Game Composer Listens to ARMORED CORE Music for the First Time

Today we are listening to Armored Core music for the first time! I've listened to A LOT of From Soft music, but somehow I missed out on Armored Core, until now. This particular track is called Someone Is Always Moving on the Surface and i's from the game Armored Core For Answer.
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[@DaviVasc]

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[@tickledpickle5671]

There aren't terribly many missions in space in For Answer. You can choose to go with a certain shady pilot, who just wants to blow up a bunch of civilian ark ships in low-orbit. Of course, going this route gets you arguably the hardest mission in the game.

[@Zad711]

Can you react to ragadon the golden order the final boss in elden ring

[@niryva]

You should react to creator from Lena Rain

[@airthefallen]

Never clicked on a notification so fast in my life. So glad you are finally getting to Armored Core music! Here is a bit of context for Armored Core: Generation 4 Armored Core is my personal favorite soundtrack-wise (where this song is from). But there are various other great tracks to choose from! Armored Core, you play as a mercenary in a post-apocalyptic world, working for various corporations in their own corporate warfare and espionage. You aren't a hero, you aren't a villain. You are an elite mercenary fighting for your next paycheck. You might be hired to help someone one day then hired to betray them the next. In Armored Core 4/For Answer specifically, much of humanity has been forced to live underground or in flying shelters called "Cradles." "Someone is always moving on the surface" tells of the fact that, no matter how ruined the world is, or how bad the fighting gets, humanity will always persevere and survive even in a ruined world. I hope you end up finding more AC songs you end up enjoying! Really glad you are getting into another Fromsoft game's soundtrack.

[@airthefallen]

If you are looking for more suggestions: - Mechanized Memories (AC Verdict Day) - 9 (Master of Arena, but it has lots of official remixes as well) - Artificial Sky I (AC3) - Silent Line I (AC Silent Line) - Coral Guardian (AC6)

[@benmccoy1766]

Hey I asked for this months ago! I’d love to see an analysis of some of the tracks from the newest Armored Core, Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, if you wanted to continue listening to this series’ soundtracks. I would recommend “Contact with You” if you were only going to listen to one!

[@TornaitSuperBird]

Let us not forget the soundtracks of the games before AC4 and For Answer, as they sound *nothing* like the series does now.

[@mokadelic4037]

Armored Core 6 not being nominated for best musical score at GOTY 2023 was nothing short of a human rights violation

[@InternetHydra]

Fitting given no one involved with games awards anymore is a human.

[@Zephhi]

I mean it was good but I didn’t think it was that crazy compared to other AC soundtracks

[@tickledpickle5671]

​@@InternetHydra I was in the same boat when NIER Replicant didn't win soundtrack of the year when it came out. The world sucks, man...

[@ibysdagon4659]

Honestly I think it was the weakest ost they made. I mean Contact With You, Bad Joke, Stargazer, and Rusted Prode are bangers, but the rest I can't really remember outside of maybe The Man That Pasted the Torch. Can't say that about 1-5

[@Mattin_Satteo]

Come on guys... It was good, but compared to others it was not THAT good... I loved it and I would have liked for it to at least be nominated, but still it wouldn't have won.

[@ravynbunny7193]

Rough and Decent from AC6 is great but Steel Haze (Rusted Pride) is even better!

[@m.shields1270]

@@ravynbunny7193 All my blood Let me rise Rusted pride Let me rise

[@ArmoredGriffon]

Those two are outstanding, but my favorite has got to be Unbreakable, the song that plays for the Wallclimber mission and several Boss/AC fights.

[@ravynbunny7193]

@@ArmoredGriffon hell yeah, good shout

[@elk3407]

Rusted Pride might be good, but Steel Haze (Where Truth Meets) is peak Armored Core. I'm not sure it gets any better than that in the entire franchise

[@hikarihakai1285]

The official remix version in disk 3 being Where Truth Meet is even better

[@Jormyyy]

It is crazy how vast and diverse the Armored Core series' music is. 6 is the only one I've actually played, but watching and learning so much about the old ones has been a fascinating dive. 6 in particular goes hard on the bleak sci-fi setting that translates into the music as well. With a lot of somber, dark and scary, or outright frantic electronica sounds to its music.

[@tickledpickle5671]

When it comes to the piano, I see less 'chaos' and more chaotic organization. Every thing sticks to such a strict formula for most of the track. It's the foundation. And as time passes, a new foundation settles. And eventually cracks begin to show once again. I see a bit of a cycle, not desperation.

[@austinwilson7373]

Replace “space” with “wasteland” and you’re pretty close

[@theplaguedoctor3283]

Replace the vastness and emptiness of space with the vastness and emptiness of a dead quiet world

[@Oliver-Thyella]

@@theplaguedoctor3283I mean, as quiet as breaking the sound barrier 15 times over can be.

[@voidkingofswing]

'Panther' from AC4, Nineball's theme from Master of Arena, 'Contact with you', 'Rough and Decent' (the regular and Bad Joke versions), and The Man Who Passed The Torch' from AC6 are all certified bangers.

[@KalaamNozalys]

Armored Core 4 Answers is very much about the end of a conflict which most major events happened in Armored Core 4. It's the last frantic run toward getting the best ending possible, the best answer to the impossible situation presented to the player when the game starts. So the lonely piano just keeping up the same loop, over and over and over; always going forward and never slowing down or repeating, is very fitting of how the game goes. Always taking a new mission, keeping it up, just doing your job and trying to make the most of this world, until you start learning more about the conflicts and the players in it (which would be the different cords and emotions making the scope greater) as you advance the story and make your choices locking you in different paths. Of course, the track cannot end here, it's only the title screen, to get an end to it, you need to reach one in the game, there you do pick an answer to the question asked here: What is at the end of the journey ? (the game isn't subtle about it btw, the last line spoken in most endings by your handler is: "Is that your Answer ?")

[@italolouro3283]

Armored Core For Answer has a lot of bangers, I hope you get to lisen to them

[@laserduck6149]

HELL YES! Oh man I wanted this for so long, if I can recommend some other tracks, I highly recommene Steel Haze (Rusted Pride), Contact with You and Rememeber. Glad you covered this one!

[@viggen88]

Ooohhh, love seeing you do armored core music! Would highly recommend you cover "contact with you" from AC6

[@ThatMetalheadMan]

The in house group in From that makes these tracks is named FreQency. Can be found on Spotify too.

[@Err0r34]

You know I was always Fascinated with this Melody when I was a kid, I still love it and wish I could play it simple, but it reminds me of it Continue to fly as high as you can, to the Atmosphere until your thruster stop working... simply I think it beautiful

[@James-hs6ut]

If your doing armored core themes, you should totally do contact with you from AC6

[@baron1324]

an absolute must, he is going to LOVE it.

[@saem6027]

Hey bro! Nice videos! I love how you explain every detail of the soundtracks✨ You've earned a new sub. I also have a question. What brand are the headphones you wear on your videos? Please excuse my English, I'm still learning. Grettings from Mexico🇲🇽

[@the24thcolossusjustchillin39]

The funny part about the space like feel is that everyone in the game is stuck on the Earth due to a satelite relay around the entire planet Shoots down anyone trying to leave

[@tamperedcat99]

I'm glad FreQuency does most of the score for the series

[@theplaguedoctor3283]

My excitement for Armored Core For Answer videos is immeasurable and i'm JUST talking about For Answer let alone the rest of the series

[@tickledpickle5671]

He started off hard with the best AC game to date.

[@GiraffeDGod]

I think this is the most beautiful track in Fromsoft and I’m lucky to say I got to experience this game when it came out and hear this theme for the first time left a impact on me and my brother

[@Zephhi]

It’s peak. AC1 all the way up to Silent Line have some of my favorites, and then you get 4 and 4A which are so awesome

[@proudlarry8225]

One of my favorite Armored Core tracks. 4 Answer is, like most of the series, set in a very bleak dystopian world that showcases the worst of humanity, greed and industry. The overarching theme of 4 Answer is that no matter how you answer the question of how to live there is going to be consequences for other people. Good, bad, you can't save everybody and sometimes you can't save anybody. But you need to give any answer at all to proceed. Out of all the series I think it is probably the most emotional, simultaneously the most inspiring and depressing thing. Not even Armored Core 6 can come close even though it also touches on these themes more than the other installments.

[@f.d.c.willard8768]

I'm so glad to see you listening to the armored core ost! It's one of my absolute favourite game series and the music is always a real joy to listen to

[@ryzacobalion3622]

I cannot wait for Davi's reaction to the rest of For Answer soundtrack such as Spirit of Mother's Will and The Answer.

[@andresabourin2423]

Oh HELL Yes. Armored Core has so much content that could be reacted to.

[@kinshorin]

An oddball AC track I never really see anyone bring up that I love is Autobahn from Armored Core Nexus. Things like Nineball's theme and the stuff from For Answer are fun and all, but not enough people recommend many of the PS1-PS2 era OST tracks. Rise in Arms, Complete Physical, Shape Memory Alloys, Clash on my Enemy, The Encounter World... There's a ton of cool bangers from past games that barely anyone ever recommends.

[@Pizzifrizzo]

Please, keep covering Armored Core music! As much as I love this track, it's not "typical" Armored Core. Hell, typical Armored Core varies from generation to generation as well!

[@thoseregigs4794]

i think this music fits armored core for answer very well even though it only indirectly has something to do with space, the game's themes are primarily about the preservation of life under strict rules versus the freedom of choice and the chaos that might come with it, it is about fighting for what you stand for and think is right and i see this piece as something that would play when one side stands victorious in the end of the conflict, reminiscing about everything it took to get there, while a sudden wave of relief washes your past worries away, a new future awaits

[@__w__o__w__]

god i love this song. peak early fromsoft vibes up there with DkS1 main menu theme. Btw the extended version continues where this one ended with a new motif.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

This track is from later on in the timeline. Due to events from past games, earth's surface a barren, sand swept wasteland, devoid of all life, polluted and irradiated, with the only things to break the bare monotony being the ruined, abandoned husks of buildings from cities long dead, and the occasional battles of the remaining corporations, powered by massive, supersonic war machines darting about through the sky, their pilots ever modifying, ever tweaking in an effort to be just a little faster, just a little stronger, just a little tougher, to fight for their cause and win in a war with no end. But anything worth fighting for from our perspective seems to already be dead: humanity lives in bunkers and skyships, sealed away from or soaring above the horribly polluted surface, that lifeless wasteland that used to be home.

[@ibysdagon4659]

Actually it's just the events of 4. Apparently having a global war primarily using war machines that leak super radiation fight each other isn't good for the planet. But the AC timelines are weird. 3 was a reboot. I heard Nexus was a new one but not sure and you can make a case for 4-5 both being connected and not connected depending on your pov.

[@fusioncell7669]

​@@ibysdagon4659 3rd gen is split into early and late entries, with AC3 and Silent Line being early 3rd gen and Nexus and Last Raven being late 3rd gen. This is primarily due to changes made to mechanics as well as the introduction of a dual analogue control scheme in Nexus onwards. All the parts that reappeard in late 3rd gen that came from early 3rd gen were also renamed. It's also all but confirmed that 4th and 5th gens are connected, especially with information from one of the books I believe. Even without that though there's more than enough clues in 5th gen, particularly in Verdict Day.

[@ibysdagon4659]

@@fusioncell7669 yeah honestly I feel like white Glint and spirit of motherwill showing up in vd are pretty clear indications that 5 gen is continuing 4 gens story but there is so much discord about that and even the wiki says it's just Easter eggs so I guess it's believe what you want. Plot wise it's kind of odd with 3rg gen. If you relate Silent line to nexus, it's kind of redundant and contradictory. But Nine breaker is kind of worst for the narrative being sandwiched between Nexus and last raven although I guess none breaker really doesn't have a plot and sucks so meh.

[@-antagonistic-]

The next one you should do is called "Contact With You" from armored core 6, that's a good one.

[@shrekvulter3645]

HELL YEAH ARMORED CORE BABY I was waiting for that one lol. For the next one, you should check out Signalis ost, especially Turn Around, Die Toteninsel Emptiness or The Promise :)

[@HunterMatahashi]

AC For Answer is my fave AC game (or maybe it's AC2 Another Age idk), it has some particularly good themes, this one says a lot about the game and it's world, really really nice to see how you perceive the message from it

[@thejoyfuldragon887]

I'm surprised you're not reacting to ac6 music since that's the most recent and popular one but I'm not complaining. i didn't know about this song and it's awesome.

[@goosemanVEVO]

The Armored Core series has had such beautifully varied soundtracks throughout the years. It has gentle piano music, upbeat electronic tracks, heartracing rock, grungy ambience, its great!

[@ibysdagon4659]

With conext this is pretty, well hopefully depressing if that makes sense. Even the name. So it's a sequal to AC 4. Your a pilot of an Armored Core NEXT called a Lynx. In the past game, there was this massive war where all the players hired Lynx pilots to fight for them. Issue being NEXT emmit radiaton when in combat and the Earth was poisoned because of it. Humanity escaped to floating cities called Cradles but the Lynx were deemed to dangerous to be allowed in and were banished to the poisoned Earth. But the corperation still need pilots to continue their wars so the work of the Lynx continues. Earth is desolate but there is someone always moving on the surface.

[@jockycracker8253]

AC6 - Takes Me Anywhere is one of my favorites (the chorus in the song is literally the dev team singing).

[@trodanyea]

This is soo good! If you decide to listen to any other armored core tracks I definitely recommend contact with you from ac6

[@AquaMaryn.]

I'd never listened to Armoured Core tracks before. This was haunting and beautiful and convinced me to start playing the AC series from the beginning, instead of jumping straight to Fires of Rubicon. Your comparison to the vastness of space made me appreciate and notice the nuances in the track that I would have missed otherwise. Great analysis as always.

[@Ptollemios]

I highly recommend you DON'T start from the beginning of Armored Core. You should definitely start with AC 4, 4A, or 6. The older Armored Core games are good for sure, but are NOT intuitive and are VERY difficult to get into. Play some of the "newer" games FIRST, and then if you feel like you're digging the games, THEN go back to the older games and feel the struggle.

[@lesslighter]

@@Ptollemios ehh one can easily start with Nexus since thats where they actually applied dual stick controls

[@Ptollemios]

@@lesslighter I would argue thats still not an easy ingress into the AC series. Pretty much anything older than 4 is very archaic and is very difficult to play and understand. They simply aren't as intuitive the farther (back) in the series you go. I'm not saying they aren't worthwhile experiences, but I simply don't think they're the best starting point for anyone getting into the series. They're more likely to turn someone away. There is a reason the AC games were niche and despite AC6s success and good faith they've (From Software) built with the souls series, AC is STILL niche.

[@lesslighter]

@@Ptollemios eh I'd argue that due to the nature of AC4 people won't learn good old school energy management which is important in the old generation games besides clunky controls especially if you adivise on them using energy weapons since energy weapons dont cost anything before AC4 but drains your generator which is important to know considering you will be using these techniques for a good set of 10 games, considering theses been like 5 titles since AC4 out of 16 yes yes granted using Hokushi or even VP-20D in AC6 is already testing how good you are with "old school" EN management

[@Ptollemios]

@@lesslighter you could learn good energy management in any of the games. They all require it to varying degrees. I would understand your point of it was something like comparing Sekiro to Dark Souls. One has a stagger system but no stamina, whereas the other has stamina and requires careful management of it. However all AC games require you to manage energy, so energy management could be learned in any of the games.

[@pawekrasowski8060]

Thank you very much

[@frostedsouls]

I would very heavily recommend "Mechanized Memories" and "Nine Ball, King of the Arena" from the armored core series.

[@m.shields1270]

Please listen to Fall and *Remember. They are superb songs from 4 and 4 Answer

[@minecraftender8105]

And then a certain kind of memories

[@TheAshenTarnishedHunter]

The armoured core 6 soundtrack is so underrated imo, if i had to recommend any i'd say steel haze (rusted pride), the man who passed the torch, and cries of coral are all excellent tracks worthy of a listen.

[@ventsito69]

Recomiendo Contact With You de Armored Core 6

[@smergthedargon8974]

Reminds me a lot of Porter Robinson's Goodbye to a World, especially the choir - and that's one of the greatest songs ever made, so it's fair to say this is pretty great too!

[@Schpertor9460]

I think this OST is the twins of god moving over the face of the waters by Moby. Not only the melody but also the song name.

[@Noizzed]

Rough and Decent is so good, specially the jazz version

[@bruhlordofthemoment]

In no other game will you get sick twisted pleasure from hearing "Fell the Cradles, all of them. Millions will die, exciting don't you think?" Followed with "100 million dead!" at the end of the mission.

[@TheTangeriner]

What you said reminds me of the Armored Core titled: Cascade Range

[@paulohgracioto]

Hello Davi, you have to listen to the track of Midra, lord of the frenzy flame. By far my favorite track and certainly your insights into what the track means would certainly enhance the work even more. Please make a reaction.

[@minecraftender8105]

This is one of my favorite tracks from the 4th Gen which are called NEXT's instead of Armored Cores at this point in the series. This potrays a variety of things, but the two main ones i take from this song are that it's a song of both hope and tragedy. Hope in that humanity will survive and thrive in it's own way potrayed by the piano but as time goes on with the strings and the choir show that humanity will have to come to its harsh reality that those who are thriving will have to face their harsh reality of those always on the surface which is polluted and destroyed from years of NEXT's fighting each other and their shields causing contamination of the world and land And something interesting i heard someone say that the piano notes are thoughts and the base is a heartbeat

[@anonkingdom7025]

something to do with space is a major plot point

[@Aguyontheinternet]

If you're still taking suggestions, the Icon Of Sin theme from Doom Eternal might be right up your alley. Mick Gordon's music is one of those things that everyone needs to experience at least once

[@Boldcheesecake1029]

Here's my take on it, as someone who knows nothing about music itself and very little about armored core The fast, frantic, yet graceful piano is much like machines fighting. Constant, unwavering, flowing and desperate, yet without emotion Then there is the 2 hit bassy sounds, a heartbeat. It is faint, alone in a sea of robotic war, yet determined to persist The second layer of separate piano is a new, different fight, being done by a machine, yet distinct, fighting against everything else, but not competing Then there is the voice like sounds at the end, acting as a light at the end of a tunnel, as hope Might be pushing it a bit in a few cases but it's how my over analyzing brain sees things

[@aced4fun]

Oh Davi, you're gonna love this musical journey I think you're about to go on if these comments mean anything lol.

[@pavelmajer1836]

I dont know if its "worth a video" but I would love to see you react to "Rough and Decent" and The (Bad Joke) version as well ... Its definitely a standout in the Armored coreVI: Fire os Rubicon OST for me

[@アソパソマソ-u8s]

I'm going through the translation, so I'm sorry if it's weird. I am Japanese. I watched an explanation video of "Touhou" music. It was amazing how each of them guessed the characteristics of the characters. Therefore, I would like you to listen to ``Last Remote'' and ``Magical Girls Centennial Festival.'' This is a road song for "Koishi" and "Flandre".

[@ashleycurzon6348]

The knight who seals the darkness from hyrule warriors: age of calamity would be really cool to se you break down

[@samuelvibritannia4831]

Love the recommendations, and love the video! Definitely listen to Contact With You, it's the best track.

[@kotn3l]

Contact with You from Armored Core 6!!

[@AnshuSingh-oq9go]

I only have 2 requests Davi: 1. Blasphemous 2 2. Grime and its dlc tracks

[@commanderblargh6300]

Please also try out the music from Armored Core 3 when you get chance.

[@ltrttl]

Please take a look at Midra’s theme from Elden Ring DLC. It’s amazing

[@TheTangeriner]

Love this track.

[@primedialga]

I would like to suggest "Day after Day" also from ARMORED CORE

[@FizzieWebb]

2:01 A big plot point of For Answer is that in the time between Armored Core 4 and For Answer, the Earth became so polluted/radiated that outside of small pockets, it's nearly impossible for humanity to survive on the surface, and so most of the Earths population has taken to the Mesosphere in massive colonies called Cradles. However, there are still resources on the surface, and several corporations still have manufacturing plants down there. Soldiers and pilots and Lynx(mecha pilots) are always fighting on the surface, hence the name of the track "Somebody is always moving on the surface." Spoilers below: The three endings to For Answer all have to do with the fate of the Cradles, with the most morally white option being the one that dooms humanity, as you defend the AI center keeping the Cradles in orbit, because the combat satellites the corporations put in orbit to stop each other from leaving and terraforming new planets first will fire on any craft that attempts to break orbit, trapping humanity in atmosphere as the pollution eventually reaches the Cradles and kills everyone. The Old King ending is the most morally black and leads to much of the same, as you join forces with a Lynx by the callsign of Old King and shoot down 5 of the Cradles, killing 100 million people, before killing every Lynx who tries to stop you, and finishing the job, single handedly ending the human race. The Orca ending is the morally grey, as you simply destroy the AI center that controls the orbit paths of the Cradles, causing them to crash to Earth, putting an end to the wars as it also brings down the combat satellites allowing humanity to spread to other planets and terraform.

[@spre4751]

I would like you to analyze the final boss theme of Final Fantasy 7, which is also popular in America, ``One-Winged Angel''. There is demand in Japan and the US!

[@jerrroo9589]

Can you please do Great Grey Wolf Sif?

[@beanschurgerapocalypse3365]

You have to listen to Rusted Pride from AC6

[@senjumaru118]

ついにACfA!

[@minerman60101]

I wish they'd port the pre-AC6 Armored Core games to PC and newer consoles, it sucks that all but one game in the series is very inaccessible in the present day.

[@naga8756]

Steeeeeel Hazeee

[@Gaahl-8]

Day after day from AC5 please

[@IvoryMadness.]

Nice! 😃👍

[@Oisin80]

I don't like this type of song, it makes me nervous, bad feeling, but yeah, I sense the zoom out, which is pretty cool. That makes the video very cool. That's it. ¡Adiós!

[@뗑컨쓰]

for answer is not in space but it's about space lol

[@Engeneversethe3th]

Can you do miss monomi’s lesson from Danganranpa v2

[@一个不起眼的名字-r6v]

Please listen to the theme song Encanto for Forza Horizon 5😚🙏

[@Mattin_Satteo]

I feel like Fromsoft is giving less and less relevance to OSTs game after game... There are a few good left in every new game, but rhey twnd to repeat the same ost wit a few tweaks in modern titles.

[@annemccormick2561]

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[@SirPogsalotCreates]

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[@DaviVasc]

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