48. Double Dragon - Theme
Score: 18/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 81
Comments:
(Kenri) Uhhh it's pretty decent. Nothing exceptional here, but it's competent at least, and doesn't do anything to turn me against it.
(NioraptH) so cute~ and you can totally feel some OVERPOWERING MANLY BRO FIST MUSK exuding from this
(Ytterbium_70) It's peppy, but that's it. I had a hard time trying to enjoy this one.
Somehow we ended up with three songs in a row called "Theme." Not much to say about this one. This is definitely borne out of influence from my friends who apparently knew DD very well. I didn't really play the original; I was much more a fan of DD2. (And don't talk to me about DD3.)
47. Goldeneye: 007 - Archives
Score: 18/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 98
Comments:
(NioraptH) James Bond's evil library?
(Tom Bombadil) Nifty.
Back before there was a noticeable online community for actual VGM, there were VGMIDIs. Between vgmidi.com and vgmusic.com, I downloaded a bunch of stuff when I was in college from games I knew, and one of them was a file for Archives. The MIDI sounded amazingly just like the one in game, so I looked up to that track a lot more than I really should, considering that, quite honestly, it's really not that good. This is going to be my first example of a case where I think y'all heavily overrated a song.
46. Donkey Kong '94 - The Final Showdown...?
Score: 18/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 31
Comments:
(Ytterbium_70) 8.2 - Easily the best song of these 5. It fits the level nicely, but that's just one reason why it's so good. Rather, its how Fear Factory manages to take the DKC soundfont and make a fun yet forboding, robotic song with it. Good show.
(NioraptH) It's like wailing guitars without the guitars! Note: coming from Nio, I think this is a compliment, even though she gave it a 1.
I had a hell of a time getting people to rate this one. Seems like everybody I assigned it to disappeared. DK94 = The Bermuda Triangle? Anyway, this is probably the most recently-discovered song for me on the list, except maybe Ruins of Silence. Very nice job for classic Gameboy.
45. Guitar Hero 2 - Jordan
Score: 18/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 36
Comments:
(Kenri) HEY GUITARS. GUITARS YOU GUYS. At least this doesn't annoy me as much as like... Guilty Gear music generally does? Maybe because it's at least somewhat interesting most of the time even if I'm not personally a fan of it.
(MycroProcessor) Synth Hero 13/8 time Rudess would be better, COOL effects for making some interesting sounds. I don't consider myself a big guitar guy or anything but THIS is how I like guitars to sound...with 39458093452 effects so it just sounds more ELECTRONIC LOL. Whoa I like 1:37-1:41ish a lot it has some interesting INTERVALS, same with 1:57. I liked this a lot more than I expected as this went on.
Remember what I said earlier about Sacred? Yeah, this is one of those other times where a musician was contacted about producing a song for a game. Buckethead went on to record other versions of Jordan, but the GH2 edition was the original as far as I'm aware. And yeebus that solo. I'm a pretty big guitar hero nut, but to this day I've still never managed to pass this song. (On expert, obviously.) Free Bird? Pff, no problem. Six? No big deal. The Light That Blinds? Hangar 18? Carry Me Home? Yeah, whatever. But good god, this song's harder than Through the Fire and Flames from 3, where if you can play the beginning you should be able to play the rest. Oh yeah, and color me surprised that the listeners of B8 liked this song enough for it to get three fours.