Board 8 > Phantasy Star Online 2 of the Year: Day 16

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last day of round 1

MATCH 1:

Greenscape Probe ~ Naverius (Scenery) {Hideaki Kobayashi}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5EuaBjsA6g

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Over the Universe {Hidekuni Horita}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bgdJD5IXYM

MATCH 2:

Floating Facility Probe ~ Wopal ~ Day (Scenery) {Mitsuharu Fukuyama}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1GdORiQZz0

vs

Thank You {Hideaki Kobayashi}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlB6_ZxCG1k

...i wanted to lament the death of greenscape, but let's be real, it was doomed no matter what... sadly :(

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Over the Universe
Thank You

Mannnnnnnnnnnnnn

I wasn't expecting Thank You to be literal upon bringing the video up, but here we are. I fucking love it so.god.damn.much!!! I rank it as anywhere from my #1-3 pso2 vocal song depending on how I feel with Neon Days last stage and Ala di Immortalita. Hell, I might consider it my #1 pso2 song over Unfathomable Darkness on a good day right now. I am that emotional over it right now. Its nice to finally have an powerful "feels" counterpoint to stuff like Over the Universe and the El Dorados with their exceptional hype overload. This sounds like a credits song, and it's probably the best one I've ever heard if so. It even has the cheat code of ending with probably the best (contextual) rendition of The Whole New World. Pls stop. This is overkill.

Things can change after this honeymoon period, but I just want to soak it all in right now. I totally didn't shed a tear upon repeated listenings. No. Not a single one

Thank You [10]
Over the Universe [9.5]
Wopal (Scenery) [8]
Greenscape Probe [6.5]

i was definitely sobbing when I heard Thank You in game, and 95% of that was me thinking about the soundtrack and not the game... though the end of the credits did have one of the most brilliant moments in media I've seen

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Over the Universe {
Floating Facility Probe ~ Wopal ~ Day (Scenery) {

man i've been feeling slow early volume hideaki kobayashi scenery tracks way more than usual lately. probably because i have been binge watching people play myst clones where most of the songs are just like one chord on a synth pad for 5 minutes and thats the whole song (i still think that is good) so this is like that 'style' of music that i enjoy, except in the aesthetic of my favorite game ost becauise it is from my favorite game ost. some parts of this remind me of the piano moments in freddi fish and luther's maze madness levels 31-35 and some of the other songs in those games that are like that one

oh come on i wanted to vote for the cool sceneary theme but parallel harmonized choir forces me to be w on over here why do You DO This horita i love you

oh THIS is the type of japan tradition world song i like from this game. thank you . HAHA the saxophone. this sounds like it should be in super mario odyssey if they had a traditional japan place that was happy instead of sad (bowser is mean) and it was on a beach instead of in the sky. oh WHOa i think i heard the yamaha fs1r maybe, but it's a fukuyama song and not a kobayashi one, i guess they shared equipment. very lucky for hideaki kobayashi's friends that they get to use his rare device that i want for chirstmas but is too expensive for santa to get probably

this sounds like christmas music or elton john. thank you nfun
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Greenscape Probe ~ Naverius (Scenery)
Floating Facility Probe ~ Wopal ~ Day (Scenery)

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Over the Universe
Floating Facility Probe ~ Wopal ~ Day (Scenery)

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Greenscape Probe ~ Naverius (Scenery)
Floating Facility Probe ~ Wopal ~ Day (Scenery)
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Over the Universe
Thank You

The somber bits of Greenscape are giving me some strong Twilight Princess vibes

Even from that sick piano/strings intro I can tell Over the Universe is going to be a very "FL81 song". Pretty hype all the way through, I gotta say this is my favorite song in the whole contest, beating out even Kohri. VGMC support nom level even.

FFP~W~D(S) has neat instruments, not much else to say here.

https://i.imgur.com/1sBSixB.gif
you're welcome phantasy star

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it was nommed two years ago

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bump

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woops busy guessing games

Greenscape
Thank You

greenscape so good i've fallen asleep in the woods to this many times, and to fall asleep in general like 20% of my nights. very relaxing and ethereal and never gets boring WOW sympathy is cool

over the universe is some of the best boss music I've heard (though I think it could be mixed a bit better to increase impact). the intro is AMAZING why didn't i gravitate to this when i was listening to vgmc 14 noms.

i'm actually torn about match 1 this hurts argh. Greenscape is like, perfect for what it is while Over there are other pso2 battle themes that have the same effect so I guess i'll vote like that

It took until the Superior Probe version for me to appreciate this i'm weird

yeah I cried while listening to this. a lot. who asked you

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