061 - Time Gear - (Pokémon Mystery Dungeon - Explorers of Sky)

[@colenelvogel7001]

Who else would purposefully not continue the dialogue so that you could hear the music?

[@Arakamira]

I did so, and was so happy when I unlocked the music box thingy...

[@blindcharo8455]

Same I used to draw or do my homework and listen to the music play, while being halfway through a conversation or cut seen.

[@kevinflores2011]

I'd wait for it to hit the 1:05 mark since it seemed fitting when they said something heroic like or it fit the scene.

[@justawaffle4630]

i did that several times throughout my time playing this game, i was always like "damn this is good"

[@ethangoldgameplay]

Me too

[@bottlecap_kid]

can we just all collectively agree the whole soundtrack absolutely SLAPS

[@raijinsensei]

I think everyone players and non players agree

[@dustypapers1850]

Mother 3 also does this

[@brethebird3148]

I wouldn't say slaps for most songs, because a lot of them are really peaceful

[@Veritas466]

@@brethebird3148 slaps generally means "is really good"

[@brethebird3148]

@@Veritas466 ah

[@bananadoctor]

When you find a copy of Explorers of Sky in your local retro game store.

[@redentity3484]

"How much do you charge?"

[@jumpnshootinmansredolderbr5031]

I refuse to give my boxed copy up with the booklet I don’t even have a ds but plan to get a new 3ds.

[@lordofhostsappreciator3075]

@@jumpnshootinmansredolderbr5031 Pls do. You need to play this game.

[@pikalewter6974]

I had time originally and it went somewhere, then I had to get my dad to buy it off of Ebay because it was not in gamestop

[@ancientshiv9837]

I found a copy of Explorers of time at gamestop a few months ago, the game is beautiful.

[@Missingno_Miner]

People, it's not that this theme uses Primal Dialga's motif, it's that Primal Dialga uses this theme's motif. It's a motif meant to be associated with the general concept of time, not just Dialga.

[@FleurLavie]

I've noticed most things in the future world that are meant to hit hard and be powerful also follow the time gear/ dialga leitmotif

[@Missingno_Miner]

@@FleurLavie Exactly. Time motif, the future fits that.

[@FleurLavie]

@@Missingno_Miner This game is god tier man LOL

[@vanesslifeygo]

right on, dialga itself is in the design of a time dial.

[@Kebein.]

the theme is also using parts of lugias theme from the second movie

[@zapperil]

"But this changed when you become a Pokemon . You found a partner and friend in Torchic. She looks up to you . If she found out you might disappear... she'll be crushed."

[@nightstar4912]

I was a shinx and my partner a Vulpix

[@Lunaero]

For my original play thru from 2012, it was Shinx and Eevee Edit: I made a midi remake of this if you wanna listen kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpDJo5tjaM-ge5o

[@nca9722]

I was Riolu, my partner a chimchar... I miss them

[@enque2970]

It's funny bcs I 2 choosed Torchic as my partner

[@cutekyara]

I was Eevee, & my partner was Riolu Such good memories ❤💜❤💜

[@Veritas466]

One of, if not the finest example of the use of a leitmotif. Musical storytelling at its absolute best. The track that tells the entire story by itself, without a single word being sung

[@capcubone5070]

It's fucking incredible what the DS audio is capable of

[@ISuperI]

Limitations breeds creativity

[@marcohueber5130]

@@ISuperI The harsher the limitations, the more you can break them. That's what makes them the best.

[@sugatadatta3811]

This theme has the most mystical aroma in it...it does not reveal everything, yet it is peaceful and gives the indication of an awesome storyline.

[@DarkQuill]

Aroma is scent-based, you can't smell music.

[@KogasaTatara514]

​@@DarkQuillidk man smells pretty good to me

[@Tshefeua]

One of the most beautiful songs on here. So relaxing

[@chrispyynugget1537]

Tshefeua Totally

[@da3577]

Tshefeua if you could choose one song to bring to heaven, I would choose this one

[@theawesomemepreussen]

I would rather choose the remix of this song here. But otherwise agreed.

[@LeafyGrovyle]

Also sad and depressing that you're gonna leave your best friend after the time gears were put at temporal tower and the world is saved

[@icewizard3664]

Yes, but not just relaxing, but also epic at the same time. Isn't that cool?

[@TheMajesticMrL]

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon just... means so much to me. It has helped me grow and influenced so much of who I am. It has helped spur my own creativity, creating characters and a world of my own that I've come to cherish. It's helped me through dark times and taught me valuable lessons. Time Gear is my favorite piece of music in anything. It's mystical, ethereal, and I feel the power of the Gears. It takes my breath away and, just like the protagonist, makes my heart race. I'll never forget this game.

[@elyklol]

Thought I was the only one that felt this way

[@SS-yj2le]

Taught me philosophy. I disagreed with grovyle and deliberately attacked him in dungeons and got him koed by other pokemon.

[@haunted_pixel]

1:05 the chills just JOLTED across my entire body holy crap

[@KyuremPlayer]

That part is actually only hearable in the Fogbound lake music. This isn't the time gear theme. So you got an upgrade :D

[@dangerdwarf8833]

@@KyuremPlayer This is the Time Gear theme that plays at multiple important later parts of the Story, not just at Fogbound Lake. You are thinking of the song Time Gear Remix that plays much earlier in the soundtrack. Google the full Explorers of Sky soundtrack to see for yourself.

[@varunvallury3499]

@@dangerdwarf8833 Not to mention the remix is "peaceful, relaxing, and mystical," but still fairly ambiguous and vague, and the main theme builds on it, and keeps building, up until that signature portion, which is so powerful and profound, and exclusively for moments that are unbelievably significant and emotional.

[@somerandomguy-3102]

I've never seen people talk about this, so i just wanted to say this: The start of the final chapter always gives me the chills. Seeing "Final Chapter: The Last Adventure" hit HARD, even more so because this IS your last adventure, not only with your partner but in general: this happens right after grovyle sacrifices himself (already a sad scene, so you're already pretty emotional), and before that you learn that after saving the world, you will die: you knowingly go into the Final Chapter knowing that it's your last adventure with your partner, and the image at the start of the chapter just reinforces that. 10/10 writing.

[@arnaud7008]

Wait... Who disliked? Dialga and Dusknoir?

[@djsnippy6656]

Arnaud Leurquin exactly

[@htemachtigekanaal1542]

Darkrai aswell

[@patrolfp1847]

They initially disliked it, but liked it later on.

[@channel-bj1bx]

*Primal Dialga

[@icewizard3664]

Well, what can I say. Both Dark Dialga and Dusknoir are kind of d-bags in the story of this games.

[@rednova7107]

Whoever was in charge of composing the music in this game, needs a raise!

[@Trattt]

Yep, best song in the game. At least for me. Not many games out there that give you a good story with good music, and I'm glad this game exists, best game I've ever played. Along with the rest of the PMD games.

[@doommageddon]

I've played every single PMD game, and I can firmly stand... That Explorers of the Sky/Time/Darkness is the BEST one!

[@BlueMaskGuy]

“Not many games out there give you a good story with good music” Me: *throws ‘Hollow Knight’ and ‘Smile For Me’ at you*

[@doommageddon]

@@BlueMaskGuy Well, what they said is still true. Not *many* games.

[@BlueMaskGuy]

DoomMaGeddon42 yeah, I know Just wanted to mention those games because they’ve been a big inspiration for me and not many people know about them! :-)

[@doommageddon]

@@BlueMaskGuy Hollow Knight is great!

[@b0r3al1s8]

You can faintly hear ‘Dialga’s Fight To The Finish’...

[@ConsarnitTokkori]

i mean, it's a leitmotif they threw damn near anywhere with even the slightest bit of sadness and they fucking nailed it

[@ConsarnitTokkori]

and even then it's not really that faint or faint at all

[@AvoytDesign]

@@ConsarnitTokkori Faint? I think you need new headphones, hahah

[@ConsarnitTokkori]

damn fucking tagging errors

[@vietkhoa2512]

it is like a leadup to fight to the finish (I'm 5 years late)

[@ceresgc]

Can you hear the clock ticking?

[@aetimes2]

yes

[@Gyllenstarrie]

Yes, I love how it adds to the song the fact that these gears wield the power of time in them. Also (this probably wasn't intended) the clock ticking brings out the urgency, the feeling that time is running out, all that stuff.

[@UmbreonLights]

Omg yes

[@vietkhoa2512]

i cant, dialga stopped it alr

[@kryldon8146]

Argh, my heart....

[@pastaconlecozze1759]

*Sniff*

[@emcar5555]

Here is it, my favorite song in the entire game. It'll never get old

[@nicolobalestrino]

Frozen in time...

[@mertdurmus7319]

@@nicolobalestrino lost in the world...

[@fr0zengh0ul98]

Facts tho bro. I agree

[@ninofrmda5ive]

i made a slow reverbed version of this on my channel because i adore this ost since i was little but i like everything slowed 😭 check it out if you are into that to

[@tyknight2488]

Why does this song bring tears to my eyes at 1:05

[@ARayV]

😢

[@LittleSky770]

I think because it is very similar to the music that plays when your character fades away after the fight with Dialga

[@aetimes2]

It's a leitmotif that's used in 062 - Through the Sea of Time (Grovyle's sacrifice theme) and 070 - Don't Ever Forget (when your character disappears forever, lost in time) among others. It's not used in 074 - Memories Returned, the saddest part of the game (i can't explain what makes that sad ): )

[@helixatomic8651]

The unyielding winds of change, in the form of song.

[@ninofrmda5ive]

i made a slow reverbed version of this on my channel because i adore this ost since i was little but i like everything slowed 😭 check it out if you are into that to

[@Culebrunch]

Dusknoir explaining the horror of what would happen to the pokemon of the future if we succeed in saving the world hit hard with this song

[@ZakJordan98]

"Behold, Fogbound Lake"

[@nbmudkip]

i’m filled with so much indescribable emotion at this song...

[@tonkuriihq8133]

This game and it's prequels had such a profound effect on me as a child to the point where it sticks with me to this day. Blue rescue team was I think one of my first DS games ever, before I even got into the main series games. I was probably only 5 or 6 when I got it and I didn't even know how to save so I played the caterpie mission like 5 times before I realized lol. There's something about playing games as a child that you can't really recapture when you're older. I heard abt explorers coming out and was so excited bc I loved the old ones so much and got it immediately. I remember my heart pounding when I faced Dialga for the first time, I was excited but also genuinely nervous, like I was the player character themselves. Sure games now can make me emotional but there's that adult part of you that knows the difference between a game and real life, but as a ~8 year old kid that part hasn't really matured yet. I knew it was just a game ofc but I was so immersed in it that I felt for the characters as if they were real. I felt like id actually saved the world. I think it stuck with me a lot, and even as I got older I would replay this game every once in a while. Not even the main line games, as much as I adore them, hold the same exact place in my heart as this and rescue team do. Idk what it is about it

[@hpx374]

i can’t handle this song man my entire body is swarmed by goosebumps every time i hear it this is one of the most amazing songs in any pokemon game ever

[@BuddingResearcher]

*Grovyle* What are you supposed to do?! Didn't you wonder this earlier?! And you decided...that you would decide for yourself! You insisted that, because you don't know what to believe...you wouldn't accept words for their face value...and you'd think for yourself! It's times like this, when things are tough, that you have to be strong. Think for yourself, then act as you deem right.

[@vesselofstars]

Freaking love the Primal Dialga leitmotif in this one

[@TheHappyMadman]

I wouldn't call it a Primal Dialga leitmotif. It's used in his fight, sure, but I think extends to more than just him.

[@vesselofstars]

You're right, that's just simply who I associate the leitmotif with the most, that's all!

[@joshcoy6748]

@@vesselofstars to be honest, I actually associated primal dialgas theme with this one.

[@user-yv3mx2hl1l]

Leitmotiv*

[@venomchicken1028]

one of the best pieces of music in any videogame.

[@enque2970]

"Yeah, it's sucks to be erased from existance when time fixes, and probably no one will remember me when I'm gone... but that doesn't matter an inch when the fate of the world it's at chance, and if my existance it's the cost of many many happy lifes of pokemon that many don't know me... That's a sacrifice I'm willing to do"

[@somerandomguy-3102]

Fun fact: You can hear the "sacrifice" motif (at 1:05) as early as fogbound lake!

[@ExplorerOfSky]

Thats the time motif. It plays in sea of time, through the sea of time, dialgas fight to the finish, temporal tower and a few more time gear related soundtracks

[@yourfavouriteduck6545]

That build-up pays off so well that it’s one of my favourite themes of this game

[@parkerdixon-word6295]

This theme might be one of the easiest ways on this earth to make me cry. When the theme picks up, around 1:05, using not just the Time Gear Lietmotif, but the wind instruments and the explorer theme... It feels like a dam breaking. Like all the pent up emotion of everything you feel just builds until it spills out in a flood. Don't Ever Forget is the song that supposed to get you to bawl, but this will always be the one with a place in my heart that makes me wanna blubber incoherently.

[@HKip]

Words will never be enough to describe just how much i love this game

[@nyko5583]

I want this music at my funeral

[@jacobbunea3131]

Everytime I get to Fogbound Lake after not playing EoS for a while I have that feeling of the first time I heard this song. I’ll always love PMD and Time Gear

[@that1sprig]

Chills Every Time

[@oliverorchard6774]

The feels in this theme are insane!

[@UrAverageJoe]

1:06 there u go

[@junsang790]

Best song in game history ever

[@kylefields3951]

It's just absolutely phenomenal, not that this one track stands above the rest but that you can say that exact statement and it be true about over 20+ songs on this soundtrack. I love this game with all my heart and it's music is something else. There are countless upon countless tracks that move you and are a great listen outside the game. Most games can't say that, they have great music that sounds good in the game but aren't an easy listen outside of it. I can only name DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 2 and Front Mission on the SNES for having a soundtrack that matches this level of sheer quality as it pertains to video games. Really deserves an award for how it makes its players feels.

[@Beamrice]

Still manages to give me goosebumps so many years later.

[@Kaninchen9838]

I think this theme will never cease to make me emotional, it's just gorgeous

[@creativelybankrupt23]

Hearing this the first time with Uxie… I vividly remember all the Volbeat and Illumise flying around illuminating the area, it was so pretty. Such a mysterious sounding theme, but it’s really lovely to listen to.

[@RedoCasshan]

Listening to this song at midnight in tranquility and with the sounds of rain... is the best thing

[@sJonneY]

still gives me goosebumps after listening to this for months

[@sJonneY]

still true btw

[@sJonneY]

Still still true btw

[@sJonneY]

Still still still true btw

[@ehehhh2591]

@@sJonneY still true hell yeah

[@AwedecaiMusic]

Best video game McGuffins ever. Who needs infinity stones when you have these babies?

[@simonriley4373]

1:05 melts me.

[@kingwaffleton1774]

Welcome to Time Gear I spam the same move over and over again My partner is hit by a trap and teleports into a monster house And Cresselia eats all of the reviver seeds

[@captainkep2252]

Was digging through my old games and came across this one. Hoo boy is this a trip down memory lane

[@hiroasuakika7144]

This song is absolutely beautiful. That rising/crescendo segment literally takes your breath away when it hits. Easily in the top three songs of this game for me. I have a very vivid memory of just sitting and listening to this track for ages at Fogbound Lake's geyser cutscene, and in the future when you and your partner confront Grovyle while trying to escape Dusknoir...

[@jakem4361]

the entire sound track of this game is underrated

[@redactedredacted1860]

“I’ve Finally Found It.” “It’s The Time Gear.”

[@gero693]

Fantastic.

[@lvnamoths]

grovyle :(

[@strix3688]

once the time were restored... all pokemon from the future including us, would be disappear forever...

[@IceisNice_FollowingChrist]

1:05 Majestic.... Absolutely beautiful....

[@findafishgaming3650]

1:06 anyone else hear fight to the finish in there? Its details like those that are the reason i love this game so much

[@peaceandraven119]

Gives me chills.

[@impeybarbicane]

this song reminds me of the song from the tops of the elemental lighthouses in golden sun. I love it so much

[@LittleFrostyPrincess]

You mean the same theme that sounds in the Room of Elemental Stars, right? The song who appears too when you defeat Saturos in Mercury Lighthouse....

[@seiikei]

This and the watgbs ost have the same energy

[@AvoytDesign]

I never noticed that this is in ¾...

[@Zachel677]

Tears every time i play this!

[@theillusionist1494]

17/10 soundtrack. 27/10 game.

[@soap143]

GOD I LOVE THIS SONG

[@dinguspingas749]

BROKE: Time Gear WOKE: Dialga Klink

[@TheAbsol7448]

I think this soundtrack has personally outdone Xenoblade's soundtrack as being the most special to me. That is absolutely crazy. This soundtrack is so incredibly beautiful and rich, and it gives me very complex feelings.

[@hipstersephiroth3722]

Thank you being so kind all mighty All knowing God help me and these people to better understand you

[@lvnamoths]

NOSTALGIA

[@bengermin3104]

I love the ticking sound in the background

[@soap143]

the memories

[@kennynakawaki]

Summer of 2014 right here :)

[@majidoujaa5592]

1:05 is when I knew I would need to change my pants

[@25usd94]

tickles the brain

[@thearrivalcyberseignister8898]

Can a nintendo DS make you cry?

[@SirNathaniel98]

Yes…yes it can… **sniff**

[@XTheJenovaProjectX]

Major 1990s Squaresoft RPG vibes

[@Lunaero]

I made a midi recreation of this ost using the General User GS Midi soundfonts set, it can be found here kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpDJo5tjaM-ge5o I will add a download link for my midis of all of the recreations if done when they are finished and also give the soundfont for anyone who wants to listen using things like synthesia. I loved the explorers series and always will love it.

[@KyuremPlayer]

Um this is Fogbound lake not time gear :D

[@spamtong.spamton8416]

The Temporal Spire theme is a remix of this.

[@trvnq]

beautiful

[@hankanderson8633]

I can’t remember if I got this game new or used. But I still have it.

[@whiteknight8445]

Two people liked the music so much they turned their device upside down to like it again

[@ninofrmda5ive]

i made a slow reverbed version of this on my channel because i adore this ost since i was little but i like everything slowed 😭 check it out if you are into that to

[@ARayV]

😭❤

[@srikanthramprasad565]

This song could also be used to tell the story of the Creation Trio.