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Hisayoshi Ogura - G-Darius results

The participants sorted by deviation from final results:
FoolFantastic (19)
MaxGalactica (25)
rwlh (29)
NFUN (30)
Seanchan (30)
HBJDubs (43)
Johnbobb (46)
Raetsel_Lapin (73)
MarkS2222222222 (75)

General Album Comments

NFUN: Absolutely one of the most unique and evocative albums of all time. It hits two very evocative and sublime moods that you don't get in many other places, often at the same time. You get to experience both the mystery and majesty of space, the wonder of the unknown and the promise of an exciting and unknowable future, and also a terrible sensation of reality falling apart and being corrupted. Both the fear and glory of the unknown are, in my opinion, some of the most powerful feelings there are, and I can't think of anything that exemplifies them better than this.

Kimera II is my favorite song of all time, and it's not particularly close. Everything I described about the album as a whole goes double here. It never fails to take me away to some ethereal, indescribable soundscape. It sounds like the future. It sounds like promise. The album art with its syzygy clearly takes inspiration from 2001, and the song does everything 2001 wanted to do and more--this feels like it's trying to communicate the next stage of intelligent life. I *do* see the creation of new lives. This song is the thesis to the album, to the bio-inorganic atmosphere OGR created that completely complements the aquatic enemy design. I highly recommend his interview, which does a great job explaining the mindspace he was in when making this album and this song. http://www.vgmonline.net/hisayoshiogurainterview/?msclkid=f90aa573bd1f11ecbdd35f2372e428bc

MarkS2222222222: I got 5 tracks into G-Darius without realizing the track changed. Sounds cool though

HBJDubs: This is the kind of trippy stuff that I really like. It also makes me want to play the game but not for $30 like others have said! Good choice for the first VGM soundtrack, it definitely can stand on its own. Most of the songs are close in ranking, but KIMERA II is the clear-cut #1 here, fantastic song.

MaxGalactica: Very unique album. The words I'd use to describe it are "industrial", "futuristic", and "surreal". The top 4 on my list especially stood out to me production-wise. I'd been meaning to listen to this soundtrack for quite a while, but never got around to it until this week. Definitely an album that lived up to the hype (maybe not the NFUN levels of hype, but yeah).

rwlh: Barely a dull moment here. Some of my favorite songs of all time are present on this album, particularly KIMERA II, ranked #3 on my big VGM spreadsheet. The top 7 are all 9/10, biophoton is 8.5, and the others are all still pretty good. This wasn't what I expected to win my poll, but I'm glad you all get to hear some of the finest game music out there.

Seanchan: I'm gonna be the downer here because I just didn't get this one. Trying to rank ambient, literal background music was annoying to me. Like...it's all fine or whatever but it all just blends together in a way that defies close listening.

MarkS2222222222: It turns out when I pay enough attention to differentiate the tracks, I wouldn't say I actually like any of them. Maybe Net Work. I *don't* see the creation of new lives. It was enjoyable as background music the first time through, though.

track ranking

16. Warning (Track #16)
Score: 1 (Average Rank: 15.89/16)
Biggest Fan(s): Seanchan (#15)
Biggest Detractor(s): Everyone Else (#16)

15. EPISODE 0 (Track #3)
Score: 9 (Average Rank: 15/16)
Biggest Fan(s): rwlh (#14)
Biggest Detractor(s): Seanchan (#16)

14. One Down (Track #8)
Score: 44 (Average Rank: 11.22/16)
Biggest Fan(s): Raetsel_Lapin (#3)
Biggest Detractor(s): HBJDubs (#14)

13. Duplication (Track #14)
Score: 48 (Average Rank: 10.67/16)
Biggest Fan(s): Raetsel_Lapin, HBJDubs, MarkS2222222222 (#7)
Biggest Detractor(s): rwlh (#15)

12. Dada (Track #7)
Score: 65 (Average Rank: 9.11/16)
Biggest Fan(s): HBJDubs (#2)
Biggest Detractor(s): Seanchan (#14)

10 (tie). PHAGE (Track #5)
Score: 66 (Average Rank: 8.67/16)
Biggest Fan(s): MarkS2222222222 (#4)
Biggest Detractor(s): MaxGalactica (#14)

10 (tie). nonsensecondon (Track #11)
Score: 66 (Average Rank: 8.67/16)
Biggest Fan(s): Johnbobb (#4)
Biggest Detractor(s): HBJDubs, MarkS2222222222 (#12)

9. NET WORK (Track #2)
Score: 75 (Average Rank: 8.56/16)
Biggest Fan(s): Raetsel_Lapin, MarkS2222222222 (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): HBJDubs (#13)

8. invivo (Track #10)
Score: 76 (Average Rank: 7.67/16)
Biggest Fan(s): rwlh (#3)
Biggest Detractor(s): NFUN, Johnbobb, HBJDubs (#10)

7. G ZERO (Track #4)
Score: 80 (Average Rank: 7.33/16)
Biggest Fan(s): Seanchan (#2)
Biggest Detractor(s): Raetsel_Lapin (#14)

6. Future Perfect from 7 (Track #15)
Score: 81 (Average Rank: 7/16)
Biggest Fan(s): MaxGalactica (#4)
Biggest Detractor(s): Johnbobb, MarkS2222222222 (#11)

5. H.G. Virus (Track #9)
Score: 83 (Average Rank: 7.44/16)
Biggest Fan(s): Johnbobb (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): MarkS2222222222 (#14)

4. biophoton (Track #6)
Score: 97 (Average Rank: 5.89/16)
Biggest Fan(s): Marks2222222222 (#2)
Biggest Detractor(s): Johnbobb (#14)

3. A d a m (Track #13)
Score: 103 (Average Rank: 5.22/16)
Biggest Fan(s): MaxGalactica (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): MarkS2222222222 (#13)

2. B.T. DUTCH (Track #1)
Score: 112 (Average Rank: 4.56/16)
Biggest Fan(s): NFUN, Raetsel_Lapin, FoolFantastic, rwlh (#2)
Biggest Detractor(s): HBJDubs (#11)

1. KIMERA II (Track #12)
Score: 137 (Average Rank: 3.11/16)
Biggest Fan(s): NFUN, FoolFantastic, HBJDubs, rwlh, Seanchan (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): Raetsel_Lapin (#9)