Board 8 > [VGMC] d53: EXEC_Z/. vs GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRON, AI[UE]OON vs KANATA NO RAFFLESIA

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azuarc
05/21/20 10:00:05 PM
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Will/Want: A2










OMIGOD MOAR CAPITAL LETTERZ!!

Welcome to today's topic for Video Game Music Contest 14, a tournament of the best tracks from games, as decided upon by you, the voters.

Links:
Contest info - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VNrPnFRI7nJ4PqFiURBW0NWqxvXiuasoq8Sn_O169ss/edit#gid=320804650
Bracket - http://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=473292
Discussion and results thread - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78524521
Bracket playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1REnVI_W6yELaDP6Zac8b0Wq
ToC playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1RE-TQMj19D0k5nm-0zeH12J
VGMC compability sheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lpX4faqnn_geI0y4i6MrZ2AXpV6SWXoWrIA6_eyx-yM/edit

Rules:
- Listen to both of the songs. Links have conveniently been provided for both songs. Even if Song A is your favorite of all-time and Song B is from a series you hate... Listen. To. Both. (If I have suspicions your vote is not based on a fair and impartial preference, it will be disqualified.)
- Obvious contest rules apply (no alts, one vote per person, no rallying, etc.).
- Please make your voting options clear, rather than burying them in text.
- Each set of matches lasts 24 hours, even if the new one isnt up by then. (Matches do not begin until at least 10:00 EDT.)
- Always vote on the versions of the song provided, not versions from different sources.
- If you know ahead of time that you're not going to be around and you want to vote in advance, post your choices in the discussion/bracket topic.
- Please do NOT post tallies/score updates in the middle of the match, as this has a tendency to directly influence matches.
- You don't have to vote in all the matches, but it'd be cool if you did!

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Match 1

Ar tonelico III - EXEC_Z/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1p18O6ac1c

Phantasy Star Online 2 - GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTBCuuojyos

Match 2

Arcaea - AI[UE]OON
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Mac Arrowny
05/21/20 10:22:53 PM
#3:


EXEC_Z/.
Kanata no Rafflesia

augh second match is super close I don't want to vote against either ;_;
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Raetsel_Lapin
05/21/20 10:25:35 PM
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EXEC_Z/.
AI[UE]OON

lower case.
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azuarc
05/21/20 10:28:56 PM
#5:


EXEC_Z/.
AI[UE]OON

lower case.

(I totally didn't quote raetsel and remove the quote part.)

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Video Game Music Contest 14: Now in progress. Come join us!
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TheArkOfTurus
05/21/20 10:30:34 PM
#6:


GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
AI[UE]OON
Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

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dowolf
05/21/20 10:42:31 PM
#7:


GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
Kanata no Rafflesia

What's not a vowel
Yet is a distant war's name?
'Tis the letter Z


what do you want from me LOOK AT THESE TRACK NAMES we need to go back to 3 matches a day so I have material tbqh
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KCF0107
05/21/20 10:42:47 PM
#8:


Guerrilla
AI


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Team Rocket Elite
05/21/20 10:44:30 PM
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Ar tonelico III - EXEC_Z/.
REFLEC BEAT The Reflesia of Eternity - Kanata no Rafflesia
Steins;Gate - Skyclad Observer
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banshiryuu
05/21/20 11:21:29 PM
#10:


EXEC_Z/. (5th) vs GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE (25th//35th)
AI[UE]OON (47th//68th) vs Kanata no Reflesia (73rd//124th)
(96th//192nd)

HHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHAT

I mean I could see R2 matches coming like a month ago but now that their here they all are just so fucking stupid oh my god please let them all retire
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Janus5k
05/21/20 11:23:49 PM
#11:


GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
Kanata no Rafflesia

feeling PSO being crazy more than Gust being anime right now
Kanata is still super pretty and happy aaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaa totto

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NFUN
05/21/20 11:26:20 PM
#12:


GOSU
Rafflesia

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FL81
05/22/20 1:16:44 AM
#13:


Ar tonelico III - EXEC_Z/.
REFLEC BEAT The Reflesia of Eternity - Kanata no Rafflesia

EXEC_Z/. > Raflessia > GOSU > aeiou
all pretty close~ish

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GameBopAdv
05/22/20 2:10:04 AM
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GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
Kanata no Rafflesia

So I went into this match fully expecting to vote against the vocal focus songs, but listening now both of these matches are far closer than I was expecting. In the first match I appreciate the digital sound of ExecZ and am rather offput by the high strings of Guerrant. Aiooon is cool but I guess I'm less into the "zany anime" sound of it today, while the music other than the vocals going on in Kanata is such a compelling melody for me. hrmmm... ExecZ doesn't really do much other than the cool soundscape sort of vibe; the tune it has never really does anything for me, something Guerrant is mildly better at but with a less appreciated soundscape. I will say none of the vocals here are particularly bad for me. Though I wish Aieuoon was swapped with something in the first match because I'd like it more than those and only barely doesn't get my vote against Kanata right now, heck it might be just the mood I'm in right now so if I remember I might go back and double check before the match ends to see if I flip.

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loweffortmemes
05/22/20 2:59:58 AM
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Ar tonelico III - EXEC_Z/.
REFLEC BEAT The Reflesia of Eternity - Kanata no Rafflesia

EXEC_Z/. > Kanata no Rafflesia = G-O-S-U >> AI[UE]OON
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Toxtricity
05/22/20 4:24:37 AM
#16:


GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
Kanata no Rafflesia

GO GOSU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good Original Soundtrack University (insert 7/8 Cheerleaders Cheering In Time with the 7/8 part of the song) I LOVE HIDEKUNI HORITA'S STYLE OF MUSIC!!! pso2 music is so cool!!!!!! especially vol 7 and 8 !!!! i'm seeking out music as similar to this as much as possible and it's...not hard to find because i still haven't even listened through all of pso2 yet and also it sounds like basiscape and i am only like halfway through "listening to all 9408340 basiscape osts" but this specific example is such a treasure to me. can't get enough of these types of chords, chords changes, endless drama, all the parallelism and unpredictability and unrelenting increasing emotional intensity of something that started out intense to beging with at the SAME TIME AS being really pretty ahhhh and all on such nice fun instrumentation that is to my tastes. exec z is not bad or anything to me though, but it's like "minimum level to appeal to me" gust. doesn't stand a chance here. you know i always point out when a gust song "doesn't sound like a gust song because it's not by one of the actual gust sound team people" and that is actually totally the case with exec_z haha, but somehow doesn't bother me as much as some of the other examples of that this contest.

i didn't remember either in the 2nd match melodically at all by name, which...although I often say "unmemorable =/= bad" still wasn't really a good sign. All i remembered was that they both "sounded like rhythm game music" and that i thought aieuoon was "too happy and neutral and diatonic safe for me to feel anything from it" and yeah that sounds about right. rafflesia much more compositionally my thing, actually extremely my thing, far more than I remembered!!!! I guess I ranked it 86th which is fairly high, sort of. Really enjoy everywhere it goes! except for the end where it ends like that one cloudbuilt song kao and i always complain about the ending of
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xp1337
05/22/20 4:34:47 AM
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Ar tonelico III - EXEC_Z/.
REFLEC BEAT The Reflesia of Eternity - Kanata no Rafflesia

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tennisboy213
05/22/20 7:25:47 AM
#18:


EXEC_Z/.
Kanata no Rafflesia

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Flamander
05/22/20 9:39:20 AM
#19:


GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
AI[UE]OON

lorem ipsum

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xx521xx
05/22/20 9:57:37 AM
#20:


EXEC_Z/.
Kanata no Rafflesia
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shane15
05/22/20 10:05:45 AM
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Ar tonelico III - EXEC_Z/
REFLEC BEAT The Reflesia of Eternity - Kanata no Rafflesia

EXEC_Z/ is one of the only good things about AT3

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sergiocornaga
05/22/20 10:13:34 AM
#22:


GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
Al[UE]OON
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Sceptilesolar
05/22/20 10:24:08 AM
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EXEC_Z/.
Kanata no Rafflesia

Everything solid today.

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PIayer_0
05/22/20 2:00:13 PM
#24:


EXEC_Z/.
Kanata no Rafflesia

I've kinda gotten over the initial joy of discovering EXEC_Z, but still my favourite Hymmnos along with Exsphere
Why couldn't Midnight Lady be here :(

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quantumB
05/22/20 2:07:15 PM
#25:


GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
AI[UE]OON

h
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rwlh
05/22/20 3:55:10 PM
#26:


GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
Kanata no Rafflesia
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Haste_2
05/22/20 4:04:52 PM
#27:


GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
Kanata no Rafflesia

GUERRANT fills me with SO MUCH excitement and joy. Second match is close.

edit: compare
https://youtu.be/zT-fjE66WNY?t=251
with
https://youtu.be/8dD0e5jG6Os?t=46


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JONALEON1
05/22/20 4:05:50 PM
#28:


GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
AI[UE]OON

lower case.

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Collen
05/22/20 5:23:29 PM
#29:


EXEC_Z/.
AI[UE]OON

lowercase letters since my message cant be all uppercase

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Haste_2
05/22/20 5:31:08 PM
#30:


IMO all votes for EXEC_Z. and AI[UE]OON should only be valid if there are no lowercase letters in their (post).

Oh, rats, that would apply to GOSU, too!

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HBJDubs
05/22/20 6:06:40 PM
#31:


GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
Ai[UE]OON

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~Project 1000~
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th3l3fty
05/22/20 6:20:49 PM
#32:


Phantasy Star Online 2 - GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
REFLEC BEAT The Reflesia of Eternity - Kanata no Rafflesia
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kaonashi1
05/22/20 6:55:14 PM
#33:


GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
Kanata no Rafflesia
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-hotdogturtle--
05/22/20 7:13:30 PM
#34:


GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
AI[UE]OON

o

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TsunamiXXVIII
05/22/20 7:31:45 PM
#35:


EXEC_Z/.
Kanata no Rafflesia

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Place
05/22/20 7:34:58 PM
#36:


Phantasy Star Online 2 - GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
REFLEC BEAT The Reflesia of Eternity - Kanata no Rafflesia

Pretty set with these, though match 2 was closer than expected. Roll on, wild card!

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Mr Lasastryke
05/22/20 8:23:01 PM
#37:


GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPPONT-UNNE
AI[UE]OON

caps

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Snowva
05/22/20 8:52:59 PM
#38:


EXEC_Z/.
Kanata no Rafflesia
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UF8
05/22/20 9:12:11 PM
#39:


GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
AI[UE]OON
lowercase
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Arti
05/22/20 9:22:20 PM
#40:


Ar tonelico III - EXEC_Z/.
REFLEC BEAT The Reflesia of Eternity - Kanata no Rafflesia

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azuarc may not know the strength of songs in VGMC, but he conquered the guru in Game of the Decade 2! Congrats!
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pyresword
05/22/20 9:48:23 PM
#41:


EXEC_Z/.
Kanata no Rafflesia
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ZelRaat
05/22/20 9:54:32 PM
#42:


EXEC_Z/.
AI[UE]OON

Guess I can't post a message in all caps for some reason.
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PabloSmith
05/22/20 9:59:31 PM
#43:


GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
AI[UE]OOn

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cakophon
05/22/20 10:00:13 PM
#44:


EXEC_Z/. < GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
AI[UE]OON < Kanata no Rafflesia
fuck
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