Board 8 > [VGMC] Day 42! feat. Keys, Coasters, Deserts, Royalty, Reality, and Immortality

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Project Wingman - Kings
Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke

Got more raves?
Desert-Duo
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke

Got more raves?
Desert-Duo
Reach for reality

Got more raves?
Desert-Duo
Reach for reality

Got more raves?
Kings
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke

Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia - EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY/. - 6- I like the balance of the soft prayer like vocals and the deeper orchestral backing vocals. The instrumentation, while sparse, adds a nice layer of complexity to the melody. I do wish there was more variation in the instruments though. Or there was a verse that sounded a bit more different, i started to drift out of it.

GROOVE COASTER - Got more raves? -6.5 - The beat of this was really cool, but man the fact that the melodic progressions were bordering on dissonant insanity messes with me. I like the bolder synths and the organs. I just wish it would give itself more breathing room to develop.

[-Aka-] - Desert-Duo - 6.5- The instrumentation is simple, but effective. I do like how it kicked it up a notch after the first minute with the vocals dramatically bursting. The violin (?) has an unique tonal clashing to the silky smooth vocals that I find fun to listen to. The same for the sonic adventure like boings. They add a fun flavor

Project Wingman - Kings - 7.5- This is what i imagine a hyped up fire emblem track sounds like. Or perhaps civilization. Regality and deep drum pounds. The strings play this quick driving melody that starts out a bit hidden but really takes center stage halfway through. It just gets really hype and sinister. Im ambivalent on the slower dramatic ending.

htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary - Reach for reality -3 -This song feels like exploring the unknown depths of a cave or ocean, but with wonder instead of fear and trepidation. It was kinda boring and also annoying? The robotic like sounds just felt too fast and changed key or tempo too much for me to settle into a nice zen state. It wasnt exciting enough to awaken my senses to actually like it either.

Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke -5 -
last years comments: Ah the meme song. I'm not sure how I feel about touhou music. Part of me wants to reject it, but at the same time, some tunes are very catchy and i can't help but jam along. I enjoyed the middle part of this song (1:20ish) where several instruments built on top of each other in a increasing crescendo of complexity and brilliance. Unfortunately this song doesn't go hard enough for me to really enjoy it.
this years: Just how many times do we hve to teach you this lesson old man! How have I never noticed that clacking sound, which sounds like a film clapperboard. It kinda takes me out of the experience ahaha. The really fast chime like instruments that chromatically move up and down add a nice shininess to the track. The trumpet at the end starts off cool, but it gets too high pitched for me.

EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY/.
Desert-Duo
Reach for reality

Writeups later.

EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY/
Kings
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke

Got more raves?
Kings
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke

Got more raves?
Desert-Duo
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke

Busy night, but I voted just in time.

Kings was definitely better than I thought it'd be, but it sadly can't trump Aka for me. Overall, this was a pretty decent day.

Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia - EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY/.
[-Aka-] - Desert-Duo
Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke

Busy with stuff right now, so no time for writeups, but Chronicle Key good. I picked it as my D4 retiree, but it was a strong run with White Spell vs. To Faraway Times R3 into To Faraway Times vs. Chronicle Key R4.

Got more raves?
Desert-Duo
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke

late again lollll oopsie :P

failgirlema posted...

late again lollll oopsie :P

Good news, for match 1 you get a chance to vote again!

EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY/.: Really nice violin and vocals in this one. I definitely like the more pleasant, more grounded AT songs a lot more than the more unhinged ones. Very nice song.

Got more raves?: Some neat synths in here, though I feel like it's not doing enough to really capture my interest for longer than some short specific sections. Decent song.

Desert-Duo: Another very nice song. Good vocals, strings, and percussion throughout. I like this one more than the other Aka songs in the contest.

Kings: Pretty impressive Ace Combat-like song. Very cool percussion and brass more than anything. I do think it drags a bit relative to the amount of ideas it presents, and it doesn't really build on itself to make up for it. Still a good song.

Reach for reality: This one's got a really cool soundscape. I like how it speeds up in the second half. Don't have much else to say on it, cool song.

Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke: No.

Match 2 is pretty close, but most everything today was pretty good (with one obvious exception).

Votes reiterated:
EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY/.
Desert-Duo
Reach for reality