Risk of Rain 2 - ...Con Lentitud Poderosa | Reacting To Video Game Music! 

Coalescence and Con Lentitud are in a lot of ways brother tracks, which makes sense considering each plays as a sort of lead up to the big boss of each game if I recall correctly. Big Boss in 1 is Providence, and big boss in 2 is Mithrix. They are brothers. Also a lot of tracks from RoR1 got parts used in the making of the RoR2 OST. So there is also that.

By the way, those four descending notes you linked to coalescence, is the core motif of all the songs in both risk of rain 1 and 2. They are in every song, but Chris manipulates them in different ways to create different sounds, like pitch shifts, reversing, ascending notes, mirroring, the list is endless, but it's always there!

"I finally won!" I exclaimed once I had broken the King of Nothing. His body giving way and turning to dust, to nothing. The moon begins to shake and rupture! All the while this song plays in my ears as the rain falls around me. I look down at myself, my flesh melded with steel, wires, beast, fungi... I'm not even sure if I have blood anymore. I've become more monstrous than any of the hundreds of thousands I've killed... I give one more look back as I board my escape ship. "I won... Right?"

I think once of the best ways to sum up Coalescence and Con Lentitud Poderosa was 2 comments, one left on each video several years apart by 2 separate users that just ties both the songs and the endings of the games so perfectly. Coalescence was "The sound of realizing there's blood on your hands." Con Lentitud Poderosa was "Realizing that blood will never wash away." To me, that sums up the story of Providence and Mithrix.

"Pensé en un mundo sin memoria, sin tiempo, consideré la posibilidad de un lenguaje que ignorara los sustantivos, un lenguaje de verbos impersonales o de indeclinables epítetos. Así fueron muriendo los días y con los días los años, pero algo parecido a la felicidad ocurrió una mañana. Llovió, con lentitud poderosa." -Jorge Luis Borges, El inmortal

The game is just as much of a banger as the soundtrack imo.

Small but extremely important note to make with everyone's already fantastic information about this song: In the build up from 2's early access to release to finish, Christopher PROMISED us that we were not gonna be getting ROR1 music, and most especially he was NOT going to be remaking Coalescence. It couldn't be done. How could that be topped or recaptured in any way. So please, please imagine our surprise for when we first got "The Rain Formerly Known As Purple," which it and it's stage were based on the equivalent stage of the original game... And then 1.0 released. And with it, the final stage. You teleport into an expansive, wide open chamber. It is dark and silent. There are no enemies, there is only one path forward, along a staggering ramp that, even at this stage of the game, you are likely to still take some time to climb. And, slowly, the piano begins to kick in... This track is timed perfectly well for most players to experience in their first time with the trickling additions culminating to the full payoff as you emerge from the chambers into the open space of the floating asteroid, and your objective is ahead of you. And, as far as 1.0 goes at least, there is a single path. You are now being assaulted by enemies you have never seen before, and they hurt. You have a single direction, with some branching paths, but your goal is in view. Much like Risk Of Rain & Coalesence.

The old album logo transitioning in right before the height of the piece is just perfect.

Finally, it's here! Love that you picked up on the motif between this and Coalescence, it's not as outwardly apparent with the sequel's OST, but the first Risk Of Rain in particular was made with that same recurring theme throughout most of its songs. Chris did a soundtrack behind-the-scenes for the entire album of the first game years back on his soundcloud, and it was a lot of fun to listen to his commentary! I'd recommend checking it out, but it obviously has to do with the OST so you have that conflict of interest. Otherwise, great track that stands on its own! Also, I don't know who can say that the game doesn't live up to its OST, sounds like a skill issue.

Chris C. Is an absolutely amazing composer. He music is so recognizable. That motif is carried through both games.

My life began when I played this game and heard the music for the first time

I hate that for as much as I love the soundtrack my brain doesnt place them from when I was playing. I always just go "I remember that song playing and it was rad!" Game is a roguelike with insane powercreep, is very fun when you get good rolls on the boxes and have an OP monster of a character. RoR 1 was 2D and RoR2 was a big 3D adaptation of the formula. Its a run based game not a story based one. Theres fun lore to be found in enemy bestiaries and stuff and item descriptions, but its all about playing(alone or with friends) and trying to get super strong without dying until you reach the end..

Dunno Why but I sometimes end up crying during this song. Its just amazing.

So you are not far off at all, this song plays in the final stage right before the final boss (the song for that fight is You're going to need a bigger ukelele) and I think the ending credits song is just basically a mellow run of this song called Lacrimosum (which funny enough contains the sound of rain). I had no idea what the title meant and it was so cool to learn that, it's super fitting. This song is basically a leading courageous stand before the final boss. I know everyone pointed out the final bosses of both games being brothers. Chris does such a great job with Motifs cause then the final boss music has a lot of motifs with RoR1 This has easily been one of my favorite songs the last few years.

The soundtrack fits perfectly with the game. By the games design it ramps up over time as things slowly get further and further out of hand until the point of insanity and that philosophy applies to both the player and the enemies you face. Its essentially an arms race between you and the game. In addition to the overarching scheme of the game, this is also the case as you go from stage to stage as things start out calm and get more intense the longer you stick around which is why so many of these songs start out mellow and chill and then pick up in the second half. With the game being a roguelite and with runs lasting anywhere between an hour to multiple hours, you become invested in it which is expressed by a lot of the emotion that you can feel in these tracks.

You're basically right about them both being conclusive. They are the final stage themes for both ror1, and ror2, leading up to the final bosses, who are brothers. Providence, and Mithrix's shared backstory is very intriguing. When these tracks play, there is a huge sense of finality. I personally love risk of rain 2, i've 100%'d the game and put hundreds of hours in. I cannot get enough of the gameplay loop, nor the soundtrack. This game is basically crack to most people who play it.

This timing is impeccable, I had downloaded the game 2 days ago fell in love with the OST 1 day ago, and I checked if you did a reaction to this on the same day then I went to sleep.

Game absolutely lives up to the soundtrack, it's phenomenal

Risk of Rain 1 and 2 both fall in the Roguelike genre. Which means the gameplay is sort of the same but it changes slightly depending on the items you pick up during the stages. It's a fun time passer I think. Not a lot of brain power to play it and it can also be the most chaotic thing you play. Honestly I love this game but I do take huge breaks from it (months of breaks) due to repetitiveness Hope this helps with your question about the game :)

The guitar makes me feel like I’m floating

THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR BABBYYYY

Listening to this song again made me just buy the DLC for Risk of Rain 2, honestly they deserve every bit of my money lol

the big swell we get at 3:40 just makes me tear up every time. It's so beautiful.

Risk of Rain NEVER fails to impress with the amount of emotion and feel put into each track

(S)creamed a little when I saw the title. Happy holidays Daddy Jesse.

The game is great. Though it's a little frenetic so it's not for everyone. I suggest giving it a try, your first run playing it on the easy 'Drizzle' difficulty and then immediately turning it up to Normal after your first death after having gotten used to the flow. Just remember that the longer you take to finish a level, the harder it will get before you're ready for it. It's a matter of time management and efficiency.

I love the game, the soundtrack is amazing but I also think the game is very fun and yes both are final songs as you predicted. Thank you for the video I really enjoy watching your reactions and comments.

Made me cry the first time I listened to this and I realized it's Coalesence 2

I think the emotion behind this song is what probably got it so many requests. It’s my favorite song in the game for sure. The first time I went down that long corridor and experienced this building up to eventually getting hunted down by enemies truly had me awe-struck. I legit got emotional from the song, especially with how difficult it was for me to reach that final stage for the first time. I can’t speak for anyone else, but the mix of the gameplay experience and the downpour of emotion that this song showers you with makes it top tier for me.

I haven't seen it in the comments yet, so let me try to do it justice "...con lentitud pederosa" translates to "...with a powerful slowness." These are the words written in the Argentinian short story "The Immortal." The full sentence is *"It rained with a powerful slowness"* The story details a population of men who achieved immortality, only to lose all sense of conscientiousness as they slowly droned through a life that had nothing left to give them. Only occasionally could something come along to snap them out of their hypnotized gaze. One day, such an event happened. A storm came. All the men looked up, overjoyed, rushing into the downpour. They felt alive again! "It rained with a powerful slowness"

So this will always be my favorite track in the RoR2 ost, because RoR1 was a big game with my friends and we enjoyed it to death so it has a special place in my heart. Now slight spoiler bit here, but you nailed it on the head. Coalescence and Con Lentitude are both the final area songs because in RoR1 the final boss was Providence and in RoR2 it's Mithrix who were brothers. Also during the video there were the changing images that represented all the past updates since this track came out with the final update for base game (there were smaller ones after but this was the last big one). So essentially all of those images were a homage to the game ending with the poster image for RoR1 (if you look at the title you can also see the 2 fade out when the ror1 image pops up). Lastly on my tangent, the original version of the final stage was specifically set up to have the slow piano play as you walk through a corridor, only for it to hit that drop when you exit and see the FULL area and it was amazing.

This track captures those Peak Moments of Risk of Rain 1 & 2. ...the hopelessness, the struggle and the adrenaline all mixing up into this sense of peace. you are not getting into the flow, you are the flow. these beasts? they got nothing on you...!

"Fun" fact: One of Mithrix's death lines is him calling out for his brother Providence one final time.

Both games do feel like a slow coalescence of power.

Close Jesse, both of these songs are the leadup to the boss fights. Coalescense being before you fight Providence, Bulwark of the Weak, and Con Letitud Poderosa being before you fight Mitrix, King of Nothing. They are both brothers that are nearly gods. Ill leave the story bits out incase you want to find out yourself but I will tell you Risk of Rain is NOT a happy story

i think the game itself is already top-tier when it comes to roguelites. ofc it's not for everyone but if ur into roguelites at all it should be enjoyable

I always found the RoR2 OST to have such a massive Pink Floyd sound to it. It's so top tier.

The ... actually comes from the fact that it's part of a quote. "It rained, with a great and powerful slowness." I also really think you should check out some of the Survivors of the Void stuff. "Once in a lullaby" is really cool, with some horn sections. And in regards to why this was so highly requested, it's because of how it compliments the gameplay so much. A gray, wide landscape, with sharp architecture, and strange creatures. You've made it to the Moon, and the only stage where it's raining. As the slow section plays, you're traveling down a long tunnel. And as you reach the end of the tunnel, the second part opens up as you see what I described before. It's actually so beautiful that I teared up when I heard it, and that never ever happens with me. And in regards with gameplay to OST not matching up, it's absolutely wrong. The art direction and gameplay are perfectly complimentary. So complimentary that they actually changed the layout of the stage in which "... con lentitud poderosa" plays to better compliment the song. I'd say that this also pairs nicely with "The Rain Formerly Known as Purple". If you ever see a picture or gameplay of The Sky Meadows, you'd feel as if the song couldn't play anywhere else.

How fitting that a song named this way is played, with powerful slowness.

Con lentitud poderosa is a quote from famous Argentine short-story writer Jorge Luis Borges. “I thought of a world without memory, without time; I considered the possibility of a language that ignored nouns, a language of impersonal verbs and indeclinable epithets. This is how the days died and the years died, but something similar to happiness happened one morning.... It rained, with powerful slowness.”

Great composer, whenever me and my friend's go back to this game we agree as good as the game is its for the music

What I really like about your connection of the titles of coalescence and this one is that coalescence is the gathering of things to form a large mass, and con lentitud poderosa means "with powerful slowness". Joining these two you get things gathering together to form a large mass, with powerful slowness. This to me not only talks about the music itself, with both starting with few instruments and building, but also the game, which is about gathering items and slowly getting stronger, becoming a large mass, of power. And the build up of your entire journey through the run, culminating/building to the final stage, where these two songs play.

Saying the game doesn't live up to the soundtrack is a weird take to me. The music of the game ties so heavily into the experience that the soundtrack can't be so easily divorced from the game. This sound track was made for the game, not insulting other game soundtracks but the music feels like it was handcrafted to enhance the the gameplay. It just feels like someone heard the sound track first and then didn't like the game. Risk of Rain isn't for everyone. I am curious if you would do a reaction to seeing gameplay for the first time, see how it compares to the game as you imagine it just from the music.

…and his music was electric.

Hey I missed it but glad you enjoyed it is not the last song of the game the last is. you Are going to need a bigger ukulele which is a more metal piece. Also speaking on a reason as into why it is more popular is also the visuals. But it is the last level of the game a great game at that and who ever said the music. Doesn’t fit with the game must be deaf and drunk when they play the game.

I tried RoR2 based on the soundtrack, and it didn't really do it for me. Some people love the game but I guess it's not for everyone. It's like a rogue-like shoot em up is what I gathered from what I played.

If you love Chris Christodoulou you HAVE to check out his work on DEADBOLT. Not a single bad track on there. Personal favorites of mine are Blood on the Dancefloor, Werner and Klaus, and Ashes to Ashes to Ashes

what makes this song so damn good to me is its context in the game, it starts off with the piano melody as you're climbing the stairs out of the ruins onto the moon, and then the guitars kick in when you're killing the final boss of the game, it adds so much meaning to the final fight

Great reactions, been enjoying the ROR2 videos! such a good game. Also love the BR2 Arcade song in the background, my fav fighting game, with killer OST, both the Arcade and Console tracks

Finally, after all this time. I have them all!

Going into the DLC of Risk of Rain 2, I can not recommend "A Placid Island of Ignorance" enough. It's absolutely fantastic

The game DEFINITELY lives up to the soundtrack, they honestly go hand in hand, but the game is DIFFICULT, so some people write that off as bad without trying to learn the game, it's mechanics and actually get good at it

It's impossible to really separate RoR the game(s) from the soundtrack. I think it's fair to say that the soundtrack is uniquely amazing, but the game is why it exists, if that makes sense. Really worth a play to get a sense of why the music is the way it is.

"Pensé en un mundo sin memoria, sin tiempo; consideré la posibilidad de un lenguaje que ignorara los sustantivos, un lenguaje de verbos impersonales y de indeclinables epítetos. Así fueron muriendo los días y con los días los años, pero algo parecido a la felicidad ocurrió una mañana. Llovió, con lentitud poderosa." - Jorge Luis Borges

I'd love for you and Chris to do an interview at some point. I've seen so other reaction music channels do it, I'm sure you could make something really interesting !

… "And so he left, with everything but his humanity" Edit: The song is about the two brothers Providence and Mithrix

I love this track, coalescence and The Rain Formerly Known as Purple SO MUCH MORE after knowing all the little pieces that connect them to the lore. and the whole soundtrack of both games, really, but those three in particular. Nerding out here, but you can apply lore reasons as to why the songs all have shared motifs but sound sometimes wildly different or sometimes odd when paired with the motif. i view it as the motif of Providence. he saved all these creatures from their destruction. and coalescence is providence in the flesh. there he is. right in front of you. you knew echoes before, but now you can see him there. and i find coalescence is sad because Providence has slowly lost his glory and care. he just became a violent and frightening god. The Rain Formerly Known as Purple, is obviously to some, a reference to Prince, and his song Purple Rain. which the lyrics to, are actually important to the lore. as Mithrix and Providence were brother gods, but wanted and cared about opposing things. but they both cared about one another. and when they were about to reach what could have been their greatest accomplishment, Mithrix had been horrible to Providence, said and did some awful things. so Providence used their creation to imprison Mithrix, so he could never get in the way and harm innocent creatures again. But all mithrix wanted was the best for his brother. he just thought his brother's ways were childish. this is reflected in the lyrics of the Prince song. and throughout the lore, mithrix becomes furious and vengeful, vowing to get out and destroy everything. and when you, the player come and fight him, he is blinded by rage until his final moments. i view Con lentitud poderosa as mithrix stuck, alone in his cell for god only knows how long, going mad with the silence and anger. as well as the tragedy of these two brothers, and lastly, i view it as him realizing in his final moments that it was all for nothing. and he wishes he could have been there for his brother.

Not gonna lie I think it would be fun seeing you stream risk of rain 2 as a one off thing and see for yourself how the game is! For me this game is fun and yeah after a good while it does get repetitive but its a great time killer for me when I'm in the mood of playing it.

The game is absolutely phenomenal idk who is saying it doesn’t live up to the soundtrack

I wouldn't say the game doesnt live up to the music butits just very very chaotic which is in contrast to the music. But the game is super good if your into chaotic and rogue lite games. It's probably one of my favorite games of all time

You should really listen to the survivors of the void dlc for risk of rain. It's super good I'd reccomend once in a lullaby, face of the deep, they might as well be dead. It's all so good.

I think the title is what the conductor would say to the band before raising his hands. Like it leads with a heavy sigh "haaaaaaah..............con lentitud poderosa".

What a masterpiece.

Merging... With great slowness

I feel like suggesting that the game might not be good is comment bait, this game is addicting on every level haha

this song never stops giving me goosebumps(might get that checked out later). tysm chris and jesse

So if we support financially your RU-vid channel rather than Discord and on a regular bases do I eventually get ahead of ordinary subs? You know in likelihood of how often do you pick something I propose? Like once every 2 or 3 months? The categories are translated to my language,so I am unsure on how they are called on English,but that $ icon within ❤️. For now just 2€ per month. Other things on RU-vid I like to Super Chat sometimes and I am not rich. Not in danger of becoming homeless,but even so. See I decided to delete my Discord account for reasons and would prefer to not open new one anytime soon.

The music carries the games. It's one of the most noticeable things when you're actually playing the games which on their own are standard indie gamey game fare. They can be fun under the right circumstances I guess.

Check out Chris's commentary on the album. Very beautiful inspiration for the song. Absolutely perfect piece

this song just embodied the title of the boss you are about to fight: The King of Nothing.

you guessed close, both Coalescence and Con Lentitud Poderosa play right before the final bosses of the two games.

7:30 yep you got it right

was just running back risk of rain ost then this happens, it is indeed Christmas

all of the titles for the tracks are related to the theme of Rain which is so cool

You really gotta check out Once in a Lullaby

Is it just me or this song has hints of Final Fantasy in it?

It’s peak…

you didn't make the song loud enough compared to your voice imo

This is Chris' best work and an amazing little xmas gift. Have a good one brother.

your smile says it all. that song hits pretty fuckin well, uh ?

chris christodoulou my beloved