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Funny video! Sounds like me when I try to sing high<i>!</i>

107) Cladun: This is an RPG - Slicing the Wind
https://youtu.be/0khERYusK3c
Composer: Yoh Ohyama
Score: 8.0/10 (Excellent)
VGMC History: VGMC 6 (Lost R5 to Solaris Phase 2)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/0khERYusK3c?t=142

Finally, weve hit the Excellent tier! Everything from here on out I have a great deal of respect for. Fun fiddlin folk dancin! I cant complain about that -- I almost always like it. Nice swing to it. The guitar accompaniment at the start (non-standard note choices in the chords...mmm, 4ths), and then the piano getting added at 0:17 - WOW! It fits in really well. Bagpipe-like instrument provides a nice buzz to the texture. Once the guitar goes electric at 0:34, though. I dont like it quite as much. At 1:09 the piano takes the lead, yay! Wonderful bounce to it, swinging hard! (in a non-jazzy way) Mmmm, underwater sound effects 1:28. At 2:02 we get some nice lyrical stuff on top to contrast with the piano stuff. 2:22 - goes back to calm waters, from which it gradually builds in intensity. I love the sustained synths in there! 2:54 has that , then you got some cool new violin impromptu solo there AW, YEAH. It ends calmly, rather than trying to create a super grand finale or something. Great note and cluster chord to end on, wooo.

106) Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation - Liberation of Gracemeria
Series rank: 1 of 3
ELIMINATED: Ace Combat series
https://youtu.be/YhdNjzX4waA
Composer: Keiki Kobayashi
Score: 8.0/10 (Excellent)
VGMC History: VGMC 2 (Lost R3), VGMC 3 (Lost R6 to Dire, Dire Docks)
Favorite Part: 0:00 - 2:41

Finally we get our second series elimination! This ones a bit hard to rate. It starts off with a bunch of patterns (from the low strings) that sound weird if you focus in on that. Somehow I think youre not supposed to listen to them very closely, haha. its best to listen to it all together. I enjoy the way it was written instead of the melody landing on the strong beats all the time, theyre delayed by a half beat. Somehow this makes the music more alive and tasteful. But yeah, sometimes composers do weird rhythms to draw attention away from the rhythm to create musical effects. Once the slow, graceful horns come in, its candy for my ears. From there, its pretty much a big crescendo...very neat. Starting about 1:27 we get these YUMMY brass harmonies omg omg omg! It culminates to this Fp <<<<<<< MASSIVE brass chords, and then a grand pause<i>!!!<i> Then the massive brass (+everybody else) chords again! From there its nice, but its a stereotypical new age chord progression that comes across as slightly cheesy, so I can kind of have mixed feelings about it. But okay, the majestic melody on top of the string/percussion patterns sounds good. That trumpet suddenly soaring at 3:41 is nice! (this game is about soaring, after all) Nice action movie sound effects @ 4:38, and its somehow refreshing to hear the previous theme when more subdued. Overall its good, but the first part is way better than the rest because of those great chords!!!!


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+1 Don't speak her name!
+2 Blind Justice Torn Souls, Hurt Faiths ~
+3 Mechalullaby

Once again, I didn't know in advance which ones to pick, so time to re-rate everything!

Don't speak her name! (7.5)
Blind Justice Torn Souls, Hurt Faiths ~ (7.7)
Stargazer (7.2)
Licht (VS Ferry) (6.7)
Solitude (6.8)
The Venerable Ancient Battlefield ~ Suwa Foughten Field (6.2)
Mechalullaby (8.1)
Roll Me In (6.0)
Another Winter (6.6)

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Hbthebattle posted...

SDMB is probably stronger than Zeal anyway- SFF just wouldnt make it as close

I'm glad to see you're optimistic, but I don't think that's the case. In any case, I'm hoping SDMB continues to grow on voters. I didn't think it was so great until my third listen.

cakophon posted...

out of curiosity how many would have voted for it if it was just the centre part

I would have used every last one of my alts to vote for it!!!111


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It takes about 2 1/2 minutes for 333 to get interesting; likewise the very end is disappointing. But the stuff inbetween is way too cool!

The Least 333sec

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Oh, man, I love FFV. Maybe I should do this challenge this year.

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FL81 posted...

meh, still wish Kaiba was here instead

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Wow, with all that voting data you could create compatibility stats.

Hopefully I'll have time to vote tomorrow.

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109) Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Shin Onigashima
Series rank: 4 of 4
https://youtu.be/63qEt9OyoUw
Composer: Koji Kondo, Arranged by Masafumi Takada
Score: 7.9/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 2 (Lost R3), VGMC 3 (Lost R5 to Liberation of Gracemeria)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/63qEt9OyoUw?t=52

I didnt know the original composer of the Famicom game Shin Onigashima was Koji Kondo until recently. Love that beginning solo. It sounds so.Japanese, the way it ornaments it. Then it turns into punk metal or whatever it is (I dont know my styles). But the melody works SO well in this style! (if you want to hear the original.https://youtu.be/EW9HpNH1p-0) The first melodys harmonies are simple, but they really resonate with me. Another one of those ornaments at 0:23, aw yeah. In the second it takes some unexpected harmonic turns to move things forward. One difference is when everyone basically joins in to double the length of that ornament at 0:57, cool!!! Then you got an epic repetition (including that ORNAMENT!!!) three times (last time up the OCTAVE), and then you got this INSANE glissando thing. talk about intense! The following section I love it makes a nice contrast, and I like the slightly sad feeling it evokes. (the classical piano arpeggios also helps with the feeling) I love those chromatic triplets (such as at 1:27). Then at 1:35 that sadness gets energized so that it sounds almost tragic.

108) Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards - Zero-Two
https://youtu.be/BwpLSiplyYc
Composer: Jun Ishikawa
Score: Great (7.9/10)
VGMC History: VGMC 1 (Lost R2), VGMC 2 (Lost R4), VGMC 3 (LOst R1), VGMC 4 (Lost R4), VGMC 5 (lost R3), VGMC 6 (Lost R4), VGMC 8 (Lost R8 to Papilionnes)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/BwpLSiplyYc

Seven attempts, huh? Move over, Meaning of Birth! With the intro (falling stars?), obviously you can tell its leading to some dramatic music, but even then. The choirs and bass make for one quirky dark piece of music, for sure! Ive never heard anything quite like this in a Kirby game...well, any game, for that matter. The intro before the way it sounds like falling stars along with the light percussion. The slow melody moves the music forward without drawing too much attention to itself, keeping focus on the atmosphere. The melody keeps building, moving faster and ascending (for a loooooooooooong time), meanwhile flute, orchestra hits and chimes get added. Very nice. Overall, its so unique! But yeah, I especially like that long ascent. The only other thing Im gonna say is that theres some other excellent Kirby music that I hope can be added to the list of retirees.


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Akeldama
abstain for now

Second match is a hard choice. I know I was originally super excited about Least 333 seconds, giving it a 10/10 and saying it was my favorite among the nominations I listened to that I wasn't already familiar with, but I have more mixed feelings about it now. This might be a record as far as how fast my feelings on a piece of vgm has changed in such a short time, sorry cako! Kishgal is more consistently interesting to me, but the highs aren't as high as with 333. I'll have to listen to both again tomorrow.

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Dark Man Stage or Infant Queen Bee winning would have been nice, because that would have significantly improved SDMB's chances of retiring, but alas.

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+3 Dark Man Stage

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Haste_2 posted...

Wow, deo, your rating of Autumn went way up. Cool.

lol me. For some reason when I said that I thought we were only in R2 of the ToC, so I thought you ranked it 8th of 32. Then I realized we're in R4, and Autumn was, in fact, in dead last!

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Well, we don't have the official results yet. But I was expecting FCDH to crush Autumn... that didn't happen. Turns out Revenger is weaker than I thought it would be.

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110) Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal - Ratchet & Courtney Battle
https://youtu.be/szSgy6uTtNg
Composer: David Bergeaud
Score: 7.9/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 4 (Lost R5 to discolor)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/szSgy6uTtNg?t=78

Hey, we got PS2 platformer music on the list! I've never played any of them, though. Fun and exciting (what colorful vocabulary I have)! The unique instrumentation is what what make this shine. Man, this one is hard to talk about! It sounds like other music from Ratchet and Clank. EDM mixed with who knows what. Weird percussive sounds that get placed pretty randomly. Squeaks and creaks! The main synth melody is deep and intense. The almost gliss-like movement between notes give it STYLE! The low piano and the funky electric bass make it sound so full! any listens later, I FINALLY notice that piano chords are being played in the background during the main melody. they add a subtle hemiola to the mix.I enjoy 1:04 how this 16th-notes fill in the holes of the melody. Starting about 1:18, you start hearing dissonances all over the place in the background! Kind of cool, actually! In fact, I LOVE it! >_> Yeah, this track isnt that great in terms of note choices, but practically EVERY instrument used is meaningful for the overall atmosphere.I never get tired of it, honestly.


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112) Mega Man 2 - Dr. Wily Stage 1
https://youtu.be/HFKtYCcMWT4
Series rank: 2 of 4
Composer: Takashi Tateishi
Score: 7.9/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 1 (Lost R5 to Invisible Full Moon)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/HFKtYCcMWT4?t=21

Here it is, the classic of all classics among NES music! The fast double punch articulations are lots o fun. Then when the first melody is finished you get this ridiculously awesome tag/response at the end (:08-:11), the way it naturally rolls off the melody. Its also the only part of the whole track to use that Dorian (natural 6) note, notably. For the second section, it moves from a traditional sound to more of a reverberating feel, and hey, it continues the offbeat idea from the start. We also hear computer sounds do those double punches like we heard at the start, but in the background. Awesome. Very tasteful. Also, bII is used to support the tonic note in the melody, which is cool... that sort of thing I don't think is done a lot in NES MM music. Anyway, it's without question my FAVORITE section of the whole thing! 0:32 adds countermelodies, which arent quite as impressive as other material. But the reverberating section comes back untouched right after, so YAY. The very last part brings us more of that offbeat idea to finish it off! Yeah, its nicely crafted, but its not really top tier NES Mega Man music to me just high tier. >_> Kinda funny how they all ended up with around the same rating. Sorry, ancient chiptunes...it's hard for you to score high.

111) Professor Layton and the Unwound Future - Theme of the Last Time Travel
https://youtu.be/U-W4iDW5o6Y
Composer: Tomohito Nishiura
Score: 7.9/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 3 (Lost R6 to Reset ~ Thank You)
Favorite Part: The last 45 seconds or so

Ah, yes, I love violin/cello stuff from Professor Layton! Cello + synth pad to start off! Then it moves to with a nice chamber string sound using REAL instruments to present the theme in its entirety. Sounds like late 19th century Europe. Dai Gyakuten Saiban (The Great Ace Attorney) has a lot of music like this, too. Beautiful lyrical stuff at the beginning, then we got a more percussive section at 0:41 with a wonderful combinatio of sounds (the legato-staccato succession works nicely) and cluster chords. I like when the accordion takes over to move the music forward. nice feels! I love 1:21 when it drops back down to thin string orchestration. At 1:41 you got a nice jazzy beat added seamlessly! I enjoy the simple, but effective violin patterns there, continued by the accordian. Im loving those solos, especially from 2:21 - 2:41, and then shortly after they all start going wild at once! Totally groovy at 3:01 piano stuff when the main melody comes back! All in all, its a kind of style and instrumentation that I LOVE, even though compositionally it could be better, I guess.


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114) NieR - Shadowlord
Series rank: 4 of 5
https://youtu.be/PqXPW0oBKgg
Composer: ??? (but produced by Kelichi Okabe)
Score: 7.9/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 4 (Lost R5 to Moon over the Castle)
Favorite Part: All of it, really.

Reminds me of a certain FFIV remix based on the Dancing Calbrena... Both it and this are haunting throughout, with a calm start, then its upbeat at a faster tempo later. Atmosphere is great in both sections. I like the Gregorian Chant-type solo along with the really pure/dark vocal support, and the echoey church acoustics here. I really like the chimes and organ soft enough that its there for effect (starting at 1:08) The standard Nier drums join in the next section as the tempo picks up and the organ starts doing faster licks (awesome!). Compositionally speaking, its kind of boring, but the atmosphere keeps it from being boring!

113) The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening - Tal Tal Heights
Series rank: 3 of 4
https://youtu.be/hOo5yr76RJs
Composer: One of Minako Hamano, Kozue Ishikawa, Kazumi Totaka
Score: 7.9/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 1 (Lost R1), VGMC 2 (Lost R5 to MGS3 Theme)
Favorite Part: The intro

Ah, yes, the pinnacle of official The Legend of Zelda Theme-inspired music! (or so they say) I love the sense of urgency that the chords communicate at the start. Then comes a familiar fragment of the Zelda theme once, then a second time an octave up. Whoa. Then comes the same fragment now formally presented, but then the stuff after is completely new. Cool. In fact, it sounds radically different. But structurally it has some similarities to the original Zelda theme. The patterns at 0:19, for example! Rhythmically they're the same as in the Zelda themes, but instead of stepwise movement, it leaps to the 5th and then to the octave. Then the theme repeats at 0:26, but now it shifts to natural minor (it was mostly Dorian up until now, and the harmonies move this section toward its conclusion. And thats pretty all there is to this thing! Yep, I really like the development. Its short, but its on Game Boy, so. Yeah. But this little ditty is just so much more epic than the original Zelda theme! Oh, yeah, and those 16th note chord-outlining patterns provide excellent support for the melody! It makes a world of difference. When it changes key at 0:52, though. I wonder why theres no bass there? It makes it feel kind of bare bones.


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Did Autumn win by one vote? ! Granted, there may be votes from outside this topic.

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Shinjugamori Rebel Army
Another Winter


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Just let the grass grow to increase its attack and special attack. Hopefully it doesn't run out of PP during that time.

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Xenogears

My Village is Number One
https://youtu.be/YPrm1nrkZ3k

Gathering Stars in the Night Sky
https://youtu.be/TQlIT5wEmrA

One Who is Torn Apart:
https://youtu.be/miOizLxOD4E

The Treasure Which Cannot be Stolen:
https://youtu.be/C6bYoYBW4gk

Grahf - Emperor of Darkness
https://youtu.be/Qc6gRAOhb8Q

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Oatmeal.

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RBY. Then again, Pikachu is basically a NNer at this point. I'm sure he could beat Sonic.

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Invitation Flower ~ Autumn

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Massive X
Second Dark Matter Battle
abstain for now

Two of the very best bracket entries + two great ones + two of the very best ToC entries. Great day. I'll need to listen to both the Atelier tracks again tomorrow. Basically, Autumn's 2nd half > FDCH > Autumn's 1st half. Wow, deo, your rating of Autumn went way up. Cool.

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Okay, then. So the actual username was crazyisgood. The idea of crazybusisgood came along when somebody was thinking about doing "crazyisgood" tenth option for a VGMC poll, but then realized they could add a meaningful pun by changing it to "crazybusisgood". Apparently.

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I thought the user was crazybusisgood, not crazyisgood. Oh, well, my memory is not good. Are you saying that username didn't come from the fact that Crazy Bus was in VGMC?

117) Ar Tonelico II - Moon-Dwelling Demon
Series rank: 6 of 6
https://youtu.be/0jqSry2J7xs
Composer: Ken Nakagawa
Score: 7.8/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 2 (Lost R5 to Into the Wilderness)
Favorite Part: The Intro

This has to be the least Ar Tonelico sounding music of any its music. It sounds more like Sonic music to me in some ways. Still, I like this. Man, that intro! Those echoes and panning sounds! Those 4th/7ths! The synth pads, choirs, and bells! It then goes into a kind of funk like you might expect in a video game, still maintaining the bass and chords from before. The beat is fun, too. Those little horn crescendos such as at 0:35 - 0:36 are neat! The violin melodies plays relatively straight rhythms, which counterbalances the syncopated beat really nicely! The oboe parallels the violins meanwhile. I like how at 1:00 it combines the style of the intro with the style of the main material. But, yeah, that beat!

116) VVVVVV - "Pushing Onwards"
Series [Game] rank: 4 of 4
https://youtu.be/25m3Gk7mRQM?
Composer: Magnus "SoulEye" Plsson
Score: 7.8/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 4 (Lost R1), VGMC 5 (Lost R3), VGMC 7 (Lost R5 to Re-CODA)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/25m3Gk7mRQM?t=86

ARGH, why do these tracks all have to start with the letter P! This is why Im never ever able to keep track of their names! This one doesnt quite have the impressive blending of ideas that Positive Force has, and neither does it provide the good feels of Potential for Anything. It starts off kind of boring, but it does pick up later. I like 1:25 when it starts doing more really fun rhythmic use of chords, a catchy melody, and then another one! Then, finally the climax melody at 2:27 fills me with excitement! Same with the melodies from 3:08 and on! Aw, yeah. Then again, some of these melodies are used in some of the other tracks, so it lessens the impact somewhat. I didnt even know until directly comparing them that some of these themes are shared among the tracks in this game I thought they sounded familiar just because my memory was bad! Overall, this is, to me, the most boring of the four VVVVVVs, but it does have that unique chiptune blend of sounds and super catchy melodic fragments that ornament the main melody just like most others from the game (honestly, its hard to say exactly why it sounds so good), so I still like it a lot!

115) White Knight Chronicles 2 - The Battlefield Flower (Violin Version)
https://youtu.be/BP2oz6fSczM
Composer: Noriyasu Agematsu(?)
Score: 7.8/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 6 (Lost R6 to Sburban Jungle)
Favorite Part: That flute!!! Esp. at 3:18

It kicks off with a fantasy movie-like violin intro. Calm, but passionate, as if in a reverberating hall. But then. WHAMO! Epic! A full string section immediately starts handling the now-energized theme, highlighted at 0:57 where it plays one of those CATCHY slow-triplet phrase endings which, fortunately, get used a bunch throughout the track! I love all the sixteenth runs at the beginnings of those phrases the strings do! Great little flute additions make a HUGE difference, toothey complement the violin perfectly, and it does AWESOME sextuplet patterns things at 3:18, for example, and other times). 1:38 just makes me feel so GOOD with that Dorian note getting used! Another great moment is 2:27 love how it emphasizes that Dorian note! (AGAIN) 2:18 has some rhythm section breaks always a plus. At 3:29 strings do something new, including a neat bluesy descent blues used sparingly is cool. But man, I cant get enough of that flute!!!!


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Nice graph.

I would be interested (in seeing) a design for Owned Man.

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Yet another day where my vote allocations are not obvious.

Snowman (7.2)
Looking Up at the Sky (7.6)
Undersea Palace (8.1)
Battle 2 (8.5)
Outer Wilds (6.1)
Apollo Justice ~ A New Chapter of Trials! 2016 (8.4)
Toccatina (8.7)
B.T. Dutch (7.8)
Butterfly Girl (VS Narmaya) (6.8)

+3 Toccatina (8.7)
+2 Apollo Justice ~ A New Chapter of Trials! 2016
+1 Undersea Palace

Eh, I don't need to see Battle 2 again.

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Tag. Please don't encourage the next BOST to be this year.

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human cheese is my favorite

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Whoever voted for the bottom three should be required to listen to all three at the same time

Here are the three links for your convenience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExPW6UVkvkE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y13mvUKCmec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BTrspwpooo

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@NFUN, you might want to be a little clearer on your match 2 vote.

Dark Man Stage
Burning Force Medley

Oh, man, that first match.

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Miles "Tails" Prower

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I'm sad that cako's opinion of Chant this Charm dropped. Or Maybe Chou Chou and Lake are rated 9.5+, I dunno. I love how CtC ended up #1 on rwlh's rankings, though!

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You could blame Isoluecine's match on SFF, but the way it destroyed Snowman, as well, though....Isoleucine does seem like a real contender for the championship at this point. Not expecting it to happen, because, you know, I don't want to jinx it.

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+2 Chant This Charm
+1 Lake
+3 Mysterious Trap

Mysterious Trap wins as it's my nom, but CTC has so many oldschool elements I love, it's like, the PERFECT oldie.

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Black Knight (Fire Emblem) - mid-fodder
Ky Kiske (Guilty Gear) - low fodder
Gabe Logan (Syphon Filter) - LAW fodder

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Tommy Vercetti

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So that's where the crazybus joke came from. I don't do discord so there's a lot of things I'm ignorant about. But yeah, maybe I could potentially like Crazy Bus if it wasn't so homogenous! Ugh. And it got...17 votes? I'm guessing mostly joke votes.

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118) Umineko no Naku Koro ni Anime - Happiness of Marionette
Series rank: 8 of 15
https://youtu.be/PbSKE3nomeQ
Composer: dai
Score: 7.8/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 3 (Lost R1), VGMC 4 (Lost R5 to Price of Freedom)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/PbSKE3nomeQ?t=78

Enough deliberating. This one's next. Happy Umineko music? Im down! Its almost over-the-top happy, honestly. Like a big celebration, really. I guess this kind of works if a bunch of Marionettes are being acted out. Lush string orchestration with subdued organ works really nice. Harpsichord + blacksmith ka-chings? Whatever works! You get those same blacksmith hammers in Holsts Second Suite in F. The organ at about 1:18 is unexpected, though it sounds awful sarcastic compared to everything else with how it highlights certain dissonant notes.actually, the strings at 1:28 give kind of a similar vibe, too. Very unsettling is there is some kind of lurking evil nearby? I mean, Marionettes are kind of creepy. Who knows what the composer really intended with this music?


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120) Ace Combat: Assault Horizon - White Devil
Series rank: 2 of 3
https://youtu.be/SLqhF2wswYk
Composer: Rio Hamamoto
Score: 7.7/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 7 (Lost R4), VGMC 8 (Lost R6 to Small Two of Pieces)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/SLqhF2wswYk?t=194

What a suspenseful, creepy feeling the strings evoke at the start. Awesome dissonances from the brass/low strings only add to that feeling, along with the CHILLY crescendo at 0:26. Grindy guitars join the fray kind of groovy. Very hard rock-esque. Cool echo delay at 0:35 and some other places! At 0:38 strings join the guitars with some wild lines. It gets calm for a while, but then at 1:29 the guitar decides to WAKE YOU UP. 1:58 makes a great little contrasting section...such wonderful, pure voices. Then suddenly all hell breaks loose at 2:11!!!! What ugly brass intervals but I think its SUPPOSED to be ugly! Ghost voices weaving in and out at the 2:54 section. Chill-inducing! Up to this point its been thriller music, but it then suddenly turns BEAUTIFUL at 3:15. I just LOVE that surprise switch-up at the end. Mmm that TUBA note at 3:18!!! All-in-all, the production is excellent, but not compositionally what Im looking for, really.

119) Sonic 3D (Saturn) - Rusty Ruin Zone Act 2
Series rank: 2 of 3
https://youtu.be/Wn2YxjPxnuk
Composer: Tatsuyuki Maeda
Score: 7.8/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 3 (Lost R3), VGMC 4 (Lost R6 to Moon Over the Castle)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/Wn2YxjPxnuk?t=79

One of the chillest tracks on the list! In the short intro, I love what the piano does there! The sixteenth-triplets are awesome it sounds like tremeloes combined with running up and down a half scale, and the delay is cool. Once the theme begins, the piano and guitar in the background blend seamlessly. 0:42 is chock full of intriguing harmonies. 1:20 brings the same material again, but this time the piano gets put on top fabulous writing there! More awesome piano stuff after that, too.lots of reverb that I really like. I could do without that awkward singing at 1:36 how odd. Overall it's GREAT. I need to listen to the Sonic 3D soundtrack, come to think of it.


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-(Isoleucine)-
B.T. Dutch
DNF FW15C


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Despite the losses, Megalovania is still not dead, and it's probably going to win the wildcard. But at least the ToC is free of it.

I think your top ten is for the most part very good, tgs2.

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Burt the Bashful (Super Mario World: Yoshi's Island)
Shyguy (Super Mario Bros. 2 USA)
Umbreon (Pokemon Gold/Silver)
Ludwig von Koopa (Super Mario World)

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The Merciless Savior
Yesterdays Opponents are Todays Ingredients

Will vote in the bonus match later.

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Congrats to azuarc for winning the Guru challenge!

I've done a lot of behind-the-scenes preparation. This will get going faster, I assure you.

121) Umineko no Naku Koro ni - system0
Series rank: 9 of 15
https://youtu.be/93VODUlLuRk
Composer: -45
Score: 7.7/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 9 (Lost R6 to Evolution Era)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/93VODUlLuRk?t=30

Believing oneself to be perfect is often the sign of a delusional mind... (sorry, I just HAD to say it out loud) It starts off with a choir-like synth with a marcato feelvery foreboding. Then you got this moment of silence (echo), and then some more weird vioces and the organ comes in and you KNOW its serious! Love the chords and I love the way its in minor except at the ends of the phrases where it puts a TON of emphasis on the major. (E-F#-F#-G# outlined in the phrase) At 1:23 you got cool percussion, including an active xylophone that keeps the suspense going. Then at 1:44 - everything drops out and you got an a capella quasi-chant singing, singing a classical-ish style, continuing the same idea as the organ before cool! Then you got a harpsichord doing a fast Bach Toccata & Fugue idea going and going and going (its cool the way it gradually moves around), perfectly placed. Overall, its nice, but not among my favorite Umineko tracks. I used to like it a lot more, though.

With system0 down, we are now 1/3 of the way through the project! The only "series" completely eliminated so far is Undertale. Any game or series with two or more contestants are counted as a "series". Let's look at which ones remain undefeated!

Ar Tonelico/nosurge
bemani
Bravely Default
Chrono
Final Fantasy
Kirby
Metal Gear Solid
Okami
Super Smash Bros.
Terraria Calamity
VVVVVV

Eleven series. Wow.

Link to the spreadsheet (re-posted): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RyUmpY7s3MZeuSDaN3vYEJXtS9BlR0GJ--7sapMOnaA/edit?usp=sharing


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+3 Jazzy NNYC
+3 Bitbop

Shadowbringers (7.5)
Saudade (6.0)
Sand Canyon 3 (7.5)
Jazzy NNYC (9.0)
Running Hell (7.5)
Time for a Great Turnabout (7.5)
Bitbop (8.5)
Disco Necropolis (6.5)
Battle YAS 2 (8.0)

Oh, man, Jazzy NNYC is way better than I remembered. Time for a Great Turnabout sounds a lot better to me now than last round, even though I've been familiar with the music for a long time. I think it's because I've finally gotten rid of the "within Ace Attorney" mentality and replaced it with a "VGMC" mentality. We got a lot of great music in this set that I unfortunately cannot allocate any points to. I would have done a +1 to Battle YAS 2, but I think it's better to give that last point to Bitbop, since I think Bitbop has a better shot at winning this thing.


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Queen Sectonia 2 and Moonstruck Blossom are the same thing. At least you didn't also call it Vagrant Counting Song of Retrospection like banshiryuu did. =p

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Final Fantasy V

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Congrats to azuarc for winning the Guru challenge!

I avoid using the term "next Monday", per se. I either say "this Monday" or "not this Monday, but the next Monday".

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Congrats to azuarc for winning the Guru challenge!