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A while back I took nominations for a VGM soundtrack ranking topic: you could post 5 songs from a soundtrack, and Id listen, rate them, and average all five together. Well, Ive done just that! 35 soundtrack sets have been rated and ranked and are awaiting your consumption.

I was overall very happy with the nominations. The average rating was 6.6, which is firmly above average. Only two soundtracks got below 5/10. In contrast, four soundtracks got above an 8! Very impressive, especially given that its an average rating across five separate songs.

Here are the nominations and their nominators:
99Vidas [JONA]
Ara Fell [dowolf]
Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland [Arti]
beatmania APPEND GOTTAMIX 2 ~Going Global~ [Place]
Bug Fables [Zigzagoon]
Cultist Simulator [Snake5555555555]
Drift Stage [UF8]
Final Fantasy XIV [Not_an_Owl]
Freedom Planet [PrinceKaro]
Gitaroo Man [paulg235]
Hitman: Codename 47 [Superb]
Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass [TheArkOfTurus]
Koala Lumpur: Journey to the Edge [GameBop]
League of Legends [Player0]
Lenna's Inception [azuarc]
Little Busters! [loweffortmemes]
Lyle in Cube Sector [sergiocornaga]
Mega Man ZX [tazzyboyishere]
Megido 72 [deo]
Mystic Ark [FL81]
Off-Peak [cakophon]
Okami [pyresword]
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt [hotdogturtle]
Shadow Man [Shonen_Bat]
Sonic Colors [Hbthebattle]
Sonic Shuffle [Toxtricity]
Spyro the Dragon [GavsEvans123]
Star Control 2 [NFUN]
Street Fighter II (Game Boy) [Raetsel_Lapin]
Tail of the Sun [Collen]
The Gardens Between [kaonashi]
Timespinner [DireKrow]
Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 [_SecretSquirrel]
Xenoblade Chronicles [ninkendo]
Xenogears [Haste_2]

And here are the overall ratings out of 10:
8.6
8.5
8.3
8.1
7.7
7.7
7.4
7.3
7.3
7.1
7
7
6.9
6.9
6.9
6.7
6.7
6.7
6.6
6.5
6.5
6.4
6.2
6.1
6.1
6
6
5.9
5.8
5.5
5.4
5.1
5
4.7
4.5

A few extra things:

I broke ties based on lowest rated song. So if two soundtracks were rated the same, I gave the edge to the soundtrack that had a higher rating for its lowest song. If they tied in that, I kept going until the tie was broken. This gave an edge to soundtracks that were overall consistent, vs. soundtracks that had a strong track or two and a bunch of mediocre ones.

This topic is not an endorsement of an entire VGM soundtrack. Im well aware that judging an entire soundtrack off five songs is a silly thing to do, which is why I didnt do it! These scores are solely for the five song sets that were nominated. This also means that if the nominator gave me five songs I didnt like from a soundtrack I generally do (which happened with our bottom ranked soundtrack), I didnt factor in any other song from the game that wasnt in the set. I actually encouraged doing b-side lists with five lesser known tracks, which at least one person did. Well see if it paid off...

The writeups will be short. Though each individual song will get a rating and a ranking number out of 175, I wont comment on individual songs that much. Instead Ill give a brief overview of the set and what I thought stood out.

Here we gooooo!