Board 8 > 92 VGMusic REMIXES: Ranking and Writeups

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Yeah, that's Chrono Trigger.

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I like how the most over-the-top guitar song I nom'd is the only one left.

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

Tag. I've heard like 200 remixes, but I only recognize like 5 of them....

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54. Touhou 12: A Tiny, Tiny, Clever Commander (Dark Phoenix remix)
Nominated By: ImTheMacheteGuy


It's Touhou all right. Does absolutely nothing to set itself apart from any of the others I've heard, remix or otherwise.


53. L.E.D.: Acid Vision (Allotropy Artcore Mix)
Nominated by: TheKnightOfNee


This song is hard to describe. It feels very...directionless, having cool effects for the sake of having cool effects, if that makes sense. It's not really my style of song, either, some of the samples it uses are kind of annoying. It has some cool moments, but overall it just doesn't stick with me after it's finished playing.

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

52. Super Metroid - Zebesian Midnight (Vigilante)
Nominated By: Kaxon


zzzzzzzzzzzz


51. Earthbound: Twoson Hits the Road
Nominated By: todbot


Basically the only reason this is this high is because of my Earthbound bias. It's completely unmemorable outside of a few EB song notes I recognize and like, which on this list is apparently worth being better than almost half the songs.

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

50. Final Fantasy X: Song of Prayer (Jared Hudson - The Final Summoning)
Nominated By: Drakeryn


This is sort neat, but I wonder if I would care about it if the prayers of the Fayth hymn didn't bring back fond memories of FFX. It doesn't seem to be memorable at all, otherwise.


49. Mega Man X5: X vs Zero Decisive Battle 2
Nominated By: BK_Sheikah00


I'm not a fan of the original X vs. Zero at all, so I'm actually kind of glad the remixer ripped out that terrible chiming sample that plays through it and stuck in guitars. Better than the original; I still don't like it very much.


That's it for the 5/10s. Will post stats, and then the topic will resume later tonight.

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

I think this is the exact halfway point. Neat.

Remaining Songs:

Ace Combat 6: Grace Like Rain - Liberation of Gracemeria
BlazBlue: Gluttony Fang Live
Contra: Alien Lair
Donkey Kong Country 2 - Castle Crescendo (by Sole Signal)
Donkey Kong Country 2: Lockjaw's Saga
Donkey Kong Country 2: Protricity - Brambles in the B
Doom: Hangarmaggeddon
Dynamite Headdy: Waterflame - Schuhmacher Fly Remix
Etrian Odyssey 3: Hoist the Sword with Pride in the Heart (Ayahuasca arrangement)
Etrian Odyssey 3: The End of the Raging Waves (Ayahuasca arrangement)
Final Fantasy VI: housethegrate - Seized with Fury
Final Fantasy X: Battle with Seymour (Black Mages)
Halo: Reach: In Amber Clad - Halo: Reach: We Remember
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Sorayume (vocal)
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: You/thanks
Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep: NemesisTheory - Mysterious Sleeper
L.E.D.: Hyper Boundary Gate (Slow Flow Mix)
Mega Man 2: S.S.H. -Dr. Wily-
Mega Man Zero 4: Esperanto (Remastered Tracks Rockman Zero Mythos)
Myth - The Xenogears Orchestral Album - Small Two of Pieces
Phantasmagoria of Flower View: Spring Lane ~ Colorful Path (WAVE)
Pictionary: Person, Place, or Groove (The Orichalcon)
Pokemon R/B/Y - Clairvoyant Eulogy (The Orichalcon)
Pokemon RBY: Pokémon Gym (2)
Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow: -The Road to Cerulean City- From Mt. Moon
Rockman World 2: Magnet Man
Shining Force - Death of the King
Solstice: Title - Kastle Rock
Starcraft: Eradicate and Evolve - Zerg Themes Arrangement
Streets of Rage 3: Streets of Rage Remake - Moon
Subterranean Animism: Last Remote (Neutral)
Super Mario 64: ParagonX9 - The Alternate Route
Super Mario Galaxy 2: CarboHydroM - Nemesis
Super Mario Galaxy: CarboHydroM - White Feather In The Storm
Super Metroid: Bounty of a Brain (by Big Giant Circles)
Tales of Symphonia: Chaos Heart (Raine's Theme Remix)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Underwater
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening: Braving Tal Tal Heights
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Mamacitas in my Valley
Touhou 12: Assault Door - Wolkenkratzer
Umineko no Naku Koro ni: hope (Renewal of Faith Mix)
Xenogears: Balto
Xenogears: Bonds of Sea and Flames
Xenogears: Small Two of Pieces
Xenogears: The Gentle Breeze Sings
Xenogears: Unstealable Jewel
Ys: Sword of Justice - Reality-Dark = Fact
Ys Seven: Falcom vs. jdk Band - Legend of the Five Great Dragons
Zelda 2: Temple

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

Aww yeah, everything I nommed made top half! I keep expecting something to drop soon, but so far, so good.

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~~~~~~~BREAKING NEWS!!!!!~~~~~~~~~

I've moved one song up from 8/10 to 8.5/10, which mean a clear winner has been decided (was flip-flopping on it before). What song was it? Who nominated it? Does it have guitars? All will be revealed on the next episode of Dragonball Z!

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

Way to go Kanz. I'm four and one, myself, so lookin' good.

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From: KamikazePotato | #107
52. Super Metroid - Zebesian Midnight (Vigilante)
Nominated By: Kaxon


zzzzzzzzzzzz


KP has terrible taste confirmed

Actually it was confirmed a long time ago but you know...

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From: Jeff Zero | #112

I'm four and one, myself, so lookin' good.

Me too!

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From: KamikazePotato | #109

Super Mario Galaxy 2: CarboHydroM - Nemesis
Super Mario Galaxy: CarboHydroM - White Feather In The Storm

Also I have a problem with you putting the sequel first in an alphabetical list.

Pokemon R/B/Y - Clairvoyant Eulogy (The Orichalcon)
Pokemon RBY: Pokémon Gym (2)
Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow: -The Road to Cerulean City- From Mt. Moon

And look at this monstrosity of consistency.

Did you format the Game - Title differently every time on purpose? And don't get me started on how you spelled out the game's name itself.

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pjbasis

can you shut up

like

the way he formats his list has zero bearing on anything you will ever do.

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Yeah, quit being so fussy. It's just embarrassing to watch.

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I think he's joking

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

I could say the same to you complaining about my actions!

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From: KamikazePotato | #118
I think he's joking
It's the internet.

Impossible to tell!

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From: Ed Bellis | #096
Ed Bellis | Posted 6/14/2012 11:05:23 AM | message detail | filter | quote | (edited) | #096
Also that "xKore" thing... why is that called the Chrono Cross theme? That's the Chrono Trigger theme. It plays during Dreamwatch and I don't think it plays at any other point in Cross. Admittedly I didn't listen to the full thing so maybe there's more elements from Cross near the end, but is the mix so bad nobody can even differentiate the melody? (The answer is probably yes.)
That melody is also in Chronomantique and Fields of Time. It's basically the Chrono series theme.

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"Congratulations Thomas and Sylvia! But their happiness does not continue long..."

I didn't use exclamation marks so it's understandable.

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KamikazePotato posted...

54. Touhou 12: A Tiny, Tiny, Clever Commander (Dark Phoenix remix)
Nominated By: ImTheMacheteGuy


It's Touhou all right. Does absolutely nothing to set itself apart from any of the others I've heard, remix or otherwise.

Personally I like this one because it's basically optimism in song form. In a good way. It's got this jaunty "I can take on the whole world" vibe to it. The original is nice but nothing special; the remix transforms it into something uplifting and triumphant.

Dunno why I'm saying all this, except that I'm listening to it again and getting all happy. Probably my second favorite VG remix.


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another place and time, without a great divide, and we could be flying deadly high

It's zzzzzz. I've listened to it several times and found it boring every time.

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

5.5/10

48. Streets of Rage 3: Streets of Rage Remake - Moon
Nominated By: Kanzaris


Is a weird, sorta-funky sorta-atmospheric song. It's not great but it's slightly more interesting than other stuff that was nominated, so it gets put in the next tier and gets to laugh at all the 5/10 losers and steal their lunch money.


47. Rockman World 2: Magnet Man
Nominated By: Niorapth


This is slightly better than the other guitar songs. Hence why it's in 5.5/10 instead of 5/10, as these ratings are ironclad and not subject to whatever mood I'm in at the time whatsoever.

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

46. Super Mario 64: ParagonX9 - The Alternate Route
Nominated By: SSBDarren64
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/11245

Hey, techno remix of Koopa's Road. Sorta neat.


45. Etrian Odyssey 3: The End of the Raging Waves (Ayahuasca arrangement)
Nominated By: ImTheMacheteGuy


More guitar wailing, but it's less overbearing and generic than the others. We're making progress, folks!

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

One down, four to go. Sad to see Moon so low but eh, it still made it far!

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44. Ys: Sword of Justice - Reality-Dark = Fact
Nominated By: FL81


Nice picture. Never change, Japan.

We're getting to the point where these writeups are getting harder. The songs don't really bug me anymore, they're just...there. Take this song, for example. Is it offensive? No. Do I remember what it sounds like after listening to it? Also no.


43. Solstice: Title - Kastle Rock
Nominated By: Kanzaris


Ah, the Solstice theme. I can't help but smile every time I hear it; it's just nuts. I prefer this version over the other version because wailing guitars is easier for me to take than wailing chiptunes.


Apologize for the delay, but a 5.5 song got bumped up to 6 after I was relistening and I had to reorganize.

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

42. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: You/thanks
Nominated By: dethfdddddh


I love You, and it's pretty impossible to actually make a bad remix of You, but I don't think this one is that great. The singer isn't very good (someone will come in and tell me it's the same singer who did the original vocal version, but even if it is, it sounds a lot worse) and the melody is dragged out for way too long. There's a lot of 'filler' in this song. It's still you, so it's still alright, but I've heard way better remixes of it.


41. Super Mario Galaxy 2: CarboHydroM - Nemesis
Nominated By: pjbasis


This is a straight-up guitar cover of the SMG2 final boss theme. It doesn't take any risks and doesn't go overboard with the guitars, so I don't have any complaints about it. At the same time, I don't particularly care for it.

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

Woo, I was expecting this to be next at least.

Took a lot longer than I thought.

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40. Pokemon R/B/Y - Clairvoyant Eulogy (The Orichalcon)
Nominated By: MycroProcessor


This is a decent rendition of Lavender Town's theme. The big problem being that Lavender Town is an extremely simple song that doesn't have much to work with, leaving the remixer to either make new material that will probably suck or just make it repetitive. He chose repetitive.


Only one song in this update because next one is a triple threat special !!!

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

wuh oh

better not be all the rest of my songs

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Nio, you only gave me three songs! Where are the the violins you promised me in the other topic?

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

39. Contra: Alien Lair
Nominated By: WazzupGenius00
http://shnabubula.bandcamp.com/track/alien-lair-contra

38. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Underwater
Nominated By: WazzupGenius00
http://shnabubula.bandcamp.com/track/underwater-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles

37. Zelda 2: Temple
Nominated By: WazzupGenius00
http://shnabubula.bandcamp.com/track/temple-zelda-2

One writeup for all of them, because I feel the same about each one. WazzupGenius gave me some interesting tracks. Each one takes a simple NES track and goes nuts on it, mixing in new, modern samples and messing with the melody. I think each of these tracks are really neat, and I can tell that the remixer is pretty talented.

So why are they so 'low'? Well, like many other remixes, they just couldn't keep it in their pants. The line between 'crazy but cool' and 'I have a headache' is thin, and these songs cross over that line too many times; I'm not usually a fun of chiptunes doing too much. If they were just toned down a bit in certain parts, I would like them a lot more. Still cool though.

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

Wazzup, Genius

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Those sounds pretty neat.

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36. Phantasmagoria of Flower View: Spring Lane ~ Colorful Path (WAVE)
Nominated By: Drakeryn


This song isn't bad. I like some of the stuff it does, and it doesn't do anything I really dislike.

I can finally start saying that!


35. Donkey Kong Country 2: Protricity - Brambles in the B
Nominated By: pjbasis


I think this topic managed to net me a remix of every major popular song that I either dislike or don't particularly care for. Time Circuits, Stickerbrush Symphony, X vs. Zero, Terra...you guys totally did this on purpose.

The song still isn't bad though, and it doesn't do anything I really dislike. Aw yeah, I got to say that twice in one update.

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

I haven't listened to those Shnababula remixes yet, but he typically goes pretty nuts with what he does. I can handle it as long as I know the crazy is coming (which now I always do from him).

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The Shnabubula Temple reminds me of song #92 but with less angry noises.

Surprised they're 50-something spaces apart

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34. Final Fantasy X: Battle with Seymour (Black Mages)
Nominated By: dethfdddddh


Hey, it's Seymour. Seymour Butts that is heheheheheheheh

This song is basically a different version of Battle with Seymour, which is an alright song, so this is an alright remix.


33. Tales of Symphonia: Chaos Heart (Raine's Theme Remix)
Nominated By: BK_Sheikah00


And we top off 5.5/10s with...wailing guitars.

But hey! I think these guitars are in a lot more control than some of the others, and there are sections where the guitars are even subdued. Shocking, I know.


Stats once we hit Page 4 so this page doesn't get clogged.

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

Paddin' post for dem statz.

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Actually listening to it again, that Seymour remix deserved to be higher. Oh well !

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

To page 4

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And again to Page 4

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From: KamikazePotato | #147

Actually listening to it again, that Seymour remix deserved to be higher. Oh well !

Why are you not listening to them at least twice!

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