An Empty Tome
X-Naut Fortress
Millenium Spark (Firestorm BT MIX)
match 1 is so mean :(
From TunnelScene:
Travelers into the shadow (Senko no Ronde DUO)
X-Naut Fortress (Paper Mario: Thousand-Year Door)
"Don't speak her name!" (Fire Emblem Awakening)
yack!!!!! the category of music that took up the bulk of my listening for this year of 2023 was shmup music that is far more calm than most people would expect from the genre. cherry picking the least intense songs from like every game. I think it's because I was seeking stuff that could just broadly provide a futuristic/spacey imagery to me, but one that's like"schizm: mysterious journey" environment. with the focus on the environment, and a focus on how distant it is from humanity---and not like the archetype of space or futuristic structures as purely a vessel for unrelated intense action or human activity. this also of course is incredibly beautiful composition and sound design to my tastes because as I said earlier this contest, yack may be the biggest influence on my taste I can think of. thanks for showing me puchi carat in 2008 kopazzynyh. 1:35-2:30 is a highlight to me---the off-kilter parallel movement in chords and glassy synth stabs transposing around. and THEN it randomly turns into "border down - lost temple" for 10 seconds which I obviously welcome
funny castle! I rememebr when I assumed that Michigan Yamane composed songs in elebits that he didn't do because castlevania songs had 7th chords in them sometimes and I didn't realize who naoyuki sato was
folky stuff like this is almost what one would expect to be the opposite of what I like based on what I say I like but I think I basically like it because it reminds me of some tough guy with no friends with a fucked up korn shirt standing on top of a gas station in the middle of pilotredsun world
oh but its against a top 20 ost for me FUCK !)-*$<< tho I mostly like ttyd for the tracks that are far more surreal than this one, this still has the very distinct instrumentation I love about the soundtrack and very nice chords. and I just realized is very obviously by the same composer as the ice song in the first paper mario (Over Shiver Mountain)in hindsight(I have had a tendency to assume most tracks in this are yoshito hirano because i dont really think of paper mario 1 as musically comparable at all. but recently discovering Yuka Tsujiyoko stuff that sounds exactly the same as ttyd(pokemon picross) and thinking about comparisons like this. tsujiyoko probabaly did way more than i think, including this one)
don't speak her name has grown on me
I wonder how long it will take them to get up to 3000 Mega Man games