Board 8 > Final Fantasy Music Contest (FFMC) Day 8: Ft. Terra's Theme v Dalmasca Estersand

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Full bracket (we're currently in the 'Upper' section): https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=475177
Results & Discussion Topic: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79743704

Rules:
-You may vote for one track in each match.
-You do not have to vote in every match, and you do not have to vote all at once.
-Please make your votes clear.
-Please familiarise yourself with both of the tracks in a match before voting.
-You can vote based on any metric you wish, as long as it is about the music.
-The matches will last 24 hours from the posting of this topic.
-The track with more votes in each match moves on, the other is eliminated.
-If a match is tied after 24 hours, that match will remain open until one more new vote is cast.
-No alts, no rallying, no trading votes, no deleting posts.
-Please do not provide any updates to the scores.
-Have fun!

Match 1:

(3) Battle Theme (X)
Composed & Arranged by Nobuo Uematsu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC3kt2ZeLDg
v
(14) New Bodhum + New Bodhum - Aggressive Mix - (XIII-2)
Composed & Arranged by Mitsuto Suzuki
Lyrics by Atari productions inc.
Vocals by ORIGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFKWmKxKRM

Match 2:

(6) Terra's Theme (AKA Tina) (VI)
Composed & Arranged by Nobuo Uematsu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGXMELvSsfc
v
(11) The Dalmasca Estersand (Zodiac Age Version) (XII: The Zodiac Age)
Original game: Final Fantasy XII
Composed & Arranged by Hitoshi Sakimoto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDei0ZWe35E

Match 3:

(7) Ending Theme (X)
Composed by Nobuo Uematsu
Arranged by Shir Hamaguchi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDrI4bfyFaI
v
(10) Shuffle or Boogie (VIII)
Composed & Arranged by Nobuo Uematsu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74ZXp_5M_7c

Match 4:

(2) What Angel Wakes Me (XIV: Shadowbringers)
Composed & Arranged by Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics by Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Performed by Paula Kaye Gerhold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVIolZLriDw
v
(15) Bombing Mission (VIIR)
Original game: Final Fantasy VII
Composed by Nobuo Uematsu
Arranged by Shotaro Shima
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1JxRuDa4H8

You can listen to all of today's tracks together here (57-64): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC3kt2ZeLDg&list=PLFj0gJtesYY_F4VpWk2KONwsFBVgt6X1w&index=57

Easy vote form (Delete as appropriate):
Battle Theme X / New Bodhum
Terra's Theme / Dalmasca Estersand
Ending Theme X / Shuffle or Boogie
What Angel Wakes Me / Bombing Mission R

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Ending Theme X
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Will vote in the other matches if I have time later
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New Bodhum
Terra's Theme
Ending Theme X
Bombing Mission R

watching football all day and didn't want to miss this like last week so i listened to everything ahead of time. really like New Bodhum, one of my favorite discoveries of this contest.

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New Bodhum
Terra's Theme
Ending Theme X
Bombing Mission R

Battle
Ester
Ending
Bambing

BEEB

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New Bodhum (RIP Origa)
Terra's Theme
Shuffle or Boogie
What Angel Wakes Me

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Battle Theme X
Terra's Theme
Ending Theme X
Bombing Mission R


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New Bodhum
Terra
Shuffle or Boogie
Bombing Mission

Don't feel like ranking things today.

New Bodhum
Dalmasca Estersand
Shuffle or Boogie
Bombing Mission R

Not really into anything today, but Shuffle or Boogie is neat.

Battle Theme X
Terra's Theme
Ending Theme X
Bombing Mission R

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New Bodhum
Dalmasca Estersand
Ending Theme X
Bombing Mission R

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Battle Theme X
Terra's Theme
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Bombing Mission R

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Battle Theme X
Terra's Theme
Ending Theme X
What Angel Wakes Me

I like all the tracks today, but the matches were all pretty easy to choose. I really like these 4! X has my fav regular battle theme of the series and Terra is my fav world map theme. I forgot how good the Ending Theme's version of Zanarkand is, and Angel is a great discovery that I'm really into. Thanks to whoever nominated that for putting it on my radar!

I've been really impressed with the XIV originals that go in a different direction to the usual epic intense battle music stuff. Some of these tracks are really out there but they work so well!

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Battle Theme X
Terra 6
Shuffle or Boogie 8
What Angel Wakes Me

o/~
Not this shit again,
Dragoon's met their end
Tank rune through the group falalalalala

Time for misty runes
Pally licks his wounds
Two blob monsters spawned falalalalala

Somehow didn't wipe
But I have to gripe
That this trial's rough falalalalala

Now the adds are up
But the LB's fucked
Scholar picked two up falalalalala

It's time for them
To get quite embiggened
But now the group wipes
Glorious end by treeeeeee

Monk cant get behind
Black Mage has no mind
Redmage casts Verblind
Please, raise the
Whitemage on the ground
Dead by the add's pound
Couldn't see the circle through all the

Light that's all aglow
"Grow, my lovelies, grow"
Now there's a full row
Of spread markers

Scary giant trees
Tank falls to his knees
Death by all of deez
Nuts fall-ing

Confidence is winding low
God this group ends add phase slow
Gonna hit the soft enrage
Yup, I'm stuck here in this cage.
Mentor roulette a mistake
Abandon I wanna take
But the Echo let's us try
To get all the adds to die.
o/~


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Battle Theme X
Terra's Theme
Ending Theme X
What Angel Wakes Me
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Battle Theme X
Terra's Theme
Ending Theme X
Bombing Mission R

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Battle Theme X
Terra's Theme
Shuffle or Boogie
Bombing Mission R

Shame Dalmasca Estersand came up against such a great track. Not even played VI that much but the track is iconic

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New Bodhum
Terra's Theme
Shuffle or Boogie
What Angel Wakes Me

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New Bodhum
Dalmasca Estersand
Shuffle or Boogie
What Angel Wakes Me

New Bodhum
Terra's Theme
Shuffle or Boogie
What Angel Wakes Me
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New Bodhum
Dalmasca Estersand
Ending Theme X
What Angel Wakes Me

probably could've taken x battle to r3+ in most of the rest of the bracket. also regular > aggressive
sakimoto
x ending picked a bad day to really stand out but a good match to be in for said day
aaaaa i forgot how good what angel wakes me was oh no

Battle Theme X
Terra's Theme
Ending Theme X
Bombing Mission R

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Battle Theme X
Dalmasca Estersand
Ending Theme X
Bombing Mission R
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New Bodhum
Dalmasca Estersand
Ending Theme X
What Angel Wakes Me

Oh, my sweet sapling. How could you ever vote against me! I'm glad to see you realized the sacrilege that would be! I love you, my sweet sapling . . .
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Battle Theme X
Terra's Theme
Ending Theme X
What Angel Wakes Me

entered today fully expecting to vote Bombing Mission

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Battle Theme X
Terra's Theme
Ending Theme X
Bombing Mission R

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New Bodhum
Dalmasca Estersand
Ending Theme X
What Angel Wakes Me

incredibly strong preference in all 4 matches. but Dalmasca Estersand is also far and away my favorite of the day---i was never expecting it to do well here though. but very little beats sakimoto's style to me
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New Bodhum
Dalmasca Estersand
Ending Theme X
Bombing Mission R

New Bodhum is SO COOL oh my god. feel like I'd normally be annoyed by an 11 minute track with loops but I love the layers aggressive adds too much. feels like some big trance epic, but also more engaging than most trance
seething
FFX Ending Theme loses me a bit by the end, but the piano section is really pretty. yes I'm aware a large part of it is Zanarkand the rest of it is good too shut up. Shuffle or Boogie is nice card game music though
god FFXIV is so weird sometimes. which is not an inherently bad thing mind you and it might even help against something I find boring but Bombing Mission is not that


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(14) New Bodhum + New Bodhum - Aggressive Mix - (XIII-2)
(6) Terra's Theme (AKA Tina) (VI)
(7) Ending Theme (X)
(15) Bombing Mission (VIIR)
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New Bodhum
Dalmasca Estersand
Shuffle or Boogie
Bombing Mission R

New Bodhum as good as I remember... and takes me back to the spring of 2012 just as much.
Would've nominated Estersand if it didn't already get some nominations, top 3 FFXII song for me for sure, maybe even #1...?
Listening to Shuffle or Boogie releases the dopamine I get from playing Zell's mom 7 straight hours for Elnoyle cards.
Voted against Bombing Mission R in tiebreaker round, no ambiguity here.

Battle Theme X
Terra's Theme
Ending Theme X
What Angel Wakes Me

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Battle Theme X
Terra's Theme
Ending Theme X
Bombing Mission R

Match one was close but I don't feel strongly about either of them.
I do really like Dalmasca Estersand too.
I've played a lot of Triple Triad in FFXIV so Shuffle or Boogie is ingrained deeply in my mind.

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Battle Theme X
Terra's Theme
Ending Theme X
What Angel Wakes Me

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(14) New Bodhum + New Bodhum - Aggressive Mix - (XIII-2)
(6) Terra's Theme (AKA Tina) (VI)
(7) Ending Theme (X)
(15) Bombing Mission (VIIR)
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(3) Battle Theme (X)
(6) Terra's Theme (AKA Tina) (VI)
(7) Ending Theme (X)
(15) Bombing Mission (VIIR)

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New Bodhum
Dalmasca Estersand
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Bombing Mission R

Match 2 is extremely hard. Why god.

I am refraining from voting in match 3 for now, as the upload of the FF VIII soundtrack was fucking nuked and I legit don't remember Shuffle or Boogie. I really doubt I'd vote for it, but I still wanna be fair and abide by the Rules

Final Fantasy XIV is singlehandedly trying to make me out to be someone who doesn't like vocal music, because wow I seem grumpier than I am when I listen to the vocal stuff from this game.

Boogie backup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kWjJwbDF4g

Was just coming in here to say the account was nuked... looks like it was the basis for the FF8 songs on andy's playlist too, unlucky!

Battle Theme X
Dalmasca Estersand
Ending Theme X
Bombing Mission R

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New Bodhum
Terra
Shuffle or Boogie
Bombing Mission R

There is so much good Shadowbringers music. Why this one?
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Ending Theme X

Refamiliarized myself with S&B and just as I expected I prefer the FFX ending theme. Be wary of Tsai57's uploads. Their upload of Fisherman's Horizon is notably hideous.

Yeah when I saw 2008 as the upload year I figured his account wouldn't have the best quality uploads... will leave it to andy to get better replacements!

Oh dear, 14 videos have been deleted. All VII and VIII it looks like. I'll get on it today! Only one track that's in the next set of matches at least.

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Battle Theme X
Terra's Theme
Shuffle or Boogie
What Angel Wakes Me

(3) Battle Theme (X)
(6) Terra's Theme (AKA Tina) (VI)
(7) Ending Theme (X)
(15) Bombing Mission (VIIR)

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New Bodhum
Dalmasca Estersand
Shuffle or Boogie
What Angel Wakes Me

How have I never heard New Bodhum or Dalmasca until now??

Match 3 was weird, wasn't feeling much today.
I think I prefer the original Bombing Mission.