SIGNALIS - Die Toteninsel (Emptiness) [Extended]

Song Title: Die Toteninsel (Emptiness)
Artist Name: Cicada Sirens & 1000 Eyes
Artist Bandcamp link: signalis-ost.b...

[@0plush]

What got me most was that replika couple in the mines. One is dying and the other is sobbing. The dying one keeps comforting the sobbing one by talking about memories they inherited from their gestalt and how funny it is that they retain them. The other keeps sobbing the whole time. Final moments of two people that love each other. They both know its over. One comforts and one can't do anything but cry.

[@mauri_andres01]

Life is pain. Death is relief. No better reminder than that image.

[@dedbolt6339]

Oh, yes, it was the first thing that I thought of after the ending. Honestly, that couple's situation is really similar to Ariane's and Elster's. There's only one way out left for them and both of them wish it didn't have to be this way

[@qweasdoUAttgl5300]

And we was standing there , with several repairs in inventory

[@AnprimGang]

@@qweasdoUAttgl5300 "Yeah man that really sucks for you two" -overdosing on Repair Sprays

[@tenjenk]

The EULE and STAR. there are a lot of fan animations of them by Liz Caingcoy and Arainydancer. As well as a bunch of fanart by others

[@amoapu8866]

Never imagine my drawing will show on YT 😭Thank you like it

[@Feelsbanditman]

do you have the original by any chance?

[@MrDaiohAzu]

great art man. Really fits the atmosphere of the game

[@ozymandiasramesses1773]

@@Feelsbanditman The original painting in the game is called 'Die Toteninsel'.

[@matthewpeterson5159]

link the original?

[@ajimit8669]

he should put your name on description then

[@alia4516]

Not ashamed to say this song alone caused me to cry when first hearing it, it’s so beautiful yet sad

[@scottyxscxrs5483]

My 35 year old self hasn’t experienced this kind of raw emotion in gaming since I was a teen. Being this heartbroken, feeling so sadden, it doesn’t come often anymore, and I’m so thankful I got to experience this great loss. The red eye sees all.

[@nikitakhmelevskyi6257]

Can you share any other games with same u know... emotions?

[@scottyxscxrs5483]

@@nikitakhmelevskyi6257 well I’d say Xenogears/Xenosaga 1-3/Xenoblade Chronicles 1-3(with the dlc stories for 2&3), Silent Hill 1-4, Wild Arms 1-3, Final Fantasy 8, Tales of Abyss, Drakengard 1&3, Nier Replicant and Automata, I’m sure there is more, but I’m not in front of my collection. I’ll update this for you if you want?

[@Botleg1017]

@@scottyxscxrs5483 Nice list bro, did you play SOMA? it gives you close to the emotions that Signalis give

[@konon667]

@@nikitakhmelevskyi6257 Doki Doki Literature Club maybe?

[@socalledsavior6072]

Then play red dead redemption 2. Depending on how you play and help you’ll get different endings.

[@kronkchopp]

This song is like a kick in the gut, getting your shirt pulled over your face, getting shoved into ice water, then pushed off a bridge. I love this game so much.

[@NHO12209]

If you're interested in the original: the isle of the dead by Rachmaninoff

[@msaeedazizi]

That's.... oddly specific

[@juggernut1418]

This gamd is really good and cool but why did it have to be a lesben one

[@juggernut1418]

​@@NHO12209what?

[@SPARKY358]

@@juggernut1418 bruh 💀

[@numa7074]

The real tragedy of this is knowing you will never experience something similar with any other game, at least not for quite some time.

[@russiansoul6919]

Inmost

[@gavinmccandlish3063]

SOMA, Lone Survivor, Darkwood

[@ShootingStarNeo]

We are NOT making it out of the timeloop with this one, fam.

[@sneakybeaky9613]

We ARE making it out of the cycle with this one! I got the promise ending first playthrough, had me on the verge of tears I'm not even gonna lie

[@gomiyaro]

@@sneakybeaky9613 I'm not convinced the promise ending actually breaks the loop

[@sneakybeaky9613]

@@gomiyaro Im pretty sure it does break the cycle, because the whole reason the cycle exists is Ariane is a bioresonet and she is creating the cycle

[@gomiyaro]

@@sneakybeaky9613 From my interpretation all endings do and must happen to further the loop, the issue lies with what comes before and after: promise or artifact?

[@gomiyaro]

@@sneakybeaky9613 And remember when after the fake ending we grab the white armor off the dead LSTR unit? The cryopod is a fleshy mass which I believe is Ariane somehow being reborn into the cycle and the scene to be not the one from the memory ending but the one from the promise ending. Also to note is how Ariane is somehow fairly still "intact" when the notes we read ingame points to Ariane being deadly sick with radiation poisoning, I believe that Ariane no longer has a "real" body, the ones we see are just recreations from her bioresonance. This of course is all my interpretation and does lead to the artifact ending being the "real" ending.

[@chodohead]

This song is like 90% the reason why the fake ending stuck with me. The quiet ambient synth(?) in the background drowns the atmosphere in melancholy. Then, the piano comes in, but it's devoid of any sense of drama or grand emotion: instead, it feels tired, and spent. Watching LSTR wander in the red with this in the background captured the feeling of giving up and powerlessness perfectly. The song feels like it's spectating LSTR, watching her end as if it already knew it was coming, and resigning itself to the fact that nothing can be done. As the song fades out, the player watches the life fade from her eyes, unable to change the outcome. Perfect song for a perfect scene, absolutely adore it. Great song/10

[@Dinakol]

Didn't feel like crying before, when hearing this song, before your comment. NOW I DO, thanks a lot!! Beautifully said on how this song feels, it feels tired, like you said. Now I understand why this song in particular is the one that I like the most. Thank you, chodohead.

[@chodohead]

@@Dinakol awww, thank you Dinakol! I'm glad my interpretation clicked with you!!

[@Bluecho4]

Naturally, the score also deceives. "...and no matter how tender, how exquisite...a _lie_ will remain a _lie."_ -Aldia, Dark Souls 2

[@olchum7605]

I am a grown man. I beat this game in 9 hours and got an emotional breakdown while crying. Holy fuck

[@nomadjensen8276]

No Shame in that brother. I'm about as toxicically male as you can get an this game broke my heart and haunts my dreams. Only this an planescape torment ever effected me this much.

[@sneakybeaky9613]

@@nomadjensen8276 Same here, I have never played anything to make me this sad and bring me to the verge of tears

[@tdrendru2230]

I imagine this song is what Ariane must've felt like on that ship. When you're trapped in such a small space for so long, with nothing left to do that you find enjoyable nor enriching, the only thing left to feel is how you wither a little bit more each day. The cruel passage of time remains as constant as ever, but its perceived effect is amplified to the level of torture. This song is calming in a way because it shows acceptance of this truth - but it feels off at the same time. It's a "forced" acceptance - the passage of time is something we all experience, but their experience of it was far worse.They accept it because they have no other choice, but they are not entirely at peace with it because instead of enjoying many of the joys life has to offer, through no fault of their own they lived their lives waiting to die. But even in the end. they remain powerless against time; they can neither go back to recover the life they had lost, nor even to hurry up their decay so they may be put out of their misery. What makes it so horrifying is that it's not torture in the true sense of the word - it does not involve pain. It's a maddening numbness that makes you beg for while simultaneously denying any kind of stimulus, even pain. This image too - on one hand I'm glad for them because they are together and the relationship they have is so beautiful; but on the other hand, that darkness they are about to walk into is where they will die a slow, agonizing-in-a-near-incomprehensible-sense death. It looks to me from the painting like they know it too. I was not fully aware of these themes as I played the game because I was not fully aware of Ariane and Elster's fate, but in retrospect... it gives me chills. This is more terrifying to me than any possible depiction of a cosmic, malevolent being, which I was expecting ever since I saw the King in Yellow mentioned in a demo of the game about a year ago. This game - this work of art - has taken its place in my nightmares.

[@emy._.]

Well said

[@RetiRety]

lmao im not readin alladat

[@the24thcolossusjustchillin39]

Agreed, sometimes bleak nothingness with no escape is more terrifying than any elder god or monster could ever hope to be.

[@redacted144]

melancholy, pure melancholy. With nothing left but yourself and acceptance.

[@thatchedrooves1204]

Im pretty sure Ariane was in a lot of pain, i remember notes near the end describing how it was painful, how everything hurt all the time begging for the pain to stop she was definitely not laying numb in the cryo pod

[@samuraicupcake289]

Being a grown man in his 30s, without much drama in his life, I haven't cried in a long time, but after having played and gotten the "promise" ending, this song just makes the tears flow endlessly 😭 Music really is magical.

[@foppypoof5195]

Music is very good for the brain. Seriously, it’s just so magical.

[@samuraicupcake289]

Damn it still makes me 😭🖤🤍

[@Xigmatube]

Fun fact: this haunting melody is an extract of Rachmaninoff’s ‘Isle of the Dead’, which is also inspire by the painting of the same name

[@MetaStatistical]

There are also many forms of that painting, and all of them are used in the game.

[@Kvvz_]

It all connects to that cursed mass of land

[@TheMayanGuy]

@@MetaStatistical I assume you mean all the different forms of Die Toteninsel painted by Arnold Böcklin? (I know nothing about Signalis, I just found this video by researching the painting, I din't even know it was in Signalis now I'm curious about the game)

[@Mercurial_Me]

Realized yesterday that the melody of this song uses the same 3 notes as the magpie signal (3 note oddity). This song is literally Ariane calling for Elster.

[@94PlayerOne]

I cannot get this game out of my head.

[@lolagagginw812lol7]

Elster and Ariane being in front of the Isle Of The Dead by Rachmaninoff is both eerie yet so soothing at the same time. I love this game!

[@iannordin5250]

Absolutely, this is in essence what both characters want, and is a kind of ultimate wish fulfillment, to finally escape the cycle and pass on together.

[@juliusweiss5447]

The painting is from Arnold Böcklin. Rachmaninov wrote the symphony inspired off the painting that this Signalis song is sampling.

[@lolagagginw812lol7]

@@juliusweiss5447 That is amazing. I did not know that. Thank you for telling us. :)

[@mcbill7352]

Bro thinks rachmaninoff is a painter 💀

[@lolagagginw812lol7]

@@mcbill7352 Eh, oops?

[@gary4014]

“Die Toteninsel” translates to “Isle of the Dead” (that painting of the island), dunno if anyone mentioned that yet

[@karhu7581]

The song also borrows the melody from Rachanimov's Die Toteninsel, a song inspired by the painting.

[@orchidxorchi]

When i moved to another city and moved schools i would listen to this everyday. I had no friends and nobody would talk with me a lot. I felt very lonely and unnesessary to everybody. This melody is just how i had to calm myself down before it just balanced everything i had in my mind ... I still listen to this and remember those memories, i have never felt so lonely before

[@Yoshmin34]

This game made me feel things I didn’t want to feel. I remember trying to go to sleep after finishing it, but I just couldn’t. I stared out my window, asking myself why I put myself through this, all while Die Toteninsel played on a loop. I am broken, I am shattered, but I’m glad I played this game.

[@izarr6419]

This game refuses to leave my head. What a masterpiece.

[@BathrobeHero]

remember our promise.

[@yatsuu_39]

just completed the promise ending, i didn't think i'd be crying over the game all over again but those last moments just destroyed me. genuinely one of the best games i've played in years

[@hive5123]

This. This music during the fake ending cutscene was what confirmed my love for this game for good. I have no words to describe how it makes me feel exactly, but all I can say is that the devs are geniuses. This is art.

[@Houndguardian]

All two of them. And one of them wrote the story while the other was in charge of the art. All the more impressive in my opinion. If you expand to include the sound-design/music: then it's only another two people.

[@aaronatkinson177]

Rose engine I 👏 you for this game very well done 👏 ✔️ I want more from them their a talented team 👏

[@juggernut1418]

Wait...this is the fake? How many are there

[@kmilo1801]

​@@juggernut1418 it's been like 2 months, so you probably already know, but just in case I'll tell you about it: Besides this ending there are other 4 of them i think, one with Die Toteninsel playing on the background is fake because the game doesn't really end there. After the credits are over, when you are sent back to the main menu, Elster now looks dead and her eye looks like it lost its light. You have to press the continue option. At first it looks like you're starting the game all over again but if you keep going you'll quickly realize that a lot has changed. I haven't really finished the game myself but I'm loving it and i hope this helps you.

[@juggernut1418]

i feel like they are in hell its an endless LOO[P@@kmilo1801

[@eileenscat]

This game brought back the feeling of experiencing a Silent Hill for the first time after finishing the four core games, and I’m so grateful for that.

[@VitorMach]

I can't take this song off my head. Haven't cried like that with a game in a long time.

[@freekda]

This is so cool, dude. I'm getting all the chills.

[@HelloKolla]

Now with roughly 8 times the big sad! * sobs in a corner *

[@ozymandiasramesses1773]

A conflagration of two takes a universe of cosmic emptiness.

[@zumzum1401]

"You have a promise to fulfill" I was told by the friend who recommended this game to me. I wish he hadn't. I am incapable of reading or hearing the word CYCLE in any of its synonyms anymore without this song resonating in my thoughts. Whenever I feel something is about to go wrong again, or that my endeavors are pointless, I hear this. It's such a beautiful take on melancholy and hopelessness. Always reminding me of everything I want to forget. 10/10 experience, will cry 2 hours straight... again...

[@K-Sober]

A song I could listen to while taking my last breath. Thank you! Edit: After finishing the game I feel empty inside it's like watching a good show come to an end. 10/10 Game

[@TheLexa053]

I feel the same. I feel like this is a ,,once in a lifetime" type of game. In my eyes, it will never get beaten by any other game. None other game sent me to some weird type of mental state. God bless SIGNALIS and Rose-Engine devs for this beautiful experience.

[@BrotherPolemos]

This game fucked me up so bad. I got the Leave ending first time through. I dunno if it was peak depression or what, but everytime i hear this piano, i can't help but feel a deep lonelyness and sadness. But at the same time, knowing the endings, im just glad they got to be togeather again in one form or another.

[@lunatic0verlord10]

A song to listen to while talking your "last breath"... Considering where this plays in the game...

[@jj80808]

The aiming and combat,item slot space and puzzles tho ☹🤮🤮😫 jkjk this is my favourite game of all time. A beautiful piece of art

[@RiggedSam]

Try NieR: Automata and or SOMA if you liked Signalis!

[@TheAcune]

This feels like it actually touched my soul, every time this song plays in my head I feel both sadness but joy at the same time knowing that Elstr and Ariane got to dance together one last time even if it was beyond space and time.

[@networknomad5600]

*I won't forget our promise.*

[@gsal6741]

The music pairs so well with how the story unfolds. Every single time I hear the piano, its somber tune, I start to feel feelings I've never thought I was capable of feeling. Emptiness is truly a perfect descriptor of this song, as well as the game. Never before has a game instilled such feelings in me before. Mere pixels, sure, but what laid behind them was what stuck deeply with me. I came looking for tall android waifu, stayed for the master-craft story, and cried for what was never meant to be. 10/10 game, perhaps a game of similar caliber will never be created. Perhaps, this is truly hell.

[@russiansoul6919]

Angel`s Egg - animation of similar calibre from 1985

[@AHappyWatermelon]

I love music like this. Its soo, melancholic. It evokes feelings of a time long gone when I was happy, that's faded by time. Very beautiful.

[@QuassGamer]

Тем кто забросил игру из-за спойлеров - дайте ей ещё один шанс. Я проспойлерил себе концовку, в процессе прохождения и оставил игру. Но в конце-концов меня взяло любопытство, на какую же концовку я выйду? Я начал "спидранить" игру. Я и до этого старался особо не тратить патроны и как сорока (умышленная тавтология) всё собирал и прятал в ящик и оббегал реплик. Я был одержим как Эльстер добраться до конца, увидеть чем всё закончится. Когда я услышал этот трек в игре, то почувствовал... опустошение и облегчение. Как, например, когда у тебя что-то болит, отпускает, а ты ощущаешь сладко-горькое чувство из-за того, что мозг выделил много эндорфинов. Я выполнил обещание. Для меня их души покоятся на Острове Живых и танцуют счастливо воссоединившись.

[@InterceptorElla]

Брат, я только концовку заспойлерил себе и до этого начало немного прошёл. Но я блять как одержимый по городу ношусь и жду, когда я куплю её после утраты из Xbox game pass назад за свои кровные шекели блять, потому что я хочу сам каждую разработку этой шедевральной хуйни почувствовать на себе и обрести покой вместе с ними

[@ryanfoo5286]

Amazing. I think i should also buy the game now

[@poochyboi]

after finishing shit game this song always makes me feel a deep sadness for the characters in the game. such a beautiful game.

[@kronkchopp]

Very true, Dick Piano.

[@Полуночник-о3ц]

So damn emotional. This ost is a pure magic

[@monolithichashies7477]

it's one in the morning, I have school in the morning, I'm ugly crying because this game is so god damn beautiful and more people need to experience it. 100/10

[@mateosanchezaquino3829]

What i loved about Signalis wasn't only the horror aspect or the visuals, but the underlying tragedy between Elster and Arianne. SPOILERS BELOW: Arianne accepting the mission to go to a different, unknown planet, just to get away from the abuse due to being different in some minor things. And with Elster with her, for a moment it felt like a tiny escape between the two where they can be at peace. And then it all falls apart in a horrific way. The ship's radiation poisons her, and she's forced to stay bedridden. And what's worse, she can't seem to die and her drifting memories alter the rest of the crew. We, as Elster, can only put her out of her misery by killing her (the promise she made to Arianne). All while the strange planet itself also warps the station into a place similar to Silent Hill.

[@misterio10gre]

This song encapsulates what I can only imagine as the terrifying feeling of forgetting while trying to grasp to yourself and reality

[@Exuエクス]

this game made me realize how ive yet to know how it feels to truly love someone. the feeling of love so strong that you would fight through hell and back for, like elster did for arianne the entirety of the game. all i feel is a void in my soul, waiting for someone else to come fill it for me

[@eragonfreedman9228]

same

[@HeroOfTheGun-Bullet]

This Soundtrack is incredibly weird. I dont quite understand why or what but it really creates a strange feeling inside or maybe multiple feelings. Its comforting, eerie, strange, sad, lonely... its overwhelming. Its relaxing yet i cant relax while listening to it. Its literally giving out vibes that oppose each other thats how good this track is.

[@razvy6949]

I know right!!!

[@risepl753]

A game i finished in 10 hours made me cry where some games i put 100 hours in didn't, a true masterpiece, we didn't needed a happy ending, all we needed was a tragedy.

[@athenianhoplite930]

for those who dont know Die Toteninsel is German for The isle of the dead

[@MrRaui]

This was the video that ultimately made me buy Signalis. I wasn't quite ready for when it played in-game.

[@TheGamingAbyss]

"Lamb, tell me a story." "There was once a pale man who was very lonely." "Why was it lonely?" "All things must meet this man, so they shunned him." "Did he chase them off?" "He took an axe and split himself in two, right down the middle." "So he would always have a friend?!" "So he would always have a friend..."

[@Vulpes_Umbra]

-Kindred, League of Legends :')

[@mr_biizon3279]

this just came up in my auto play and im not sure what led to me being here but its really nice. Thanks

[@cybercyph]

its from a game called signalis, really recommend!! its super duper sad though. like crazy sad.

[@KyleAnimates]

This is the most beautiful thing I've come across. I love the reworking of Rachmaninoff's work into this type of somber piano sound. The people who made this ost deserve an award

[@AdmiralStickney]

I now have one of the renditions of this painting in my bedroom just over my headboard because of this game.

[@meegz149]

This game is a masterpiece. It got lost, drifting through time, through space... flesh, becoming an island in a see of emptiness in a new decade.

[@MoulayC.-qv3rn]

Experiencing the tragic story and characters of SIGNALIS is probably something i will never forget, this is truly the pinnacle of what the gaming medium can provide, just pure emotions. This track has an ominous and sweet and sour feeling, i dont know how to describe it fits perfectly with the story ... anything for the promise.

[@slavikant5989]

Одна из самых сильных игровых концовок, которые я когда либо видел - дня два переживал этот момент

[@DSavelev792]

А я до сих пор отойти не могу, хотя прошло уже 2 месяца как я игру прошёл

[@pott3r]

Что именно ты имеешь в виду? Там же открытый конец как я понял. Много концовок и все абсолютно разные

[@dainsleif6594]

My God, this track is so cool, but at the same time sad, because when I listen to this melody, tears start coming into my eyes, as if I really experienced someone's death

[@Creen_Crayon]

I’m really glad to know I’m not the only grown man left crying over this game

[@razvy6949]

To me this song paints a picture in my head, the vast emptiness of space (from the ambiental part of the song), and when the instruments kick in, the beauty of the nebulas, what's wrong with me 😭

[@romeoalpha1116]

I get this is based on classical music, but it feels very... Yumi Nikki. The sadness of this game reminds me a lot of how devastated I was at the end of Matsuro Palette. I hope for a game set in the same universe. I really do. Signalis's universe is very interesting. I think the page on Elster and Ariane, alongside Leng's mine have closed though simply due to the nature of the game being based on mystery. Oddly nice when building shelves.

[@Sharkela]

yume nikki and death palette connoisseur? flabbergasting

[@Xe-N0N]

“There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life. If death is welcome let him seek it there.” king in yellow

[@trevorfranks69]

Alone, At the edge of the universe; Humming a tune.

[@christianasiata4485]

For a fictional universe, this one hit me right in the feels... Even as a Christian, even I know that these two deserved better. The music just hits you in the heart where it HURTS... I just can't man. The story goes far beyond eldritch horrors, but about two who were wronged by the regime they served under.

[@largestbigman5267]

What does “even as a Christian” mean in the context of this game

[@eragonfreedman9228]

"Even as a Christian" let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

[@F31-23]

@@largestbigman5267 Christian doesn't support lesbianism

[@pedrolizardo7704]

metal gear solid 1 was my favorite game of all time. i think signalis took his place. it took 15 years for another game to assume this place.

[@MaliUrum]

this song stuck in my head since the first time i heard it and whenever i think of signalis i start hearing these piano and low ambient sounds, this is perhaps my most favorite ost in the whole game and the one i have and will remember by heart forever ❤ thank you Yuri and Barbara, and everyone who was involved in production for this wonderful experience

[@HonkieWithaBoomstick]

I absolutely refuse to beleive there isnt a hidden, happy 6th ending. Why does everything in the game relate to 6 but there's only 5 endings? Its driving me mad

[@starwarsfan117]

I just want an ending that doesn't end with you know who melting into a puddle... And where the hell was #%^@! ?

[@josef-ralfdwerlkotte8333]

@@starwarsfan117 well she was dead before the story begins.

[@whoisdenke]

@@josef-ralfdwerlkotte8333 moreso on the brink of death, but the cryochamber or bioresonance is the last string she has.

[@josef-ralfdwerlkotte8333]

@@whoisdenke no i mean isa

[@Cardiopazia]

Maybe is like Pareidolia, we see what we want to see, in this case a pattern.

[@IzzyaBOO]

i feel the empty feeling creeping up on me again...

[@scottyxscxrs5483]

I still can’t, I’ll never forget…… This pain This sadness This comes once ever so many years in art. Be glad we have this. Let the pain wrap around you, feel it. And never forget the promise that was made. Never forget this beautiful OST.

[@resonanceofambition]

I want this to play at repeat at my funeral

[@TheLexa053]

I have a bit of a problem with my funeral song. This sounds really well and actually almost made me cry while it played in the cutscene, but I have a bit of a struggle with Trackmania Nations/United Forever menu theme, because I play that game since I can remember and I have many beautiful memories on that game. Sometimes when I hear that menu theme, I just get memories which are making me sad. This ending theme is also a beautiful I would call symphony. Reminds me of the fact that there will be the end one day. A day when you will lose everything and leave this place to some, if even any, different world.

[@Saihttam35]

It's only me or there are a really quiet and relaxing ASMR feeling with mains SIGNALIS'S musics ? Could hear this OST for hours just for relax...

[@Akari_A_]

The fake ending sequence is straight up one of the best cutscenes I've ever seen. This soundtrack and the overall execution of the cutscene (which borrows prime Studio SHAFT's style) actually made me think the game ended right then and there, with me (the player) and Elster being unable to reach whatever we were trying to, and actually giving up. For once, I'm glad I got baited. This game is definitely something else. It can get restrictive at times and it may not be that innovative, but the ambience, the mystery and the game's aesthetic really make it worth it.

[@Edward-xj6yk]

It bamboozled me so hard i thought it actually ended and quit it. I regret it because i jumped on yt for explanations and after getting spoilers i finally understood the game didn't end

[@Akari_A_]

@@Edward-xj6yk Yeah, it happens. All of us got fooled by it, but I personally felt something was off and decided to "begin again". I definitely wasn't expecting a whole another section, that's for sure.

[@XDisGood]

I will put this on repeat till all the sorrows in my frontal-lobe undergo gestalt decomposition.

[@Rinienna]

Before I started this game, I was obsessed with it's usage of Raindrop. I loved it so much and thought that song was so closely tied to the game that I accepted it as the overall mood I would probably be entering into when I played it. Yet, it really shouldn't be a surprise that it was this instead. Just as this painting shows up so frequently throughout the story, why shouldn't the song named after it be just as fitting to the overall themes and events of the story. I think it's perfect that Raindrop's feature in the soundtrack appears under the title of 'The Promise.' It feels like something final; a heavy weight finally moving to release, as we see given it's usage at the end of the game. Each progression of chords hitting the strings feels like Elster's heavy steps down the hallway towards Falke's chamber, towards the Gate, towards the Penrose-512 one final time. There is a finality in it, a sense of progression however heavy it might be, a gradual crescendo towards release at last. Towards peace, an end. Die Toteninsel's feels, well...Empty. It is emptiness. It is a lingering, rolling sound. A somberness circling the drain, searching, longing for a final escape, yet never to find it. Ever lost in repeating scenery. Ariane is desperately trying to find the cycle where Elster can make it to her chamber, with all the answers and all of her memories and at last the ability to make good on their promise. But is that promise even a reality? Is it even an ending? Whether she is able to make good on her promise or not, Elster collapses beside the cryopod in the same position as when she returns yet again, ripping apart the armor to patch herself up yet again. All the while as life leaves her, it is this song that plays. A song of lingering, of longing, and drowning emptiness. Only two endings seemingly break from this cycle, and are notably free of this accompanying theme. Does that make them canon? Does that break the cycle? Or does it only prove to be stray cycles in a never ending loop as Ariane has long been absorbed into whatever hellish nightmare might come close to comprehending her nature as The Red Eye?

[@Anasumi]

Haven’t played Signalis yet so I won’t spoiler myself anything but just wanna say that the atmosphere this game gives off with both its OST, Art-style & environments is REALLY fucking cool and I’m loving listening to the OST.

[@loln00bsify]

Genuinely felt sick after keeping our promise

[@Scutage]

Promise to what?

[@gary4014]

@@Scutage play Signalis, you won’t regret it

[@resonanceofambition]

@@Scutage You gotta play it. Just do it. Depending on your situation it might be a bit expensive but it's worth more than all the games I've played in the last decade or two. I thought Soma was a masterpiece but that's just child play compared to this.

[@Edward-xj6yk]

​@@resonanceofambition it was great but i hated the fake ending

[@jusps3989]

Man... i need to play signalis... like if i hear this song without any warning tears start forming thats how beautiful this song is...

[@jacobridgeway2849]

My pet Beagle, Zoey died recently. Enlarged liver. We had her since I was 11, I'm 18 now. Listening to this seemed appropriate.

[@bowserfera]

I'm so sorry to hear that :( i lost my cat Wendy recently too, i hope that we can find hope even in emptiness

[@HevyDevyD]

Every time I come back to this song, its just a punch in the gut.

[@RyanMaterna_Composer]

Wow... this is hauntingly beautiful!

[@nurhanna4705]

Great job in using Rachmaninoffs motiv for this. Sounds great

[@kushak2665]

I'm getting goosebumps right away. I don't know what, but this game done something really right.

[@2ez4sab]

Why is this so good? Reminiscent and foreign at the same time, like I've been here before but I don't know where I am. Fits the game perfectly, kudos to the devs.

[@jinglebells-bv2lw]

This is beautiful, never played the game though

[@birb4415]

This is supposed to be a relaxing song, so why is it that I'm always sad listening to it?

[@Stasia.sister999]

Это мелодия заставляет меня плакать от того, как печально и одиноко она звучит. Грусть накатывает ужасно сильная. Но в тоже самое время я не могу перестать её слушать из-за того, как она приятно и меланхолично звучит. Пока я пишу этот комментарий у меня слёзы ручьём и ком в горле. Помогите! Не могу остановиться от прослушивания.

[@resonanceofambition]

How can a fictive promise hold so much weight to it? Why does this promise hurt me so much when I'm almost completely numbed to most suffering around me?

[@heskan]

The game is fictive, the promise is real.

[@Edward-xj6yk]

​@@heskanhow? Can you explain

[@Mersmon]

Что есть в этих двух хрупких женских фигурках, стоящих на берегу острова мёртвых, взявшихся за руки перед там, как пойти дальше, под сень кипарисов, и уйти из мира живых - что-то, что в сочетании с музыкой просто рвёт душу... Если не знать, что они в итоге окажутся на острове живых, можно рехнуться.

[@pasztet_blr1101]

Простите, но если не сложно, поясните на каком острове живых они окажутся?

[@Mersmon]

В ложной концовке представлено слайд-шоу из разных версий «Острова мёртвых» Бёклина - это та самая картина, что служит фоном для мелодии. Однако каждый из прогонов ускоренного слайд-шоу данной картины заканчивается совсем другой - «Островом живых» кисти всё того же художника, являющейся антитезой первой. Так что, по сути, можно считать, что авторы весьма наглядно намекают на то, что героини скорее живы, нежели мертвы.

[@pasztet_blr1101]

​@@Mersmon Это деталь, которую я никогда не замечал, спасибо большое за разъяснение)

[@fauxsuede4453]

Perhaps, this is hell.

[@ceodaacetilcisteina5631]

i beated Signalis on launch day and thought it was a fantastic game, but having replayed it some time later truly made me fell in love with the characters, the music, the art it takes inspiration and of course, the music The music in this game is such a great and incredible experience to listen even outside of the game and i firmly believe that this one is the music that have moved me after a long time i cant understate how great and fantastic this experience is, it refuses to leave my head any time of the day and even went beyond to surpass my favorite game of all time

[@missrebel634]

Red never felt so cold during this scene...

[@Ыыых-ъ5и]

Я третий день засыпаю под эту музыку, а сегодня я забыла убрать повтор трека и проснулась слыша эту спокойную музыку. Мне так грустно, спокойно и приятно сейчас дремать и думать о них

[@geraldketthad]

How it's usually happens, happiness can come and pass away quickly, but sadness is melting long enough to feel it all the way

[@mechanica_angelus]

Jamais un jeu vidéo ne m'aura fait autant déprimé que celui-ci.

[@SoFarSoGoodSoWhat14]

One of those games that my brain can't stop remembering and wondering about 😍

[@0xF15h]

beautiful piano plucks and pads.

[@muddleheadedable]

Спасибо, я чувствую себя в безопасности под этот трек

[@aceDOZA]

Never played the game but I keep falling asleep to videos about this game and this song always wakes me up with a chick with missing arms or something like that. Might've been either Indeimaus or NitroRad. Probably both... I been humming this shit for a few days

[@ChristineCanny]

I used this song for my husbands funeral service. It played on loop with his photo reel.

[@TheKluxi1]

ACHTUNG! ACHTUNG!

[@eriatarka_]

This game will haunt me for the rest of my life. Thank you rose_engine

[@soviet_salsa2983]

i may have not fully understood the endings but this song really sold the atmosphere of the game

[@Nevermore1990]

I need the 10 hour version

[@ikar_os4292]

Too beatiful...

[@samuelfergie4830]

This music gives me a sense of peace just like the silent hill tracks

[@cowboysandallthegoodstuff3713]

the name of the artist who made the BG picture is APUAMO1

[@halfoftheclam1317]

They deserved better