Etrian Odyssey III / Nexus - Waterfall Woodlands + Super Arrange | Reacting To Video Game Music!

[@rhythmrally]

Woah, three in one! It’s really awesome hearing all of them side to side. There’s actually even a fourth official arrange of this song because the labyrinth was brought back for Etrian Mystery Dungeon as well, which i would say is most similar to the Nexus arrange, it’s also very nice to listen to. All the labyrinth themes are basically your walking themes in the game, since they play while you explore the dungeon in a first person. The tomb one you listened for the 5th game with that soulful piano is in this same subset of songs. Waterfall Woodlands was brought back for Nexus, which was a game that basically reused all of the previous games dungeons and classes to celebrate the EO series. Since there’s been remakes of the first and second games too, plus the Mystery Dungeon spin-offs, there’s actually a lot of songs that have like 4+ arrangements! Lots of great music to listen to for the EO fans~ I like to think that the darken tension to an otherwise calm and mysterious song is the fact you can get jumped by random encounters at any time, so despite the beauty of your surroundings, you’re always reminded by the danger lurking underneath… Hoping you’ll get a request for City of Radiant Ruins in the future, that one’s super arrange has been my on loop song for the past week 🙏🏼

[@submariNervous]

If he does eventually get around to the Etrian Odyssey IV songs, I kind of feel it would be best for him to play the "Cave" music back-to-back with their "Labyrinth" counterparts (e.g. "Library of Puppets" and _then_ "City of Radiant Ruin", "Lead Astray in the Lost Woods" and _then_ "Misty Ravine", etc.), since the Caves are essentially a small taste of what the larger and more complex Labyrinths have in store (and because the caves never got Super Arrange versions lol).

[@yggdro]

Waterfall Woods is definitely one of, if not the best first stratum, its just so beautiful to look at and its ambience is peak chill, perfect for a picnic, until you get blindsided by some durians and a giant cat that is

[@nodot17]

I'd personally say guardian spirit's woodlands (EO5) personally but they're all pretty good tbh

[@yggdro]

@@nodot17 yeah EO music is just nice, Yuzo Koshiro just doesn't miss

[@nnickerson100]

or until you try to pet the deer

[@TheCoolerDrilis]

God, they really went all out with the _NEXUS_ arrangement. We probably won't get _3 Untold,_ but at least we got this masterpiece. Brought me to tears.

[@MFMegaZeroX7]

Ooh this is great. Never played the games, but this bops. I think the Nexus version was my favorite. Honestly, this channel is great just for discovering more video game music, particularly as you highlight things I wouldn't have payed attention to in my first listen (eg: the bass line).

[@Reviver25]

Games are awesome and the dark souls of turned based rpgs!

[@jedahaw]

@@Reviver25 No kidding, I play SMT, another series by ATLUS. EO kicked my ass so many times.

[@MrJhound4]

Oooo. That 3rd one has a mystical sound. Makes me think of nature and temples. Very peaceful, but with a somber energy. Absolutely beautiful.

[@pokemaster374]

This music, this music right here is the music that encapsulates a journey you've been on awhile and you that moment to reflect the adventure you had up till now. Make me feel all melancholy

[@LeetTron5000]

Every song in this series did this to you. It gave you this feeling of awe and intrigue as you power through the dungeons and their mysteries. Every time you got to a new area it you could feel the shift in atmosphere and it drew you in. His work on the music design in these games cannot be understated.

[@TheCoolerDrilis]

Funny thing is that it's the music at the start of your journey.

[@ulisesmantilla9193]

Love that this is just the first dungeon theme. Precursor of tunes to come.

[@Lapurn-The-Urn]

The theme of walking, hoping for good random encounters, avoiding the FOE's like the plague, while mapping it out as you go. Although that is true of just about all of etrian odysseys area themes.

[@Kalanin399]

So it's been mentioned but Waterfall Woodlands is the the walking dungeon theme for the "First Stratum" of Etrian Odyssey III. There's a total of 6 stratums in each game for 6 different thematic ambiance that fits with the stratum of the area. Being a beginner stage, Waterfall Woodlands has a much more tranquil exploratory feel to it in my opinion compared to later themes in the game. As for potential reasons it in particular was brought back, EOIII never got a proper remake, and was the last game in the series to be done on the original DS handhelds, before Nintendo released the next gen versions of the consoles. EOI and EOII were redone and remade after the success of EO4, which was a launch title on the newest consoles. However EOIII never got that treatment. Despite that, EOIII is the game that really pushed the series into a new frontier, and a good deal of the core series systems like subclassing started in EOIII. The music in EOIII is widely regarded by basically anyone I ask in the community to have the best soundtrack, so much so that Atlus actually replaced an existing recurring theme up to this point, Scatter About, with the Sea boss theme in EOIII We might never see an "Untold" version of EOIII, but almost every track from the game has been redone in other games, and it probably has the most fan covers of all the games at this point.

[@GamingTranceSeer]

Nah we can still get etrian untold 3. Believe!

[@Kalanin399]

@@GamingTranceSeer I'm waiting for it for when we get a switch Etrian Odyssey

[@darkpyro786]

@@Kalanin399 All they need to do is make a switch 2, where the portable mode has dual screens. When you dock it, you take one of the screens off, the other remains as a controller kind of like the wii u gamepad. That's literally the only way we're getting another Etrian Odyssey haha

[@Kalanin399]

@@darkpyro786 Atlus is a bit notorious in that they announced a new EO title over 4 years ago and we haven't heard any news since their teaser of it. I'm still in the camp of it being developed and just atlus ran into the same issues the SMT team did with SMTV

[@lutecl2392]

Okay, so I just got home from a fairly long day. Can you imagine how incredibly good it feels to sit back to this song when you're low on power? It's like a nice hot bath for the head.... As always, thank you for what you do, it's great.

[@crazyjavi88]

Funfact: The original was made with the same tools as the NES/SNES dungeon crawlers of yore. It was in an interview with the music lead where he wanted to keep the charm of the music from the old FP dungeo crawling games. You can hear it more clearly in the first game , but it gets exponentially better with each game.

[@Firellius]

From what I heard, with the first three Etrian Odyssey games being done on the DS, Yuzo decided to navigate the issue of the DS's limited sound capabilities by rendering the entire OST in FM-synth. It became a success, so even when the series progressed onto the 3DS and the soundtrack went orchestral, he kept making FM-synth renditions.

[@MrJhound4]

That saxophone in the second iteration immediately put a smile on my face. Yuzo Koshiro is a modern music god.

[@Kurlija]

My favourite Nexus track, really glad you covered it!

[@jedahaw]

Whoa, didn't expect you to react to Etrian Odyssey.

[@kylefreeburg9353]

Etrian odyssey really does exploratory, vibrant themes so well. It's gotta be my favorite game series for music, every song has so much thought put into it, and different arrangements of songs usually have such different tones and styles, I love it

[@TAGORDI]

Was just revisiting the Nexus OST, I like the nexus version, with each instrument coming in for each section.

[@LeetTron5000]

man yuzo is an absolute monster of a musician. I first heard of him through streets of rage when i was a kid then fell in love with these games and their soundtrack. Searching the ost and finding out hes been still been giving me gems blew my mind a couple years back.

[@salvadorsanchez5057]

i love how he was like "seems like this song is very important to the series" with the nexus arrangement and its like, its not but they really just went hard as hell on that one. its so great.

[@KingAges]

Glad to see you doing Etrian Odyssey videos. I love the EO series.

[@Salt_Mage]

I really hope you listen to End of the Raging Seas/Winds. The original from EO3, the EO4 version, the EO5 version, and the Etrian Mystery Dungeon versions all have unique takes on the theme

[@TheCoolerDrilis]

Man, the Super Arrange makes me think of like a sacred jungle or something.

[@maximmillennia]

All hail lord daddy!!

[@HayatoEvoker]

God, EOIII is so fantastic, this game has some of my absolute fAVORITE battle themes in JRPG history

[@nodot17]

correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't etrian mystery dungeon have version of this theme too?

[@GamingTranceSeer]

Awesome! Now if only someone requested the fafnir transformation battle theme...

[@DBinitiate]

That would be cool, but the sad part is that it's like a 30-second loop. The Fafnir Transformation Theme just doesn't really have much to it...

[@arzedeu]

I 'm not sure if someone already put this out there already, but Etrian Odyssey Nexus is the 6th Main Installment of the Series, not counting the Mystery Dungeon Spin-offs. It returns in Nexus because the Labyrinth is in the game, because lore reasons. And because the place is also a fan favorite? To put it simply, Nexus is like combining all the games together. Except Beyond the Myth for lore reasons.

[@jedahaw]

I remember seeing somewhere that it's Koshiro-san's dream to have an orchestra play his music.

[@DBinitiate]

Waterfall Woodlands is not even used for any real important location. It's just the very first dungeon area of the game, a tropical woodland surrounding a large, central set of waterfalls.

[@kylefreeburg9353]

And in Nexus it's just a random location of no importance at all. Just goes to show how EO puts their whole force into every song

[@HayatoEvoker]

The Super Arrange version REALLY reminds me of .hack

[@kaleina_mk]

eo3 is so good

[@S1gnalC0]

Hey man, I would love to see you react to Sally Face music, it's some of my absolute favorite music, some are short but some are really worth it. Like Haunted Hallways or Memories and Dreams

[@renine13]

i don’t know if i need to be in the patreon to request but if you can, could you react to Le perv? it’s from a game called hotline miami 2

[@MadMax22]

What I really think is crazy is that you haven't listened to like, one of the most metal songs in guilty gear Alone Infection. Probably because everybody hated on it for being too metal when they were never metal fans in the first place.

[@akiradkcn]

WHERE IS NEXT STAGE ATLUS AAAAAAA

[@alejandrogomez1698]

Please react to Freesia or Divide My Heart from Guilty Gear Xrd. A lyrics video would probably make it more enjoyable.

[@nodot17]

its not that the theme is important per se its more that etrian odyssey 3 is the fan favorite by quite a decent margin so they like to pay homage to it every so often

[@dawk7]

>"Sounds very important to the series." >lol 1st dungeon theme in the original EO3 To be fair it came back in Nexus because it's a fan favorite, probably the most beloved first stratum but... lol.