Opera Singer Reacts: Kenshi Main Theme

[@Rocketlauncher00]

This is the theme of a world that ended twice. Kenshi is a legendary game, and I'm so excited for the sequel.

[@Momazos_Namso]

prequel*

[@v.m.6549]

Wait what?, is that confirmed?

[@peculeo]

@@v.m.6549 takes time a 1000 years prior from kenshi (1), which is also 1000 post cat-lons end

[@Papa_Jordj]

Поддерживаю

[@Xaxp]

@@peculeo Unless Armor King is BSing us his dialogue implies Catlon fell 1000 or so years ago.

[@skodarap]

"This is not going to go well for you" - probably the most accurate description of Kenshi I've ever heard. :D

[@justanidiotmk2749]

The best track in Kenshi has to be scorching wind. The pure sadness and mourning hits you like a truck.

[@RaNikstar]

I cry a little right now.

[@jamespruitt4756]

best song.

[@justanidiotmk2749]

@@jamespruitt4756 song implies voice, while I would definitely argue that the Cello is enough of a voice, a song requires a singer.

[@jamespruitt4756]

@@justanidiotmk2749 ...................you are correct, sir! best MUSIC. better? :D

[@justanidiotmk2749]

@@jamespruitt4756 I was just pushing buttons it's fine man

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

Part of what I love about Kenshi is how quiet it often is. As your characters are running through the waists there is almost no sound, then one of the tracks comes in and it is beautiful.

[@jaffarebellion292]

I often just stand there and look at some of the ancient, rusted out debris strewn across the wasteland, wondering what the world used to look like. I sit there and wonder where humans, sheks, hivers, and skeletons came from. Was this place a failed colony? Is the rest of humanity still out there, wondering what happened to us? The world is so endlessly compelling and yet so frustratingly opaque at the same time. It feels genuinely real in a way few other games manage to pull off. If I were to make a comparison, it builds its world in much the same way as Blade Runner. It offers windows into what came before but never shows us the full picture. Damn good game.

[@SubparUser]

I had incorrectly adjusted a sound setting when I started playing initially, and thought there was no music. That was an experience that I wouldn't change, but the soundtrack is amazing.

[@TheKodiak72]

@@jaffarebellion292 By having basically no lore, and letting the player fill in the blanks. The world becomes incredibly rich, but different for each person. Its a great game.

[@Fghhhg8883]

Just like in Minecraft, the original OST made by C418, who had in mind the idea of the soundtrack playing randomly made the tracks more memorable

[@BadyearOakarus]

kenshi definetly embodies the strive to survive mentality. the game only truly ends when every single member of your team is dead

[@anv0rgu3sa2]

Totally, I think the cello part is not about more sadness, but is like a hope or a determination to thrive, with a concious mind of the devastated world you're in

[@Kipp274]

Even then, it's still running indefinetly without you if you dont exit lol

[@ennou1236]

Nah, the game doesn't care about you, if you die, you die, the game simply continues without you, just like life

[@Zer0Spinn]

​​@@anv0rgu3sa2100%, to me it sounds like the cold determination to keep moving forward and create your own little island in a world that slowly but surely will grind you into dust. That part embodies the game perfectly imo

[@crustybomb115]

@@anv0rgu3sa2 the skeletons outside black desert city have hope, the rest wallow in depression and a creeping madness...

[@consensus889]

It's funny how serious and mournful the main theme is yet Kenshi ends up being one of the most goofy game at times

[@pinbox5814]

Beep.

[@Azure9577]

In a world where everything is destroyed, bleak, hopeless and darkness is everywhere The light shines brighter than ever

[@toxdz_quack8466]

This game is basically just a dnd campaign

[@Azure9577]

@@toxdz_quack8466 best description lmao

[@inciacci549]

​@@toxdz_quack8466 you roll to attempt seducing the Beak Thing

[@yarikmedvedev5199]

Marco: listens to main theme of the game Also Marco: alright i'm buying this game now. Love you, never change!

[@jacksoncole7957]

To me it always sounded like this track represents the story of your character when it starts out as our friend here as said it’s like a lone guitar in a vast desert and when the ambiance of the desert begins to overwhelm the sound of the guitar it conveys that the desert is starting to overtake you with this great hardship like loosing a battle or getting enslaved and then the guitar perseveres overpowering the desert sands and leading into this beautiful symphony that conveys survival perseverance and some mournfulness it really captures the story of the player beginning to end (ik nobody will read this or care but I just felt I should have said something)

[@mercerwing1458]

The music fits the atmosphere of the game SO MUCH

[@mrnotsonew7066]

The music in kenshi comes in RIGHT when it needs to and hits hard.

[@loofy530]

As dated and janky as Kenshi often feels to play, there's a certain beauty to its depiction of a desolate and brutal world that doesn't care for you or anybody else. You're just one of the many people and creatures trying to survive another day.

[@brothercoconut6599]

Still sunday...The church will come to you if you not come to it

[@TheUglyFish]

@@brothercoconut6599 and you better have that prayer book close at hand

[@Snirby1629]

i think kenshi 2 will capture the same feeling but be much more polished and less janky I cant wait for it.

[@brothercoconut6599]

@@Snirby1629 we will see in 2033

[@ShadyWizardude]

@@brothercoconut6599💀

[@nikkan3810]

Kenshi is legit one of the most unique games out there. So little fucks given to what you do. And it has god tier worldbuilding and atmosphere. All that being made by just one dude is really impressive. Hope 2nd is even better.

[@Manwendlil]

sadly there is no central plot, which one can follow, if he so chooses.

[@nikkan3810]

@@Manwendlil That is a little downside but on the other hand you can pick your goals and make up a story out of that, like dnd of sorts :D

[@ryanschweinsburg296]

@@Manwendlil there's no main plot, but the lore is pretty damn cool

[@jaffarebellion292]

@Matthias Maier The main plot is the story of your life in the wastes. The game isn't out to tell us a story, it's out to let us carve out our own niche in that endless desert expanse, so that when we die, others will tell our story to the next wanderer who sits down at the waystation for a drink. If Kenshi told us where to go, it wouldn't be Kenshi. As it stands, the game sets you loose, then reacts to what you do. You prompt and Kenshi responds, rather than the other way around.

[@aTF2player]

I still remember the first time i found stobe. Thats when i realized there was a story here, and nobody left alive sans the skeletons even cared

[@hago66]

Just a warning that this game isn't for everyone. It doesn't hold your hand at all and you could kind of say it's "clunky". But damn if isn't unique and fascinating exploring. AND Kenshi 2 is coming up! *hype*

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

It's one of those wonderful games that knows exactly what it wants to be.

[@lenorevanalstine1219]

it was rough when i first picked it up not many games have you get tougher by getting your ass kicked repeatedly but that feeling when you finally win a fight for the first time

[@D3vious113]

We're all here for the drop, and mans did not disappoint. It hit us all like that, often when we're sprinting across the desert trying to keep our squad fed or running from giant spiders or bandits. It sounds sad and hopeless but after playing for (I don't want to talk about how many hours) to me I hear that drop and it feels like turning around as soon as my squad hits a choke point. It sounds like Ruka whipping her fragment axe through four people at once, Kang dropping the hammer on a heavy armored enemy with his plank, Green and Logan popping shots with their eagles, my MC diving into the fray alongside Agnu and Burn and Sadneil with katanas and sabers. That payoff sounds like the payoff after hundreds of hours of fighting like demons to keep my team alive, training them endlessly so they CAN survive. It sounds like that moment when I stomp my boot on a cliff above the settlement I've stacked thousands of bodies to secure, friend and foe alike, and finally, FINALLY it's a safe place for my people to rest and farm and live. It sounds like loss and anguish, yes, but to me it sounds like hope. Sorry, got a little emotional there but damn I love this game and I have a lot of moments associated with this song. It's awesome to hear that you liked it o7 and I do hope you enjoy the early struggle of the game. It's tough, it sucks, it'll hurt, and you probably won't get too many big hints of the story for a while, but if struggle makes you strong this game will make you mighty.

[@mattjk5299]

A true fleshed out post apocalyptic game. The people living and suffering in Kenshi are the inheritors of empire after empire (perhaps even an interstellar one) that lies around them in ruin so old that most people don't even know it existed. Those that do, the beings old enough to remember it, wish not to speak of it so intensely that they seem to struggle to remember details at all, even hurting themselves to forget. These people aren't scrounging in the dirt at the mercy of the world of kenshi after some apocalypse. They're living as best they can in a hostile world that wasn't meant for them built by people who couldn't even comprehend what the future would bring. Post-post apocalypse? Kind of gives similar vibes to the period after the decline of the Roman empire had already run it's course or long after the bronze age collapse. Most people had moved away from depopulated towns and ruined roman settlements into a new way of life, what worked for them, but aware of these artefacts all around them.

[@aRandomFox00]

More like post-post-post apocalypse. The world ended, people rebuilt, and then it ended again. And now you stand on the ashes of what remains after not one, but *two*, apocalypses. The despair is intensified by the fact that both these collossal conflicts that ended civilisation have together damaged nature beyond its ability to heal. The world is slowly but inevitably dying, and there's nothing anyone left alive can do about it. Once-fertile lands are degenerating into barren deserts. Even the water is drying up due to ancient terraforming machines gone amok. There is no hope. All you can do is make the most out of what you have left while you wait for the end to reach your doorstep. It's the reason why so many Skeletons have succumbed to despair -- no longer living, just existing, as they watch the world they once knew slowly disappear. Eventually there will only be just them, alone, on a barren rock inhospitable to any organic life.

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

I wouldn't really compare it to the end of the Roman Empire. That wasn't really some apocalyptic event, it just happened over time. And most people never lived in the big cities to begin with, most people on the territory of the Roman Empire lived as slaves or tenant farmers in the rural areas and their lives didn't change much or even improved during the early medieval times, because they went from slaves to peasants who at least had their own land to plow and therefore at least a sense of working for their own wellbeing, even though they would of course also work on the fields of their lords and do other kinds of work for them or later pay taxes. Some of the Roman Cities - including Rome- already started to lose population long before the so-called collapse. But the end of the official Western Roman Empire and the splitup into different kingdoms that caused trade routes to collapse certainly had an impact on those bigger cities, accelerating the depopulation due to a lack of supplies. But most of the infrastructure damage was actually not caused by invading barbarians (which were actually well connected Roman foederati forces lead by people who were very much socialized as Romans) but by the attempted reconquest of Italy by the Eastern Roman Empire in the 6th century.

[@LecherousLizard]

The beings that remember it, wish not to speak of it, because of the atrocities they committed. They pretend to not remember it, to claim they were damaged, solely to keep the rouse. They all remember. They all don't want the others to learn it. This destroyed world is their crime.

[@Star-ny3fm]

If you ever do one of these for kenshi again I would recommend “Fertile” or Swamp theme

[@Slaughterism]

Scrolled down just to see if anyone suggest this. Agreed, please do the song "Fertile." Definitely one of my favourite emotional pieces from a video game.

[@yesyes2736]

Perhaps my favorite part of kenshi is that the world goes on, after you die, you can just watch your corpse, On the side of the road, forgotten, uncared for, a dry pool of blood, and watch as the hungry bandits just simply trek over it like nothing more than trash. That what you are in this game, unless you are hated by people or kill someone important, you are nothing. No one cares that you exist.

[@HynozaX]

I can't believe how emotionally this track evolved before and after playing the game.

[@fandred2352]

I love your first smirk 5:16 and then the jawdrop at 5:55. Thats how good the song is =D

[@patostrophia2948]

Kenshi is such a masterpiece, one can clearly see that Chris put his heart and soul into that. That beeing said, nice analysis to the Soundtrack. it just hits different :)

[@SpiritLegion]

Kenshi is incredible, one of my absolute favorites. Theres just something so special about it

[@Gabs__]

Fancy seeing you here

[@SpiritLegion]

@@Gabs__ Heya gabyy! I see you had to branch out too since peeve stopped streaming kenshi 😁

[@Gabs__]

@@SpiritLegion Likewise hahaha, Maybe he'll go back to it sometime, but in the meantime, we can watch MarcoMeatball videos I love his reactions

[@indianinja420]

I like you as a reactor i can really feel the emotion as you watch and the insight you give when you pause actually has meaning. Keep being awesome 💯

[@MarcoMeatball]

Thank you very much

[@apatheticdeity6030]

YAY!!!! I AM SO GLAD I GOT TO SEE YOUR REACTION! I got Kenshi when it came out because of its unique world. After that I became obsessed, it was such a unique experience I had to share it. It became infectious as I spread it to my entire friend group haha! A world of desolation and death, the more you learn about the history that was left behind the more you realize the hopelessness of your situation. Two empire came and went. Both EMMENSELY better at everything you currently have. They were far more advanced, they had endless resources. They had centuries maybe even millennia's worth of knowledge, and even they failed. What could you hope to achieve in comparison? And yet you stand, grasping at the lifeless sand. You walk, knowing that the next day may be your last. You run, knowing everything is worthless in the grand scheme of things. But you hope... because that what we do... right? On another note... I don't know if you guys see it, but when I listen to this track, I can instantly see a animation play out. Like, first act is someone trotting through the desert, possibly starving or injured. Every step brings him closer to death but he still keeps moving, soon it becomes night in the second act and he just cant keep going anymore, "if I close my eyes, it would all be over" is probably what is going through his mind. But yet in the third act, he continues to walk... "Just a little farther, just a little more!" before he finally falls over. He dies in those deserts, another nameless body for the sands. WELCOME TO KENSHI!

[@Validechos]

Kenshi's theme really gives this feeling deep despair, hopeless brutal cycle but at the center of it all there is this small hold out of hope. Uplifting your spirit at the just the right time, reminding that you survived and will continue to survive even at it's worse.

[@amiraliashrafkashani5837]

5:17 Look at his face, that's when it hits him. Priceless.

[@iamded.]

Love the song, love the analysis, and can't wait to hear what Kenshi 2 brings us.

[@WikkeSchrandt]

I've always loved this track. It's very quiet for the majority of its playtime, then there's that incredibly powerful last bit, which rises up, and invokes imagery of hope, humanity, great deeds, glory and what have you. It's really strong for half a minute or so, and then it's gone. And I can't shake the feeling that it's meant to represent us, as the collective human race.

[@MagicalMedic]

Kenshi's soundtrack is gorgeous, I love it dearly.

[@OffYourTopic]

I've played almost 2000 hours of Kenshi, and the music still hits every time. It's so infrequent that when the music does start playing it just doubles your immersion and enjoyment immediately. Even without playing the game you hit the feeling right on the head and described it perfectly!

[@tomhodges1552]

Thanks for the words i needed to unpack those feels. My favorite game of all time, great work.

[@MarcoMeatball]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@h3adcrabbio]

there's video of the cellist playing the theme live in the studio, and it's interesting to see how intense she gets

[@AlphaOmegaXIII]

Only because you simply covered Kenshi, you deserve my sub.

[@จตุพรจันทสุรวงศ์]

AS avid Kenshi player, I can confirm every time Scorching wind come up I felt "hwnuaahhh dummm wooaah hyi dyaaa dumm wooah" every time.

[@rllyhottoms1666]

You are fantastic at what you do sir. I’m an avid fan of Kenshi and due to some family stuff it played a huge role in my childhood. The soundtrack was and still is insanely important to me and you put it absolutely perfectly for someone who has never played. Spot on

[@MrPinballWizzard]

one of the best games created by human kind. P.S. kenshi was in development over 10 years by a single person.

[@hazz1337]

I like how you visualized the whale and the desert, Kenshi being a moon of pure sea and you play in the highest peak that dried up a LONG time ago, while a desert, the flora looks like corals and other water vegetation mixed with the actually new and deserty ones

[@denisecastellanos4866]

Dude, been playing this game for nearly 700 hours. This made me appreciate the theme song at a whole new level.

[@Alex-yv5do]

HELL yeah dude, scorching wind is one of my favorite gaming tracks, I'm glad kenshi ended up on your radar

[@khaledyasser8293]

I had a different interpretation of the payoff. The song starts with a lone guitar surrounded by ambiance, a lone wanderer surrounded by danger. The guitar eventually fades away, and when phase 2 starts at night time, the guitar can barely be heard anymore, it's all ambiance. The lone survivor is about to give up, but that's where the cello starts, another survivor, and then more join. And when all the instruments gather, the drums start. I feel this is supposed to represent not "Oh how am I gonna survive in this mess, I've truly lost it all", but more like "A new day began and I'm not alone. Beaten and weak, we march on." The drums are slow, as if every hit is a struggle, and yet they keep going. Then we fade back to night time and pure ambiance. Maybe the group died, maybe they're just resting. But you know they will struggle as long as they can. It's malencholic and defiant at the same time. Idk how they did it.

[@weston791]

Beautiful

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

Wow. I didn't expect this one but it is a really nice surprise.

[@rrael]

Incredible, unique game. Not for everyone. But so much of Kenshi's soundtrack is stuck in my head forever, up there with Jeremy Soules' tracks for Elder Scroll games, Zelda OST, and Disco Elysium. When the music matches the atmosphere so perfectly it helps convey the emotions the player is already feeling, then elevates those emotions beyond anything the gameplay could do alone. I'm certainly forgetting a bunch more.

[@Tuchajbejasyn]

one of the most beautiful scores Ive heard for over 25 years of gaming... and a great game too!

[@delayed_control]

Kenshi isn't just a game where you die constantly. What's remarkable and unique about it is that it's a game where you constantly get *beaten up,* survive and recover from your wounds armed with new experience. The spirit of Kenshi is to never reload unless everyone in your party is truly dead. Because getting beaten up, robbed etc. is something you can't avoid if you want to progress. This game isn't just an RPG, it's a simulator of life in a desolate wasteland of a world.

[@AlexDuos]

The look on your face when the beat dropped was priceless. This song really does punch you right in the feels.

[@actualteddybear891]

Dark Age Samurai Western is the best way I can describe kenshi. It is a unique experience.

[@CorvoA77ano]

There's this another game whose soundtrack you should probably check out when you find the time - Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Yes, I am not kidding, that is what the name of the game is and it's very incredibly niche. It's very small, like it takes only half an hour to complete it so it's something you can probably check on stream as well. The OST is equally .. well so weird that you would think it's almost appalling. I highly recommend you to play through it once. It manages to stay on your mind for a while.

[@SrVegaz]

Kenshi is amazing. There are several ways to play the game. It can be so goffy and so tense at the same time. It's amazing.

[@Drakon_Minaka]

So to give a little story about kenshi that I feel encapsulates this theme, and how the drop of the song can be hopeful or tragic: Me and my group needed to resupply, and I had some people I wanted to recruit. I knew where to go to do both, as well as make good money through hunting. The fog islands. The fog islands is one of the most treacherous places in the game, next to the Ashlands, Cannibal Plains, and Gut, but also one of the most profitable due to its primary inhabitants. The fogmen. Monstrous Hivers who brutalize and then eat the people they capture. The fogmen normally overwhelm with numbers, but their soldiers and princes are terrifying foes as well. In the center of this place is a town, a safe haven even. Mongrel. Though many who arrive there eventually realize they can never leave, at least not safely. And those that do call it their home have to deal with the screams and cries of people being eaten out in the fog islands, in places known as the death yards. I fought my way through the fogmen, collected a few heads, but every fight was a fight for my life as i slaughtered one group, and another showed. Half of them were gone, then another showed up. So we had to fight and move while trying not to lose anyone, cause if one person falls, a fogman will surely stop fighting to kidnap them. I made it to the city with all my people, but three were wounded to the point of needing to be carried. But we made it, and the seasoned soldiers of Mongrel and the men manning their turrets on the walls aided us in getting through the gate by holding off any foes behind us. We were safe, for now. But I've heard people try to do the same thing I did, only to reach mongrel and find it empty. The town has been destroyed long before they ever arrived. And now they are trapped, stuck in a hostile land with death around every corner.

[@anv0rgu3sa2]

I think the cello part is not about more sadness, but is like a hope or a determination to thrive, with a mind concious of the devastated world you're in

[@its2three4]

The second part of the main theme where all the strings comes in with that hauntingly beautiful melody line nearly brought me to tears the first time I heard it since it was just so...beautiful in how it lingers.

[@nraah4707]

The Scorching Wind track is my favorite. All of them portray the world so well.

[@AngelicVanguard]

When 5:15 hits when I was making my first character, I soul went straight into the stratosphere.

[@DiabloDelMer1]

Something that really fascinates me about this piece is that it, in my ears, feels like a slow, creeping chaos trying to undo itself. From beginning to end its adding noises and instrumental blips that become more and more orderly as the song pushes forward, yet never really get out of that chaos. Its as if these are fragments of an original song that was destroyed and lost some long time ago, and these fragments are all slowly, painfully, and amidst a swirl of other broken songs trying to pull themselves into back together, getting so close to achieve their true structure, only to torn apart and drowned out by the cruel, angry reality that had shattered them in the first place. For a the main theme of a game about a post-apocalyptical world where surviving until tomorrow is the goal of almost everyone present, I feel there's none better fitting than this.

[@alexarroyo8657]

The same reaction he had when he listened to this for the video is the same way it hit me. Another one to join the desolate sands and brave the cruel yet amazing world of kenshi.

[@fractalflowers2143]

I absolutely love the soundtrack the whole thing. I played the game for about two months, but I listen to the soundtrack almost every day for the last 3 years. It’s an absolute joy to paint whilst listening to this And is extremely underrated.

[@oopomopoo]

Kenshi is just such a phenomenal game the way it implements music. Even the way the developer says it is just beautiful. The music plays at random intervals. You can go 30 minutes without the music playing only for it to start playing which is why almost all songs start off really low and slow as to not jar the player, but to build up to the music. The game itself has you as a normal person. You're not special in any way, you're just as weak as the drunk next to you. Your first dozen fights, should you choose to go that route, will always result in you being knocked unconscious hoping you dont bleed out. It's the type of game that the music helps cement the atmosphere. Most of the time you just hear wind, rain, ambient effects to build that feeling of helplessness. You're not on a grand adventure, you're just trying to find your next meal without becoming somethings next meal. Eventually as you're playing, the wind rustling, you hear that slow buildup.. the music starts playing, and whatever you're doing just feels 12 times more epic. Eventually it finishes only to leave you to the sounds of rustling wind and mining, reminding you that you're just a nobody trying to make it in this cruel land. I'm redownloading Kenshi now. lol

[@Soridan]

The cello part rarely fails to make me tear up. It's hauntingly beautiful.

[@robfus]

"im gonna buy this game right now" welcome to addiction friend

[@c1tzz_]

When the main theme finally gets to that one part, it's basically the best thing you could ever listen to

[@drpretzel2086]

Suffering definitely and I love that makes the struggle more intense to make every achievement feel more meaningful and every defeat more devastating.

[@Oroberus]

I feel that you might have missed something very crucial about the main theme of Kenshi. While I agree that it starts by conveying some serious desolation, loneliness and even dread, it also conveys a VERY strong feely of hope and success in the way it's composed. It starts with the single lonely guitar, lost in the far reache of a destroyed world, not able to experience or even imagine more then desperation and futility and while the drums keep on driving this further, more instruments and more specifically more strings are starting to be played and with each string that is included, the lonely guitar finds a new friend that accompanies them on their journey and the more join the stronger the volume gets and while there is still this underlying dreadfulness in the sound, now it is no longer a mostly silent, lonely guitar but has become a powerful orchestra, that defies the threat, makes it's mark in the world and will not succumb to the dread and desperation but instead thrives and succeeds The Kensi Main Theme is honestly one of the most empowering pieces of video game music I've ever heard

[@Kipp274]

Oh my god haha I love the way one can see how you feel the music. Makes my eyes watery

[@noanswer1864]

No on can resist moving once the drums and wood clappers kick in with the meandering cello.

[@mis.astrid2635]

I feel the music reflexs the players experiance. Its about the start from nothing, through the struggle until you finish forging yourself into what you desire to be. Like what our character is, the music goes on a journey, building itself up.

[@DantoPM64]

I just heard this song and my mind immediately thinks of these words: "Has my judgment come so soon? I had to thrall them all! TRAITORS!!! Siding with the Humans. I! I. WAS NOT THE MONSTER!!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"

[@DantoPM64]

A broken mind full of regret, anger, and sorrow. He really embodies the Depressing idea of Kenshi. A land in which its best outcome is that you die on its first minutes of gameplay when you had the least impact on the world. ... Because unknowingly you're repeating the same steps that people before you... Is an old phrase that sometimes can feel cliche, but stands so true in this game... the path to hell is made with good intentions.

[@snorreproductions]

Excerpt from the Soundtrack page on steam: "The music system in Kenshi has been designed in such a way, that as you play through the game the engine randomly selects from a handful of different musical elements to create new compositional excerpts. It is this ambient approach and "non-player interactivity" of the music that reinforces Kenshi's indifferent tone." so when you play the game you get "new music" because all the soundtracks vibe together and gets played randomly.

[@incontinentia3119]

I'm very excited for Kenshi 2 now that it's migrating to a state of the art engine and has a pretty decently sized team behind it.

[@WhyrenGP]

i never thought about the guitar beeing representativ of the player before. starting out the game everything feels incredible hostile and you're almost affraid from inching forward. slowly but steadily you keep making progress but you still run into roadblocks that will absolutly crush or just catch you offguard. then you get to the point where you learn what to avoid and where you can get opportunistic. and suddenly you hit that point, the one where you don't realy struggle to just survive anymore and you're ready to explore the world with all its rewards and challanges. before ending up as a major power yourself, you dictate how the world turns now, for better or worse, as you can revisit the consewuences of your actions.

[@pineapplesmoovey7898]

5:53 starting on is so powerful, it evokes so much emotion from me (someone who's not schooled in music at all)

[@spatrk6634]

amazing thing they did with that piece is that its not that often that you hear it ingame. its not on repeat entire time. most of the time its just wind howling and other ambiance noises. so it hits much more when it does play

[@denisholanda7092]

my favorite is Fertile it causes in me a scence of despair and breath of life incredible

[@SamP-by7iv]

great main theme. expresses despair, but also a little bit of hope buried underneath

[@destanvlankin3709]

honestly my dude, if you wanna record your gameplay and stuff, we'd be 100% behind you, that game and its potential for storytelling is absolutely amazing.

[@relejacion7777]

Amazing..!! Yeah Kenshi is a very powerful and interesting survival game... Very underrated, but truly is a very very interesting work from the survival branch. I hope you enjoy it Marco.

[@jesterbrown90]

Hey, Marco. I'm not sure how much you've looked into Kenshi, but i have to recommend looking into Ssethzeentach's video on it. Besides being very funny, he also explains a bit about how the physics-based combat works and how you can abuse it if you so choose.

[@alec9360]

The composer for Kenshi posted a 10-ish minute video about how he made the soundtrack for the game (A Full Explanation of Kenshi's Music System by Kole Hicks). It's an amazing video

[@GrimGrenadine]

There's a two videos by Kole Hicks, one on the music system used in Kenshi and also the first recording session. I don't know how deep you tend to delve but it would be interesting to see you react to another track after watching those

[@XavierFancie]

Absolutely love this game and I love seeing it get some more attention! Kinship 2 is gonna be amazing

[@RazRikimaru122]

Ngl quite often when I hear this soundtrack and really listen, I choke up and tear up and I have no idea why......

[@okamiv5]

Kenshi perfectly instills the desire and need to find somewhere safe to hide and instead having to face the suffering instead. If i remember right the music was made by the game devs dad.

[@dann10000]

Thank you very much, you helped me with something you maybe haven't expected. You said something very very deep, I don't know whether you're aware of this. You described all effects of the instruments and thank you for doing this, I love music, but i'm an "illiterate" so to say. You said about the cello it's on the human level and: it's about humanity and trying to keep your humanity and setting it into the background of kenshi - the post-post-apocalyptic world... experiencing it yourself, where you can do everything and you're starving, you're looking for food, bandits punch you down, you're broke and so many time you think "man, Im just gonna break into this home, take all their stuff and sell it on the black market" and you see your inner demons fighting against your humanity everthings falling apart, humanity is at an all time low - but inside your heart is the last garrison, the last flame of humanity... ...and it's under constant siege, the flame is dwindling... This is such a powerful theme, powerful pattern. As a writer, I love that you "lend" me your musical literacy, thank you And thank you to the musicians who created this masterpiece You touched my heart strings

[@MarcoMeatball]

You have no clue how appreciated a comment like this is

[@CaffeinatedKing]

Kenshi is probably the greatest video game I've ever played with 700+ hours in it, and yet it does everything in its power to be wholly unappealing to anyone and everyone, it's a beautiful experience.

[@afanwithtoomuchtime4375]

It is the sound of tragedy of a single soul seeing clearly for just a moment the loss that has been endured, the dreams that were lost, the meaning life had, and then, had to give up. And not because of any one person, not because it was deserved or called for or earned. All this loss was caused simply by most of those who lived, organic or metallic, living as rightly as they dared, doing what they thought they should. Doing what they imagined was right. And that is the true tragedy, and that tragedy, pointless and meaningless despite how meaningful it was to all who walk after its passing, is the deepest sorrow one can understand. It is a helpless sorrow, a sorrow which cannot find Vengeance or justice. It cannot be righted, ended, or unmade. It can only be endured, and so the soul wails, and this is its sound. The sound of an eye seeing the truth and the spirit behind it crying out at the pointless pain of it all, as if to protest reality or God in the face of this cruelty...before quieting, the eye losing sight of its clarity, the mind all to willing to forget and accept distraction. The rage against this tragedy demands a voice, but it is only when the pain born of that tragedy becomes too deep to restrain that this demand is heeded. And the mourning of the soul for its own reality can be heard.

[@2dollarchickenwings689]

Kenshi truly encapsulates the feeling of a hostile world that looks down on your very act of living.

[@satoro26]

If i remember right this game was made by a single guy. It's one of my favourite sandbox games right next to rimworld and starsector.

[@numanselimdogan3722]

kenshi seems funny to most players,but i feel like an npc while playing the game. i can die any second, no one will help me... maybe some blood drinking spider will be my death, maybe hunger... or bandits. all i know me and my 0.5 iq friend called "beep" are stuck inside of a fog that there is cannibals everywhere.

[@KingDudeness]

You likely won't see this comment, but there's a video out there made by Kole Hicks, the creator of kenshi's music, its titled 'A Full explination of Kenshi's music system' and I really think you would enjoy how he describes how he made this system where the game itself is basically composing the music for you as you play

[@dersylvio3088]

If you like this type of music you would want to take a look at the ost from Grim Dawn. one of the best post-apocalyptic games in my opinion

[@Hunter57588]

Somehow the tracks make sorting your loot emotionally envolving

[@MartianYT]

I LOVE this track. Breath of the World is another GREAT track from the soundtrack that everyone should give a listen.

[@SLNT7734]

Kenshi 2 is in the works ;D I spent around 200 hours in kenshi before adding mods now i have around 430 hours. This game is a amazing for me.

[@crazyyenii]

We aren't just surviving in a ruined world. We're in the post-post apocalypse. Everything is terrible and awful and every single person and creature struggles to survive. There really is nothing quite like it

[@sanzharzaitenov5268]

7:40 more epic is that u fall constantly but get up and become stronger every time

[@bsavagestudios]

The soundtrack is slightly different for everyone every time they play as its dynamically generated. A true masterpiece

[@Max-ft8bd]

I LOVE how I could see you feel the music

[@meksit]

5:55 this hits me in the bottom of my heart everytime when i hear it World of kenshi is somethibg else, it's masterpice I hope that kenshi 2 will be a quality product

[@cundan0484]

I highly recommend listening the whole soundtrack to everyone

[@thekakazi]

It's worth noting a lot of the music in game uses a lot of procedural generation as well. The videos on the making of Kenshi are worth the time.

[@stevenjohns1322]

The guy who made this game started off for a long time as a sole developer for a long time and only brought in others late on to finish it, as for the music well in my opinion it fits the game perfectly, it’s a brutal game and not for the faint hearted gamers, I don’t know who he got to do the music but in my opinion it’s fantastic

[@shufadragon]

Creator of music for Kenshi and how it works. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYGoe4WAjK2tas0

[@Quoxozist]

The main theme really channels that diablo 2 soundtrack feel, awesome stuff.