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Project Cerberus - L L ~Infinite Beating ver~
Escape Goat 2 - Cloak of Darkness

Hymnos as a thing still impresses the holy shit out of me--EXPAJA is just one of the more underwhelming applications of it. Could still see myself flipping for it, cuz even despite that this is still a close shave.

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Alto's Odyssey - An Endless Desert
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim - -[DEOXYRIBOSE]-

Yeah woah, extremely strong day. Snake Eater likely candidate for my wildcard bid, but holy heck if the competition for that ain't already nuts

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Phantasy Star Online 2 - GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
REFLEC BEAT The Reflesia of Eternity - Kanata no Rafflesia

Pretty set with these, though match 2 was closer than expected. Roll on, wild card!

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+1 Silver Star Crysta Kaleido
+1 Fax Factory
+2 Imbrium
+2 One Final Effort

Varied bunch, this is! Goes to show how colorful the bracket was this year.

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Oops, hey, changed my mind. Let's make that a vote for:
Dariusburst - The world of spirit

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Raiden V - Apostle's Maraud
Blue Reflection - TIGAR (ALL PHASE MIX)

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Halo 3 - One Final Effort
Deltarune: Chapter 1 - Rude Buster
Rivals of Aether - Luna Ascension EX

Round 1 ain't fair. Going with my heart on it, though--no topping those tasty keys in OFE.

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+3 In This World
+2 Nilin the Memory Hunter
+1 Duality

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Sole - Memories Rushing By
Kaze no Notam - Discovery
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country - Battle!!

Not much to say today other than it'll be sad to part with Servants again. Expecting Torna Battle(!!) to run home with the gold!

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Fire Emblem Fates - Desire Below (Flow)
pop'n Music Usagi to neko to shounen no yume -
beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL - Despair of ELFERIA

One of my favorite days in a while! Would say I enjoyed everything a great deal, save for goldenslaughterer which still rings out as overlong and hollow. Go get 'em, ELFERIA!

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Duelin' Firemen! - Epic Epileptic Apocalypse
Kirby: Planet Robobot - P-R-O-G-R-A-M
Crystar - Revenger

Honestly? Just thankful to see EEA in the bracket at all! Even if it wasn't to everyone's exact palette, I got to share some new music, and that's a joy either way.

Was gonna write a lot more here but I'm crunching for time anyhow. Great day on the whole!

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SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS - Konran shoujo Soflan-chan!!
Maiden & Spell - The Wyrm's Jewelbox
Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk - Invitation Flower ~ Autumn

"Im just a normal regularrhythm girl I love 44 metre
But When I put on my irregular metre
I transform into Confusion GirlSoflanchan"

Look at the rhythm an intense homerun my peace of mind goes nyai nyai nyai
A very unsteady soft landing its gonna be all right itll bend your mind and space itself
One two Soflaaaan

Ranran Jakajakajan
Ranran Uu nyainyainya~i
Ranran Jakajakajan
Ranran


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Hypnospace Outlaw - Ready to Shave
Bomberman Hero - Redial
Cytus II - Chocolate Missile

Polarizing day! Will be -interesting- to watch this play out.

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Alone in the Dark - Who Am I?
Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos - Title
Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk - Yesterdays Opponents are Todays Ingredients

I really want to love BECOME AS GODS BECOME AS GODS but mannn, it's still ringing too hollow for comfort. Still love the way Solstice swings out of nowhere with this gigantic wall of sound and just never lets up from there

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Shroom City (Mario Party Advance)

Love this thread! My hands-on experience with Mario Party lives and dies with the GameCube era, so it's dang neat to read up on what I've missed out on.

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Plok! - A Line in the Sand
Super Mario Kart - Rainbow Road
Ar nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

beep bzzez chiptune day! Not as fond of Beach or Plok in general as I used to be, but I can still respect Follin's inventive application of the SNES chip--you can't say it doesn't leave an impression!

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maimai MiLK - Credits
Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet - Dungeon - Geofront 4
GITADORA OverDrive - Douwa Kairou

today is just STUPID good and it's horribly unfair that i'd ever have to cross any one of these. pretty concretely my favorite day of the contest so far(!), and i'm not expecting it'll be bested any time soon

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses - The Apex of the World (Rain)
Magical Chase - Variations on a Ra Melody
beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA - Dark Legacy

Don't have time for writeups today, but I should get a minute tomorrow!

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Oh what, my mistake then! Made a hasty call as that series was on PCE as late as Ys IV, and also it didn't seem like a particularly far cry from the sound of those games.

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GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX - The Least 333sec
[abstain, for now]
Pinball Fantasies - steelchambers2

Battle! [5] Phew, that intro almost made me think I was gonna have to betray a double support! The DPP song is fine, but it doesn't stand out in my mind as much as some of the other excellent Pokemon-series picks in the bracket. Still decent enough with a handful of cool moments, held back by a sort of muddy presentation.

The Least 100/333sec! [1] This is one of those very rare things that never ceases to be fresh on repeat listens. Not a 'sec' is wasted, and there's always something going on to grip your attention. Carn Evil 3 is a decent comparison sound-wise, (and that might be my favorite ELP thing in general) with the raw density of the keys driving the music forward. Always wary when guitar parts enter stuff like this--real make or break deal for me. But man, keys and guitar just mingle around in this so, so well, that the track overall would be worse off without that marriage. One of my favorites across the whole bracket!

The Ruined City Kishgal! [2] What the fuck I just realized this sounds like Battle Garegga - Underwater Rampart man that is a hard thought to shake out. Pure PCE jam that pushes its chip to the edge and back. Reminds me of the stuff I used to listen to when I started really diving into the deep end of VGM. Ryu Umemoto and his later analogue Garoad; stuff in that really twinkly, future-forward sound sphere. Passed over this one in the vote, but would have definitely supported as this is probably my favorite discovery so far.

Seto Kaiba! [3] What the fuck I just realized this sounds like Sonic: After the Sequel - Cyan City Act 1 kinda not really still a little distracting. Uh, so this is one of my doubles and I still think I'd have it over most of the field. But, gosh, just not feeling it as much today? It's the little things that make this such a jam, like the heavy use of polyrhythms and hard-hitting synth/perc embellishments. Almost wish Kishgal didn't resonate with me so much, if only to make this vote easier to swallow! Holding out on R2 for now.

steelchambers2! [4] Hi olaf gustafsson HI OLAF GUSTAFSSON this is one of my favorite brit home computer people and his works constitute some of the best examples of the general Amiga sound: cloudy synths, thick chords, and an unshakable melancholy about the air.

New World Order! [6] Not typically one to be bothered by vocals in VGM, but here we are with NWO again! Can't help but think it's held back a great deal by its performers lacking the energy to carry the emotional intensity of the music. Imagine someone like Marc Hudson from Dragonforce on this duet--someone with a lot of resonance and volume to really belt out and stand out. NWO seems to be something of a darling for this board. Maybe I'll see the light some day!

I never really got into TCGs but one day I found a lone Yu-Gi-Oh(!) card in the sandbox at school and let's just say that was a really happy moment for Place

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Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou - Tong-Nou Theme
Celeste - Celestial Resort (Good Karma Mix)
Rivals of Aether - Luna Ascension EX

Wednesday, August 7, 1991
"A Weird World Inside a Video"
While watching a video, I find myself inside its world. There are unfamiliar gigantic animals and flowers everywhere. They are colorful, too. I feel like I'm lost in a world of animals and flowers created with a Macintosh. Square-shaped dinosaurs and gigantic flowers with dozens of layers of strange petals. I see a mountain over there. It looks like they are all wandering around the mountain.


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Not a whole lot of things that would make me vote against V6. Not except for...

Kaze no Notam - Solitude

Fairly easy call for these other two as well!

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game - Another Winter
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country - Battle!!

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Mushihimesama Futari - Shinjugamori Rebel Army
Katamari Damacy - Roll Me In (Katamaritaino)
Terraria Calamity Mod - Servants of the Scourge


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Kidou Sentai Iron Saga - Mechalullaby
Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon - Second Dark Matter Battle
Shovel Knight - Strike the Earth! (Plains of Passage)


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Burning Rangers - We Are Burning Rangers (English Version)
Taiko no Tatsujin 7 - Burning Force Medley
Crystar - Revenger

First match is close, though! Will always maintain that Marlon Saunders was SEGA's most versatile English vocalist. Wanted to share a rare variant of this song, first appearing on the Radio DC arrange album and later in Roommania #203:
https://youtu.be/Oe3kt1jsbRQ
On the topic of Saunders specifically, though...you ever heard the way he carries the Christmas NiGHTS version of Dreams, Dreams? Straight up gives me chills, man

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Dark Man Stage
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity - Infinite Dungeon 2
SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS - Preserved Valkyria

Much respect for Night Gale, which might end up running away with my wild card bid.

why does preserved valkyria chronicles profile: lenneth sound like Tomoya Ohtani

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Blue Reflection - DNF FW15C (ALL PHASE MIX)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice - Apollo Justice ~ A New Chapter of Trials! 2016
Ao no Kiseki Evolution - Seize the Truth!

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Chrono Trigger - Undersea Palace
G-Darius - B.T. Dutch
Atelier Ayesha - Invitation Flower ~ Autumn

Hm. Move Me is definitely not my first choice for a RRT4 nom. Would have handily picked something like Urban Fragments or Pearl Blue Soul over CT.

Much respect for FFIV, but it's been totally schooled here by one of my favorite tracks in the whole bracket. At some point, I want to do a VGM ranking thread--any takers for that might be interested to know that music that sounds like this is what I vibe with best.

Yeah alright, I like the dang Ayesha song. In this specific case, it's a really 'natural' palette cleanser after the mechanical madness of B.T. Dutch. Shoji Meguro continues to be Shoji Meguro.

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SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN - Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade
Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum - Lake
Cytus II - Chocolate Missile

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Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia - EXEC_PAJA/.#Orica extracting.
Kirby Triple Deluxe - Mysterious Trap
Atelier Ayesha - Yesterdays Opponents are Todays Ingredients

On most days, I'd actually be feeling Chant This Charm. Guess today isn't one of those days.

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Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica - Rustling Throb ~ Cloche
Dai Gyakuten Saiban - Time for a Great Turnabout
Steins;Gate - Skyclad Observer

CYOA was fun. I hope we'll get another shot at it sometime.

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Terraria Calamity - The Filthy Mind (Theme of the Hive Mind)
Devil Engine - Jazzy NNYC
GITADORA OverDrive - Douwa Kairou and if this ties again then just throw these songs out and advance DEMON TRUCK - Neon Dead Hell City in their place

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Celeste - Mirror Temple (Mirror Magic Mix)
Einhander - Thermosphere
GITADORA OverDrive - Douwa Kairou

Second match seemed kinda tough at first, because Midnight Lady jams really well to start, but doesn't get much better after those first 30 seconds. Still kinda sad to have to do pseudo-future funk dirty.
Androids

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Hoi AGA - Level 5: Main Theme
Pokemon Platinum - Battle! Giratina
Skygunner - To the Distant Sky

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Sonic Adventure not DX: Director's Cut - Theme of E-102 Gamma
Ciel Nosurge - CLASS::CIEL_NOSURGE;
Baldr Force - Face of Fact

This ginga force thing is like Ken's Theme, Big Blue, and the most stereotypical anime OP rolled into a meatwad and then arranged by Yousuke Yasui. why am i being mean to video game music. Cool Song, Man

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Freedom Planet - Thermal Base 1
Skygunner - To the Distant Sky
GITADORA OverDrive - Douwa Kairou

I'm just about numb to Confronting Myself at this point. My particularly abrasive mental note is that it, "isn't as weird as it thinks it is." Musically, absolutely it's pretty weird; polyrhythms, 'world' sounds and other such ideas. I just don't feel like they ever manifest into something that really resonates with me. Maybe I've just run my course with the 'indie chiptune' vibe.

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Mr. Driller: Drill Land - Heading Back to Town
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - Sound of the Wind
Terraria Calamity Mod - 1NF3S+@+!0N (Theme of Crabulon)

shout out to Rivers though for being the first video game song i heard out in the wild (playing on the overhead speakers at sone ranch market)

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Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour
War of Brains - FEEL the POWER in YOUR SOUL
beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA - DARK LEGACY

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WildStar - The Cold Science of Supremacy
Aka - Desert
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Phantasy Star Online Episode III - IDOLA The Strange Fruits
Lost in Shadow - Hinagiku
Pinball Fantasies - steelchambers2

Metal Beat is not as crazy as I once thought it was!! I remember back when I would be like WHOAA THIS IS GAME BOY?? THERE IS NO WAY THIS CAME FROM GAME BOY THIS IS THE MOST ADVANCED THING EVER and now I know the entire A N I M O R P H S OST exists so yeah there's that lmao.

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Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX - Sky Tower
Opoona - Partizans
Umineko no Naku Koro ni 4 - Endless Nine

Flashygoodness more like I'm very sorry flashygoodness

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Swapping one of my votes:

Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards - Miracle Matter -> Ar nosurge - Class::EXPAJA

Haste mentioned something about a Miracle Matter high and I think I'm coming down from that too.

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Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards - Miracle Matter
Escape Goat 2 - Cloak of Darkness
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country - Battle!!

Wish i liked EXPAJA more! I keep waiting for it to blow me away--as most hymnos do--and that just never happens. MM isn't my favorite K64 thing, but at least it leaves an impression, y'know?

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Spark the Electric Jester - Megaraph Fleet
Project Cerberus - L L ~Infinite Beating ver~
Mario Kart 8 - Big Blue

hm.

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Oh yeah whoops

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim - -[Deoxyribose]-
No One Can Stop Mr. Domino - Shop 'til You Drop
Terraria Calamity Mod - Servants of the Scourge

Mr. Domino died because someone figured out how to stop him haha awhahah damn that's some sicknasty comedy right there
(;_;)

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Super Smash Bros. - Final Destination
Alto's Odyssey - An Endless Desert
jubeat Prop - Chloe

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Hello Penguin 2 HD - FLIGHTLESS
Phantasy Star Online 2 - GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
Tales of the Abyss - Meaning of Birth

flightless, i...


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Final Fantasy XIV - Return to Oblivion
Undertale - ASGORE

I like maybe thirty seconds of TIGAR and maybe no seconds of MA DA RA. Probably won't be not-abstaining but if I do I'll go for the former

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Raiden V - Apostle's Maraud
Pokemon Black 2/White 2 - Battle! (Colress)
Sound Voltex III - Preserved Valkyria

And so, the relentless heartbreak of Video Game Music Contest begins

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Deltarune: Chapter 1 - Rude Buster
Spectral Gene - Silver Star Crysta Kaleido
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Awh I'm not a DannyB fan at all but Invitation Flower is not an Ayesha thing I enjoy either. might lean the vote to aaAyesha come morning but I gotta sit on this for a bit

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