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FL81 posted...

I'm still a bit iffy on the Minecraft sound samples here (at least I'm assuming that's what those are)

As far as I'm aware, all the sounds come from the original Gauntlet arcade game. It's just something I stumbled upon randomly when I was trying to look up the Gauntlet quotes about shooting food, but I figured it was unique enough that I saved the link & vowed to nominate it somewhere, if even just to say "look at this weird thing I found".

Though you seemed like you might be the type to appreciate odd sample choices in music, so there was a bit more thought to the selection than the previous paragraph implied.
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South Park: The Fractured but Whole - Spontaneous Bootay - 0.5

Age of Empires II - I Will Beat on Your Behind - 4

Skullgirls - In Just a Moment's Time - 6.2

Rewrite - Anthurium - 6

Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion - #5 thirsty - 3

Gunstar Heroes - Reprise for Yellow - 6.1

Shin Megami Tensei II - Battle - 4

Astro Bot: Rescue Mission - 12 Bar Bot - 5.3

Shovel Knight - A Thousand Leagues Below (Iron Whale) - 5.3

Plants vs. Zombies - Loonboon - 4

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon - Keep Alive - 5.3

Project Justice: Rival Schools 2 - Gorin Dome - 5.2
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Monokaki Aer - Karakuri Pierrot: Hey, I remember that song title.

*after going back and listening to the YuNi & Ao duet*

Well, I definitely undervalued that one at the time... let's retroactively raise the duet to an 8 and give the 6 to this one. It's not bad, but as of this particular listen, I prefer both YuNi and Hibiki Ao's voices with this song--and yes I know I said I didn't want YuNi involved at all last time, I don't know why I like her more today than I did a few months ago.

April Fools Video: She does have a cute speaking voice, but I'm finding it tough to find much to say about it.



Virtual Cat - Reiwa Equinox: 8. <3 Virtual Cat.

Monetization Song: 4.5; kinda funny in some places, but eh...

Souran Bushi: 2.



Hey, it's early enough I can get a decent amount of catch-up on the VGM list.
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UF8 posted...

considering i don't think i shared any of them prior, that's unexpected.

Well it's possible I'm misremembering things... dragon horns and that hat seem familiar and hard to forget, but I poked through the rest of the songs on her channel
and none of them were things I heard before... (there was a V Gamer cover of some Sakura Wars song and I may have heard another version of that specific song, but not theirs).

But then I have occasionally poked around searching for VTuber related things (like when I wanted to track down the girl from the Fake.Fake.Fake video, which led me to her doing a duet with someone, which IIRC led to that other person doing a duet with someone) so it's possible I did run into her on an unrelated search.



AZKi - Reflection: 8.something, I'm thinking 8.2 at the moment but might be slightly undervaluing it. A notable improvement from last song. I like the choice of instruments, I feel like the song suits her voice more than some of her other tracks (it could just be me, but her voice sounds more pleasing here), and I think I'd like the lyrics--the auto-translation is mostly gibberish (as is to be expected), but there's bits about praying for lost time where I get the feeling that it's probably right up my alley.

Aki Rosenthal - Sha-Le-Ys: I dunno. I like the story here--with her being from another world and singing a song from her home. It's got a very JRPG feel to it, for obvious reasons. It feels fairly traditional, but that works for the setting and the story... probably around a high 6 or a low 7?

Hololive Gamers - Shin Takarajima: 6. It's fine? Better than the original, but nothing about the song really grabbed me. It was just consistently nice in all regards; the concert seemed nice, they had nice models, the group performance was nice, the song choice was...alright?

KMNZ Liz - Tantakatantan Tantanmen: 7. Good song choice; I kinda wish I could play this song on Audiosurf, it seems like it would give a neat stage.

AZKi - Kotonoha: 5.3. "Okay with it" sounds about right.



And I'll have to stop here for the night, unfortunately.
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jubeat saucer fulfill - Scars of FAUNA - 6.7

Idolm@ster 2 - Loading Theme - 1.5

Wario Land 3 - The Tidal Coast, Sea Turtle Rocks and Beneath the Waves - 2

Nintendo eShop - May 2019 - 2

Celeste - Confronting Myself - 9.6

Sonic R - Living in the City - 8
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Snow Falling: 3. It's not a bad song, but not really my sort of thing. It feels very...old-fashioned and traditional and kinda puts me to sleep. I'm sure it's very high quality to those who like this sort of song though.

(Kaf Version): I was wondering if you were going to post this one. It popped up in my suggested video list the day it was uploaded, though I didn't listen to it at the time...

Good song, I think the lyrics and atmosphere work for Kaf. Somewhere between 6.5 and 7.1.



Re:Re Cover: 6; it's fine, but I didn't have any real reaction to the singer, lyrics, or background music. Just a general "this is fine" response.

(AZKi): I was pretty excited to see her again, but as usual, none of her other songs compare to Fake.Fake.Fake (which is still an easy 10)... I suppose I need to learn to stop comparing her other works to my favorite song of hers, but I'm finding it hard not to. Probably around a 6?

0: I kinda wish I had a bit more context for this song. She's got a cute character model, cute voice, cute video, but then the first line contains the word "doomsday" and the song title was something like Powerless God at Midnight which leads me to suspect this song probably isn't as cute as it looks? But then I can't find anyone talking about it, so... eh I dunno, let's put it around a 7 for now.

Colors: 6.5. Can't find anything I really want to say here.

Baton Rail: 7 ; can't find anything I want to say here either, but I did prefer over the previous song.
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Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure - The Butler Did It! - 4

Super Mario World 2: Yoshis Island - Bowser - 6.3

A Hat in Time: Seal the Deal - Collapsing Time Rift - 5.2

LISA: The Painful - Summer Love - 8

Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward - Fiend - 7.5

Ace Combat X: Joint Assault - War-Torn Radiance - 5.4

Shadows of the Damned - Different Perspective - 6

Super Hexagon - Otis - 5.4

Cho Aniki: Seinaru Protein Densetsu - Title Theme - 4
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Tsukitou Runa - Fanza: 5-ish. It's fine, but I don't think it compares too favorably with the original and I'm not too crazy about it either (though the honeyworks one is catchier than I'd like to admit and would probably benefit at a full ranking where it had more time to get randomly stuck in my head.)

Sasaguma Kuran/Inami Huyuka - Snow Song Show: I don't know. As someone who strongly supports people being who or whatever they want, I really want to support them. I'm just not entirely sure how much I enjoyed the song itself and how many personal bias points I want to throw at them right now. At a ranking, I think it'd fall somewhere in the 7s... I can easily see myself refusing to eliminate the song until we got at least that far.

Paw Guimauve - Hello, Mr. Chocolate: It's cute and does a lot of things I like (the instruments are kinda beepy and artificial, some synthesized voice distortions)... probably in the 7s too.

Saki Todoki - Indoor Kei Nara Track Maker: 4-ish. I don't like the part starting around the 1:30 mark, but the rest of the song is decent.

Enma Ruri - Kuishinbo Hacker: 4? I don't really get this song... assuming there's anything to get besides "food, food, food, food, food" in the first place.

Honjitsu wa Diamond: Definitely new to me. I only
finished the first three Yakuza games and I don't think I've seen too many Yakuza 6 songs nominated in other topics, especially the karakoke songs. It's interesting; sounds happy and upbeat with a comical video, but the lyrics...are not to put it mildly. Somewhere between 6.8 & 7.1--it's a narrow range, but it's how I'm feeling at the moment.
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Tenjin Kotone - Lost One's Weeping: There were quite a few songs where my first impressions were left rather blank, typically having no score and a statement that I was going to put off writing anything for as long as possible. This would be one of those songs.

(Actually one funny thing did happen. While playing the song, another tab I had opened suddenly started playing audio from an ad. Said ad opened with a woman whispering what are you doing? and the effect was rather chilling--like picture listening to a song like this one and some strange voice starts whispering in your ear.

...Then the ad kept playing and ruined the moment, but that point where I thought the whispering was part of the song was something.)

...though I suppose I don't have the luxury of putting this off for a couple months while doing the rest of the ranking, since there's...ya know...not a ranking going on here? So we might as well get the write-up out of the way now, I suppose. Thoughts in no particular order:

1: I don't think you linked any other covers of this yet, though I was at least passingly familiar with the original version of the song. I don't usually look for Vocaloid songs, but I tend to like them and don't really avoid them... so sometimes you hit songs as famous as this one, where I'm already aware of it. (This doesn't have any real impact on anything, but I thought it was mildly interesting that my reaction was "oh, it's this song" when it started playing.)

2: Saying that, I think I prefer the original. Particularly the type of distortion applied to the Vocaloid's voice around this point:

https://youtu.be/8oBV3jPTW4s?t=110

Not super amazing or anything, but I like the effect.

3: I'm not usually into songs (or media in general) that rely heavily on a school setting. There are exceptions, like with everything else, but a song like this one is going to be a hard sale.

(Before you try bringing up Houkago no Dance Floor, that song wasn't really about school. Certainly not to the extent of "hey, let's have a serious conversation about the stress caused by the Japanese school system!" like this track at any rate.)

4: Having said that, I can somewhat appreciate the quality of the song. It's got a harder rock song than most other songs posted this topic which helps it stand out, they spent a surprising amount of time/effort on the lyrics attached to the video, and I think I generally like it? Honestly leaning towards a 7 for the score even with the factors working against it.

...eh, fine, I'll go up to an 8 for now.



Amane Kanata - Ghost Rule: 6.

I'm just a wandering spirit, dead and gone
A blank void, empty as can be

Well this is another song with lyrics right in that general sort of vibe I'm looking for.



Hoshimachi Suisei - Tenkyuu, Suisei wa Yoru wo Mataide: I absolutely love the opening this song. The first 15 seconds is an easy 10--that part is heavily reminding me of something, but I can't quite place it right now. The rest of the song is nice too...about a 6.8?

Kanade Izuru - It's My Life: 3; even with the song title, I was not prepared for an acoustic cover of a Bon Jovi song. It's interesting and unexpected, but I'm not really a fan of it.

Komori Chiyu - Kono Piano de Omae wo 8759632145kai Bunnaguru: Probably a 6, though it's odd enough that it could rise considerably if I was in the right mood for it.
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Persona 3 - The Battle for Everyone's Souls - 5.7

Little Busters! - Melancholy of a Noisy Girl - 6.5

Knuckle Sandwich - Side Street Step - 3

DUSK - Keepers of the Gate - 2

BioShock Infinite - Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Full Version - 5

Chris Sawyer's Locomotion - Everlasting High Rise - 6.4

Portal - Still Alive - 7

Splatoon - Kraken Up - 4

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Tantal - 7.5
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Tsubomi: 6.5. It's a good attempt--I usually like these slow, emotional Japanese songs... I know it's not from a VN, but this feels a bit like "sad VN song" and those tend to do decently with me. I think. That one Clannad song did at any rate.

I think I just never really connected to the lyrics or choice of imagery, which limited it to a "several steps above average, but not like, a really large number of steps" level.

(I have nothing of value to say of the original.)



Amekigoe Zankyou: Somewhere between 4 & 6, and I can't narrow it down any further than that. I think it might be one of those songs where it's a bit too on point--I love rain, I like Kaf, I like the type of atmosphere the song is going for--but it never really works for me. Happens to a lot of songs that seem like things I'm supposed to love.

Part of me wants to give it a 4; if I didn't really like it, the score probably should be below average. But then it offers a lot for me to think about in terms of why I didn't like it and it's likely to be something I remember, so it should be slightly above average. So... somehow it's both? Which would make ranking it difficult, but this isn't actually a ranking, so I don't have to be overly concerned by it.

(The original again doesn't fare any notably better or worse.)



Kimi to...I forget the rest of the song title, but it's that cover by Else, you know the one: Between 5 & 6. I know it isn't, but it feels like the intro to some anime. Somehow it just reminds me of CLANNAD After Story's intro--try mashing them up:

https://tubedubber.com/?q=RateoYRQ6jQ:_x1Hx7Wfweg:0:100:0:7:1

...well not quite a perfect match, but this song makes me pictures like those in that intro. Which isn't bad (I can't remember anything about the show outside of the ending, but I watched the entire thing, so it probably wasn't bad), but "inspires vague flashbacks to the intro of an anime I watched once a long time ago" isn't exactly an earth-shattering ranking either.

Impression may be skewed by the first song got me thinking of SAD VN SONGS, which put me in a Clannad sort of mood anyway.



Stratostella: I think I'll go with a 5. A lot of other people managed to emotionally connect with it, but I don't really feel anything? To this or the Miku version. It's just kinda there.
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Gekkou: 8. It's another song where I feel like I should be giving it a higher score than I am. It does everything well and hits all the right notes; her voice is great, she performs it better than the original singer, the lyrics are basically what I was looking for--"Time merely sharpens the pain", says one fan translation of the lyrics which... okay, not honestly my favorite lyric, but it's at least in the genre of lyrics I wanted--but I still don't want to go higher than an 8 right now. I do not have an explanation or guess as to why.



Kono sekai o aishitai (both versions you linked, and also Hua Chenyu's original version): 8.976.

(This part was written before I noticed you linked the second cover yourself)

Odd score, but it feels right. I was going to say "somewhere between 8 and 9", but that didn't feel right... the standard 8.9 also felt wrong.

Trying to find lyrics to the song led me to another cover, which... is basically the same in quality as my ears are concerned?

(The second cover would be linked here, were it not already linked by you above.)

</.<

Kano has a better illustration, Hareru has a translation attached to the video, and both singers are pretty much tied.

And the original singer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_T9cGCfsuA

Is...also quite good? It has a better translation of the lyrics (which I suppose is to be expected. Chinese to English is more direct than Chinese to Japanese to English) and I'd love to do a more in-depth look at the differences between them, but it's past 1 AM and I'd have to copy the translations by hand... and it'd be tough on the phone. Switching to the video, pause, switch to Notepad, type up the lyric, switch to the second video, pause, switch to notepad, type up the alternative version of the lyric...

It would be quite interesting, but I think it's a bit too much effort for right now.

I think I'd give Hua the slight edge, let's actually give his version the full 9 points. I think he packs more emotion into the song and it stands out a bit more.

The girls stand tied at the previously mentioned odd score of 8.976; I've been here a while now and I'm no closer to placing either of them above the other.



Is late, will return to other songs tomorrow. I usually like to try to take a break after giving a song a 9 or higher anyway, since whatever song is stuck following it usually doesn't compare favorably, so coming back after a rest can't hurt anything.
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Sister: 5-ish. Her voice is nice, but I didn't connect with the song. Spent way too long trying to find lyrics to it... usually Vocaloid songs popular enough to get covers have translations somewhere, but I didn't have any luck here. Eventually found Japanese lyrics to run through auto-translate, but the results weren't coherent or funny so that didn't help.

...on the other hand, I probably should give this song a bit of a bonus because I spent the past 45 minutes trying to learn about it and I don't usually put that much effort into learning about average songs. Let's move it up to a 6 then.



Akuma no Odorikata: 7. It brings some of the darkness I was looking for without going too overboard with it and I've mentioned having a bias towards songs dealing with the devil before (see: Satan's a Woman from the main ranking), so this song has got quite a bit going for it.

Yoake to Hotaru: 7.5-ish. It's a great song choice for her and does a fantastic job showing off her voice, but I prefer the original... it kinda hurts her score and I might be more favorable to it in the future, after I get tired of listening to the original and want a different spin on it.

First Love: 8.5. It's quite nice, but I can't find anything I really want to say about it.

Magical Doll (Acoustic): 7.5; objective quality never means much to me. It's cute, it's fun, it's a dramatic improvement on the original (my view may be skewed because I heard this first, but the original feels like it's fast-forward and would only get around a 3), and it features some singers I like. It's not super top tier amazing or anything, but it made me smile through the entire thing.
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Senko no Ronde DUO - Anti aliassing Garbera (Henri Phase 1) - 6

Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure - Not My Shoes! - 5.1

Ori and the Blind Forest - Climbing the Ginso Tree - 5.2

Mother 3 - GENE163-1425 - 2.4

Xenoblade Chronicles X - Manon - 2

Battle Cats - Cats of the Cosmos - 5.2

Cadence of Hyrule - Windmill Hut (Combat) - 7.7

Rance X - Blood Memories - 7

Sonic Shuffle - A Silver Drop - 5.5

Mario Kart Wii - Staff Credits 1 - 7.4

Digital Pinball: Necronomicon - Arkham - Main Play (With Voiceover) - 8

Okamiden - Kurow Loses Faith - 5.5
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Groove Coaster 2 - 2112410403927243233368 - 4

Super Robot Wars OG: Original Generations - Hero Chronicle - 6.4

The Messenger - Quillshroom's Horrors (Quillshroom Marsh) - 3

Ace Combat Zero - Zero - 6.4

Runabout 3: Neo Age - Come Back from the Rock - 6

Shatter - Argon Refinery - 5
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Stand Up (Leslie Cheung cover): 9; I'd never heard this song, nor the Rick Springfield original--this is fun. I love the video and just how much fun he seems to be having with it. The air guitar, the repeated double thumbs up, it's just so enjoyable to watch and listen to.

Rick Spingfield's is less fun.



Deja Vu: I think I'd go with a six here. It's interesting, since it's not a genre I have much experience with--can't say I've listened to too many Korean girl groups or hip-hop in general.
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Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars - If My Body Was Light - 2.6

Eschatos - MASSIVE X - 5.3

Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun - Mad Rap - 7.5

jubeat clan - Necroxis Girl - 7

Ace Combat 2 - Fire Youngman - 6.9

Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec - Slipstream - 6.3

Chelsea - Exonumia ~ Finale Version - 7

Final Fantasy IX - Hunter's Chance - 6.5

Devil May Cry 5 - Legacy - 6
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Marunouchi Sadistic: 6.5. Nice voice, cute avatar.

SALLA's Song: 5. It's fine? I don't have any complaints, but can't find anything I really liked about it either.
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Persona 3 - Master of Tartarus - 2.5

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 - Summer Air - 5.2

Yakuza 0 - Get Them - 6

Fire Emblem: Three Houses - Staff Credits/Edge of Dawn - 7

Project S-11 - Kenhull Badlands - 5.1

Doshin the Giant - Stroll Music - 2

Sonic Heroes - What I'm Made Of - 7

The Sexy Brutale - What's Your Poison? (The Bar) - 1

Pankapu - Shoot them all - 2

Spark the Electric Jester 2 - Apocalypse Thruster - 4

Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes - Character Select - 5.1

Rabi-Ribi - Brawl Breaks - 5
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Super Monkey Ball 2 - World 8 - Clock Tower - 6

Final Fantasy XIV Online - A Long Fall - 7.5

Deus Ex - Main Theme - 6
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Johnny Eagle posted...

.............I wasn't joking.

Poor word choice on my part. I apologize.



Violetta: 7. Nice voice.

Heart Beat Remix: Slightly better than the original, unsure if I prefer it enough to give it a higher score though.

Vanta feat. Remix: 2.5; the original is an 8, but somehow, all the changes here just rub me the wrong way.

feat. somunia Remix: 6? Love the intro, the rest of the song is good enough.

You & Me (Remix): 9.6. I was not expecting a return of this song, nor for it to have been such a drastic improvement. Softening the vocals helped a lot and the backing music is a tremendous improvement; the instrumental just past the three minute mark is one of the highlights of the topic.

Literature and Forests Rain feat. : 8.

Ceaselessly
The sky cry, people die
Just a little, without words
Know the meaning of existence

You okay, Virtual Cat?



Bump of Chicken Song (Fighter): Wait, why do I know that band's name? *checks* Oh, FF Type 0... that was certainly a thing, alright.

Let's go with an 8.2 for the song. Nice singer, good lyrics.



Hated by Life: 7; she puts a good amount of emotion into the lyrics.

Kizuna: 5.6; it was nice seeing Fukuyamaster again, but the rest of the song didn't do much for me.
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Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix - Outside Makai ~ Moonlight Dark Castle - 6.5

Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale - Polygon Man (Phase 3) - 6.3

beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA - Element of SPADA - 8.5

Mario Artist: Polygon Studio - Space Base - 8

Under Night In-Birth - Blood Drain -Again- - 6.2

The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces - The Calm - 3
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Polkamon: 0.5; It gets half a point for mentioning Ponyta, but it still falls into the abyss of joke nominations I didn't find funny.

And back to Ao

Alice in Ruinland: I dunno. I like that she tried a darker song, but I don't think it really fits her voice or design... it's very hard to take these lyrics seriously when the singer is wearing a bunny hat. </.<

Future Base: I think I'll go with 7.5 here. Just generally above average in all aspects.

The next to last song of the cover section, I think it said Balloon or something?: 4.6. Not as fond of her voice on this one; it feels a bit too high-pitched and kind of annoying. Not to a point that I strongly dislike it or anything, but...ehhh..

The last song of the covers, with the duet and what not: 4. The video is very cute, but the song is...alright. A bit too long though, I wanted to stop the song at the three minute mark.

I'll listen to the last song on that page, Violetta, again tomorrow... good voice, but I got distracted by something while listening to it and don't want to listen to it a second time right now -nor- give it a score based only on the part I heard. And I need to go deal with the backlog at the VGM topic anyway, so yeah, will take care of Violetta tomorrow.
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Unrelated to anything, but the version of The Mighty Echo posted in the actual ranking topic allowed you to ask for YouTube's auto generated captions. Most of the time, it just said "music" for the song, but occasionally it would try to guess what the lyrics were.

Actual Lyric: Steer here, into the sparks, into the stars and the mighty echo love

Generated Caption: "Judas party to the salsa buddy".

And that is simply magnificent.

Also! I finally got through Stage 9 in Celeste! I did cheat a little bit... at one point, I checked a guide to see how much was left to do in the room. It was long and I was at what I thought was a halfway point, but wanted to see if it was a lot longer than I was expecting or anything... turned out I was actually at the last little stretch. Which removed most of the stress and made things easier.

...but as someone who almost never finishes anything and died 4,791 times in Stage 9 alone, it's still an accomplishment for me.



: 8. It's a bit softer and mellow than her songs usually are. Not quite a lounge song, but close-ish?

013: 7. It's nice. I like the beeping-ness of the backing music and it's kinda interesting that the song is so relatively simple that Google Translate handles it rather well:

The reality intersects
The story of me and you who are in the real world
Only feel me now

The significance of my existence is that everyone has a program that you can love in your story

Considering the gibberish you usually get, that's strangely coherent.

Ao no Aojiru: 3. It's...uhhh...good to know she was popular enough to endorse a product, I guess?

Tuna Boat Full Version: 1. Sorry, but the humor doesn't quite work for me. Such is the risk with joke songs; they tend to get 1 or 10s with little middle ground.

...I think Hammerman only got an 8 or 9, didn't it? If I didn't give it a 10, I should have.

: 6-ish? It's very cute and it's neat how she performs the song in Japanese and English, but it's not one of my favorites.

Virtual Insanity: Hey, Jamiroquai! I know that name; one of their other songs (Canned Heat) popped up at my first solo ranking... don't think it did too well, but I do remember it which means I probably ranked it too low (if I haven't listened to a song in over a year and still instantly recall the artist name and my thoughts on the song, it must have been pretty decent).

This song... I don't think it fits her voice well, to be a bit blunt about it. It's an interesting attempt, but like the English version of Chuchuchu, I'm not sure when I'd ever really listen to it. Probably scores somewhere in the 3 to 4 range.
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(the crowdfunding song): 3-ish. Rather repetitive and annoying, unfortunately.

: 6.3; I really liked the quiet and subdued intro, so I was a bit disappointed when it quickly transitioned into a more typical pop song.

Tuna vessel Aozora-maru: ...What?

Aozora Stage (Demo ver): Well that added a bit more context to the last video. It's not one of my favorites, but it's cute enough. 5.55.



I should try to get through more of the backlog, but I think I'll listen to some stuff on Spotify for the rest of the night... want to try to listen to a few songs from different genres for a bit.
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Space Boy: Kinda cheesy and goofy, but I like cheesy and goofy and this is catchier than I expected. Leaning towards a 7.5; definitely wouldn't mind having it on certain playlists where I want background music while working and don't want anything that demands much attention.



Okay, let's re-look at Hibiki's songs:

The first posted song, I'm not sure what the title actually is (I thought it sounded like she said the song was called Miami, but I probably misheard). Either way, I know I listened to that one correctly--I was surprised by the deeper voice and what not, so definitely remember that one.

Second song (Electronic Symphony), I have no conscious memory of and my only comment was that it was not memorable--it feels....standard anime pop intro-ish. It's not bad, but even listening to it again, I have a hard time remembering it.

Then last night, I started from the bottom of the page and scrolled up to what I thought was the first link... but it was the first link of the cover set of posted links; I counted down to the third song from there. Really liked the fireworks song (Cover #3), strongly disliked the ninja-bang-bang or whatever song (Cover #4), and the Jackson 5 song was the only one I went into enough comments that one could even tell which song I was listening to.



Going back up to the third song from the original list...

: Cute, but not super amazingly cute. 5.34; I don't usually use that extra decimal point, but it felt relevant here.

Chuchuchu Darling, Original: Not much left to say about this song; probably somewhere around a 9 these days?

Merchandise Song: Cute and to the point, though even I have a hard time giving a great score to it... low 6, probably?

Late (Demo Version): Hey, I remember this song! Kinda. I wonder what score I gave the full version? Leaning towards, say, 5.5 for this one.



More later.

Celeste Update: Haven't had too much time to poke at it over the last few days, but I'm finally at the last room of Chapter 9. Trying to stay optimistic about clearing it, though it's so... so long...
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UF8 posted...

uh

well you're not totally wrong about it being the 5th, but still wrong. that was in the cover list, it appears you skipped straight to it at some point, unless you started there

Yeah, I was trying to rush to catch-up since I hadn't done anything in days and didn't notice there were two sets of links in that post. -.-'

Far as I can tell, I did the correct first two songs in post #101 and accidentally skipped to cover list songs 3 through 5; I'll have to double check that tomorrow though.
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Demon Gaze - Loveless Angels - 5.3

Doshin the Giant - Yellow Giant - 7.5

Persona 3 - Memories of the City - 6

Kaze no NOTAM - Turning Point - 6.3

Super Pokmon Rumble - Dark Rust Battle - 5.1

Kirbys Dream Course - Jigsaw Plains - 4

Starhawk - Homeworld - 6

Need for Speed: Underground 2 - Riders on the Storm - 4.9

Super Paper Mario - The Ultimate Show - 4

WWF Royal Rumble (Genesis) - The Model - 10

Rayman Origins - Tricky Treasure Chase! - 3.5

Sonic After the Sequel - Combat Night (ATS Version) - For Parhelion Peak Act 1 - 7
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Hibiki 3: 8.6. It's really good, but I don't quite want to go all the way up to 9... yet anyway.

Hibiki 4: The backing music gives me a mild headache and nothing about this track worked for me. 2, and that may be overvaluing it due to bias in her favor.

Hibiki 5: Well I like Hibiki, music from the 60s, and Michael Jackson. This is kinda peak levels of pandering and I love it. 9.

...I doubt you intentionally placed the Jackson 5 cover as the fifth song link, but I appreciate the coincidence.



I think I'll go to the VGM topic, I'm way behind there as well & want to save some Hibiki for later.
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Ace Combat 3 - Revelation - 6.7

Kirby Super Star Ultra - Masked Dedede - 6

Castle Crashers - Chaoz Japan - 3

Murasaki Tsurugi - Darkness and Rumbling - 5.8

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - Underground - 5.8

Touhou 12.8: Great Fairy Wars - Magus Night - 5.1
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Chrono Cross - Shadow's End Forest - 7

Kirby Air Ride - Machine Passage - 7

Gokinjo Boukentai - Battle - 3
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Robinson: 6.5. It's nice, I think it would fare better if I had any clue what the lyrics were. The song and image make me feel like there's a good story there, I just don't know what.

: 7. Quite an improvement over the original, wouldn't mind hearing more from him.

Inochi (Cover): Hey, I recognize this song! It's perfectly fine, but I prefer AZKi's version.

Johari window: 8.5; this feels like the type of song that would start at a decent ranking position and keep getting moved up the list as I refused to cut it.



Celeste Update: Chapter 8 B-Side was actually kinda easy? Well, not easy exactly (780-ish deaths), but way easier than 7-B and one specific screen from 4-B that I maintain was harder than anything else in the game thus far.

Onward to Chapter 9... tomorrow.
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I'll add three more nominations to the pile:

WWF Royal Rumble (Genesis) | The Model |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q3mUL2-0Tg

Digital Pinball: Necronomicon | Arkham - Main Play (With Voiceover) |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF7oWJzrUPg

Celeste | in love with a ghost - Golden Ridge (Golden Feather Mix) |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgDYV_IbPuo
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Eternal Wind Jazz: 3. Sorry, but slowed down piano remixes aren't usually my thing.

Virtual Cat 2020: 5.5. It's nice.

NEW WORLD: 5. I dunno. I like parts of it, but it runs a bit too long and eventually fades in the background... I forget I'm listening to anything at all and space out completely.

Tokyo Girl: 4.8. About the same thing; it's not bad, but it doesn't leave much of an impression.



Unrelated to anything here, but I'd like to take a brief second to listen to Celeste's Chapter 4 B-Side again:

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

Possibly my favorite song on the soundtrack. That chapter was so difficult, but this song was so relaxing that it helped keep things from getting too frustrating.

Chapter 7's B-Side song could learn a lot from this track...



Chandelier (Cover): 4, maybe 4.5-ish. It's fine, but I don't think it's an improvement on the original or changes the song in any interesting ways.

Lazy: 6. I think I like it, but would want to listen to it again at a later date to see how I felt about it then.



Going to take a break here.

Celeste Update: Needed to go collect the last two Crystal Hearts to even start 8's B-Side. Chapter 7's was easy, but I just cheated and looked up where to go & what to do for Chapter 6's... probably shouldn't have, but I wanted access to 8-B and didn't want to repeatedly replay Chapter 6 trying to find a hidden area just to get to where I wanted to be.
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Mario Artist: Talent Studio - So Kawaii!! - 5.1

Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne - Fierce Battle - 4.7

Saya no Uta - Song of Saya I - 4.9

BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien - Cloud Titans - 3

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven - Joshu Higashikata Theme - 1.5

Sonic After the Sequel - Crumbstepping - For Sugar Splash Act 3 - 3
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Listened to the full versions of Emma's songs, don't really have much else to say about them; Christmas Eve is still the better of the two. Not super great, but it's just a pleasant and relaxing song, so it's notably above average and somewhere in the 7s.

The other song is...alright, though still not as good. Probably around a 6.

Since her other song, Haze, was available of Spotify I listened to it too. Put it somewhere in the 7s as well; it's also nice.



Not much progress today. Decided to listen to some random VGM to try to find something else I'd want to nominate somewhere--I've had two songs in mind for a while now, but want to find a third I feel really good about nominating... haven't found anything yet though, so I have nothing to show from my efforts tonight.

Not that I need to nominate in sets of 3 or anything, I just feel I want a third song for some reason.

Celeste: Did Chapter 8. Very short and easy chapter after 7's B-Side... it was really easy to find all the Strawberries and get everything. Decided to take a break afterwards; tomorrow, I look at 8's B-Side and predict much suffering as a result.
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Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (ARC) - Billie Jean - 6.3

Dynasty Warriors 8 - Capricious Wind - 6

Touhou Rhythm Carnival! Scarlet - Ritsudo Festival ~ Toho Rhythm Carnival! - 7.5
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Vogulisi (Party-Rock-Mix): 7 for now, with a note that it'd probably drop some if I were to listen to it several times at a full ranking. It's surprisingly catchy--to a point that I don't even mind the simple & repetitive lyrics.

...For now, anyway. I think listening to it several times in one month would be rather draining, but it makes a good first impression. Also, was that a cow around the 20 second mark?



Snow Song Show: 4. Another song that doesn't really click for me, for unidentified reasons. I'm not too fond of the original either (I do prefer Miku singing it, but it's still only a 5-ish)... I think it's just my bias against Christmas hitting it; with the references to Santa & presents and what not, this feels more Christmas-y than some of the other songs? Maybe?



Hurry Xmas: 0.5.



That last Christmas video: 5-ish; it's funny, but we've had funnier and weirder ones posted than this, so it's just okay.



Christmas videos defeated!

I'll look at the Spotify versions of Emma's songs tomorrow. I'm a bit surprised those links actually work--a lot of the foreign songs I've run into lately seem to be region locked on Spotify, but hers actually do play.



Celeste update: Chapter 7 B-Side cleared, barely. 1,347 deaths and I resorted to looking at a video to see how I was supposed to clear two of the rooms... it was a significant jump in difficulty (my second highest death count was at Chapter 4 B-Side, which "only" took me around 800 deaths), so I'm not too optimistic about making it much further.

Not sure if I want to go pick up Chapter 7's Crystal Heart (I only missed one of the gems to unlock it on my first trip through the stage, so I'm fairly confident that I could get that Heart without too much trouble), hunt Strawberries, or move on to Chapter 8? Will figure it out tomorrow, I guess.
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Shin Megami Tensei IV - Main Theme - 7.3

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command - Bathyos - 4.5

Kirby and the Rainbow Curse - Kirby Medley - 3
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Joy to the World: 6-ish. I don't usually like Christmas music or songs this classic, but she has a cute voice & it's my first time hearing it in Japanese which helps take some of the edge off.

Christmas Eve / Happiness: 7-ish. It's nice. I prefer the first part quite a bit--considering the title and that I see two songs for sale with these titles, I'm guessing this is like a sample of two different songs?

Christmas Song: 6; I don't know. Good, but feels like it's missing something.

All I Want For Christmas Is You: 5.2-ish. It's fine? For being a cover of one of the most overplayed songs in history, it's surprisingly not bad.



And you can post as many songs as you want, just know that I may be a bit slow rating them since I'm still a bit obsessed with Celeste. (Standard credits achieved; still need to go back for the Crystal Hearts in 6 & 7, and some Strawberries in 7, and then there's Chapter 7 B-Side, to say nothing of the post game content... not sure how far I'll make it on any of that stuff, but I still need to at least look at some of it.)
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Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Melty Monster Galaxy - 3

Ace Combat 3D - Hypersonic Winter - 4

REFLEC BEAT VOLZZA - SEITEN NO TERIYAKI - 3

Splatoon 2 - Don't Slip - 3.5

Return All Robots! - Training Montage - 6

G-LOC Air Battle - Stage 3B - 5.3

DOOM: The Plutonia Experiment (Music Mod) - Cry of Desperation - 5.2

Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games - Buoy Base Galaxy - 3

Let It Die - Let It Die ~ NOTHING TO DECLARE - 5
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https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Electric_Kiss

Electric Kiss.

...No comment.
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I Truly Believe: 7. It's a very nice song in all aspects, but it doesn't really fire up my imagination or spark much of a connection. It starts and ends at "oh, I like this quite a bit"--which is certainly good, obviously, but not super amazing.
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Choro Q2 - Middle Size Circuit - 6.8

Chrono Trigger - Secret of the Forest - 7.5

Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 - Pac Madness - 5.5
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Chrono Trigger - Undersea Palace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMpxY9089qw

Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold - Theme of Sakura:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPgCfmvWCkY

Gitaroo Man - The Legendary Theme (Acoustic):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zacUcCCOoRw

Thrust (Atari 2600) - Title Screen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNXTJUfZNBY

Chrono Cross - Radical Dreamers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBE3c9X0BoA



Don't really have any input on rule changes. I'll just go along with whatever.
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My apologies for the delay. I wish I had a valid excuse, but in all honesty, I spent all my free time the past two nights playing Celeste. (Not too far in it; first two Chapters cleared with all Strawberries and I did the first two B-Sides because I'm too stubborn to leave an uncleared challenge even if I know I should do all the main game before messing with them.)

Aaaanywho...

Mikakunin Shoujo Shinkoukei: 7.5. It's been a little while since a song has left me so confused. I thought the Google Translate lyrics were absolute gibberish:

Hello Hello Hello Hello
I'm an alien I say for the first time but I'll say it for the first time
Hello Hello Hello Hello Hello
Actually it's a deep-sea fish

But then the background shows her as an alien & a fish, so...not quite as garbled as I initially thought it was...

Putting that aside; it's catchy, there's some odd audio effects (which I like) around 2:37 & again at the outro, I like all the neon lights in the video, but it's far from my favorite song of hers. But it'll also probably be fairly memorable due to how confused it left me. 7.5 might be undervaluing it a bit, but it's something I'd have to spend more time thinking about to get a good grasp on where exactly I'd want to rank it.



Midnight Song: 6.

"Summer time time time yeah

Dance dance dance yeah

Dance dance dance wow wow

Dance dance dance"

...I like her, but this song kinda misses the mark for me.



That last song: 5.5-ish. It's another one where I kinda want an instrumental. When this song started, there was a certain harshness to the music that had me sure this was going to be, by far, the best song of the three... but then the singing started and I just wasn't nearly as into it.

Video is great (I doubt I'll ever tire of seeing virtual characters in real environments), the noise the instruments make around the three minute mark are wonderful, but still just not into the singing.

I think the Google Translate of these lyrics wins the award for "most garbled mess" of the topic.

Empty shampoo filled garbage
Which are? You don't need either?

On the one hand, I know that can't be even remotely close to correct. On the other, I would appreciate the singing a lot more if they truly were to just randomly shout "EMPTY SHAMPOO FILLED GARBAGE!!" which is clearly the best lyric of all time.
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Break the Distance - 5.2 ; it's not bad, but feels like it's missing a little something. I think it needs to be a little faster--not nearly as fast as YouTube's 1.25x speed makes it, but faster than it goes by default? I think I'd also like a slightly cuter singer like Hibiki, but then I tend to always wish she was performing instead of anyone else. (Well, except for the obvious trio of Kaf, poemcore, and Mei. And I suppose Fukuyamaster at times.

...alright, so maybe it's only the more recent ones that I'd replace with Hibiki.)

DANCE is the answer - Let's go with a 5.2 as well, since I don't entirely know which one I'd rank over the other at this moment. This song joins the "I think I'd prefer an instrumental version" ranks--there's something VGM-y about the backing music and I'd like to play around with it a bit, put the audio over assorted gaming scenes and see what I felt it worked with... but the singing makes that rather difficult.

Nijino Mahoro's song - I'm pretty sure this is the girl I was looking for! I was really tempted to ask you who the girl with the rainbow dress and red hat on the album cover was, but...didn't. And this singer had a cute voice, so she was the first person from the album that I cared enough to look up anything on and her introductor video has her wearing a suspiciously rainbow dress & red hat.

Let's go with a 7, though part of that may be bias due to the joy of finding her in the first place.



More tomorrow. I could press on, but it's rather late.
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Black Bird - Appearance - 8.5

All Our Asias - Help Them Out (Lake Shore Drive + Argyle) - 8

Shadow of the Colossus - The Opened Way - 5

Bad Piggies - Shuffle and Spawn - 4

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Gobi's Valley - 0.9

Sonic Adventure 2 - Supporting Me - 5.4
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Kohigashi Hitona: 4. The "Nanananananana" chorus is a bit much.

NoWorld: Somewhere between 5 & 6. Another track I'd prefer an instrumental version of. The rather relaxing music with the train ambiance was pleasing and I'd have liked to just let my mind wander for a bit.

Shiraki Leia: 2; sorry, but I really didn't care for this track. In her defense, I went to listen to the original song and only made it about 30 seconds before closing it, so I'll just blame the song itself rather than the singer.



MASAKARI: 6. Seems interesting.

Chocolate Eclair: 4.6; it's not bad, but it's not as cute or catchy as Mozzarella was and if you can't even be in the running for "best food related song posted at the end of this particular topic" then you probably shouldn't get too good of a score.

Stand Alone Complex: 7; It's good, but like MASAKARI, I think I really need at least a Google Translate gibberish to get a feel for what the song is supposed to be... judged completely devoid of context, it's good but I can tell that I'm missing a lot. I'll have to try to remember to see if lyrics get posted anywhere in a month or two; album seems too new for anything to be posted anywhere yet.



And I'll come back to this tomorrow; phone battery is about to die, which makes continuing a bit difficult at the moment.
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