Board 8 > [BOST6] Best OST Contest Day 7 feat. Space Races, Space Races and Space Races

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Greetings, and welcome to the Best OST Contest 6! In this contest, you and fellow video game soundtrack lovers will come together to once and for all answer the question "What is the best video game soundtrack? (For now.)"

Links:
Contest Bracket and Info - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dzksb-FzWnDGAZKUYQ6qJNkBJkp88TRVk9TmnPthy00
Discussion Thread - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80233689

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VOTING RULES

- Each match will be between the songs representing each game, not the game as a whole. Please remember to listen and vote with this in mind! Any votes referring to a game name rather than a song name will not be counted.
- Listen to both songs!! If one is your literal favorite song in the world and the other is something you hate with a passion, listen to them both!!
- No alts, no rallying, no begging for something to get more votes, etc., etc., you know the drill.
- If you change your mind and would like to swap your vote, you may do so. As soon as it is 24 hours since the match topic was started, you may not change your vote and new votes will not be counted.

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Winners' Bracket: Round 1 Match 13

League of Legends - K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3f56QPX99o

Super Smash Bros. Melee - Mute City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bre3Fh3hKwk

Winners' Bracket: Round 1 Match 14

Rivals of Aether - Luna Ascension EX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWzt8PJxndw

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - Amiss Abyss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V2l_Id2zHA

Snubs' Bracket: Round 1 Match 7

Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Voyage 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CTQ67oFF4U

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - Streetwize
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTINr-tsDSI

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Vote Form:
K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah / Mute City
Luna Ascension EX / Amiss Abyss
Voyage 1969 / Streetwize

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Luna Ascension EX
Streetwize

I feel relatively strongly about every match today.

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Streetwize

match 1 is my two favorite tracks of the day which is why i am not voting in it

Mute City
Luna Ascension
Streetwize

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Luna Ascension EX
Streetwize

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Luna Ascension EX
Streetwize

Super Smash Bros. Melee - Mute City
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - Amiss Abyss
Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Voyage 1969

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Luna Ascension EX
Voyage 1969

Mute City
Amiss Abyss
Voyage 1969

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Luna Ascension EX
Streetwize

Surprising myself with that first vote. I never realized Mute City was only a 45-second loop. Never heard KSante before but its magnificent.

Mute City
Amiss Abyss
Voyage 1969

Ok I've decided on match 1

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
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Mute City
Luna Ascension EX
Voyage 1969

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Luna Ascension EX
Voyage 1969

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Amiss Abyss
Voyage 1969

Mute City
Luna Ascension EX
Voyage 1969

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Luna Ascension EX
Streetwize

League of Legends - K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Rivals of Aether - Luna Ascension EX
Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Voyage 1969

Mute City
Luna Ascension EX
Voyage 1969

Mute City
Amiss Abyss
Voyage 1969

K'Sante isn't my kind of thing, Mute City is basic but solid.
I love Amiss Abyss and I'm glad it made the cut for TF. Luna is fun too but doesn't have as much substance imo, an easy vote for me.
Voyage is a weirdly relaxing Touhou, Streetwize has higher highs and I like its journey but it isn't as consistent. Hmm... giving it to Voyage, but this is the closest match of the day for me!

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Luna Ascention EX
Streetwize

Mute City
Luna Ascension EX
Voyage 1969

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Luna Ascension EX
Voyage 1969

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Amiss Abyss
Voyage 1969

K'Sante has some very nice percussion and synths. Pretty interesting to mix these types of synths with the tribal-style vocals. This was definitely one of my favorites out of the LoL setlist. The brass is a bit overblown, but it's fine. Good one to listen to with headphones. Mute City is cool, although it's an extremely short loop. Definitely voting for K'Sante here.

To be quite honest, I haven't really found a flashygoodness song that I've really enjoyed. Luna Ascension EX has an ok melody, and it's certainly better than Indignant Divinity, but it's still a rather weak composition in my eyes. Amiss Abyss on the other hand is by far my favorite song of the day. Fantastic melody and instrumentation. Easiest vote of the day for me.

Well, Voyage 1969 wasn't too bad until the zunpets came in. The piano is decent at least. Streetwize is pretty decent, though not really something I'd go back to. The section starting at 1:21 is the best part. Streetwize definitely gets my vote here.

Votes:
K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Amiss Abyss
Streetwize

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Luna Ascension EX
Streetwize

MaxGalactica posted...

Mute City is cool, although it's an extremely short loop.

Please. Shorter music is not inherently inferior!

My apologies for the tone of that statement. I should just say "nope" and leave it at that (in fact, that's what I'll say from now on in these situations).

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Luna Ascension EX
Streetwise

love the african inspired music.

lots of talk in discords about how LA EX isn't as good as the original, and while I agree (it feels less dynamic?), it's still awesome. Amiss Abyss impressed too, to be fair. It was a tough choice.

i wish i knew why it's 1969 and not some other year. I assume there's some hidden reference (like with U.N. Owen Was Her), but i don't know it ;_; The Zunpet really suits the track. I also jammed to Streetwise a lot though... Ugh toughie #2.

Haste_2 posted...

My apologies for the tone of that statement. I should just say "nope" and leave it at that (in fact, that's what I'll say from now on in these situations).

No worries. I agree with you that short loops don't necessarily make a song inferior, but it is less common that I really enjoy a shorter piece due to the lack of time to really develop a theme like I generally prefer in music. Mute City is cool, but I voted K'Sante because I found it to be even cooler. My vote had little to do with the lengths tbh.

dowolf posted...

i wish i knew why it's 1969 and not some other year. I assume there's some hidden reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Luna Ascension EX
Voyage 1969

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Luna Ascension EX
Voyage 1969

nearly forgot i got interrupted before i could vote yesterday

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Luna Ascension EX
Voyage 1969

streetwize is very good but voyage 1969 is one of my favorite touhous

Mute City
Luna Ascension EX
Streetwize

love voyage 1969 a lot but somehow.... it would've won if it was 1970 instead!! streetwize is a new-ish discovery that i've really latched onto and yeah its the one song jj2 needed to roll to win me here lol

kinda mad mute city is getting my vote cause im kinda meh on it which makes me mad cause mute city is great, but yeah sorry Bishop your song isn't doing anything for me

Mute City
Amiss Abyss
Voyage 1969

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Amiss Abyss
Voyage 1969

Mute City
Amiss Abyss
Streetwize

Streetwize so cool

conscious abstention this time

Mute City
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Streetwize

League of Legends - K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Rivals of Aether - Luna Ascension EX

Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Voyage 1969

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Luna Ascension EX
Voyage 1969

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Amiss Abyss
Streetwize

Hbthebattle posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

Oh! Cool, thanks!

League of Legends - K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Rivals of Aether - Luna Ascension EX
Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Voyage 1969

Lot of games rolling my favourite song from them today. Not Tropical Freeze, though. Praying for the loser there to do well in losers

League of Legends - K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Rivals of Aether - Luna Ascension EX
Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Voyage 1969

K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah
Luna Ascension EX
Streetwize

Real good day all around, that Match 1 vote surprised me the most.

Also, man Jazz Jackrabbit really went and just knocked me out with that synth.

k'sante
amiss abyss
voyage 1969

i find league music to be deceptively complex. there's a need to make a song fit a character in an anachronistic world, and, for the most part a lot of these tracks are very unique, while also cohesive. of course there's also like the k/da stuff that's outliers, but still. this is one of my favorites, and it is so new too! very pleased at how riot has been killing it from the artistic direction lately. mute city is cool too, but not near as mind blowing to me. it still makes me happy though, because i love f-zero :)

the best rivals of aether song and it isn't even originally from this game!! wow. really cool. tower of heaven has such good music and i'm glad to see this particular one expanded upon. one of my favourite additions is the faint sound of bells. this is definitely a bad matchup for dktf. any other roa song and i'd very, very easily choose dkc. this setlist may have been a mixed bag for me, but the hits hit hard -- and amiss abyss is one of the best ones! really love the sound of the flute and the underwater soundscape. vote goes for dkc, but as i said it is closed than would normally be.

voyage 1969 (nice) is a song whose inclusion i wholeheartedly supported being on this set. i love the quiet urgency, how a touhou song could lean towards relaxing at times but still keep pushing forward. whoa wtf streetwize is much cooler than i remembered this vote is surprisingly close!

Super Smash Bros. Melee - Mute City
Rivals of Aether - Luna Ascension EX
Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Voyage 1969

Voyage 1969 is one of my favorite Imperishable Night songs! Very happy to see it drawn as the first song. Streetwize is a really cool song too, though, but it got a rough matchup.

dowolf posted...

Oh! Cool, thanks!

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