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The Kirby Song
The Touhou Song
The Final Song

are those song titles Kirby or Touhou no one knows

lefty sees ones Kuja save from me and immediately decides this topic cannot stand

you're welcome

ok fine I'll participate this year

Kuja

MI09: Angel
The Merciless Savior
Beyond the Bounds

Match 2 is very good, match 1 is

Theme of D4
Desert Dunes (Desert)
Ring Ring Ring!

have the weird urge to go play DDR after voting, not sure why

Sully
Nate

Beat Eat Nest
Beyond the Bounds
Secret Cave

DDR Extreme - loved it back in the day but it feels outright archaic after playing more modern versions.

Probably a lot of other rhythm games too.

GEOMETRIC DANCE (Long Ver.)
liberatedliberator
Contrattacco - Emotional Overload

Didn't expect to go that way in match 2 today either.

Aigis
Remy
Shepard

Daredevil
Secret Cave
Magus Confronted

Match 2 was pretty close.

Kirby

Conviction Corridor
Heart of Concrete
Aquatic Ambiance

Trails of Cold Steel II is pretty bad about this

There's a very clear "final battle" and then the Epilogue throws in a dungeon with basically no plot significance as a "send-off" so that you don't end with a few hours of cutscenes/sidequests

Remember Me
Kill Command
Break the Limit!

Today is very good. Did not expect to be voting that way in Match 1.

Yoshi's Island

Godot
Kyle Hyde

In Hell We Live, Lament
Mor Ardain ~ Roaming the Wastes
To The Heart [Vocal Version]

lament
ya go my Mor Ardain
Pretty close match but LIKE A KNIFE wins out

MAD LAST WORLD
Move Me
Twilight of the Gods

There was definitely room for a "world map" pun today but most of those songs were the wrong choice

Illusionary Blue Flowers
City of Tears
Sky of Twilight

Bunwaii Desert
DESIRE
Breath of Forest

Was hoping I could go the nature route with all my votes but DESIRE is too fun. Third match is kind of messed up tbh

Avenged Sevenfold occasionally come off as cheesy to me, like they really want to sound edgy and/or spooky with their lyrics and guitar lines... but at the same time they're solid musicians and have some genuinely fun tracks. I have a lot of nostalgia for playing some of their songs on Guitar Hero/Rock Band and their self-titled in particular has a couple tracks that are very ingrained in my mind. Not a fan of their softer stuff in general but even those songs have their moments.

1.Afterlife

An old favorite that reminds me of playing Rock Band in college. Even setting nostalgia aside (mostly) it has a lot going for it - memorable riffs/guitar lines, an absolutely infectious chorus, and a blazing solo. I always go between this and Beast and the Harlot for my favorite overall A7X song.

2.Almost Easy

I'M NOT INSANE I'M NOT INSAIIIIIIIINE yes very convincing. Not a whole lot to this song but it's a lot of fun.

3.A Little Piece of Heaven

Hahahaha this is so stupidly over the top, feels like evil murder clown music. Has a few too many weaker spots to take a top spot but it's a good ride overall.

4.Lost

One of the more straightforward songs on the album - just a fast little romp with some melodic guitar lines and random autotune (which I generally find off-putting but it's not awful here).

5.Scream

A desperate struggle between some very fun guitar and some very unsettling lyrics.

6.Unbound (The Wild Ride)

The first half of this alone would have been considerably higher, but then it loses its excellent momentum and the childlike vocals really don't do it for me here.

7.Gunslinger

As I said in the general album comments, I'm not a fan of their softer stuff, but this builds decently and doesn't overstay its welcome.

8.Brompton Cocktail

This song is fine. Takes a while to get started but otherwise isn't terribly memorable in any direction.

9.Critical Acclaim

The random ranting really brings this down. Would be closer to the middle without it.

10.Dear God

Feels like it just goes on a bit too long for how little it does and the country vibes are not my thing.

Cynthia
Matt

GATE OF STEINER
Sky Tower
Coalescence

First match is the two best songs of the day oops
Face of the Deep was the only RoR song in the bracket that I really liked double oops

Leonhart4 posted...

Teenage me just picked a broody teenager to name myself after and I also avoided the pitfalls of surrounding it with xXx

That was pretty much the strat (well edgy wizard but same idea)

though "4" is a much more tasteful number than "5000"

fun fact I hadn't even played Chrono Trigger when I picked this name I just thought it sounded cool

finally upgrading to vista1337

Unknown Pollution
Argon Refinery
Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)

Strong first and third matches (and a perfectly fine second one), but ultimately Kudo king

The former. Both would be lucrative enough and knowing everyone's worst secrets would probably be more maddening than useful.

Into the Woods!
The Apex of the World (Rain)
I Can See Into Forever

look at that cute dog
rough draw for Psychomeddler
I tie each day......

Different World 1 more like Lee Harvey Oswald

Sea of Frozen Crystals
Seacat - Seacat
SeaKuRa

Sea's the Truth

very good

Different World 1
THEMEX
I Can See Into Forever

Match 2 was much closer than I expected.

Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Mimic
Atolm Dragon

PowerOne is being set up as my arch enemy this contest and I don't like that

Passing through the Forest
Necessary Discrepancy
I Can See Into Forever

Match 3 was closer than I expected - the gibberish song is quite good as well.

Yeah, I feel pretty comfortable saying Ms. Marvel has the worst antagonists of any MCU installment. Most of the other bad ones are basically just nothings as opposed to actively nonsensical.

The finale was pretty fun at least.

HasteDeux posted...

Even two Round 2 results have already changed:
Chrono Trigger - Secret of the Forest vs. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Burst Forth!! Choro-gon Breath - Imaginary Shopping District

That's actually crazy considering this match wasn't even close.

would've been the right result without them too

Nightbird Lost Wing
Atlantic Spotted Dolphin
Elemental Creation

bemani day

Metroid > Mega Man > FF > Mario > Castlevania > FE > Zelda

Have only played a chunk of DQ8/EB and nothing from NG.

TeamRocketElite posted...

Perhaps my memory is failing me, but didn't Kaze no Ne used to get blown up in round 1 while Mechonis Field used to be a pretty strong song?

Mechonis Field looks like it was in once before - it made R3 in VGMC7 - and it seemed to be pretty popular among newer folks. Kaze No Ne had been in twice before and only won a single match before this year (the English version has also separately been in once and lost in R1, but that seems less well-received).

So yeah, that's probably a big upset. Certainly not what I expected at least.

Dodo's Lair
The Wind's Blooming Mountain
Ancient Makes

a day where I can vote for both Gust and Falcom, nature is healing

Dreams in a Pie
Imaginary Shopping District
Kaze no Ne

close third match. a bit telling that the unifying theme with these votes is "not the atmospheric song"... truly feels like the moon without the stars......

andylt posted...

This will surely shake up the Zidane v Vivi v Kuja 'top IX in stats' race.

Eh. Even with my participation he can't usually keep up with those two nowadays.

to think it lost on prime day......

World's End
End of the Summer

would be lying if I said the prospect of prime/Suite wasn't funny but I don't like either song enough to try and vote that into being. would probably like Suite better if it wasn't all aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAA
End of the Summer is literally just a Falcom song (good). Might have voted "In the Final" over it though . . . . . . .

That was an entertaining enough finale. Some bits were pretty rushed but it was a lot of lighthearted fun, which was admittedly a bit at odds with the Kamran stuff and that didn't entirely land but eh. I'm just going to blame the Clandestines again.

lmao at the mutant tease

Finished my first playthrough of Triangle Strategy just now. Last few chapters seemed like they should have been harder but I had a few units that felt massively OP (my Erador was basically immortal as long as I got rid of mages quickly) so they ended up being fine. Still some pretty fun/satisfying stuff in there though.

Good game! Did most of my choices being the "good guy" (protect Roland, report Sorsley, defend the Roselle) and then swerved at the end to take Benedict's route because the other two options didn't appeal to me. Sucked having to get rid of Roland, but he made it clear he didn't want to be king anyway so eh. Plus I recruited another spear user in Chapter 15 who served similar purposes (because of course he wasn't dead). I like Exharme far more than I should as a "rival" and having a proper confrontation with him was very satisfying - the Hierophant fight at the end felt comparatively underwhelming but was still a cool reveal even if "it was actually just Idore all along" seemed like a pretty foreseeable twist. Kind of funny that the bad end is basically just "unfettered capitalism" but that's in line with siding with Aesfrost.

Will probably want to do at least one more playthrough for the true ending at some point - not sure if I want to do that now or play something else in my backlog. Not sure I like it quite enough to beat it four times. >_>

The only nom of mine to escape round 1 was Unknown Pollution and taking any credit for that feels almost disingenuous

Granted I didn't expect much from two of them - which isn't to say losing 47-12 doesn't feel kinda bad - but the one I was actually really excited about still got doubled and man. Suppose that's what I get for not being in touch with the newer crowd.

Doesn't feel like there's as much new stuff that's really stuck with me either, which is a shame as that's always been the biggest draw of this contest for me. But that could change with later rounds - it's not uncommon for songs to take a while to grow on me.

-[PROTEASE]-
Misty Er'a

Listened to match 1 when making the bracket and while prime does a lot of things I like with its structure and motif usage ultimately "75 minutes of Professor Layton music" was going to be a tough sell over Kudo doing their thing

Wir fliegen
The Face of the Deep
The Final Song

Pretty strong day. I used to be put off by how painfully slow the ending of The Final Song is but interpreting the music differently (as "whole notes" instead of "half notes") makes that not as bad? probably what it's supposed to be anyway. idk my brain is funny. anyway the rest of the song is really good and that means I can vote for it wheeeee