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He's also got a questionable voice actor, but I let it go because Fuuka is so much worse.

Maybe this is a ploy by the cunning devs to make everyone seem like they sound better.
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Shaduln posted...

"There can't be two keyblade masters" yeah ok Riku

lol I forgot this was a thing.
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It must be pretty crazy going from 5 to 3 (though I haven't played 5).
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Yeah, good point. It's definitely a number that's ripe for exploration in choreography and props.
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Indeed it is!
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Yeah, where is How to Train Your Dragon?
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Good one.
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8. It's A Hard-Knock Life

From Annie
Nominated by jcgamer

It's a hard-knock life for us. I entered a contest with this song. I lost. This was fun, but I didn't really like this version in particular. The instrumentation is very bare. It sounds deceprit...though some of it is probably intentional, but to me that still makes it less enjoyable. Okay I'm just being nitpicky here since it's the top 10 lol.
For serious though, that beat is very iconic (dum-dum-dum-dum-DUM-dum-dum) and it really sets the tone of the musical well, of both the grimness of being an orphan in a sucky environment and the enduring optimism. And of course the kids' friendship with each other forged through a shared suffering.

Actually I think the other orphans hit that sweet spot of crowd characters (without fully developing them into side/secondary characters). They're a coherent group brought together by life circumstances but if you really want to develop them for like a fanfic, or if you cast as one of them and want to dig a bit deeper for the characterization, you can probably derive something from each character's lines and interactions. Okay, that was a random tangent.

Riesling
Hello, I'm the contest partner. Some calls me a blasphemer for liking the 2014 Annie better. Anyway, despite how the arrangement is, this song can be used in many situations. I love it.

7. You Will Be Found

From Dear Evan Hansen
Nominated by GenesisSaga

DEH, ever the scandalous musical, but really popular with the teen and young adult crowd. It's easy to see why. Many of the songs are really good and this one is especially inspirational and theatre kids being typically outcasts, it's just too good and fitting not to cover. Though the song might lose some of its charm when you remember Evan is basically using a stranger's death for popularity and the love of another family. I guess the message is that even shady motivations can bring good. Regardless, the chorus part is awesome and the instruments work really well, it's rich, pop-ish, but still emotionally powerful.

Riesling
This song is a memorable one for me. Some of my friends (who never heard of DEH before) cried when my troupe performed this.
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jcgamer107 posted...

wow i got 3 in the top 8, and 2 others that i might have otherwise nominated. pretty good.

Yeah, we have a similar taste it turns out!

Shonen_Bat posted...

^

Thanks for the bump! #8 and #7 in next post.
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Write-in ballot: 5tarscream posted...

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Merry belated Christmas.
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Pirateking2000 posted...

tag

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So I was talking to my friend about Detroit: Become Human and he said he heard bad things about the writer/director, David Cage (in that he uses androids as shorthand for people of color). And that's why he doesn't have a desire to play the game.

His quote, verbatim:
I generally want my story-heavy game devs to be genuine and/or wholesome

Which is really weird to me. It's like preferring the lead developer of your Smart TV to be vegan or something. Besides the discussions he read were not from first hand sources (that is, the writer's family and friends) but also from critical strangers on the internet.

OTOH, I know that some people would be wary of supporting the works of a convicted pedophile/rapist, even if the work isn't at all about that.

What do you think?
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Ah, I see. Well, good for him and his fans. Played Brawl again last week and I wanted to cry at just how difficult to use he was.
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Shadow Dino posted...

Yes, each pillar is a raid boss that lasts until 2 million of each boss is killed. It's only for this time period though, anyone who reaches the final singularity afterwards just gets a story section.

It's functionally a giant loot pinata.

Yeah, and some pillars get rekt much faster than others because their loot is more lucrative.
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...why though? Isn't he super bad? Or did he get better in 4/U?
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Tag.
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The nicknames they used in the MMO are based on Persona...2's (CMIIW) protagonists.
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Good luck! Try not to worry too much, keep it positive.
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10. Comfort and Joy

From Bat Boy: The Musical
Nominated by KBM

Another one I wasn't familiar with. Surprisingly I enjoy it very much. It's because all of them have different take on 'comfort and joy'. Some are sinister, some are mundane. And the musical seems like a feral version of Hunchback of Notre Dame.

9. Be Our Guest

From Beauty and the Beast
Nominated by Prince_Karo

Another really good song, Alan Menken is a god. I expect everyone to be familiar with this song so not really much to add, only that it didn't get much higher because it's mostly Lumiere singing (featuring Mrs. Potts) though to less extent than Kiss the Girl. It's a very well crafted song. And that French accent is as delicious as ze grey stuff.

Riesling
Another song I don't listen to much, but one I enjoy watching.
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hmm Merry Xmas
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ike
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Fate Grand Order
Age of Empires II HD
Final Fantasy X (I think it was this year that I finished it...)
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MetalmindStats posted...

Hi! In a technical manner of speaking, I'm a newcomer from CBX, even though I've been lurking without an account for over five years. (And yes, I know how weird that must sound.) And alas, I sucked it up in CBX, though I would have probably won if it weren't for those darned kids and their Link, Cloud, Zelda, Samus, and Mario fanboy/girlism!

Yay, welcome! What finally pushed you to make an account?

Dels posted...

I definitely pronounce it "Bee-eight-ers"

lol that's so wild

ShatteredElysium posted...

But you missed out the most important part about the board shutting down now the contest is over. We only have until the results are published!

:( Let's not dwell on sad things!
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Ohh I recently started FF IX again too (never finished it before) but haven't played in a while. You made a great choice.
Also what country did you come from?
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Also, how you play three-person rock paper scissors? I'm not an expert on the game, but I'd think that wouldn't work.

The rule changes, so that whoever puts out the sole different hand loses.
So if it's paper-paper-scissors, the one who played scissors lose.
If it's tie (paper-rock-scissors or paper-paper-paper), just redo it.
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Welcome all! No matter you won big time or lost miserably in the last contest, we're glad to have you here. Hang out and be merry in this cool community. But if you're new here, it can get a bit confusing so here are some things you might need to know about us:

1. Though this is a Contests board primarily, it is also a social board especially during the off-season. You can talk about most anything!
If you still want your fill of the contests though we always have some stats discussion topic where you can extrapolate a character's strength by crunching numbers through a very intricate Excel sheet.

2. GameFAQs Contests is also called Board 8 (due to the URL) or B8 for short. Regulars are called B8ers (rhymes with haters).

3. B8ers are relatively old, internet-wise. Most of us are in our late 20s to mid 30s. The oldest one is a dragon called norenxaq who's like 60. Many of the regulars have been here since the earliest days of GameFAQs.
Most of us are guys and there are some girls too, play nice with everyone.

4. We're big on board projects, like let's plays, rankings, and Save Mys. Save My is a board game/project format where there's a list of things/characters/etc. and you can save them (by posting who you want to save) until only one is left, then the unsaved item is eliminated, until only one is crowned the winner. Try it out! It's fun and drama-free, especially Save My Final Fantasy Characters and Save My Disney Characters.

5. Other notable, long running B8 board games are Mercenaries (Mercs for short) and Mafia. Mercs is like arguing who will win between Goku and Superman but with some accounting. And Mafia is like the werewolf party game only people will call you nasty names and it runs for two months.

6. Politics have its own board flair because it's a very contentious topic here. We have a Politics containment topic so you can go there and...mingle. As expected, a lot of B8ers are leftists but there are some very energetic rightists as well.

7. We also have a user merit contest called User of the Year (UoTY) which is very prestigious and beloved by all. If you are crowned UoTY, nobody on B8 would say bad things about you and all your topic will reach 500 posts.

8. Notable users include:
- Steiner: UoTY winner and the patron for B8 Discord.
- Ulti: He likes to talk about the contests' results a lot also some people say he's mean but since I blocked him I don't think he's been very mean at all!
- SirChris: He's pretty good at Mafia.
- LusterSoldier: Our resident state-mandated robotic overseer.
- GuessMyUserName (GMUN): The tech guy who hacked GameFAQs back in 1999 so we can do things like have our topic automatically bumped and such.
- Vlado: A guy from Bulgaria or something who speaks English really well!
- SBAllen: Apparently he's a mod or something, that's pretty cool!

Anything to add?
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what the hell even is this top 3
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Rock and Roll
Beck and Call
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samus
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Neat!
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Advokaiser posted...

(Note: It took me a while to realize "Asriel" is a combination of "Toriel" and "Asriel".)

I'm sure you meant 'Asgore' there lol.
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MMORPG is indeed very good. I feel like overall P3's Social Links are a bit better than P4's but that might be my bias talking.
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I guess you didn't dream hard enough! :(
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Your top 10!
Be Our Guest
Cell Block Tango
Comfort and Joy
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Hello
It's A Hard-Knock Life
One Day More
Press Conference Rag
Skid Row
This Is Halloween
You Will Be Found
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Yeah, that's a shame, though I'm sure I've seen it before on YouTube so maybe they just got deleted...

12. Dream A Little Harder

From Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier
Nominated by Johnbobb

Oh yeah, I love StarKid parodies and this might just be one of their best offerings. It lampshades Disney tropes and values very well, while still offering its own hilarious, overblown, version of 'the villain was good all along'. And that cameo at 3:48 is to die for.

11. Esmeralda

From The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Nominated by KBM

Weird, it sounds glorious and triumphant but it's actually a villain song of sorts. Maybe to show how self-righteous they are. Oh my God, this is the big number of the musical?! I love it! I especially love the angelic reprise of God Help the Outcasts here, I love when leitmotifs come together. This is just too epic.
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dog
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Iconic scenes in horror VGs
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Mewtwo59 posted...

When characters like Little Mac and Incineroar exist, Falco's recovery looks amazing.

They didn't exist yet in Brawl, which triggered me to make this topic.
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That stupid side B killed me way more than any opponent. It's a shame too since the rest of his moves are actually decent to great.
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14. Let It Grow

From The Lorax
Nominated by GenesisSaga

Sounds like a gospel version of an MLP song. That is to say it sounds great and fun. LOL at the villain trying to change the lyrics and he gets rightfully blown off. Very joyous and catchy song. Bonus points for a granny character. <3 Now I really want to watch the movie, it looks great and seems very fun. I think with more replays, this song will...grow on me.

13. La Resistance

From South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
Nominated by jcgamer

Man, this song would've been so much better with a few things. The La Resistance children's choir sounds too much like chipmunk. And the song itself is too short! This is the big eleventh hour number and I really love it when such songs contain the reprise of various characters' songs. And La Resistance also introduces its own tune to underline the reprise, and it's very fun. I actually want to hear more of this. Oh and the hilariously gory lyrics help.
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SeabassDebeste posted...

i won't sayu i'm in love is omg-good

for now is good but not my favorite avenue Q song

maybe i should go see it again if it's really shutting down :(

Go do it for me too! :")
What's your favorite song from the show?
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Coco
Anna
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Don't worry, when I played P4 I kept comparing it to P3. But I guess playing them on a release order helps.
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16. Seize the Day

From Newsies
Nominated by Maniac64

I really like the message of this song. "You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you" is a great message. The notes are joyful, boyish, cheery, while still defiant. It's very rousing. Alan Menken is a treasure. Newsies have got some great crowd songs (namely King of New York and Carrying the Banner) and I just can't decide which one I like the most. Though I think i like Carrying the Banner a bit better because I find the beginning part better partially because it shows more individual Newsies' personalities.

Riesling
I really love Dave's solo in the beginning and I love the mood of the whole song. the 'you're still our brother' part also touches me so much, especially because I'm watching this during my college days where people do stupid things to get noticed so they can make a change. I wish one day someone does a flashmob with this instead of doing a common strike.

15. Unlikely Lovers

From Falsettos
Nominated by KBM

Another one with dead link. I'm very surprised. I haven't truly experienced Falsettos, but I find myself heartbroken. This is a good piece of music it makes me feel...things. Beautiful and sad but not delivered in the generic sappy melody. It's actually somewhat cheerful, as the four friends try to brace themselves for the inevitable.
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jcgamer107 posted...

Speaking of, Avenue Q's New York production just announced they're finally closing in April after a 16-year run.

Yeah, I heard. I'm deeply saddened. :(
But maybe they'll go on a world tour and visit like...Singapore. A man can dream!

Johnbobb posted...

I do highly recommend American Idiot: The Musical

I mean I'm biased because it's always been one of my favorite albums, but I got the chance to see the musical live a few years ago and it was excellent

I'm sure I'll look into it someday. One day...
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