Lurker > Haste_2

Does anyone have a list of music by original nominator for VGMC XIII? Or if someone has the nomination topic for that contest archived, that could work, too.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

In Circles
Dance With Me
*ranking topic spoilers*
Battle With Saruin.............

Megaraph Fleet (6.0) / In Circles (6.5)
Dance With Me (7.0) / L L ~Infinite Beating ver~ (6.0)

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

I'm a Thomp.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

I feel much better now about having picked XBC2 seeing it's within 55/45. It was an initial gut pick that I made the day the bracket came out, and I had no idea that Batman game was supposed to be popular. (I didn't read any analysis either)

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

-[Deoxyribose]-
Snake Eater
*ranking topic spoilers*
Hidra Heteromycin.................

-[Deoxyribose]- (8.5) / Fear Not This Night (7.0)
Snake Eater (7.5) / Shop 'til You Drop (6.5)

Pretty much, deo's noms were amazing. Regarding Deoxyribose, it's intense and engaging. I love those punctuated synths in the background, both the light high ones (with awesome reverb) or the heavy low ones (love they way they fill the gaps between phrases). Very catchy at 0:51. At 1:36 I love those choir effects... interesting delay effects, or (who knows what's actually being done) which makes a great contrast and the high strings blend in with it perfectly. Great blend of bass sounds at places which works nicely with the lighter punctuated synths. The final minute is unexpected, the way it explores new harmonies towards the end... maybe its moving into a new track?

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Final Destination
An Endless Desert
*ranking topic spoilers*
Chloe.................................................

Battle Tower (4.5) / Final Destination (6.0)
Wings of Terror Phase 2 (5.0) / An Endless Desert (9.0)

Not so impressed with the main bracket competitors today. Battle Tower is my least favorite Toby Fox music to be in any VGM contest... It's like you take a mediocre battle composition, but then you try so hard to make it sound cool by adding these highly energized instruments that it ends up being obnoxious. But yeah, GBA said it doesn't sound like Pokemon, and I agree, and trying to make it sound like Pokemon surely would've made me like it more. Oh, well.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

rwlh previous suggested this upload of FFIV's Battle 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cJe5v5lLKk
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnP7JCDExDg

I appreciate rwlh very much for finding the highest quality recordings available for music! However, the track is very short. If it only plays once it may have a subconscious negative impact on voters' impressions, so I might suggest we go back to the original recording I had earlier. The music doesn't quite have the sharpness (for lack of a better word) of the OST rip, true, but I think the (very small) difference in quality will have less of an impact than having it play through twice. As for the other, I just hate it when music ends abrupty, so the second recording doesn't appeal to me, either. Anway, as the original nominator of Battle 2, that is my two cents. It will probably lose in the first round regardless, but you never know!

Original:
https://youtu.be/nCjrnz-BxfA

Also, Fire Island Volcano could use an upload that tapers the ending off.

Original:
https://youtu.be/usuKnzJLoHU

Suggested:
https://youtu.be/62ep8uK8nfQ


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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Blooming Villain
Suite Photoconductivity ~Third Tune: Bolt and Sword~
Innocence and Emptiness

AI[UE]OON (6.5) / Blooming Villain (7.5)
Kanata no Rafflesia (9.0) / Suite Photoconductivity ~Third Tune: Bolt and Sword~ (9.0)

WOW, that second match... O_O It's easily my favorite match so far this contest. I came in here fully expecting to vote for Kanata no Rafflesia, but.... it's really close, but I'm feeling it more towards the other today.

Oh, noes, I need to put spoiler tags over the ToC match.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

They're easy if they're on platforms you can run under, but I'm talking about the Hammer Bros. in levels 8-3 and 8-4. And again, assume you are small Mario, so you can't take a hit!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

EXEC_Z/.
GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
Flash Frost

EXEC_Z/. (6.5) / FLIGHTLESS (5.5)
GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE (9.5) / Dreamy Somnom Labyrinth (7.5)

Too bad DSL doesn't get to face EXEC Z or FLIGHTLESS. Oh, well. GOSU is full of win pretty much every moment of the track.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Jenova Absolute had lots of (wasted) potential. Are there any good remixes of it out there? When I think about, the PC version of Absolute sounded way better (much fuller) than on the PS1, even if FF7 on PS1 had better music most of the time. I wish I had a copy of that version, but with all the different sound cards back then, the version I had is probably nowhere to be found.

I love those graphs, Player 0! I don't understand some things, though. Like, people who have had identical votes so far... shouldn't they be literally on top of each other? For example, Mycro/kaonashi/Place all have 100% compatbility right now, but their positions on the graph doesn't make it look like it? I mean, Mycro and kaonashi are close to each other, at least, but Place is farther away from them for some reason?

Also, I find it interesting that the people who had similar nominations as me are on the opposite side of me in terms of contest voting! (not that surprising when I think about it, since my nominations were more "mainstream" than my voting habits tend to be)

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

180 places between Mycro and deo o_O. MADARA is really divisive, isn't it?

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

TIGAR (All Phase Mix)
The world of spirit
system0

TIGAR (All Phase Mix) (6.5/10) / MADARA (5.5/10)
Return to Oblivion (6.5/10) / The world of spirit (7.5)

Bad day of music, relatively speaking. I love that baby robo voice in the Dariusburst track, though!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

As long as masculinity and femininity are equally valued and neither is considered better than the other, maybe it wouldn't be so toxic.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Man, for how many of these tracks do I have the wrong version?! In this case, it'll make no difference in the rating. Essentially we're trading a nice buildup in exchange for being consistently more exciting, and they cancel each other out.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Apostle's Maraud
Battle! (Colress)
Preserved Valkyria

Apostle's Maraud (9.5) / Don't Worry (6)
Battle! (Colress) (9) / King Noah (7.5)

Man, that's gotta be the best main series Pokemon battle theme I've ever heard, if not the outright best track in the main series. I love the ambiguous tonality. I can't believe I didn't know about it until a little while ago. (Why didn't I ever get BW2, anyway? BW1 was great) edit: banshiryu, you are the best!!!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Yes. Vercetti is weaker now, but I'm sure Tanner is, too.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Finally, Atelier gets revenge on DNHC<i>!</i> Waterworks Area did not deserve such a beating. :[

Heheh... not only did Last Pandemic win, but Scourge of the Universe, too. If only I had nominated H.G. Virus!!! (I was seriously considering it.)

I'm super excited that deo, in addition to Mycro, is ranking all the music. Now we have something to compare Mycro's rankings to, and that means triple the fun this year!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

This topic is precisely why postal services are essential.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

NFUN posted...

I am the model of GENEROSITY by selflessly gifting my "REALLY good" songs to the contest!

Yes, it also selfless. ;)

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Interesting. Looks like NFUN had the most nominations to make the contest, with 10 songs. He had REALLY good nominations, indeed, even if he was a bit self-centered by nominating 20 things at the soonest possible moment. =P (granted, he later dropped some and supported stuff later)

I just realized Beyond the Darkness has to face hinagiku (Lost in Shadow). Looks like I'll have to vote against my own nom. :(


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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

I thought I'd re-post the updated spreadsheet, as it contains some revised scores I thought you'd like to be aware of. Yeah, most of the recent music is stuff that should have been scored a little lower.... stuff has been kind of a mess, but I'm starting to get much more organized now!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RyUmpY7s3MZeuSDaN3vYEJXtS9BlR0GJ--7sapMOnaA/edit?usp=sharing

138) Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru 6 - Life
https://youtu.be/GbqYuTZFDKk
Series rank: 10 of 15
Composer: dai
Score: 7.2/10 (Great)
Revised Score; 6.8/10 (Good)
VGMC History: VGMC IV (Lost R2), VGMC V (Lost R5)
Favorite Part: 0:32 - 0:40 (start listening 5-10 seconds before to see what I mean)

"Oops". I wasn't as organized as I should have been in creating my rankings at first, so this kind of slipped through the cracks. Solo piano is certainly different from the loud electronic stuff of other tracks. The piano playing is quirky in a way that it still seems to fit the series, though. Ah, it's from dai, the one who wrote Hope. Make sense. New age, a bit like the Piano Guys but more "serious", and very rhythmic. There is the cool voice leading in those piano chords, especially the parts where its contrary motion! (the first few chords, for instance) Also, the chords kind of go back and forth between open and thick chords, too. Cool. The harmonies in general are intriguing for like the first seven seconds, then the rest of the theme is kind of boring and forgettable as it repeats similar ideas. It does get imaginative at a few points, such as from 0:32 - 0:40...the pulsing here is cool, where everything gets displaced by an eighth note! Overall, its kind of a dud among the Umineko successes to me. Still enjoyable, though.

137) NieR: Automata - Amusement Park
Series rank: 5 of 5 (Drakengard)
https://youtu.be/yOo8oJlWwnU
Composer: Keigo Hoashi
Score: 7.2/10 (Great)
Revised Score: 6.9/10 (Good)
VGMC History: VGMC 12 (Lost R5)
Favorite Part: The initial buildup starting at 1:55

Apparently Drakengard is part of the NieR series! (Just kidding...April Fools joke. The opposite is true) Some of you are probably wondering, "Why hasn't Amusement Park showed up yet?" I have only one word to say: "Oops." Gotta love the NieR vocalists. (I wonder who it is?) Adding the second voice adds some richness. Yes. The main melody is...um, nice. Im liking the sparse instrumentation kind of haunting/sarcastic atmospheric stuff here, and even the airy stuff seems to have notes to them. And it gradually thickens until 2:30. There are certain piano chords I really like, for example, the diminished chords really add some flavor and intensity (2:57, 3:13 and 3:31 for example). At 3:41 I enjoy the Entry of the Gladiators reference (plus fragments of it play in other places), and the countermelody there is the one part where I have something better than neutral feelings towards the strings. The section after 1:55 (esp. 2:14) sounds like something out of a circuskinda creepy in a way. (abandoned/haunted sounds) Not too much else worth mentioning. Actually, I'd better add that 2:17 is really great! Tons of excellent harmonies there, and the singer moving (at 2:31) from E to Eb moving into the next section is really nice! (i-I-#VI-bIIM7) That alone is ALMOST enough to push it up to the "great" tier, come to think of it, but not quite!


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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

3rd day, huh? You tried to fool me, but you failed.

Eh, may as well do ratings.

Scourge of the Universe (9) / Waterworks Area (8)
Tonitrus (8) / SEISMIQ (7.5)
*Ranking topic spoilers*
Flying Clouds, Drifting Haze....................................

Yet another good day of music!


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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Now that I've decided to not change my votes, my rankings for today are now

New-to-me songs:
Imbrium >= FAUNA >>> Fax Factory

Familiar song rankings:
Black Song > Id ~ Purpose >>> Memories of You

I have a tough time comparing new discoveries to ones that I've known for a long time, so I had to make two sets of rankings. >_>

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Yay Mycro for getting on with the compatibility stats! It's in good hands.

tennisboy213 posted...

welp I wasn't gonna keep track again this year but 1/6 has me interested just how bad it can get for me

Uh oh, here we go again! Looks like it's MY turn for the start of the contest to go my way, and terribly for you!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Id ~ Purpose
Imbrium... oh, WOW, what a good match. I'll have to listen to both again tomorrow to make sure I voted for the right one!
*ranking spoilers*
Kuroi Ita ~ The Black Song (International Version).........................hey, I have to do SOMETHING to make sure you can't tell what the vote is based on the "length"!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

5/6 so far. Good start for me.

azuarc posted...

Invitation Flower ~ Autumn > Six Feet Thunder, 31-26

Poor deo, though.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

kaonashi1 posted...

-SOLD on IF~A's intro, as always; since this is like the tenth time I'm hearing this I note different things now like the fairly low-key portamento synth sitting under the whole track, or that strange panning... sound effect? every two bars-- I wonder what it's intended to represent; I enjoy 1:11 a lot more now than when I first heard this; I wonder which composer in the composer listing wrote this?! I bet it's Georges Bizet

Ah, so that's what that synth is called? (edit: actually, you're just referring to how it's being used in a portamento manner, not actually the type of synth?) Moving on, the strange sound effect is supposed to be growling... I think (if that's what you're referring to). I mean, with a name like IF~Autumn, I think the music is supposed to represent nature. 1:11 is absolutely THE BEST part, I'm glad you finally realized it!!!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Wow, I didn't expect such a nailbiter in the ToC. I'm always happy to see a good emotional(ish) track beat something notable for the first time since I've immersed myself in VGMC last year! Ink to Dry did much better than I thought it would, which is good!


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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Whoops. What was going on in my head? I thought I had decided the right one to vote for, but my opinion for LYLYL (changed) by the time I was done listening to it. >_>

CHANGE to Love You Love You Love

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Deltarune - Rude Buster
Spectral Gene - Silver Star Crysta Kaleido
*rankings topic spoilers*
Atelier Ayesha - Invitation Flower ~ Autumn..................

Rude > LYLYL >= Kaleido >> Brain. But even if Rude joined yesterday's matchups, it would only get 4th place out of 5!


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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Oops. Thanks. But if my ranking them wasn't obvious, here's my OFFICIAL vote.

LastPandemic

I am enjoying very much all the write-ups and comments, by the way.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

We got some insanely good regular contest music today! Too bad ILD will likely get destroyed.

One Final Effort
LastPandemic / Title
*Ranking topic spoilers*
End of All (Land)......................................................

I have very strong feelings for the ToC match, but I'm going to have to decline saying anything to avoid more spoilers.

OFE > ILD = LP > Title


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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

I like both, but the flat seems to be yummier and tenderer in my experience.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Max on Minecraft

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

I will be very mad that I didn't lose to you by more.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Oh noes, I'm the only one to pick Dota 2 over Minecraft XD. This is what happens when you quickly fill out a bracket day 1 and never look at your bracket again. (despite that it's still an awful pick) Wait, we can still hope for a rally!!!!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

https://pastebin.com/jggn1vNn

Winner: Breath of the Wild
Tiebreaker: 1765432

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Crap, I'm late. The bracket link no longer works for method A of submitting my picks. Is it possible to do the automated method using this link here?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/features/gotd_mybracket

Edit: Looks like I can.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Good job 3DSRage for getting Bastion correct!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

The sad thing is that I can only identify two of those games from those match pics. >_>

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

I've ghosted before, but I've never employer.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Gordon Freeman.

Er, oops, I mean, uh... Super Meat Boy.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Janus5k posted...

Incidentally, lec is 38 spots too high

Oh, dear... lec won ToC2. That must have SUCKED for you, if you were participating in VGMC back then!

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

You can't please everybody. Mycro thinks Hope is 41 spots too high. And xp thinks Poet and the Muse is 40 spots too high....

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

No. Kind of wish they had already done so, because my roommates made me basically stay in isolation for two weeks... and once the two weeks are up is probably when my state is going to order that, meaning I'll be in isolation for four weeks straight.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

140) Alan Wake - The Poet and the Muse
https://youtu.be/GeSUvoY2oUk
Composer: M. Saaresoto, O. Tukiainen, M. Kaarlonen
Score: 7.1/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 5 (Lost R1), VGMC 6 (Lost R4), VGMC 7 (Lost R5 to the executioner)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/GeSUvoY2oUk?t=179

I tend to avoid most popular music genres, but singer-songwriter type music tends to cater towards me! Its simple, but enjoyable. It has a depressing feeling that I like. Lyrics are good. I find the acoustic guitar use refreshing ... the way it highlights the sharp 6 at the phrase ends, for example. Multiple guitar voices complementing each otherI like the upper syncopated stuff, the way the patterns bounce around. The soft backup voices are nice. The music slows, and the music ends Then out of the blue, you get this HUGE explosion of hard rock. SO EPIC, OMGOMG!!! Guitar impromptu-ish playing so groovy! Love the way it gets bluesy towards the end, the way its supposed to end, but then it keeps going up with that last TASTEFUL ornament before hitting the last note! Thats how you reach your destiny!!!

139) Umineko no Naku Koro ni 1 - Hope
Series rank: 11 of 15
https://youtu.be/xOq7ZNTPVug
Composer: dai
Score: 7.2/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 3 (Lost R4), VGMC 4 (Champion)
Favorite Part: The first 18 seconds

Finally we get our first "champion" on the list! Great instrumentation at the start! The electronic bells are very pretty. Piano flourishes are like water crystals! The build up of instrumentation is nice in the first half of it very pretty. I like how the "intro" melody turns into support for the "real" melody at 0:21... it makes for some nice counterpoint. The sustained (delayed) string synthsI wish they weren't delayed, and the sound quality isn't the greatest, though it provides fullness of sound. It's nice how the harmonies use the 5th of the scale for all sorts of harmonic usage...I, vi (7th), IV (9th), V.... Then at 1:18 the synth goes from staying on the root of the chords to ending on the 7th of a surprise new chord (major VI)! (oh, hey, the 5th note of the scale again) Nice climactic there IS a pretty climactic moment 2:24 - 2:27, the way it takes the climax part of the melody and halves the speed. <3

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

142) Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru 8 - lastendconductor
Series rank: 12 of 15
https://youtu.be/u_v4lNf4_fo
Composer: zts
Score: 7.0/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 5 (Lost R3), VGMC 6 (Lost R4), VGMC 7 (Lost R5 to EXEC_SPHILIA/.)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/u_v4lNf4_fo?t=62

For me, this one is a mixed bag. You know, this was actually supposed to be ranked below miragecoordinator... whoops. I'll probably end up switching them around in my revised ratings. Tasteful use of sounds (hairpins and such) the first few seconds! I like the voice-like crescendo at about 0:29. Once we get into the real thing, we hear that famous hemiola motif pattern from the game (4/4+3/4+4/4+3/4+2/4). Those transitions, man...like at 0:58 - 1:03 and many other places! So tasteful. The violin plays a theme that reminds me of worldenddominator, but actually its quite different (maybe this does play in some other retiree...13 Umineko tracks is too much for me to keep track of the differences)! Its not like I was introduced to them gradually like most of you!) This melody is really explorative with those nice harmonies underneath it! LIke other Umineko melodies, it just keeps going and going! It lasts a whopping 55 seconds! I like how the melody has doubled octaves at first. The string chords and piano underneath is yummy. The hemiola returns again 1:57. Aw, yeah. 2:37 gets loud beats again :( And it kind of stays that way until.3:34. I can now appreciate the offbeat patterns oh, hey, a different hemiola pattern! Loud again at 4:34 until the end of the loop. :[ Overall, though I found most of the music a bit underwhelming outside of my favorite part, which is SO GREAT.

141) Undertale - ASGORE
Series ranking: 1 of 2
ELIMINATED: Undertale series
https://youtu.be/hMa4hZQbrms
Composer: Toby Fox
Score: 7.0/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 10 (Lost R5 to The Black Song)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/hMa4hZQbrms?t=109

Our first "series" (with two or more reps) gets eliminated! (To be fair, my favorite Undertale track is not on the list.) This kind of music is precisely why love Undertales soundtrack: its VERY quirky. And my bias towards NES games makes me love chiptune use, too. Seriously, Im flabbergasted by Toby Foxs abilities to not only create an entire game solo, but a soundtrack thats good enough to get two tracks retired in VGMC. Quirky modern use of chiptune. Use of timpanis and low choir samples make it that much more odd. I like the upgrade to maestoso at 1:32. I love the last 30 seconds or so when it gets quiet again the switch to Dorian scale sounds SO GOOD here, and then we get some weird scale modifications (flatted 2nd and flatted 6th at times) that make me smile! One thing I DON'T like is the intonation... it's, like, inbetween keys.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

I support a 4th term for him, but not a 3rd term.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."