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MacArrowny posted...

Also Stray Children doesn't have its release year confirmed :p

... well, true. hopefully the english release isn't another year off like with moon's switch release

voted gnosia but paranormasight would be my second pick, neither is really a vn though lol

anti-rec to process of elimination (to be fair i only played the demo, i just really didn't care for it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNN3gsIAiig
Stray Children erasure when i even made a topic for it is sad...

if we count sort of srpgs then I'm also very excited about these obv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtGKK1PuWuQ Unicorn Overlord (vanillaware ogre battle-inspired game)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_OfKwzdSSA The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily (honestly not sure what srpg is most apt to compare this to, it's definitely unique in a number of ways. maybe closest to yggdra union i guess?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czzWS1nyYZw Dream Tactics (more relatively standard srpg with card elements, i just really like the vibe of this one)

and down for these ones that also kinda just borderline count
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB_vWXe3uK4 TSURUGIHIME (sidescrolling action rpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-EcwUQcxmI Noctuary (topdown action rpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P40nBq2TokI Shiren 6 (it's mystery dungeon, so...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMsCGiXRUBY Witch and Lilies (etrian odyssey but yuri)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YctnabRXuXQ PATH OF THE ABYSS (etrian odyssey but more retro. this is i guess technically a dec 2023 release but it's early access and no localisation yet so i'm just going to wait)

anyway jk it's totally rebirth at the top, actually really excited about new saga, metaphor refantazio, ttyd remake too, and everything else on the poll is something i want to pick up too with the exception of maybe eiyuden since i'm still not really sold on it compared to suikoden

Primrose
Crystal Snail

1st match strong
2nd match great too

breathe

Great Battlers
Pleasant Thief Marino

marino is just good

tiebreak bump

Falling Down
Air Man

would've had an easier time deciding if it was the original airman but still not as into metalman overall as other mm2 songs for sure

all this argument and none of it disproves nintendo land as the peak

(unless we lean in hard on social deduction games)

rwlh posted...

I'm happy to go a little slower if folks would prefer it. I'd rather go at a more manageable pace for keeping up if it means more discussion and engagement.

really dig the current pace tbh, suppose mileage may vary though

Abnormal Gravity Area
Gravity Man

similarly shimomura also just does the exact same stuff too often nowadays especially on battle themes

it's unfortunate

there's like 100 songs in the new game she was on last month that all sound exactly like they came from radiant historia

Sigma 1
Take Back the Tower

departure feels like it slightly overstays its welcome to me, by the end the backing elements had kind of gone from being a great complement to the rest of it to just feeling like they'd been a bit overplayed and lost some of their appeal
thinking about it, sigma stage is a song that tries for an oddly specific vibe (of a more contemplative but still sentai-esque action-focused song), and i dig it

the gran turismo comparison is funny. i definitely wouldn't say that i'd ever fall for this being a gt song since it is compositionally quite different but obviously it is the same style lol. always appreciate most 90s jazz/lounge songs, and especially ones like this
solar inferno has always been one of those mm songs that feels like it has lyrics to it to me, and unfortunately here that doesn't help it really

Dio Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
The Child Catcher (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
Ghetsis (Pokemon Black and White)
Manfred Von Karma (Ace Attorney)
Johan Liebert (Monster)
Light Yagami (Death Note)
Professor Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes)

Flyers
ETERNAL BLAZE

gross how good the first match is

AcT

(this group https://www.v-react.com)

Get Wild
Crossing field
Kawaki wo Ameku

match 2 and period don't do much for me tbh

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Umineko

this

do want to thank b8 also for dragging me over to suguri and the other oj games too though, and also probably contributing to getting me on ace attorney too (actually unsure now that i think about it it would've have had to have been like within a year of me making this account and i'm not sure i even came to this board by then). oh yeah also i think i only got the sky crawlers game a little bit after it was in vgmc a decade ago too so that counts too really, and i'm still weirdly nostalgic for it, intense jank and all

eternals is possibly the worst film i've seen in the last decade period

Wily Stage 1
Wily Field

poor apple market
great 2nd match, very into both, shame wily field probably just loses cool cred for oversaturating the day with wily themes lol

Grand_Kirby posted...

What was the "Best Direct Ever"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMSTEETyej8

bump to make the poll look less empty lol

(am assuming dqm wins anyway though and fair enough, even if the first highlight reel also has dq)

also i was assuming the new shin-chan game was just like a followup to the boku no natsuyasumi spinoff they did last but apparently it has different devs so i guess it's just fully separate. still looks neat though

and also honestly very keen to pick up literally everything in the first highlights, it almost got my vote. i know i'm probably the only one on the planet that is probably most likely to pick up the game of life game on there first but hey, am unironically very down for it. 100% guaranteed to download survival quiz city's new free to play switch version day 1 too, even if they're unfortunately dropping the localised versions in the process

Nintendo Land

said

affogato still the definitive personalike of the year tho tbh

Sceptilesolar posted...

I'm not familiar with other anime videos where the content is programmatically generated.

not the same thing but this just reminded me the id:invaded op would've been interesting to see in the contest tbh

oh yeah the dokapon kingdom remaster is on steam now (with online, same as the switch release) forgot to mention the other day

Natalie posted...

MMX opening theme vs. MMX opening theme arranged is pretty funny

mm3 opening arrange vs mmx3 opening arrange also goes well with them too lol

cycm
acat

UF8 posted...

spent a bit thinking about this

Magase Ai (Babylon)

Babylon was such a fucked show it completely crumbled under its own weight, and it was all thanks to her
spoilers as a tool of persuasion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4kHt9iz3ZE (honestly this isn't even in the top 10 most extreme scenes she caused in this show but it's the only one i saw with a clip so)

Extra bio (came back barely too late to edit this in), she is so evil that anybody that even sees her for a short duration of time is almost certainly driven to suicide thereafter. She's like some kind of junji ito creation I swear, just with hopelessly cruel actions and worldview to back it up. Speaking of, the world itself loses to her effectively.

spent a bit thinking about this

Magase Ai (Babylon)

Babylon was such a fucked show it completely crumbled under its own weight, and it was all thanks to her
spoilers as a tool of persuasion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4kHt9iz3ZE (honestly this isn't even in the top 10 most extreme scenes she caused in this show but it's the only one i saw with a clip so)

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/9/1/AARWb-AAE1LX.jpg

mentioned on discord but main differences if it prioritised snubbed users' doubles instead is that my pachislot nom would be used instead of PxZ2 opening stage x3, metamorphosis would be used instead of last no. zero and isquen would get at least *something* in probably with rock force plague man (as is, was fully snubbed even from this list since they only had stuff at 2 votes...)

down side is that would put the total number of songs to pick at 10, so i'd say that the least controversial method would be for me to give up my pachislot nom for it since i think people would probably be bothered most by that getting in of that list

still going to say that doubles (aka. basically just a pure 1 auto-include) from users with no noms in could've been equally interesting, though i guess there were actually more people out than that so this was the cleanest method for sure. might've helped one of the fully unsupported doubles make it though, even if it wasn't mine i'd have honestly been as fine with that method. perhaps a bit unfair to those who *did* get one in this way to not get their favourite, but considering (as was mentioned) some people got 5 noms in and those with 1 already in at least don't have to deal with some of the top songs in the bracket i think it wouldn't have been a terrible option

speaking of the spoilered matter, try to not give the other people with only 1 nom in too hard a time in seeding lol. i'd be tempted to pit those with more than 1 song in the clump of 4s against each other, obviously with minimal same-nominator shenanigans but eh

Leonhart4 posted...

Give the spots to the songs that have doubles

almost a joke-tier suggestion but simultaneously the one i'd actually be happiest with

i think it doesn't matter since even if i do get to have 1 (one) song get in this way it'd get fed to one of the top seeds so lol

mostly bitter the ones i was most invested in aren't even in contention since they're all at 2 or less

last minute noms no i totally didn't sleep in too late
Rise The Curtain (Rockman 1 Medley) (ROCKMAN UTOPIA) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juHSJAaR9GM
Exotic Somewhere (Rockman 6 Medley) (ROCKMAN UTOPIA) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJQ0uLwDn10
Show Your True Face (Rockman 8 Medley) (ROCKMAN UTOPIA) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUrlqOUX6Ko
Tropical Airport (Rockman 5 Medley) (ROCKMAN UTOPIA) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6rIDDPe3dU
Stepping Out Again (Rockman System BGM Medley) (ROCKMAN UTOPIA) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDhUXf_sagw

nice

came into this topic to add i also picked up an envy a few months back but actually i misremembered and it was an hp victus instead (oops), also runs great though

BlackMageJawa posted...

Apparently it's available on PC through the Google Play Games beta.

oh neat, i might pick it up then since i need an excuse to try out more stuff on that since i've been having issues running any other emulators lately

oh yeah on movies

pretty sure netflix also has most of the ghibli films and those are definitely all essentials

opm s2 is mediocre but also s1 isn't much better so

actually checking hidive's list of shows a lot more of them are fully worth watching imo than i realised. they've got a little over 250 series listed now (though some are just separate seasons) and i'd say honestly about 4 in 5 of them are worth watching. their movie section (with close to a hundred entries) mostly has OVA series in it, lots of neat underappreciated stuff i'm a fan of there too, had no idea they had them (eg. kaiju girls black, kase-san and morning glories, laidbackers, the penguindrum movies, the revue starlight movie, the kinmoza movie and ova, non non biyori vacation, the yuki yuna chibi spinoff, alice or alice... anti-rec to stuff like the magnificent kotobuki movie and the three initial d films they have since those are vastly inferior recap films)

honestly i'm tempted to renew my subscription there now lol

Blade of the Immortal (the one on prime video)

oh yeah i think all of Aria the Animation/Natural/Origination is on prime video too (not sure if the more recent ovas/movies are there tho but they're not that connected anyway)

Evangelion and Death(true)2 and End of Evangelion on netflix

i think One Piece is also on netflix and not just the live action one

if you do the hidive trial i also rec Revue Starlight but like at that point you might as well just check out crunchyroll or funimation instead since it is absolutely just an anime-specific streaming service like them and it gets a lot less shows than them (it does have a lot of worthwhile ones though). I think they also have exclusive rights to VOTOMS which i would definitely recommend to anyone that enjoys legend of the galactic heroes

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