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azuarc posted...

Tag.

Also, if you have initial and revised scores, what's the final score?

Short answer: The first two scores were made before the topic started, the final score isnt final until that specific ranking is actually posted.

Longer Answer: Its a last chance for a song to convince me to move it up the list and to minimize the oh, woe is me, I want to move this song up the list but the rankings are finalized and I have to eliminate it now, SUCH SORROW feelings that plagued my first topic. So if I decide at the last possible minute that a song shouldnt be eliminated quite yet... then its not eliminated yet. Nothing is final until its actually posted somewhere.

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R#30: REACH FOR THE SUMMIT:

https://radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/track/reach-for-the-summit

Nominator: MetalmindStats (28/28)
Source: Celeste Soundtrack (21/21)

Initial Score: 65.55 [R#25]
Revised Score: 60.00 [R#29]
Final Score: 50.70 [R#30]

(First Thoughts: I think Im going to place this under the songs I was already highly familiar with category because I instantly knew when and where this song played in game. I dont usually recognize VGM that quickly.

Song is good; its like a very upbeat remix of past stage themes to show how far youve gone. Very appropriate and great in context, but perhaps a bit too long and upbeat to be something Id go back to often. Still, very memorable and well done song.)

Its still a good song, but the 11 minute runtime makes it a big investment and Id rather go to any of the shorter tracks this one is taking inspiration from than listen to the entire thing again. Like Im enjoying this stretch here around the 7 minute mark, but... so long...

I also feel this song is cheating a bit. In game it only plays the part related to where you currently are on the mountain, right? So you only hear them edited and spliced together on the album, when its more like a series of songs in game. Not that there shouldnt be a complete version like this, and having the individual parts would probably be redundant when you already have all the songs from earlier in the game, but... well I dont know where Im going with this.

As is, its good, but for me the answer to do you want to spend 11 minutes listening to the games soundtrack condensed into one long song? is usually going to be No, but I appreciate that it exists and acknowledge what its going for.

[Final Thoughts: An extremely long instrumental track that doesnt inspire any specific feelings. Its like hey, do you remember these songs from Celeste?? and then has nothing interesting to say about them. Putting it under the R#s list might not have been the right decision (the 31 other songs are all ones that Ive repeatedly listened to for fun, while Ive never sought this one out), but it just felt like it belonged there.

The part starting around the seven minute mark is still good. The low tones of the music, the slow fadeout, the way it feels like its somehow half between invoking feelings of exploring a mysterious ruin & slowly dying... its interesting. But then the song goes immediately back to being rather blah and that section cant fully redeem the song by itself, not when theres so much before & after the song that I dont really want to listen to, all of which is done better by other songs also on this ranking.]

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R#29: CELESTIAL RESORT (GOOD KARMA MIX):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-fmYK81MUQ

Nominator: MetalmindStats (27/28)
Source: Metalminds Extra Songs (7/7)

Initial Score: 50.30 [R#31]
Revised Score: 50.30 [R#32]
Final Score: 53.17 [R#29]

(First Thoughts: I feel I heard this more than enough at VGMC, thank you.)

One of many songs that I never fully understood the love for and have grown tired of from having listened to it so many times. Its perfectly fine in game, but its not a track that Id listen to out of context.

*wags tail*

..Wow, Im trying to hold myself to a hundred word minimum for these writeups and I cant reach half that amount on the first song! A song that Ive heard many, many times! From a game I love!

*checks word count* ....This is gonna be a long topic, kupo...

Alright, so for instrumental tracks, to get a high score, you need to fall into one of three categories:

1.Inspire some sort of dream sequence. If I close my eyes and listen to the song, do I imagine anything special? In this case, no.

2.Remind me of something good. VGMC is good, but reminding me how every song I truly love has no chance of making it out of Round 1 while this song is somehow popular, is not exactly a good memory. Not a bad one exactly, I dont hold the songs popularity against it directly, but I dont even associate this song with Celeste any longerits just a VGMC song.

3.Do something I really like musically. Buzzing, static, unpredictability, chaos, insanity, that sort of thing; this song is not the embodiment of chaos, so we can rule that out.

[Later: Well, there are definitely non-chaotic instrumentals that I love too. Some of which are up at the hundred point tier. This song is not one of those either.]

Its a fine enough song. Its been given a score indicating that I have some amount of positive feelings towards it, but I need more time away from the song before I can try to evaluate it on any of its own merits.

[Final Thoughts: It doesnt take very long for me to abandon the 100 word goal. There are several songs later on that basically dont have any writeup at the moment, outside of a generic message about how I dont want to talk about them. ...I might fill those blank spaces in when its time to type final thoughts, I might not, well see. In theory the R#s also buy me a few days to make certain decisions, but Ill probably just put it off until the last second anyway.]

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