Holy cow. Not only am I floored to see Ar Tonelico in 2023, but being done by you. I am dancing in my seat and eagerly waiting for more. I loved all of the games. Thank you Marco so much for bringing me back.

This song hits even harder when you know the full context of Jacqli's (the singer) backstory. That part of the lyrics about being locked in the birdcage, betrayed by the world, and lost a beautiful song did happen in her life. The cruelty she endured was enough to make anyone despise humanity and she actually did for a time. Then here she is using all those years of suffering and betrayal to save another hurting soul. So much character development is conveyed in one song.

Ar Tonelico is an absolute gold-mine of amazing and unique music. One of the singers being Jacqli/Mir (final boss of the first game) adds to the emotion of the song. As the other singer is in a truly awful place at the time of this song, and the only person who can truly understand them is Mir, who has gone through the same and worse.

What's crazy is that every song has incredible meaning in the context of the game. They don't just stand alone. They aren't even just songs but actual programs (and even weapons) that get employed. Don't get me started on the differences between EXEC and METHOD...

I understand that the traction on these Ar Tonelico reactions are not the best. But just letting you know this series meant a lot to me as it is what define my career now as a game developer. So much thoughts were poured into these Ar Tonelico Hymns, and seeing a reaction with a REACTOR THAT UNDERSTAND the context/style of the song as a story, really means a lot to me. Great reaction! Ar Tonelico songs/hymns are Stories, Epics, conveyed in Melodies. And you analyze it so well. Subbed for the slim chance of another Ar Tonelico reaction. My suggestion would be Ar=Ciel Ar=Dor as it is an Epic of The Creation of the World.

Ar Tonelico is a series that leans heavily on its music, since magic is brought forth through song. Personally, I can't wait for a react to the METHOD_REPLEKIA song which is the song representing the ingame Replekia system that basically aggregates up to 100 collectible Reyvatels to boost the power of one of the main heroines, which shows in how powerful the song is from beginning to head.

Best Ar Tonelico songs where done by Akiko Shitaka. I highly recommend Exec Flip Arphage and Exec Harvestasya

This song take a completely new meaning when you realize this is an improvised song made for the Heart of the planet, reason why it is more of a conversation than a song. Quoting: "This is a Song that Jacqli made to converse with the Heart of the Land that was hidden in the deepest reaches of Gaea. Technically speaking, it's a high-level kind of Hymmnos because of each line being improvised by Jacqli whenever the Heart replies to her feelings or whenever she expresses her feelings, something that not many Reyvateils would be capable of doing. Particularly important is the fact that this Song is created from the synchronization established between the Reyvateil and the Heart of the Land once the Heart has started singing, but this only happens if both sides are willing to at least talk to each other: if they do, they will make a Song like this one, but otherwise it will end in failure. Additionally, this Song isn't a Hymmnos Extract proper due to the fact that it's improvised and doesn't make use of any of Ar tonelico's resources to cause its effects." "It was sung by Jacqli to remove the shell around the Heart that was in Gaea, and also plays in the battle against the Mind Avatar. Also known by the name Spheria."

okay, it's absolutely criminal that KZfaq didn't recommend this to me sooner. i enjoyed your other Ar Tonelico reactions, but to deny me your reaction to EXEC_SPHILIA for 8 months? in a long list of favorites from the Ar Tonelico series, EXEC_SPHILIA holds a special place in my heart. thank you for the wonderful reaction, and I'm looking forward to the next time you return to Ar Tonelico:)

Oh, AT is back to Marco's channel! And it is back with one of most technically interesting hymmns of entire series. Potentially, it could be done as a proper duet, but for non-linearity of the plot it would require making at least two versions, so Gust ended up making it a song for a single performer. Still, as already told by others, it _is_ a conversation in a form of a song.

This entire franchise is full of absolute bangers, honestly. It'd be interesting to see you play through it some time.

Ar Tonelico has amazing music. Thank you for highlighting this!

wow I didn't know you listen to Ar Tonelico music, this series is one of my all time fav, I'm so sad that it doesn't get much love, these games are about music and it's incredible! You should listen to these next: EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY EXEC_COSMOFLIP- EXEC_HARMONIUS- METHOD_HYMMELI METHOD_REPLEKIA

whoever keeps suggesting Ar Tonelico music to Marco, thank you. I owe you my life.

7:45 There is a reason the music for these games is often labeled as "neo-classical".

My god without knowing anything bout story/game you are pretty accurate. This is indeed a "conversation" between souls lets say. The singer wants the person she is singing to to open her heart/ emotions to her its a lovely melody. I love Ar Tonelico fav games of all time and best music! Thank you for doing this

My favorite series of all time. I hope they revisit Ar tonelico/surge concerto

This is one of my favorite Ar Tonelico songs. The part at 4:20 (in this video) has been my ringtone for years. I also like that, like several other songs from these games, has sections where it keeps repeatedly changing time signatures.

If you want another obscure series with amazing music I'd recommend Utawarerumono Suara singing Kimi ga Tame and my personal favorite For Eternity she's a really amazing singer

AHHHHH KZfaq! I WANTED TO SEE THIS!!!! What in the world was I so busy 2 months ago? Glad I'm catching up on it and learning new stuff with you!

Finally! Thank you for taking a dip into Ar Tonelico music. Look forward to you tackling each songs in this series.

I have this song on my Ipod for over a decade now; mostly cause of the dope beat and electric guitar. Better appreciation of the song knowing context from the game and seeing the translated lyrics!

YEEEEESSSS AR TONELICO! That music is nostalgic for me because of how unique it is. I don’t remember how many times I’ve listened to this one. Noriko’s layered vocals are amazing in this. Love seeing you vibe to this song! I second listening to COSMOFLIPS, HYMMELI (one of my fave singers songs this), and HARMONIUS. I’d like to throw in Rebirthia Protocol-which is by the same singer of COSMOFLIPS, EXEC_FLIP_ARPHAGE, RIG=VEDA and if you want a song with a lot going on I also suggest EXEC_ViiBaCi_MjiiRa. I also recommend Neptlude and yal fii-ne noh-iar; from Surge Concerto. Especially the second one. That song is sung by Origa, singer of the Ghost in the Shell theme song. RIP Origa :(

As someone who was never interested in music, I randomly stumbled across Ar Tonelico on a Rom Site for me to download. By Chance i downloaded and played it. What i found was a very interesting game, with horrible voiceacting wierd systems and one thing that stuck with me for life. An Appreciation for music, because it had the first song in it, that ever made me feel something from it. And not just any emotion, overwhelming sadness and compassion, moving me to tears. EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY was the song that did it. So to see a reaction to just any songs from this little treasure trove of Music that has been burried in the sands of time, makes me really happy. Thank you.

This series had some of the best harmonizations with their music.

I cannot believe I utterly missed this upload after recommending Ar Tonelico several times. Shame on me! As such, this comes a bit late, but all vocal songs in Ar Tonelico serve a technical purpose. They are program instructions through which almost all machinery can be controlled. However, the instructions will only function if conveyed through genuine emotional expressions, which is why the vast majority of songs are pretty intense and personal - the more emotion a song contains, the more power it has. The very language designed for the game supports this, as expressions often include your own emotional stance on the topic at hand as part of the basic structure. Personally, I can recommend "EXEC_HIBERNATION" for a MASSIVE piece of greatness, and "EXEC_DESPEDIA" for something crazy and mind warping, and that's just off the top of my head. This game is amazing in countless ways for me.

I think it's really cool that you're taking a look at Ar Tonelico. The games could be a little rough even back in the day, but I thought their music was always a lot of fun to listen to and it was an underappreciated series on that count. Now I'll have to go look up the other reactions you've done for Ar Tonelico because somehow I missed them completely. Thanks KZfaq! =p

Complex? Absolutely. Appropriate and fitting for the exact scene the music is played on? Definitely. You pretty much nailed a lot of its tones and this goes hard since it fits the boss fight this misic place, as its the climatic battle of one of the most emotional parts of the story.

I am always rooting for more ar tonelico content. your explanation is always interesting to hear :)

Thank you for reacting and commenting on Ar Tonelico Music.

Ar Tonelico as well as Ar Nosurge are Japanese RPGs that go really deep in Musicals in their Battle Music. Most you hear Music in the Intro and Ending scenes but very few ever go into full Musical in their Battle Music. Happy you have noticed these niche JRPGs and the music contained within them.

One of the aspescts of Ar Tonelico 2 that I find most fascinating is how the songs mixes some really melodic, light chords, giving a very "windy" folk sounds, like nature speaking, and then, it dashes it with some really heavy and potent synth guitars and mixers, signaling how Mettafalica, their land, is a synthetic land desparately trying to go back to the time it was a green paradise. The justaposition is so jarring, but so meaningful to the themes of the game! Gosh, it's beautiful!

never thought id see Ar Tonelico music here, been a while since i played the games but the music is so good and different, it was one of my favorite things about these games

Marco, the songs in Hymmnos mainly use the emotion of the person who is pronouncing them and in this case, you are listening to the intermediate version of the Hymmnos language. But every word in the song will have a feeling of the person singing it. (This language can only be spoken by song or written only) Because in the most advanced part, which is the New Testament, it contains programming codes in our view, but it is called Binasphere Formula and is used to complement the emotions transmitted in music and speeches.

Gosh there's so many songs from the Ar Tonelico and even the Ar Nosurge series I'd want you to listen to like this... T_T I'd say _Ec Tisia_ (if possible, followed by _Ec Tisia ~ Tarifa_ which is the "answer" to Ec Tisia) would be one of the most interesting. But EXEC_FLIP_ARPHAGE/. would be cool too, just because I strongly believe it's the most beautiful song in the whole series XD

Never thought there'd be ar tonelico video made these days tbh, and it's greatly done by Marco!

Ar Tonelico songs are just so amazing, from wonderful lyrics to lore in some of them and if you are into the technical stuff you also can find out most of them have commands like a computer program. Ar nosurge also has some of the best songs and without spoilers I know one route for the game would crush you att he end because of the story but also the song sang at the end of said route, it left me in tears really.

Such a fan of this series. So glad to see it being brought out in 2023. I wish this game had more exposure. Such a great game

I loved this series a lot. The first song that drew me in was EXEC_HARMONIUS from the first game. Highly recommend.

Oh hey, it's one of the songs I recommended back when you did an Ar Tonelico song 9 months ago neat. This is honestly probably my favorite of them but some of that comes from just how much better this song is if you understand the context and the singers in it. Still glad you listened to it.

This is the song that got me into ar tonelico and it has such a an important and deep place in my heart thank you for covering it

Probably my favorite Ar Tonellico song of the whole series or at least top 2 given the day. It's just so intense and packed with raw, hurt, emotion. But also a longing to be free and embraced again. The games themselves have some sort of creepy tendencies at times where the diving is concerned - as I've gotten older I'm not sure if they make more sense or less. But the music people magic and also programs and a separate language just always really fascinated me.

It’s a series in the same style as the Legend of Heroes, Kiseki games Also underrated, but much more so, or I just really like the style (and some characters resemble each other, Rixia, but that’s getting into spoilers)

Thank you for the video Marco! keep these Ar tonelico videos coming :)

I actually imported all of the CD albums for these games from Japan a number because I had to have these albums. All 3 of the games have great music but Ar Tonelico II is the best of them and probably has the greatest video game sound track of all time. Even though I've only actually played through the game once, it's actually one of my all time favorite games as few games had such as impact on me like this game did. 10/10 would recommend.

OMG, how can i skip this vid. It's back ! Ar tonelico's back to your channel ! Thank you for reacting to this. This song is one of my fav and glad that i still remember the lyrics without watching or read the lyrics, lol. I'm binge watching your videos right now (need to catch up because it's been a while since i saw your video) and glad to see this one on the list. Please do more from this game ❤

I really hope you would continue making more of these. This is extremely fascinating to watch you dissect my favorite songs from this series. I hope you eventually react to "the hearts talks/speaks" from ar tonelico 2

Idk who is the person at the patreon recomending ar tonelico songs, but they are determined not to give you one of the easyer songs lmao

Oh this was an unexpected find! It's great to see others appreciating the genius of the music in this game series.

omg i was soooo hoping you did one of jacqli's songs and you did! glad to hear another analysis!

This song totally broke me the first time I heard it. I couldn't get the full effect of the lyrics the first time, but once I heard it while reading them, the song had its full effect on me. It is a painful song and probably one of the ones with the most significance. It hit me like a brick hits glass.

Oh my god Ar Tonelico, I was just thinking about Ar Tonelico again, I love that series so much, thank you for covering it.

Your commentaries are so interesting.

hello, happy to see you react to Ar Tonelico..Thanks Marco! hehe

i find it very ironic that the things you seemed to struggle with and confused you are the things i understood or at the very lest in a very non-descript way "get", but the reason i got recommended this channel in the first place is to understand something i don't: emotion in music not as consequence of context or direct descriptors, but as its own inherent factor. like the concept that a melody, out of context, without text, without anything to drive an explanation except the scale of notes itself can feel sad/happy/glorious/etc to me is merely a human construct, like i may get a song may "feel sad" but whereas for someone it can cause an implicit instant reaction of "oh how that's sad", to me i would have to actively think about it and go "ooooh right, that's a melody that's often heard in songs associated to sadness so i guess this means that this melody is sad" i dunno maybe it's cause i'm autistic or whatever but i don't get that part of music but i wonder if perhaps this is also why i get this? i'm more of a logical thinker as evidence in fact how another thing that wasn't for you, outer wilds, connected to me from beginning to end. when i look at ar tonelico music i see a much more... logical approach to emotions in music, which is actually not that surprising when you think about it as hymmnos isn't just a language, but a programming language and a language built to be inherently melodic, it is made not to be good for conversational dialogue but to be perfect for those other 3 things: communicating commands and creation of them in a hyperlogical way, creating music, and expressing feelings. when you take that in consideration it can become much more easy to see how Ar songs tend to have a more direct approach to the expression of their feelings, as the melody IS directly tied to the lyrics first in written form and then in melodic form, where the language in a way comes before the music itself in conveying the emotion and more importantly than that, the context. compare it to say feeling the emotions of a battle theme in genshin, there's a much more solid "story" or perhaps it would be better to say a "declaration" in ar tonelico songs, it's not guesswork based on feeling how different chords relate to emotions and guessing how those emotions may be tied to the story, personally i consider it less subtle but in an ironic twist of fate, this style being so out of the norm makes it subtle in its own right especially when it's so multi-layered. anyway to keep it short, i think you shouldn't try to approach it as you would normal music, and live it more like you would have lived outer wilds, as a puzzle to piece together, or for a more reasonable example, like trying to get meaning out of abstract art, where often the context and intent dictates 50% or more of the emotional feeling an artist was trying to portray while ultimately meaning nothing until you yourself get something out of the piece itself. that though is merely my perspective as someone who approaches music in what is perhaps the polar opposite way of how you do so... i dunno, maybe i'm wrong in giving that tip? perhaps there's something to be gathered from both approaches which is why i wouldn't mind understanding how to "feel emotions thrgouh music" in a more natural way as you do.

I'm so glad you're giving Ar Tonelico themes a listen, I love the OST and how unique it is. Also, bless the patreon consistently suggesting Noriko Mitose's tracks, Marco is now suitably freaked out by the Ar Tonelico OST lmao. I think out of the three main singers for the series, her compositions are always the most experimental and "out-there", which are pretty fun to watch your reactions to. It would be really interesting to see how you feel about the songs from the other singers; I'm a huge fan of Akiko Shikata's work. Thanks so much for the video!

I don't know you, but I'm a big fan of ar tonelico's music. I come to say thank you for making this video, for taking the time to discover and try to understand the music. I leave this comment for referencing. Best wishes 💛

"the sound is similar throughout all these EXECS" and then AT3 threw us curveballs in EXEC_CUTYPUMP/. and EXEC_EP=NOVA/. I'm happy to hear more reactions to Ar Tonelico music, and if in the future, Surge Concerto. They're all wonderfully done and all very interesting pieces of music, and at times, the chaos of some of them is intentional since they're backdrops to the plot (EP=NOVA being kinda exempt from this.. tho the reason it's like that is also plot. The singer (in universe) chooses the lyrics herself!) but I think another contributing factor to this is that there's multiple hymmnos languages, each with their own sound and meaning. If you want to hear different versions, then there's the METHODs, the CLASSes, and those other tracks without a unifying identifier except language used (lxa ti-cia, chmod b111000000n) or just each game's Singing Hill/Utau Oka track, I feel they convey the kind of sounds you're going to hear from the game and give you a taste of the dominant languages you'll come across. It's nice. there's a lot to love and a song for everyone.

I think you should listen to ‘The Heart Speaks’. It’s a more normal song in the Ar tonelico series, being a duet and a profession of love.

I know its likely a Patreon thing, but if you ever get a request for EXEC_PAJA, please listen to both versions. The quick and dirty explanation: EXEC_PAJA, also called Purger, is essentially a powerful program to shut off any Song Magic in the singer's line of sight. The party seeks out the storage medium containing this 500 year old program to make an invincible monster (basicallt a virus created and sustained with song magic) killable. When you finally arrive ready for battle, you have two Reyvateils who can sing the song, and you get to pick which to install the program into. This affects the boss music, since the chosen party member will be stuck singing and can't battle. Aurica and Misha are the two choices. The fascinating thing is, unlike EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY, which you listened to before, this is only the program function, not the full song package. This means either girl processes and creates a song differently, with entirely different lyrics and tone. They both do the same thing effectively, its just wild how variable it can be. Also, EXEC_PAJA/.#MISYA EXTRACTING is my favorite boss music for any RPG hands down. Aurica's version is fine, but Misha just blows me away with how it sounds like a Shinto prayer performed at a rock concert.

Finally!!! One of my favorite JRPG , great story , great game , with great music.

man, i forgot to comment here, but i know i watched it before! this is one of my big faves from the second game, i'm so glad to have seen it here. it's actually a boss theme where the singer is talking to the boss holding one of the main heroines in a cage, but the cage is their own mind, essentially.

Ar Tonelico! As an Arknights player, it was the series I was reminded of when I first heard the songs of the Abyssal Hunters. Sure, they don't necessarily have the same meaning or tonal direction - if that's how I can put it - but that feeling of "haunting emotion" was what struck me. I never got into the series itself, just that even what little I know, the power of song and feeling was what I took away from it.

Art is really wonderful.

YESSS I was hoping for more Ar Tonelico, it rules a really neat thing that the first AT game did was with EXEC_PAJA - there are two versions of the track ('EXEC_PAJA/.#Misya extracting' and 'EXEC_PAJA/.#Orica extracting') and the reason is that there's a point in the game where you choose which of two characters will use this particular song magic. The songs have the same effect, they're meant to do the same thing (I guess you could think of it as both singers working from the same prompt), but the tracks are SO different in ways that really reflect each singer's character. It's fascinating stuff. (Also I love that the grammar of Hymmnos - the conlang used in a lot of the lyrics - effectively has the emotional equivalent of musical notation front-loaded into each phrase (i.e. the intensity of the emotion, the emotion itself, and how long the speaker wants the emotion to last). The magic system being a blend of a computer-like structure and the power of song is SO GOOD)

Gracias por compartir ❤

You actually more and more you hear the song at first..it was weird..then..its becoming more beautiful the more you listen and study it. Welcome to the club marcomeatball ;)

This song was so hyped because of the person initiating the song and how it was a conversation/duet type

Btw, I feel like I should mention this. It's rare, but Ar Tonelico actually does have some fairly normal songs. Into the Light for example is "normal" and a very nice listen.

I knew this song by heart. Even its been 10 years i still hear the song in my head and sing it. This is pure nostalgia on me.

loved your review :)

Great reaction! Played through all three games. I think the whole idea behind game is there towers on the planet with a little lifespace near them and people surviving in this condition. There females that have abilities to sing song magic (reyvateils), some of them are fabricated by humans (most powerful one) some are natural. To do this they need to connect to tower and to "upload" and sing the song. Hymnos is the same. In hymnos there allways many sides that singing there allways a reyvateil and system of tower(that mechanical voices). Some of the hymnos used to connect sattelites, some to activate programs in tower or tower itself. So it is allmost a fusion of programming fantasy language and lyrical fantasy language.

this song still gives me chills i wonder if my mind unconsciously knew what it was about...

Strange translation of this song you have found I agree. The Artonelico wiki indicates that line 'amniotic fluid' line to be "Fill the flow of my feelings, and let me hear your Song". A different translation is the same except substitutes 'thoughts' in place of 'feelings'. From what I recall these song have to be double translated from Hymnos to Japanese then Japanese to English so all kinds of lost in translation can happen. Also the language was made for a video game series, it's not going to have anything as oddly specific as 'amniotic fluid'. Whoever did that took extreme liberties when interpreting 'fluy' which would be spring, pool (of water) according to the fansite that had the hymnos dictionary.

The big thing about the music of Ar Tonelico is that it's also musical representation of computer-like language. While the characters in world treat what Reyvateils do as magic it's technically more of them addressing humongous biomechanical machines. Don't get me wrong there are some songs there are used in battle and that's more of them producing an effect from their own ability as essentially Wi-Fi routers. This is also the reason why the music sounds the way it does it sounds like folk music but also electronic. Simply put, the machines they've had have been with them for hundreds if not thousands of years by this point. That being said it has been a while since I've looked into anything about Ar Tonelico. So, if there's any misunderstanding I have correct away.

you have to understand man, you're fighting a epic boss and thhis music is playing in the background you're either to distracted by the awesomness or about to break your neck with all the pump you're doin.

ohhh ar tonelico again!

Missed when this first came out. I'm glad to see you doing more with Ar Tonelico! I love the series and the music is so interesting because it is a mix of singing the direct emotions of the lyrics and the magic system running the universe. I just love how they range from lullabies to spells to legends or from raging emotions to gentle whispers.

I was listening for your explanation of recitativo and suddenly you spoke italian and I was like "oh he as a good pronounce... Wait what's his name again?" XD I really like your insights about music.

Ar Tonelico, when song become power. Exec Arphage, Exec Chronicle Key, Exec Phantasmagoria, and Exec_Method Metafalica.

Hi ! thank you for reaction to my favorite Ar tonerico 2 ost !! This song sean is my favorite battle theme ! This is the scene where the main character accesses the enemy's system in order to rescue his captive friends in the spirit world. and The song is a dialogue because the system responds to the access of the main characters.

My favorite character in the game sung this song and the song consist of everything you have said.

Please do EXEC_HIBERNATION. Please do EXEC_HIBERNATION. Please do EXEC_HIBERNATION. It is actually done in a sort of opereta fashion and it's downright haunting. For all its beauty, the Ar Tonelico music is pretty damn disturbing. And I love it for that.

Dang, when u said this type of song is like conversation i was not ready for the how hard this song gonna go.

Just found out that you reacted to ar tonelico song! I hope there will be more in the future, but probably not? since the video got unlisted and all

I was waiting for you to listen to an ar tonelico song eventually lol. I recommend EXEC_HARVESTASTYA from the first game

I really hope one day that youll have a listen to Exec_Harmonius from AT2 as well ! All the sung music in the Ar Tonelico series is really a unique experience to behold.

i'm not really fan of this series but the 3 songs that captivated me into ar tonelico's music are Method Metafalica, Exec Chronicle Key, Exec flip arphage, and these 3 are the best for starter and maybe the greatest out of all Ar tonelico's songs. And also as you said some Ar tonelico's songs are out of comfort zone but you started on the hard to digest one so it's understandable XD

Harmonous of ar tonelico 1, replekia of ar tonelico 2 and cosmoflips of ar tonelico 3

Ar Tonelico also has a song that is basically the mad ravings of a dying planet driven to destruction by its own children (inhabitants) in which it laments how it will have to mercy kill them to return everything to the way it was before. It's some wild stuff. XaaaCi is the name of the song if anyone is curious.

OH MY FAVORITE TRACK. I adore the main singer, Mir, and her story is full of tragedy. This song feels so summative of who she's grown to be. In the first game we learned that Mir was used by humans, and had unspeakably terrible things done to her in order to make her develop more powerful song magic. Mir was made to be the perfect weapon, and have no emotions. Eventually, though, she Developed feelings, and created a song from her heart. Mir was crushed when the song was deemed useless by her creators. She put all her love of the world into something that was thrown away without a second thought. So she understands Gaea, which was made for a purpose it can't fulfill. Mir understands pain, and now has grown so much that she can reach out and sympathize with others, even if it's superficial or to further a goal. I find it wonderful that she grew so much between the games. This is one of the songs that made me want to learn Hymmeli. Sort of like Klignon, it CAN be actually spoken as a full language! There are a number of different dialects, unique modifiers and punctuation, and wildly interesting grammar. Hymmnoserver is a great resource for checking translations and learning about the language.

Late to the comments, but you got the essence of the song really damn well. Ar Tonelico Hymmnos songs have a bit of a convention for the instruments, where classical instruments are usually prevalent in the "good vibes" songs, while electric guitars and electronic/"artificial" sounds in general usually mean "bad vibes". I strongly recommend XaaaCi./ if you want to have your mind blown. A hint for that song that also applies to this one: the songs in Ar Tonelico are technically raw emotion being translated into melody and song, by the world's most advanced and powerful supercomputer located in the Tower that names the games, because melody and song are the most powerful way of conveying feelings and emotions. But even that infinitely powerful computer has its limits, and when you hear distortions and white noise, it's because the emotions are too deep and powerful for the computer to properly translate and the track glitches out. So for a moment in that solo, the emotions were almost too strong for the Tower to translate. Also, most songs have a short story that accompanies it summarizing the "feelings contained in the song" thay you can find on the wiki. The one for Sands of Time from Ar Tonelico 3 always gets me.

AR TONELICOOO YEAH

Honestly given all the Ar tonelico songs you've done. I kind of want to see you react to Exec Despedia just from the lyrics alone. It would be comedy hour to see how you'd interpret it.

omg, marco reviewing my favorite anime/game music ever??? I never actually played the ar tonelico series myself, but the moment i stumbled upon their music i became completely mesmerized. Hymmnos is amazing in how its a completely functional language with its own grammar and alphabet despite being fictional so im interested in how you will react marco Edit: For recommendations, I have method metafalica, exec harmonius, xaaaci (this ones really disturbing so be careful), and Ressikougi ~Raikoku no Tenshi

I do recommend Pantalea which is made by Akiko Shikata as well, its very orchestral as well, but it has a very different feeling from her Ar Tonelico /Exo Pico stuff

Can I give you a recomendation? There is an upcoming JRPG called Crymachina with musics composed by a rhyme game artist called Sakuzyo. Yesterday, they released the opening MV for the game and the song is crazy. I'm not a frequent listener to his works, but there are songs from him I really like. I also a big fan to the genre he specialized on called Artcore.

Short story short - these "songs" called as "Hymnos". In the game world, it is some sort of a voice called programe code, that resonance with a giant world helding towers, which is serves as a servers. Respond of Towers to call of singers, called "Reyvateils", is some sort of magic, with a pinch of salt added by singer emotion or personal background. For example, healing song of one singer is a nymph that plays a music, other is a fairy that sends to ally a medical dust.

i'm really curious what you can think about Exec_Chronicle_Key, its one my favourite Hymnos song from Ar Tonelico games

Love to see you doing more Ar Tonelico songs. If you decide to revisit this series again I would love to see your reaction to The Heart Speaks as that is a nice duet and has the distiction of being the only Ar tonelico song with a male vocalist in one of the parts.