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GATE OF STEINER
Sky Tower
The Rain Formerly Known as Purple

Rough start to today, but decent end. The two RoR songs were nice. Didn't like either song in the first match but disliked STEINER less.

Paratroopa1 posted...

I would be interested in seeing what world record has the worst direction score, too

I got you. There are a few others with bad direction score but I'm pretty sure this one takes the cake.

Furret 4https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/7/9/AARhE1AADe_j.jpg
That Furret on the left has simply been lured into the shot for more extra, though it wouldn't at all surprise me if this game is programmed to simply register "Furret" as the target for synergy and is therefore giving a boatload of extra points by having the one that isn't actually part of the interaction get the multiplier. But this is a shot of the interaction of the one in the middle, who is largely facing away, and the one on the right, whose body is still halfway submerged in a hole and therefore can't get very good size at all. The 2283 Size+Direction is, in fact, better than what the other one can do, so taking this shot with under 300 direction (the other ones I thought might contend with it turned out to have directions a tad above 400) is truly the best you can do.

Donkey Kong Country
Super Mario Kart

-hotdogturtle-- posted...

Nope, that would be Chinchou 4.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/1/1/AASP7CAADenD.jpg

Yeah, that one's really something. There are just a few pics that have only one option and it's not great.

Have you told them about Meowth 3 yet?

Oh damn, this is gonna be hard. All six of these songs are really good.

Unknown Pollution
Argon Refinery
Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)

Pokmon RBY
Kirby Super Star

Minesweeper
Chrono Trigger

Sea of Frozen Crystals
Calling
Seashore War

Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
-(PHENYLALANINE)
Supper Woods

I don't know how we ended up with RftMIS as our traditional Touhou song; it's actually not really that great among Touhou songs. But a mediocre Touhou song is still better than whatever that was. I actually expected it to have a chance to get my vote when I saw "Breath of Fire" because I think of that as an old franchise and I do have a weakness for retro games, but apparently it's had a more recent game after all.

I wrote down "-(PHENYLALANINE)-" on my ballot before even listening to the songs because I remember loving it, and the game's soundtrack in general, from previous contests. Mimic did turn out to be a good song too, but not enough to change my mind.

The third match was the only one where I was unfamiliar with both songs going in. And it turned out to be probably the best pairing of the three! Maybe. There's kind of a large jumble in the middle for the "ranking all six", except for a clear best and worst.

Supper Woods >>>> Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke > -(PHENYLALANINE)- > Mimic > Atolm Dragon >>>>> PowerOne

Like I said, "mediocre" is relative.

FF4
ALttP

Link's Awakening
SMRPG

Dragon Quest V
Final Fantasy V

An Endless Desert
Atlantic Spotted Dolphin
Emmental Catalepsy

Tetris Attack
Donkey Kong Country

-[PROTEASE]-
Suite Photoconductivity
The Grand Finale

WHAT IS WITH THIS DAY BEING SO DANG LONG?! I'd probably vote -[PROTEASE] just on principle even if it weren't good, but it's a 13 Sentinels song so of course it's amazing. Suite Photoconductivity is also too long for my tastes, and has some parts I don't like, but World's End is trash. Third match is two great songs.

Castlevania
Kirby

-[PROTEASE]-
Misty Er'a

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

If it's new EN VTubers you're looking for, Phase-Connect just debuted a new generation. I checked out all of their debuts, and half of them appeal to me outright while 2 of the other 3 got a sub for a particular type of stream (one I'm looking forward to her karaokes, while the other shares my taste in games, liking both the SMT and FE series).

Yeah, the wording of the release made it sound like she was the one who wanted to retire. It does seem likely that the injury is still affecting her.

I wish her all the best, and I'm glad that this graduation came on amicable terms so her archive will live on like Coco's.

Aurorus

Pokmon RBY
Sonic 3 & Knuckles

Yes, either once or twice depending on your politics. (Which is to say, my parents went while my mother was pregnant with me, and I've been there once since.)

Nope. Plenty of people I know have, but I've been enough of a hikikomori to avoid it.

Wario Land 2
Chrono Trigger

Terminal Velocity (Act 1)
The Face of the Deep
Staff Roll

Star Fox
Minesweeper

I thought your name looked familiar when I saw it on the Snap Discord. And I was right about remembering it from Board 8.

Okay, let's talk Mightyena 4.

U.N. Owen Was Her?
Rock Castle
Two Planets Approach the Roche Limit

Two Planets Approach the Roche Limit >> U.N. Owen Was Her? > Fetus of God > Rock Castle > Gusty Garden Galaxy >>>>>>>>>>>> Shard

KamikazePotato posted...

This video came pre-Disliked for me. I still agree with Past Me's opinion.

Sounds about right. The other one has actually started to grow on me a little, probably because of banger remixes in Touhou Lost Word, but like I said, Sakuya's theme in that game is Flowering Night, not Luna Dial.

Phantasy Star IV
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Narwhal
Desert Dunes (Desert)
Gambit

Huh, looks like this time I didn't come back to it. Well, I'll make up for it by voting early today...what is this first match? Did these two songs make it in for the express purpose of going against each other? ...Yeah, I'm going to say they did. Neither belongs here. Like, I'm literally putting them next to each other, with a greater than sign before the former, before even listening to the other four songs because I fully expect them to be #5 and #6.

Desert Dunes (Desert) quickly reaffirms this belief by being good. Unwavering Belief has a bit too much "epic" syndrome. It's good, but it's trying too hard.

A sports game with original music? Weird. I tend to remember them as mostly having licensed music. And...this isn't good. I had the game in the second match, but I was quite young so I never got very far in it, and now my Sega Genesis doesn't work. I didn't really remember the soundtrack standing out at the time, but this is pretty good!

Desert Dunes (Desert) > Gambit > Unwavering Belief > Narwhal > Breaking Pandora > NARWHAL

Overall not a great day, but there were some decent tunes.

Super Mario Land 2
Wolfenstein 3D

https://youtu.be/01skyPMeeoc
https://youtu.be/owG2_kQC2Go

Stage 5 bosses are usually the ones who are supposed to be the "breakout characters" who get to be playable in later games, so why'd they get some of the biggest clunkers of their soundtracks in the beginning of the Windows era? This isn't even debatable, either; Flowering Night has been Sakuya's theme ever since it debuted in PoFV and Youmu literally used her stage theme from PCBover her boss theme in one of the fighting games.

Dance with the Shadow
Beat Eat Nest
Intuition & empty brass

So I opened this topic up fairly late last night and was like "eh, none of this seems interesting; maybe I'll just save myself the time and just skip today." Very glad I didn't do that. Two of these are very easy decisions.

Intuition & empty brass > Dance with the Shadow > Beat Eat Nest > Variations on a Ra Melody >>>>>>> Tree of Life: Roots >>>>> Flow

Two amazing songs, two very good songs, and two not-so-good.

andylt posted...

bad stuffing taste!

we all danced in fire
trapped in this machine

Very underrated, though What I'm Made Of is the real criminal omission.

Oh nice, only one song over 4 minutes long! My ADHD loves today's lineup.

Healthy Unicorn Girl
Wicked Child
Tachi

Especially good about Battle 2 being under a minute to loop is that I'd all but decided that I wasn't voting for it before even hearing it. Healthy Unicorn Girl is amazing in a way that a SNES song would be hard-pressed to contend against. It was still very good, of course, but as I expected, it was outmatched.

Of course, my argument that the early-gen systems wouldn't be able to contend against some of the stuff the modern games can do was quickly undermined by Wicked Child easily outpacing Battle 2...and both of them even more easily outpacing Contrattacco - Emotional Overload, which was just bad.

Not good for my ADHD: Battle with the Devil's lengthy intro. Was really tempted to write it off early. It got its act together, but it was still kind of weak. Neotokyo, on the other hand, is still as strong a soundtrack as ever.

Healthy Unicorn Girl >> Wicked Child >> Tachi > Battle 2 >> Battle with the Devil >>>>>>>>> Contrattacco - Emotional Overload

Crocus
GEOMETRIC DANCE (Long Ver.)
Renata Glasc, the Chem-Baroness

I started listening to Crocus and was like "this is beautiful; please let Limitless Cinderella just suck so I don't have to listen to the full 6 minutes". Because I'm ADHD and get impatient quickly. No such luck; Limitless Cinderella is really good. So I listened to that all the way through and then went back to Crocus and again wondered why I doubted my initial instinct.

Up third is we've got to believe in something, which is painfully generic RPG music. GEOMETRIC DANCE (Long Version) is far from a masterpiece, but it's more than good enough here, and enjoyable enough that I listened to it all the way through even though I'd made my decision very quickly.

Help me I'm scared. Both of these pieces instantly made me want to vote against them. Luckily, liberatedliberator at least doesn't stay bad for long. Unfortunately, neither did Renata Glasc, leaving me back at an impasse.

Crocus >>>>>>>> Limitless Cinderella > GEOMETRIC DANCE >>>>> we have to believe in something >>> Renata Glasc, the Chem-Baroness > liberatedliberator

I hate when it shakes out like that, voting for #1, #3, and #5. But damn, Crocus is amazing.

Sonic the Hedgehog
ActRaiser

Alice Maestra
The Wind Calls to Shevat in the Blue Sky
Mixed Melody (Stage 4)

What a dull day. I'm always up for voting for a Touhou song, but this is a pretty low-tier one and it managed to be #2 on the day. At least Mixed Melody ended things on a high note.

Final Fantasy V
Mega Man X2

Steel Assault - Heart of Concrete
Etrian Mystery Dungeon - Hoist the Sword With Pride in the Heart
Donkey Kong Country - Aquatic Ambiance

Three easy matches today.

Super Mario World
DQ5

Chapter 6: Dark Pit
Conviction Corridor
Xeno Arcadia

I enjoyed 5 out of 6 songs today, only disliking the last one. That said, Dark Pit over Team TOS! was still an easy choice. Confronter vs. Conviction Corridor, not so much; I'd say they were my two favorites today and they were pretty close, though Dark Pit wasn't far behind.

In the Blood
Break the Limit!
Battle - b2

parvorbital
Indignant Divinity
Time

This isn't a contest, just a discussion. Because here's the funny thing...franchise-making is pretty much dead. If you look at the list of games in our Game of the Decade contest for the 2010s, do you know how many of them are actually both "the first game in a franchise consisting of at least two games" and "released in 2010 or later in all regions"?

One, and it only got a 14-seed. Bravely Default: Flying Fairy. (Bayonetta was released in 2009 in Japan, but just narrowly counted as a 2010 game by NA release date, which is what was used). There were a couple of games that made the bracket that were the second game in a franchise where the first game would've also been eligible, namely VLR and Splatoon 2... although just like Bayonetta, 999 is a 2009 game by Japanese release date.

Dark Souls is not the first game in its franchise. Demon's Souls legitimately made the first GotD.

It's all about indie games these days, and established franchises. Though there is, of course, one indie game that became a franchise, and did so with remarkable speed. Five Nights at Freddy's was just under a year old when Five Nights at Freddy's 4 was released, an incredible release schedule, and even more impressively, it turned into a multimedia franchise.

Final Fantasy III
Tetris