[VGMC] Day 80! feat. Water in Air, Water in Lakes, Water in Pipes, and No Water

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Welcome to Video Game Music Contest 17, 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=477304
Contest info sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SAJKYJmYhccLvbf_H-5uSA7-eMwXfW8k1q74Qho1bLU
Contest discussion thread: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80433657
Main bracket playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT3m7iohpL0wlcxj-kHQRU1yHo-kpMxGe
Compatibility sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13kPe5EpCZVgIi6TNYHY7EVxc8XMPbzSJaKFjLcVBgD8
Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_IU5iCFTM_4WEx8ZWKwznMz5v2tarCKh1Ag0mxIgAes
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o
Discord: https://discord.gg/WDvMS4a

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

Touhou 17.5: Submerged Hell of Sunken Sorrow - Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
Composer: ZUN arr. ziki_7
Loop Point: 1:45
https://youtu.be/-nBhdEdo8v0

Final Fantasy XIII - The Sunleth Waterscape
Composer: Masashi Hamauzu
Loop Point: 3:25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxhkOMuOyqc

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Match 2

SimCity 4 - Epicentre
Composer: The Humble Brothers
Loop Point: 6:24
https://youtu.be/cOrPA63u_U4

[-Aka-] - Suna Gin
Composer: Noriyasu Agematsu
Loop Point: 4:55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3SeY1NcAkU

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Easy vote form:
Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever / The Sunleth Waterscape
Epicentre / Suna Gin
Sunleth Waterscape
Epicentre
Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
Epicentre
Touhou 17.5: Submerged Hell of Sunken Sorrow - Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
[-Aka-] - Suna Gin
thelefty for analysis crew 2008 imo -transience
I have a third degree burn in flame-o-nomics -Sir Chris
Final Fantasy XIII - The Sunleth Waterscape
SimCity 4 - Epicentre
Hi. I wanna play you something.
Final Fantasy XIII - The Sunleth Waterscape
[-Aka-] - Suna Gin
My bracket looked like random picks compared to his.
Congrats to azuarc for winning the GotD 2020 Guru Contest!
The Sunleth Waterscape
Suna Gin
Save in the name of true love
~Project 1000~
Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
Epicentre
Puff Stuff
FINAL FANTASY XIII - The Sunleth Waterscape
[-Aka-] - Suna Gin

The Sunleth Waterscape > Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever > Suna Gin > EPICENTRE
Erica, she/they. Subscribe to GaMetal
Sunleth Waterscape
Epicentre
Only the exceptions can be exceptional.
Umbrella
Suna
Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
Suna Gin
Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
Suna Gin

I swear the Touhou songs really reminds me of another song, and I can't put my finger on what. That kinda annoys me.

Why is match 2 so good and why do they have to be up against each other? Vgmc really do be pain sometimes.
Fox Only, Final Destination.
The Sunleth Waterscape
Epicentre

The Hamauzu Brothers
-Abraham Lincoln
The Sunleth Waterscape
Epicentre
Sound Test Unlocked! My YouTube VGM channel -
https://www.youtube.com/user/KidDivinegon
The Sunleth Waterscape
Epicentre
:)
The Sunleth Waterscape
Suna Gin
(>'.')>
"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes
Final Fantasy XIII - The Sunleth Waterscape
SimCity 4 - Epicentre
Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
Epicentre

Title should actually be "Waters in Caves", if we go by 17.5's context.

Umbrella is such a pretty song, pretty strings, a interesting take on the original, and also it's Touhou, favorite to win today. On the other hand, Sunleth Waterscape is a song I've loved from Day 1, the FF13 leitmotif is just fantastic and it's got a great tone. I'm very happy to see any of them retire today! And yet, a Touhou retiree sounds way more captivating. Go Kogasa Go!

Epicentre is still pretty great, and Suna is still a nice ballad. Not a lot to say honestly, they're both worthy retirees. I just still wish it was Daemon or Festa, or Fire Wire or Keeper. Well, not complaining though! Good luck to both.
The Sunleth Waterscape
Epicentre
Omniscience lies beyond the void, beyond decay!
I am one with the Akashic Records!
The Sunleth Waterscape
Epicentre

finally match 1 is a match i can be comfy with whoever the winner is

From TunnelScene:
Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever (TH17.5)
Epicentre (SimCity 4)
The Sunleth Waterscape
Suna Gin
Give me a cue
I can see clues all around me
The Sunleth Waterscape
Epicentre
This might be the first match that I'm voting for Touhou in this contest. Glad it's this Touhou and not one of the other ones. Sunleth is just so painfully there and nothing else to me.

Match two are both quality songs though. Definitely the two best songs of the day and also a very close match.

Match 1 is decent, match 2 is great.

Votes:
Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
Suna Gin
Don't trust everything that you read on the Internet.
-Abraham Lincoln
Beware
Epicentre
KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
Final Fantasy XIII - The Sunleth Waterscape
[-Aka-] - Suna Gin
http://backloggery.com/articuno2001/sig.gif
Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
Suna Gin

Pretty good day again. Epicentre overstays its welcome a bit, but it's fine.
A hero cannot be defeated simply by making him die.
Touhou 17.5: Submerged Hell of Sunken Sorrow - Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
SimCity 4 - Epicentre
https://i.imgur.com/TGkNCva.gif
Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
Suna Gin
Formerly known as Raetsel.
Currently out of knives.
The Sunleth Waterscape
Suna Gin

soothing day
No longer becoming a Final Fantasy aficionado.
The Sunleth Waterscape
Epicentre
Just killing time until the world ends.
The Sunleth Waterscape
Suna Gin
"You can learn to believe in others... ...even in the final moments of your life!"
- ????, Yakuza 3
Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
Epicentre
azuarc is quite good at predicting GameFAQs bracket battles.
Final Fantasy XIII - The Sunleth Waterscape
[-Aka-] - Suna Gin
The Sunleth Waterscape
Suna Gin
Optimism is the first step to disappointment.
xx521xx
Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
Epicentre
abstain
Suna Gin
Sunleth Waterscape
Epicentre

I previously found Epicentre boring, but I enjoyed it a lot this time around.
"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"You drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."
Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
Suna Gin
The art of quirky SNES games no one cares about
Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
Suna Gin
Our eyes were removed
For our own safety
Sunleth Waterscape
Epicentre
All the stars in the sky are waiting for you.
The Sunleth Waterscape
Suna Gin

The Sunleth Waterscape
Epicentre
[Rock and Stone] <o/
umbrella
epicentre
The Sunleth Waterscape
Epicentre
Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
Suna Gin

This contest made me a Touhou convert.

You Can Have Void. Even having saved the universe, there is no glory nor reward for a janitor.
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Final Fantasy XIII - The Sunleth Waterscape
Long live Saint Seiya!!
The Sunleth Waterscape
Epicentre
https://i.imgur.com/c3jEuPS.jpg
Umbrella
Suna
What can the harvest hope for if not for the care of the Reaper Man?
The Sunleth Waterscape
Suna Gin

Beware the Umbrella is easily one of the cooler songs I've heard overall from Touhou so far. I'm really liking the synths and strings I'm hearing, I actually enjoy how different it sounds from all the regular Touhou songs I usually hear. Sunleth Waterscape is probably the best version of Lightning's theme that I remember hearing, I really like the airy vocals and the lead piano that steers the song in just the right direction for me.

Epicentre is a cool song that definitely doesn't feel like it should belong in a game like SimCity, but it's definitely won me over with its grandiose vibe and little neat additions like the vocalizing and the bits of acoustic guitar in certain parts. It is hard, however, to compete with the majesty that is Suna Gin, with its soothing vocals and nice ballad-like instrumentation.

Good matches today!
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