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banshiryuu 06/02/22 10:00:17 PM #1: |
Ten matches are in the bag already!! What's been the highest quality match of the first ten?
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Welcome to Video Game Music Contest 16, an annual celebration of the best of the best video game music according to the voters!
Important Links: Bracket: https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=475935 Contest info sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_IU5iCFTM_4WEx8ZWKwznMz5v2tarCKh1Ag0mxIgAes Contest discussion thread: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80027411 Main bracket playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT3m7iohpL0xxfgkmGKvEyWfHvNZ53Kbn Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16XAaBMDuUnQ4c5AxQNL9ZhvD7VG5kQyrXWWZxnkrn-o VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o Discord: https://discord.gg/WDvMS4a Rules: - Listen to both songs in a given match, at least through the loop time provided (to make sure you don't skip before you've heard the whole thing!) - Please consider the loop point listed when judging the song; if a video loops one minute 5 times, don't treat it as if it's a repetitive 5 minute song - If it's a match between your favorite song ever and a song you despise, still LISTEN TO BOTH! Votes can and will be disqualified if there is suspicion songs are not being listened to, and you may be discounted for the rest of the contest for repeat offenses. - No alt accounts, no rallying or begging, etc., etc.... You only get one vote! Swapping votes is alright, just make clear that you've already made a vote and are swapping. - Make clear what your voting options are! Please keep votes separate from any comments, and use the titles given in the topic post. - Voting in all matches is not mandatory, feel free to skip matches you do not wish to vote in. - Vote based on the links provided, and not other sources of audio. Links are specifically chosen for best quality and the like. - Don't discuss vote tallies in this thread, or in other threads, as they may influence votes. Likewise, please refrain from looking at the running tally before voting. Voting Period: - Today's matches will last 24 hours from the time of posting, or 24 hours from 10pm Eastern, whichever is the later time. - Please note this may mean that two topics will be active at the same time! - If you anticipate being unable to vote in a given day, please send an absentee vote to @banshiryuu, or post your absentee vote in the discussion thread! . Match 1 Alto's Odyssey - An Endless Desert Composer: Todd Baker Loop Point: 5:37 Genre: ETERNAL DUNES https://youtu.be/Ia4CTx-Zi7o SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS - Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!! (Asynchronicity U ... Copied to Clipboard!
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DireKrow 06/02/22 10:01:04 PM #2: |
An Endless Desert Kusanagi Village Treasure Town ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Hbthebattle 06/02/22 10:01:39 PM #3: |
ETERNAL DUNES ETHEREAL FOLKLORE HAPPY JIG this really is a Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!! (Asynchronicity Unlimited Progressive Polyrhythmic Nightmare Long Version) moment --- Congrats to azuarc for winning the GotD Guru! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 06/02/22 10:04:09 PM #4: |
Desert Birds the very concept of trying to compare these two songs in any sense is absolutely horrifying to me. the realization that these are both pieces of "music" composed by "people" for a "video game" in itself feels like cursed knowledge, an infohazard that may irrevocably destroy my very capacity to understand musical expression at all 8.5 no 9 8 7.5? 7.5??? --- Kneel... or you will be knelt ... Copied to Clipboard!
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pyresword 06/02/22 10:04:23 PM #5: |
re: The poll Don't Speak Her Name/Secret of the Forest and Kaze no Ne/Blizzard Bridge are all songs I'd have been happy to see retire tbh. They honestly might all be in my top 5 songs from this list. --- I didn't do guru this year but azuarc can be in my sig anyways. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MargaretAnnMid 06/02/22 10:08:17 PM #6: |
An Endless Desert Kusanagi Village Treasure Town ... Copied to Clipboard!
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HisayoshiOgura 06/02/22 10:18:29 PM #7: |
Alto's Odyssey - An Endless Desert Gran Turismo 5 - Night birds Dreams - Time Moves Slow (Home) --- Hallelujah! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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DeadTaffer 06/02/22 10:21:18 PM #8: |
An Endless Desert Night birds Time Moves Slow (Home) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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quantumB 06/02/22 10:39:32 PM #9: |
Night birds Time Moves Slow (Home) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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dowolf 06/02/22 10:41:16 PM #10: |
Dessert Grass-mower (Kusanagi) SHINYTOWN --- Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius ... Copied to Clipboard!
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kamakazikila 06/02/22 10:50:13 PM #11: |
An Endless Desert Night birds Time Moves Slow (Home) --- Puff Stuff ... Copied to Clipboard!
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FL81 06/02/22 10:51:58 PM #12: |
SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS - Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!! (Asynchronicity Unlimited Progressive Polyrhythmic Nightmare Long Version) Gran Turismo 5 - Night birds Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness - Treasure Town soflan-chan is the best song of the day somehow --- Thanks to Proofpyros for the sig images https://i.imgur.com/Nv4Pi1v.jpg https://i.imgur.com/N43HJYv.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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HasteDeux 06/02/22 10:56:30 PM #13: |
An Endless Desert Kusanagi Village Time Moves Slow (Home) An Endless Desert (9.0 - 9th place) / Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!! (8.3^ - 23rd place) Night birds (9.2 - 6th place) / Kusanagi Village (9.8 - 1st place) Time Moves Slow (Home) (7.2^ - 52nd place) / Treasure Town (7.6 - 44th place) Endless Desert I never expected to see in a contest again, but here it is. I really dig it when the orchestration gets thick. I also didn't except Koran Shoujo to come back either! I absolutely love the proggy stuff, but I get tired of it quickly at the same time.... yet I seem to want to come back to it, anyway. Speaking of returning music, this contest really has been good to me. Photoconductity Third Tune (as part of the whole suite), Dreams in a Pie, Breath of Forest, Break the Limit, and Merciless Savior were all tracks I wanted to see back, and I didn't even help get any of them in except Dreams in a Pie! Wyrm's Jewelbox almost made it in, too. That leaves Massive X as the only one left. Maybe I'll try to get that one in next year!! As for Kusanagi Village.... absolutely amazing music. A 9.8 rating means it's expected to be in my top 50 vgm, easily. It might be my fave of the whole contest. And it has to go up against Night Birds? Really? And Treasure Town! PMD! I certainly like it, but it just doesn't compare to a lot of other PMD music. Match is tough because Time Moves Slow has good chords and good brass.... Needless to say, a very strong day today. --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think." ... Copied to Clipboard!
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UF8 06/02/22 11:00:07 PM #14: |
SOFT LANDING CORE ETHEREAL FOLKLORE HAPPY JIG 7.8 9.35 8.7 8.95 6.7 7 :) my family had a NISSAN BLUEBIRD back in the 90s it was alright ... Copied to Clipboard!
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DoctorJimmy133 06/02/22 11:08:35 PM #15: |
Endless Night Time Really wish I could appreciate all the cool Camellia crap happening in Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!! but uhhhhh that's kinda difficult I like Treasure Town a lot and feel bad voting against the "happy early game/town music" since I don't think that type of music generally does well, but its opponent is top tier stuff. --- azuarc is quite good at predicting GameFAQs bracket battles. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Chaeix 06/02/22 11:11:51 PM #16: |
An Endless Desert Night birds Treasure Town --- we're all buds~jc~ <DeathChicken> you are my hero for being the first person to cite National Geographic in Mercs ... Copied to Clipboard!
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tgs2 06/02/22 11:22:31 PM #17: |
An Endless Desert Night Birds Treasure Town Soflan-chan is much more tolerable in its short version. Treasure Town is peak happy town music and I am probably underrating it here a bit. An Endless Desert [9.5] Soflan-chan long [4.5] Night Birds [9] Kusanagi Village [7] Time Moves Slow [7.5] Treasure Town [8] I didn't hard rank anything yet, but I did put together a "gut feeling" top 20 after going through the bracket. I guess I can reveal it as the songs show up. 1. ??? 2. ??? 3. ??? 4. ??? 5. ??? 6. ??? 7. ??? 8. Alto's Odyssey - An Endless Desert 9. ??? 10. ??? 11. ??? 12. Napple Tale - Dreams in a Pie 13. ??? 14. ??? 15. ??? 16. ??? 17. ??? 18. ??? 19. ??? 20. ??? ... Copied to Clipboard!
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golden009 06/03/22 12:42:40 AM #18: |
Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!! (Asynchronicity Unlimited Progressive Polyrhythmic Nightmare Long Version) Night birds Time Moves Slow (Home) soflan, soflan, soflan-lan (time moves slow is also very good) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Isquen 06/03/22 1:06:29 AM #19: |
Endless Desert Kusanagi Village Time Moves Slow I think one of the top YouTube comments on soflan paraphrases my opinion of it (interesting rhythm and ideas but kill it with fire) Match 2 is really close, on the other hand. I'm going to be sad no matter which of these loses out. Match 3, that certainly is a happy Pokemon theme. Not really what I felt today. Time Moves Slow, meanwhile, feels like Animal Crossing swerved into a lounge singer and it's really cool as a result. --- [Earthshaker] ... Copied to Clipboard!
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HidekuniHorita 06/03/22 1:22:59 AM #20: |
Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!! (Asynchronicity Unlimited Progressive Polyrhythmic Nightmare Long Version) Night birds Time Moves Slow (Home) Could go either way on the first two matches, really like all four tracks feels bad --- Omniscience lies beyond the void, beyond decay! I am one with the Akashic Records! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Akkrillic 06/03/22 1:40:26 AM #21: |
An Endless Desert Kusanagi Village Time Moves Slow (Home) 8.3 1.9 5.5 7.2 8.7 8.3 First match is good because I learn who to block on Discord --- Ok ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Prince46 06/03/22 2:02:08 AM #22: |
An Endless Desert Night birds Treasure Town Well, thanks for the free anime episode, whatever that was. No pressure on first and second matches. Dreams is a excellent song, but I love Treasure Town a bit more. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Collen 06/03/22 2:07:14 AM #23: |
An Endless Desert Night birds Time Moves Slow (Home) --- But there's a hole in my head and that's where I see and hear and dream through Seems like that leaks out and I forget all the wonderful things escape me now ... Copied to Clipboard!
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cakophon 06/03/22 2:07:38 AM #24: |
Progressive / Night / Time An Endless Desert: Various acoustic timbres blend together to create a shifting soundscape, cool as an oasis as they provide a respite from the heat. Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!!: She reigns over chaos, using her trusty hammer to clobber every convention, as well as anyone who dares disagree. Night birds: The bustling city comes to life as the sun sets, with passersby in fashionable clothing chatting, and streetlamps flickering on one by one. Kusanagi Village: Legends tell of a civilization that thrived using self-made technology, but its existence is so shrouded in mystery now so as to become mythologic. Time Moves Slow (Home): Walking down a dark road at night, recalling past mistakes, but hoping for better days, a cool breeze brushes past your face. Treasure Town: A cute band of musicians are gathered in the square, with folk coming in from everywhere, joining to see what all the fun and dancing is about. Konran > Desert > Night birds >= Kusanagi = Time > Treasure very strong day (feel like i think this every day) --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdnOym-kbh4 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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KCF0107 06/03/22 3:57:54 AM #25: |
Endless Night Town --- KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Mihark 06/03/22 4:37:25 AM #26: |
An Endless Desert Night birds Treasure Town ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Tked 06/03/22 5:13:27 AM #27: |
An Endless Desert Kusanagi Village Treasure Town ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Fivda 06/03/22 5:31:53 AM #28: |
Alto's Odyssey - An Endless Desert Gran Turismo 5 - Night birds Dreams - Time Moves Slow (Home) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Team Rocket Elite 06/03/22 5:32:07 AM #29: |
Alto's Odyssey - An Endless Desert Okami - Kusanagi Village Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness - Treasure Town --- My bracket looked like random picks compared to his. Congrats to azuarc for winning the GotD 2020 Guru Contest! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Place 06/03/22 6:41:49 AM #30: |
Gamer god forgive me for I have sinned SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS - Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!! (Asynchronicity Unlimited Progressive Polyrhythmic Nightmare Long Version) Okami - Kusanagi Village Dreams - Time Moves Slow (Home) Today's batch really runs the gamut. Tempted to do away with my .5 increment system since the point differences between these are pretty significant. For now though, today's showcase: [9.0] Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!! (Asynchronicity Unlimited Progressive Polyrhythmic Nightmare Long Version) [9.0] An Endless Desert [9.0] Time Moves Slow (Home) [9.0] Kusanagi Village [8.5] Night Birds [5.5] Treasure Town --- Hi. I wanna play you something. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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tennisboy213 06/03/22 6:43:43 AM #31: |
An Endless Desert Kusanagi Village Treasure Town --- rich af ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Prody Parrot 06/03/22 6:51:15 AM #32: |
Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!! (Asynchronicity Unlimited Progressive Polyrhythmic Nightmare Long Version) Night birds Treasure Town ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Flamander 06/03/22 8:10:09 AM #33: |
Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!! (Asynchronicity Unlimited Progressive Polyrhythmic Nightmare Long Version) Night birds Time Moves Slow (Home) --- cathode on discord ... Copied to Clipboard!
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andylt 06/03/22 8:15:02 AM #34: |
An Endless Desert Night birds Treasure Town Endless Desert is chill! Soflan-chan is not! I don't like being mean to people's tracks but Soflan is one of the ~4 tracks in this contest I find straight up unpleasant to listen to. Match 2 is difficult, they are both doing kinda interesting things but aren't massively my jam. The sax in night birds is enough to push it over the top. Kusanagi is a lil too minimalist for me, I like it more as it goes on though. Time Moves Slow feels like it should be something I really like, but it doesn't go anywhere exciting imo. Treasure Town's pleasant beepy boops take it. Desert: 3.5/5 soflan: no/5 Night birds: 3/5 Kusanagi: 2.5/5 Time: 2/5 Treasure: 3/5 --- Very slowly becoming a Final Fantasy aficionado. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MoonRunes 06/03/22 9:05:09 AM #35: |
An Endless Desert Kusanagi Village Time Moves Slow (Home) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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tazzyboyishere 06/03/22 9:44:52 AM #36: |
An Endless Desert Night birds Treasure Town Treasure (4) > Desert (3) > Birds (3) > Time (3) > Village (3) > Soflan (1) Okay wow, Soflan is fucking bad, and definitely not the Michael Jackson version of the word. Everyone who nominated this in over actually good music is now onmy List of Unestablished Consequence. Treasure Town is great because it sounds like it was made for baby children and that is me except I am a grown man so maybe this is just weird. Endless Desert is pretty solid but also pretty boring and I can't make up my mind. The rest of my opinions on literally everything else can be summed up by that Futurama meme where the guy says, "I have no strong feelings one way or the other." So look that up on the YouTube if you would like to better understand my thoughts. --- http://i.imgur.com/l7xxLh1.jpg PSN/Steam - RoboQuote ; NNID - TazzyMan ... Copied to Clipboard!
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banshiryuu 06/03/22 9:59:17 AM #37: |
huh???? An Endless Desert, i think Kusanagi Village Treasure Town dude what is today lmao (9th) Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness - Treasure Town (17th) Alto's Odyssey - An Endless Desert (19th) Okami - Kusanagi Village (20th) SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS - Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!! (Asynchronicity Unlimited Progressive Polyrhythmic Nightmare Long Version) (24th) Gran Turismo 5 - Night birds (30th) Dreams - Time Moves Slow (Home) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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sergiocornaga 06/03/22 9:59:24 AM #38: |
An Endless Desert Kusanagi Village Time Moves Slow (Home) DAY OF TODD BAKER ... Copied to Clipboard!
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banshiryuu 06/03/22 10:00:55 AM #39: |
From Toxtricity: An Endless Desert (Altos Odyssey) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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rwlh 06/03/22 10:51:38 AM #40: |
1. ??? 2. ??? 3. ??? 4. ??? 5. ??? 6. Dreams in a Pie 7. ??? 8. ??? 9. ??? 10. ??? 11. ??? 12. ??? 13. ??? 14. ??? 15. ??? 16. ??? 17. ??? 18. Kusanagi Village 19. ??? 20. ??? 21. ??? 22. ??? 23. ??? 24. ??? 25. ??? 26. ??? 27. ??? 28. ??? 29. ??? 30. ??? 31. Time Moves Slow 32. ??? 33. ??? 34. ??? 35. ??? 36. ??? 37. ??? 38. ??? 39. ??? 40. ??? 41. ??? 42. ??? 43. ??? 44. ??? 45. ??? 46. ??? 47. ??? 48. ??? 49. ??? 50. Kaze no Ne Kusanagi Village is one of my favorite discoveries from nominations. I love its minimalism, but also how it gradually turns into something fuller and never loses its identity. The transition into a fuller production is very satisfying. PLODDING SOUL sounds like an insult :O Anyway, Time Moves Slow was a discovery for me from Rate the VGM. More than PLODDING, I consider it HYPNOTIC, the way it conveys the raw emotion behind the cryptic lyrics. ("Running away is easy / it's the leaving that's hard" is a great couplet.) I've never harbored any illusions that this might do well, but I'm just happy it got in, so it can be shared with everyone. :) Votes: Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!! (Asynchronicity Unlimited Progressive Polyrhythmic Nightmare Long Version) Kusanagi Village Time Moves Slow (Home) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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xx521xx 06/03/22 10:59:38 AM #41: |
Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!! (Asynchronicity Unlimited Progressive Polyrhythmic Nightmare Long Version) Night birds Treasure Town --- Optimism is the first step to disappointment. xx521xx ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MaxGalactica 06/03/22 11:07:03 AM #42: |
An Endless Desert is probably my least favorite of the three Alto songs in the contest, but it's still quite nice. Great instrument choices here with the woodwinds, percussion, piano, and all. I love the irregular rhythms at 1:08. The percussion break in the middle is very pleasant as well. The lack of a strong motif in this makes it weaker than the other Alto songs for me, but it's a wonderful sonic experience as a whole regardless. Night birds is good jazz stuff. Great piano here. Nice synth lead and soprano sax too. Smooth bass work as well. I may just pay attention to the bass next time I listen to this, because there are a lot of cool little riffs throughout that may be hard to notice otherwise. Kusanagi Village is a pretty unique piece from Okami. I initially didn't like it that much when I first heard it years and years ago, but returning to it brought new light to it for me. Interesting rhythms, great soundscape, pretty solid song all-around. Probably not enough for me to favor it over Night birds though. It's unfortunate that there isn't a good quality studio version of Time Moves Slow out there. This is a great R&B piece. Roxanne Tataei (at least I believe it's her judging by some sources) does a fantastic job on the vocals. And the instrumental is great as well. Definitely my favorite song from A2 thus far. Interesting celtic vibes to Treasure Town here. But like many Pokmon songs for me, the fake instruments really hurt the experience. It's also too short for it to stick with me. Match 2 was a bit tougher, but the other two were incredibly easy for me. Votes: An Endless Desert Night birds Time Moves Slow (Home) --- Don't trust everything that you read on the Internet. -Abraham Lincoln ... Copied to Clipboard!
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GameBopAdv 06/03/22 11:11:31 AM #43: |
Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!! (Asynchronicity Unlimited Progressive Polyrhythmic Nightmare Long Version) Night birds Treasure Town --- Kopazzynth (I should probably go ahead and change this username soon) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Raetsel_Lapin 06/03/22 11:29:33 AM #44: |
An Endless Desert Night birds Time Moves Slow (Home) --- Scooby-Doo is many things, but it's definitely not a hard-core Tekken fan's idea of fun; this I can say with sheer sincerity. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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PabloSmith 06/03/22 11:38:45 AM #45: |
An Endless Desert Kusanagi Village Time Moves Slow (Home) --- We schlitty ... Copied to Clipboard!
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DanKirby 06/03/22 11:59:43 AM #46: |
An Endless Desert Night birds Treasure Town --- (>'.')> "The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes ... Copied to Clipboard!
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arthurgolden 06/03/22 12:23:18 PM #47: |
An Endless Desert Night birds Time Moves Slow (Home) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Janus5k 06/03/22 12:24:17 PM #48: |
Konran Shoujo Soflan-chan!! (Asynchronicity Unlimited Progressive Polyrhythmic Nightmare Long Version) Night birds Treasure Town I can't believe Camellia did this (that's a lie I absolutely can) Kusanagi has a nice feel to it but I am a sucker for smooth saxophone Third match seems like one of those things that could come down to my mood, and right now I am feeling the ":)" of Treasure Town more than melancholy of Time Moves Slow --- A hero cannot be defeated simply by making him die. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Sceptilesolar 06/03/22 1:20:13 PM #49: |
An Endless Desert Night birds Time Moves Slow (Home) I listened to all of Soflan, but it was like 'Eventually Sceptile stopped thinking'. I hope you liked that because I'll be saying it again later in the contest, I think. Anyway this was fine. Endless Desert was good. --- Just killing time until the world ends. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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TheArkOfTurus 06/03/22 1:39:10 PM #50: |
An Endless Desert Kusanagi Village Time Moves Slow (Home) --- Our eyes were removed For our own safety ... Copied to Clipboard!
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