Lurker > Paratroopa1

I was prepared for this to be pretty bad and it's worse than I thought it would be

it's hard to win a soundtrack poll when AA3 and AAI1 exist

Layton vs Wright is worth playing, it's better if you also like the Layton games but even if you don't I think the AA segments of the game are compelling enough on their own and it's a really slickly produced game (even if the 3D models aren't as good as the ones in DD/SOJ), and as you can see the soundtrack is really, *really* good

Hot take: I don't like AA1's objection theme! I've never liked it much at all. I'm glad that they used AA3's objection theme for Phoenix in the later games, since it's better, and probably my favorite of this bunch although AJ's is good.

2 > 3 > LvW Mass > GAA All > 6 > AAI2 All > AAI1 All > 1 > 5 > 4 > GAA Summ > LvW Eng > AAI2 Pres > AAI1 Pres

The Presto themes are my two least favorites by far and I don't know why everyone likes them lol

Group 1
Ike (Fire Emblem)
King Dedede (Kirby)

Group 2
Commander Shepard (Mass Effect)
Donkey Kong (Donkey Kong)

Group 3
The Boss (Metal Gear Solid 3)
Alucard (Castlevania)

Nonbinaries can be she, but the problem is that they're not, they're a they

Decided to give my vote to AA2 because it's between that and AA3, though I give special commendations to LvW and GAA which both have really good allegro themes.

I agree with KP's South Park take and I think it was always the case, but I don't really have the energy right now to write my anti-South Park manifesto, sorry

The short version is that I used to love the show but as I've grown older I've realized that almost all of South Park's takes are shitty, some of them catastrophically so (climate change, trans people, anti-semitism), and I've realized that it's contributed to a lot of the toxicity of modern internet chuddery

Which mod was this

oh

That's interesting. Whoever it is must have me blocked

It'd be really hard to rank these because I really like all of them a lot, but AA5's is my favorite, I just love that bass.

I know the question you're asking but the pedantic part of my brain keeps saying "if the flow of time and inevitably changing circumstances didn't change my perception of topics that would make me a hideously incurious person"

but yes, definitely. I can't watch South Park anymore for a whole host of reasons, for instance

Uendo Toneido's theme is like a legit top 10 track in the series for me

I knew you would have something to say about that lol

(Mega Man 2 finally makes it to its rightful place of having the most remaining tracks, at least for now)

20. Needle Man (Mega Man 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDJbOB1h2EU

(dusts off list)

So! This is the first of the two tracks that Harumi Fujita contributed to Mega Man 3 - and thus, to the series - and considering they BOTH made my top 20, I'd say she really made her mark despite her limited influence. Needle Man is probably Mega Man 3's proggiest track and personally, I think its most underrated - it tends to be forgotten among Mega Man 3's corpus. It's a long track and it's really chock full of cool ideas - lots of changing voices and polymelodic concepts, and a textbook example of how a really creative and involved bassline really ties a song together. This track's got one of my favorite basslines - it moves around a lot and doesn't repeat its own ideas too much and really makes the rest of the track pop. I've always wondered if this was the first track composed for this game, since it doesn't seem to quite have MM3's particular style worked out yet, and the percussion could use a little work in a few places, but I really love this one otherwise. I remember one of my first memories of listening to VGM arrangements online was an OCremix that had like, a jazzy latin take on this track that I really liked. No idea if it holds up today!

19. Charge Man (Mega Man 5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C75Q7bdQAQA

Mega Man 5 almost makes me a little mad, because pretty much every melodic idea the game has seems almost impossibly well-considered. That melody hook should be framed in a museum somewhere, it's just a perfect little jam. What really makes it is the stroke of genius in that little low note - every time that part hits I do a tiny little fist pump - fuck yeah! There's that low note again! It's funny how a single note can be such a key setpiece, but its absence really stands out in the GB version of the track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tceS3igTzQY

The track is largely the same aside from the production quality being not quite as nice, but that missing low note is really noticeable! It was tying the whole thing together. Also they fucked up the loop which makes me really annoyed. Listening to the inferior GB version again also reminds me of just how good the production in MM5 is - all of the sounds are really crisp and not mushy and everything's exactly as loud and taking up as much space as it should. I especially like that bubbly little Kirby-like instrument at :21. My only complaint about this track is that it's on the repetitive side, but it's a small quibble.

18. Napalm Man (Mega Man 5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLI6FzBY_JA

The introduction to this track remains a small mystery to me to this day; I'm PRETTY sure that the whole track is in 4/4 time and never leaves 4/4, but that weird, free-time intro tricks my brain every time into thinking something weirder is going on, and it's a genius little motif that the track uses multiple times later. Everything else is the same sort of genius that goes into every MM5 track - crisp production, brilliant melody hooks, etc etc. I can only find so many ways to talk about all of these!

17. Gyro Man (Mega Man 5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZWDWJNYEhk

More praise for Mega Man 5 forthcoming, although I guess at this point I'm actually dissing MM5 because I'm eliminating so many tracks at once? All three of these exist somewhere in the same place for me - favorites but not quite tippy-top favorites. Just another fucking Mari Yamaguchi banger here, folks. One thing that I really like about this one and Charge Man in particular is that they're written in major keys - kind of a rarity for a series that tends to be stuck in Wily-D-minor all the time. At least I think it's major, it might be mixolydian - video game tracks tend to really prefer that dropped 7th - I'm too lazy to really analyze it to check, sue me.

16. Spark Man (Mega Man 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J5cN87c2yM

An undeniable, certified classic of a tune that's only held back by the fact that the loop is actually really short at only 25 seconds - that's Heat Man levels of short, folks. But it makes the most of it with a main hook that is so ungodly cool that I can't believe someone wrote it for a video game in 1990. How did they come up with this shit? I think this one stands out for a lot of people from MM3 and for good reasons because it's instantly memorable and it's just dripping with MM3's sense of style. Yasuaki Fujita, I think, really embodied the idea of *rock* in Rockman better than any other composer in the series - all of his riffs seem like they're just ready-made to be turned into metal covers. If this one had just a little bit more to it it'd be top 10 easy.

oh I get it

"The western city of Los Angeles"? Is this some kind of op?

+10 Mae Borowski (Night in the Woods)
+9 Missile (Ghost Trick)
+8 GLaDOS (Portal)
+7 The Goose (Untitled Goose Game)
+6 Princess Zelda (The Legend of Zelda)
+5 Mario (Super Mario Bros.)
+4 Spyro the Dragon (Spyro the Dragon)
+3 Solid Snake (Metal Gear)
+2 Tidus (Final Fantasy X)
+1 Nathan Drake (Uncharted)

Oh I completely missed culprit day, oops.

I want to nominate Furio Tigre's theme because I don't think we've done that one

I'm surprised you never did like a "miscellaneous character theme" category since there's a whole shitload of those

+10 Godot (Ace Attorney)
+9 Madeline (Celeste)
+8 Papyrus (Undertale)
+7 Carmen Sandiego (Carmen Sandiego)
+6 Cave Johnson (Portal 2)
+5 Locke Cole (Final Fantasy VI)
+4 Knuckles the Echidna (Sonic the Hedgehog)
+3 Velvet Crowe (Tales of Berseria)
+2 Commander Shepard (Mass Effect)
+1 Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)

In order to minimize the number of haters, it has to be someone who:

• Well liked, not obscure or niche
• Video game character
• Japanese
• Not a sword user
• Not a fighting game character
• Not a 'waifu'
• Not already a common player in the Smash culture war
• Not already deconfirmed

The only characters who I can really think of who fit this criteria are one of the RE protags (Jill, Chris, Leon) or Black Mage. The list is getting really small at this point!

+10 Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)
+9 Yoshi (Super Mario World)
+8 Palutena (Kid Icarus)
+7 Pit (Kid Icarus)
+6 Donkey Kong (Donkey Kong)
+5 Luigi (Super Mario Bros.)
+4 Leon Kennedy (Resident Evil)
+3 2B (NieR: Automata)
+2 Yuna (Final Fantasy X)
+1 Tifa Lockhart (Final Fantasy VII)

Raka_Putra posted...

Huh kinda pleasantly surprised to see WandaVision there. Guess I was too accustomed to not seeing MCU movies getting non-technical nods at the Oscars.

Yeah it's nice to see WandaVision receive credit for being actually good

+10 Mega Man (Mega Man)
+9 Falco Lombardi (Star Fox)
+8 Count Bleck (Super Paper Mario)
+7 Link (The Legend of Zelda)
+6 Captain Toad (Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker)
+5 Magus (Chrono Trigger)
+4 Ryu (Street Fighter)
+3 The Boss (Metal Gear Solid 3)
+2 Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)
+1 Dante (Devil May Cry)

I don't have any personal attachment to Taskmaster but yeah I don't really get why they used them in this movie. Taskmaster's role in this movie seemed to be to have one really cool fight scene in the beginning on the bridge and then mostly be beside the point for the rest of it - the reveal was predictable and I don't think really deepened Natasha's story in any meaningful way.

Space Channel 5

+10 Dr. Eggman (Sonic the Hedgehog)
+9 King Dedede (Kirby)
+8 Meta Knight (Kirby)
+7 Blue (Pokemon)
+6 Vivi Orunitia (Final Fantasy IX)
+5 Goro Majima (Yakuza)
+4 Bayonetta (Bayonetta)
+3 Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid)
+2 Auron (Final Fantasy X)
+1 Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII)

I'm home now, so back to irregularly scheduled updates!

To be clear, Puns' personal frustrations from his POV make perfect sense, but from my POV as a spectator this scum team was going to be really hard to beat in a champs setting

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

How so? Because this game sounds like an absolute trainwreck.

I read it, it wasn't really

MU games, even champs games which are like half people who have barely an idea what they're doing, are so much higher quality than the ones here that it's not even funny sorry

Getting worked over by SK scum and dying on day 3 in champs is a gamefaqs tradition that I started, don't worry about it

I sort of thought that the end credits scene could be a teaser for the plot of Captain America 4 instead of Hawkeye but maybe I'm way off base, they just seem like natural supporting characters for that film and julia louis-dreyfus being in that and in TFATWS

masterplum posted...

I read about that one! I feel like it needs to be it's own category of speed run for obvious reasons

Well, it is

A FIDE master is just a "sexy girl" now i guess. wow girls can play chess? even pretty ones? how scandalous

Are you guys seriously using duckbear as a reliable source of covid information

Just bumping for now

Hell yeah I fucking love rabbit girls

GlaDOS's singing voice appears in Rock Band

Alucard and Zero are about as prominent as non playable characters get, and the topic didn't say playable chars

KamikazePotato posted...

Crono
Tifa
Mega Man X
Alucard
Auron
Zero
Aerith
Sora
Squall

Something like that

Tifa, X, Alucard, Zero, and Aerith all appear in Smash in some form!

Haha.

Big Bob posted...

I neglected to include "trash" as an option, sorry.

thanks, axl_rose_85

more than my parents would ever allow