Exactly! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

1994

Thank you for doing the difficult work for us! 🫡

damn I didn't even know what this word mean before, yet the second part of the song itself gave me some kind of a vibe like it's a flashback of thousand memories from someone's life

"False memories ”, yep that married to the cyberpunk theme like a glove.

I'm pretty sure it's an island from susumu hirasawa's imagination. the song title is island door, nesia or nēsoi means islands, like micronesian means little islands or Indonesia means indian islands. and the word para it can translates to many things depends on the language used for this word, or maybe it's just him naming this island paranesia

@@joshuahendra4918 It could also be a pun on the original meaning with your naming scheme in mind He does however name the island in the very first line of the song, "Tobira - A land of 3000 nautical miles seen in dreams" The Paramnesian Circle seems to refer to a ritual, not the place where it happens, at least based on how the lyrics talk about it.

Exactly ❤️❤️

Glad I wasn't the only one to hear that

Well, the lyrics of this song kinda resemble the Eclipse.

There's so much good stuff not on Spotify sadly

it's too long for music services but i know one exception this is Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm this track lasts for 22 minutes...

It's on Soundcloud

99% of Hirasawa's songs unfortunately aren't available worldwide on Spotify. I know for sure that albums Nurse Cafe and Technique of Relief are there so it's probably also there but region-locked

@@user-ud6ud7qo7h not true. mirror reaper, a song that's 87 minutes long is on spotify.

"Ajeusshi... I love you..." Wojak.png

Yes, except for the art of some characters, mainly in the city, which were immersion breakers to me.

Real Cyberpunk

@@Barbarossa97 The most cyberpunk game out there

The music existed before the game though

He didn't write the song for the game, they just licensed it; the song was released in 1994.

@@hidalgobc nice and thanks for the info

@@hidalgobc that's a huge surprise. this doesn't sound like something from 94, or anytime. Hirasawa really is a timeless genius

@@freeallfaded Completely agree

@@freeallfaded Honestly i could sorta tell. mid to late 90s hirasawa has a very distinct sound when compared both to his older and more recent work. The Berserk OST and Kyosai no Gihou have some of the same DNA, as does Electronic Tragedy Enola.

I feel exactly the same, I bought this game just before the pandemic when I was going through a real rough life moment, these lyrics became something like hope for a better future

@@TheEiyashou - sending you my absolute best wishes. Please, take care of your self. ❤️🙏

Isn't it too much?I mean, it's a 13 minute song, you probabily will diebefore the end

... You really calculated that ?

@@feather8814 Nope. If you’re watching without ever stopping, the calculation is almost entirely accurate, assuming they’ve got *exactly* 60 years.

@@feather8814 woosh!

he did worked in several j rpgs

people aren't buying it just because it's actually challenging and fair cuphead is hard okay but not RUINER-hard in ruiner, you literally have to think within milliseconds while that goes upto seconds in cuphead

In case of doubt, enter bullet time while planning dashes. Also, pick up every weapon for more bullet time. Also, the C.A.T.S. reported that you haven't bought and played Ruiner. Do you not want your Karma, citizen?

AlterRektMLG RUINER isn't hard at all. For the arenas, dash behind enemies and melee, rinse and repeat. Then, once you can spec enough into your shield, for the bosses, just stunlock them. The only hard way to play the game is to restrict yourself to dash only, then it's hard, but it's also bullshit.

+BraSS play the game on Hard difficulty

BUY RUINER BUY RUINER BUY RUINER BU-KILL BOSS KILL BOSS KILL BOSS KILL BOSS

Uhh, he did new music for the Berserk games.

Super Robot Taisen W features his music via Detonator Orgun being in the cast, it's pretty dope

Yup, check out "Sign" for example, it's ridiculously awesome.

All of the Dreamcast Berserk game OST was made by Susumu. Including a new version of Forces, and the opening song, Indra.

Though as epic as Sign was, Sign 2 was probably the best ending song of all time. Well, Ash Crow comes close for me!

Uhh that's a little bit sad :(

@@reddead111 If you think that's sad, wait until you see the stretch marks

For real.

Check his other works start with his 96 álbum Siren

Mine at 44. It's transcendental. I'm a better music producer for it. It's like a Stanley Kubrick film but music. A piece of work that exposes the possibilities of a medium in such a way that it's beyond you. You have to bask in its sublimity. Then the second part of the genius of this song happens. Years later, you love it more. It's alive.

tf thats exactly what happened to me

...paprika?

​@wrcz animated film from Japan that Hirasawa did the score for. I haven't seen it, but it looks like an interesting movie, same dude that did Spirited Away I think?

結構評価高いゲームらしいですね

他のBGMも素敵なの多いし普通に面白いからオヌヌメ

Observer ;) Now it cost less than 10€....buy it, dude.

Ruiner sets up pretty well for a sequel, but if one hasn’t been announced by now I’m not sure if it’ll ever come I don’t want this game to end up like Furi :(

A sequel would be cool because, well, more Ruiner. But story-wise I think it can stand without one. I mean, thinking about everything that the ending led up to... Spoilers obviously below: You've been broken loose the shackles of everything that held you and was controlling you. You're free from who you thought you were, and drive into the night. Will you try and meet Her, at "where heaven falls", and see what lies in store? But remember, in the end it turns out she was deceiving you as well for Her own ends. Does she really have your own best interests at heart? Maybe you'll just keep on driving, and take your own road into the future. Become as free as anyone can be in this world, and choose your own path. But what if your actions have made you some powerful enemies? Can you face them alone? Either way, I like the ambiguity. I wouldn't complain about a sequel though, naturally. It's a damn good game. Hell, it doesn't have to have the same protagonist, though I hope it does because that face mask is sweet.

@@bezejel well, since you only worked for her and that's the only thing you could do, I guess that sticking to it is the best option.

It seems the developers of Ruiner are planning to add the game to Nintendo Switch.

HOLY FUCK LETS GO DUDE GIVE ME MORE

Well, cyberpunk culture and tropes were made over two decades ago as well. When you think about it, it works out pretty well.

And life itself

​@@wichitawwojak3786 Make it closer to 40 years. modern "cyberpunk" is just a regurgitation of Blade Runner, with the exception of things like Ex Machina...

@@necromax13 Forty years is over twenty years.

@@necromax13 There is more cyberpunk out there than bladerunner rip offs, you just have to look harder.

that paints a very nice picture in my head. now for the next few hours that's all I'm gonna be thinking about ... thank you person.

Cyberserk, if you will

@@ironreeve9370 fuck that's a good name for something

welp, i wanted a proper berserk game even a 2D one would be amazing for me, now i want a cyberpunk styled berserk game, and i really want it badly

You know what , this is a perfect soundtrack for BLAME! if it ever got a anime show release.

どこにでも湧く先輩

Thanks, I was really wondering what he was saying :)

@@noerknown mee to lol

@@noerknown I'm Japanese, but I don't know what he says.

無白 me to

ExiStrife hello darkness

You know it's a real good game when you want to actually slow down and apreciate things instead of rushing through the content

I didn't even finish it LOL

@@JCOOK2112 cringe

@@JCOOK2112 cringe

9:48 Love this beat/section

さすがステルス😊

*nods approvingly*

*nods vigorously*

There is some japanese reference in every cyberpunk universe, so It could happen

@@unil1015 I want Akira or Ghost In The Shell references in the game!

@@zainul0021 Boi I want a RUINER reference on that game! Yeah, it's almost impossible to happen, but I still want it :)

Indeed

I feel you. I played RUINER like 2 years before Cyberpunk 2077 came out and I absolutely enjoyed it. It really captures the cyberpunk genre well and the OST is amazing. An underrated gem

@@hntr_official yeah hidden gem it is, at least I am glad that some of ruiner gameplay can be spot in cyberpunk 2077

yes to me it sounds like the perfect Cyberpunk track, not sure why it does, but seems to capture the mood and essence of it. haven't yet heard anything else like it..

Well, you should listen to Hirasawa's other stuff, as well as his band P-Model's music. This song is from Susumu's solo album Aurora, which funnily enough tried to stray away from the sci-fi themes of previous albums, going for more "instinctive" and "mythical" music. I actually never really associated this song with cyberpunk until I heard it in Ruiner, since he has other albums that are a bit closer to my idea of cyberpunk, like Vistoron or Gipnoza, which are both set in a dystopian future, but when I think about it this song embodies the mood of a cyberpunk setting 100x better, since those albums are more on the energetic techno side. So, if you wanna get into Susumu Hirasawa's music, there's Aurora for more laid-back songs like this one, then there's Sim City and Technique of Relief, concept albums with sci-fi settings but not really cyberpunk, as well as P-Model, Big Body and Enola, some pretty energetic technopop albums, the synthpunk/postpunk/experimental trio of Potpourri, Perspective and Another Game and the dystopian trilogy of Vistoron, Gipnoza and Kai=Kai.

It may sound ridiculous, but look up the bejeweled 2 OST. The composer for the game, Skaven, produced music far beyond what you would expect for a timekiller game.

@@lonelyshpee7873 I think trying to stray away from sci-fi is likely why this song works so well. A big cyberpunk theme/trope is loss of humanity. This song, at least to me, sounds like a song of loss, mourning, reminiscing, nostalgia, and celebration. Rengkok South was a great backdrop for this song. It's atmosphere evoked this yearning for something lost, a little pocket of people seeking humanity in a world that you would imagine has been sucked dry of it. A lot of cyberpunk music is thought to be some kind of super bass heavy techno, and certainly that's part of it's identity. But Cyberpunk music should also evoke feelings of loss and yearning, nostalgia, etc.

@@HazenMire Perfectly put. I definitely agree that the more energetic "cyberpunk music" does have it's place as well, since a lot of cyberpunk deals with themes of full on hedonism. I feel like that kind of synthetic and energetic music embodies that mix of a synthetic dystopian future full of hedonistic pleasures jacking up your blood pressure, on top of all the violence. But honestly, this song captures the atmosphere at it's best: when it's at rest, and you have nothing left to do and nothing to distract yourself from the weight of a dark and dirty future covered in make-up.

Sounds more like Indra more specifically to me, gives me that vibe.

in the developer's diary they said that they watched a ton of anime to get inspired for creating the game, so yeah

Paranesian Circle isn't a new song of his, and it was in the same album Aurora with a "proto-version" of Forces, 舵をとれ, so both of them are roughly from the same time period. New songs of his are both like his 20 years old stuff and different from it...

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEN IT'S MAAAAAAAAAAADE BY THE SAAAAAAME GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUY!!! (sing that)

Hirasawa's album alone should do the trick. The OST is good, but I've spent a fuckton of time with the game and this is the only track that won't ever be boring to me, no matter how many times I hear it.

This song has btw. 4 different version. The first one would be the original on Hirasawa's album Aurora, the second version is on his Haldyn Dome project (good luck finding that, or buying it for ~250$) then there is the 3rd version on his album Hen-Gen-Ji-Zai and then there is this version ofc.

Oh.. I didn't know that but thanks for the elucidation. haha

Furi is great! I love that the storyline is deceivingly clear-cut, which is rare to find nowadays. It also has really great character designs that is just inspiring 👍👍

I feel the same in Mirror's Edge

The question he asked of "what are you gonna do now? Nod or shrug?" and the choices were 'Nod' and 'Shrug' fucking killed me, that was a hilarious little joke in a relatively serious ending, but it didn't feel out of place and try hard-y

that feeling is called awe: "a feeling of great respect sometimes mixed with fear or surprise"

For me this was first Dragon Age

Unfortunately we wont live long enough to see that kind of a future. But hey, at least well have sex robots in a decade or two. ^^

Stefan Voorhout We already have that kind of future if you look hard enough.

SikeSplitter Already be taken advantage of without the cool technology

YEEEEEES SUSUMU HIRASAWA!!!!!!!!!!

It's great honestly. It's hard af on the highest difficulty, but I love it.

Spicy Chicken God it is a good game

Game is amazing !!!!!!

It's freaking awesome

Straight from Poland dude!

Yes this song is very much in the game.

It's in there but the lyrics are cut and it's just the ambient music in the hub city. It still suits the atmosphere of the city though.

Frequencies are an amazing thing

he did a soundtrack for god eater i think, i actually don't know

Same. Maybe just one track, I thought.

ほんとですよね

@@whiteoe というか日本語を習ったらどうですか

Idiot.

@@Hattuperno 下品言葉を使うことは必要じゃないですよ

ごみん(´･ω･`)

Pretty good? It's godly