Opera Singer Reacts: Zwillingstürme im Herbst Battle Theme 02 || Arknights OST

Fürchte Der Hexenkönig

Nice to see that "totally not romantic era Germany" keeps up the classical music tradition. I can still remember each stanza of Erlkönig. We had to memorize both the original by Goethe and the musical version by Loewe in 7th grade. Similar to the poem, no German student can escape the Erlkönig.

Austrian here, love Franz Schubert's work, we learned about a lot of classical music in school and this really more than does it justice,
I love what was done with the music here and the reaction and breakdown was great as well

I learn so much about classicals and stuffs from u especially when u make a reaction video of songs/game music from a game I really love. ❤️

I wanna see a reaction video about the battle theme 01 or titled “Underneath the spires” from MSR ❤ coz that’s my favorite bgm among those released musics from its event

Btw the Arknights theme has been officially labelled Der Hexenkönig (The Witch King).

coming back to comment again
the soundtrack for the event was just uploaded by MSR not long ago and this song is actually titled "Der Hexenkonig"
thought that was neat

and the other song mentioned in my comment yesterday is "Underneath the Spires"
maybe also check out "The Theme (variant)"
there are two versions of The Theme, the Imperial one is the mix used for the actual boss fight (there are other variations of that in game that tie into the event mechanic) and the Variant one is from the event PV

I think you should also check out the first battle theme for Zwillingstürme im Herbst, it has a lot of vocalization and is pretty neat

I love how they connect music to regions in the game. Ebenholz and Viviana are from the same place, Leithanien (which is basically Germany-Austria). Now if you go to Laterano (Vatican) you have character themes that we like to call "catholic dubstep"

OH DIESE SONNE!

Hypergryph cooks too much in every aspects for CN 4.5 anniversary that they lit up the whole kitchen

Fucking love the Erlkönig

Name of the song? I might be stupid, but I can't find the name.

Thank you Lappy for making this amazing remake
Its realllllllllllllly dope I agree

Seeing you are a fast one, once i heard it had the Erlkönig in it i thought of you lol

Love your Arknights content 🔥

Classical Music Professors: Surely a mobile game could never challenge such a timeless classic like Der Erlkönig!
Arknights: Hold my beer

Lingering Echoes will soon rerun on global, if you are drawn to Arknights by the Leithania stories and themes

Wow this is so coincidental, we’re learning about this piece in my introductory music theory course

The title is Zwillings - Türme which means twin towers but thats a really easy one to fall for.

Holy damn. That was fast, Marco!

A beautiful video, like always.
I really loved to hear you sing this lied, especially because I didn't knew it before and because it was unexpected (at the start of the video)

I'll take the opportunity of this video being tied to the Lingering Echoes event to ask you to upload LE's boss theme analysis video. It's a long time very awaited video (which you mentioned you'd upload), at least for me. Thanks for covering Arknights as always, I also sometimes wish you'd record your initial reaction to a song.

Would you pls react to the blasphemous soundtrack?

Quick someone bring Lappy over here

GLAD U BRANCHED OUT TO ARKNIGHTS! u should listen to frostnova (requiem) and lullabye

Wow. Marco singing in an Arknights review video? Double blessing. Cheeres!

Arknight's songs are far less famous for their quality...
I hope more people listen to Arknights' songs

It's so nice hearing you sing and speak german. Really well done. Greetings from Germany.

Now we wanted to see how would you react to Arknights EP:Revealing

gotta put into perspective that it is a boss theme, so it needs to be separated in boss phases

This is my problem with Arknights battle themes - I usually fail the stages when a good theme starts to kick in (which are many of them), because I want to listen to it for longer, lol

As for you playing the game yourself..
Honestly, I believe you have enough patience (including because of your line of work) to get over early boring chapters to those where difficulty and fun starts to pump up, and the game starts to kick your ass.

As for the event with this soundtrack - we should get it in Global in 6-7 months. Not too soon, not too distant.

As much as I love Arknights’ music I do agree with your point, it DOES get too intense lol.

Thanks for the lessons and the insight Marco!

Arknights is a great game, or rather a great story with a game attached... but I wouldn't recommend to anyone who isn't looking for a hard read. Not just because it's massive, but because a great deal of it is quite tragic. And while it's hopeful in many other spots, and many situations are improved by the end of things... it's very much a struggle in most cases, and often a costly one.

the music for this event absolutely blew me away, i think it might be because the region is leithanien again lmao
i really think the world and lore of arknights is something special, i really wish i could recommend it to more of my friends but the amount of reading is quite the hurdle haha
anyways always great to see more arknights here, i hope endfield (the spin off) is good and becomes successful and brings more attention to arknights!

i see erlkönig, i click

YEESSSSSS! The moment I heard the music in the livestream, my reaction was " I can't WAIT to watch Marco's reaction to this"
Your video on Ständchen made me a fan of you, as well as gave me a new appreciation for the original Ständchen as well as the Arknights version. Seeing what was essentially a sequel to that made me know that you'd eventually make one for it. Absolutely stellar stuff!

Would like to see you cover the boss theme as well

Hey man, you should check out Pieta’s boss theme from Lords of the Fallen. It’s called “Stigmata” and is honestly such an incredible piece.

If you aren’t familiar with them I’d love to see your opinions on the song libera me from hell from Gurren Lagan and the anime Your Lie in April

Honestly would love to see you listen to more of Lappy's stuff, great fanmade content

and for Cherry on top
it's revealed that Ebenholz( the boy with Standchen theme song ) real name is Franz, which definitely a reference to Franz Schubert

Hey you were fast on this one like it hasnt even been a few days! I was excited about your insights on this song!
Hoping you would hear the same event's Battle theme 01 as it features a quartet vocals and Boss Battle theme as it has 3 variations, best if you go for the notmal version first.

I really recommend you trying Arknights. Game lore is very important as probably evident by comment section under those videos.
HG aka devs are also going full in on world building and immersion by adding German and Russian Voice Acting to characters from regions inspired by those countries.
Something a lot of us were expecting when they out of nowhere added Italian Voice Over to few Siracussan operators.

I know nothing about Arknights, but the last couple of tracks that I have heard is making me want to look into it. It has some real awesome tracks and this is definitely one of them.

Please listen to the Capcom Version from the "Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance" game, that was my first time hearing Der Erlkönig and is GREAT, the track is called "Mafia King"

Watching this as a german subscriber feels like a fever dream. Shoutouts for the clean pronounciation (and the lore accurate expressions when telling the kid to come with you lmao). And the ost is definitely great :D

Fun facts (minor spoiler alert):

This event is taken place in Leithanien, a country that has a very deep musical culture and is known for music arts, which merges their magic into their instrumental performance, and there are many classical music references in it

One of the important character in this event, Ebenholz's (the character in Ständchen) real name is Franz, supposedly a reference to Franz Schubert, and he's heavily related to the Witch King

There are other references of famous composers appeared in the story,
The most well known University in the country is named Ludwigs-Universität Einwald, taken from Ludwig van Beethoven.
One of the town is named Bach, taken from Johann Sebastian Bach
There is also a character named Mr Hoffmann, I assume it is a reference of E. T. A. Hoffmann
etc.

A small section of Chopin's Revolutionary Etude is used in one of the game mode

Leithanien is presumably based around Austria-Germany, which Hypergryph chose to reference composers from it

impressive how many languages you can speak/sing

You sing so beautiful.
And your German is pretty good.