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UF8 posted [p:902217589] in [VGMC] Sunshine Coastline (Ys) vs Hidra Heteromycin (Ar Nosurge) -- THE FINALS!! [t:76656199]...

Hidra Heteromycin

I don't think I've really talked much about Hidra this contest.

[...]it was also very much just my fourth favourite Gust song in the contest. Maybe third.

Still, it's a disservice to consider that such a bad thing. All of those top four were ones that would probably be within my top 20 for the contest, and four of my favourite Gust songs that have appeared to date (the only other one I wish was here is Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;, which I keep forgetting about during noms).

That was when I first made a playlist on youtube for planned noms this contest, and naturally it was the first song added. The fourpack it was in back in VGMC9 was extremely top tier to me, even if the actual results didn't live up to that. Also featuring secretly the best non-vocal vocal song in Umineko, the guitar instrumental theme of Ougon Musou Kyoku X (as heard in Ougon Musou Kyoku Cross aka. Golden Fantasia instead), and also the long version of Following Flow, which is of course a long Nekomata Master song so of course I considered it super top tier, I didn't even take exsphere out of round 2 in my favourites bracket. But that didn't mean it didn't leave a strong impression on me. While people were hyping up crayons and other gust things in the following years... Without actually remembering what it was, I kept thinking about it specifically. However, given its poor performance at the time and general lack of buzz following that point, it didn't really fall back into my consciousness until last contest, when four of my other top 5 gust songs that had been in contests to date all made it in (my favourite was actually sayonara).

Anyway, I rambled in the finals then as I always do and finally remembered it in the process. And I'm glad I did, as it became immediately apparent that it was significantly more in line with board 8 tastes than it was when it got mauled by some rock remix of big blue, and the only reason it wasn't really talked about was because everyone else apparently forgot about it too. Dowolf actually responded to me in that topic not even realising it had been in before despite me clarifying as much in my post lol

I suppose more than anything, it was because of that response that really made me decide I wanted to push for it.

Regrettably, ironically, I yet again didn't take it past round 2 in my favourites bracket thanks to landing in yet another four(3)pack with another of my complete overall favourites. Of course, that doesn't mean I couldn't be more glad that it actually did make it this far. It's exsphere, it's just a really strong mindfuck of a song and nothing can take away from that.

And so, it is with all of that exposition that I too must provide a bit of a mindfuck and vote for Revenger. As far as underdog stories go, I wish its origin didn't entail brutally murdering another of my favourite Gust songs in round 2 and making every song after it look phenomenal with extremely narrow losses, but hey. Having made it past that R2-4 gauntlet, I've had time to realise that this song has grown on me a lot, and that I didn't fully understand just how much I liked it at first. It did catch my attention in noms, but never made it out of my 30ish song support shortlist. Now though... It's an extremely tough and close call, but I'm actually siding with it.

FTL: Faster Than Light
Hotline Miami

Bigger question is how Necrodancer and Hotline didn't both get high seeds. I don't trust even FTL over either of them, let alone Into the Breach.

Sunlight Rondo
Fainter Than the Mist

Alluring Flower ~ Autumn
Swaying Hair Clip

Haste_2 posted...

There haven't been any finalists that I truly dislike.... there was one that lost by one vote in a tiebreaker in the semi's.... (hint: it's from VGMC 11)

*glares*

only reason it even lost was because I was out on both days

One Final Effort
Fire Emblem
The Final Showdown

Five excellent songs, and also In the Final.

Holy Grail
Sonic

Papers, Please
Return of the Obra Dinn

Vote in vah'ruta

Battle!!

this match hurts

Haste_2 posted...

I bet Reset ~ Thank You couldn't win a contest these days. Tastes have shifted.

finally

pop'n music 13 CARNIVAL CS - Jouou Kishi

Touge Max/Peak Performance - BGM6*


*I don't know what track it's meant to be officially for. Also might be 7, I forget.

Power Slave - Pretty Virago

Totsugeki! Mix - Difficulty C

Lovers of Aether - Fight and Flight (PC-98 remix)

Dance of a Water Drop
Scapon Detector 77AVturzoZmkIISR

There's a lot i just don't like about Salamander

tag

Obviously it's time for a tiebreak from me

Alluring Flower ~ Summer
Reminiscent Hill

(i forgot to vote before oops)

Anagram posted...

I dont even want to know what this game is actually like, it cant be better than my imagined Contra clone.

You are correct. In fact, it's worse than most things. It's a nsfw dungeon crawler from the mid-90s on pc-98 that uses a card-based battle system like a ton of mediocre rpgs did back then. This was a boss battle theme of sorts, and it was my backup vgmc pick for howling of the birds. Digital Beast is the evil organisation in it.

Metal Gear Solid
DBZ
Castlevania

Revenger

Hollow Knight
Actually not a fan of either in the second match despite having played them.

Nice, outlasted nfun's entire calamity mod triple pack with just my last one left. Can't say I'm exactly confident I can say the same about the rest of the top 10, looking at the composition of it and all. Granted, I expected to be out by 10 places ago so what's another 10 really?

Incidentally, I've been playing some board game online lately and can't seem to avoid calamity mod there either.

In noms, I dropped Autumn specifically for a certain song. I do not regret that decision, even if i re-added it anyway.

Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Mac Arrowny posted...

You can make polls that are less directly related to the contest too, like "which E3 indie game are you most excited for"

Or bitsummit

the one where you use a plastic bag as a controller would win but still

Forrest Gump
Castlevania

Slag
Yesterdays
Cheeks

Katawa Shoujo
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Oh yeah and having not played them on psp, I can still vouch for the quality of Sting's Dept. Heaven games ported to the handheld. Also probably mostly everything brought over from ps1 and 2 that is an rpg.

echochrome. actually more freedom in it than the ps3 version, I found

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 2: The Phantom Fortress. 1 is just a western cut port of it with like half the roster and jack shit outside of arcade mode and 3 (also a mainline entry in japan) is utter garbage, entirely ruining the gameplay the series had. Everything beyond is mediocre at best.
Ace Combat X and also X2 (Joint Assault). X I consider the better game, with some wild nonlinearity in its mission setup that actual mainline games wish they had and non-trash boss setpieces, but X2 has an amazing soundtrack.

The Stanley Parable
Cave Story

No mention of Different/Other World 1?

New World Order

10th | 49:06
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, (Nine Doors)

9th | 67:02
PW:AA - Dual Destinies

8th | 94:27
Pokmon HeartGold

7th | 96:35
PROJECT X ZONE 2

6th | 128:22
Pokmon (Black 2)

5th | 145:53
Internet Browser

4th | 154:26
Nintendo eShop

3rd | 155:59
Project X Zone

2nd | 191:15
Pokmon (Black)

1st | 527:10
Nintendo 3DS Sound
and i still haven't gotten all of the tips in it...

In total I have 92 different games/applications/demos listed

Oh i actually can check my playtimes without a working top screen, phew

Hypnospace Outlaw

DNF
Kill Command
Studiopolis
Passing Through the Forest
Life Will Change

Field of Hopes and Dreams and Silver Surfer just outside it

Revenger
Alluring Flower ~ Autumn

Tough call on the main match, I'd be satisfied with either. They're both kind of underdogs to me that I'm starting to want to see win should battle or autumn or chocomissile lose. I don't really expect either to win next round though :/

Star Fox
Hamlet

LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

Roller Coaster Tycoon v Doom set up for Round 2 is planned right?

I really wouldn't count on either, meat boy and spelunky should have strength, especially meat boy

Terraria
Princess Remedy

Slag Toccata
Cheeks Stained by the Color of the Setting Sun

Went back and had a look at the last couple of topics for reasons and want to just mention

azuarc posted...

KCF0107 posted...

Flash

obviously you should've posted this instead.

Divinity: Original Sin II
Journey

Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Speaking of the japanese direct