Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland - Flash Frost | Reacting To Video Game Music!

[@masdrionalt]

Man, I wasn't entirely sure what you would think of this one, really glad that you enjoyed it so much. This is probably the most impressive track i know of in the Atelier series, but the others are definitely nothing to sneeze at. I felt compelled to try the games out after listening to just a few tracks. For a bit of context, Atelier is a JRPG series with alchemy as its central focus, and they're usually more on the cute and lighthearted side, so you're right about the contrast between the music and the artwork. New games are released every year or two, with the upcoming game being the 23rd main entry in the series, and some of them are more polished than others, but the soundtracks never fails to impress.

[@vexkin3286]

i think this is one of my favourite requests on the channel because atelier is so under the radar the music don't get enough attention either because of it so thanks for asking him to react

[@xXSephiroth9999Xx]

Lets have him hear Thisle lotus and slag dance! I'm sure he gonna love those ones too!

[@emilyfox258]

I'll say up front: The entire Atelier series is a rather modest series of games that you experience as a rather pleasurable romp-- interspersed with some absolute landmine-explosions of amazing music that blindsides you out of nowhere in the best way possible. You may end up with some more surprises from these games in time! In general, be warned: Cute anime games go HARD in the paint.

[@j.r.cilliangreen4083]

See also the great battle music from Ryza 2

[@blastburnz]

Damn, the guy who requested this really went for the jugular. By any and all standards, this is top shelf stuff lol.

[@rafaomegax]

"What is this game?" It's a game about making items~ From cleaning Materials to Food to clothes to PIES to BOMBS and PIES and did I say Bombs? Bombs that explode in many different colors and ways~

[@Hiraishin247]

Megumin approves this comment Explosion!!!

[@RoyalCrustle]

WOAH, was not expecting this sort music from the Atelier games! 😲

[@JessesAuditorium]

Understatement of the century

[@AndrewHadi07]

Oh man the JRPG rabbithole is deep. I hope people will also start reccomending the YS series from Falcom. The guitar is sick with piano element.

[@unlimited971]

Dude. I readed your comment and thought ys the second i passed "rabbithole". A player of culture ..i see...

[@zerosolis6664]

Dude. He's gotta listen to more Ys VIII and IX, and needs to listen to Over Drive from Ys II Chronicles. ITS A PURE SHRED FEST. Also Legend of Heroes: Trails games would melt his face off with some of the music.

[@bryguy062485]

God, every song Hayato Asano touches is incredible. He takes this same style into full electronic in the Blue Reflection series (His first solo game soundtrack. The second game just came out fairly recently and he did it again) and its probably my favorite game soundtrack of all time. He left GUST a while back to work Freelance and is doing amazing, and deserves every second of his success.

[@johnoden5932]

This song is the definition of roller-coaster to me so many ups and downs and you never know when or how its going to do something but you know your gana love it.

[@rockydragon2_08]

HOLY SHIT I DID NOT EXPECT YOU TO LISTEN TO THIS EVER this is like my 2nd favorite song ever omg

[@justinseiyanyx6092]

What's your favourite? I'm curious

[@HappyBell92]

Man this song was such a journey.

[@Blutwind]

Oooh noice Atelier music ♡ Even if it looks sugary the series has some certifted bangers and hauntingly beautifull songs. Esp the Dusk trilogy is pretty dark when looked under the surface. On that note "Sky of Twilight" from escha and logy is extremly nice and hype and "Rusty Sky" from Shalie is just gosebumps forever

[@j.r.cilliangreen4083]

Oh the Dusk Trilogy is so wonderful with some of my favorite music…I also hold up Ryza as a stellar example of good music

[@aqua4089]

Rusty Sky my beloved

[@chinogambino9375]

I walked around a park with wet lands in the middle listening to this for a month. I quit my tech job and they removed me from the team during my notice period. This music makes you feel like anything is possible, trials jus make everything more rewarding.

[@j.r.cilliangreen4083]

Here I’m Chicago we actually have a show on the Clasiscal station that featured video game music! The tides they are a changing…

[@emilzanighto2743]

KZbin recommendations brought me here, and I love your channel man, it's really cool to see someone reacting to videogames OST from someone who knows music compositions. It would be really cool if you can react to some of the music tracks from Granblue Fantasy! Such Paradise Lust and Paradise Lost, Zero, Ultimate Bahamut theme, and stuff like that. Those songs were composed by Nobuo Uematsu and Tsutomu Narita.

[@LupineHero]

I'm not sure if Jesse or me lost their mind over this song more. Incredible. I have no other words.

[@aeternusvotum]

OH! A reaction to Atelier music! I love the games so much and have played almost every of them except for the three newest ones (from the new era, PS3 onwards), so this was such a pleasant surprise ♥ I didn't recognize the song by its title but the moment it played, everything in me went nostalgia and happiness, even though I never did this optional boss fight. Hearing the music makes me want to play the one I have already bought and not touched yet so much! And I need to look up whether I can find the old PS and PS2 games somwhere, I'm aiming to have played EVERY (main) entry in the franchise.

[@mrsearaphim4077]

I've played a few Atelier games in the past and I am very surprised by how bombastic this was for that series. Definitely unexpected

[@j.r.cilliangreen4083]

Wait until someone introduces you to the Trails series of games and their incredible soundtracks

[@diamondrust4719]

Such shredding...this was not my expectation.

[@JessesAuditorium]

Thanks to Masdrion for the Patreon request! Song mentioned in this video; Joe Satriani - Circles kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqjPe62QeJqXjNk

[@copjing]

Man I've played Atelier games before but I've never heard this song before! What a crazy and unique track.

[@toriestrella]

It's in Rorona Plus! And in one of the endgame bonus bosses. Probably why you haven't heard it. The Atelier games are full of bangers, they're great.

[@randomgenretalk8151]

I don't know how often people recommended soundtracks from the Trails series but there is an arrange version with a very sick guitar in it. Here is the name of the soundtrack, i highly, highly recommend this track - Sora no Kiseki FC & SC Super Arrange Version - The Enforcers To give context: In Trails of Cold Steel 4 this track was played before the final bossfight. There is mysterious character on the side of the villains who is considered to be the strongest. Over the entire series you have no chance to fight him but in every new game you force him to use a bit more of his power. The climax is the 4th game in which he uses his full power for the first time. The moment was very great because over the years in the games, you worked hard to finally figure out was his deal was. And he has a good origin story which gave the overall mythology of the game a nice 180°.

[@GunNlazor]

I love almost any soundtrack in Gust games, even if I'm not a fan of the games themselves. Springwind Skylark is such a nice battle theme from Atelier Sophie, and it's the very first battle theme you get. I feel like others will mention Atelier tracks, so I'll try another Gust game. Nights of Azure may have been mostly fanservice, but all its soundtrack is worth a listen. "Sad Vampire" is a remix of a much earlier Atelier track. "Malicious Roses" and "Indignation" are great dungeon themes, and so is "Lady Crimson", the overworld theme and by its name, the main character's theme. "Girl of the Opera" is one of my favourite boss themes, "Edge of Apocalypse" and "Floral Crown" don't fall too far behind.

[@Torenhire]

I been waiting for this one since I saw it on the patreon backlog, you gotta watch out for them cute animes, sometimes they slap you in the face with the hardest OSTs outta nowhere. Also - you're running out of space to put your face in that Patreon list!

[@geddistopholes6785]

I've never played any Atelier game, nor seen any footage of it really, but I'm aware of the crafting focused premise and totally agree, not the kind of music I would have expected at all. May have to listen to this OST, and more from the series as well. Cheers to you and all you do promoting the love and beauty of video game music!🎉😁

[@Gardelain]

I really appreciate work you do and the awesome variety of songs people request! Finding out about good music you've never heard before immediately gets me interested in the bands or games they come from!

[@KevinM491]

Jesus how many different strings are in this song?! so good.

[@JMC5991]

The series' music is absolutely underrated. Some of the best VGM I have ever heard.

[@wolfan20]

Man the atelier series and its spin offs have some INSANE music, you gonna love to explore them.

[@Touhou101]

Atelier series music is so underrated lol you wouldn't really expect alot of the hotblooded tracks in the games from looking at the game covers or logos

[@Amelia-me3if]

Loved your face journey during this hahah! This track is amazing, totally gonna be listening to this again

[@LionHuntington]

Wow, this was my first time listening to this track as well and I was just as surprised on how good it is!

[@krykry606]

Japanese music industry is just too powerful. Something you notice when playing their games, is that even their low-budget games made by local groups of several people, get really high quality music. That's just how easy it is to get by and hire a good composer/band to do music for you.

[@thousandvangs3715]

I've been listening to almost all available atelier sound tracks on youtube for the past month while studying and I can say, this series sound tracks just so amazing. It has lots of adventure themed songs I've always looking for. Heck I've saved more than 200 of them, despite me not a gamer at all.

[@wesnohathas1993]

8 minutes of pure ecstacy is what I'd call it.

[@陳威麟-q7o]

BIG THUMB. Speechless.

[@Loyd64]

One song I recommend that's kinda short but has a good beat, is The legend of Dragoon menu music, its famous by the fans for being unreasonably catchy for a song that only plays while in the menu. Similar to how battle toads has a catchy beat while paused, for no reason at all.

[@cn2490]

I was ready to cry. :)) Yeah bro there we were.

[@pz3593]

Hayato Asano, such a genius

[@daveependi1597]

Would recommend you to check out Atelier Shallie - Flying Clouds Drifting Haze. One of my fave OST from Atelier game series (out of 12 that i’ve finished playing). Great reaction btw 👍🏻

[@007MrYang]

Damn Rorona had this masterpiece? Maybe I should've bought it when it was on sale.

[@chocobofangirl]

Atelier is a more french word so it's a-tell-ee-eh. The games have always looked so good but they never ever go on real sales so I've never been sure when to jump in x.x this traaaack thooooo Holy shooooot.

[@nanov1122]

this song reminds me a lot of tales of the abyss opening (english) the original has lyrics it's a cool song as well :D

[@decilence6184]

I would recommend looking into the Ys series , specially the 8th game

[@hykuet6213]

Atelier series and Ar tonelico seriers always have some good music

[@gentlemanchogath7613]

The only bad part about this song is that is attached to a hidden, optional boss so its possible to play the entire game and never run into it.

[@KevinM491]

i respect any developer willing to lock masterpieces behind a challenge. Souls does it (Nameless King), Final Fantasy does it (Savage Tiers, Super bosses)....actually it just seems to be the Japanese devs lol.

[@gentlemanchogath7613]

@@KevinM491 In a way its kind of a reward for being up the challenge. I came so close to beating that fight, too. So close.

[@RinkawaErion]

Atelier Ayesha's MARIA is the most epic boss music I've heard, please take a listen to it.

[@chocobofangirl]

Anyway on the subject of indie JRPGs my favourite non-combat Trails song might be the one from this kind of science dungeon you come back to every little while in cold steel 4, Synchronicity #23. It's so painfully short that I think you should straight up loop it at least once, but it's also just some of the best high energy zone music around, which is perfect when you've got the adorable Tia Russell helping direct the action, and also there's some weirdos who constantly hate on the composer Singa for having a different direction than the other trails lead and I wanna give him more love.

[@aitamasanada72]

Gust has godly tier on music but not so much on story but i still like it

[@JaredScott]

Man I really screwed up my play through of this game because I didn’t run into whatever scene this music plays in

[@Cheezeburgher]

Koei Tecmo games never fail at having absolutely amazing OSTs

[@amsaa91]

Now THIS I wasn’t expecting; Arland trilogy was a delight to discover as it appeared like another cutesy game with cute girls but man the gameplay and music went HARD. I couldn’t even get the true ending in Totori lol. The series definitely combines chill medieval style music with holy metal certified bangers

[@prisoner817]

This was a banger!

[@danielalexandru5415]

Without playing any Atelier games I always pictured them as visual novels but with this track I'm now thinking maybe more Slasher style ? It just bumped up seriously on my radar

[@saitoXamaterasu]

Because it is a kinda visual novel , but when a big enemy aparece the battle theme is always a banger song , many boss fight of the series have a very epic / rock themes , even if the game is always cute they take that aproach for the fights

[@barrelofadventure3734]

Recommend "yesterday enemies are today's ingredients" from Atlier ayesha.

[@AusSP]

You know, this is annoying. Some of the Atelier games have a write-up on what each major song is about, and I'm not sure if this is one of them. And I can't check because I don't have a beaten copy of Atelier Rorona lying around. And it's not listed on the Wiki.

[@JessesAuditorium]

o_O

[@barrelofadventure3734]

@@JessesAuditorium If you're curious what he is talking about is the extra menu after beating most of ps3 and ps4 atelier where you can find the whole sound track along with notes about the songs creation and feelings put behind them.

[@lieverlast1639]

After game, super boss theme. Atelier has great music overall.

[@SlyHikari03]

First. It’s pronounced ah teh lee aye, And second, this track is beautiful.

[@りりりりさこつりり]

ロロナすき 浅野隼人最高！

[@whatnext9106]

Almost to 10k subs

[@cosmes.l8742]

I hope one good soul pay to Jesse listen to The Epic of Armed Fantasia XD!

[@justinseiyanyx6092]

Does this track, have another name? I can't seem to find it any where. Edited: Nevermind, I found it in Japanese, a few minutes later.

[@miri5373]

ok but... where the hecks is this song in an ATELIER game?

[@greirat680]

They who govern reason - octopath traveler please 🙏

[@JessesAuditorium]

That JUST got requested today!! It's coming next week

[@greirat680]

@@JessesAuditorium ohhh awesome, cant wait

[@chocobofangirl]

@@JessesAuditorium YES

[@supergamerguy64]

I'd heard music from Atelier Ryza, and I loved how happy it is. I found even the boss themes pretty light hearted. The only theme that was super serious was the final boss theme and it was epic. Which leads me to believe this may be that, but either way it's awesome and a very dynamic/surprising theme.