If you're finally getting the "Where have I heard this before?" feeling, it means you're picking up on all of the leitmotifs Toby put in the game. Many songs share leitmotifs, whihc is how we can recognise the melodies.
I think even the end of hopes and dreams is the same melody as shop (which originates from another song i think... snowdin? i dont remember off the top of my head. but even snowdin has connections to other songs. it's all connected!!)
@@kiwiparfaits there's a really cool video showcasing how each song in UT is connected, I revisit it once every now and then because it makes me emotional
@@nialvessal yeah I've seen something similar, i think there's even a webpage that's like a gigantic web graph showing every single connection in every single track. i haven't looked at it yet myself, only heard about it, but it's pretty wild
Love it. When she first said that about the Dummy fight music, she was hearing Spider Dance from the last video. It took me months to realize Spider Dance even shared any motifs.
Timestamps: 0:21 Hopes and Dreams 3:14 Shop 4:33 Dummy 7:09 Another Medium 9:40 Here We Are 12:03 Battle Against a True Hero 14:45 Fallen Down (Reprise) Good mix of suggestions and some of my personal favorites.
As for you playing Undertale - Are you planning on streaming it, just doing it as a VoD style thing, or playing it in your own time. All of those are valid, but Undertale is a game that seems to invite backseating a ton if you stream it - It's a game with an enthusiastic fanbase who are all Extremely Opinionated on how people 'should' play it - so if you are planning on doing that (or even VoD where you don't have all the videos filmed before uploading the first) you'll likely want to have a plan in place for that before you go in.
Yes, prerecorded is best to avoid spoilers and to cut the boring parts, and I don't mean the text is boring I just don't like seeing the same Froggit battle happening in its entirety 10 times.
We understand you.... Undertale Changed a lot of people's lives.... 17:07 - My suggestion: Record the entire series before posting here on youtube. *Trust me, this might be necessary*
@@quinnkaplan172 every neutral route < True Pacifist/Geno routes. i think everybody should do true pacifist first no matter what. no one likes getting an empty ending and having to replay the entire game to get a conclusion, just sayin'.
Well technically I think Burn In Despair would be next, and then that. But still yeah it's a shame, like she should just listen to the whole soundtrack at this point.
@magicthunder7815 yeah, but not every song transitions good into the next in this OST. Some of them do, but not all of them. Those 2 being prime examples.
"Here we are" is played in an area where everything is unraveled and you learn just how truly fucked up things are behind the scenes. You learn things that completely change your perception of certain characters and events. Its like a slap in the face that brings the reality of the situation crashing down on you. I love it when a cute game like undertale dips its toes into the horror side of things.
You feel like Battle Against a True Hero changes your life because when you hear that theme, it totally changes the game as it consolidates the results of your own choices. Undertale is a game about choices and decisions, and the first one you need to take to hear this track is... play the game again as it isn't available in the first playthrough. To witness the whole beauty of Undertale you need to play a few times.
@@JoeThomas-lu6fyThe likelihood of someone doing a proper geno route first go is very low because people aren’t used to RPG’s having a limited number of enemies to farm and end up doing a No Mercy run instead. Going from a Pacifist/Neutral to Genocide is such an insane shift too that the only way to describe it is letting someone experience it. The routes also give one another context.
Ahhh yes!!! Dummy is so good! And yes you did hear the melody of it before, it's almost the same as spider dance. Undertale uses so many of the same melodies for a lot of the track, but they're all so good on sounding unique to one another one barely notices. Toby is quite the genius. Btw, cuphead soundtrack....you will love it if you really do like jazzy music.
So glad you went back to this! Truly one of the best OSTs. Can’t wait for Deltarune chapter 2 reaction too. Toby Fox is an insane composer and arranger, the range of music he can make is insane. He inspires me to write more music and his games gave me so much joy.
Fun fact, battle against a true hero is heavily inspired by Touhou, a series I hope you’ll cover someday. In particular, the fast pace trumpets are often referred to as ZUNpets, named after the creator of Touhou!
Undertale OST pt 2: "My headphones are broke and I must dance." Edit: Do play Undertale. Like someone else said: record the entire playthrough, don't do it live. Playing the game blind is the best way to do a first and/or second run. If you need help with getting a specific ending after those runs, ask for help (floodgates will open) or look up a guide (do not read too far).
I love that you managed to capture what Here We Are is in its entirely just by listening to the OST. I won't spoil, but yes. everything you just said applkes to that section of the gameplay, which, i guess props to Toby for managing it too
Battle Against a True Hero is so powerful because it rly captures the fact that the person you are fighting is trying to stop you for the sake of everyone else and yet they still can’t. The ending of the song demonstrates hope that you will be stopped eventually
Every time a heard Hopes and Dreams the only thing i can think is ''no other music in the world expresses so well his name like that'', this music is the definition of Hopes and Dreams and i love it so much!
Fallen Down Reprise is one of those themes that are just pleasing to hear. Battle against a true hero is just love. 💜❤️💜 And also, banger way to announce that ending
Truly one of my favorite osts ever. There’s another level of genius to it that can’t properly be comprehended until you’ve played the game. And what a game it is
I love seeing people get introduced to Undertale via the music. I think everyone would be excited if you posted playthroughs of it! It's such a fun game to experience
YIPEEE! UNDERTALE AGAIN!!! WOOOHOOOO!! Im so happy you came back to this GODLY ost. (By the way, the reason why you have Deja Vu for Dummy is because it has Spider Dance’s main motif!) Im to lazy to make another paragraph so im just gonna copy paste this here dont mine me 😭 Again going to reccomend OMORI! After listening to the Persona 5 OST it reminded me of a jazz track in OMORI, which is Jawbreaker. That’s not all! Its got emotional piano in Final Duet, emotional strings in the song OMORI, emotional guitar in See you tomorrow, and fast-paced mosh bangers in World’s End Valentine, OMORI has it all! It surprises me that you haven’t listened to it yet❤
Thinking that Dummy sounds familiar is completely warranted - one of the main motifs used in the song is also common in Spider Dance, another one of the boss themes.
"That melody sounds familiar" That's all the Undertale soundtrack. You can encounter fragments of other songs in almost any song within the Undertale OST.
I would most definitely watch you do a run of Undertale. We can't experience it fresh ourselves but can get close with you playing. It's well deserving of its various accolades
Algamate, attack of the killer Queen, BIG SHOT, it's pronounced Rules, song that might play when you fight sans. All songs that you just HAVE to listen to
I super love your react videos! Would absolutely love to see your analysis of songs in a playthrough if you ever wanted to do that! Musicians playing undertale is maybe my favorite genre of let's play, since every song tells the story - even hides additional lore. Absolutely love your reacts! Thanks for making and sharing them!
I love how thoroughly expressive you are in these videos. Never thought I'd actually get entertained by seeing someone just react to game soundtracks but you proved me wrong. Somehow this is genuine entertainment. Subbed. Hope you do that playthrough of undertale here if you're going to do it, I always miss stuff on Twitch because I'm never there except for the occasional gen 1 pokemon stream lol
OMG I'm so happy you're gonna play Undertale!! I don't know if you plan to record yourself playing it, or just do it on your own time, but either way excited that you're gonna experience this incredible game! Undertale changed my life for real 😭❤ (By the way I know other people have said this, but if you do post yourself playing it, I highly suggest prerecording them and either not reading comments on them or playing the whole thing before you start posting the footage. Undertale is a fantastic game and I'd hate for you to get spoiled or harassed by people who want to backseat game, which is unfortunately a problem that plagued the game in its heyday. There is no "correct" way to play the game and everyone should be allowed to have their own unique experience with the game!)
Dummy’s one of my favorite boss fights in Undertale because it’s just so ridiculous. You’re wandering through a junkyard, then suddenly a training dummy you walked by attacks you because it’s possessed by an angry ghost.
after listening to Undertale music you can feel that Galar's Battle Tower Boss music is very "Toby". his composing style and the instrument samples he uses are all familiar. also a fun fact about Battle Against a True Hero: it's inspired by music found in Japanese bullet hell game series, Touhou. in 2018 when Toby met Zun, the creator of Touhou, Zun told him that he found that theme cool.
The following message is a message that I wrote to copy and paste it anywhere where I want. This is a disclaimer and guide for content creators and people who want to play UNDERTALE. I made it to prevent spoilers. Don’t listen to any advice on how to play the game. Your choices are important and so are your mistakes. If you want a „perfect“ playthrough, you can just play the game again. Also, take your time with reading the dialogue. Just take your time and don’t stress about being entertaining to your viewers. For me seeing the player take it all in is much more enjoyable. Just try to avoid any help or spoilers in your first playthrough. And maybe also on your second playthrough. Unless something something something needing help something something. Also here is some quick advice on what to do when booting up the game for the first time: When you boot up the game it won’t be in fullscreen until you press F4. Though the intro will play immediately upon opening the game and cannot be paused but it can be skipped by pressing a button. And if you do nothing on the title screen for a few seconds either after skipping the intro or letting it play out, the intro will repeat itself. So just boot up the game, set everything up and then wait on the title screen for the intro to repeat and then read what you see. Here is a guide for the „somethings“. DO NOT READ BEFORE HAVING PLAYED YOUR FIRST PLAYTHROUGH! So. You have completed your first playthrough of UNDERTALE. Wait. You did do that right? I mean, the game isn’t over until you see the credits. So you have seen the credits right? Because some people think that the game is already over after Flowey crashes the game or after they restarted the game and think that „this“ is the ending. Okay. So you have played through the game? Good. So. What do you wanna do in your second playthrough? Depending on a certain choice towards the end of the game you may have been told something that you should do. If not, then skip ahead. Anyway, cya at the ending if you are gonna replay the game now. Oh yeah. Also, whatever you do, don’t switch to a new pc without carrying over your save data or something. And don’t pull something stupid like re-installing the game. Even if in most scenarios it won’t matter because the game always remembers everything. The good and the bad. Unless you deliberately delete certain things manually. So uh… Don’t just continue somewhere else. So. You’ve done it. You haven’t killed anyone and completed the game. Welp. Was it worth it? I don’t know if Flowey told you what to do next but if he didn’t then let me do it. You should load your save file. You maybe could’ve been better friends with PAPYRUS and Undyne. And definitely with Dr. Alphys. Maybe that will bring you your „happy ending“. See you after you have encountered the next save point after hearing the word „Frisk“. I would recommend you to backtrack through the entire underground and say goodbye to everyone you can find. Though, if you don’t have the time right now then SAVE and come back later. But don’t exit the underground yet until you have gone back to the place where you first fell down into the underground and started your journey. If you’re gonna talk to everyone this might take 2 hours. 2 hours of reading dialogue and walking from npc to npc. Where each npc has multiple lines of dialogue until it starts looping. Some of it is more important and some of it less. Anyway. That’s it. After this, go get your ending. And take a break. Maybe even go to bed. You deserve it. So you did it. Are you satisfied? You probably are satisfied. Or do you wanna replay the game once more? And maybe find out what happens when you go down a different darker path. „What happens if I kill everyone?“ Do you want to do that? If yes, then go ahead! If no… Maybe just watch someone else do it. If you want to you could even post a reaction video of you reacting to someone else doing a genocide route. And feel free to read the rest of all this now. But if you wanna play it yourself and experience it yourself then you’re in for a ride. This time, just get the Toy Knife in the RUINS and then grind for encounters until you reach LV 20. And always end battles throughout the entire game using the FIGHT button. Everything will be self-explanatory. Just make sure to immediately kill Snowdrake and Lesser Dog in Sowdin Forest. And make sure that you… Cya at the end of the RUINS. „But nobody came.“ Welp. Guess you can’t reach LV 20 after all. Just make sure that you kill everyone before fighting the next major boss. Aka PAPYRUS, Undyne and the others. Minibosses like The canine unit or the Royal Guards 01 and 02 can be fought before „But nobody came.“ shows up. So. See ya at the end of it all. Just wait 10 minutes if you haven’t already. So. You’re back. There are some funny name easter eggs when naming the fallen human. Chara, AAAAAA, Mercy, Murder and Gerson are the only ones that you can’t know beforehand. With the others just enter the names of characters you’ve met into the the name selection screen. PAPYRU works. There is also an easter egg when you start the game with the name „Frisk“. Make sure to play until the end of the RUINS with this name. You will get a cool border as a reward for doing that. (Borders can be changed in the settings menu.) If you really want to scrape at everything in the game then try completing the game again in pacifist and in the judgement hall after hearing sans‘ spiel, go back to your last save point and hear his spiel again. Also in front of the blue mystery door in Snowdin Forest if you walk around in the room with the door for 3 minutes then something will happen. You don’t know where it belongs? Depending on wich one we are talking about it’s either in sans‘ room or in the backdoor of their house. Have fun. Cya right before the ending. So. You are about to leave the underground? You can talk to every single character in the entire underground before leaving so if you haven’t done that then maybe you want to do that now. Most if not all characters have a lot of dialogue before dialogue exhaustion. Just interact with them until their dialogue loops. When ASRIEL appears with the special thanks, try to dodge all of them to unlock the mystery door in Snowdin Forest. That’s about everything I have to say. Maybe check out „What the Internet did to Undertale“ by Super Eyepatch Wolf if you want to. Just as a disclaimer for after you watched it that GLITCHTALE despite it’s popularity has bad writing and was made by someone who supports a child abuser. Now go play deltarune. Chapters 1 & 2 are free and available to play now. The rest are still in development and will cost you money. Cya! Or not.
Hopes and Dreams is one of the final boss themes (the game has multiple endings and multiple final bosses) and IMO it's the easiest of the 3. But the song is so impactful.
Battle against a true hero, a battle where you fight against the most determined monster, with them feeling all of the worlds hearts beating as one and as this hero quotes, “it’s going to take a little more then THAT to kill me”
I didn't realize until looking it up just now, but apparently Toby Fox was involved in making the Area Zero theme in Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, which is why Another Medium sounds vaguely similar to it
Hoo boy, so excited for you to play undertale! Gonna echo some of the comments and saying you should probably pre-record it if you do (and since you've confirmed you know there's different endings I'd say take no tips on how to play, play however comes natural to you then go do some other big endings if you enjoy your first run. Streaming usually results in heavy backseating and people forcing their first route choice on others, especially for first time players!)
It was hearing the soundtrack that first convinced me to play the game, too. I was amazed at how the music could make me feel nostalgic for a game I'd never played before. It remains one of my best game experiences.
Im surprised you didn't mention the leitmotif of 2:23 comin in shortly at 3:40 for the Shop song, but regardless nice video! Undertale is indeed a vibe
Undertale changed my life with how it was written and the music. A recommendation if you do play the game, if you decide to post things about it, wait until after you have played the game. I’ve seen multiple people that are more forced to go one direction by their audience and causes them to not enjoy it. Play at your own pace and if want to post you can, but you don’t have to. Have Fun!
1:48 hopes and dreams is about a dead goat kid who has his life essence be restored into a Flower, as a Flower he felt no emotions but eventually he had to give it all up
... How did I not make the connection between Spamton and Dummy between the two before re-listening to the track on this reaction!? How do I keep realizing things even years later I should have noticed before! Also. Battle against a True Hero: "I'm trying not to move, I really want to!" Undyne: *Headphones disconnect* "Yer gonna have to try harder than *That!*"
When I saw the area where "Here We Are" plays for the first time, I thought undertale was a horror game, here we are is now one of my favourite themes though.
"Where have I heard that before?" This game uses a LOT of leitmotifes! And "Dummy" is a remix of "Ghost Fight", which also gets remixed into "Spider Dance" and then "Mad Mew Mew", if I remember correctly. EDIT: If you ever do a part 3, I highly recommend "Dog Casino", from an area exclusive to the Xbox version of the game!
the funny thing is, for the longest time i didn't really like hopes and dreams, cause the bit with the bass always felt off-time i always listened with 1 earbud then i learned it was distorted between the left and right buds lmao
Since you really liked Battle Against a True Hero, I highly recommend you listen to some Touhou music on the channel at some point, it's a series made almost entirely by a single person named ZUN, and his music highly inspired the aforementioned Undertale track!
Hope you have lots of fun with the game when you get to it (and have context for the music)^^ even though you might be a bit spoiled now (yes, I consider hearing the music spoilers as well)
If you enjoyed Battle Against a True Hero then I suggest a Touhou OST reaction, it's the biggest influence to that theme in particular, and it's also ZUN - the developer and composer for Touhou -'s favorite in the entire soundtrack. Hope one of the patreon patrons can recommend it too!
"Where have I heard that before?" Undertale is a straight up masterclass in the use of leitmotifs. "Dummy" sounds like "Spider Dance." Even "Shop" shares similar sounds with "Hopes and Dreams", and the motif of "Hopes and Dreams" is also featured in the second part of "Fallen Down (Reprise)". Toby Fox did, like, 7 motifs for the entire game, and made so many different tracks together with them. I also like how Toby makes a few tracks that sound like they should be terrifying, but with a beat that slaps.
@@ShadyNetworker it, along with Spider Dance, all use the same motif for thier theme. I don't know the exact name for it, but it's basically a mid-level mini-boss theme.
You KNOW it's serious when you recognize a main theme playing during the final battles. Okami. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky (also, Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon) etc.
