The Helldivers 2 soundtrack is SO good

so hell divers 2 is actually incredibly charming and really really fun it reminds me of the 1990s and Starship Troopers obviously and all this other stuff from the from that time period but I have to say that the music of this game is genuinely genius and I want to talk about why a cup of Liberty is the hell divers 2 main theme you may remember it if you've played the game it has got that five note six note trumpet Melody it's very sort of Larger than Life propaganda like check this out right so like it starts with this like yeah yeah yeah yeah double double double double the strings are kind of moving we're getting into the action there it feels very much like this is your job you have to protect whatever new Earth or whatever it's called right there's a real sense of of Duty in like of of like having to do something in this in this music especially with the way that the strings kick in and there's a little note right there but then as we fast forward B swell [Music] into right like that's actually like a very very very genius so Wilbert Ro the second is the composer for this we exchanged a tweet about basically how this music is really meant to be nationalistic and proud and enthusiastic and you really hear that especially in the horns such a genius use of this too you have a little bit of a swell a kind of cut and then we dive [Music] into so right there if you if you listen back you've got horns blasting you've got the like TR bones up top and then underneath you have another Trump going going and that like sort of boosts the energy kind of reminds me of when you're dropping a bomb or or an orbit an orbital air strike and you get that big like in a way the the lower brass there kind of sounds like that but the uh the trumpet Melody here is so incredibly galvanizing and it's it's this sort of like pseudo nationalistic like yes you have a responsibility for your country to fight and win and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and I love how genius this is and how musically it's thrust forward where anybody can understand this is a sort of pseudo nationalistic piece of music a national anthem a do your duty uh piece but I just I just love the way that the horns kind of kick [Music] in now we have a long Legato section so all this is really great right I mean it's a beautiful theme it's really satisfying the the melodic pattern is beautiful we hear this repeated trumpet trombone quality pretty much throughout the entire like when we're launching what I find really interesting and actually what's been the most fascinating to me is actually when you land and this was another thing that I talked a little bit about With Wilbert about uh you know what happens then when uh when you're on the ground and one of the cool things again these are just like we were just exchanging tweets but what I really really dug is that the minute that you land on the ground that's actually when uh fear kicks in and all that propaganda that you hear on the ship USS Freedom or whatever you actually get a flip side of that when you're actually facing an actual threat check this out right here the uncontrolled spread of the terminat ends today Freedom required so you land and now you have this really kind of introspective music actually down the weapon weapon inbound sounds like you know there's something in the distance but you don't know where they are of course this is the worst screen grab I could have possibly this is obviously the uh the worst it's all [Music] dark you get some downtime without any real music forever get a little bit of this tension quality in it and then once you're thrust into battle the Horn's coming again tunnel but now you hear the tension and that long sustained trumpet there you hear that there's a tribal quality to it almost that makes you feel like you're really not supposed to be there and that you're actually invading someone else's Turf I really feel that way very much but then actually if we fast forward on this clip I'll show you something else this pie is specifically made to make you feel tense to make you feel afraid just wasting ammo we actually get creepy strings in here and it's exciting because we hear duality in this music which is really really satisfying as a listen minutes especially here I was playing by myself and so there's an innate sense of fear even though it was not easy and now it pulls back away that's pretty cool I love that I love that we don't just get that things are just great you know you hear the dis dissonance in that that's cool it is really cool Marco the dissonance in this actually makes it so much more interesting because if it was just that heroic Anthem we would never actually feel like there were high stakes but it whether you're playing an easy medium hard challenging whatever it is hard and there's an amazing sensation when you're extracting when you really feel like oh my God like if I don't extract right now we're going to die and like this is there's a real tension that exists in this music so it's fun because you get the jux supposition I think that's really the point of this whole video is that you get the jux position between real nationalistic propaganda proud militaristic music versus when you're actually on the ground the reality there's that thing where folks before they go to war maybe they idealize the idea of war or like we we have so many World War II games that we sort of idealize World War II but when you're actually boots on the ground experiencing that that's when you actually realize that well wow this was not what I expected and this is actually terrifying and I think that's a prime example of this is put into this game where in the beginning before you launch you you have the sense of pride a sense of nationalism the sense of I have to go and and do this because I've been conscripted to do so and then when you land you're like holy [ __ ] I may actually die in this Wasteland and as I fight for you know whatever to try to capture this planet it's really really exciting and this is actually something that's probably being overlooked but I wanted to bring it to your attention because I think it's really cool hell divers 2 is really fun it's doing very well right now I hope it continues to do well it's fun even with randoms that you may meet online so far I've not met any jerks at all really exciting stuff I hope you'll check it out if you haven't already as always thanks a ton and I'll see you later bye

Channel: MarcoMeatball

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Length: 7min 34sec (454 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 15 2024