5 HoYoverse Songs — 'Side Quest King,' 'ReDreaming Angel,' 'Wildfire' & 'Rubia' (Zhou Shen) 'Divine Damsel of Devastation'

I am so happy that you reacted to Zhou Shen! This was a beautiful performance but just the very tip of the iceberg! He sings so many different genres, and in so many different languages! From all accounts, he's also an incredibly kind man who's stayed very humble despite his rising fame.

One additional piece of context for Wildfire. An off-vocal version plays for the first portion of the fight, until a cutscene plays where the protagonist appears to die. There's then that cutaway to 'us' getting a new weapon and a power up, returning to the battlefield, taking a stance towards the boss, and then the vocal version kicks in with "We made a choice, go fight against your fate!" and then it's the vocal version for the rest of the fight. Never mind being one of the most memorable moments in HSR, I think it's one of the all-time best boss fight moments of all time. Final Fantasy XIV might have several of the top spaces for me, though.

If you're interested in some other hoyoverse fan songs, Will Stetson is an awesome artist who has done a few, he also does cover songs and he's just so cool, heavily recommend

Okay Tim, you *have* to check out BPM15Q. They're best described as slightly experimental club music, especially the songs they did with Teddyloid. You loved his 9lana song "Let Me Battle" (Your exact words were "love love love"), and he's done a bunch of work for Ado, Giga, Deco*27, Mori Calliope, Hochimachi Suisei, etc. The best songs he did with BPM15Q are probably "Rad Rad" and "LaRiLaRu". I have no doubt you'll appreciate them.

I love all of the EPs and other types of music that come from Zenless so much. I unironically listen to them so much during work in a mix with Persona, Project Pat, Fujii, Alex Isley and others. I have a very chaotic playlist to keep me on my toes 🙂‍↕️

Loved the reaction! Haven't played HSR for a hot minute, good to know their songs are still fire. Also, I'm cheered to see a Zhou Shen live picked over the HI3 MV. Funnily enough, I realised Rubia's singer was a guy only just last week. Went to check out his other works out of curiosity and have since been utterly charmed, both by his music and personality lol.

A bit about the Angels of Delusion. Without spoilers - so far it's been about dealing with insecurities, overcoming interpersonal challenges, pursuing their dream together, fighting literal and metaphorical monsters and casually preventing a major crisis or two along the way. Their character design and backstories represent the idol (and Vtuber) culture pretty well too, including the factor of a secret identity and a virtual image *wink wink

One of the reasons I love genshin impact so much is due to how well thematically the music fits each region.

Kira is one of the most popular english vocaloid producers of all time. He frequently collabs with asteroid music team to produce for video games and vtubers in recent years. He has also collared with Giga in the past to produce music together

Loved the reaction, and thanks so much for covering each game. Each one is multiple years old and constantly updating with new music, so it's basically impossible to get a fully representative feel for any one. But I think you did get a good sense of the range of music that Hoyo does. If we are to continue with a deep dive on any game specifically, I would recommend one of the anniversary concerts; each game (not sure about ZZZ actually) has several full concerts put on by Hoyoverse that cover a huge range of the soundtrack and feature live performances with unique takes on some pieces. They are quite long, but even a portion of one would be awesome to see.

So the thing with Hoyo music for their games is it's very set based I guess is the best way to put it. So like for Genshin and Star Rail it's regional (planets for star rail cause SCIFI) and each region will have a set of characters and the music for those characters and even in game region/boss will all have a similar sound scape. One area will be like city like with it's music being very techno or another area is basically just ancient china with chinese instruments and opera and so on like that. ZZZ stands out a bit where the whole game (as you saw) is just all very urban city scape so instead they do "squads" with each character release being part of a squad. All the members of that group will have a somewhat similar motif to them in some way. Angels of Delusion being their own squad are very much J-Idols and as such their music fits that genre perfectly.