Board 8 > [VGMC] Day 52! feat. Team Two Words vs Team Parenthesis Or Hyphens

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Welcome to Video Game Music Contest 19, 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=479594
Contest info sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HqEzmlfEUsm6BWJbBxDm6ZUnQQ_2d1ezDlVBN2sYepY
Contest discussion thread: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80981071
Main bracket playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT3m7iohpL0zm7Svx4DXDy1XjUejSBazd
Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HBxgL9woiCMFKNOPuN_qdxmzjStJXSpC3Ocalfsavdk
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o
VGMC info site (thank you p0!!): https://p0p0p0p.github.io/
Discord: https://discord.gg/7FVXqWj

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!

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Match 1

beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA - Adularia (Long Mix)
Composer: Yoshihiro Tagawa (DJ TOTTO)
Loop Point: 4:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uDgq5ZfKgE

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder (Sega CD) - Dwarven Ruins
Composer: Motohiro Kawashima
Loop Point: 3:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYQt15h5kGo

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Match 2

Secret of Mana - Meridian Dance
Composer: Hiroki Kikuta
Loop Point: 1:43
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E2LqFwn9v8

Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse - Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Composer: Ryota Kozuka
Loop Point: 2:57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S73sumMd3nQ

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Match 3

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks - Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!)
Composer: Toru Minegishi
Loop Point: 3:08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W_bFLwB0WY

Senko no Ronde Rev.X - Last Stand
Composer: Yasuhisa Watanabe
Loop Point: 5:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zevFQyQNRA

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Easy vote form:
Adularia (Long Mix) / Dwarven Ruins
Meridian Dance / Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!) / Last Stand

beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA - Adularia (Long Mix)
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse - Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Senko no Ronde Rev.X - Last Stand

dwarven ruins
meridian dance
last stand

Dwarven Ruins (AD&D: Eye of the Beholder (SCD))
Battle f8 One Who Stands Against God (SMT4: Apoc)
Last Stand (Senko no Ronde Rev.X)

probabaly the first day in r2 where I confidently love every track I'm voting for

Adularia (Long Mix)
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Last Stand

Adularia (Long Mix)
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Last Stand

Adularia (Long Mix)
Meridian Dance
Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!)

Adularia
Battle f8
Last Stand

Dwarven Ruins
Meridian Dance
Last Stand

Dwarven Ruins
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Last Stand

Dwarven Ruins
Meridian Dance
Last Stand

Dwarven Ruins
Meridian Dance
Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!)

Adularia (Long Mix)
Meridian Dance
Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!)

feel strongly about all three but also will absolutely accept the opponents moving on

Adularia (Long Mix)
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!)

Adularia (Long Mix)
Meridian Dance
Last Stand

Dwarven Ruins
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Last Stand

Dwarven Ruins
Meridian Dance
Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!)

Adularia (Long Mix)
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Last Stand

Adularia (Long Mix)
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!)

Adularia (Long Mix) > Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!) > Dwarven Ruins > Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God > Last Stand > Meridian Dance

Dwarven Ruins
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
abstain

With different instrumentation (and maybe more intense energy), Dwarven Ruins would not be out of place in the Turok 2 N64 soundtrack.

Bad draw for Meridian Dance. I'd vote for it over almost everything else in the contest. Almost...

Adularia (Long Mix)
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!)

Dwarven Ruins
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Last Stand

Adularia (Long Mix)
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!)

Dwarven Ruins
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Last Stand

Really good music today. I would be fine with literally anything winning today. I hate voting against Meridian Dance, but Battle f8 is too good.

Dwarven Ruins
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Last Stand

Adularia
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Full Steam Ahead

Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God >= Full Steam Ahead >= Meridian Dance >= Adularia > Last Stand > Dwarven Ruins

Adularia - 8.5
see THIS is how to do an electronic rhythm game song, have the intense part complement what came before instead of entirely overriding it

Dwarven Ruins - 7
yep it's sure there

Meridian Dance - 8.5
I never listen to the GaMetal remix of this and I don't know why, I guess I just wrote it off at some point in the past for whatever reason? anyways really cool song I quite like it

Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God - 8.5
probably best SMT song, though there's a few I only know from their GaMetal remixes that might be better (two GaMetal mentions in a row I'm on FIRE). yeah idk what it is about it but I just really love this song's atmosphere, there's a specific vibe I get from some songs that I associate with old MKWii custom tracks for whatever reason and this song has that exact vibe so I kinda automatically love it

Full Steam Ahead - 8.5
this song is also known as Train Field 2 (Main Theme) and Overworld Adventure Part 2 (Main Theme) depending on the source, but as unreliable as it is Smash has the only official English translation of the song name so I'll default to that. anyways yeah one of the best Zelda songs for sure

Last Stand - 7.5
pretty neat song I like it

Adularia (Long Mix)
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Last Stand

Adularia
Meridian Dance
Full Steam Ahead

beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA - Adularia (Long Mix) receives rank 16 of 45. Adularia was at one point a support consideration. I'm kinda curious who the two groups are on the album art (but not enough to find out.) You know if something sounds kinda like Nekomata Master, but not quite, it's usually DJ Totto. I generally like songs from both. I wouldn't say Adularia does any one particular thing well that calls my attention to it, but amidst the glissandos and dramatic pauses, I simply find everything here pretty decent. 7.4/10

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder (Sega CD) - Dwarven Ruins receives rank 45 of 46. The track is kinda light-hearted in a serious way, if that makes any sense. Like, it's very tense, but in an off-balance way. Maybe because of all the varied meters it uses, some of which can't even be counted in 4 despite having a quarter note pulse. (Seems like it's usually 12 plus or minus 1 out of 8?) Anyway, other than metric guessing games, DR doesn't really do much for me. 4.5/10

Secret of Mana - Meridian Dance receives rank 1 of 47. Nhelv would probably have a better chance against Battle F8, but I'm happy Meridian is here. Is there a SNES track with a sicker bass line? And the song overall slaps, too. It means a lot to me that an original SoM track actually won a match for only the second time in 16 tries, even if all of those were prior to VGMC10. I'm not sure if I favor Fear of the Heavens or Meridian Dance, but I decided pre-contest that the final boss track would have a better shot than the title, and so far the reception has been pretty decent. That probably ends today. =( 9/10

Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse - Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God receives rank T10 of 48. The "oops we all forgot to support it" track is in this year and crushing heads. It's not hard to see why. This isn't a style I normally like, and even I appreciate it a good bit. Unless it massively overperformed against Beastieball, it's easy to assume we'll be seeing Precipice vs F8 in round 5. After it beats Meridian Dance, I'll probably be aboard. 7.9/10

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks - Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!) receives rank 9 of 49. It's such a fun, happy track that I was thrown off when it hit a B section over two minutes in. I'm not sure if I've heard that part before. It's weirdly melancholy, and yet somehow doesn't detract from the optimism of the A part. 8/10

Senko no Ronde Rev.X Last Stand receives rank 38 of 50. Chill, decent track that's unfortunately never taking the W here for me. Also, how many songs are there titled Last Stand? Seems like a lot. 5.8/10

Dwarven Ruins
Meridian Dance
Last Stand

Fate
Stand

Dwarven Ruins
Meridian Dance
Full Steam Ahead

I want to make it known to everyone that after the last match a new Beastieball track got added called this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmzsS9Jx4YQ

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder (Sega CD) - Dwarven Ruins
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse - Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God

Dwarven Ruins
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!)

Really wish I could have voted for Meridian Dance too

Dwarven
God
Last

Dwarven Ruins
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Last Stand

Until its match last round, I didnt know Meridian Dance was a battle theme, let alone the final boss theme. What a contrast it is to Battle f8. Its practically taking its victory lap already, with the jumping back and forth from 0:43-0:55, and the end credits-esque winding down from 1:30 to the loop.

In this match of Skyway vs. anime vocals, I think Id vote Skyway. Sorry Oyasumi, youre not on Hopes level. Even with that and Battle f8, its a 3-2 win for Team Two Words.

Dwarven Ruins
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Last Stand

Adularia (Long Mix)
Meridian Dance
Last Stand

Dwarven Ruins
Meridian Dance
Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!)

Sorry SMT and Last Stand, but these are two of the finest horses!

Adularia (Long Mix)
Meridian Dance
Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!)

everything today is pretty solid, but the Spirit Tracks song might just be my favorite song in the contest. Its so beautiful

Adularia (Long Mix)
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Last Stand

Adularia (Long Mix)
Meridian Dance
Last Stand

Adularia (Long Mix)
Meridian Dance
Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!)

Adularia (Long Mix)
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Last Stand

Adularia (Long Mix)
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!)

Guess I'm killing dwarves today, sorry DnD fans.

I could've sworn that Meridian Dance sounded different to me between now and R1, there's a whole section of the song that I completely forgot about.

Last Stand is a beautiful track for sure, but...its opponent wins it out today by a big enough margin. =/

Dwarven Ruins
Stands Against God
Realm Overworld

Dwarven Ruins
Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
Last Stand

it wont win. but please. i beg of the cruel god of this world. dwarven ruins must live on

Dwarven Ruins
Meridian Dance
Last Stand

beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA - Adularia (Long Mix)
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse - Battle - f8 One Who Stands Against God
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks - Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!)

Match 2 is good. Unfortunate that I have to vote against Meridian Dance.

Dwarven Ruins
Meridian Dance
Realm Overworld (Full Steam Ahead!)