Lurker > UF8

okay i'm more free now

Massive X
Despair of ELFERIA

it should came as no great surprise that the kind of song you're not here is is my shit, and it's a good example of one such song. not my outright favourite, but it's a song i don't really have anything negative to say about beyond wishing it was a bit longer. eschatos is a very good shmup with very good shmup music and massive x is also a good example of that with a lot of really good stuff all over it. this is a pretty damn tough match.

i missed the flash frost/meaning of birth match last round so i didn't talk about flash frost yet. so without further ado, here's the remarks you've been all waiting for... it's ok. :)
that said despair of elferia is really really really good so i will not be voting for it :(
i like how despair of elferia feels like halo before going so much further, everything in it is great

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1291190/Each_Sale_I_Drink_a_Glass_of_Water/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1253870/ANIME_STANDING/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1288470/Anime_USSR/

the true goty contenders

city connection are also releasing gunbird and samurai aces this month

Zeal Continent
don't have time to decide the other two yet

probably my top thing this month though now that i checked is actually...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1271620/Umihara_Kawase_BaZooKa/

totally forgot that was set for this month! also fresh is coming to steam too

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1272680/Umihara_Kawase_Fresh/

i had a look at some upcoming steam releases

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1291640/Stress_explosion/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1300670/_/

castform

the only two things i've been playing over the last week besides pc games

yes

a side note

this came out yesterday so it doesn't count but i'm interested in checking this out in a few days time
https://youtu.be/K0RmhKXmvqg
pretty surprised a vn dev that was assumed long gone made this

when they cry

much better uwu

you had one job

oh no was utawarerumono remake delayed

We Are Burning Rangers (English Version)
Infant Queen Bee
Revenger

a closer match than i expected, as I realised I only really like a portion of both songs

taiko medley is neat but still something i feel relatively indifferent on, as it's good but doesn't stand out enough relative to other medleys in general. -45's style is one of the most anti-(people I'd probably like to associate with more in compatibility) and even broadly anti-(other aspects of my own taste) but I still enjoy it quite a bit so oops

i may have slammed it last round but i also secretly still like every ut battle theme a lot more than people probably realise, even if asgore's not really my favourite. of course it's still not getting my vote but hey. wish system0 could've been here for the -45 double, even if (if you recall my ranking last round) i said i like infant queen bee more than it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n5EDvlioWY
i've been watching a touhou 16 stream today

pretend i'm not reposting because the first link had hentai in it

oh right also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzOedKcMuiA
i've been watching a touhou 16 stream today

Night Gale
ChRoNiClESeVeN
Preserved Valkyria

night gale is a very anime soundtrack song and i like that. dark man remix is good too but also just not enough to be much more than an okay smash ultimate song i like the style but still don't feel strongly enough about it

infinite dungeon 2 is not a song that makes me think of dungeons that are infinite but maybe ones that are (pmd)2. it's very nice. feels just barely short of something I'm fully into though and I'm not really sure why. chronicleseven also doesn't really make me think of dungeons go figure but it does make me think about how much of a boon sasakure.uk's contributions were to the already incredible yuzo-composed 7th dragon dungeon crawling games. not that that's much of a surprise, it's an already well-established fact that he's also great in his own right even if he doesn't necessarily have yuzo's wide range of different styles to be amazing in. anyway, i wish this match was closer to me since i really like both

it's nice getting to the point that even i'm coming to appreciate specific gust people's styles in various series and how they complement it as a whole... that said, pv still really great. surprising great match considering i didn't take either in favs but that's just how toc rolls.

2(nd options)

i am not a coward

they're hardly interactive or as realistic or even busy but i really like the towns in solatorobo. they're all fleshed out in ways that it's easy to say they truly come to life. sky island cities are cool. skyward sword was good in that regard too, it kind of made me not want to play the rest of it

Guzma
Lysithea
Yoshi
Dunban

oh yeah i forgot i was going to rank these

crazybattle > FFIX > Lufia 2 > Tokimeki Memorial > Fate/Extra >>> SoA > CrossCode > FFMQ >> why would you include the dissidia remix of ff3 battle 2 only a fraction of it is improved > Octopath > DMC3

pointless anecdote so i got around to playing the crosscode soundtrack in someone's car about a month or two ago. we kinda did a joyride down this beach and decided to go through a carwash on the way back. before we got in there I chucked the cd in and we couldn't contain our laughter at how well all of the more action-ey themes like this one fitted for it as i skipped over to them. good times

Murasaki
Murasaki Tsurugi

DNF FW15C (ALL PHASE MIX)
Apollo Justice ~ A New Chapter of Trials! 2016
Ricordando il Passato

outer wilds is actually nice if a bit simple, but well... this is still easily one of the easiest matches all contest
gimmick remix of a passable ace attorney song or an ok remix of some animesong... DNF didn't exactly get a difficult path to at least r3, huh

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Bleck
Syrup
Pious

but i already posted the girl who stole the star

rank mine higher thanks

unironically too it's not meant to sound like it does in that other link

rate my dead bost set

Game: Radical Dreamers Nusumenai Houseki
1: Ending ~ Le Tresor Interdit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBAA1NoErYE
2: The Girl Who Stole the Star - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oQigZkVTiI
3: Day of Summer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWFXwTdSN_o
4: Frozen Flame - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRlTvCotlc
5: Snakebone Mansion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQjqmA3oeWo
6: Gale - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ookyJaPujNE
Alt: Far Promise ~ Dream Shore 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jEVOjcU7gw

Undersea Palace
B.T. Dutch
Memories of You

slept a bit on move me till now but undersea palace is also strong. good match
battle 2 is a worthy song but bt dutch is too much for it
thought for sure i'd pick autumn here but i guess not. i shouldn't like memories of you as much as i do, i suppose this is just what happens when a song in a genre i like unrelated to vgm and also don't really listen to that often happens to be here. keep misreading my thoughts on it because it conflicts with my "vgm appreciation" mindframe or something

if the hidden truth had all of the trial theme in it it would be the best ct song

also sad about the lack of lavos theme

on the brink of bottom 5

rip lip

try out initial d another stage just for the heck of it

Cynthia (Pokemon)
Matt (Wii Sports)
Dragaux (Ring Fit Adventure)

i hope lip makes it

Murasaki

Mac Arrowny posted...

Also cannot believe the picture uses Ness instead of Lucas...

i mean it should really be ninten but

-(Isoleucine)-
Toccatina
Ricordando il Passato

it's difficult to pinpoint exactly why i like isoleucine. i think there are a lot of reasons and i can't actually tell what they really are. the nekomata-esque sounds, the pulsating rhythm, the general blue reflection-adjacent feeling and loose shmup vibes, the occasional cool chords... but most of that doesn't even seem to scratch the surface or necessarily even accurately enough describe a fraction of it. not that I've ever said i had any insightful commentary. point is tldr i think it's good.
i feel sorry for snowman here, i think it is a genuinely underrated song in the modern vgm environment (or whatever you want to call it that doesn't make me sound even more full of it than the last writeup) as a song that rarely gets looked at from a game that barely gets looked at directly now. it wasn't even counted as a brawl nom at first >_>. anyway, yeah. it's actually a minor favourite of mine and i really wanted it to have a fair chance at being remembered among the smash classics... this isn't it.

solid animesong? nothing special but not bad. it doesn't really try to do that much given how long it is
toccatina also doesn't do that much, but is bright, jazzy and vibrant enough to be the TitS 3rd song's achilles heel. I wouldn't exactly call this a strong match so much as a remarkably inoffensive one

now exploring yet another side of... anime... but also falcom. Seize the Truth is a decisively average Falcom song featuring the trademark strings and even guitars, but is also lacking the EXTREME energy of the ones that I feel truly earned their past success. I still cannot fathom how it won.
RIP is still on a godly level in this full cut. i may never stop singing its praises

Ninten (Mother)
Teddy (Mother)

UltimaterializerX posted...

Smash Bros Wii U

Smash Bros 3DS

its fanbase died alongside their circle pads

KamikazePotato posted...

Heavy Rain

dam you're right

skyward sword has got to be the game people most visibly turned on after launch this decade

still can't believe it didn't even make it in

Yuri_LowelI posted...

This Nier/Bayo 2 SFF is bizarre.

They aren't even playable on the same platforms and are different types of games. Nier is a story focused light action adventure. Bayo 2 is pure Action game.

Platinum vs Platinum though

that's like most of the reason automata's reception differed to nier 1 to begin with

Yuri_LowelI posted...

Because its a completely new game released in the last 2 years? has absolutely 0 franchise history here.

To say it hasn't been is silly when you consider it to be a 2 seed and if we compare 2 seeds...apart from Odyssey its arguably been the most impressive alongside BLoodborne.

i mean in the present results sense. it's pretty obvious that it should be a reasonable powerhouse, then it merely doubles a somewhat low-playrate wii u sequel to something it should be technically sffing into submission anyway and then barely does any better on something else probably of little more than fodder designation

i fail to see how nier's been doing very well

clearly 999 is the real winner

also obra dinn was the true disrespected game

I feel like it's obligatory that this stream from literally a couple of hours ago is also posted here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11vjTCZ60KY

Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade
The Merciless Savior
Chocolate Missile

i wish i didn't love this megalovania version as much as i do. please stop being good
... i probably shouldn't have said that given what my vote is

I actually like lake, but also... it wouldn't even make my top 30 dp songs. factoring in platinum it'd even be outside the top 50. i can think of several songs in its vein of the soundtrack i plainly like more, like, say, eterna forest for instance. curse you lake for making me realise i want to listen to other dpp songs that are not you this is not a normal dpp song reaction for me. but, it's still really good you know
unfortunately though, it's just barely low enough that this match is kind of hard. merciless savior isn't normally the right type of song to be in a remotely favourable matchup here, but there are some legitimately outstanding moments in it (mostly involving its supersweep chanting).

unsurprisingly, i still enjoy choco missile a decent amount. maybe not as much as last year though
i don't think i ever really gave monolith a fair chance given what it beat. that said, even though i'm a little bit lower on its opponent here than usual, this really isn't the match for it... in fact, its entire bracket isn't really. probably one of my least favourite retirees even after removing my bias

monolithlakia

Frey (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon)

neat, didn't expect to see some specific fe picks that are favourites of mine here

Nino (Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade)
Lewyn (Fire Emblem: Geneology of the Holy War)
Joshua (Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones)

where is every fake language and also engrish in the poll

feels like an oversight to exclude a nier specialty there even if it isn't an example of it

Sudden Visitor
Classroom
Someday the Dream Will End

weight of the world sure is an apt description for that extremely melodramatic song that isn't actually remotely emotional. almost gave it a pass though until the forced voice cracking
sudden visitor is not even my favourite song from the last couple of years called sudden visitor but it is still a chroma song and chroma songs are good so this is an easy decision. would love to see some particular other chroma representation in the future like black emperor or crazy cinema story or maybe even akisame junjouka (though it definitely isn't as good in-game...)

classroom is cool neat stuff. i like it, it does quite a few things and meshes them together into something i definitely think i like
love scope is a very... certain anime genre type of song that really just serves as a reminder that it is of that designation ultimately. I suppose it would be very unfair of me of all people to disregard it for that reason, but it's also just generally not what i want to hear from it for the most part, sadly. and this is specifically why i knocked it in a past comment some may remember, so yeah. no hard feelings

laguerra is a very there song. but not a bad there song, it's in a good place to be "there", you know? windows production but rather noticeably high level for it. it works. it doesn't always work in matches as far as winning me over goes, but in its own right, it's not really all that bad
aaaaaaaahhhh i kind of actually managed to forget that someday the dream will end is capable of hitting pretty hard at the right time. i thought this might actually be a match i'd take laguerra in but unfortunately nah.........

not actually a bad day today so much as just a somewhat rare "some of these songs are for me and some of them aren't, but i don't actually dislike them" one