Opera Singer Reacts: Main Menu Theme (Dark Souls 3 OST)

[@gabrieldehyrule]

Elden Ring main menu theme is nuts and all, but man, this one is still the absolute best

[@trevorveillette8415]

Elden rings sounds too much like "epic trailer music" you hear for movies nowadays. Ds3 main menu sounds like the end of the world.

[@Nick-jt5nb]

Bloodborne's is still top for me

[@lanceg6197]

Dark Souls 3 MENU THEME sounds like the end of an era, end of an age, the closing of the age of fire.

[@mohamedfakch]

its the best one for sure

[@DuhAsainThatHasSwag]

@@trevorveillette8415 agree it’s a bit too generic for my taste

[@generalfeldmarschallaugust8089]

Imagine going to an Opera and they suddenly start playing the Dark Souls 3 main theme

[@MarcoMeatball]

right!

[@feliksario]

I will pay hundred dollars just for hear that irl

[@georgechapman9688]

@@feliksario pocket change! This theme deserves all the money 😂

[@littletweeter1327]

id pay top dollar for a whole DS3 OST performance

[@danksalt5935]

Music starts Healthbar appears 😂

[@NotimPorten]

The first time I launched Dark Souls 3, I just sat in the main menu listening to the music for like 20 minutes. I was stunned.

[@hotpieski]

it was harder launching game from this theme than playing it

[@logancraig8034]

Every time I played ds3 I always let the theme play out and then start the game 😂

[@miadhajipour]

Its me

[@deepratama]

same~even more

[@Kevin-rv8br]

Honestly same

[@tahaelhour690]

Fun fact, this was supposed to be the final boss theme in early development. Back when pontiff Sulyvahn was supposed to be the final boss. Still happy with it being the main theme and Sulyvahn having a different theme that fits him OH SO WELL.

[@DASCSWEM]

Sulyvahn’s theme is honestly one of the best pieces they’ve produced imo, but it’s kinda underrated and doesn’t get a lot of reactions/discussions :/

[@tahaelhour690]

@@DASCSWEM the intro for it is actually god tier.

[@coreansic2.046]

@@tahaelhour690 it is iconic honestly

[@miguelMickSummer]

You can barely hear the same melody of the Main theme in Sullyvanhs theme too

[@lorschat496]

Ima assumed, this is the Ashen One's theme as it has that heroic tune to save the dam world. Idk I haven't look at ds3 lores in a while

[@Notsogoodguitarguy]

Little fun fact. The lead female singer (or whatever it's called) is actually also Yuka Kitamura. She's not only one of the composers, but also the main female singer. She's awesome!

[@MonoFlax]

To me this piece perfectly incapsulates the desperation and finality that everyone in this world must be feeling. It practically screams "FINALE”, and it is. Things are coming to an end, and there can be nothing after this. In a way, thats the point of the entire game. It is sometimes wiser to move on, and leave the old things behind. In a way it will sadden me if there is ever going to be another dark souls game because… why? This world has quite literally burned through all of its fuel, and the entire impact of dark souls 3 would be destroyed for me if they went "nevermind we’re doing another one". Thats what this piece is telling me, its a collapse, an epic conclusion. The end of an era.

[@MonoFlax]

Also ive been really enraptured by "the first hunter" from bloodborne, i’d love to hear what your thoughts are on that one!

[@siragito405]

Condemnation of Nihilism

[@hrmpug1092]

@@siragito405 exactly. Humanity won’t go out with a whimper.

[@MaiconDouglas-ik6qs]

From Software is the sole reason I got hooked up into classical music. It's just beauty at it's peak, it talks to you, through your spirit. One of my favorites, is The Living Failures Theme, from BloodBorne. Its quite inspired in Mars, by Gustav Holst :D

[@alanraika]

try to listen Vivaldi you must be like it as well, start with songs La Foila

[@thekaelixchamber]

Amen Brother! Something about it is just so much more visceral. I love Ludwig's but I will never get tired of this one!

[@Rubbish_]

I would kill to be able to go to a live concert of Fromsoft music. You summed it up perfectly at the beginning of the video

[@liamobrien9186]

I always hate that video games such as these still aren't recognized for the art they are. Seeing this song and many others like it in concert basically fills up half my bucket list, but no. These songs are reserved only for the play station and game specific showcases.

[@MarcoMeatball]

I agree, Liam. I mean you hear the examples. It’s completely valid.

[@liamobrien9186]

@MarcoMeatball Exactly, you can visualize how great it would be to experience these in concert and how much it could reinvigorate interest in classical music. So, I was wondering why you think these things aren't performed more often? Would it not be beneficial to concert halls to bring more interest to these composers even if you were to, like you say, separate the music from the game?

[@vernersala]

Thats why I choose PS and PC xD

[@AhmetKartal]

@@liamobrien9186 I almost thought you're the real Liam lol

[@Mamami701]

they cant be consider like art because they are too many games that focus on gameplay and addictiv mecanics to making frustrated people to spend a ton of money in nothing, this is a shame and i agree with u but as long as this society is like that, this wont ever change. I mean, ecxept my close family, all the people i know irl are used to enjoy shitty commercial thing and thinks that nothing is better and every time i try to change their mind i am welcome in return with aggressivity and mockery.

[@woahmama]

What I really love in DS3 main menu theme is that it contrasts very hard with main menu themes from previous two titles but at the same time represents it's own story point perfectly. Dark Souls 1 had basically just silence when it started, the music only started when we were choosing or creating new character which really well set up that it's just a start of an Adventure and kept the nature of the game unknown. DS3 however is already a third game in the series, we kinda should know the stakes at this point and it starts and ends with a big bang. It's the last game in the trilogy and story wise it repredents a dying world that literally burns out and it's in a very desparate state so this theme almost makes you feel you are going to fight everything for survival of your world, no matter how hard and terrible it gets. But the more calm, singer moments really nicely build up thaf hiding in plain sight sadness as this is the end of a very long Journey in terms of the player and the series as a whole. For comparison theme of Elden Ring sounds almost positive compared to this theme. It's heroic but also very melancholic and sounds more like a scream for chance to live rather than a start of that life.

[@MarcoMeatball]

Thank you for sharing your perspective with me!

[@waltersullivan2727]

You should really hear the Twin Princes theme from DS3 it’s also amazing.

[@SledTillDead]

Agreed, my favorite piece from DS3

[@Valleyraven007]

The best song in the soundtrack, one of my favorite fights too

[@bigpoppa9721]

@@Valleyraven007 nah gael is the best

[@Dizzifying1]

Twin Princes theme is fantastic. It encapsulates the hopelessness that Lothric feels and the melancholy of his crippled brother he can't mend anymore. Lothric was the only one left who could of possibly fixed the world's strife, but he was too weak. His brother had lost himself like Artorias before him to abyss and rot, and now ashamed and in cowardice he hides with him in their hall till someone has the courage to do what he can't.

[@CruciFer19]

@@bigpoppa9721 he said one of , not the best

[@bigmannn2443]

5:52 I am in disbelief on how you managed to understand what this theme is trying to portray so perfectly

[@quai8193]

Well, this is why he is an opera singee.

[@blubberfeet5430]

Dark souls 3...my first souls game and favorite so far still. Loved this game and end to dark souls. Thanks so much for the reaction man

[@MarcoMeatball]

You’re welcome! It’s an amazing game.

[@souldanny.]

Oh, man. You NEED to listen to Ludwig, the Holy Blade's theme, if you haven't already.

[@MarcoMeatball]

Just did 👀

[@PrivateTouch]

@@MarcoMeatball Well, try Midir Theme then :)

[@sirparadigm2241]

Ah... you were at my side all along! My true mentor...my guiding moonlight!

[@vitriolicAmaranth]

actually my favourite track from any fromsoft game

[@samniel]

Nobuo Uematsu, Masayoshi Soken, Yoko Shimomura, Kajiura Yuki, these are the big composers of our era and they get little attention from the west because they work in videogames and anime. Shimomura's Song of Mana is so beautiful and it got me into Swedish. Oh, also Taro Umebayashi earned a lot of my respect for the Yuri on Ice soundtrack and how versatile it is, with everything from Classical, Pop, METAL...

[@MarcoMeatball]

Yup. Joe Hasaishi too. Def gets the recognition he deserves in Japan.. I feel this though. You’re absolutely right

[@thomasbitmail7937]

did you just mention Yuki Kajiura?? OMG the works she has done for animes... SAO, Pandora Hearts, Vanitas, Tsubasa, Puella Magica... All big favorites! And also Hiroyuki Sawano maybe?

[@AkitouChaos]

Wanna take advantage of your post and name drop Austin Wintory (Journey, ABZU) and Gareth Coker (the Ori games, Halo:Infinite).

[@MrAidaslit]

Shiro Sagisu is up there for me. Bleach, Berserk, Magi all have such amazing music from him

[@joeld5338]

Hiroyuki Sawano too

[@Lulu-tp9ph]

I really like this music theory analysis stuff even though I don't understand a thing. But knowing why this artist use this melody/notes is really amazing. Great work. Can't wait for your take on Shadow of Colossus musics.

[@MarcoMeatball]

Of course I’m totally winging it and have no idea why they chose to do what they did but that’s the beauty of interpretation 🤣 thank you so much for the kind words :)

[@mininabs]

One of my absolute favorites from any Souls game, certified banger. The elements present in this theme are in the opening cinematic for the game and basically gives away the entire game, but you don't realize it until the last DLC. I think there's something about the way a lot of the main epics from video game OSTs employ a driving, percussive beat under a very melodic and ethereal sounding soprano voice to capture their emotion. Nier Automata music really nailed it, much like a lot of tracks from DS3. Interestingly, in both games you aren't really even going to fight evil, or at least part way through you realize you aren't. The songs are those of mourning, sorrow, anguish, and yearning. This main theme I think really illustrates that with the main voice, and most Souls veterans by the time DS3 came out kind of knew that the theme of DS3 was not going to be about epic battles and fighting evil, but trying to continue or end the age of fire (arguably an age of pain).

[@MarcoMeatball]

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing that! I had forgotten. I loveeeeed DS3 but I’ve forgotten a lot about it - after elden ring I may go back to experience it again.

[@thekeeper1287]

Fun fact: the original name for this song was. Or speculated is "Old king of the eclipse" which was the original final boss. Using pontiff sulyvahn's model.

[@bigmannn2443]

They weren't just using his model, he was actually intended to be the old king of the eclipse

[@Christian-je7fj]

you just give DS3 a new meaning "we are facing or judgement" and that's totally awesome for a point of view, Miyazaki would be proud and this is why he created these game, for everyone to give the meaning you feel while playing the game (sorry, my english is not the best)

[@Ashley-the-fox]

Don't worry your english is fine as someone who english is their first and only language it good

[@arendking]

For me, when it would go into the more energetic parts, it really puts on the image of a man crying out in despair and rage at their inevitable demise that they fruitlessly keep fighting against

[@elementalterror]

The large classical music pieces in video game music are always incredible. They blow me away so much every single time

[@fabiol.720]

Finally someone reacted to this masterpiece. From Software has brought us so many incredible pieces. I feel like the gaming industry produces some of the, by far, best music these days

[@MarcoMeatball]

Agreed

[@mastablasta6222]

I pre-ordered this game since Dark Souls was one of my favorite games and I loved the music from it... When it finally finished downloading and I got to the main menu... I just sat and listened to it. It was so intense and amazing, just the menu alone built up so much hype. Sometimes I wish I could be there again, opening this game up for the first time.

[@Stickarms99]

It's funny how we interpret the piece differently; where you hear a vanquishing of evil, I hear crushing, unending hopelessness. A dying world brought to its knees, a people crying out for mercy to deaf gods as everything they've ever known crumbles and turns to ash around them. It's epic and exciting, while simultaneously utterly depressing and soul-crushing. It's damn near apocalyptic. Which, I think is a perfect encapsulation of the entire Dark Souls vibe. ESPECIALLY DS3, where the world basically finally does come to its end. Freaking love this piece of music, I always like to joke that the true first boss of Dark Souls 3 is pushing the button to leave the main menu and end the music.

[@carlrogge94]

Classical music isn't dieing, it is ahead of the curve by being in the biggest entertainment industry.

[@landenx]

This is one of my favorite tracks in the entire soulsbourne series 👏🏼

[@ethancknight]

Your reaction at 4:23 made me so happy. That whole section of 4:00 to 4:26, I could listen to it over and over again for hours.

[@angeltzepesh1]

This will forever be the most epic main theme, Kitamura and Sakuraba are briliant. And this is the main theme!

[@afflatusstep6247]

I really really enjoy these videos. I am no artist (far from it), but I think music is definitely the passion of my life, it is such an inspiration. What I also love is trying to analyse the music and understand its structure. I'm not that good at it, but watching someone who knows what he is doing do it somehow teaches me a lot !

[@DagothUrWelcomesYou]

I always must fully listen to this before starting the game. Blows me away every time

[@lothricahmed7322]

Yuka Kitamora's composition is so good in this game in addition to Sir Alonne from Dark Souls II is really top class and what makes it even more amazing is the fact that she's only 32 years old

[@nojokejon9577]

Sir alonnes theme and the entire fight is the best thing I’ve ever been blessed to experience

[@apetitan2936]

Crazy that she was only 21 when she did Dark Souls

[@Munushew]

​@@apetitan2936If I remember correctly she didn't help compose the first game, she started with dark souls 2

[@apetitan2936]

@@Munushew still insane

[@antotriyanto9419]

It so sad nowadays its very rare to listen this kind of music as many music is replace by those DJ things.. As For me i 1st hooked into this kind of music after i listening to kalafina / Yuki kajiura. They have sing for many anime and games,. their music sound like came from very mysterious distand land with magical, dark yet beautiful vibe..

[@KaineReiN]

I really love Monster Hunter's music as well and I hope you'll do a reaction to them some day. Have a listen to these: 1. Arch Tempered Kulve Taroth - Phase 3 (fury) theme 2. Alatreon theme (Iceborne version) 3. Safi'jiiva theme 4. Fatalis phase 1 and 2

[@handtomouth4690]

YES!

[@senounatsuru6453]

It's late, but "Nay, the Honor is all ours!"

[@StriderOfTheAbyss]

You need to hear abyss watchers theme from ds3. One of my favs, it has a lot of emotion in it 👌

[@santi041]

I love the way you see game music, and the way you feel it and how you show us your perspective about it. I enjoyed your videos a lot. Hope you can keep sharing your passion for videogame music, and thank you!

[@Mr-Draco]

To compare the world of Dark Souls to hell isn't too far off. It's being stuck, undead, in a decaying aggressive world and even if you reach the end of your long arduous journey after many many deaths, the cycle will just repeat itself. The main theme of Dark Souls 3 shows that nicely, it's like a mix of desperation and hope, but with a vague conclusion. Even if originally planned as final boss theme, it definitely fits as suitable welcome for any new player. I am glad you enjoyed this theme so much, it's really an amazing piece of music of an amazing game. Classical music will definitely live on, even if it's produced differently. People just shouldn't judge something on just the genre or the method of creation. Video games in general are still quite niche and often get a bad reputation, but mostly because nobody really wants to take the time to truly delve into them. Some games and soundtracks are true pieces of art and I am happy you share this opinion as learned and experienced musician. If not too bold, I would make another Dark Souls music recommendation. I think you might enjoy "Sir Alonne" from Dark Souls 2. It's quite a bit different from the other Dark Souls 2 soundtracks and a fantastic orchestral piece in my opinion. It's something I would love to hear from a live orchestra someday.

[@inksama8]

One of my favorite opera pieces. This song sounds like a violent, unstoppable fight between 2 tired warriors. Warriors so far gone they don’t even know what they’re fighting each other for. Each tired swing of their swords slamming down into the ground with such great force it vibrates the whole world. It’s the definition of utter perfection.

[@danq_]

For me, this song evokes a profound sense of determination, like the Ashen One is ready to do everything in their power to fulfill their duty. Quite fitting for the lore of the game.

[@edwinc1685]

First time I heard this I bawled my eyes out. I cried.

[@gianmarcogreco9129]

My name is marco too! And i LOVE meatballs! Subbed

[@MarcoMeatball]

Ciao Gianmarco

[@ShredMage]

This is quite possibly one of the most sad, haunting, and beautiful video game OST’s ever made. I’m glad you think so too.

[@lordkroak6670]

Well I hope the ending of a series be epic and grandiose

[@williamdinkel2304]

I never skip past the menu theme. I listen to it all the way through at least once before I start playing this game.

[@lackofenergy6331]

Wow your reaction is priceless i think you gonna love Dark Souls 3 epilogue

[@warman3096]

This main theme really embodies the "stakes have never been higher" motif where legends and gods alike have given up on this decaying world where lord kings great minds and progenitors of history have said nah fuck it we no longer care where duty honor lineage matter not ... not anymore its very heroic but also sorrowful like a mourning theme signifying an end of a cycle that has lasted millennia where one door closes a new one opens and the age of dark has been kept at bay long enough.

[@Malva597]

When the choir dies down and the strings sound like a looong lament.. YES! I always loved it!

[@brockmoritz5971]

I listened to this in full every single time I booted up the game before going in. So moving, makes me wanna slap dragons and take some souls and of course die die and die

[@ObnoxiousNinja99]

It's really cool to me that the genre of classical music composition has transitioned into less...formal/pure expressions of the art and in a way migrated to video game compositions. The inspirations of classical is all over modern video game soundtracks, not least of which includes FromSoft's incredible ability to convey stories and emotions with their music. It reminds me of when classical music was entering the romantic era. Composers were less focused on music for music's sake and more so on using the music to convey characters (like the ubiquitous leitmotif), ideologies, emotions, any part of the human experience really. Now, we see this transition again, except now there is always a concrete visual and participatory experience to capture and contextualize the music you're hearing, giving it further gravitas. In a way, the video games exist specifically to contextualize and deepen the music we hear in it. If the DS3 Main Theme existed on its own, with no video game and story attached to it, it would still be a work of art, but none of us would be as moved by the piece as we are now.

[@sverd3901]

I really love this theme! I feel like it's moving back and forth between hope and despair. Of course the chorus is very bombastic and gives you the strength to move forward, but then the calm parts with the violins are kind of mysterious and going left and right and you don't know where it's going, what to expect, you're lost. I love the songs you have covered so far, I share some of your tastes. I wouldn't hate to hear some Shadow of the Colossus, Monster Hunter or maybe Odin Sphere music on your channel in the future!

[@MarcoMeatball]

I need to diversify for sure. Love your interpretation btw. I appreciate that this channel has become a place for folks to share what THEY feel. It’s cool. You’re right about those reccs. It has all happened so fast so I’m locked into one nier song a week and then will pivot out eventually :)

[@Sparrow-Music]

The look on your face, feeling the music and being completely immersed in it, is every composer's dream.

[@Shadowdragon_TV]

When I heard this theme for the first time, I was immediately blown away. Now everytime I play this game, I have to let the theme rock. It's just so damn good.

[@coreansic2.046]

I personally think that a lot of sekiros music is very under appreciated. I’m fact all Fromsoft games have great music in my opinion. My fav track from sekiro is Demon of Hatred. Vocals are not really the focal point of the track but damn it is so great…

[@TheRodriguezFilms]

Another amazing reaction! Becoming one of my favorite music reaction channels. DS3 has such a beautiful OST. FromSoft always kills it with the soundtracks.

[@MarcoMeatball]

The composer team really nails it!! And thank you!

[@justAmood8]

Damn this takes me back. DS3 was my first souls games and I was blown away with this intro. I'm feeling nostalgic now. I think I'll buy it for my pc to play it again for like the 8th time. Maybe this time I'll actually be able to beat Midir this time around

[@neamraven]

Yeah, the first time I heard Dies Irae, I instantly loved it and I thought to myself, this is boss battle music.

[@Stookoonga]

Marco, I'm so glad you finally said that these deserve to be in the concert hall. I'm not an adult. But I've grown up to listen to all sorts of music. From orchestral to rap and I can safely say that Dark Souls? Some of the greatest compositions I've ever heard. Bloodborne? Some of the best grandur horrors that lie in the music. I believe that these songs, these Epics of a greater battle deserve a place in history. Classical will never die. It'll just continue to evolve into something from the foundations of its forefathers.

[@freinzy8974]

Would love to see a reaction/analysis of Gael or twin princes theme.

[@taaaroooo]

i was a non believer, tried a few fromsoft games at my friends house. then, my friend said, listen to this (ds3 menu theme) and i kinda went through it, i played a few minutes, got beaten up like crazy. fast forward, 3 years later i played every soulsborn (and a few soulslike) and this theme literally brought me into souls years later. now when i start ds3, i get teary eyed everytime. this theme is the fucking best theme i've ever heard

[@idolatrystudios]

Man I love your channel bro. I've watched this video 20 times simply because you're awesome.

[@MarcoMeatball]

Aw. That’s really sweet.

[@weeks7378]

I have been looking for this exact video

[@lionhunter1296]

Oh man, I really really REALLY! love your reactions to this kind of music! It's always amazing to see that others enjoy these great soundtracks too and to see your emotions and all and that is just super super great. You're really cool and bring me back to the great music of for example dark souls 3. Thank you very much, you're just awesome!

[@MarcoMeatball]

Thank you for saying that!!!

[@Emarq31]

"When the link of Fire is threatened, the BELL tolls. Unearthing old Lords of Cinder from their graves..." This is the last resort, this is the end. And so it is, the Age of Fire...is over.

[@apharys8921]

When I first got this game I literally left it on the menu for hours to listen to this masterpiece on loop. Sometimes I boot up the game just to listen to this and not even play the game lol. Friede's theme might be better though.

[@calmer1437]

My brother, you have a new subscriber. Fire Emblem and Soulsborne on the same music appreciation platform? Even someone like me who can only strum guitar & tickle ivories by ear enjoys hearing people appreciate this music. - Slave Knight Gael. - If you discuss the multiple vocals in that piece at length with comparisons like you did this piece, I will literally drop what I'm doing and come running. Hell, tell us all about the unexpected leitmotif in Soul of Cinder that sent shivers of Gwyn, Lord of Cinder down every Dark Souls 1 player's spine the first time, and I'll be right here listening.

[@geropino9480]

I just can't stop watching your face reaction, cause is the same as me, and I think many people have the same reaction. For me is the duty-tragedy of a hero who is fighting for something greater and important than his own life and he knows he will suffer, he knows he will lose everything in the process, but... he will stand up and never surrender until he defeat the evil or his body become dust. (pardon if my english is wrong, I'm not a native speaker) Regards.

[@jackthatistheripper]

I heard someone saying that this is the song that bosses hear when they fight us

[@davielias4404]

Glad to know i'm not the only one who feels that way.

[@juanmanueldegreef7276]

I platinum this game. EVERY TIME I've played it, every single time, every day I've went into those 200 hours of gameplay it took me, I've listened to the entire theme. It's a musical masterpiece. Period

[@GenlukD]

for me this inspires fear, dread and sadness. an adventure of epic proportions, like a tragedy from the old greek theater

[@oussamatoubali6527]

We really need an opera concert for the souls games

[@Napfkuchen]

First time I played DS3 I was so catched on the title screen it even doubled the emotions looking forward to play the game. Also I dont know exactly what it is, but parts of it strongly remind me of the song "Lilium" from "Elfen Lied" (Anime). It triggers so similar emotions in some parts that I sometimes confuse between them. Maybe its that holy, but sad and disturbed mixture. If you never heard "Lilium", you definitly should check it out. Would love to see a reaction from you to it. Thanks for your awesome videos!

[@Hihiolb]

Peak video games need peak music. its that simple :)

[@weevil9619]

My head cannon is that this song is our players boss music, what every boss hears when they face us

[@kratkartan1486]

Dark Souls 3 was the first From Soft game I completed, and because of that. It's nostalgic and one of my fave game soundtracks of all time.

[@Ligierthegreensun]

I saw someone say that even though this was originally Pontiff Sulyvahn’s theme, since it’s the main theme, it’s what the enemies hear when they fight the player. In other words, the player themselves is the ultimate boss with their own theme.

[@dustincooper3345]

It is extremely woeful and despairing, but it also brilliant and triumphant. It is a genius piece of work and it perfectly captures how playing dark souls feels at both the worst and the best of times.

[@nazmo_za9654]

bindging all your fromsoft reactions, you dont interrupt the track constantly, and enjoy watching you enjoy it, really infectious. well done

[@MarcoMeatball]

Thank you! I do stop more here and there depending on the track

[@wuguxiandi9413]

This piece feels simultaneously glorious, forlorn, heroic, and saddening all at the same time. A longing for a new world, but the fear of losing the one you have.

[@bl0ots]

this has to be the greatest song of all time, every single emotion into a perfection of music.

[@brockmoritz5971]

To me this piece tries to have the deepest feeling of what most DS3 players felt when they played it. They knew it was the end, so you had to send the ashen hollowed world off with a bang.

[@alliedavidson4175]

I listen to game soundtracks when I write, and the Dark Souls 3 main theme is one of my favorites, such an epic theme. This gives me chills every time. It's the hero's journey, the voices encouraging, then praising, exalting, raising up to send the hero forth, but with darker undertones because the hero may not survive, but there is no choice. They must go.

[@Tvanon]

This is my favorite game theme song ever, and thank you for reacting to it 😭

[@BoringBrandi]

The melancholy in those strings is enough to make you cry

[@Enigma1990ad]

The world is on the brink of death corrupted by the chaos of the gods linking the flame prolonging the age of Fire, the age of the Gods well beyond it's natural cycle. The Ashen One arises from the dead to finally put an end to this by entinguishing the Fire of Gwyn so the age of Man, the age of Dark can finally reign as it was meant to aeons ago. This is what the game is about an this menu music perfectly captures that.

[@TheDoomload]

I love how the main title already tells you "well, this is it; the final journey"

[@jedddock]

This was my bed time music for a few months after i first found it. Glad to see more people enjoying it.

[@dsheep9937]

This song makes me feel like crying when I listen, what an amazing song.

[@achaziel]

You should probably give Yhorm the Giant's theme another listen, it's one of my favourite pieces in DS3. It's so, very, good

[@thecommissar4461]

A little bit of fun trivia surrounding this track: Back when the game was in development, Pontiff Sulyvahn was meant to be the final boss and the game had a plotline in which an eclypse blocked out the sun. Sulyvahn was called 'Old King of the Eclypse' back then, and this track was meant to be his boss fight theme. It was such a fantastic piece that, even though the whole eclypse idea was scratched and Sulyvahn became the evil pontiff we know and hate today, the track became the game's main theme.

[@dragon___]

ever since i first heard it when the game came out, still gives me goosebumps

[@demonicgrub1025]

You said this song feels like vanquishing evil, to me this song has always been a mixture of hope and tragedy, just like the game itself. You get these angelic harmonies that inspire hope, but you also have the dissonance that you pointed out, and the almost mournful violin that tell a sadder tale. In the game you're going around killing these bosses, and sure, some of them are evil (looking at you pontiff). But many of them are tragic, whether they are fallen heroes (yhorm), princes banished from their homes and stripped of everything, including their name for fighting for the dragons rather than against them, and some are members of the legion that have been holding off the darkness of the abyss (abyss watchers, and we even are essentially taking the side of the corrupted abyss watchers in this fight, as we kill off the last few sane ones). Hell, the final boss, the soul of cinder is anything but evil, its a manifestation of all the people who have linked the flame throughout the ages. The entire game is the tragedy of the journey while being pushed forward that the choice you make at the end of it will make things better for the world. And I feel that from this song.

[@RESIDENTHOB0]

Out of all the games I have played, only DS3 and a game called Starbound have had me sitting in the main menu after booting it up for the first time, absolutely mesmerized by the theme music. Like goddamn.

[@aaron4832]

One track I forgot about that I absolutely love - Vergil Battle 3 from Devil May Cry 3. Not sure if you're familiar with it, but it's so good. Edit: Had to find a link for it, because there are so many "tampered with" versions on youtube. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGmsYnuhqp16h80 this particular version includes its full intro piece which is cut out of the track proper normally.

[@MarcoMeatball]

Oooooooo thanks for linking Aaron.

[@driosefka]

About the experience/memory part: Because I do speedruns in DS3 the last thing I always hear after a successful speedrun in which I've achieved a new personal is this theme. And it always reminds me of the struggle I just experienced the last few hours, but at the same time motivates me to continue. It's weird I know, but especially the part about 1:30 gives me so damn chills especially after a speedrun, where I'm just sitting at my desk, head in hands, shaking from the pressure and ahhhh it's just feels so good all the time. And more to DS3: Many themes in the lategame always give me goosebumps make me shiver, because I always recall the memory of the first time I've beaten the boss, like Gael, the Twin Princes, Soul of Cinder, Abyss Watchers, Sulyvahn and Sister Friede ... They're so majestic and emotional and epic and you should definitely give them all a try (of course you only accept Patreon OST commissions, but I am poor and I still try to do it that way haha)

[@MarcoMeatball]

I see this Wolfie :)

[@taca2118]

So good, I like how it has this sad feeling to it’s epicness

[@Alkatraz242]

You're sooo right!! it's not just vg music. It's music, incredible, profound, emotionally charged music on par with classical pieces. I share the same passion for vide games and music. Have to say you've inspired me to pursue a career in vg music composition and voice work!! Who knows maybe I'll get to work on a Bloodborne sequel, if that ever happens. Thank you for doing what you do and inspiring others like me!! ✌️💜

[@MarcoMeatball]

Wow. Thank you for saying this. Truly.

[@SawyerLH]

i love this so much that i went through all the trouble of changing your iPhone's ringtone just to make it this one.

[@-Minuano-]

I love how the lyrics. It's basically telling you not to go hollow.

[@MMehdi-he4uo]

One of the best music pieces i've ever heard !

[@SycrosD4]

Best opening in all of FromSoft. No contest