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| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| cakophon 07/26/22 11:40:49 AM #234 | bump --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdnOym-kbh4 |
| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| cakophon 06/29/21 1:56:56 PM #163 | i actually like xevious in-game. i feel like its unfair to call it the worst video game song because of its length but yeah, hearing it for extended periods will probably do something to you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mti5mtWTc98 much prefer this *slightly different* version --- |
| Topic | FL81 Ranks 140 Songs (Ranking Phase) |
| cakophon 03/09/21 10:44:17 PM #271 | oh wow thank you scientist.. awesome and something maybne i should have considered for this topic --- |
| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| cakophon 12/14/20 2:02:54 AM #126 | guitarfreaks & drummania is actually a single game despite the name. there's a guitar cabinet and a drum cabinet, but they're linked together and can play in tandem. in recent years they rolled the series name over to gitadora (gita - guitar and dora - drums). a good resource for composer stuff on bemani songs and games is https://remywiki.com pretty completely comprehensive i love oster project!! she's more widely known for doing vocaloid songs but her bemani works are some of my favorites of hers..may be looking into getting something of hers into vgmc this year --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 04/07/20 7:02:18 PM #207 | 31. Song: Space Walk Game: Thunder Force IV Composer: Toshiharu Yamanishi Nominator: loweffortmemes Score: 89 (4/4.6/5/4.2) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKvKOx4uIPg i am in space and i am walking!!! guess how i am walking. i am walking long + long + a little short + short + long + long + a little short + short + (long on triplets x3) because i like this song!!! this song is the kind of song that makes me want to dance but instead of dancing like of a normal song i do a normal dance move and then speed it up by x3 on one of the beats to match it up. I like that kind of thing happening a lot. intro of the song where its like actually in over the bassline but the melody itslef is like moving just a LITTLE bit too fsat and then the gap at the end when it tries to catch the downbeat is just a LITTLE earlier than i expect it and its nice and glorious and makes me falll on my face i love the sound design of thunder force four all the instruments sound like youre in space and floating (space walking) and the thing i love a lot about this games sounds is the percussion hit that is featured in the intro prominently and throughout...that static-y wall of sound as a drum is so lovely. another really cool thing this has is this tiny accompaniment that is in an upper register...in the beginning..it has this kind of echoey effect as it plays like a pentatonic scale that ends like a major scale (???idk music theory) and that changes with the chords to be in the same place and when there are more than one chord in a measure it does just THREE notes and walks it up or down which is really cool and music. i like the repetition here because it sounds repetitive but it also is like, the music is always kind of stuttering, so its nice to know when! the transition at 1:00 to 4/4 is nice, but whats even nicer is the section at 1:05 where its very calming and all the sounds ECHO OUT into the void of space...and then the static drum pulls you back into the action...great stuff --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 04/01/20 3:53:27 AM #206 | |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/30/20 9:05:57 PM #205 | back to writing up vgm music ratings 32. Song: Hybrid Game: The World Ends With You Composer: Takeharu Ishimoto Nominator: GammaDelta Score: 89 (3.2/5/4.8/4.8) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36RvlJbaBYE this song is real like dark edgy "linkin park" music that's the way it sounds. its gritty and rocky and rappy and i think that's very nifty a bit of it is lost on me due to the somewhat nonsensical lyrics (maybe they make sense in context? not sure) and the ones that are straight up engrish "this is way i am" i LOVE the breakdown at 1.59 that actually comes in a little earlier with the soft ostinato leading into it...the slower minor softer vocal vibe of it is a great contrast to the rest of the song that is instantly apparent when you hear the wail of the rock guitar, and voices become more aggressive again and rock flourishes all over wow it's lovely ***Seventeenth Elimination*** GammaDelta Uprising Final Battle Overwatch [123/33] Confess The Truth 2015 [Adventure] Dai Gyakuten Saiban: Naruhod Rynosuke no Bken [97/65] Hybrid The World Ends With You [32/89] Thank you for your particiipation!! three very different tracks and i love it when that is introducing me to new things --- |
| Topic | FL81 Ranks 140 Songs (Ranking Phase) |
| cakophon 03/24/20 2:51:48 PM #95 | FL81 posted... And with that, that puts two of our nominators in the DANGER ZONE oh no hoping for dream navigator to go far --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/23/20 1:49:18 PM #204 | |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/18/20 4:33:18 PM #201 | Spreadsheet with results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d9FNZ2HsbDaUP32qfVyrnEoN_2NvzytBcP2sy5fV3cs +xx+ WELCOME TO THE tOP QUARTER!! WHAT SONGS ARE LEFT? WHO IS STILL in the battle???? (in order of nomination) NFUN: Sophisticated Fight Sora no Kiseki Zanmai TheArkOfTurus: Ready to Shave Hypnospace Outlaw MycroProcessor: KOKUGA - Type N Edition Kokuga MycroProcessor: Wandering Shin Megami Tensei LAW & CHAOS DISC Arti: Baka Mitai Yakuza 5 Collen: Vs. Pete Magical Tetris Challenge Collen: Level 5 (Enhanced) Alter Ego Hbthebattle: What Lies at the End Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia Hbthebattle: Still, Move Forward! Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Hbthebattle: Amp Plains Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky loweffortmemes: Dorchadas Shikkoku no Sharnoth loweffortmemes: Fly of Beelzebub Terraria Calamity loweffortmemes: Space Walk Thunder Force IV Anagram: CORE Undertale GameBopAdv: Bitbop Blade Ballet GameBopAdv: Vivarium Battle Good Night Knight MoonRunes: El Anoir Jungle ( ) LaTale UF8: A3 - The broken sun RAY-KUDRYAVKA musiX UF8: Doubling Game (Bye-Bye Art Dream) Murasaki Tsurugi -hotdogturtle--: Disco Ball Ridge Racer kaonashi1: Wandering Train Fighting EX Layer kaonashi1: Trumbull Dominion -Nightscape- Caravan Stories kaonashi1: Squadron Rooms Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet kaonashi1: GREENLIGHT.B Girls' Frontline Prody Parrot: Kamui EZ2DJ / CHUNITHM AIR banshiryuu: Shinbu (ALL PHASE MIX) Blue Reflection Flamander: Attack (MISSION 3) Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth Flamander: Staff Roll Marvel VS. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes Place: Guide FZ: Side F Place: Cycletron (long version) KEYBOARDMANIA 2ndMIX Place: Clayface Battle (Final Cut) American Pixels GammaDelta: Hybrid The World Ends With You kaonashi1 isd the only person to have no noms murdered by me up to this point!! good job and to all you still out there listening.shazam. --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/18/20 4:33:08 PM #200 | |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/18/20 4:25:34 PM #199 | and i am trying to push this to the next page to start the cool est part of the ranking! . . did you know? there are 128 songs in this ranking topic . thats enough to make a bracket and nhave a tournament.... i didnt do this --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/18/20 4:23:54 PM #198 | |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/18/20 4:08:13 PM #196 | I CANNOT BELIEVE I DID NOT REALIZE THIS. PLAYER ZERO IS DEAD! ***REAL Fourteenth Elimination*** Player_0 Howl Evergrace [75/75] Overworld Adventure The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks [59/82] Floral Fury Cuphead [43/87] Bout! - Theme of Towa Time and Eternity [39/88] FAREWELL.... retcons the other two eliatniosins after this to their real numbers (15 and 16)th --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/17/20 11:15:34 PM #194 | 33. Song: Fighting to the End Game: Bravely Default Composer: Sound Horizon Nominator: Hbthebattle Score: 89 (3.4/5/4.8/4.6) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcGD8x4BiLg theres something vaguely insulting about this song. this is the kind of song that, were it a person, would probably bully highschoolers while being itself only in kindergarten. this song will punch you and smack yyou and kick your tush and then turn around in the face of unsuspecting authority and play up its cuteness and i think thats magical and abusive and twofaced and really just is well written, in all seriousness a really playful track that is also encouragingly dangerous and encouraging (t)(t) --- |
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| cakophon 03/17/20 10:43:00 PM #193 | 34. Song: Bumpy Road Game: Granada Composer: Motoi Sakuraba Nominator: Flamander Score: 89 (3.8/5/5/4) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHyQzOF4zHE i cant formulate words any more...ive lost the ability totally, im only able to string together thoughts loosely...this song doesnt feel normal...ive been hit with a sonic memetic cognitohazard that inhibits my ability to process and reintegrate textual communication a curious predicament in which i lose all sense of self and float into the void while this song plays, unable to think anything other than this song shouldnt sound like it does...theres really something wrong with it...i may be going crazy from extended listens but i MUST discover the cause for this the cause is that it feels like a quick quick slow dance tempo rhythmic pattern when in actuality it is completely even and rigid in its rhythmicism --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/17/20 10:25:30 PM #192 | 35. Song: Abadon Battle / Final Boss Game: Magician Composer: Neil Baldwin Nominator: rwlh Score: 89 (4/5/4.8/4) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV12Wpe6_gc it is the early hours of the morning (or the night, depending on how youd like to think of it,), on the cusp of dawn. the faint outline of you think are buildings in the distance are just barely beginning to become visible as you edge ever so slowly forward toward the horizon. youve been chugging your way through the desert for a number of days now, and even the mere pretense of there possibly being civilisation is enough to propel you toward it. so close, just a few more, you think to yourself as you exhaustedly push yourself toward the indistinct shapes. your tongue hangs out of your mouth doggedly, almost itself seeming to beg for a drop of liquid, any liquid. as you continue at your sluggish pace, the sun starts to rise opposite you. fearful of the intense heat it will inevitably bring, you hasten to a crawl in hopes of reaching the buildings before its too late. </song end> ***Fifteenth Elimination*** rwlh Loader The Great Giana Sisters [105/57] Title Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge [92/68] Goin' Down the Fast Way Rise of the Triad [69/78] Abadon Battle / Final Boss Magician [35/89] thank you for your participation! and your attempt to breadthen my scope of vgmit certainly has helped! --- |
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| cakophon 03/17/20 10:03:19 PM #190 | 36. Song: Sophisticated Fight Game: Sora no Kiseki FC Composer: Wataru Ishibari Nominator: NFUN Score: 89 (4.8/5/4/4) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um5EbReY7rA o fair heralder of worlds beyond my own, tell me tales of battles from long before my time. were they just and fair? were they as well-dressed as yourself? in those days, my child, there was naught but violence. some embraced it wholly, but others recognized the evils of the time for what they were, and sought to make right the ways their ancestors had wronged. these folk eventually found one another, and banded together into what you know now as The Collected Bravery. with their combined individual courages and abilities, they were able to travel through the land and restore a game-like quality to fighting in the time it was not an easy path, and they saw many casualties. where Collected Braverys numbers had once been estimated in the thousands, at journeys end there were little more than fifty members remaining. they did not, however, let this deter them, and successfully brought about an end to the totally partial system once and for all. i had not considered the fact that there may have actually been a semblance of a story within these walls..i appreciate and commend your efforts to recreate it for me.. --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/17/20 9:28:27 PM #189 | i realize the sheet is badly out of date this will be repranded before a certain point --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/17/20 9:22:03 PM #188 | 37. Song: Battle Against a Weird Opponent Game: EarthBound Composer: Keiichi Suzuki/Hirokazu Tanaka Nominator: azuarc Score: 88 (4/4.4/5/4.2) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ptrVQJT5Wc this song sounds like im having an awkward encounter with a bodily existing object that may or may not understand my language..it seems to be very amicable and attempts to get my attention and does this weird thing that is like a mix between purring like a cat and panting like a dog? i dont really understand it but it keeps doing it and i think its actually a little, cute it also has this weird shadow that doesnt work the same way as normal shadows. its underneath it like a normal shadow but instead of being behind the object behind the light like a normal shadow it is in the other side, so when theres a light in front the light hits the shadow...im not sure why this is but its very strange and unorthodox yet very charming! ***Fourteenth Elimination*** azuarc Magnets (Stage 5) Super Bomberman 5 [108/53] Besaid Island Final Fantasy X [68/78] Peper Steak OFF [49/86] Battle Against a Weird Opponent EarthBound [37/88] thank you for the music you dislike..! --- |
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| cakophon 03/17/20 9:12:57 PM #186 | 38. Song: Spiral Bliss Game/Album: Iridion 3D & II Arranged Soundtrack Original Track: Spiral Bliss - Iridion II Composer: Manfred Linzner Arranger: Manfred Linzner Nominator: MoonRunes Score: 88 (4/4.8/4.8/4) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSn-QqmUJH0 oh yeah.i am siting back in my space cruiser and lounging and i am looking out my space window into outer space..i dont see anything except for blackness and white dots moving at an imperceptible speed outside while this song plays on my space stereo as 1:14 rolls around i take a sip out of my spacial coffee, as this song and the coffee are one and i am one with them. i have attained utter enlightenment through both the tasting of the coffee and the panning of the synth through my ears. every instrument in this song is like i am having lukewarm liquid bathed through my ears (dont worry i am ear-infection free, mostly because of this song) --- |
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| cakophon 03/17/20 9:09:40 PM #184 | 39. Song: Bout! - Theme of Towa Game: Time and Eternity Composer: Yuzo Koshiro Nominator: Player_0 Score: 88 (3.4/5/5/4.2) Link: https-://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJFgwU8b3_A this song wants me to fight you in smash bros i say 3 2 1 go!! and then we fight but the stage is this big floating tone sphere made up of cool fantasy elemnts from yuzo koshiro songs like full orchestral band arrangements and distinct heroic melodies with tinges of melancholy but wholly focused on hope 1:02 is the best thing ever in music, like it when music is written so you can go dadadadada and shake really hard within the span of less than a second the guitar solo is impressive and sounds cool and at the end sounds like it will go into a violin solo but theres a trumpet instead and WOW theyre good@_@ i like the sounds (gangplank galleon smash bros) this sounds like a song would be really fun to performed live and performed at --- |
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| cakophon 03/16/20 2:15:56 AM #183 | 40. Song: Safe Game: else Heart.Break() Composer: El Huervo Nominator: Collen Score: 88 (3.6/5/5/4) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1t44mV0VII its no girl but WOW its something else el huervo loop focused laidback track that goes through indistinct phases,,,i think its really nice to just sit back and relax to! the kind of song im immersing myself in while i encase my self cocoonedly for quarantine of coronavirus.. the repeated use of different short samples in succsession to create the track overall and movement in and out when new ideas are added but nothing in individual instruments...ive mentioed this before but its a really appealing sound! the middle of this song is very good...respite from the constant drum break gives way to a simpler wave the ambient note held over this entire piece really ties the room together for me GOSH its so pretty i wanna fall asleep --- |
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| cakophon 03/15/20 12:50:28 PM #181 | 41. Song: Answering Machine Game: Scud: The Disposable Assasin Composer: Dead Alewives Nominator: Place Score: 87 (5/4/3.4/5) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOgvVMXWtAk this isnt music this isnt music this isnt music wtF is this what they call environmental storytelling?i guess not but theres like a huge amount of inference this is really good at delivering information without telling it directly...its also like phineas and ferb because of how the storylines converge at a moment and cause utter chaos thats my favorite trope... i dont know if i wouldve liked any of these stories on their own its just about the ridiculousness together that they cause...the one where the guy kills his wife might be the craziest on its own i also love the sound design like you can hear the restaurant and general buzz behind patrice as well as the ending..3:47 is so funny lol the lightbulb guy failing to put down the receiver shows his comedic value worst part of the sound design is the realism of the leg stabbing but JEEZ the comedic timing is amazing i like the first two messages playing off of each other with Bob introducing the party as tame and immediately after his landlord calling to say that the party was enough grounds for eviction...the other part that is timed really well is Patrice saying she had sex with Bob which broke the waterbed...callback humor is great this also leaves a few unanswered questions..who was the person who answered the phone at the beginning? is it the police? Bill himself? why would they run six minutes of phone messages? what happened to the guys stab wound? how was he able to move? why did the lightbulbs guy come to Bills house if he said to call their office? i hate 2:27 theres no in-universe explanation for it whydoes the guy know his name? the fart is fine as comedic relief but like there was no reason for that --- |
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| cakophon 03/15/20 12:33:55 PM #180 | 42. Song: Megalovania Game: Undertale Composer: Toby Fox Nominator: Anagram Score: 87 (4/4.4/4/5) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDgQdr8ZkTw link was taken down youre lke literally 3/3 for bad links um sans ughhhhhhhh i actually like this song quite a bit. tobys strength is in his ability to use melodic lines in varying ways and this is done a bunch here, with the introduction of the melody on its own, then the rest of the backing, and when it later drops out, being used to supplement newmelodic sections by way of the harmony and then it literally just being added back in like at 0:40 lol this also makes itcooler when he leaves the expected 4-chord progression to go into other chords that arent like legally weird but are weird by theirbeing not in the four-chord progression anyway sans --- |
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| cakophon 03/15/20 12:28:13 PM #179 | 43. Song: Floral Fury Game: Cuphead Composer: Kristofer Maddigan Nominator: Player_0 Score: 87 (4/4.4/5/4) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD54sROmeIM SWELL DAY FOR A BATTLE...BEGIN *me when vgmc starts) Yes i like big band latin rytm jazzyes i listen to jazz for fun.this song is great HOOOOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOOOT HOOHOOT HOOHOOOHOOOT it cranks up at 0:50 with the first solo and only gets better from there...i love that the music in this game goes like the actual jazz thing and starts with a head and then just goes with a million solos in b etween (2:00 trumpets, 0:50 piano,...its really thats what makes jazz for me 1:42 idk whats happening? trumpets arent all together or maybe they should have not been put even but it sounds very muddled 2:38 the reintegration of the main line is good idk if it had a pickup before probably did but it feels weird to actually hear it. my only gripe is its presented as real jazz but is too short to be real jazz be longer OH YEAH also theres no bass whats up with that --- |
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| cakophon 03/15/20 12:22:34 PM #178 | 44. Song: FUJIMORI -matsuri- FESTIVAL -extended mix- Game: REFLEC BEAT groovin'!! Composer: Yoshitaka Nishimura, Sota Fujimori Nominator: banshiryuu Score: 87 (2.8/4.6/5/5) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKUcrhAm73w idk who sota fujimori is but how come they got to arrange a whole festival for themself...seems a little biased idk man i keep expecting this song to say after they say FUJIMORI but it is not that song lol..its got the same kind of vaguely (not really vague theres legit taiko kiai in this song as well as what i think is literally a koto? not sure) traditional japanese vibe going with the house 4/4 beat on every beat rhythm thing happening..its a pretty common juxtaposition i think but its very good i love the call and response at 0:56 into a vocal chop in the backing vocals thats really cute --- |
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| cakophon 03/15/20 3:35:58 AM #177 | 45. Song: Grey Lips Game: Senko no Ronde Composer: Yasuhisa Watanabe Nominator: banshiryuu Score: 87 (3.6/4.8/4.6/4.4) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3-Fn9WEi6M why is this song got the same scream as bombergirl gurumin a yack song...naturally it focuses more on environment...i like it! it honestly feels lacking in something that i cant pinpoint, but that might just be all shmup songs i think 1:11 is really cool! underlying chords are really funky and i enjoy the funk, melody on top is quite nice as well the overall sound design is very futuristic and cool and i normally like that but idont like this specifically for whatever reason? it sounds stale especially the lead sound and the constant 16th pulsing percussion...might be burned out on this so i might have to listen to 13423 nekomatamaster songs not sure how to feel about 2:00...not even sure if it really happened --- |
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| cakophon 03/15/20 3:28:27 AM #176 | 46. Song: Animal Minimal Game: Gurumin Composer: Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayato Sonoda, Wataru Ishibashi and/or Takahide Murayama) Nominator: MoonRunes Score: 87 (4/4.8/4/4.6) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=towCAXjhBj8 im at the night club im at the zooo im at the combination nightclub nd zoo man this intro is so wack dsiieeeeuuu dsieeeuuuu rainsticks weird hitson all the beats and then cats and dogs are raining the sound design of this is really fun lol i like how crazy everytghings in this its a crazier version ofblazing hot savannah didnt know that was possible i like theconstant house bbeat and its contrast with the animal sounds lol 1:20 with the the chopped up animal cries into like a weird polyrithim is really cool and then it just pops back into the loop without any merge or explanation at all lol i love it --- |
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| cakophon 03/15/20 3:11:41 AM #175 | ***Thirteenth Elimination*** th3l3fty Fighting of the Spirit Tales of Phantasia Original Soundtrack Complete Version [117/45] Wind Scene / To Far Away Times To Far Away Times [74/75] Opening, Snakeman Stage (2A03+VRC7 mix) Chiptuned Rockman [58/82] Aoi Tori (M@STER VERSION) THE IDOLM@STER MASTER ARTIST 05 Kisaragi Chihaya [47/87] thank you for your particiaption! smiles and tears --- |
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| cakophon 03/15/20 3:10:23 AM #174 | 47. Song: Aoi Tori (M@STER VERSION) Game/Album: THE IDOLM@STER MASTER ARTIST 05 Kisaragi Chihaya Original Track: Aoi Tori - THE iDOLM@STER Composer: Go Shiina Arranger: Toshiya Shiori Nominator: th3l3fty Score: 87 (4/4.8/4.6/4) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O3SX6ahwcg lol at all the people waving their idol sticks to such a morose and balladic song lool lololol this is the same song as chrono trigger to far away times its melacholy and hopefull...the vocalist is rly good at expressing these emotions imo oh MAN the pre-chorus from 1:23 is lovely, like the notes of anticipation in her voice even as we are in the actual chorus...when you feel the notes will resolve but they dont and go into this chord thats like the OPPOSITE of a piccardy third..will henceforth be referringto this chord movement as that good s*it 1:56-2;18she does this modulation (i think ) which isreally good anyway these things happenall around the song especially in the last one and i cry really hard about this song 4:11 is amazing andmaybe even Ermine and i like it a lot more than when i started this project i think thisis like what people think classical music) means --- |
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| cakophon 03/15/20 3:02:17 AM #173 | 48. Song: Labyrinth II - Shrine Road of Monoliths Game: Etrian Odyssey V Composer: Yuzo Koshiro Nominator: UF8 Score: 86 (3.4/4.6/4.8/4.4) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0omuIyEgosI Im FLOATING.yuzo koshiro gived me a flying drug called 6/8 and now i am icarusian having a fun time with the melancholy of this song chords are always minor and SAD until they are a little bit major but still mostly in your heart panging like the disney pixar short bao. the flute solo is so gorgeous even if its only like 2 bars lol i like it when soloists outline a chord seven times and then hit some note in like the octabve above it the breakdown section is also nice but i do think i prefer the part where the song has drums a little more actually now that i think about it without the drums its a lot more cathartic to try to feel the beat so idk.both are great! --- |
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| cakophon 03/15/20 2:57:57 AM #172 | 49. Song: Peper Steak Game: OFF Composer: Alias Conrad Coldwood Nominator: azuarc Score: 86 (3/5/5/4.2) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-9xbgTHpLA songs that are composed of samples songs that are composed of short sample loops and reuse them a lot and add ROOM AMBIANCE.SPPOOOOKY...i like how there is this little strings whine in the backgtround sometimes while you have this compressed sounding upfront upbeat front melody front beat and cool old instruments and new sounds that says :YES!!!! WE ARE FIGHTING THE COOL FIGHT when really you are fighting the decidedly Not cool fight probably maybe actually i didnt play this game i watched markiplier do it and i only got through 1.5 episdoes ANYWAY thats what it sounds like 2:04 is ccreepy @_@ the song died. --- |
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| cakophon 03/15/20 2:54:22 AM #171 | 50. Song: Broken Dimension Game: Ruby & Majesty: Treasure Team Composer: TheWzzard Nominator: GameBopAdv Score: 86 (3.6/5/4.6/4) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dk9cr1GG0Q this song is like..imagine dragons woke up in the year 2047 and just started making music with the instruments that exist. i like how none of the music sounds real everybody jump around on intervals that dont make sense in any sort of musical sense and confuse people...sound design is also amazing with the hawaii-five o bongos at the end and the tinky tonky vibraphone and electronica it sounds like a broken dimension!!! dissonan --- |
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| cakophon 03/13/20 9:34:49 PM #170 | mini bump will get back to this AFTER vgmc noms....maybe...... --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/08/20 2:05:25 AM #168 | 51. Song: Valfalk Remix (Hidden Track) Game/Album: Monster Hunter Hunting Music Collection XX Original Track: Silver Winged Scarlet Star ~ Valfalk - Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate Composer: Reo Uratani Arranger: ??? Nominator: Zigzagoon Score: 85 (3/4/5/5) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy-fBRCHGLc bemani genre EPIC ROCK wow LOVE the intro on this its the super chill style of opener i love...would have liked if it was all like that but the direction it goes instead is absolutely cool...in a dfferent way 0:24 the little chromatic triplets is so good the style of the rest of the song overall really is just a JRPG battle theme but it feels really well done...i love how the dueling guitar leads sound, and then the semi-acoustic sounding one that pops in sometimes to restate the opening phrase 1:08 is gorgeous 3/4+5/4 guitar solo that sounds like a modern fire emblem game like fates i like it a lot the solo at 1:57 is amazing the 16ths shredding improvisation is so much good musicianship and its followed up by this little syncopated sting at 2:13 that is so fucking jazz dude its great the melody which i assume is lifted from the original game i really cant get over the way this opens it sounds like in going to listen to jazz fusion prog but its super cool rock instead ***Twelfth Elimination*** Zigzagoon Gaussian Blur 2 O2Jam [99/64] Dance of the Moon Rabbits Umineko no Naku Koro ni [85/71] The Cold Science of Supremacy WildStar [84/71] Valfalk Remix (Hidden Track) Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate [51/85] thank you for your participation!! i retrospectively love these a lot more than i rated them, unfortunately :( but thank you for nominating them nonetheless! --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/07/20 8:32:39 PM #167 | 52. Song: Spotlight On Game: Cytus II Composer: & & Xinevsky Nominator: MoonRunes Score: 85 (4/4/4.8/4.2) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XveNg7L1H_4 my notes from the summer say i dont like the vocals. that's a lie i like them they're very like wooaaah "jazz"" and "rhythm game" picture next to these words in the dictionary is this song, dissonant with synth lead but!!! somewhere in the middle the chords become normal people chords (major) instead of weird people chords (cool) the drums in the intro to this are good i have this weird penchant for like that concentrated group of four 32nd notes anachronising, it's really good the entire song up until 1:47 has got this super tense feel like you don't exist in a metaphysical sense while listening to it, then major chords hit amd you're like, oh yeah im alive starting at 0:22 in the backing theres this super distorted (?)guitar sound on the down beat which i really enjoy adding to the atmosphere 0:55-1:07 is actually in 11/8 (5/8+6/8) which i didnt even notice until i tried to feel out the beat i just thought it was some ambiguous 4/4 phrase but no its actually just done really seamlessly i love how the backing track comes in on what seems like unexpected beats that synth solo and the one at 2:06 are really cool and outside the scale of the song which is lovely the ending sucks!! give me more tension --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/07/20 8:18:37 PM #166 | 53. Song: Iceboard Game: The Adventures of Little Ralph Composer: Hiroshi Kuronuma, , Naoki Tsuchiya Nominator: Flamander Score: 85 (3/5/4.6/4.4) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFD8U7dzpe0 like the little repeated phrase introduced, and love the bassline especially at 0:28-0:40. it goes into a solo after that but it's not the greatestyou know what is the greatest? the short piano phrase during that same section (to0:34) its syncopated and largely intervalled and cool the energy contained within this is rollicking, i love it. constant hihat on 16ths helps with that a lot do NOT like the harsh guitar (?) stings that come in starting at 0:16 like why are u just a Pokemon cry --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/07/20 4:05:22 AM #164 | 54. Song: Coalescence Game: Risk of Rain Composer: Chris Christodoulou Nominator: TheArkOfTurus Score: 85 (3/5/5/4) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysPtBjY8o_A [sequential repetition on increasingly lower starting pitches over a period of four bars] repeat ad infinitum (this means until 2:32 but not really because the chords are still implied underneath the silence and then it comes back anyway but in a slightly modified form.A!!!) notwithstanding melody composition i like the progression of this piece. the addition of new instruments and/or harmonization techniques per each fourbar period is well done and makes the most out of the short melody#justchrischristodoulouthings second half i like better just because of how big it soounds compared to the first...the arrangement just seems fuller --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/06/20 3:24:10 PM #163 | ***Eleventh Elimination*** Pirateking2000 Kukulkan, The Wind God Serious Sam: The Second Encounter [126/19] FIGHT!! Ver. 4 - The Final Battle Grandia II [114/48] I'm Back (to Rise!) Killer Instinct [87/70] Rock Club Scott Pilgrim VS The World: The Game [55/84] thank you for your tunes participation! hadnt heard two of these before so i am grateful for theexposure --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/06/20 3:23:17 PM #162 | 55. Song: Rock Club Game: Scott Pilgrim VS The World: The Game Composer: Anamanaguchi Nominator: Pirateking2000 Score: 84 (3.2/4/4.6/5) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kOU7Pxi8-M chiptune that is a real music song and has real guitaars and bitcrush drums. wow anamanaguchi music sure sounds like anamanaguchi (mega man 2 hd deluxe edition). the melody in this is sometimes singable and sometimes its not, but most of the time it is/!! 0:09 through 0:28 is the coolest melody in my opinion part. section right after it is weird bceausae i like where it starts and ends but the middle has these chords that become major and okay, but i think it would be cooler if they were minor. 1:07 breakdown!!!! reintroduce the introductory rhythmic three note sting with a doom-lite bassline and throw it back into the ACTUAL intro is a cool idea to make your song loop coolly, which it does!! really get that headbanging feel from this one but only on every other beats --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/06/20 3:12:41 PM #161 | 56. Song: Greenish Illusion Game: The Munchables Composer: Ayako Yamaguchi, Akira Yamasaki, Yasumasa Yamada Nominator: -hotdogturtle- Score: 84 (3.2/4.6/4.4/4.6) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTsEXu5cNE0 yeah i like the menu constant 1 and 3 pulse is really cool this feels like to me a mix between kamome sanos chiller stuff and some of the chiller side of french house. i love the vocal???s throughout the drop at 1:22 is really good. the bassline directly following it is amazing as well. a minor gripe i have with this is how long section loops are (16 bars i think without really counting) before entering the next section 2:25 IS THE COOLEST THING IN THIS SONG EVER. THE EIGTH NOTE BREAK OUT OF NOWHERE INTO A COMPLETELY NEW SECTION...THROWS YOU OFF THE RHYTHM AND THE NEW TONE MAKES ME GO WOAH!!! the little intro the new section has as well is super disorienting in terms of feeling the beat and its amazing to have to readjust to it. 3:12 the back sounds like justice doing things, 0:39 sounds llike kamome sano doing things. i do like how the first section reenters in the fadeout of the lattter --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/04/20 4:01:14 PM #160 | ***Tenth Elimination*** Snake5555555555 Colosseum Devil May Cry [122/37] Battle Against Time Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake [83/71] Omega Thumper [77/74] Saudade Resident Evil 2 [57/83] thanks for your participation!! repping the variety --- |
| Topic | cakophon ranks 128 VGM |
| cakophon 03/04/20 4:00:13 PM #159 | 57. Song: Saudade Game: Resident Evil 2 Composer: Cody Matthew Johnson, Shim Nominator: Snake5555555555 Score: 83 (3/4.8/4.2/4.6) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj2Q3L134mY they played this one at the game awards when they were doing the medley of nominees and i was like wow i know that song @_@ this is such a lovely slow hard rocking track it sounds like if you took the early 2000s music and slowed it down or sped it up really weird because it sounds like the song is really big when theres really not that many instruments but i think its probably one of those room effects that musicians like to EQ as usually i dont pay attention to the lyrics and i really dk what hes talking about. funny how he rhymes so long with so gone and saudade thats pretty lazy and funny hee hee phrasing of this is also strange theres like chorus one verse chorus one verse chorus but then chorus again and a solo and then a chorus? like normaly you would have the solo after the post-second verse chorus imo the phrase is stranging especially bc at 2:32-2:44 there is this weird instrumental break but nothing happens and he just does the prechorus again musically boring because nothing happens but still pretty fun --- |
| Topic | FL81 Ranks 140 Songs (Ranking Phase) |
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