Echoes of the Eye Soundtrack - Elegy for the Rings
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- čas přidán 28. 09. 2021
- The first time you hear it will make you scared, the last time you hear it will make you sad.
Composed by Andrew Prahlow for Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye
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This DLC is better than most completed games.
unironically, yes
Honestly best game of 2021 was this dlc.
We need more
I saw the dlc didn’t have the same outstanding ratings of the core game on steam
@@hisoka7489 An absolutely crime.
Well, not actually. Maybe because of the stealth section? But honestly, I thought it was a very good touch. Sure; maybe it wasn't the greatest stealth mechanics in a game, but it was still really effective and served its purpose well. And unlike a lot of other horror games, it was a smart and respectful kind of frightening experience. Other than that one slip up, I don't see why it's not regarded the same as the base game.
They're owl people. Their villages may seem gloomy and their music may sound mournful. But to their eyes and ears, both are probably beautiful.
Absolutely, as soon as you learn more of them and the Stranger it feels perfectly them.
I really like how this song sounds quite sinister when you first hear from a distance but once you learn their full story it sounds sad or mournful.
DUDE
Does this mean you're playing the DLC now?
@@ShaunOfTheDodd he played it on stream like 2 weeks ago, the vod should be on his twitch channel still.
@@ShaunOfTheDodd czcams.com/video/7NV8vYaOMjs/video.html
That makes me an owl people I guess.
As it turns out, the large eldritch beings walking in the suspiciously dark forest were not friendly
Damn… 😔
We are invaders to their world, they don't know our motives so they must take action. Yet they are actually very gentle and considerate when they catch us if you think about it.
@@mamga3986 they break your spine if they catch you and you don't wear a lamp. Not that gentle, really.
@@HKJeffer are they? For what they must think, blowing out someone's lamp = killing them for good, and they show no hesitation in doing that to you.
@@verkhvo they all woke up at least once to catch and punish the prisoner, they should know that it's safe to wake up if your body is ok in the real world. Unless they forgot after being in the simulation for thousands of years...
pretty creepy at first but after a couple deaths this shit starts to slap ngl
fr this is a banger
I love your profil pic XD
true
I wanted so badly to find which owl was jamming on that electric guitar
Gotta love when you enter the room and there is that weird moment when everyone is looking at each other like : "yo who's fish is that ?"
A DLC where you have to discover the fate of a long dead civilization only using a few old photo albums. Your only reward is one minute of friendship with a ghost whose been trapped in a prison for 300k years. Then the universe ends 5 minutes later. Very bittersweet.
Wow, I just realised that means the Prisoner was imprisoned for the rest of the Universe's lifetime. Which is the closest you can realistically get to eternity.
bro... spoiler alert
Mostly bitter =( Both ending sequences made me cry buckets.
@@unijadeboth? Am I missing something? I got only one where we both die
@@SuHISKgeroto try doing the main ending again 🤭
The way the Dreamer's instruments sound like an old, worn tape recording really sells the idea that they've been in this simulation so long that even their best attempt at preserving their memories failed.
That's how it feels to me, they've been in this fragmented state with their physical bodies long dead for so long that their memories are corrupt and they're barely clinging on to any semblance of their past selves. The Dreamers' fate is a uniquely horrific one
I think part of the message I got from the story was that they didn't even want to preserve their memories, but they wanted to re-experience their homeland on the stranger.
thanks for noticing. It means a ton!
I believe the actual instrument being played is the theremin. At least, that’s what *a certain someone* plays *somewhere* .
@@andrewprahlow excellent!!! wonderful!!! really really really good job!!!!
Hearing this coming from a spooky cabin on the bank of a river is easily one of the coolest/most ominous things I've ever experienced in a video game
scary area to be in at first but then you realize they are really just having a house party jamming
Imagine if, millions of years in the future, Earth was destroyed, and the last survivors were listening to Sicko Mode for the 10th millionth time on a worn-down vinyl record.
That's basically what this is.
@@9volt65 Also, a four-eyed, blue-skinned creature casually comes in at one point.
@@9volt65 This is the most terrifying thing I've ever read.
@@9volt65 actually terrifying
@@nts0n Better than oblivion. That is truly more terrifying.
Andrew Prahlow is a musical genius. Never have I heard a song so haunting, so beautiful, so tragic, and so terrifying at the same time. Bravo man, bravo
and it slaps too, like, once the spook wears off this is a banger
The way it starts in like the middle of the second verse is trippy in alien like to me
Me, weeks after finishing the DLC, only just realising that "The Rings" are the rings of the gas giant that their homeworld orbits.
Yeah the title being "Elegy for the Rings" really adds that extra layer of mournfulness to their music
I always thought that it was thier projection wheel rings
@@jackcook9005 The strangers have a lot to do with rings.
Their projection reels, the rings on the gas giant, the ring world they built. I think it's an Elegy for all of it
Also the rings for the error symbols
Also also, the rings (pulses) of the eye. I know it’s technically a sphere, yet most depictions show it as rings.
It's pretty fucked realizing that the strangers playing this will die when the dam breaks. They've been stuck in that simulation for millions of years, and suddenly they're just dead. Quite literally snuffed out.
I was thinking about the exact samy thing.
When I played through this I had the thought that maybe they knew what was coming, so all gathered at the house for one last concert
@@captainclipy6236
When you're dead you can't hear what happens in the real world.
You can hear them die, it's pretty terrifying. First the group near the dam goes, then the tower falls after a bit and you get a second batch of screams.
I never even considered that the first group died in the simulation when I first went through, I was so slow and cautious I got to the fireplace room after they were already gone and didn't make the association. I went back another time and followed close behind them and you can watch them stare silently into the fire until they scream and violently evaporate when the dam breaks.
I remember hearing this song while rafting by their hut on my way to explore an unrelated area and thinking "what the hell is going on in there?", then when I finally did enter a few loops later they all stopped and stared at me for a few seconds before one of them decided to snuff me out. Come on, guys, I just wanted to listen!
God I wish we could round up every hearthian on our ship and bring them to this hut and have a jam together with everyone
I felt like I got intentionally ambushed when this happened to me. Like they knew I was coming and that really spooked the hell out of me
This area was the first simulation area I entered, and I was scared shitless having no clue where I was or what was happening. It took me like 3 loops until I even found anything interesting because I was too scared to explore (thanks to that big "SOME PARTS OF THE DLC MAY BE INTENSE TO SOME PLAYERS" warning at the beginning, it set my expectations for the horror parts WAY too high and I spent the first half of the game being scared of everything) and when it finally occured to me that I should follow the Strangers, I heard the music for the first time in the tunnel. Legit the creepiest thing I had ever heard.
I love how the ones in the house don’t attack you immediately, they just sit there in complete stunned silence for both 1: you found their secret hideout and 2: you’re not even an owl. They’re just completely shocked.
I can't imagine how utterly freaked out one would be to find some random alien thing walking around your world.
I think from the first time I heard this music I immediately empathized with the Strangers.
Something about the way they're playing, it being in the distance, the difference in sound compared to the Nomai and Hearthians instruments, it was all so... Melancholy.
Sure, they showed us they missed their home, but even without seeing WHY they missed their home so much, this music felt so sad to me...
They're just homesick.
They're just scared.
Everything about the strangers was so tragic. They were a people led by pure emotion and instinct, while the Nomai culture and behaviour was led by science and wisdom (mostly). The contrast of the two is so fascinating and, again, sad.
They’re just scared.
So am I the only one who tried rushing to the fireplace like 7 times before figuring it out?
lmao nope
I tried to go there EARLY thinking that they probably haven't started gathering yet
Nope
Same...
I knew pretty soon where to go but it took me so long to realise that they die with the dam breaking. this and the thing with dying
The music , the story , the world design ... just everything in this DLC is perfect. The only bad thing about this DLC is that it finishes the Outer Wilds story completely , which is pretty sad ... I would like to spend more time exploring this magic world .
@Anono Moose This game is more like an art and not just a toy ... and what's the wrong with spending my free time in the way i like ?
@Anono Moose Finally someone says it. This childish form of media could never match true art like a good movie, such as Transformers The Last Knight, or a good book like Twilight.
@Anono Moose Well alright then i don't wanna argue ... for me the games like this it's an art . Why ? Because there is the story which is not worse than in books and books are considered as an art . There is a music composed by composer and music also considered as an art .So why then game which includes all that it's just a toy ? This game is not brainless shooter like CoD where you just shoot bad guys , here you need to think and use your brain wisely .This is my opinion , if you are disagree - fine . Still it is not you business how i spend my free time . And what are you even doing here ? I mean if this is just a toy how did you find this video ? It doesn't have a lot of views and popular only among players . So what are you ,big bad boiii who doesn't play with toys , doing here ?
@Anono Moose i love to trolling
@Anono Moose It is sad that you can't understand the deepness of the game...but...whatever...
I actually discovered the projection sphere glitch in this section! I figured if their way of killing you was to blow out your artifact light, putting it on the floor would make it easy! What comes next is obvious but MAN it was a shock, and really helped getting the third vault later on :)
cronch
“Oof ouch, my bones.”
Same, although I figured they would still do something to remove you, I was just curious about how they would go about it.
wow we had the same thought, mine was more so that putting the light down will draw them out to that spot, so that I can get past them... turns out that is not the case
I didn't know I could drop my lantern, because the prompt only pops up if you stop moving and looking just dead ass staring at the ground.
I really like the way I discovered how to solve this puzzle.
When I realized they weren't leaving the first time I got there, I tried to run through them, but as soon as I got caught by the leader, they all disappeared before he could break my neck.
And it is really sad to think that they all vanished away of existence after million years, with no clue of what even happened...
Exactly what happened to me, I was about to have my flame snuffed out when the flood got em.
I was just sneaking behind them in that tunnel when I got a jumpscare by the dumb sound of the dam breaking - just to get jumpscared again when the guy I followed suddenly bursted into light. I guess I get frightend easily ^^.
I wonder where everyone keeps getting the millions of years timeframe.. the only timeframe the game really gives us is that the Nomai in the system died 289,000 years before the game takes place
@@casualbird7671 It's the assumption that given the distance from the eye, and the speed their ship seems to travel, and the time it would take to turn your whole world to a lifeless rock, it's logical that, that would have taken a very long time to do. Later on the prisoner turns off the machine that alerts the Nomai of the eye. The nomai had never picked up the signal before that, so the signal would have to have been blocked for the entire time the Nomai were exploring the universe, and before their technology reached a point where they could detect the eye. It's for these reasons many believe the Strangers did their thing millions of years ago.
All we know is that it had to have happened before the Nomai arrived, and before Dark Bramble was destroyed. And for the Strangers to likely be dead by the time the Nomai arrive, so they don't make contact with the Nomai and tell them to leave the eye alone. After all, they positioned themselves above the solar system an such a way where they could see every planet, and this would likely be where new travelers would come should they come looking for the eye. They would know if travelers arrived in the system, and dispatch their saucer like ships we find in the hangers, to make contact and turn the travelers away.
I extinguished all the candles on the raft during an area shift in my second journey in the dream world, which meant that I found the underground secret area very very early (Which transformed my experience in some dramatical ways, that's Outer Wilds for you).
But that also mean I went in reverse, jumped at the right after falling through the floor, went up the elevator, heard this song, crossed the invisible wall... and it was there. Behind the fire, back turned, playing this frightening music. I was terrified, didn't know if they were alive, in this dream world, I walked up slowly, through the fire, and he turned in a flash, grabbed me, and ended my dream.
Apart from the fact that I was lost, it was so frightening and eerie. (And it took me several hours to understand that it wasn't the intended way, my run was pretty messed up xd)
I once went back to an old church I used to frequent. It had been hit by a natural disaster, it's main building was torn open and now gutted, and the one full parking lot had seen only a small amount of cars pressed into one corner.
As I took a glance of the small remaining church goers still ritualistically sitting in their pews, in the smaller dimly lit sub-building, all I could think about was this haunting tune.
jesus christ thats actually haunting
Yeah, for a long while I thought the screams in the air were just adding to the spook factor. Then I just by chance saw one get snuffed out and realized what was going on. This whole game really does logic puzzles well. Have to zoom out sometimes and take a look at the bigger picture
I love how its a mourning song for the lunar rings around the blue planet in their sky. They really planned to spend eternity mourning for their homeworld
On one day of our workweek, we have a "party", if you'd like to call it that.
Everyone brings their instruments with them and we listen to the song that used to be our planet's song. We sing, and eat, but still go home hungry, because we're still rationing the resources we have. It's supposed to be fun. Everyone is supposed to laugh and be happy that we finally have a break in the week, but it's nothing like that. Our planet's song was always dreary. Everyone just sounds sad when they sing. The food is flavorless. Nothing about it is fun. This ship has sapped the life out of everyone on it.
The commander said he wants to incorporate our "parties" into the artificial world that he's building. Nobody objected.
At first I thought that this was just creepy music that the owlks enjoyed listening to but after hearing how much more cheerful the prisoners portion of Travelers' encore is in comparison, I don't think they enjoy it at all.
Considering that the song is called Elegy for the Rings (where the rings are most likely referencing the slides which show their past actions), how they burnt said slides and the definition of elegy being "a poem of reflection", I think this is an expression of their self loathing or some form of regret for what they did to their home.
feels bad for the owlks
Great take, but I think "The Rings" refers to the rings of the gas giant that their home moon orbited
i'll never forget the feeling of finding this area for the first time.
The best OST for having my spine readjusted by owl-elk people.
Spoilers
I was half-convinced that all the Owlk I encountered in the dream were just security programs and not real. When I saw them in their procession, I thought it was just part of their patrol.
Then I followed them anyway out of bland curiosity.
I quickly realized they were not security drones. I quickly became very sad.
It is sad, especially when you see them trying to swim up or something as they scream being deleted from reality
@@the888gamemaster
From what I've noticed, the Green flame is key in keeping the consciousness anchored to that dream reality and by extinguishing the flame they are ejected from the dream. For the owls, their bodies are long dead (probably killed by the interloper explosion) and thus their minds have nowhere to return to once kicked out of the dream thus they die
@@TheZombiesAreComing they died long before the bramble even exploded the icy planet probably, if you take a look at them they've clearly been mummified due to being sealed in their places, never waking, depending on how long it takes for their species to start starving they could have all started to die weeks later, it was only after the bramble exploded the planet that the nomai even found the solar system, then after a whole generation of nomai the interloper found it's way to the galaxy. So the interloper couldn't have killed them, they most likely starved to death or died from no water or something of that line well before the interloper.
As for the green flame, that is correct, since if you are in the house or tower, you will find you wake up everytime the flame is snuffed, and if you find reels they'll be able to explain things in more details (but that shall be left for you to find yourself)
@@TheZombiesAreComing The owls probably died way before the Nomai even arrived since the owls positioned the Stranger above the solar system, with all the planets in sight with spaceships in the landing bays ready to take off, but they never went up to the Nomai telling them to leave the eye alone like they seem to have intended. Though it is very likely that the owls just died of old age since they made the simulation to experience their home planet once again, so it wouldn't be a stretch to say that they spent most if not all of their time in the simulation.
@@blucky_yt
From what I've gathered, the Strangers were still alive while the Nomai were arriving in the solar system in fact it's because of the actions of one of the strangers that the Nomai received the signal to begin with as their race built a signal jamming beacon for the eye
I love the entire soundtrack but this just hits different
Have you listened to the Riven soundtrack? A lot of it has that same "World's gonna end and we know it" feel.
Even if I'm extremely fearful if playing horrors like this, I still stood with artefact unlit on the edge of the shore, to listen tot hem plaing.
At first it was scary but then it got sad. Weird, distorted mournful music. This is all they have left
The thing about Andrew Prahlow is he breaks all of the rules when it comes to composing and it works amazingly. Sort of fitting for a game that breaks a lot of the rules.
* Spoilers *
I can't help but feel bad for the Strangers. They destroyed their own home in pursuit of an unknown but seemingly very profound goal, only to realize after it was too late that what they had found was nothing more than a reset button for a universe that wouldn't be in need of a reset for hundreds of thousands of years to come. I can hardly blame them for becoming bitter towards the Eye, or for blocking its signal off. In their minds they were sparing other species from making the same mistake that they had. Given what happened to the Nomai when they followed the signal it's difficult to say that the Strangers were entirely wrong either.
I kinda disagree simply bc the universe was running out of time by that point. Sure from our perspective there was plenty of time but from a macro perspective the Owlks very nearly damned all existence to oblivion when they blocked the eyes signal.
If the prisoner hadn't let the signal out then the nomai would never have found the eye and the universe would have rotted away into nothingness.
@@vintagedot8350 We even see from a restored frame of the vision the Strangers saw, from the Prisoner's burnt home, that they actually saw it would bring life to a new universe. Like, they may not have known if the Eye would cause the destruction of the universe or not. Honestly, it could be like a black hole in there to some degree, infinite(ish) gravity warping spacetime into making it look like all of reality just fades away. But they were afraid of what might have been, and angered, feeling betrayed, having given up their planet to something that wasn't as beneficial as thought. Merely a burden, a grim necessity that, as mentioned, may not have been needed for hundreds of thousands of years. Like, I get why they were angered, but blocking it off? Insane. Everything needs to end some day.
Adding to these other two replies is that the Nomai were in that horrible crash because of the Owlks and not the Eye. The eye signal was unblocked for a brief moment and it rippled outward, but it was once again blocked-- permanently. The Nomai followed as far as they could, but then their rippled signals suddenly cut entirely and the Nomai became stranded in the Dark Bramble. If they let the signals play out, the Nomai would have gotten to the Eye without problems.
The Eye of the universe is not malicious, nor sapient-- it only calls out when time is running out. It was the Owlk's doing that lead to the destruction of their planet, not the Eye.
It is much like a mountain. Many die trying to reach the peak, but the mountain is not at fault. It is just a mountain. And the Eye is just the Eye.
@@vergolophusas Solanum put it: The universe is, and we are.
I disagree with that assessment, about things needing to end. All must be maintained.
I like to think that the Elkowls used to sound like that beautiful, melodic voice you hear in some of the other songs, like Into Darkness. But after living in the simulation for millennia, their memories and voice are faded and broken, and now the song they sing is only a distant memory that they are desperately trying to grasp without really knowing why.
I love this track so much. The attention paid to detail in the environment and world building to not only make this culture feel coherent and realized but completely alien is incredible. This really feels like not only an alien's concept of what music might be, but very specifically an owl alien's concept of that.
I hid under the stairs and he couldn't get me. I almost laughed before he clipped through the stairs to grab me.
I had something like that in the starlit cove, bloody clipped through the floor
It's as if this song is trying with an insane amount of effort to sound like legitimate music, and not like pieces of information that are badly glued together. Just like the simulation itself...
This may even be a representation of musicians' withered minds after living a lie for so long.
Well turns out when you can't hear anything you make weird music. The prisoner demonstrates it can be beautiful in its own way. The irony in the one being locked away being the only one to enjoy their music...
Now I'm sure I'm super late on realising, and I accept that, but the title just made sense to me. An elegy is a poem or piece of music that reflects on something, typically what is dead or otherwise lost. The rings are (I think) the rings that surround the planet in their homeworld's sky, something that is now lost to them.
They're lamenting their lost home and that they can never return; this is a song of mourning and grief. Again I'm sure I'm late to the party in realising this, but damn. That hurts.
A symphony at the end of time, stuck for eternity in a world soon to be dead.
This is weirdly one of my favorite tracks in the DLC. Creepy but catchy
There's something so hauntingly beautiful about this music.
I noticed a comment saying that it sounds like over time their instruments have lost their original sound, like a broken record, showing how long they've been here. This caused me to notice that at the beginning up to 0:12 the instruments sound normal, and then there's a strange distorted effect. After that the instruments sound off from how they probably should. Perhaps this represents the passage of time
I feel lucky to experience this game and all of its beautiful music. These are memories that will never go away.
In the comment section of some other Outer Wilds video I do not recall, someone wisely said:
"The Nomai died too early to find the answers to the universe.
The Hearthians were born too late to ask questions about the universe.
But we are alive at just the right time to play Outer Wilds."
@@KroltanMG wow!
This is "Castaways" of the Strangers lol
i remember hearing this for the first time, being scared but wanting to go on to see what was making the pretty noises, then i saw the eyes. not even close enough to see a body, just eyes.
then i saw more, and realized very quickly that i was not alone in this forest... honestly this game deserves an award for just how bone chillingly terrifying it can be when it wants to
The choir building was very significant for my play though. When I was first set in the dark as fuck dream world with these lovecraftian horror esc dudes I felt too scared to properly explore. When I got to the shrouded forest and first heard the choir I felt fear yes, but I felt even more intrigue. I thought that I would be able to sneak in behind one of the owl elk dudes (owlks?) and watch them play. I found the song really pretty and melancholic and I wanted to experience it up close. When they saw me, stopped dead in their tracks, and just stared, I wasn’t sure what was gunna happen next. then when one of the owlks blew out my light. I had a moment of “wait,, what??” Then I realized that they’re not all that scary. The rest of the game from then on didn’t scare me but boy did it frustrate me enough to turn on reduced frights so I could get past the stealth portions.
This was the first area I explored, so I hadn't heard the music from the river yet. The first time I heard it was when I was following a mysterious figure through a pitch black tunnel in a weird dark forest I knew nothing about, so the atmosphere was already pretty spooky. When the music started playing, I almost closed the game right then and there. The composer is a genius for managing to create something this scary.
The first time I got caught by one of the Elk was when I was trying reach the Forbidden Archives in the Starlit Cove, and literally look at them and said “You have beautiful eyes!” before they killed my lantern.
damn hearing this in the woodland made me wanna go see them play lol
Oh I was waiting for this one
Since I assume they don't feel any need to eat or sleep in the simulation my headcanon is that theyve been playing this song for millenia.
This right here is why I’m listening to the entire OST. I didn’t know the song name, but I did know the feeling it evoked within me, and not many soundtracks can match that.
The Strangers turned away from an uncomfortable reality to disassociate in their long lost past.
Perhaps you, gentle reader, have been doing the same?
Crazy how much is packed in that single song. It's alien, eerie, intriguing, creepy, sad and beautiful all at the same time, which all fits perfectly within the game. Andrew Prahlow is a genius.
What terrifies me the most is when you're in here if you die after turning off the ATP.
You're just stuck in a simulation, wandering around for eternity
They are not evil. They are desperate, destroyed by themselves. In that context their fate is even more tragic than Nomai's. They didn't will to go to the stars, they didn't will to explore the world, answer any questions... like lost kids without any goals they just wanted to go home to live their lives, to the point where they will wipe off any little thing that remids them about their mistakes, whether it be a one-horned brother who tried to release the evil that imprisoned them here or a four-eyed alien who again shows them the real world existing.
Teacher: _"What do you mean?! Goosebumps are not heard!"_
Elegy for the rings:
basically any of Andrew's tracks
they're so goddamn good and portray emotion so well
@@XenoByte I basically lost my sh!t when this track played in the game. I don't remember the last time I was _that much_ awestruck by any track in any video game ever. Sure; Andrew's works are magnificent but this one just... HITS so powerfully in the moment you know?!
I remember passing the cabin by in my first trip around the dream world in the stranger.
I heard the music and found it pretty terrifying to be honest.
I went to the forest, saw the cabin and more importantly I saw who was entering and I hoped the fuck out of there real quick.
Then when I came back and knew their whole story it was very sad.
A lost race in an unknown world which they sacrificed everything to reach.
In their lament they rebuilt in a desperate attempt to regain a semblance of home, forget their mistakes.
Damn what a sad game
When you dont touch grass for 200000 years
The darkness of ignorance, where they found shelter and peace... where they hid from anxiety and worries... where they forgot themselves...
need an 10 hour version
I can't stop thinking about this song or listening to it. I keep thinking about what happened to the Strangers. It's heartbreaking
This entire DLC gets stuck in your head and just makes you sad... Which makes you go back to the game just to finish it and feel a little better again
their singing combined with their instruments sounds almost painful, like a gutted animal screaming in pain in its final moments.
but the release doesn't come, death never comes, they're forever stuck crying out in agony, never able to correct their mistake.
Hauntingly Beautiful
This song is amazing, but even more so when experienced in game. Hearing the faint music from across the river, catching glimpses of green light between the trees, following the procession through the tunnel, approaching the house and hearing the music up close, and then the musicians stop playing when they notice you. A moment of peaceful silence, and then...
wwoooo wooo wooo wo wo wooo woo wu wooooo
The bass sounds so good!
I love how the strangers (at least in my eyes) evolve over time; as they start out as these creepy guardians of a simulated world, but you slowly realise they were just homesick, and quick to judge the eye. Which I believe would be the best exact same thing humans would do in this situation, if they could.
For I while I thought that place was just decoration. I couldn't find any way to get there. Then I discovered a way and I was like 😱. The main game is something special. One of my favourite games, but the DLC feels magical. There is something about "going" to their planet that feels different from other experiences in gaming. Well, honestly the hole game is something different.
It's the matrix, not going to their planet
@@g80gzt That's why I added: " ".
I love how worn it sounds, like their malice being maintained for so many millennia has really torn down their sense of self until they become distorted. which made the prisoner's playing at the end of the universe sound so much sweeter, like the true sorrow they felt being unable to survive a reset of their world after they destroyed their homeworld to chase a dream, uncorrupted by hatred of the eye like the rest of his people.
The Strangers in this part of the game initially evoked fear, but eventually it felt sombre and sad. I can't imagine the absolute homesickness they felt for all those millenniums, holding onto their shame and fear.
Honestly, it was this song that made me realize the strangers weren't evil, just a bit annoyed at you for effectively breaking into their home.
I'm just floating by in my little raft and I hear music playing in the cabin where all the creatures are headed, sounds like a party!
Can't ever forget when I got inside the house following this music and then it suddenly stopped,. I checked behind me and the door was now closed. I was just standing still, on the bottom of the stairs looking at the owls. Then the noise of the door behind me... opening...
i wanna make an ep of what the owlks music would really sound like. the music they would actually play. and you know imma sample this. hella based on viking folk music of course and native american stuff but yeah.
Let me know when you do!
I really want to build done of their instruments and play it.
the themes of longing and fear and haunting that are in this tune worked to reinforce the fact that these things that will hunt and snuff you out are just wanting to go home and are sad about what they now are. enough so that I genuinely empathised with them and was only scared to wander around them in the dark when they got me out of absolutely nowhere! Progressed on from feeling absolutely terrified of them XD
Otherwise I just felt mournful for their story and how the themes mean so much in our real world
Outer wild's ost just hit's different man. 😔😔😔
"yo, guys watch me do this dance, its called the last dance "
(spoilers)
i dont blame them for kicking you out, they just want to be left alone, they arent doing anything wrong. they saw something bad so they tried protecting everyone from it. thats what makes it sad
i agree
This ost with gameplay touch The deepest parts of your soul. Amazing agenturę Thanks to whole team maliny music and game
This is so eerie.
Listening to this late at night alone with my back to my door probably isn't the best way to do it. I'm sure I'll be fine.
man I would do anything to erase my memory and play again without spoilers
lobotomy)
It felt like I stumbled into a dream
You just crashed the wrong party dog.
This sounds strikingly similar to Doctor Who's "Venusian Lullaby"
"Now close your eyes. Or three of them atleast" - 3rd Doctor
***OOF***
The melody is very reminiscent of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," ironically.
It's not as much creepy as it is beautiful
It's only creepy if you don't know why it's beautiful.
It's definitely eerie, reminiscent of a ghostly wail.
Me and the boys at da party ritual
Strangers having an epic concert in a fireplace house
I'm absolutely crazy about all these songs
tfw you're jamming out with your homies in your cozy ass swamp cottage and suddenly some fuckin smurf crashes your party
Big Susperia energy
I guess they didn’t want me at their house party.
OOOO What i'd give for some sheets of this song, and what is that haunting instrument? It's not a Theremin, tho it sounds close
Weirdly reminds me of Lisa Frank 420 by Macintosh Plus
It always bothers me when people playing the dlc call it creepy but then i remember you really need to know the full context of the dlc story to realize how sad this song actually is
Most if not all horror movies/stories are not great because they invoke fear. But because they are melancholically attuned to the nature of our being.
Me: Hah, I dropped my lantern before coming in this time, I'm invincible! - *OOF, OUCH, MY BONES!*
I just watched Suspiria (1977) and im pretty sure the OST inspired this incredible song
"Take my name from me and make it a verb. Think of me when you fall on the sidewalk. Mention me when they ask you what happened. I am everywhere under your feet."
Hearing them all fade out of existence around the 10 minute mark was really disturbing to me.
elegying time
0:28 "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen?"