Old Composer Reacts to The Witcher 3 Main Theme Video Games OST Reactions

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[rpgeebzmusicarcade]

😎Hey Gang!!! Thank you for hanging in there through that intro. Old guy just gets excited for this new journey with video game OST's. THANK YOU for the comments, likes, and shares :)🙏

[razvanmazilu]

The composer of this piece, Marcin Przybyłowicz, is Polish. The game is also developed by a Polish studio and is based on The Witcher series of books by Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski. So it makes sense that the music would evoke a sound fitting of that cultural space

[Zagor]

The entire Witcher 3 soundtrack is a masterpiece

[SigynRegn]

We Poles are very proud of all Wicher books, games and ost. Happy to hear so many people around the world appreciate them aswell :) .

[SkidMcmarxx]

Not exactly the main theme, this song was used for the main trailer of the game. This is my favourite game of the past 10 years. This game does ambient music really really well. People love just listening to “the fields of are skellig” to calm down. But a ton of music has the same kind of vocals in it that are repeated over and over, and it’s a bit of a meme now. Whenever this game is mentioned someone will say “LELELELELELELE” or “banana tiger” and it’s funny to me every time.

[antoniobozzi]

Everything about this game gives me chills. What a masterpiece

[becauseimbatman]

This wasn't the main theme but I'm still glad you covered it. The actual main menu theme is called "Geralt of Rivia". Depending on the additional content you have for the game, the main menu theme can also be "Hearts of Stone" or "Blood and Wine", which are alternate versions of the original

[SkylordNiko]

A lot of the witcher soundtrack is based on songs from a Slavic Folk band called Percival, hence the instrumentation and style you hear

[MeneerSoepgroente]

Interesting fact about OSTs: Video game music is often composed with a specific goal in mind: that it’s (infinitely) replayable. Some games take up or over 100 hours to play. You cannot compose music for every moment in that. This means that music tracks often get replayed within a game. Composers must be taking this into account when they design the music. Ideally it’s neither forgettable nor intrusive. Would love to hear if you recognise this when listening to the music, based on your expertise.

Anyway, thanks a lot for doing these videos. I really enjoy hearing your perspective.

[Jojuiced]

The Witcher 3 has a lot of great Slavic inspired music to check out e.g a track called The Fields of Ard Skellig. If you’d like to hear another main theme, then I highly recommend the main theme of Xenoblade Chronicles. It has such a fantastic use of strings, it really moves you.

[Elite-bhpm]

The soundtrack to this game is absolutely outstanding.

[gummybearchewy]

The Witcher Games are based on Poland if I remember correctly. (If that is wrong please leave a reply) If correct your assessment of an Eastern European theme is spot on.

[leloupdessteppes]

2 seconds in and the music already gives me goosebumps. Damn what a game. I will never forget that experience.

[jonnenne]

I had one of my strongest musical moments playing this game. In the story you shipwreck on this sort of Nordic archipelago and an OST piece called "fields of ard skellig" starts to play while you look around this new world. The song itself is very different to the previous music being much more serene and calming. I recommend you listen to it, it is really a nice calming for piece of music.

[ivanstepanovic]

That's some Slavic folklore for you 😊
Same game, other two themes that are great are "steel for humans" that actually includes a folk song from Bulgaria. Sounds AWESOME! And another one, "silver for monsters"... Also great...

[SlaviXGoD]

The string instrument in that theme is "Saz" traditional long-necked folk instrument known well not only in Slavic folk music. The band that play this song is Percival (only 5 people) but have amazing power :)

[Nickolaars]

The ambient music that plays in the background while exploring is worth checking out as well. Especially the Skellige stuff is beautiful.

[SomeRandomGuy]

About some of the things you've been wondering about:

Soundtrack was made in collaboration with Polish band Percival Schuttenbach (fun fact: the band was named after dwarf from one of the Witcher books long before the first Witcher game was released). They're using such instruments as long-necked lute, Byzantine lyra, bodhrán and davul, so these are probably what we hear in this OST.

Books with source material were highly influenced by Arthurian legends with some Slavic themes. Game developers reversed proportions, so the games in series are highly influenced by Slavic myths - and that's most likely why Percival were chosen to co-wrote this soundtrack, since they're known for being highly inspired by the Slavic folk music. They even released three different albums dedicated specifically to the Eastern, Western and South Slavic music. Some tracks from the OST are even simply instrumental versions of their previous work.

During the vocals there is exactly one sentence with words, in the beginning: it's "słyszę tętnią [kopyta] koni", which is in Polish and means "I hear the beat of the horses' [hooves]" (I write it like this because it misses the word "hooves"). These are basically few words taken from another Percival's song (and that's most likely why they left out "hooves"), which was also adaptation of Polish poem "Upalne południe" ("Hot noon"). I guess that "hearing horses' hooves" was left in soundtrack because it quite well resonates with events happening during intro when this track is played

Thanks for reacting!

[Korounet]

They did a live concert in 2016 of the witcher 3 OST and I encourage everyone to watch it. It's fantastic

[PeoplecallmeLucifer]

The band that did music for this game is called Percival and they made an album for each of 3 Slavic subgroups (east, west and southern Slavs) covering songs from all Slavic nations
and a lot of people put them in the genre of folk metal which is to me awesome considering they play only traditional instrument.

also if someone here never heard of folk y'all are missing out!