Opera Singer Reacts: Zwillingstürme im Herbst Battle Theme 02 || Arknights OST
Vložit
- čas přidán 1. 11. 2023
- BRO THEY PUT Der Erlkönig IN ARKNIGHTS. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? THEY'RE EVOLVING CLASSICAL MUSIC AGAIN
If you love video game music and how it helps us more deeply connect to the games we love, consider subscribing and/or joining my Patreon, let's discuss and uncover the beauty of VGM together!
/ marcomeatball
| Who am I? |
Hi, I'm Marco Meatball, a former pro opera singer, turned voice actor, turned CZcamsr. I grew up loving video games and video game music after first discovering them when I was 7 years old. Since then, I have lived and breathed all things video games. This channel is all about video game music and the beauty of modern composition, how it allows us to connect more deeply with the games we love, and how we can better learn to understand ourselves through it and the experiences it provides.
Find me here:
linktr.ee/marcodmeatball
#videogames
Games you will find in the channel:
Final Fantasy, The Last of Us, League of Legends, Genshin Impact, Devil May Cry (DMC), Elden Ring, Dark Souls, Ultrakill, Terraria, Undertale, World of Warcraft, Monster Hunter, Warhammer, Honkai Impact, Honkai Star Rail, Bloodborne, Ace Combat, Doom, Warframe, Arknights, Nier, Guilty Gear, Risk of Rain, Armored Core, Destiny and much, much more! - Hry
The best thing about this specific piece on top of being a remix of Schubert's Erlkönig is that it was composed by Lappy, who is known for having made many fan-made themes for Arknights, which is just the cherry on top for me.
Nice!!!!
Whaaaa Lappy made this!!! I’ve been listening to her stuff for awhile now so I’m glad she finally got the recognition she deserves!
I agree, that makes it better.
Dayum good for him, his lord of ashes was peak. I hear bits of it in the music he put in zwillingstur im herst
@@MrBadcodyyou can hear that in the middle Is similar to lappy's "lord of ashes"
A bit of spoiler but here are some extra fun facts :
- Ebelholz's name revealed as "Franz".
- His EP is "Ständchen" from Franz Schubert.
- The anni stream was on 22/10. That was also Franz Liszt's birthday. And Liszt was a student of Carl Czerny. If you've read The Lingering Echoes then you'd understand the reference here.
"How many references to classical era are we going to put in our two Leithanien events and some of its operators?"
_"Yes."_
Seriously though, that's so cool
Also, it seems Kreide could be inspired from Chopin.
Irl, Chopin and Franz Liszt are friends. Chopin has a weaker physique and is also quite introverted while Franz is much more extroverted
Should have made Ebenholz birthday 22/10. Missed opportunity there XD.
@@DragonKnight90001 they probs think it's too on the nose XD
Classical Music Professors: Surely a mobile game could never challenge such a timeless classic like Der Erlkönig!
Arknights: Hold my beer
There is a Game called takt op where all the characters are inspired by classical music
@@holmes007fulunfortunately, the EOS looms near
@@holmes007ful The anime is good too!
I’m going to show this song to my music theory professor because he talked about Der Erlkönig to explain through-composed music in one of the music theory classes and I think he’ll appreciate it seeing classical music being remixed into a modern setting where a lot of people can enjoy it (he also uses metal music to explain music theory concepts, so I have a feeling he might show this off in said theory class)
Aw! Hope they don’t think I’m an idiot lmao
Maaan i REAALLLY want an update on this, sounds omega cool
Would love to hear a second opinion from another professional/professor
Good to have such based professors
So, did you show it to your professor?
This is probably the fastest ost literally just came out from arknights that got reaction from marco lol
Would not be surprised if he pulled something like the "Leo DiCaprio pointing at TV meme" when he saw this
It was just that much of a banger
No one has mentioned it yet but this event has an interesting mechanic added to it: you can compose your own music in it using sheets you get as battle drop items..depending on the sheets used the tone of the piece changes..after you compose it you have to gift it to a customer..this is the reason why this event alone has 30 different bgms..also I'd like to recommend listening to the boss 2nd phase battle theme of this event..it's shorter than the epic Erlkönig remix but it's amazing in its own right
You guys should tell him this event doesn’t come out for 6 months for global server
@@swift-pawedteif386 I think he knows..he made a lot of Arknights osts reaction videos so there must have been at least 1 person saying that we wait 6 months for EN to get CN stuffs in the comments
@@Neen746well you never know. His insight into music is soo deep I forget he doesn’t play at times.
That said he hasn’t to my knowledge expressed that he is aware of server event-time dilation. But he easily could be
and for Cherry on top
it's revealed that Ebenholz( the boy with Standchen theme song ) real name is Franz, which definitely a reference to Franz Schubert
Hearing this feels so surreal considering I literally had to memorize Erlkönig in my German and music lessons back in 6th grade
small correction: Zwillingstürme is a combination of "Zwilling" and "Türme". So it translates to Twin-Towers, not Twin-Storms. The "s" in there makes it easy to mix up.
So, "Zwillingstürme im Herbst" translates to "Twin-Towers in autumn"
The Twin-Towers here are an important thing in the Arknights lore and are holding a very big historical significance.
🫡
@@MarcoMeatball Thanks for the heart. Love your insights in classical music as a german, who's country has birthed a lot of classical pieces
To highlight the difference, Twin Storms would be Zwillingsstürme, so with 2 s in the middle.
What are the historical impact of the Twin Towers? Sorry, I am still trying to caught up with Arknights lore, so I don't know what it is 🥹
@@julydaydreamer404 They are structures in Leithania belonging to the Twin Empresses. Basically the buildings for the heads of state.
Arknights values education.
introducing classical songs, classical culture, classical history, to the younger generation in a sophisticated way
and every year, arknights celebrate the students completing their exams by giving them a song.
They also give us their own periodical test kek (CC)
@@retokazene5085CC themes are some of the BEST TRACKS 🎉🎉
YEESSSSSS! The moment I heard the music in the livestream, my reaction was " I can't WAIT to watch Marco's reaction to this"
Your video on Ständchen made me a fan of you, as well as gave me a new appreciation for the original Ständchen as well as the Arknights version. Seeing what was essentially a sequel to that made me _know_ that you'd eventually make one for it. Absolutely stellar stuff!
:)
That opening is insane, we need more of Marco singing in these analyses, amazing job
Fun facts (minor spoiler alert):
This event is taken place in Leithanien, a country that has a very deep musical culture and is known for music arts, which merges their magic into their instrumental performance, and there are many classical music references in it
One of the important character in this event, Ebenholz's (the character in Ständchen) real name is Franz, supposedly a reference to Franz Schubert, and he's heavily related to the Witch King
There are other references of famous composers appeared in the story,
The most well known University in the country is named Ludwigs-Universität Einwald, taken from Ludwig van Beethoven.
One of the town is named Bach, taken from Johann Sebastian Bach
There is also a character named Mr Hoffmann, I assume it is a reference of E. T. A. Hoffmann
etc.
A small section of Chopin's Revolutionary Etude is used in one of the game mode
Leithanien is presumably based around Austria-Germany, which Hypergryph chose to reference composers from it
Well, given it takes its name from the river Leitha (a tributary of the Danube) which was the traditional border between Austrian and Hungarian lands...
"The placenames Cisleithania, Transleithania and Lajtabánság are all derived from the Leitha River. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, which created the Dual Monarchy, _Transleithanien_ ("beyond the Leitha") was the Viennese colloquial word for the region beyond the Leitha (meaning Hungary or the Kingdom of Hungary), while _Cisleithanien_ ("on this side of the Leitha") denoted the Austrian lands. These names reflected the Viennese and Austrian perspectives towards the rest of the Empire, because Vienna lay on 'this' side, and the other half, Hungary, lay on 'that' side."
- Wikipedia
It's a _bit_ subtler reference than the extinct state of Gaul (whose last Emperor was one Corsica III if memory serves, totally not invoking Napoleon III you guys) but not by much.
@@broadbandislife It was Corsica I, actually. The Battle of the Four Emperors is a very on-the-nose reference to the Battle of Austerlitz, which was known as the Battle of the _Three_ Emperors.
I love how they connect music to regions in the game. Ebenholz and Viviana are from the same place, Leithanien (which is basically Germany-Austria). Now if you go to Laterano (Vatican) you have character themes that we like to call "catholic dubstep"
Arknights is a great game, or rather a great story with a game attached... but I wouldn't recommend to anyone who isn't looking for a hard read. Not just because it's massive, but because a great deal of it is quite tragic. And while it's hopeful in many other spots, and many situations are improved by the end of things... it's very much a struggle in most cases, and often a costly one.
and that's the best part!
Nice to see that "totally not romantic era Germany" keeps up the classical music tradition. I can still remember each stanza of Erlkönig. We had to memorize both the original by Goethe and the musical version by Loewe in 7th grade. Similar to the poem, no German student can escape the Erlkönig.
when the first time hear new leithanian ost, I was thinking "when Marco will react those osts"
now my wish became true, thank you so much!!!
Austrian here, love Franz Schubert's work, we learned about *a lot* of classical music in school and this really more than does it justice,
I love what was done with the music here and the reaction and breakdown was great as well
Loved getting your knowledge on this and the Earl king as the main villian in this event is called the Witch King who was known to conduct experiments on whole populations of towns of his own people to further understand Originium(rock cancer that gives stronger magic powers). Which makes me feel like a lot of Leithanian lore is built off these musical pieces!
If i may recommend it, the boss theme of this event is really awesome as well. It has 2 versions, which depends on how far you are into the bossfight.
HAHA, I was about to suggest this music in general chat yesterday but I thought it would be better to do so once the official version dropped, which should be in a few more days. I knew you were going to love this.
To add a little more, this theme has 3 different versions referred to as weak, normal, and strong, apparently, it changes depending on the boss's state. It seems like the story about the Earl King has somewhat influenced the story of the Witch King, the antagonist of this event.
This new event is packed full of some really wonderful music, I've seen some people say that the Lobby theme feels similar to Fur Elise or Chopin's Nocturne, one of the new character ep mashes both Lethnien (classical) and Laternao (dubstep) motifs and so on and so forth.
Loved your singing at the start of the video and I hope you have an amazing day!
Waiting for Marco to cosplay Witch King day 1
My man, you got the best pfp ever, mad respect!
No, this is normal battle theme.
The one that have multiple version is the witch king boss battle theme
No, that's the boss theme, not this one
The "Revealing" track they just released is also a banger, its crazy how good arknights music is
What I heard about this event, those music from old Era/classic. And f*cking damn neat.
Battle theme & boss theme is damn mind-blowing
Especially because of the mechanics of game, it has 3 versions. They're really cook too much
If I had a nickel for every time the Arknights ost used one of Schubert's pieces, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.
when i played through the event, i kinda just sat there stunned at how amazing the music was
Watching this as a german subscriber feels like a fever dream. Shoutouts for the clean pronounciation (and the lore accurate expressions when telling the kid to come with you lmao). And the ost is definitely great :D
@MarcoMeatball CZcams trailer for this event on EN server landed recently. You'll probably see new traffic on this video.
I mean hey, it brought me back here again immediately after watching it. Still a solid video.
I really wish I could just outright buy Arknights music rather than chasing individual tracks down over different websites.
I'm so glad I could enjoy you singing the Earlkönig.
As always spot-on and unexpected explanations!
The piano-part felt for me like the Earlkönig lamenting about his child in his arms.
Btw the Arknights theme has been officially labelled Der Hexenkönig (The Witch King).
Wow! It’s HERE! I’m so happy now. You just made my day! I’m also very curious about how other people who spend years in classical music will react to this kind of modernized piece.
Damn Marco you were fast on this one! Realized this earlier today and was about to DM you on socials (since I can't on discord). Glad to see you covering this one! \o/
Fun fact, this theme is also composed by "Lappy", an Arknights fan who made lots of (non-official ofc) music for the game, it's nice to see them giving such an opportunity.
Quick edit: Aight all the comments were faster than me obviously. Anyway, glad again to see another Arknights release and to get new insight on the song and its history from you ofc
I keep seeing you around bro, you're everywhere
As soon as i listened to this I knew id love seeing your reaction! This piece has so much power and terror in it for a standard battle theme! Also so interesting to learn that the original song and poem are about fighting a type of fae king when our boss in the event is a witch king
Cant wait to see you react to more Leithanian themes!
Thank you Lappy for making this amazing remake
Its realllllllllllllly dope I agree
I know nothing about Arknights, but the last couple of tracks that I have heard is making me want to look into it. It has some real awesome tracks and this is definitely one of them.
Arknights has a lot going for it and I know people who play for all sorts of reasons. I personally play the game for story and worldbuilding. It's definitely an amazing game and its constantly working to polish itself in various ways.
A beautiful video, like always.
I really loved to hear you sing this lied, especially because I didn't knew it before and because it was unexpected (at the start of the video)
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Nice analysis (and reaction) as always. Thank you Marco!
I'll take the opportunity of this video being tied to the Lingering Echoes event to ask you to upload LE's boss theme analysis video. It's a long time very awaited video (which you mentioned you'd upload), at least for me. Thanks for covering Arknights as always, I also sometimes wish you'd record your initial reaction to a song.
The same with his rythem in literature Video:,) he mentioned it a few times but maybe it needs more time
There it is!! I even commented on the RiverV, Let's GOOO!! This is absolutely a headbanger. Just sheer epicness alone is amazing :D
I heard this song and immediately thought of you. So glad you got to talking about this song. I studied Erlkönig in academic decathlon and it's been one of my favorites ever since.
Playing the game is entirely subjective stuff and i wouldn't recommend Arknights to most of my friends not even because it is tower defense or even because it is a gacha game but because it is a huge visual novel with insane word count. And btw writing and translation is not... the best you can get in literature. Having said all that, i still enjoy it as i really love piecing together lore and worldbuilding elements, it really shows that authors do know and love world history.
I mean I won’t say the writing is high art, and obviously everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I’d say the recent is actually very good for the most part, especially considering how some other games translations are. Gameplay wise tho is just not for some people in my experience, and probably the main reason I don’t recommend it to more people.
@@ApexOfCrabkind there are few problems with writing. Like characters no matter their age and background can just start longwinded tirades about philosophy and morale and so on, lots of side stories and character profiles tend to tell you almost nothing, and repeat the same basic themes again and again. Later chapters of the main story is indeed written and translated, side stories are 50/50...
Also it is kind of tricky to play if you are travelling) Game wants you to be 100% online, even if you want to read story bits in the airplane or on some other car/train ride in rural areas with spotty internet coverage
@@SotonyaAcckaya good points really.
Agreed, people don't need to play Arknights to enjoy their art, including music, illustrations, characters designs.
the whole event is about German classical music! A lot more to listen to!
Wow this is so coincidental, we’re learning about this piece in my introductory music theory course
It's so nice hearing you sing and speak german. Really well done. Greetings from Germany.
Danke!
Oh, yay, more arknights music. I always love to hear your thoughts on this series.
And I loved your singing at the start.
Glad you notice new banger this quickly!😁
Hey you were fast on this one like it hasnt even been a few days! I was excited about your insights on this song!
Hoping you would hear the same event's Battle theme 01 as it features a quartet vocals and Boss Battle theme as it has 3 variations, best if you go for the notmal version first.
I do hope you give AK a try at some point but we are also getting endfield in the future (spin off game) and I hope they continue with amazing osts during that game.
He already gave it a try. The gameplay wasn't his cup of tea though, so he stopped.
@@dindapriska did he? Huh. Yea it sucks that ak is a great game but niche genre of game
Honestly would love to see you listen to more of Lappy's stuff, great fanmade content
Seeing you are a fast one, once i heard it had the Erlkönig in it i thought of you lol
I think you should also check out the first battle theme for Zwillingstürme im Herbst, it has a lot of vocalization and is pretty neat
Wow. Marco singing in an Arknights review video? Double blessing. Cheeres!
Hope you enjoyed it!
@@MarcoMeatball I did! And I sincerely hope to see more of your spectacular skills in future videos!
coming back to comment again
the soundtrack for the event was just uploaded by MSR not long ago and this song is actually titled "Der Hexenkonig"
thought that was neat
and the other song mentioned in my comment yesterday is "Underneath the Spires"
maybe also check out "The Theme (variant)"
there are two versions of The Theme, the Imperial one is the mix used for the actual boss fight (there are other variations of that in game that tie into the event mechanic) and the Variant one is from the event PV
What a speed. The event was released less than a week.
8:03 I feel like this works like this due to the pacing feeling like it is increasing, and the somewhat eerie feeling from the accompanying violin. It goes fro a warm kinda space to a cold and dark space, where you can just feel that something isn't right and there is some danger you can't see. A strong feeling of tension, suspense, and unease even without any baseline information. This resolves into a certainty of danger and a resolution to press through the storm aroung 9:05.
I suggest you to listen to every new Arknights ost from new event called "zwillingstürme im herbst", especially Battle Theme #1
The moment we found out it was a lethanian event I knew it was a matter of time til chat got these songs to Marco. Looking forward to your reaction to the rest of the ost from the event
This might be a new top track for me, but I'm gonna wait for the event to come out in global before starting to blast this.
I learn so much about classicals and stuffs from u especially when u make a reaction video of songs/game music from a game I really love. ❤️
I wanna see a reaction video about the battle theme 01 or titled “Underneath the spires” from MSR ❤ coz that’s my favorite bgm among those released musics from its event
Love your Arknights content 🔥
the music for this event absolutely blew me away, i think it might be because the region is leithanien again lmao
i really think the world and lore of arknights is something special, i really wish i could recommend it to more of my friends but the amount of reading is quite the hurdle haha
anyways always great to see more arknights here, i hope endfield (the spin off) is good and becomes successful and brings more attention to arknights!
Fucking love the Erlkönig
Arknights is unhinged and im loving every second of it 😂
Erlkönig is a ballad i had to learn lmao. But from a language standpoint not a musical.
Edit: in my city you can even go to an erlkönig statue
Erlkönig somehow have a very special place in my heart from just the nonstop hammering(?)
Would like to see you cover the boss theme as well
i see erlkönig, i click
You sing so beautiful.
And your German is pretty good.
impressive how many languages you can speak/sing
The title is Zwillings - Türme which means twin towers but thats a really easy one to fall for.
Lappy makes really great music. I love their Lord Of Ashes
I basically Instantly clicked on this good Lord
As much as I love Arknights’ music I do agree with your point, it DOES get too intense lol.
Thanks for the lessons and the insight Marco!
Lingering Echoes will soon rerun on global, if you are drawn to Arknights by the Leithania stories and themes
Now we wanted to see how would you react to Arknights EP:Revealing
Please listen to the Capcom Version from the "Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance" game, that was my first time hearing Der Erlkönig and is GREAT, the track is called "Mafia King"
I don't know if you will listen to (because its not expecificaly a game, its an based on games webcomic) but it has an entresting ost if i can call it like this , the name is homestuck and like 70% of the ost is made by toby fox (undertale creator) i recomend listening to "oppa toby style" and "savior of the waking world"
I like your content amd discovered your channel by the calamity terraria tracks , keep up with the good content
OH DIESE SONNE!
Sorry, this is from Der Freischütz.
I would love for you to introduce this to your musical colleagues to get their opinions and thoughts.
Waiting for the next Arknights song stream :)
Hey man, you should check out Pieta’s boss theme from Lords of the Fallen. It’s called “Stigmata” and is honestly such an incredible piece.
It really is!
I think there's 3 version of the song in the event
You're probably thinking of the boss theme 🤔
@@hessianqrow7977 indeed
A little correction on the translation of "Zwillingstürme" at 3:37. It is not "Twin Storms" (Zwillings 𝐬türme) but "Twin Towers" (Zwillings Türme), in Autum .I'm yust gonna leave that here.
If you don't like the og Arknights, there will be a spin-off game called Arknights Endfield and you should definitely play that when it get released...
Quick someone bring Lappy over here
GLAD U BRANCHED OUT TO ARKNIGHTS! u should listen to frostnova (requiem) and lullabye
He already has done those two I believe
Branched out? lol. I have many arknights videos
Finally
If you aren’t familiar with them I’d love to see your opinions on the song libera me from hell from Gurren Lagan and the anime Your Lie in April
I really recommend you trying Arknights. Game lore is very important as probably evident by comment section under those videos.
HG aka devs are also going full in on world building and immersion by adding German and Russian Voice Acting to characters from regions inspired by those countries.
Something a lot of us were expecting when they out of nowhere added Italian Voice Over to few Siracussan operators.
No worries he said he'll be playing Endfield in the comment section of gameplay Demo 2
okay so the witch king is definitely getting resurrected somehow in this event right
The opposite..he was put to rest for once and all
gotta put into perspective that it is a boss theme, so it needs to be separated in boss phases
It's a regular battle theme
a regular battle theme with phases, i play arknights, the stages all have waves with different sizes, working like a boss battle@@schlop1771
It’s a regular battle theme
@@isaac15752 well I saw a playthrough of this event just the other day and this track plays for like 6 stages before the boss stage, so yeah it's just a normal battle theme
read what i said again@@schlop1771
Hypergryph cooks too much in every aspects for CN 4.5 anniversary that they lit up the whole kitchen
Would you pls react to the blasphemous soundtrack?
Arknight's songs are far less famous for their quality...
I hope more people listen to Arknights' songs
This is my problem with Arknights battle themes - I usually fail the stages when a good theme starts to kick in (which are *many* of them), because I want to listen to it for longer, lol
As for you playing the game yourself..
Honestly, I believe you have enough patience (including because of your line of work) to get over early boring chapters to those where difficulty and fun starts to pump up, and the game starts to kick your ass.
As for the event with this soundtrack - we should get it in Global in 6-7 months. Not too soon, not too distant.
The theme still plays if you pause the stage, I sometimes just let a theme play like that if I enjoy it.
Fürchte Der Hexenkönig
Name of the song? I might be stupid, but I can't find the name.
I said it on the intro :D
The song is officially titled "Der Hexenkönig" 👍
@@schlop1771 The witch king 😱
Day #1 of asking for the soundtrack of fullmetal alchemist brotherhood
Never
@@MarcoMeatball see you on day 2 man
Pianists? Try to play it on violin like Hilary Hahn does and fail hard...