Opera Singer Listens to the Stellar Blade OST (analysis and break down)

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[@blackmrbean]

Finally, someone is discussing how awesome this OST is.

[@cpt.tenneal8858]

Stellar Blade needs to win soundtrack of the year.

[@mrchim187]

yes !!

[@Daniel_C_Griffin]

I'd be happy with Silent Hill 2 as well, I've been binging that since it's official release.

[@Webby125]

FFVII Rebirth takes it IMO.

[@conradsmith9441]

I just want people to know the game is more than just a game for loser guys to look at a pretty girl. The gameplay is complex and fun. Also the soundtrack is easily one of the best video game soundtracks I’ve ever heard.

[@KlCHlRO]

@@conradsmith9441yup, i found that out after I started it when it came out. I was so negative about it at first, being a nier copy and what not, which it still is don't get me wrong but by the end it has it's own personality and along with the music and fun gameplay it just works. One of my favorite games now

[@Broximar]

This soundtrack is by far my favourite of 2024, and you’re right, so many are just arguing on Twitter for clicks or have never even played it.

[@GenesisJames]

One of my favorite video game soundtracks of all time! Crazy how much variety there is while also staying true to a consistent tone and sound; such a great blend of classical, rock, and electronic genres!!

[@marthfan]

This is the OST of the year for me. I've actually listened to many tracks a lot since playing. Of course I picked it back up for the DLC, but the whole year has been MONACO and Shift Up for me! Stand out tracks are Flooded Commercial District, Raven's Theme, Star Descent, and Tachy' Theme.

[@SMNtheNight]

My favorite OST of 2024 by far, and easily one of my favorites of all time. It's not even the Monaca-produced stuff that makes it stand out to me, it's everything else! Also, just letting you and anyone else know Shift Up does have the full album uploaded on KZbin in 2 parts and is much better quality than the old fan uploads. There aren't any jarring cuts that splice together phase changes like in boss fights such as Elder Naytiba. They also aren't missing some of the first few intro moments in some songs.

[@darcrequiem]

I was listening to this OST when I was driving to see family for Thanksgiving. I will be listening to it again on the drive back. This OST is beyond exceptional.

[@xc1tetunes]

I just finished the game. I was sooo captured by the gameplay, lore and of course music. I was playing like for days straight, 40 hours almost non stop. And when I finally reached the end, I started to listen to the OST from youtube playlists. It's nothing like I heard in years, great game, great success and great music. Thanks for checking it up 🖤

[@descriptiondescriptiondescript]

Thank you for making this video 😭The songs in this game are amazing

[@Witch_of_Gains]

Finally!! You got the Stellar Blade Soundtrack!!

[@futanahriadventures]

@1:39:30 Stellar Blade is going through the same issues as NieR Automata did in the past. It took that game years for the gooner stigma to dial down and for most people to give it a chance. I’m currently doing another new game+ to enjoy the nier costumes and see another ending. And i can 100% tell, the whole OsT is what drives me to go through it all over again without a second doubt. The atmosphere + action pieces and gameplay is just chef kiss. And to boot, the ambience’s theme of both Wasteland and Great Desert has been replaced with Automata’s ost, it such a joy to explore it with a new and nostalgic vibe. Raven’s theme is such a blast, it’s basically ingrained in my mind as i’ve tried and died so many times on boss challenge on hard mode 😂 i just wished we got more exposed focus on her descent into anger/madness, and not as a last resort reveal. She is my favorite trope. Lastly, i’ll come back later to check out your analysis on the Elder Naytiba, as i only did the “true ending “ (the providence fight with the second outcome) and don’t wanna spoil it. But the whole ending just felt like a setup for a sequel with mother sphere.

[@FlashesSoccer011]

When you wear the nier outfits it changes the in game music to the music from nier. Its totally dog shit.

[@crazy13alex]

​@FlashesSoccer011 That alone is enough to call it "dog shit" for you? Damn, I can only imagine how you'd react to an issue in a bad game's performance.

[@labrat5598]

The game was made by shift up, it was made for "gooners" same with nier

[@FlashesSoccer011]

@@crazy13alex no one is discussing the performance of the game? What are you even yapping about? I'm discussing the music changing in the game.

[@nclark5720]

thank you so much for doing this. music in video games truly is special, and throughout the 24 years i've been alive, i've never had a more emotionally profound listening experience playing a game before. many of the tracks can bring me to tears effortlessly. the story of the game is simple at first, and from a traditional narrative complexity perspective, it really is simple overall, but the music, visual details, and fundamentally human themes blend together so wonderfully, and it really is one of my favorite game stories because of this. i'm so fucking grateful for this game, it's the best game i've ever played, i hope more people around the world shed their preconceptions and give it a try, it's just such an amazing audiovisual and emotional experience, the gameplay is just a cherry on top. thank you for sharing your passion with others, and for sharing the joy of this soundtrack with others!

[@SoulCaptain2870]

The opening song to the stream is my favorite one. Marco you have such good taste man.

[@eymaslacker]

The song right at the prelude tutorial "Star Descent" is the one that really makes the OST for me

[@NotUrMomz]

Stellar Blade is my pick for ost of the year

[@alexstrife3]

I haven't played a game with such incredible and catchy music in years

[@FlashesSoccer011]

Just play any fromsoft game. Or BG 3

[@Eienias]

this gonna be fun to listen to. the OST is so big its hard to find some of my favorite tunes in it on spotify didn't know the elevator ride was Everglow, LOVED that piece first i heard it (and the visuals outside the elevator were perfect) awesome ost

[@barnuner]

Definitely my OST of the year. 👍 My favorites have to be Great Desert reboot + Wasteland reboot as well as Stellar Dream!

[@conradsmith9441]

It’s either Stellar Blade or Metaphor Refantazio for soundtrack of the year in my opinion, but I much prefer Stellar Blade. The fact that I prefer this over Metaphor is crazy because Persona easily has some of my favorite music in video games. I love jazzy, complex, interesting, and different music. This game is probably not GOTY…but it does have the most diverse, impressive, complex, beautiful, and immersive soundtrack. Its soundtrack is easily with the best such as the Persona games, Zelda games, and Mario games in my opinion. This soundtrack may even be my favorite soundtrack of any video game yet. Thank you so much for telling me the complete soundtrack is FINALLY out on Spotify and Apple Music. I’ve been listening to KZbin videos and constantly checking, thanks for telling me!

[@kevenmonge1390]

Eidos 7, Tachy and Raven OST are my absolute favorites 🤝🤝

[@kenethernandez6246]

My favorite game soundtrack of the year. Thanks for this man. I wish more people would talk about the amazing music in this game. It easily competes with any game soundtrack ever.

[@IivewhileImalive]

The Everglow is the most stunning and inspiring game song of 2024, I think.

[@feathersareheavierthansteel]

Shift Up are really generous to include a game with this divine soundtrack.

[@victorrychkov2839]

Marco, thank you so much for doing this! Man, this soundtrack is something else, never in my 30+ "career" as a gamer I was blown away by the variety of genres in a videogame. Hats off to you, Monaka studios and everyone involved in creating this masterpiece.

[@nyarlathoteporlyeh6158]

Stellar Blade's OST wins the year for me. Every single track felt right for its intended scene.

[@Oneofonejah]

Memory tower (right before you go into hall of records), arisa, desert reboot a & b, wasteland reboot a & b, lily’s atelier, everglow, star descent, silent street, im in love with the whole soundtrack so much that im working on my own english version of a few songs

[@dspellcaster1027]

Stellar Blade has the best OST for me this year followed by GB Relink and Metaphor. Stellar blade has more standouts to me but when Relink goes hard...it goes hard.

[@kkbaby30]

Flooded Commercial Center, Memory Tower, Shelter and Elder Naytiba all have the same motif and it's awesome that that tragic loss is revisited in that final fight. Same goes for Lily's intro song, Lily's Atelier, Signal from the Colony and Providence all have the same and that fear of losing Lily is there in that final fight. I really don't think any OST gets close to the overall body of work here nor have I ever listened to any other OST outside of the game as much as I have Stellar Blade. It's insanely great. Also, my GOTY and I've played Wukong, Metaphor, Final Fantasy Elden Ring DLC.

[@FlashesSoccer011]

Stellar blade is dope, but it's in no way shape or form better than the Elden Ring DLC.

[@kkbaby30]

@@FlashesSoccer011 I don't like the Soul's series combat. It's very clunky and is more about waiting 10 seconds for an enemy to finally give you a 2 second opening. Stellar Blade is more like activating Ultra Instinct as you weave attacks in while perfect parrying and perfect dodging, non-stop. Not only that, but I love platforming. The wall running, monkey bars, rope swinging, rock climbing, swimming and sword skating is just beyond any experience I get from ER. Stellar Blade is by far better than ER to me.

[@FlashesSoccer011]

@@kkbaby30 Souls games aren't for everyone. They are definitely not just about standing around for 10 seconds waiting for an opening, though. That is how the average person plays them because making a mistake is so punishing. There is a massive skill gap in the combat in ER. You can parry and be hyper aggressive if you are good enough. Especially with the tools and weapons added in the DLC. Most of the weapons in the game actually lend themselves to a very aggressive play style. Stellar Blade is a great game, but it also can be mostly about just waiting for an opening if you chose to play it that way. You can approach combat however you want in each game. Stellar Blade is not nearly as punishing, though. The platforming in Stellar Blade is extremely clunky and janky. It's cool that it's in the game, but I wish it were smoother. I love both games. Just a difference of opinions. I would have ER number 1, Stellar Blade 2. Both are fantastic. Just splitting hairs, really.

[@kkbaby30]

@@FlashesSoccer011 I just meant the combat is a lot less Ultra Instinct-like. Even ONGBAL really has to wait out a lot of attacks kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJalgHyPo7uka5Y Souls games are really good, but they've never really made me excited or satisfied when playing them. Glad people like them, tho, as I just want more games with varied playstyles so everyone gets what they want.

[@g0ldenher0]

I’ve been waiting for this video ever since the games release

[@sodathejunker]

Not me listening to this OST on repeat every day and still about to lock in for all 2 hours

[@csigataraj]

Now this I'm gonna watch for the full lenght. Nice one.

[@박정호-o9p]

엘더 네이티브의 ost는 정말 많은사람들이 들었으면 좋겠습니다. 인류최후의상징이 모든 역사를걸고 생존을 위해 싸우는 의지와 마지막에 몰락하는 인류의 클라이막스가 느껴집니다

[@AegisKHAOS]

I missed out on the stream itself. On the other hand, FINALLY, we are talking about the OST.

[@Oneofonejah]

I see stellar blade soundtrack & i click!

[@limited.timestruggle]

Stellar Blade might actually be THE game for me this year. I held out playing it until the PS5 Pro launched, and man did it pay off. And would you know, the Nier: Automata DLC launched shortly after

[@shashankkumar6736]

Thanks for making my day, god bless

[@littleraven89]

When I realized that Providence is a remix of Lily's theme it hit even harder for me Also in my mind there is no way that Adam is more of a villain than Mother Sphere. She literally kicked the entire game off by trying to wipe out humanity in the first place. You could argue that Adam creating her in the first place makes him a villain but I don't see it that way. The Naytiba are a side effect of Mother Sphere committing genocide on humanity in the first place. Backed into a corner humans started doing wild shit and it backfired.

[@groudonvert7286]

I would say Raven is the main antagonist of this game. Mother Sphere would be the overarching antagonist of prequels/sequels/trilogy/whatever.

[@coniejuu3732]

It literally sent chills down my spine. As for Adam, him creating Mother Sphere was in good faith. But in the end, she became sentient and had strong disdain for the humans and felt they were unworthy. In the end, his creation bested him in a sense.

[@kenethernandez6246]

Complete agree

[@SG.N0taill]

You have missed "star descend".. pretty good ost

[@krauss025]

I searched like a madman for stellar blade on steam not knowing it's not ported on pc yet...

[@zaqwesd4725]

lmao

[@krauss025]

​@@zaqwesd4725happened yesterday 😑

[@MarcoMeatball]

Give it like six months 😂

[@kencho02]

@@MarcoMeatball i dont know why you deleted my comment or was it auto delete? anyway, i responded to the original comment from the other dude that he should pay "attention" and not to you...

[@krauss025]

​@@MarcoMeatballstop sneaking micro spoilers plz! 🤣🤣

[@Pokeninja7]

Goated Soundtrack.

[@R3Yoru]

If you're fan of Shift Up ablity to recapture Nier feel ost to Stellar blade, i recommend the underated ost they created for the Nier collab in Nikke (In the shadow, Oblivion, Beyond the star)

[@Zerovin]

really the whole of Nikkes OST is great and should be talked about by more people, unfortunately people dismiss the game because they percieve it as only a fanservice game

[@AegisKHAOS]

The Nikke OST in general is phenomenal. Lovely Lonely Cat was the first song I listened to, and I ended up listening to other tracks since. Satellites has been on constant repeat.

[@The500k]

2:08:04 felt like Adam going: "There is still hope", and after that Eve answered: "Yes, but with what price..?" Questioning the fate of Humanity, after the last organic human, Adam, dies.

[@Shinransa]

To me, having attractive characters in games just contributes to the escapism most of us want to feel when we boot up a a game. I find the "coomer bait" criticism has very little ground to stand on when so many previous good games with revealing character designs never got that criticism and never deserved it either. It would be "coomer bait" if the game didn't even try to be something special and completely relied on a lewd main character and on throwing suggestive scenes in the story to keep the player's attention but that's clearly not the case. The only fan-service elements are at the player's discretion, that being outfits and photo mode poses.

[@TheGreenGhost-Y]

1:20:45 - What I've been waiting to hear about :^)

[@BlueMoonFuzz]

The raven boss fight track is so good man

[@krauss025]

31:56 a very "catwalk-y" song. It's like a fashion parade.

[@guujigaming]

Ladies and gentlemen, OST OF THE YEAR!!✨🏆

[@CuddleMeB]

Everglow is the most beautiful song of the whole game OST.

[@TheropodHunter]

It also has one of the best visuals in the game as it plays.

[@abdulrohani9187]

Why this game not nominated as Goty 😢

[@aiders4352]

Yea dude, I really do believe it's the best soundtrack of the year. Genuinely curious what you think about Rebirth being nominated. At what point should revised tracks from an almost 30 year old game qualify?

[@regaubade8329]

Best OST of the year (180 songs), and when you play at the same time, it's even better. When entering combat, a song will get louder, change rhythm and tone.

[@Daniel_C_Griffin]

Im actually not a fan of Providence, but Elder Naytiba is phenomenal.

[@1rjbender]

Yeah, Yeah! Hypertube slide does come out of left field and is one of the best things I heard in all of 2024.

[@humblebumble203]

Oh man you should listen to memory tower.

[@misanthrope9736]

I summon you the Timestamper

[@vwho6430]

The music in this game managed to capture the essence of what game music should be. Nowadays, we have more cinematic music in games that, despite fitting well in the scenes, is not memorable. Some stellar Blade's OST is verry reminiscent of 2000s pop music, which helps to bring nostalgia. Curiosity: Most of the sung songs use gibberish mixed with Korean and English words, this makes them even more unique.

[@VariantAEC]

The tracks do not use gibberish. Every song is in English or Korean, with some using a mix of both. The only "gibberish" is when a hum or ha is duplicated as an instrument like in the little robot guy's theme.

[@KingKabisi]

If you like the vocal themes of stellar blade, I think you should check out the ost of FF13-2, its what i consider to be my favourite soundtrack of all time because of how well it uses vocals in its music and honestly on a good day it is on par with nier automata and stellar blade for me as my top 3 favourite video game osts

[@MarcoMeatball]

Great idea

[@MrKanooe]

Clearly the soundtrack of the year only secunded by Metaphor, It shares so many emotions, from sadness, hope, anger, it has it all. And Raven, beloved raven, she's knows the truth and she lost her mind for it and the song exactly tell you that.

[@DaniLovesArtXD]

i wonder if u listened to Escape /buzzsaw slide in matrix

[@fei6664]

I would love if Stellar Blade wins Best OST, but I think Metaphor will win due to overall reception (i.e. "Coomer game" vs "Persona 6"). I hope to be wrong.

[@MarcoMeatball]

I think you’re right

[@vynsyxx]

i really, REALLY need someone to listen to the the first and last xion themes (white night and its several variations). Its my favorite track for just how peaceful and sad it is, really grinds me that we only get it in those specific atmospheres tho (only twice)

[@abdulrohani9187]

I Love it ❤❤❤❤

[@zinel11]

Could you reccomend your best ost songs of this game and other games?

[@dkxrne]

Silent Street Enjoyer? come here

[@filthwitch]

Tbh I would play the heck out of a spin-off of this game if it was nothing but Hypertube levels

[@thesilverwolfofnyc5077]

No belial?

[@VariantAEC]

Yeah, the scyth welding harpie is Raven's exosuit. The Unidentified Naytiba theme is so cool I like the intro because it feels very much like a high level of caution in the repeated periodic short shouts that lead the bit in the YT clip you used here. It's intense.

[@MarcstaR321]

Aside from rebirth (which is an unfair comparison). This is the best soundtrack in a long time.

[@Mat7i1]

2025 Stellar Blade on PC ;)

[@scottyxscxrs5483]

Hypertube, Raven, and the Tachy battle phases were so good the ost is god tier

[@scottyxscxrs5483]

Stellar blade, metaphor, FF7R, and Silent Hill 2 R. Tough choice for ost of the year

[@PhillipMorrison276]

Easily the best OST this year!

[@VariantAEC]

The fact that Eve is seemingly doomed after failing her mission when Lily's Atelier plays makes it really intensely emotional. I was thinking that was the game's ending. I really hope you discuss the Unidentified Naytiba track.

[@ShinYaguchiSama]

Oh no don’t cancel my meatball man😢

[@MSgtRazor]

Tbh, kinda wish you mentioned the underlying twisted nature of some of the chords within Democrawler - also, skipping the transition from phase 1 to phase 2 is.. a disservice, imo, as it brings down a feeling of dread that got skipped over

[@MarcoMeatball]

I didn’t skip it. That was the recording.

[@MSgtRazor]

@@MarcoMeatball perhaps i should have worded that better. the video cut it out, which just so happened to be the one you used. didn't mean to blame you personally for that, sorry.

[@MarcoMeatball]

@@MSgtRazor thats okay ive been spoken to worse :D no issue at all!

[@reggielacey2235]

No buzzsaw slide

[@kinja9816]

Curious do you like genshin’s ost more or stellar blade?

[@MarcoMeatball]

Stellar blade!

[@VariantAEC]

The only odd thing about Belial is that the boss is said to be the first hateful enemy Eve faces per Eve's dialog. This works well with the deeper aspects of the story. Most of the Naytiba are just surviving, but the Belial... Belial hates Eve and humans. The same is true for the Karakuri and later the Democrawler. The further you make it into the game, the more advanced enemies seem smarter and we are told by the character that in battle they felt as if they basically wanted to wipe Eve and the humans off the face of the Earth. What makes that strange is that Belial's theme seems... pretty upbeat. [Edit: corrected a typo and ultimately wrapped with a final statement that makes sense with the disconnect I alluded to in my opening.]

[@kujojarato1519]

My replay 21:14

[@scottyxscxrs5483]

So much of this is also Sawano pilled

[@FlashesSoccer011]

The OST is so good it made me hate the Nier cross over. The cross over outfits change the in gsme music to nier music.

[@shadowthehedgehog181]

I wish you had the option to switch it off, and I say that as someone who loves Nier music

[@arturmagomedov02]

I swear if this game won't win best soundtrack, I will lose my hopes in humanity. Not that this rigged parody of a show has any credibility left, but still, they must be really shameless to not even give it recognition there y after snubbing it from it's deserved goty nomination

[@MarcoMeatball]

I wouldn’t expect it

[@arturmagomedov02]

@MarcoMeatball Sorry it's a long one, I lost myself a little. So I don't expect you to read all this Sadly me neither, even if it win players choice. All these shows have a jury that is build out of the same journalists and activists that tried to cancel this game so hard, that attacked players and even harassed the devs and spinning controversies around it. They hate it because it goes against their narrative and ideologies. They are so insecure about a hot girl in a game, that they even changed rules last minute to put a DLC on the list and even a simple mobile card game, that didn't even comes close to the lvl of quality in Stellar Blade, just to make sure it won't be there. How can someone be so desperate. I bet if the actual players were the jury, Stellar Blade would have easily be among the top 3 games. They haven't even nominated it for best art direction can you believe it. This game has some of the most interesting and unique art styles I've ever seen. They already forced themselves hard to nominate it at all, so that they can save face and prevent another Hogwarts situation. I just hope the devs won't feel too disheartened because they the lack in recognising and acknowledgement from western media. At the end what matters are the sales and whatever actual players think. And judging by the fact that it got the highest Metacritic user score ever, I think they can be proud. The PC release will further prove how much people want it and love it.

[@parallyl8786]

⁠@@arturmagomedov02I doubt it would be top 3 games , it was successful yes but there are other games that just blew it out of the park (even some that weren't even nominated for GOTY, Silent Hill 2 Remake for example). The art direction I thought was pretty generic. Black Myth Wukong, Metaphor, SOTE, and Neva definitely had superior art direction by a long shot. I don't think they forced themselves at all. Stellar Blade simply deserved those nominations and everybody seems to agree. I think a major part of the problem is many players in the community simply promoting the jiggle physics and hot characters instead of combat, music or story. This definitely put off a lot of people thinking that's all what the game was and that it had no redeeming qualities which is disappointing because the combat was very fun, the music was amazing and although the story was weak it was still decent. Unfortunately Stellar Blade realistically isn't going to win any of its nominations because of other powerhouses being nominated alongside it. Black Myth Wukong will most likely take Best Action Game and either Final Fantasy or Metaphor will take Music/Score.

[@Sehjiro]

I love FF7 Rebirth, and as a whole game I think is better, but even I think this should win OST of the year.

[@MarcoMeatball]

Can’t blame you!

I actually enjoyed stellar blade more than ff7r. I'm just more into high octane fast paced hack and slash . And the crisp graphics elevate the experience ten fold

[@Renlaw666]

엘더네이티브 엔딩 루트의 어레인지 된 전투 테마곡을 들어보면 알겠지만 '인간'. 저물어가는 '인간종' 에 대한 테마곡 임 ㅋ 스스로 인간이라고 부르는 안드로이드들이 '구세대 인간' 이라고 일컫는 그 '호모사피엔스' 마지막에 엘더네이티브의 뼈를 카메라가 오랫동안 클로즈 업 한 이유는 지구의 썩지 않는 시체들과 비교하여 진짜 인간이 누구라는 것을 부각하기 위함임

[@ShockCometComments]

As someone who has the plat in pretty much every ff game, FF7 Rebirth is my new fave.

[@Va1ngl0ryy]

timestamp guy wya

[@thomasnguyen4427]

nice

[@tigerex777]

My brother, you were doing so so well, until you committed the grave sin of excessive pausing during the Elder Naytiba sound track, to interject your opinions. First, let the music flow the play out, then go back and interject all those wonderful opinions.

[@MarcoMeatball]

Sorry dude my house my rules ☺️😉

[@anlata9999]

The plot , writing and delivery of it, is the bad part of this game, music is good tho

[@liujason4881]

Hey Macro you should try Metaphor OST I think it’s better than Stellar Blade OST

[@smzo9087]

He has already listened.

[@Als0342]

Strongly disagree

[@Red_Nanaki]

That’s a lie

[@Hi-Im-Eve-a-Stellar-Blade-Fan]

Stellar Blade may not win game of the year, but it better win soundtrack of the year. This soundtrack is too good..!!

[@MarcoMeatball]

it didnt lol but in our hearts it did