Board 8 > [BOST6] Best OST Contest Day 62 feat. Babies and QUARTERFINALS

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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 6 Match 1

Mad Rat Dead - Neuchatel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fKMRdL0XB4

Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Bramble Blast
https://youtu.be/watch?v=oir8-1FoS-I

Snubs' Bracket: Quarter-Finals Match 1

Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth - Kimigatame - For You (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw8DIaJ3t_A

Bravely Default II - Shadows Cast By the Mighty: Swift Judgment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iJnGWaeJSc

Vote Form:
Neuchatel / Bramble Blast
Kimigatame - For You (2016) / Shadows Cast By the Mighty: Swift Judgment

Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Bramble Blast
Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth - Kimigatame - For You (2016)

Bramble Blast
Shadows Cast By the Mighty: Swift Judgment

Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Bramble Blast
Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth - Kimigatame - For You (2016)

Bramble Blast
Shadows Cast By the Mighty: Swift Judgment

Neuchatel
Kimigatame - For You (2016)

6 v 1 on Mad Rat match is tough. Ah well.

Neuchatel
Kimigatame - For You (2016)

abstain
Kimigatame - For You (2016)

Neuchatel
Kimigatame - For You

Bramble Blast
Shadows Cast By the Mighty: Swift Judgment

Match 1: this is my 2nd least favorite MRD song so far. It's decent unlike my least favorite but this is still a very easy vote for Brawl.
As for Bramble Blast, I'm just gonna copy-paste my commentary from rtvgm for it--I really like the acoustic guitar on this. This is a great remix of an already great song. However, Im probably one of the only people who still enjoy the original song much more. The melody feels drowned out and hard to hear at certain points in this remix. I might even go as far as to say this is kinda overrated. As I said before though, its still a remix of stickerbush symphony, so its still great by default despite my thinking the original is better.

Match 2: I actually don't mind the singing in Kimigatame - For You (2016) all that much. It's good but doesn't hold a candle to Shadows.
Hooooo boy Shadows Cast by the Mighty is an absolute banger. Probably either my 2nd or 3rd favorite from the ost (still annoyed Hellblade wasn't in the set but whatever anyways). I had this ranked 2nd out of 152 songs from the 2021 contest if that's any indication of how much I really dig this song. That guitar solo is pure bliss.

Overall rankings:
Shadows Cast by the Mighty >>>>>>>> Bramble Blast > Kimigatame - For You (2016) >>> Neuchatel

Bramble Blast
Shadows Cast By the Mighty: Swift Judgment

Rage Beneath the Mountains wouldn't have won here, either. All four tracks today are decent, as I would hope to be the case this late in the tournament.

Bramble Blast
Kim ig at ame - For You (2016)

Bramble Blast
Shadows Cast By the Mighty: Swift Judgment

Bramble Blast
Kimigatame

match 1 evil

Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Bramble Blast
Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth - Kimigatame - For You (2016)

match 2 evil

neuchatel
swift judgment

this is a bangin' day overall

Bramble Blast
Kimigatame - For You (2016)

Mad Rat Dead - Neuchatel
Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth - Kimigatame - For You (2016)

SaoriKobayashi posted...

Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth - Kimigatame - For You (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw8DIaJ3t_A

Does anyone have a backup link for this song? Uploader's account was deleted.

Bramble Blast

Will vote in the other match once we get a new upload

Fluttershy_Pony posted...

Does anyone have a backup link for this song? Uploader's account was deleted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj-HgcU366c

Kimigatame - For You (2016)

Neuchatel
Kimigatame - For You (2016)

Thank you!

Neuchatel
Kimigatame - For You (2016)

Thanks for the new link.

Match 1, I'm like the opposite of Waveshine. 2nd favorite MRD song, versus top 5 Brawl song. This made it really friggin difficult.

Match 2... I dunno, I'm not feeling BD2 at all today.

Bramble
Kimi

Bramble Blast
Me & My Kimigatame

Bramble Blast
Shadows Cast By the Mighty: Swift Judgment

New Cattle
Key Mega At Me

Bramble Blast
Shadows Cast By the Mighty: Swift Judgment

Solid snubs match, as usual.

Bramble Blast
Kimigatame - For You (2016)

Bramble Blast
Shadows Cast By the Mighty: Swift Judgment

There's just something about Neuchatel that tries to mix its calmer melody with its harsher dubstep elements that sounds alright, but doesn't feel as strong as other MRD songs that I really enjoy.

The snubs today are really good. I'm just sad the channel that had all the Utawaremono music got nuked. =(

Mad Rat Dead - Neuchatel

Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth - Kimigatame - For You (2016)

Neuchatel
Shadows Cast By the Mighty: Swift Judgment

bramble blast
kimigatame

once again, second time in a row, i must choose between my darling rat and the standout track in a bost set that, while i do like overall, has more "lows". if we were voting for the overall set, i'd go with the rat, but alas ...

positively gutted that the utawarerumono set got the nuke. out of all the sets i listened to after the nomination phase ended, this one may just be the best. holy cow, what a breathtaking soundtrack, and that's just the songs i've heard through bost.

Bramble Blast
Kimigatame - For You (2016)

I like some of the electronic elements in Neuchatel, and don't like others. Pretty mixed feelings on this one. Bramble Blast is a classic, although there are definitely better versions of this song.

Both songs on this match are good songs, but nothing I'd go back to. Probably leaning a bit more towards Revo this time.

Decent day.

Votes:
Bramble Blast
Shadows Cast By the Mighty: Swift Judgment

Bramble Blast
Kimigatame - For You

Easy top 3 VGM tracks for me. Don't know if I'd put it above or below Dire Dire Docks, but it's not competing against DDD.

It takes a strong vocal track to unseat a pretty good battle theme for me, but I think Kimigatame's doing it for me right now. I like the repeated lines of "Reflected in your eyes, what color am I?
If you wish for x, I will give you y planetary feature (subverted slightly at the end)".

Neuchatel
Kimigatame - For You (2016)