Gigguk REACTS to Natlan Live Symphony Performance

[@KategariYami]

It turns out Genshin is actually just a music game. But to keep things interesting they decided to house that all inside a Combat Open World Exploration game.

[@castronimussi6050]

I play Genshin for the music and I play Wuthering for the gameplay. Nah I don't even play Genshin anymore I just listen to the music which is always good.

[@narrrrr6805]

it is a story and music game (they are really not afraid to increase production cost for the best experience they can give), the combat only good if you really like experimenting with many elemental reaction, mix and match. the exploration was so bad for open world game, but it is a gacha game, i can't expect much. wuwa approach was quite good to make it fast paced, but i guess i sacrifice some feeling (like planning how i can get to somewhere, climb here, rest first, using geo as platform etc) the only thing i like is fontaine underwater.

[@narrrrr6805]

the coop system too, idk why. genshin was so fun to play if you play coop with your friend. i can't understand why i don't feel the same with other game

[@f.m.f962]

rythm game devs take note... they should seriously start making their own music and not just working with other artists

[@ReptilianTeaDrinker]

The lore is good too though, at least, imo. Both the music and story are equally good to me.

[@DrakeyStarly]

Watching this after finishing the first 2 Natlan Acts and knowing what the song was for, it hits so much harder.

[@TherealDEXIL]

Can't wait for it to come back when we resurrect someone big 👀

[@davinalhany]

spoilers below don't do it!! No leaks tho . . . . fifteen bucks say we resurrect the dead dragon sovereign and sing the whole song. and the wayub is the severed parts of the dragon or something. idk I could be totally off check back in 5.3 when the last AQ releases

[@nataliakuros9498]

For me when this song started to play in the game I was like "yup, this makes sense it's at this moment"... and you just know something will go sideways is a sec 😂

[@draaxus2969]

AQ spoilers - - _ _ It's kind of hilarious that the first time we hear this song, it doesn't work as intended

[@ronnieketchum1241]

Cried.

[@paul4653]

I can't believe it, he actually did it, he finally caught up in Genshin and it didn’t take him a year to play the new region

[@racool911]

Don't speak too soon, he probably won't start Natlan for another year

[@silis_pap8473]

He finished Fontaine? When?

[@paul4653]

@@racool911 Unless something urgent happens then we'll see him in Natlan next year. There's no way he's going to just ditch us after streaming Genshin for over 10 hours back to back and he's planning to do another marathon this sunday to finish up fontaine

[@naungyoe3215]

​@@paul4653he said he is going to wait a few more chapters to comes out

[@hayliannn]

@@silis_pap8473last week I think? I mean I saw the vods

[@slayra1333]

Robert Ziegler, the conductor for these orchestras, has a youtube video breaking down the fontaine live symphony and explains all about the water glasses and the other water instrument!

[@lakindugunasekara9814]

Hoyo deserves to at least get nominated under the music category for TGA, but the western audience have way too much of a bias against gacha games to ever give that sort of a recogntition.

[@Lucky0x]

I dunno if it is true (cmiiw) but i read a comment that best music in TGA is for completed game while genshin is ongoing game so genshin could not be nominated. Again i dunno if it was true or it is only their assumption ( the one who commented it).. but if it is the trurth, makes sense how good it is an ongoing game cam never get the best music

[@Reydriel]

It would have easily won all past 4 years, easily

[@SzaraWydra]

Arknights already won HMMA award for their live performance, so I wouldn't be as rough at western audience.

[@greaterlordkusanali]

This pisses me off!

[@ronnieketchum1241]

Nonsense. Genshin has music that will blow professional composers away. From a pure theory standpoint. Genshin music is like a tutorial for AMAZING composition.

[@reveriesend4668]

The first Natlan theme is by Dimeng Yuan, the new head composer after Yupeng Chen left. Do you remember the Fischl theme? The epic hillchurl battle theme that only appeared on her Summer event domain? Yeah that's by him. The second one is by Yuxi Wang. He's been in hoyomix since like last year. You prob havent played it but I would recommend playing both Yoimiya Storyquests. You'll love it, and he does the music of the 2nd one.

[@quanglac3818]

damn, genshin music in good hands

[@Monsterbaane]

Where does one find the names of the composers for each song I've always wondered the connections between the different songs they produce

[@nazZiz-b5v]

no, Die Mittsommernacht-Fantasie is Yijun Jiang, along with Yu-Peng chen (I think YPC got credited as composer because he composed Fischl's leitmotif years ago). If you want to crosscheck, you can look up the name of the track on the wiki or on vgmdb

[@isangpilipino9563]

@@MonsterbaaneYou could look up the name of the track in Google and the link that leads to Genshin Impact Fandom Wiki should have the credits on there. Their sources are from official Chinese streaming platforms.

[@spymadmax584]

Fischl battle theme is done by YIJUN JIANG,not dimeng yuan

[@kyoken8691]

The main themes aren't actually what plays in game, the in game versions are toned down and broken into repeatable segments which play in different areas or at different times.

[@Mondy667]

Imagine if it plays when entering a new region

[@BinhNguyen-hw4ll]

We got the first vocal part in Act II. I guess the humming part would be when someone sacrifice themselves (like Rukkhadevata and Focalors)

[@findingaether]

Knowing MHY:.. someone is going to die and then this song plays

[@febryumeko6375]

@@findingaether Mavuika never let you go moment

[@yoru4374]

No they're the same

[@ronnieketchum1241]

Its so pensive but not sad. So emotional but not pessimistic. It makes you cry as you grief those who passed away but then you rise up, wipe your tears and fave the challenge head on. ABSOLUTE PEAK COMPOSITION. THE Sheer Power in the melody is ridiculous.

[@Destroyanor]

The fact that this is all Swahili same thing like fontain ost was in French. The amount of depth is sooo mind blowing and makes it sound realistic and beautiful.

[@BattyButtercup]

this is in Swahili. it's the official language of Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda & Uganda (countries in East Africa).

[@kusumapau8883]

the fact that they still put up insane banger after banger even when yu peng chen left the hoyo mix.... really tells that everyone there does their part of the homework...

[@gojihead3195]

Really imagining Yu Peng Chen pulling a "NEXT IS YOUR TURN!" to the composer writing the songs

[@the1onlynoob]

Genshin music: epic choir singing, then randomly OCARINA SOLO

[@vovafint6507]

perfect

[@Calvin704704]

Dynamism

[@P0larrrr]

Its so cool right?

[@drinkingsomething]

Natlan Symphony 0:14 | "Natlan" Theme 5:46 | "Anthem of the Savannah" Natlan Battle OST Fontaine Symphony 12:00 | "Fontaine" Theme 16:53 | "Rondeau des fleurs et des rapieres" Fontaine Battle OST Sumeru Symphony 21:32 | "Sumeru" Theme 26:34 | "Swirls of Shamshir" Sumeru Battle OST 33:55 | Ignition Teaser: A Name Forged in Flames

[@Who_is_Toast]

Watching this after 5.1 and knowing where the music will appear is surreal. He definitely won’t be disappointed.

[@GameMode7878]

Man, the fontaine main theme really hits differently if you already finished its main story quest. I wouldn't be surprised if they will do the same again, being how epic Natlan's main theme is.

[@TheCsel]

The Sumeru hits too. I definitely see them doing it with Nathan.

[@josuemorera4185]

What he said about missing a moment like with Cocolia where the music explodes at the right moment is impossible to do in Genshin, because it is an open world, each player will have many variables to get to a certain moment, and stopping the action so that the music fits sacrifices that freedom that the open world gives us, in HSR it is much easier to do because what they did was repeat the beginning of the song until the player touches a button and they advance the song to when it goes wild, which ingame sounds good but listening to the full song and hearing that cut breaks the flow of the song, Still, it wouldn't be bad if they tried.

[@bull2e]

Exactly, it's kind of hard to time music like that in the middle of an open free flowing combat boss battle. The usual thing they stick to with tamer 1st phase soundtracks and then more epic 2nd phase soundtracks isn't bad though.

[@I.disagree]

Yeah, I can imagine a banger OST playing during a cutscene though

[@findingaether]

​@@I.disagree someone is gonna ded again😅

[@rez-ye]

Open World Vs Turn Based

[@Natsu]

to be fair, they almost did it with the Scaramouche battle theme during the secong phase because it's the pokemon doing all the damage and you can only dodge and collect the crystal things on the field, it makes the battle less dependent on the player's damage, and the song's drop is almost perfectly timed to the one-shotting attack (the Setsuna Comet or however it's called) if you don't destroy the shooting electro things fast enough Aranara WQ had a great fight in the end with the music that only appeared once and never again, and was pretty nice timed with the players actions too but most of the people didn't even experience it coz long quest XD I remember they were also experimenting with the dynamic OST changes around 2.5-2.6 (like Shogun boss from Ei's 2nd SQ, Chasm battle themes) which also made getting into and out of fights more impactful and interesting, but they ditched it I guess?

[@Juimimi]

The Ode of Resurrection is so PEAK man. All the cultures mixed into Natlan give a lot of variety to the music

[@takeuchikinoko2553]

Dont know what bros in the comments are smoking, but the first song is the Ode of Resurrection

[@snehashissarkar9259]

probably haven't played AQ act 2 yet

[@sundaechii]

​@snehashissarkar9259 that's because when Garnt watched this, it was before Natlan came out

[@snehashissarkar9259]

@@sundaechii I was talking about the comments on this yt upload not garnt coz I saw this live on twitch

[@spymadmax584]

Genshin team of hoyo mix has like 12 composers (some of them left, including yu peng chen),they are 1)dimeng yuan (fontaine, natlan main themes) 2)yijun jiang (fischl battle theme,apep boss theme, marana avatar theme) 3)qian ding (all devouring narwhal) 4)arcalangelo chen (remuria world boss theme) 5)ziyu che(fontaine underwaters,harvisptokm tree) 6)yuxi wang (anthem of the savannah) 7)yang lee (arlecchino animation short music) 8)LUNAN (arlecchino boss theme,wriothesly demo,fontaine version trailers)

[@insanelylonleyauthor1829]

NO ONE FIGHTS ALONE!

[@HHH-rf2hv]

GiggukVods, my favorites genshin reaction channel

[@zettonhz]

Garnt needs to listen to Duel in The Mist, since there's live performance on Genshin's youtube.

[@dreameisters]

"Vocals might be not in the game?" They actually put the vocal in the story quest and also in the battle music.

[@mmxiggi]

This song hits much harder in context with what happens in game

[@TNinja0]

"It's just a phone game, don't need to go all that hard ok?" *Converts the entire company into a music production studio*

[@eiji11282]

This was so awesome when natlan act 4 was going through.. peak music peak cinema peak game. My favourite Game for sure 💯

[@RasenCore]

Love the new music but damn re-listening to Swirls of Shamshir after a while makes me realize how much of a banger most of Sumeru OST was DAMN that Sitar goes hard

[@chase5436]

The ocarina is such a cool touch. It's one of the instruments that both the Chinese and Mesoamerican cultures invented separately from each other, and the ocarina of course has a special place in video games.

[@bipolarbroccoli]

Gigguk: "I did not think Genshin music could get any better man" me: same man, same, been following their music since the people performed liyue theme in casual clothes to Japanese orchestra in traditional clothes, now we have actual fire on the stage.

[@Nephhhilimms]

it's the music for the ode of resurrection and also the music for the chapter 5.1 archon mission

[@slepples2428]

I can’t lie, when I first got into combat in Natlan and the Anthem of the Savannah played, I legit stopped playing and listened to the entire thing

[@gojihead3195]

And then 3rd battle OST just goes💃💃💃

[@Salvador-312]

The lyrics of the Natlan ost are so good. It’s talking about battling for the ancient names, burning away, then getting revived to try again. Literally what the pilgrimage is about in natlan.

[@yve_w40]

the Natlan battle music high res version plays when you select genshin icon on PS5 and I found myself constantly getting stuck there because it’s just so good! I have to listen

[@kookio4284]

Honestly. I know this region will provably be "power of friendship" like. But I can't think of a better region to have it cause the symbolism of Fire being stronger when there are many flames fighting together and thus mirrors the way Natlan pushes through it's crisis just feels right.

[@show9161]

It literally gave goosebumps during archon quest can't wait for remaining archon quest since we're definitely going to listen more of it

[@julioramirez8179]

Man, the fontaine main theme do be hitting like a truck knowing all the context behind it.

[@ray_on_crack]

Watching this After 5/1 Archon quest be like 💀 💀

[@tasmeetiqbal4583]

For Natlaaaan 🔥

[@nccastro653]

Welcome back to my favourite game. Things are pretty peak lately!

[@FlamingTuna]

The first music "Natlan" is just like the introduction for the region and doesnt actually what you're going to heard in the game, the music will be used as a sample for the region's actual in game music. This is the same as the previous regions aswell.

[@racool911]

It plays in Chapter 5 Act 2

[@rez-ye]

Someone hasn’t seen the Ode

[@androidynamit]

Mfs be rushing to comment instead of playing the quest

[@FlamingTuna]

No, what you Heard on the Ode is a different version of the song and you can clearly tell the differences, it has the same lyrics, melody and sounds because its based of "Natlan" or it used the sample from "Natlan" which was played in live symphony performance.

[@FlamingTuna]

A good examples for this is one of the fontaine's main city theme "Le souvenir Avec Le crepuscule" and focalor's judgement dance song, these two is based from "Fontaine" which played in Fontaine live symphony performance.

[@jasonreyes6090]

If you’re American, the Glass Harmonica was actually invented by an American President.

[@radddish]

it is crazy that, ANYTIME , you can teleport to these regions and hear these master pieces. CINEMA ABSOLUTE CINEMA

[@crozsol4278]

and for free!! Hehe

[@TedRLY]

Hello fellow weebs and gamers, I see we insta clicked on this vod once again

[@Light15XV]

If Ashikai does a video on the symphony, I’d watch 100%

[@idkmaybe7412]

Genshin isnt a game, genshin is an experience with some game sprinkled on top.

[@soumachin]

"and back to the water" like Focalor giving back power to Neuvi 😭

[@Qiqimain69]

Hoyo always cooks with music

[@jacobbaumgardner3406]

HoyoMix a team built by Yu Peng Chen before he left. They work together to make this legendary soundtrack.

[@Ecaea]

HoyoMix exist way before Genshin and before Yu Peng Chen joined , they took in Yu Peng Chen and it elevated their music to god tier that is all. But before that they already had been making banger music.

[@jacobbaumgardner3406]

@@Ecaea sorry, that was poor wording on my part. He created his own team in HoyoMix for Genshin specifically.

[@1Henrink]

There is something on Sumeru music that gives me chills, and Nathan has been hitting that spot too. Not sure if it's "styles" of composition that differ from classical European, that's why it makes a bigger impact.

[@shadowwalker4633]

Probably plays out at the end battle of the archon quest

[@Mortreed]

Do you know that they found out their music is so good, they decided to make game out of it? Fun fact!!

[@crozsol4278]

I love Gigguk and I’ve only seen him on KZbin

[@jackky_john.]

Never played any Hoyoverse game but this symphony hits hard.

[@crozsol4278]

Genshin music is absolutely amazing, even if you just wanna start with just listening to the OSTs online. :)

[@Falcaograve]

Sumeru and Natlan have some of my fav music! (Inazuma is pretty good as well :D)

[@Yuki_Ika7]

Natlan Music is my favorite in Genshin

[@fellknight]

Based. Everyone loves it, but I had the same reaction as you, this is peak AF

[@MyaTheOtaku]

I love mavuika so much

[@reminii4246]

We know what this scene is for now... this music made me patriotic for a fictional fantasy nation

[@praf1069]

peak music and a great reaction!

[@f.m.f962]

vocals are in the game this time

[@Sayros23]

The last time I felt this kind of chills going down my spine, I was battling a ginger (ex - blonde chick) swinging his mace around to kill me who then proceeded to turn into an inter-dimensional mitochondria

[@Taegeun-09]

1st Fontain music made veryone in chat cry I wonder why 😢😭😭😭😭

[@jonathanrobinson198]

Fontaine music will forever have a grip on me.

[@potasuki1908]

Fun fact: they used math for sumeru music :D

[@docdelta]

2:01 The scene is equally formidable!

[@Aman_Mondal]

First Natlan OSTs are great but I have to say during archon Quest it kind of feels weird when suddenly you start hearing vocals since Sumeru and Fontaine and none of the other nations have vocals in the OSTs not to mention them happening when it's literally casual scene ongoing like during a normal conversation so yeah 😂 also that Glass instruments in Fontaine were peak meanwhile Sitar doing Sitar things and representing all of Indian culture in the Sumeru portion

[@Shionfromyt]

GGs

[@fukhungyudarman3958]

For me, it made it that much more impactful. Simply because how rare it is in the game.

[@cryophoenix6114]

​@@fukhungyudarman3958that's how I feel too. The rare occurrence of vocals makes the ones with vocals even more special. But also, since the ost doesn't rely on vocals, it makes the instrumentals used very pronouced and a pleasure to listen to. I feel like a lot of songs in general rely too much on vocals and the instrumental ends up lacking a bit.

[@LamperougeCC]

Fontaine OSTS have vocals though I think

[@Shortness.]

the first music vid was sung in game with lyrics no? during mauvikas entrance i think

[@josephryantengco3671]

Boss battle lul, it was one cutscene which actually led to something harrowing.

[@sh4pp31]

Genshin team knows how to flute!

[@Punniz]

Can’t wait for Gigguk to play Natlan next year 🎉🎉🎉

[@FrozenFzt-yf1tr]

Natlan is great, but sumeru battle theme is the goat for me

[@Dr_Igasaur]

free game btw

[@khai_xi]

Really hoping he would react to La vaguelette

[@petalsonthemoon_]

Fontaine theme’s flutist look like Jason Sudeikis lmao

[@NobleLaika]

Genshin music can't miss

[@muhammadahnafwisnunugroho2534]

this makes me fr wanna go to war

[@AntiNihilist]

6:30 if only that moment had happened...hmmmmmmmm

[@Kyle81290]

It has been happening since Sumero, idk what is Garnt talking about

[@Goujiki]

Natlan act 2...

[@JojoplayAB]

Fontaine act 5 ……

[@maxwell9430]

Yo if he is watching the concerts now someone who uses twitch get him to watch the HSR concert they did for the anniversary that went absurdly hard.

[@Kyle81290]

There's a little problem tho... Star Rail music is ass

[@ishansharma2463]

​@@Kyle81290hell nah, even if genshin music is more diverse star rail also has some amazing tracks.

[@_tsuki_]

​@@Kyle81290disagree It's different but still has many bangers

[@simonditomasso9868]

Star rail doesn’t really have a ton of great music, it’s mostly good regular video game music with two big bangers (white night and cocolia boss fight song). Hard to make a continuous concert with that

[@DEADLYSINS1001]

Thats the song of mavuikas final fight before dying and giving the new title of archon to someone

[@radamanthium]

Mavuika will not die, Capitano will

[@ChildMonica-b1z]

Young Gary Robinson Scott Gonzalez John

[@melubeckhaus9558]

What language ist that or is it Just a Fantasy language

[@apolkiss6117]

It’s swahili

[@melubeckhaus9558]

@@apolkiss6117 thxx

[@pangoro-idns]

29:57 Ramadan fast got me 😂😂

[@zechs7404]

No way im the first one here!!!

[@1Apex_LegendProMaster007]

Kuro devs sweating rn and could never

[@SetiKt]

I mean hoyo is a music company with side hustle making games. That's why their music goes harder than their games.

[@distritochristianangeloa.157]

Even Arknights Devs (Hypergryph) are evenly match with Hoyo in music tbh.

[@かんちょう-q9p]

Dude you should stop make genshin players look bad 😔

[@OrkusReOrca]

@@distritochristianangeloa.157not in the diversity and how many style they did tbh. Hoyo went from chinese, olympics, sherlock holmes, to Russian ballet.

[@Gottaloveaxolotls]

I heard how PGR had bomb ass music but they wouldn’t get the same studio to do the music for WuWa which is a lil apparent since while it is serviceable, the music just didn’t hit the same level of hype/emotional imo

[@eluscara]

ta

[@Z15H4RT]

"Vocals might not be in the game" So I thought so I thought....

[@criccode2993]

Honestly I never understood the hype of wildfire. Its just overrated

[@sneakretster]

The reason people love the HSR style/hype anime style music so much is because it's built fundamentally to be a hype machine and play to a person's emotions by using lyrical vocals at the climax of a fight, people are just falling into that well constructed trap because it's easy to turn your brain off and ride the excitement. Wildfire and the other songs like it are fine, but it's definitely bordering on generic so I get why you and others might find it overrated. I myself am MUCH more partial to the music before the lyrics even came in and I would've been happy if it stayed like that for the whole fight.

[@boleds4316]

Without the context (aka gameplay) it's generic af, but when you hear that in game, it's kinda hype... For that one moment

[@syednaim2893]

not dark mode bruh

[@doinyourdad_6969]

They can have poc sing the song but not in their game 😔

[@crozsol4278]

mostly as NPCs :(

[@waifuslayer69]

Scaramouch live boss theme it's also a banger give it a watch😊