Necrodancer actually answers one of your hot take questions from the previous video - by making the levels with a time constraint that you can’t circumvent, you can design the track without needing it to loop. The balance of this song is such a cool contrast to most of the other tracks to this point in the game.

Necrodancer is such a good game. soundtrack lives rent free in my head

Crypt Of The Necrodancer is one of those "easy to pick up, hard to master" types of games. The bosses are specially tough for me

Necrodancer has some absolutely brilliant melody lines, love this breakdown, Marco! You could consider doing an analysis of the stage 3 themes, each of which have two alternate versions of the same song! (A Cold Sweat / A Hot Mess) We’d love to see hear your thoughts on how they convey the same/opposing feelings through different instrumentation!

'Crypteque(with shopkeeper)' has been a favorite track of mine from this game.

Omg I'm so excited to see any content related to Crypt of the Necrodancer! I listen to the full soundtrack _very_ often while I work, it's one of my favorite game OSTs out there (here though I suck at the actual game 😅) Btw, as you are an opera singer, I would *highly* recommend you check out Nicolas Daoust covers of the shopkeeper versions of the soundtrack; he's actually what made me interested in anything similar to this kind of "singing", and incidentally, your channel ^^ * I'm not asking for a reaction, (even though it of course would be very fun), but I think you'd find it pretty cool! ^^

To me this track sounds like a night out in a jazzy urban center. You're walking down the main street mall in the twilight, warm storefronts and bars and food trucks, well-dressed people walking along having a good time. Maybe you're with a friend, who is showing you around for the first time. But there's some darker alleys, a whiff of seedier underpinnings. You get a warning: don't look too deep, don't rock the boat. Enjoy the vibes and it'll all be alright. We're having a good time right? Just stay on the main street.

6:01 You can immediately tell it's a Danny B song right there, this rising motif in the melody sounds almost exactly like one of the songs in Super Meat Boy which was also composed by him (I think it was one of the dark worlds, probably the Hospital, but I can't recall). I love seeing that kind of musical idea being carried to other places like they were loosely connected somehow, even though they share nothing alike (except for the composer).

The track name Portobellohead is simply a conjunction of Portobello (the mushroom) and portishead (the bristol-based trip-hop band from the 90's). Most of the tracks from that portion of the soundtrack is themed around mushrooms, reflecting the stages quite well.

Danny B is a musical genius. I love his work.

Omg doggo, how did I not notice him ever before?

i would love to see your reaction to the rest of the sound track, Danny is an absolutely amazing composer

Yes! Necrodancer has such an incredible OST! So happy to see it on this channel ^^

By the way, my biggest and simplest tip for getting better at Necrodancer is to always do an action on every single beat 100% of the time no matter what, no exceptions. There's some complicated internal game engine reasons why skipping beats is bad, but building this habit was what helped me get really good and consistent at the game.

Hi Marco, there was this steam sale a few days ago and they sold a masterpiece of a song and you even get Civilization VI for free with it. The song is called "Sogni di Volare" and it's the main menu theme. I literally was over half an hour in the main menu and was in awe (and in tears (a bit)). Maybe check it out, when you feel like it. Have a great day!

i really hope you stream this game, or at least react to some more of the OST's like boss themes, or just other tracks in general. there's also many variations of these tracks made by different people (main OST is Danny B, but there's like 8 others) and they are all official and can be changed in the settings based on what character you use. my favourites are Danny B (original), A-Rival (more electronic), and Joules (metal/rock).

Crypt of the Necrodancer has amazing music. Just all of it. The original and the official covers like FamilyJules' metal. If you haven't, it is worth listening to the shopkeepers vocals, you can find edits on KZfaq. It is very well done

Вау, я очень рад этому обзору. Играл в Necrodancer во время учебы в университете)) В игре много версий одних и тех же мелодий, например, где поёт shopkeeper, переделки под metal. Было бы классно увидеть твою реакцию на музыку danganronpa. Там очень много синтезированной музыки, но игра специально использует возможности такого типа музыки для того, чтобы нагнать жути, страха, показать всю нелепость ситуаций. Было бы славно узнать, что ты бы услышал в тех мелодиях (там их очень много).

I hoped Marco would hear the version with the shopkeeper (who sings along the melody like an opera singer). BTW the music of all the normal levels have a shopkeeper version.

Hell yeah, I have never played the game but I've listened to this ost for years and years

Necrodancer is such a good game honestly - I remember picking it up waaay back when and it's still probably my favorite indie roguelike-style game I bought the soundtrack like, almost immediately and I've listened to it semi-regularly ever since

NecroDancer is a very simple concept - roguelike where have to move to the beat of the music - but is FANTASTIC in its execution. It's definitely challenging, but can be very addicting as well. They also play a bit with various musical themes in the game. You have the first floor set which is more traditional electronic dance music, the second which is all funk and groove, the third which plays between hot (rock) and cold (synth), and the fourth which just goes HARD, and then all the bosses are plays on different themes as well, mixing gameplay and musical style together. Haven't gotten around to playing the DLC yet but just hearing this music sends me right back to high school when I first picked this game up... wait it was that long ago? Wow...

Trying to 100% Crypt Of The Necrodancer makes you wish for a Nuclear Winter.

Please turn on the vocalised shop keeper by Nicolas Daoust

Crypt of the Necrodancer? NICE! I'm currently trying to get my first Aria all Zones completion

If you like this song, I can also recommend "Hotel Menetekel" from the Deponia Soundtrack. Bit more subdued, bit less "funk", but definitely the same vibes.

Danny B is one of the best composers of the modern era of indie games

Brilliant game! Fungal Funk is probably the best track imo

Played this on my Dance Mat a very long time ago. Was it over 10 years ago? It's hard but you kind of get into the ''groove; of it.

Me and my friends have a game where we try to guess the level name from the music for this game and it’s always fun

If you are going to react to the music of Crypt of the Necrodancer, i highly recommend to also check the shopkeeper version of each song, it's the same song but with basically a opera singer, idk if that's the correct term, but idk what else to call it LOL, i love this game

I adore this game

In Crypt of the Necrodancer only the boss tracks loop

Danny B's work is fantastic, no lie. I can just sit and listen to the Necrodancer soundtrack (with shopkeeper!). It's also a huge shame his tracks for Binding of Isaac (flash version) didn't carry over to the Rebirth release.

I think this one is inspired by the band Portishead. They've got some similar vibes.

Praise the Shopkeeper!

Crypt of the Necrodancer's OST's are amazing! I personally really love the Dead Ringer's theme

Yes, I've wanted you to react to CotND soundtrack for forever, it's so good. If you ever get to the 3rd floor music, it would be awesome if you reacted to hot and cold versions in one video. Or an entire stream listening to the whole OST would be amazing as well. But the funniest thing ever would be if you reacted to shopkeeper versions

More necrodancer! MORE!!

you should take a look at styx and stones/the wright to remain from the necrodancer OST, i think these songs in particular give off a very cool mix of emotions!

Crypt of the Necrodancer has mostly more intense music so this one is a little bit of an outlier, but all of World 2 tracks are a bit of a more chill vibe like this

just wanna drop a suggestion for a song; I'm Back (To Rise!) its the only rap song i like and it it was composed by mick gordon so thats cool

Any chance in checking out some tracks from Persona 3/Reload? I know how much you enjoy Persona 5's style of music and 3 has some very standout tracks as well!

Massive Trip hop vibes

Crypt is really fun but also really hard. I only beat a full run once (for the story).

This is captain bones approved

Nope, this isn't a boss theme. Just one of the levels. I'd love to see you react to more NecroDancer music, it's one of my favourite games.

PLEASE listen to the freestyle retro version of the soundtrack

Do you plan to play it its a rithm game after all

Marko, please check Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 trailer music or their Une vie à peindre on channel. It was YEARS science just few minutes of trailer 100% sold me a game and I really want to find what is so amazing in that track from professional POV.

Please do react to the tracks with the shopkeeper!

yoo listening to the best track first

Is it too much to ask for your imitation of the Shopkeeper? I feel like if anyone can actually do it in real life, it must be an opera singer with wide range!

Dog!

Day 6 of asking Marco to play Limbus Company

listen to the opera charter maybe? Crazy . Va.Ha11 is also great