Genshin 'BOSS Theme' VS Honkai Star Rail 'BOSS Theme'

BOSS Theme in Genshin vs Honkai Star Rail be like...

Genshin Impact ost = Polumnia Omnia by Yu-Peng Chen
Honkai Star Rail ost = Wildfire by Qi Gong

[KerubielZ]

(Part 2) Genshin VS Honkai Star Rail "BOSS Theme"

[sleepy]

Genshin: The boss is a badass
Star rail: *We* are a badass

[anarchistlilia]

Cocolia:WHY WONT YOU DIE
Trailbalzer:Preservation son

[MagnificentPez]

Wildfire is a wonderful boss theme, and it makes one feel absolutely badass during it. However, Genshin's boss themes are sort of an opposite. They make the boss feel badass. During the Cocolia fight I felt "Oh damn this is a very big moment for me and my character" while Genshin makes me feel "Holy shit this boss is going to clap me".

[NPC_No.]

Genshin theme is about the boss, Star Rail theme is about us railing the boss.

Edit: 11 months later, we literally rail a boss
💀💀

[Dissapointed_Aether]

Wildfire is really epic and it left an impact on me, i feel like a hero who's gonna save the day when i fight cocolia and wildfire is playing on the background.

[medic_gaming]

Genshin one: mother bullying her son
Hsr one: we're bullying Bronya's mom.

[SiuShussy]

Honkai: pop
Genshin: Modern classical music
Star rail: rock

[WatcherofMUGEN]

Honkai Impact: Wave goodbye to the past when hope and faith have grown so strong and sound
Genshin Impact: *DO MI NA TUS! DOMINATUS! DOMINATUS!*
Honkai Star Rail: *WE’VE MADE A CHOICE GO FIGHT AGAINST YOUR

[coastcoast-]

Are you going to simply travel? Or are you gonna fucking trailblaze?

[SaboteurDS]

Not many boss battles make you feel like the boss. Wildfire and Persona 5’s Rivers in the Desert are legit YOUR boss music

[Raikos]

Tbh all the songs are epic. It just happens that Genshin feels like art that you go along with, while Star Rail feels like a journey you are making yourself.

[AlexorPwnsAll]

I think both styles have their merits. Genshin’s going for that classic epic feel with the choir, orchestra, and ethnic flare based on the region.
Star rail goes for a Devil may cry vibe with hard rock and tons of energy to punctuate certain moments.

[UwU-ygbu]

Fun fact about the scara boss fight, there is a lyrics that goes "why did you throw me on the fifth night" referencing to Japanese culture giving their children names on 7th night, so scara doesnt even have a name and ei just left him. Genshin's boss theme always reflects on the boss history

[kataknabe]

honestly, this makes me really amazed on how much effort hoyo is doing in making varied soundtrack, from classical opera, pop-stylized, dubstep, and now rock. from hi3rd, genshin, and star rail.

you could feel the different use of context, like how in scara's theme it symbolizes how the fight is not really in your favor, and you need your wits to be able to win, whilst wildfire really shows how even the aeons are going "beat his ass cuh, we gotchu", symbolizing the will of the aeon to defeat the seemingly impossible stellaron-infused cocolia...

though i guess the community won't ever tolerate each other due to the difference in tastes (personally, due to my taste, hi3rd still is one of the top in my opinion)

[inanimatesum]

Traveler: “Let me just absorb the element from this statue.”

Trailblazer: “God has stopped time, given me this chance to pull this Lance from the heart of this planet, and seize the moment to pierce this everlasting blizzard.”

[Downxos]

I really liked how they timed star rail’s boss music according to certain events within the battle, while on the other hand i like how the genshin boss themes loop pretty seamlessly

[wntrwinter]

wildfire literally gives me so much motivation tbh

[DrNero-yequ]

Ah yes, the best genre.

Music that makes Y O U the boss.

[forstuffjust]

The context is very different though, for genshin the bosses are all beyond mortal beings with unknown streght to us, we are fighting for our life against these legendary menaces. In HSR, from narrative viewpoint we already won the battle with the powerup/getting the blessing of the aeon