VGMC11 day 8: Brickworks vs Seymour, Reach for the Moon vs Sylvalum (Night)

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azuarc
03/28/2017
07:00 PM
#1
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Welcome to today's topic for Video Game Music Contest 11, a tournament of the best tracks from games, as decided upon by you, the voters.


Links:
Bracket - http://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=466312
Contest info - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d-N92Sis_Ghh-QYE2cQqClPP5H3T-idwlk0CUHOv2ew
Discussion and results thread - https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/75120003
Main bracket playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1RFteVUCpIsmLHRwqLStaQJD
Side bracket playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1RE35F2S4u6Ie8w1o0jHPKXB

Rules:
- Listen to both of the songs. Links have conveniently been provided for both songs. Even if Song A is your favorite of all-time and Song B is from a series you hate... Listen. To. Both. (If I have suspicions you are not doing this, your vote may be disqualified.)
- Obvious contest rules apply (no alts, one vote per person, no rallying, etc.).
- Please make your voting options clear, rather than burying them in text.
- Each set of matches lasts 24 hours, even if the new one isn’t up by then.
- Always vote on the versions of the song provided, not versions from different sources.
- If you know ahead of time that you're not going to be around and you want to vote in advance, post your choices in the discussion/bracket topic.
- Please do NOT post tallies/score updates in the middle of the match, as this has a tendency to directly influence matches.
- You don't have to vote in all the matches, but it'd be cool if you did!


Match 1:

Bean Dreams - Brickworks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GTdx0-IREw

Final Fantasy X HD Remaster - Seymour Battle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjDvosAj6ow


Match 2:

Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETTk83qis0w

Xenoblade Chronicles X - 46-:ri9 Part II [Sylvalum (Night)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDbh3lLi1ZY


VGMC Masters side bracket:

Earthbound - Smiles and Tears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwHZwvTdnPI

DuckTales Remastered - Mount Vesuvius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9rMfPjn1n0


Easy vote form:
Brickworks / Seymour Battle
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke / 46-:ri9 Part II [Sylvalum (Night)]
Smiles and Tears / Mount Vesuvius
Sceptilesolar
03/28/2017
07:40 PM
#2
Brickworks
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Smiles and Tears
Just killing time until the world ends.
PSI_NESS
03/28/2017
08:08 PM
#3
Brickworks
46-:ri9 Part II [Sylvalum (Night)]
Smiles and Tears

Side bracket's good today. Seymour Battle original >>>>>>>>>>> Seymour Battle HD remake
HBJDubs
03/28/2017
08:19 PM
#4
Seymour Battle
46-:ri9 Part II [Sylvalum (Night)]
Mount Vesuvius
Save in the name of true love
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KCF0107
03/28/2017
08:20 PM
#5
Brickworks
Sylvalum
Vesuvius
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pyresword
03/28/2017
08:32 PM
#6
Seymour Battle
46-:ri9 Part II [Sylvalum (Night)]
Smiles and Tears

No writeups because I'm tired as hell and most of the songs suck anyways. Smiles and Tears and the Xenoblade one are actually good, and Reach for the Moon is tolerable, but I really don't like the other 3 today at all.

Smiles and Tears > Sylvalum (Night) > Reach for the Moon > Seymour Battle > Mount Vesuvius > Brickworks
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Janus5k
03/28/2017
08:43 PM
#7
Seymour Battle
Reach for the Moon
Mount Vesuvius

Kinda torn on the first match because the HD version of Seymour Battle is a big downgrade, but I think it's still enough here. Other two were easy.
"Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything."
trdl23
03/28/2017
08:53 PM
#8
Brickworks
Reach for the Moon
Smiles

RIP 2hu
E come vivo? Vivo!
Team Rocket Elite
03/28/2017
08:55 PM
#9
Final Fantasy X HD Remaster - Seymour Battle
Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Earthbound - Smiles and Tears
My bracket got smashed by DpObliVion.
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Orochimaru_Fan
03/28/2017
09:29 PM
#10
Seymour Battle
46-:ri9 Part II [Sylvalum (Night)]
Smiles and Tears

I know this is a little weird coming from me, the guy who's more than a little responsible for these flashygoodness songs making it into the contest, but the first match was pretty easy. Even after also factoring in the fact that I, like plenty of others, do not like the HD version as much as the original (seriously, why is it in?).

Second match also reasonably easy. Not THAT big a fan of this XCX song since it was only really had me interested for about half a minute, but it's still more than enough to win my favour over... well, you know. [note: I do still like 2hu music, just not so much this in this match]

Third match easily best.
Mac Arrowny
03/28/2017
09:33 PM
#11
Seymour Battle
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Smiles and Tears

Brickworks pretty eh. Seymour not as good as the original, but still a good song. I don't think it needs to get into contests though since it's not even very different. RftM a classic, though that doesn't need to come back either... Sylvalum Night such a weird choice for that game. Maybe like, the fifth best area music? Still a good song of course because it's X, but yeah. <3 Smiles and Tears. Vesuvius Remaster annoys me. I hate the instruments it uses. I cry every time I hear Smiles and Tears (well, I used to sometimes, anyway <_<).
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dowolf
03/28/2017
10:26 PM
#12
Brickworks
Night
S&T

Brickworks reminds me of classic Sonic.

i cry every time btw
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tazzyboyishere
03/28/2017
11:14 PM
#15
Brickworks
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Smiles and Tears

Smiles > Vesuvius > Brickworks > Moon > Seymour > Sylvalum
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Robazoid
03/28/2017
11:51 PM
#16
Brickworks
46-:ri9 Part II [Sylvalum (Night)]
Smiles and Tears
**R.O.B.A.Z.O.I.D**
xp1337
03/28/2017
11:58 PM
#17
Final Fantasy X HD Remaster - Seymour Battle
Xenoblade Chronicles X - 46-:ri9 Part II [Sylvalum (Night)]
DuckTales Remastered - Mount Vesuvius
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tennisboy213
03/29/2017
12:14 AM
#18
Seymour Battle
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Smiles and Tears
Joe Bulo says hi
_Harmonica_
03/29/2017
02:07 AM
#19
Brickworks
Moon
Vesuvius
https://i.imgur.com/WcRqGVlh.png
FL81
03/29/2017
02:33 AM
#20
Brickworks
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Mount Vesuvius

Tough choice first round. Seymour Battle is easily my favorite FFX song (though I'm not really a fan of any of the others), but Brickworks is such a cool new find. It almost sounds like something from one of the Streets of Rage games.

RftM is actually my favorite song today, but I have zero expectations that it will make it past round 2, if it even makes it that far. But hey, tradition is tradition. Kinda agree with Mycro on Sylvalum in that it has nice instrumentation but bland composition (it's a cool song I guess).

Smiles and Tears is a song that would probably have a bigger impact on me if I had actually played Earthbound. Still, a neat calming song that gets really good towards the outro (kinda slow in the beginning though). I do like that little vocal sample they threw in there. I've always been a fan of Jake Kaufman's works, despite not liking indie faux-chiptune music in general (him, SoulEye, and flashygoodness are the only real exceptions).

Good songs today, would rank:
RftM > Brickworks > Seymour > Vesuvius > S&T > Sylvalum
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xx521xx
03/29/2017
04:37 AM
#21
Seymour Battle
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Mount Vesuvius
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v_charon
03/29/2017
06:38 AM
#22
Seymour Battle
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Mount Vesuvius
:>
Truly smilin'
azuarc
03/29/2017
07:41 AM
#23
Brickworks
Sylvalum
Mount Vesuvius

all of these matches are closer for me than I feel they should be, or I voted opposite what I'd expect. I can't stand the new version of Seymour Battle, which has basically ruined the best aspects of the original for the sake of being different. I could easily vote RFTM and expected to. Even Smiles and Tears isn't quite as terrible as I remember. Yes, I just said that about an Earthbound track. Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
Gundammike
03/29/2017
07:50 AM
#24
Brickworks
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Mount Vesuvius
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Janus5k
03/29/2017
11:30 AM
#25
Bumpworks
"Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything."
th3l3fty
03/29/2017
01:43 PM
#26
Bean Dreams - Brickworks
Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke

DuckTales Remastered - Mount Vesuvius
thelefty for analysis crew 2008 imo -tranny
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th3l3fty
03/29/2017
03:37 PM
#27
VGMC's Second Host votes for:
Brickworks
Sylvalum
Smiles and Tears
thelefty for analysis crew 2008 imo -tranny
I have a third degree burn in flame-o-nomics -Sir Chris
TsunamiXXVIII
03/29/2017
03:44 PM
#28
Brickworks
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Mount Vesuvius
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JONALEON1
03/29/2017
04:42 PM
#29
Brickworks
46-:ri9 Part II [Sylvalum (Night)]
Mount Vesuvius
obligatory DpOblivion sig for guru
barreldragon88
03/29/2017
05:44 PM
#30
Final Fantasy X HD Remaster - Seymour Battle
Xenoblade Chronicles X - 46-:ri9 Part II [Sylvalum (Night)]
DuckTales Remastered - Mount Vesuvius
Long live Saint Seiya!!
Zyxyz0
03/29/2017
05:46 PM
#31
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke

too lazy to listen to the other matches rn w/e
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KanzarisKelshen
03/29/2017
06:30 PM
#32
Brickworks
Reach For The Moon, Immortal Smoke
Smiles And Tears

Original Seymour Battle is better. I was all set to vote for Sylvalum Night until I went over to close the tab so I could listen to the masters bracket and realized what I liked about it was about two minutes of Cloudbuilt lol

Masters Match is still 2izi but for once it's not because both songs suck! Smiles And Tears is just amazing but Vesuvius is no slouch. Finally!
Shine on, you crazy diamond.
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