You mean Spyro the dragon has music like THIS!?
Vložit
- čas přidán 25. 01. 2023
- ♪♫♬👊linktr.ee/marcodmeatball 👊♬♫♪
- -
This...Was a real surprise. I've known about spyro since spyro came on the scene. Didn't ever even think about the music! But then I was asked to listen to this via patreon and genuinely this is fantastic!!! Now THIS is classical music in a modern time! Composers: Rebecca Kneubuhl, Gabriel Mann
- - - Hry
Do my eyes and ears decieve me? TLoS content in 2023? It's a miracle! I thought everyone had forgotten about it, either of Cynder's themes from a new begginning are epic as well.
Dawn of the Dragon was the first Spyro game i played and i love it to death i feel like those Spyro games were disliked more than deserved
Same. They still have a lot of fans tho.
Agree bro
The Legend of Spyro games took a darker approach to the series so that's probably why it has a more mature ost its an absolute shame that these games haven't been remade yet >_
I really want them remade to include all the cut content they couldn't add for budget and time constraints.
I'd love to see other dragons (besides the eight we have) and villages across the world instead of limiting you to so few locations.
And I'm not sure where I heard it, but apparently The Legend of Spyro was supposed to have six games, but they stopped at three due to low sales.
Wow, I'm surprised to see this game here. The second Spyro trilogy has always had a bit of contention around it for its gameplay and "edginess", but I loved these games and the original trilogy growing up. This was certainly a trip down memory lane. Thanks for bringing back some awesome childhood memories and highlighting some of its awesome music!
Dawn of the Dragon was my favorite game as a kid... damn.. Guide you home still is my favorite song.
I played the game with my dad and he had to do the golem fight alone because I was way to scared (I was 5 years old btw so lots of the enemies were scary)
I was NOT expecting this game to appear on your channel! This game had basically consumed my whole childhood
I could not believe it when I saw the thumbnail! I’m overjoyed that you’re experiencing the music of these games. There’s a lot of controversy surrounding this trilogy and their departure from the traditional Spyro the dragon model, but I personally love them. At any rate everyone seems to agree that the music is stellar!! So moving and beautiful. I played these games as a kid so they were my first introduction to this type of music and I am so grateful for that. Without these games I never would’ve developed an interest in classical music and especially classical music in video games!! Thanks for the lovey video ❤
Never thought I would ever hear anything about this game after 2008. Holy crap what a throwback 😂
It's so great to see the Legend of Spyro games, ESPECIALLY Dawn of the Dragon, be appreciated as they were my childhood and I felt they were underrated! The music is something I've always loved especially. I've listened to this track more times than I can remember and it's amazing to hear it be analysed by someone who understands music so well!
Oh my god I remember playing this game so long ago. I have such good memories of this series, and this game especially. I remember this track like it was yesterday
I'm beyond happy to see the legend series music here, it was the best series I had in my childhood and it means so much to me. I'm glad more people get to hear it's amazing music.
The Golem..... Omg That Golem...
An Epic enemy. As remarkable as the final boss, I'll say.
Marco *speaking in tongues*
me "hmm ill put on captions and maybe ill understand a single word"
captions "Marco speaks Latin??" "Furniture starts levitating"
killing me man
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I’m glad I found this channel I never delved to deeply into analyzing music beyond reading a few comments pointing out a subject and It is really impressive how accurate you are about the context of these songs without playing them I’ve never seen something like this before. I’m learning new things.
Love these videos, I'm glad Spyro soundtrack is getting some love it's very overlooked. You should check out Celestial Caves and Cynder's boss theme
THIS IS AMAZIIIIIING!!!! oh my God yes. you've pretty much nailed it all. there is in fact a war between two opposing forces and the evil force bring in this enormous Golem made of molten earth and uses parts of the city called Dragon city to reform its body. and you as a small dragon compared to this beast are first fighting this thing as it climbs up a tower, first though gaping holes in the structure and then finally literally face to face at the top of this broken tower. and the drums and symbols are the golem slamming its fists at you and breathing fire trying to get rid of you.
and the lyrics very much describe the dark war scene in this game.
this is the last game in the Legend of Spyro trilogy which is a more mature and story driven take on the Spyro the Dragon. honestly and fantastic trilogy of games and with amazing music and themes. I will suggest a theme from the previous game The Eternal Night at a later date. ohhh this is exciting. I love your take on this music. thank you for this Marco.
Wait since Spyro is too small realistically without plot armor Spyro would have been destroyed by MALEFOR’S golem in the catacombs at the last qte realistically
@@Golems_wrath Learn to read, they don't say anything about Spyro and feats against the Golem.
*title*
Honestly i am just surprised as you are.
Cause i only played 1 to 3 Spyro games
If someone played this to me without context i would have asked "is that from Dark Souls or something?"
I mean right? LOL
If you wanna check out more from the Legend of Spyro trilogy, from this same game (Dawn of the Dragon) I REALLY like Malefor Battle (1). the song that plays during phase one of the final boss fight. I think it does a PHENOMINAL job at selling the emotional/story stakes that are currently going on.
and in case you're curious what those stakes hare:
The end of the world is LITERALLY already in progress. Chunks of earth are splitting apart and spewing geysers of lava, the world is fragmenting and shattering apart and already being destroyed. The villain has ALREADY won, plotwise...and you're just fighting for the chance to even TRY and figure out how to undo the world-ending that is CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS.
and even after all that, after you take the boss down....the way you end up winning and stopping the end of the world? is (heavily implied to be, but never stated bluntly) your two main characters sacrificing their own life force. Every bit of their own power to not just die, but put themselves into a PURGATORY of just them two in order to put the world back together by sacrificing their own life force.
(And for those who have played the game, I've read interviews and stuff that yes this is meant to be implied, since we see Spyro and Cynder flying over a much fuzzier looking Avalar, and the Chronicler who...literally chronicles everything that happens, including if say, somebody DIES, cannot find Spyro and Cynder. So...they aren't alive, but they didn't die. purgatory.)
I mean I think it's the Spiritual Plane, Celestial Caves is Metaphysical and Ignitus is still a Spirit but just appears physical in that place which helps prove the idea you can only see spirits physical if they're in a Spiritual place and CC is legit like the Spirit World but also is just a mortal location hence Metaphysical.
Also worth noting. Cynder didn't "have to" sacrifice herself and Spyro even told her to escape and save herself. But she chose to stay by his side to the end, and with what she presumably believed to be her final breath told him "I love you." (that scene gives me chills every time).
That sentiment is then echoed in _Guide You Home_ where both she and Spyro sings "I would die for you.".
@@waveeyes
^^^ I still get chills too
Spyro is exactly why I'm osessed with "epic orchestral" style music like this
Why I am so obsessed with game music in general
It really shaped my musical tastes so much! Love to see you react to this ost as well Marco
First ULTRAKILL, now TLoS?
It's like you're trying to appeal, very hard, to me in particular. I love this. Dawn of the Dragon is by far the best of the Legend games. The 'call to arms' nature of the lyrics (maybe distorted by Google translate but thats inevitable) lines up with the battle this music is a part of, a city being invaded calling for help and recoeving it in the form of the player.
Good stuff as always!
Man! I remember this game. one of my childhood favorites. The OST is really very good. And unlike the platform games, you could fly freely, which was the part I loved the most.
Fun fact: the original Spyro trilogy has been remastered and is available to buy now
I never knew that I should've continued playing Spyro. What the hell?
Best song in the game, hands down.
The main menu theme still gives me goosebumps today after 10 years of playing it xd
One of the best Spyro games
…….WOAH….. dam, this is good! And from all games imaginable, a Spyro game?
YOOOOOOOOOO, never thought one of my favorite childhood games would get love like this!!
I don't remember the music that played during this being this detailed and this intense!! It's quite insane revisiting this track after years of witnessing that awesome fight moment. One thing for sure, i definitely felt the fear and the urgency relistening to this. It's almost as clear as the day i watched it. Thank you so much Marco for reviewing this old childhood of mine. It brought forth a mountain of inspiration for me today!
Besides my already limited knowledge on music related things I had no idea that stagger breathing was even a thing until I watched this video. Course in hindsight it makes sense. Human talent eventually reaches its limits when you run out of oxygen 🤣
hahahaha I'm glad you learned something new!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have no idea how happy I am to hear someone breaking down the Latin lyrics and the musical qualities, I've been wondering about them ever since the Cynder Convexity battle music from the first of the trilogy. If you haven't already heard those, pretty much every battle theme in this game is over the top epic and deep in meaning.
The games are so underrated, mostly because they were developed on a shoestring budget on Activision's leash, but the music, characterization, world building, such great stuff from such a horribly limited dev environment.
The music has a stronger feeling when you play the games but are still strong without it, you gotta do Burned Lands and the Main Menu Theme.
The Legend of Spyro is my favorite rendition of the Spyro series, mostly for its story. I own A New Beginning and Eternal Night on PS2, but I've had no luck in finding Dawn of the Dragon unfortunately. Therefore, I've never heard the music of this one, and I'm not surprised to find it's great! If you want more recommendations from this series, I highly suggest the ending credits of A New Beginning, Cynder's boss theme, and Gaul's boss theme. The Tall Plains has some really good environmental music as well, and the battle theme for it is great.
Great video as always!
Ooo Spyro! Didn't expect it at all! I hope you will jump on Crash Bandicoot universe too at some point!
Legend of Spyro games, ESPECIALLY Dawn of the Dragon the 3rd and last instalment of the series is what gave me unhealthy needs for a
INFINITE FLIGHT SONIC FRONTIERS STYLED OPEN ZONE SPYRO GAME
Listening to you describe what the music is saying how how it feels and what could be happening, is exactly what is going on in the game. You basically nailed it!
I adored these games, New Beginning, Dawn if the Dragon, and Eternal Night(the order I got them in lol). Thank you for reviewing these!!!❤❤
For context: Spyro and Cynder are in the Dragon City, trying to protect it while the forces of Malafor(?) attack the city relentlessly. Then the ultimate enemy arrives, a giant creature that breaks the walls of the city and enters inside, along with the smaller enemies. Spyro and Cynder then have to climb a building along with attacking the Golem, to then reach the top and kill it.
Definitely listen to more TLoS music - the whole series is beautiful. My personal fave is the first Valley of Avalar theme (some playlists call the specific track "Finding Meadow" instead).
Dawn of the Dragon is one of my favorite ps2 games.
OH NO WAY I’ve been watching your content quite casually for a while, particularly your genshin stuff since I don’t play much else ToT and I was just pleasantly surprised that this game that DEFINED my childhood is on here! gosh, I remember when I was 7 playing the spyro games (started on the third one bc my parents bought them out of order lol) and it’s the first game, or any piece of media that I can remember, that made me stop and just.. listen to the music, particularly the twilight falls theme in the third game, and that isn’t even beginning to mention the battle themes, especially cynder and malefor’s boss themes. this was certainly a nostalgia trip, and it makes me so happy to see people still appreciating the game years later, thanks for this!
one of the patrons loves the game so there will be a lot :)
Never would of thought this would be spyro great music but never in million years
You should hear the Catacombs combat. Ill never forget that.
Came here right after the video posted today. The Golem Encounter is a pretty awesome setpiece for how the thing is not defeated the first time you face it.
I should really explore this OST more like you are doing right now.
As a recommendation for other platformer OST's to explore -for videos or on your own time- , there's an ambitious old game by name of Haven: Call of the King. Especially noteworthy here are the main menu theme, a track called Into the Atmosphere, and a track that plays in the gladiator arena.
The Rayman series is no slouch on the front of great music either, though not so much on the orchestral front. That said, it is a M O N S T E R in terms of how many different styles, aestethics, feelings and emotions it employs with its tracks throughout all games.
Picture City in Rayman 1 has a few pieces involving classical instruments, such as in a Picture City track or the one that plays in a level with rising water. Nevermind the happy vibes of the first level theme.
But there's also cool rock pieces, mean bluesy bits and some chill tunes here and there. And that's just Rayman 1.
Rayman 2 leans more towards ambience and atmosphere with similar instruments, but Rayman 3 goes *ham*.
be prepared for the most terrifying and aggressive didgeridoo 'n drums that you'll ever hear with Reflux the Knaaren's theme. Yet, at the opposite end of the spectrum, there's the Fairy Council or the softer tracks from the Bog of Murk level.
Holy HECK those are sweet pieces.
And that's not all. Fuppin' funky disco AND what sounds like christmas-themed rock to accompany board segments, and most well-remembered of all: the Hoodoo theme. Which comes in two versions apparently, one version playing during the end credits.
Oh, and there's also Voodoo Vince. You like Jazz? Vince got Jazz.
If you ever find yourself interested in hearing these tracks, i wish you a lot of fun and enjoyment with them!
Nostalgia hits hard. I used to play this in 2 player mode with my sisters.
Thank you for giving this trilogy some attention! There is a small yet very dedicated fanbase out there thirsting for content like this. I always felt the biggest strength in these games were the music.
The golem in question is attacking the city, which is the last defensible outpost against the forces of the Dark Dragon Malefor. It's a boss fight at the mid-point of the game, one that's been built up from the beginning of the game with Spyro and Cynder having spent the entirety of the game's first level fleeing from it while also having to learn to work together courtesy of being magically tethered to each other.
Wasn't expecting Spyro to come up here. Admittedly, I haven't gotten to this game in the new trilogy yet.
Oh, wait til you hear Malefor's themes.
I remember this game mostly for the cast and it's noticeably darker feel. Elijah Wood, Christina Ricci, Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill .. (Spyro, Cynder, Ignitus, and Malefor respectively..) And Sparx's comment early on about how he's fine, but his voice keeps changing :p
David Spade was the best Sparx!
Thank you for this wonderful video ❤
THE LEGEND OF SPYRO FANBASE WILL NEVER DIE.
“I’m no expert in Latin”
*proceeds to speak fluent Latin*
Nah but this is so cool and your explanation was well done! I never expected a game like Spyro to have music as epic and intrinsic as this!
HAHAHA
So fun fact, the composers for this game used to be in an a capella group named "spiralmouth"
this band made music for two crash bandicoot games before the band split off. "Crash twinsanity" and "Crash tag team racing"
if anyone has any free time, just really quickly go listen to a few songs from those soundtracks. it isn't opera or anything fancy, but its a soundtrack where you can genuinely feel the composers/singers just having fun recording the soundtrack.
God I want more dramatic dragon games
I LOVEEEEE THIS GAME IM SO HAPPY U REACTED!!!
In my on going quest to provide suggestions for you to react to, another piece I'd recommend is the main theme to Civilization 6, Sogno di Volare by Christopher Tin.
Fun fact: Christopher Tin also composed the first piece of video game music to win a Grammy Award, Baba Yetu, the main theme for Civilization IV (Another piece worth reacting to IMO), albeit it wasn't for it being in Civ IV and instead an album of his work that Tin released after the fact.
Take Over and Beneath the Mask from Persona 5 Royal would also be good to react to. As I said in another video of yours recently, there's so many tracks I could suggest I have no idea where to really start. I tend to listen to a lot of video game music since it tends to be instrumental and easier for me to relax to and help soothe my anxiety versus music with lyrics.
It's such a shame that you can't find these soundtracks on spotify like you can with the first two games of the trilogy
Whoops, I just left a comment on a different Legend of Spyro video of yours suggesting more from this game without checking your channel for more first lmao. My bad
This game is larger than life at times, which seems odd when you think of Spyro the Dragon and imagine the old PS1 games first lol. But it just works so well for some reason. I think everyone should play LOS: Dawn of the Dragon at least once, especially if you enjoy the music
You should do black powers next. Its actually a religious piece funnily enough...very dramatic for some spyo games
I can whole Hearthly recommend your the entirety of the Beyond Good and Evil soundtrack. It is one of the games that went above and beyond for being just a single game.
Honestly, don’t know that much about the games despite playing one, specifically because i got the second game and was completely lost,
playing it on the wii, the very fact that everything about it was completely different from the original entirely alienating teen me expecting to play the something like the classics.
But it was mostly because it had a trash save system, sometimes repeating entire levels because of a mistake.
But at least you got something more out of it through the music
It was also a continuous story, and you basically played the middle part of it. Must have been confusing as hell!
@@pipkin5287 oh, actually, the story wasn’t the most confusing part, I was basically able to get the gist of it (I grew up, watching a lot of movies and playing a bunch of games, so I had a pretty thorough understanding of the story beats) I think his head scratcher was the drastic change in style and tone
Here is some gameplay of the Golem battle in the Legend of Spyro Dawn of the Dragon where this music plays in the background. Hearing the Latin translation really adds to it since it is essentially talking about a siege when that is what is happening in the game. czcams.com/video/fc8nUK3MeIs/video.html
Hi Marco, one day i'd love to see your take on Crash Twinsanity's OST. It was made by an acapella band with their versions of classic music like Hebrides Overture (Rusty walrus chase ost) or Flight of the Bumblebee (Bee chase ost). Nice video as always, peace.
not sure if you know, but the two composers for this game were in that same acapella group that made twinsanity and tag team racing's soundtrack
the duality of voice.
@@KirbyBandicoot Nope, I didn't know, that is pretty neat they made impactful and memorable ost's
Yeeeees thank you so much if you listen to another of dawn of the dragon I recommend burned lands or the malefor boss fight themes
Wait till he learns the lyrics. The Latin to English is BRUTAL
OK... played the original trilogy and definitely not remember this one. So it's from the later game, wow would like to play that one it sounds epic. Sadly not accessible on PS5 :(
I hate to think because of it's edginess is why people hated the games, it's
budget also didn't help but god damn if you have rose tinted glasses like I do
then you would understand that this game was unnecessarily *GOATED*
A random request, no reason I thought of it here. Humanity (Human Qua Human) from code vein, I really love that song, and I get the feeling you might really appreciate it too
You should do spyro the eternal nights main manu theme as its pretty good and spyro a new beginnings main menu theme.
Funny you should say that…
@@MarcoMeatball then I shall await greatness.
Anyone know if he’s reacted to the opening theme of super smash bros brawl yet? That would be a good video idea I think
hey Marco! i'm here to "bother you again"! Remember when i mentioned to check out music from Miracle of Sound, i get it that his music is only "inspired by game original songs and not OSTs" BUT if you really wanna keep it in a way that you check only video game OSTs, the take a peak on the Wasteland 2 OST - Cries Of A Dead World that he actually made for the game and from there i think you can judge how good is Gavs' music, ALSO it's quite likely that at least one of his Cyberpunk songs gonna be in then Phantom Liberty DLC
;)
@@MarcoMeatball
Have you done anything with the OG Spyro trilogy with Stewart Copeland’s music? I was hoping this was that, haha.
Can you please cover Unwavering Belief from Lost Judgement?
I mean, if you started with spyro you can easily continue to follow imsomniac game's work with ratchet and clank
Skylanders music coming up for sure now :DD
Any tracks you'd recommend for Marco to react to? Trap Team is fun with its playable villain themes -a number of them, anyway- but not particularly in-depth or very long.
(Ain't nobody got anything on Chill Bill's theme, though.)
@@jurtheorc8117 Personally I love exploring the ruins from SSA, water zone music, a lot of the upbeat Superchargers music, and lots more, it's impossible to name all my favorites! :p
You should check out Skylanders music it’s really good!
If you ever do the original trilogy, don't do the "Reignited" (remake) version. Or you could actively compare the two. Many fans of the OG games agree that the remake is devoid of soul and whatever else made the music unique - and it was, for its time, extremely unique and high quality. Stewart Copeland (from The Police) composed it! A good example of how the remake lost its soul would be the Hurricos theme.