Board 8 > [BOST6] Best OST Contest Day 62 feat. Campfires

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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.
- All votes must be delivered to the host within 24 hours of a match starting. If you would like to vote early, please DM me and I'll provide the match seed. 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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Losers' Bracket: Round 5 Match 4

Super Mario Galaxy - Melty Molten Galaxy
https://youtu.be/otf9J1B4o1s

Sigma Harmonics - Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCuOBroAA5M

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Vote Form:
Melty Molten Galaxy / Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

For the record the match prior to this technically isn't finished so the songs featured today may change, but the results are pretty convincing so it's VERY UNLIKELY that they'll change and a new topic would need to be made

Super Mario Galaxy - Melty Molten Galaxy

Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

My 63rd favorite vgm ;)

Melty Molten Galaxy

Melty Molten Galaxy

Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

Melty Molten Galaxy

Melty Molten Galaxy

melty molten might just be my favorite lava/fire level song in any video game. Easy vote here.

Sigma Harmonics - Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

Sigma Harmonics - Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

Yeah, this one's not close. Melty Molten Galaxy has a fantastic mix of orchestra with Middle-Eastern elements to create the fiery vibe, and the usage of synths really fits the mix as well. Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl" isn't bad, but it's not anything special either. Nice violin at least.

Vote:
Melty Molten Galaxy

Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

contrary to the votes with comments so far i am not going to say this is an easy match, yes melty molten is damn good. having said that this is one of the most iconic hamauzu songs despite its niche game source for a reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXmXtDIg2j0

Hope Giving "DAnCe OF thE doG's hOwL"

Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

woof

Melty Molten Galaxy

Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

Hope Giving Dance of the Wolf's Howl

I do appreciate Melty a lot. It's "harsh" in a way that few Mario tracks are, and that makes it appeal to me more than most Mario tracks to. But Hope is just out of this world.

Sigma Harmonics - Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

hope giving "dance of the dog's howl"

smg never fails to be competent, even awesome, but oh my lord, dog's howl is easily one of the best pieces of vgm i've heard in recent years.

Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

Both good! I like Melty Monster more than Molten.

Melty Molten Galaxy

Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

Hope Giving "Dance of the Dog's Howl"

Melty Molten was easily one of the first songs that stuck out to me back in the Wii era of gaming, I really loved the idea of "Middle Eastern/desert meets orchestra" that Melty Molten presented to me. The drums, the sitar, the "space" synths that's used throughout all of Galaxy's OST, all intertwined with an great orchestral backing to boot - it's SUCH a excellent choice for a "lava planet" stage that I feel it deserves to have a spot when speaking about the best of what Mario offers overall for music.

Dog's Howl, on the other hand....I first got introduced to the soundtrack thanks to cako, WAY back in the first year of Supracord guessing games. I had less of an idea of who Hamauzu was - I wasn't too familiar with the names of Squeenix composers, only the works themselves - but hearing Dog's Howl for the first time instantly got me hooked and I immediately wanted to know more of what Hamauzu made. The song for me is "dramatic and energetic mixed together correctly", with the strong violins, the keyboard, the cool synths, the slight pop rhythm at a certain part; I have replayed this song SO many times over the past 2 years, just to keep getting the same feeling of me being swept away for the first time.

TL:DR, I both really love and really hate this matchup. Easily two of the best songs I've ever heard in my life, and I'm both happy and sad they're facing each other like this. I'll be sad to see the loser go, but I'm so happy it'll have ended like this.