Those “other” instrumental sections are indeed loops in themselves. They’re the 4 main characters themes!

Revo is fantastic at telling a story with his music, and the part where it turns to a folk song represents the four heroes, Tiz is representing by the pipes, Agnes the Violin, Edea the Saxophone, and Ringabel the Accordian

I love when the folk song sounding parts start, becoming the main characters themes and the overworld theme. To really hammer home the final battle aspect of the song. It's such a fun but also powerful song, very emotional with proper context.

The chromaticism is a reference to the main boss being based or orobouros, a serpent eating its own tail, a loop and symbol of the infinite and also the apocalypse. Other bits reference the title screen, the main battle, the victory fanfare, the minibosses, the character themes (folk for the shepherd boy, accordion for the mysterious amnesiac playboy, violin for the priestess, and the soprano saxophone for the plucky and brash girl)

im glad theres at least one person who listens to the whole damn song before analyizing it...

All the music in Bravely Default (as well as the upcoming Switch game *Bravely Default II* ) is composed by Revo, who also did some of Attack on Titan's openings 6:23 - 6:33 You are my hope (Tiz) 6:33 - 6:42 Windward (Agnés) 6:42 - 6:52 Baby Bird (Edea) 6:53 - 7:03 Love's Vagrant (Ringabel) 7:04 - 7:25 That person's name is (Asterisk holders)

Revo's OST for Bravely Default is so good and I'm super glad that he's back for Bravely Default 2.

I feel like the latter half of this song is revo just flexing his skills lmao

I love it when people ask for reactions to this song. Because it's like getting reactions to all of the motifs of the game at once.

I like these JRPG battle themes, try to react to "Daughter of the dark god" from Octopath Traveler

for anyone interested in this track, game score fanfare did a spectacular breakdown of it in the video "bravely default's empowering music" it's a fascinating watch

I played this game at launch God knows how many years ago and I have yet to like a final boss theme as much as this. Experiencing it during the boss itself makes it at least 3 times as impactful due to how it evolves during the fight. It's a song that does not simply set a mood but also tell a story.

I loved your fresh take on this track! If you're down to do another Bravely Default track, the other overwhelming fan favorite is "That Person's Name is..."

Please react to grimm + nightmare king theme ( hollow knight )

"Eating the ground" sounds way less tense than "devouring the horizon". I'm guessing the first is the literal translation and the latter the "more poetic" version used for the English OST (or at least the one I have).

That's interesting! Your interpretation of the four part medley in the second act is surprisingly morbid, but I do get where you're coming from. I suppose if you don't have prior knowledge of the game's plot and just comes in dry with the knowledge that this is a boss theme, you'd have some apprehension because this is the boss' theme after all, and the boss must be malicious to some extent. I totally get the suspicion of the sudden mellow tones being some kind of a crooked dream and the analogy to it being a twisted circus music because it changes lead instruments so fast. You might already looked it up by now but the medley is actually a highlight of the four main character's theme and it's supposed to make the second act sounds like some hopeful breakthrough. It's always nice to get some fresh perspective from a first viewer of a piece you like.

Please, react to The Final Song from Drakengard 3 (Black Song, White Scales)

I love these videos man! Keep them coming!

Interesting history of Bravely Default. The first game (the 3rd is coming out in a few months) began as and essentially is the sequel to Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light. And they follow the conventions of, and play very much as, classic Final Fantasy. They are, essentially, what Square decided to do with the Nintendo exclusive branch of Final Fantasy which had been relegated to handhelds.

The composer who made the Bravely Default OST was Revo, the same guy from Linked Horizon (Attack on Titan openings) and Sound Horizon (his main project). Revo and his Linked/Sound Horizon have lots of orchestral, folk, metal and some other styles, like jazz, electro, western country, traditional japanese music, Greek, medieval, French songs. Mainly in Sound Horizon, where his creativity goes beyond any limitations. You should really check it out.

This song is great especially in the game. The fact it plays the main theme and each characters themes in near the end to hype you up by making you hear the theme that plays when the cast is at their most powerful, really hyped you up

I remember this track caught me off guard when I played this game, so good. You should try Slave Knight Gael (DS3) next, it's an interesting one to analyse.

You want a metal soundtrack? You should really listen the the Ys serie in general, or the Trails serie, both made by falcom, they have a lot of music like that I would recommend Ao no Kiseki (trails of Azure) - Azure aribtrator! An amazing final boss song that you would certainly like And Ys origins - Silent Desert (super arrange version) is pretty good pick too, but there's so many great music from this serie!

So much flashbacks of me getting destroyed by this boss came back to me 😂😭

I need to replay this game asap. I didn't remember the last boss theme was this good.

You surprised me when you correctly guessed that those sections are loops themselves! 👏👏👏

Yo this is legit one of my favorite boss songs

There is also a live version of this song on KZfaq take a look at it.

I think the best part of this song is that, despite the insane speed, this can and _has_ been performed live. The Linked Horizen Bravely Default concert is one of the most sublime video game concerts ever. Luxendarc Kioku still makes me emotional.

Please, please, please make a reaction video of the Memoria version of "Vector to the Heavens" from the Kingdom Hearts series. This particular song isn't found ingame, but this track is an orcherstral reedition of the original track and probably is the pinackle of what Yoko Shimomira can do. She is the composer for Kingdom Hearts and some Final Fantasy games. This is not just a very good video game song, but one of the best period.

Due to a weird translation error, it could also be called "Serpent eating the Horizon"

The live performance of the song is even more impressive!

I recommend you "The greatest Jubilee" from the Bayonetta ost. Especialy because there's no one in KZfaq that already did it

Man this game is amazing!!

I found your channel earlier today because of the dancing mad video, somehow someway I knew this video was coming soon, but not this soon

I would like to suggest "The First Hunter" theme. Listen from the "dudewhereismyspoon" channel. The ones from Shirrako have some weird transitions.

You should watch the bravely Default concert too. It's amazing!

Never had a chance to play Bravely Default (and hear it can be a bit grindy to boot) but stumbled across the OST and LOVED it. Played on repeat for a couple days to get me through long hours of overtime. I just really love epic songs that keep changing. It's just great!

There's a live version of this by the way. Concert and everything. (The entire soundtrack, actually.)

this video is great

Listening to this song for the first time is the audio equivalent of watching Avengers Endgame for the first time. Just epic.

There is a live they made. Kinda concert. Btw this game BD has excelled sound tracks you should listen to the one that is named "that person name is"

Not sure if you did a reaction to the final bosses theme from octopath Traveler but the final boss theme is so amazing. The first phase then transition then the second phase is a train of absolute amazingness. Like i said not sure if you reacted to it yet but i’d say it is a must.

I like your style of reaction far more than Alex's. He pauses every two seconds to explain something but he should save it for the breakdown. I think he should just listen without pause first, like you do.

I don't even want to imagine when you hear the final boss theme of bravely default 2 xD

Great video Atlas! Anything from the Furi soundtrack would be awesome and something different! Too many to recommend, but I would suggest Danger - 7.53 and Danger - 8.02, they really are two parts to the same song so please listen to both at once. Reason being, this OST is pure gold all the way through, but this track reminded me of something I heard once. That Techno and Electronic music artists are like modern day composer's. With this track they blend classical musical instruments, structure, and transitions, with new age technology and sound. Really good stuff and epic as hell!

Other people have already mentioned the references to the themes of the main characters, overworld theme and so on. I just want to add that in its proper context, in the boss battle at the end of the game, this song hits really hard because of all the call backs. I'd already heard it before I played the game, and by the time I got to this part the whole thing still amazed me.

Never realized this song was basically a medley

Have you made a video for Battle of Providence, from Bravely Second: End Layer?

Sorry I’m late, but I would like to answer your questions a bit (keep in mind, this is final final boss spoilers for the game): The song does indeed take place during a multi phase boss, with dialogue and scenes woven throughout that tell a greater story. The music is blended nearly flawlessly with the journey of the fight itself. The boss starts out as a powerful intimidating force, and as you start to damage it, it begins to heal itself by consuming realities. It is doing so in order to strengthen itself enough to break through to the reality of the creators and consume it. So it starts as an intimidating boss theme, then shifts into the heavier metal aspects as alternate realities are consumed. While he eats these realities, the boss mocks your party, trying to break their spirit. Then, the boss is blocked from consuming a world, by the collective strength of the alternate version of your party from that alternate world, who are revealed right as the music shifts into the triumphant phase of the party themes. And finally their is the last fanfare as the boss breaks through to the reality of the creators, and the background rips open to reveal the image taken from your 3DS camera, literally showing that we are the creators and he is trying to reach and consume us. Each of the different loops is set to a fitting moment in the story of the final boss, and it shifts through them flawlessly as the fight goes on. This music just lands with so much meaning when you’re playing it through in the actual battle in game. The story of the fight is told perfectly through the music. One of the all time best boss themes in gaming.

The last boss theme from a great and under appreciated game.

Bravely default 2 is coming Feb 26th. Love the bravely series. It's like a spiritual successor to FF

If you want something REALLY all over the place try "The Valedictory Elegy" from the game Baten Kaitos: Origins, and remember this is only the Random Encounter Theme Song.

Man, the live version is insane! React to that!

Tbh i Would love to see Twilight of the Gods

You def have to see Marty friedman playing this live, well they play an arragment of all the battle music, but still great. And Friedman as a bonus

One of my fav final boss thme ever.

Since you are a fan of metal and guitars I think you would enjoy some rad boss themes like "Astarte" from Atelier Meruru or "The True Mirror (guitar version)" from Baten Kaitos

one of the best boss themes to date

What is the Japanese power metal band you're talking about? I wanna check em out.

Bravely Default and Unexpect mentioned in the same video? Have a subscribe my friend! Favorite channel I have stumbled across lately. Speaking of circus themed music, I was particularly a fan of Summoning Scenes from Unexpect's In A Flesh Aquarium.

Great video, I would love to see your reaction to any Octopath Traveler track. Octopaths is probably the best soundtrack ever. I recommend you The one they call the witch and Batlle at the journeys End

Kinda makes me wanna start another playthrough of the game after stumbling on this. Would love to hear more breakdowns of music from games near and dear to my heart like the games from Final Fantasy or Breath of Fire series. An oldie but goodie The Raging Emperor's Banquet or Elyon's theme are just pure 🔥

A good listen would be Ff14s "From the Heavens" and "Emerald Weapon". One is Epic and one is more synthetic Rock?

Just wait til he finds out this was performed Live for a concert the composer had for the game.

Get out, it’s a Nightwish song. 🙃 Keep them comin ! This is good Atlas. Maybe one day a Patreon ?

Hey there ! I see you've already delved into FF music, so I would suggest looking at Final Fantasy 8 and more specifically 3 songs : "Liberi Fatali" "Premonition" "The Castle" I think you'd love those and would have a lot to say about them :)

The problem with analyzing this song is that without the greater, broader context is lost without hearing the rest of the soundtrack and knowing the story. This song, as well as the rest of it's sound track, gains it's popularity primarily from the constant thematic elements and lieimotives involved to tell a story, not unlike movie sound tracks like that of Star Wars or the game Undertale. It's obvious from the comments that certain game soundtracks like this one are hard to evaluate purely from a composer perspective. It's not a comment on you or your review nearly as much as a lament that you just don't understand where this was going. The band, from doing some research, has a habit of this. To quote wikipedia on them (and thus their MO): Sound Horizon is a Japanese musical group with composer Revo [ja] (Japanese pronunciation: [ɾebo]) as the leader and only permanent member. They describe themselves as a "fantasy band" and have released works that closely resemble classical suites. Their songs often revolve around historical events and classic fairytales. When creating music based on other people's stories, the band uses the name Linked Horizon. EDIT: And yes, it's a boss battle, and not just any boss battle, but the final boss battle. The parts represent the overall struggle of the characters against a being that is the ultimate evil of the universe: destruction incarnate.

You shoud hear that person's name is. Its a banger

Id love to see your reaction to Wicked Flight from this same game!

Another good ost from the same game would be Wicked Flight, I personally prefer it over this but would like to see your thoughts on it!

Mettete pane e vino Mettete pane e pane è vero è pane Potente la patata! Mettete pane e Fanta Mettete pane e pane è vero è vino Potente la patata!

Bravely default is a master piece

The piano is an instrument that has been fairly common in orchestral music since composers like Saint-Saens and Rachmaninoff used them in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

The Twin Princes soundtrack and Abyss Watchers from Dark Souls 3, they're a good one to react!

Can we get some Yasunori Mitsuda reactions? :) One of the legends of all time composers next to Nobuo Uematsu. Mitsuda OST's to check out Xenogears, Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger.

If you'd like to hear more metal tracks from video games, I'd recommend the Ys and Trails series from Falcom. You're pretty much sure to find a few pieces you'll like in there.

This man needs to listen to "Theme of Laura" from Silent Hill 2.

I would really love to see your reaction on YS or Trails games from falcom, those series has a lot of metal and rock music.

Twilight of the gods would be nice for you to react, is from Fire Emblem Shadows of Valentia

You should react to Final Fantasy 14 OST, it's so amazing! Shadowbringers theme song could be a good start ;)

You should check out the Transistor/Pyre soundtracks.

Hoping for every chracter themes trasitioning to dececive battle 2 from octopath traveler review :)

Can you react to The One They Call The Witch and Daughter of the Dark God (basically a spiced up version from the previous) from Octopath Traveler?

Check out "Rapid as wildfires" from Genshin Impact. The mix between traditional chinese and orchestra makes it really interesting.

You should react to "They Who Govern Reason" from Octopath Traveler!

Hey Brother, Jack here, Just found your stuff I been Bingewatching these reactions, Loving your variety, I am a little surprised you haven’t heard anything GENSHIN IMPACT, if you decide to check them out I normally recommend main themes but, the GENSHIN main theme is pretty simple, Instead I’d say check out the Battle themes Rapid as Wildfires, Chasing The Torrents, Gallant Challenge. These themes are some of my favorite songs, I’d love to hear what you think of any one of them, I know you’re strapped for time what with holidays, But I beg you have a look at any of these for a quick once over you won’t regret it. as Always, Keep up the awesome work, Looking forward to your next video!

I suggest you to take on Path of Exile soundtrack. It has some serious epic tracks like the theme of Izaro, the labyrinth exterior or High Templar Avarius theme. Really worth listening.

you should react to the live version of this track 🤩 Also, check One Winged Angel live version too. You'll enjoy it. Another FF soundtrack you should check is Type-0 😄 Also, thanks for reacting to this soundtrack

Surprisingly, no one has said it yet. Thank you Hunter!

I would love to see you react to "Astral Birth Void" from Kirby Star Allies

Hello, to start I am french so excuse my english! I just discovered your reaction videos and I loved it! I have it all watch! Have you ever played God of war? Could you react to Brothers of blood from God of war 3? (even though I know my request went unnoticed!)

Can you do Octopath Traveler? This game is also made by the team that did Bravely Default and it has brought upon a resurgence of the 16bit era of jrpgs.

Hi, I know one interesting song too which deserves a good look: "Exec_over.method_Sublimation" from Ar Tonelico 2 Melody of Metafalica, four parts, this is also a boss theme. They are with English lyrics (they could be essential to understand the song) on separate videos made by AbstractGarden, the order is "Emptiness", "Lamenza", "Ee wassa sos yehar" and "Omness chs ciel sos infel". It would be amazing to listen your opinion

I’d love it if you could react to the song Zero from Ace Combat Zero. One of my personal favorite final boss tracks and very epic IMO.

I suggest anything from Chrono Cross. But standouts would be Time's Scar or Prisoners of Fate.

2:16 ATLAS: I wasn't expecting electric guitars. Me: But SURPRISE HAHA! ATLAS: Haha! Me: 😐 Time travel!?

monster hunter has some absolute banger songs too hehe

EYY SOMEONE ELSE WHO PLAYED BRUTAL LEGEND

If you're willing to step out of the gaming music reactions, try live versions of Nightwish: Ghost Love Score or The Poet and the Pendulum. ;)