from made in abyss and then discover other songs from that anime, because many on them based on this one. My favourite ost from made in abyss is "Tozo Hanoline"

Vibing in the forest then see an ant The game: *LELELE INTENSIFIES*

14.12.22 I will start another playthrough of the Witcher3 + all DLC's. I look so forward to it.. hihihihihihi

Hey also, is there any chance you have heard any of "Path Of Exile" 's music? the soundtrack to that game i feel is suuuuper underrated and not very often talked about at all

React to Flowers and Fanfares from the second expansion. :)

Folk metal gives me life. Gets even better with added bagpipes tho.

Bro...I'm new to your channel and I thought this was the wrong channel for a second there since you don't have the beard yet lol

The banks of the sansertour would be cool to see too (:

This ...raw soundung sining is called white voice, used a lot in Polish folk music.

0:27 "There's this raw, human, earthy, grounded, *ethereal* (?) vibe to folk music..." I would've said "... grounded - yet ethereal - vibe... " cause I feel like ethereal is kinda the opposite of a grounded, raw and earthy vibe/sound... but maybe someone would like to challenge this perspective...? To me, in music, an ethereal vibe or sound is something that transcends humanity. Something that is not natural and certainly not grounded - arguably by definition. Take, for instance, the music from the halo series. In particular, towards the end of the song "one final effort", after the crescendo: One of my favorite slices of what I would describe as "ethereal" music floats away into the *ether* (pun intended) and leaves the subject with a melancholic feeling of wonder and mystery as it fades out.

Not sure if you have gotten recommendations for this before but Ive always thought Season of War from World of Warcraft, the first WoW was an amazing piece and would highly recommend it!

Great video featuring one of the greatest soundtracks of all time. Thank you for showing this off. Good choice, too, because there is no shortage of top tier stuff to choose from on the OST. I have been on a Xeno series kick for a while, and would love to see you do several songs from Xenblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and even the "extra episodes" (basically DLC stories) for both games. Based on how I have heard you describe a few songs, I think this track is perfect for your channel....Engage the Enemy, from Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GTCB79fDUOY.html

i would like to see more witcher 3 songs,like silver for monsters,and steel for humans

01:38 He knew what he was doing

Percival

I have some Videogame Soundtrack you probably haven't heard before. You should at some point try out the Soundtracks from Little Big Adventure 2 with the names "Emerald Moon" "Zeelich" "Honey B." and "The Empire"