Just yelling the name of the bad guy in his theme should be really cheesy but this theme not only makes it work, it send shivers down your spine every time the choir yells "SEPHIROTH!".

This was mind blowing back in 1997 imagine you go through the whole game enjoying all the exelent theme song, none of the are voiced. Then suddenly on the very last part of the game, only on one enemy and nowhere else you get slap with a fricken orchestra. It may seem ubiquitous to have orchestral music in boss fights but bavk then video games does not do this.

Ah yes, the Imperial March of video game music.

The composer for this specific arrangement of One-Winged Angel Yasunori Nishiki was a big fan of the original composer Nobuo Uematsu. He said he felt enormous pressure when composing this arrangement as he wanted to satisfy himself without destroying the charm of the original. Nishiki is also the composer for Octopath Traveler 1 and 2, and the music is absolutely amazing, I 100% recommend Galdera's theme, the super/final boss? to react to, mainly his phase 1 song "The One They Call the Witch" and phase 2 "Daughter of the Dark God." And if you want too his Octopath 2 theme "Underworldly Entity"

You might notice something interesting about this piece. The composer did an interview when the original version came out. I remember Nobuo Uematsu mentioning that he wanted this piece to sound like a ill-fated dance to the death, which is why the piece has momentum to it at all time and mirrors some ballet music, albeit more horror because you are fighting the one-winged angel after all. Love the reaction, the ace attorney investigation games are some of my absolute favorites, highly recommend.

Without getting into the epic score that is One Winged Angel, it was delightful to see how genuinely and visibly enjoyable you found the experience of listening to the music. Also it was interesting to hear a "play by play" of how you envisioned the story behind the song progresses and some of the explanations behind your thinking.

4:15 the “frolic in the park” construes Sephiroth’s glee in the midst of battle/decimating his enemy, I think.

I cannot describe to you the rush you get when that heroic moment at 8:35 plays during the boss fight. The fight is split into phases and that part doesn’t play until the final phase. You’ve probably been fighting for 15-20 minutes (or hours if you keep dying like me) at that point, back against the wall and blood pumping, it’s just the boost you need to keep going.

Ahhh one of the best songs FF7 has to offer! This track fits so well with Sephiroth’s background and his existence for the story like this track sounds like terror yet divine! Love your reactions to this song and look forward for another!

I saw this live in The Royal Albert Hall. It was incredible!

Just started watching your stuff and it’s super cool - I love getting to see the wheels turn as you take the songs in. Excited to see more 👍

“you’re dealing with me now” -Sephiroth

This OST is from the remake and is built to be unique and for those who played FFVII to be expecting. It does a great job to be its proprer OST for FFVII Remake and to build expectation for players of the original game. JENOVA Remake has the same quality (a theme vs what we can make of a known theme)

"These runs!" This song definitely has the runs. It really gives you the runs.

Still get goose-bumps every time this theme appears! If you're interested in Final Fantasy stuff this is my absolute favourite cover of J-E-N-O-V-A into One Winged Angel: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p7mdkrVelcuWo5c.html Just the intro with the piano is brilliant

I definitely prefer the FFVII: Advent Children version of this song. It's a mix of heavy metal and the usual orchestral parts. It's the more powerful version, IMHO!

Thank you so much for this, this is exactly the kind of video I wanted to watch tonight, I had to go out of my way to find someone who was actually discussing the music rather than just saying "wow that was so cool!" (nothing against them, but I wanted to hear a professional perspective). If you enjoyed this a lot, I hope someday you are able to do something similar with Liberi Fatali of FFVIII :D

The instinct feeling is still there. The panic, the determination, the sweaty palms gripping the controller, the scraping a limit break together and hoping it lasts long enough to throw an elixer, summoning every creature in your materia slots and hoping/praying/begging it's enough........So beautiful.

New follower here and loved your take on the doom and had to watch the rest. Thank you for this one. Your great and thank you for your content

The thing with this version of the song is that it plays off of the expectations of people who have heard the original song. If actively messes with you and strings you along while putting parts of the song from the original game composition in the wrong order. It mirrors the story of the game and Sephiroth's actions. Hes messing with the timeline in order to bring himself back into true existance because he lives as a nightmare in Cloud's mind. It isnt until the song "restarts" at the 4:30 mark that it begins to resemble the original piece. Its really a genius piece of neuanced musical storytelling

_Straight_ into the reaction. Love that!

Abzu and Journey have unbelievable soundtracks.

What I really love about this track, and which, in my Opinion J-E-N-O-V-A Quickening, another track in FFVII Remake, does even better, is setting up a very different feel to the original in the beginning of the Track, while building up to a big climactic high point, before it breaks off with a tone shift, "restarting" to make way for the actual theme from the Original. You notice it around 3:50 quite well, where the theme kinda slows down again. Before that point, the Iconic "SEPHIROTH" chant doesn't really show up. But then at 4:05 the theme restarts, with the same marching drums, the lyrics, and, most importantly, SEPHIROTH! It's such a neat thing, but it made those themes very fun to listen to. Because it's a very satisfying payoff for the build up, both in narrative as well as musically

It's nice to see someone who knows their stuff when it comes to content like this; obviously you're well-versed in music theory. It's my first time here, so I'm not sure how reactions are structured and I noticed other game soundtrack material you've reacted to. Not sure if this is the place to do it, but any thought to covering any material from the soundtracks from the Metroid Prime series? Just curious. Hitting the sub button on the way out; cheers!

Oh I would love to see your reaction to J.E.N.O.V.A: Quickening from this game. It's such a wild musical ride with how it evolves and builds towards the end.

Absolute masterpiece, bummed I didn't get to watch the reaction live. Also bummed I've never seen the Final Fantasy live orchestra.

The soundtrack to this game is just something else. Love watching other people enjoy it, welcome to the genius writing of Nobuo Uematsu

My favorite theme in all of video games, along side my favorite boss. Sepharoth is so fucking cool man, and his theme goes way to hard, especially this iteration.

What i love most about this sound is that for og fans, they tease you with the drop that leads to the choir singing "sephiroth". In the game they hold onto it for the final phase of his fight

I think Airbuster should be next. What do you guys think?

Nobuo Uematsu, the legend of video game music.

Honestly I love the fact that all of sephiroths battle themes (One-Winged Angel, Birth of a God, The Worlds Enemy, and OWA Rebirth, and yes I consider the last 2 different from the og owa) have parts inspired by his main theme (other than owa) those chosen by the planet

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9:21 is my favorite part

Proper symphonic writing 🔥

It is cool how much you enjoy this awesome music 🎵

Bells, Frogs, Big Cherries, Peter Pan, Magic Cheese, SEPHIROTH!!!

This is a great soundtrack you should check out some of the electronic tracks they hit hard

Best Final Boss theme 🤩

I enjoyed this version and your experience of the music but I got to say the Advent Children version of this song is still by far my favorite. I would love for you to give that a listen in your spare time. Though it's like 8 minutes long so maybe that would asking a lot lol.

On a the stream where you beat melania, congrats by the way, you showed a list of games you might play. You have nier automata but not original nier, I don't know if you've played the original which if so then just disregard this. If you haven't then I would greatly recommend playing the original, hopefully on stream, as certain characters, events and set pieces would make way more sense. I came across your stuff like two weeks ago randomly because of the youtube algorithm and I'm happy I did as you're super cool. Keep up the great work.

This song could be called edging. I WAS WAITING FOR THE "SEPHIROTH !" !

I definitely recommend more Nobuo Uematsu since you’re enjoying this. Also you might want to check out The Black Mages who contains the original composer of this song as a band member.

Man if you heard the original, this one builds, you anticipate this remake to go in one direction and it completely fools you. If you watched the fight scene that goes with this song in Advent Children........heavy breathing and goosebumps everywhere.

If you want to listen to a great final fantasy song, I'd suggest FF6's "Dancing Mad". Nobuo really outdid himself writing a 20 minutes master piece. For the Super Nintendo. FF6 soundtrack might just be Uematsu's Magnum Oppus.

😂😂the pill changed to baptism, after the little piano bit came in.

Classic! I'd be curious to hear your take on Berserk 2016 My brother dragon slayer remix, it's an official remastered version of the 1997 orchestral song. There's a lot of huge anime songs that are worth listening to also, like Tokyo Ghoul, Vinland saga or Jujutsu kaisen openings.

this song is amazing serpent eating the ground

I'm just here to shamelessly plug for free Square's rhythm game that came out February this year, "Theatrhythm Final Bar Line". This particular track isn't in the lineup of 502 (with all DLC) tracks, but it does have the arranged version of this track, and I highly recommend it if you're a fan of Final Fantasy, Rhythm games, or just games music in general. This is a game series that I think goes under a lot of people's radar. They have a completely separate title for Kingdom Hearts tracks, if that's more your thing. Anyways, listening to this again makes me want to go back and do the Sephiroth fight again in Remake. I still have a few extra fights left to do post Intergrade too.

You should listen to the warbringers jaina shanty from world of Warcraft The Russian version is incredible and has a great backstory to the recording too

I never played the original game, nor am I a fan of the Final Fantasy games per se... BUT this piece of music is phenomenal. Although, I'm much more familiar with the versions that came with the Advent Children movie and the Kingdom Hearts games. The song as I know it begins in earnest at 4:05.

You should listen to the Black mage's version. They are the original composer's band. Just awesome when the electric guitar drops in.

If you've heard the original this version is a massive tease for the ears but the composer did an amazing job

This. Fight. Was. So. Long.

This was a great remake to the work done by Nobuo Uematsu

Engage the Enemy - Xenoblade Chronicles DE is one you'll definitely like and worth checking out!

You should check out dancing mad by Nobuo Uematsu one of the best songs in any video game

Everyone: One Winged Angel is perfection Nobuo: dont fuggin tell me what my limits are!

Best Song in Video Game History

Cosmo Canyon! Youll like it.

Oh it's definitely fun to play when that half naked Sephiroth appears

You should check out the soundtrack to Final Fantasy 16, that had some amazing tunes

Gotta do the Airbuster song from this game!!!

Hollow knight would be a fantastic game to react to especially as it was a indie title made by like 3 people its phenomenal. Also a lesser know game by the name of Othercide a lot of people have never heard of but has some of the best music of any games I've ever witnessed truly its unbelievable shame the game was slept on.

If you like something like this you should listen to the serpent eating the horizon from the bravely default soundtrack

For a moment I thought you said Fort Condor.

I feel like you’d really enjoy the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Octopath Traveler II soundtracks!

I highly recommend "Undefeatable" from Sonic Frontiers

I think you’d love music from the persona series especially persona 5

I recommend you listening to DS3 lorian and lothric soundtrack, this piece sends shivers down my spine

Check the FF 16 “find the flame”

Why hasn't anyone suggested watching "Project Hiroyuki Sawano" Attack on Titans yet?

we should let her hear the original ps1 sephiroth theme, that was chilling, scary and ill omen at the same time, i actually dont know how to describe it but.. that 1 is masterpiece, most of sephiroth themes now are more chaotics, too bad they didnt really feel how sephiroth should be..

Oh if you're listening to FF7 YOU HAVE to listen to FF14 music like "Shadowbringers" "flow" or "The final day" just to name a few the music composer for 14 is Soken Masayoshi, he's absolutely incredible but either way great reaction!

Sephiroth, ta ta ta taaaaaa ! 😍😍

isn't this girl in death stranding?

If you like this i recommend the music Nubuo Uematsu did for The Last Story, specifically Toberu Mono (Those Who Can Fly), the version that plays during the end credits has wonderful vocals. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rsBomKSir9LJeqc.html

As if One Winged Angel wasn't epic enough we get an epic intro for it

This is Remake's version of the track. Not the original. And Remake is well... More than just a Remake of the OG game. But yeah, still peak!

i recommend listenin to somnus from FFXV

Was a bit of a shame tbh you never got to hear the full song as you just walked in and W-summoned knights of the round and the fight was over. Also I always preferred the Advent children version with the electric guitar mixed in that was a banger.

Hi. May i recommand some osts?

PLEASE take a look on the Hollow Knight score!!! It will not disappoint!

Perhaps you would like Azhdaha's theme from Genshin Impact! It's very unique!

Oh Hi Målingen 😁

GOW Ragnorok for a future vid?

While still a really compelling track, is it just me or are the original and AC versions more impactful?

is it insane to just ask that a fellow producer knows how to properly mix audio levels so that the viewer doesn't have to blow out their eardrums from the volume of your voice to hear the actual song

I love this!

React to doom cultist base it rips! The 9:27 one its awesome!

As a Final Fantasy fan I find the music in FFXIV to be the best, my personal favorite is Dragonsong from the Heavensward expansion!

FFVII _Remake_ for the title. I'm not a huge orchestral dude so I miss the original.

It would be awesome if you could react to some theme songs from Metal Gear Rising Revengeance. Especially the song called "It Has To Be This Way". 🤘🔥

You should react to Nier’s soundtrack! It’s the best video game soundtrack I’ve ever listened to and even features an entirely made up language for its music!

love seing the reactions could do some pieces from the critically acclaimed Final Fantasy XIV kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pp5mnMaIvdmUc4U.html - Answers kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qLidpd2E2Muvd6s.html - Dragonsong kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bNuXp7qFxM-yoas.html - Shadowbringers kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nruGdK1nlavWlqM.html - What Angel Wakes Me kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e5eefM-oyLO-gYU.html - Civilizations a.k.a Lahee

when you realize you know fuck all about music when professionals talk about "writing" on a music piece lmao im talking about me of course

hello, review the game Ghostrunner, you will like it, there is a great sound)

Me seguiría quedando con la original, tiene bastante mas potencia sonora, esta añade mas instrumental y lo transforma mas aun en una orquesta

i said this in a previous video but you NEED TO, and i mean NEED TO! listen to meathook doom eternal

This version is great, but so hurtful to hear, they purposly keeps teasing you again and again that eventually the original version is going to start playing but you never know when hahahah