Hope vs Despair in Nine Sols’ best boss theme

Nine Sols was probably my favourite game of 2024 and while most of the soundtrack is pretty ambient and hard to talk about from a nerdy music theory perspective, Ji's theme features some very cool chords that I just had to delve into on the channel. 0:00 - Nine Sols Rocks 1:25 - That First Chord 4:10 - What The Hell Is That 5:23 - The Connection Between Timbre and Dissonance 6:40 - Here Come the Strings 7:27 - Hopeful B section 10:47 - Ambiguous Ending PATREON:   / 8bitmusictheory   Check out my album: https://8bitmt.bandcamp.com/album/let... DISCORD:   / discord   TWITTER:   / 8bitmusictheory   #ninesols #indiegame #8bitMusicTheory