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Moonstruck Blossom (19th) vs Thermosphere (2nd)
"The Filthy Mind" - Theme of the Hive Mind (32nd) vs Midnight Lady (25th)

Partizans (11th) vs Flotage (Stage3-B) (5th)
Endeavour (29th) vs Sky Tower (23rd)

i hate you match 1!!!!! i love you both too much!!!!!

Namco x Capcom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5gz6DLwJa0

Sakura Taisen 3 ~Is Paris Burning?~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOOUuCFScHI

Ygddra Union: We'll Never Fight Alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhHNgc67z-U

Berserk Millennium Empire Arc: Chapter of the Holy Demon War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhV2BDUqYYE

GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE (15th) vs An Endless Desert (31st)
-[DEOXYRIBOSE]- (9th) vs EXEC_Z/. (4th)

FUCK MATCH 2 FUCKK YOOOOOOU NOOOOOoooo i hate it please god let these both go through i won't tell anyone i swear!!! i'm betraying my own nom!!!!! and basiscape!!!!!! rrha ki gagis exec gyen hymmnos RETIRE.

Rude Buster (3rd) vs Scars of FAUNA (12th)
Apostle's Maraud (20th) vs TIGAR (ALL PHASE MIX) (8th)

aaaaand on to out of 32 rankings!! all great great songs that deserve retirement, but I definitely have preferences in both of these. lets goooooo blue reflectiioooooon

Vagrant Counting Song of Retrospection (28th) vs Desire Below (Flow) (19th)
Rave On (25th) vs Who Am I? (54th)

match 1 is incredibly close but i also feel INCREDIBLY strong about it, I have been listening to DBF a looooooot recently and I loved it a lot before, but I love it even more now and its ranking is probably even higher than what i already raised it lol

YO-KAI Disco (23rd) vs Distorted Happiness (41st)
The Wyrm's Jewelbox (44th) vs HYMN (22nd)

Dungeon - Geofront 4 (20th) vs A Line In The Sand (27th)
Fire Island Volcano (46th) vs The Best is Yet to Come (64th)

Akeldama (14th) vs The Ruined City "Kishgal" (24th)
Variations on a Ra Melody (4th) vs Credits (39th)

what a crazy four pack. would be really happy with any of these retiring, even though i have extreme preference for Ra lol. as long as they go deep i'm good!!!

Second Dark Matter Battle (36th) vs Shinju Forest Rebel Army? (56th)
Pressure Cooker (42nd) vs Zeal Continent (48th)

Infinite Dungeon 2 (62nd) vs Burning Force Medley (59th)
Massive X (1st) vs Another Winter (45th)

match 1 is both songs at the bottom of the pack for me, but they aren't bad!! going against my "ratings" but they're both pretty much on equal footing of "barely not a 7"
match 2 i will die

-(ISOLEUCINE)- (10th) vs Move Me (15th)
DNF FW15C (ALL PHASE MIX) (8th) vs Love Scope (47th)

......so Move Me can still win the R3 wild card, right?

Right?

EXEC_PAJA/.#Orica extracting (53rd) vs Classroom (26th)
The Merciless Savior (55th) vs B.T. Dutch (16th)

YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU

Bad End Syndrome (61st) vs "The Filthy Mind" - Theme of the Hive Mind (63rd)
Hearts Aflutter ~Chroche~ (34th) vs Midnight Lady (43rd)

holy fuck what went catastrophically wrong to make this round 1 match

1. Yes
2. First playthrough went Surge, Koga, (Blaine), Sabrina, Erika
3. Yes
4. I did not do this my first playthrough.
5. No
6. Via Snorlax
7. Surfing from Pallet. I didn't leave immediately; I stayed until I beat Blaine.
8. Yes, sometime after Sabrina before Erika
9. Only Zapdos shortly before Sabrina
10. Mewtwo
11. Blastoise, Starmie, Slowbro, Vaporeon, Zapdos, Magneton

Should be noted I first played Red/Blue around the time X/Y was just about to come out. First game I had played as a kid was Silver. My gym leader choice came about cause I had mostly Water types.

wtf happened to ya confronting myself :(

Moonstruck Blossom (29th) vs Battle! (Giratina) (12th)
Thermosphere (2nd) vs Bitbop (51st)

bitbop in about the 110th range up from its original rank at 141st

Endeavour (57th) vs Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke (37th)
Confronting Myself (7th) vs Sky Tower (40th)

confronting r4, immortal song

Partizans (18th) vs "IDOLA" The Strange Fruits (30th)
Flotage (Stage3-B) (6th) vs Desire Blue Sky (33th)

OKAY SO if you recall desire blue sky was 142nd in my initial rankings, and here it's closing in on idola which was 60th so uhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah desire blue sky finally clicked and it clicked fuckin hard.... but also it's against one of my favorite songs in the contest so I can't vote for it just yet!! if i end up going 0/2 i could see myself voting for it (and make up for it losing by one vote to passion r1 last year oops)

-[DEOXYRIBOSE]- (13th) vs L.L. ~Infinite Beating.ver~ (35th)
Class::EXPAJA (58th) vs EXEC_Z/. (5th)

the song i'm worried about here is the one that is NOT my nomination oops

GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE (21st) vs Kanata no Rafflesia (52nd)
An Endless Desert (60th) vs Megaraph Fleet (50th)

today is very good!!! (saying that and one song is not in the bottom 16 of the top 64 wow

Scourge of the Universe (38th) vs Apostle's Maraud (32nd)
TIGAR (ALL PHASE MIX) (11th) vs Imbrium (49th)

wow another amazing four pack i wonder how many of these were going to get (spoiler: almost all of them)

LastPandemic (31st) vs Rude Buster (3rd)
Scars of FAUNA (17th) vs Battle! (Colress) (9th)

starting off with one of the many amazing four packs

re-ranked just the top 64 cause some things like Desire Below, HYMN, Desire Blue Sky, and Bitbop were like 30 spots too low and jumped over multiple songs that are still alive so i think i'll just stick with the new ranks

Fuck. Like...... Fuck.

Mere days after I first joined the community on the first day of noms for VGMC12 after NFUN showed me about it (and proceeded to not even be the first person to nominate a mozell song which prompted me to actually squeal irl) I looked through past brackets and was absolutely floored that one of my favorite songs ever, let alone favorite IIDX songs, had won a contest. Over Megalovania no less!! But because of the retire system I would never get to show it my support. I've come to learn that the legitimacy of ELFERIA's victory is questioned because of vote rejection shenanigans, and that makes me kind of sad!! Unfortunately... it's up against something that I'd call a 10/10. EXSPHERE just oozes everything I want to hear from a song at once and it does it with style and edge and god damn the reason its a 10 is because it can make me feel EXACTLY what it wants me to feel and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, I will do as it tells me and I will love every single moment of it. ELFERIA is not something that necessarily does that, and so I can't quite call it a 10/10.... and yet, I think it still wins out here ever so slightly. Maybe it's because I have more of an affinity towards rhythm stuff the past month or so as I've been getting back into actually playing IIDX (sidenote I think I've mentioned this before but easy clear on ELFERIA's another chart may be my best clear in the game atm, i think its harder than SOLID STATE SQUAD [L] or HADES hard clears but that could get tangential quickly lmfao)

The reality is I like EXSPHERE more as a song that exists on paper. But in a head to head match, my mind can't get itself off of ELFERIA. Am I having an existential crisis right now about the shortcomings and failings of these song ratings and rankings that I love so much? No I'm not you're having a breakdown I CAN'T HEAR YOU ATELIER NEKOMATA CLOSING IN I CANT BREATHE this match just isn't fair man. i wish this was elferia vs flower so i could feel not bad about it

Despair of ELFERIA [2nd//5th] vs Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE; [1st//2nd]
[2nd//56th]

a very, very non-0 chance i wake up tomorrow, look at my vote and wonder what the fuck i'm on

Stuff that is exactly where I had it in my favorites brackets:
Bracket A (5): LastPandemic, Rude Buster, Scars of FAUNA, -[DEOXYRIBOSE]-, L.L.
Bracket B (7): "IDOLA" The Strange Fruits, Flotage, Reach for the Moon, Confronting Myself, Moonstruck Blossom, Giratina, Thermosphere
Bracket C (6): EXEC_PAJA, B.T. Dutch (via WC), -(ISOLEUCINE)-, Move Me, DNF FW15C, Massive X
Bracket D (9): Akeldama, Ra Melody, Geofront 4, YO-KAI Disco, Wyrm's Jewelbox, HYMN (via WC), PROGRAM, Desire Below, Rave On

Stuff that I had making R3, but not where it actually ended up making it:
Bracket A (4): Colress [regular over Apostles], TIGAR [R1 loss to MADARA lmfao -> WC], EXEC_Z [regular over GOSU], GOSU [R2 loss to EXEC_Z -> WC]
Bracket B (2): Rustling Throb [R2 loss to Great Turnabout -> WC], Bitbop [regular over Bad End Syndrome]
Bracket C (2): Classroom [R2 loss to Sudden Visitor -> WC], Pressure Cooker [R2 loss to Suwa Foughten -> WC]
Bracket D (1): Line in the Sand [R2 loss to Grimoire of Alice -> WC]

27 exactly where I wanted them to make, and 36 out of 64 in total. Not too shabby.

Despair of ELFERIA [5th] vs Invitation Flower ~ Autumn [36th]
DARK LEGACY [29th] vs Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE; [2nd]

inviting flowers is the despair of my elferia

+3 HYMN

lots of really good songs but hymn is next level

+1 Who Am I?
+2 Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.)
+2 Title
+1 MARIA

unorthodox voting cause idek what i want to win lmfao (thrashard super grew on me tho)

sorry soflan and redial :(((

Desire Below (Flow) (31st//43rd) vs HYMN (40th//57th)
Memories Rushing By (82nd//146th) vs Rave On (30th//42nd)
Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE; [1st//2nd] vs Yesterdays Opponents are Todays Ingredients [4th//12th]
(96th//192nd) [8th//56th]

match 1 busted, basically whoever loses here needs to win WC lmfao

Hopes and Dreams (78th//139th) vs The Wyrm's Jewelbox (61st//89th)
Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees (65th//98th) vs Vagrant Counting Song of Retrospection (37th//53rd)
Luna Ascension EX [5th//15th] vs DARK LEGACY [7th//29th]
(96th//192nd) [8th//56th]

really good day again!!!

the restraint i had to not vote for moonstruck blossom here

+3 The Grimoire of Alice
+3 Patronus anata no shugo

wow its almost like this is the same exact vote as a normal day just a few days ago......... :(

YO-KAI Disco (23rd//32nd) vs Title (38th//54th)
MARIA (52nd//74th) vs DistortedHappiness (55th//79th)
(96th//192nd)

wtf another crazy good day. maria vs distorted is so close it hurts but after a few listens of each, i'm feeling distorted more atm

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

+3 Battle! Uxie/Mesprit/Azelf
+2 Onboro
+1 Celestial Resort (Good Karma Mix)

A Line in the Sand (36th//50th) vs the Grimoire of Alice (26th//36th)
Fire Island Volcano (64th//96th) vs Patronus ~Anata no Mikata~ (14th//19th)
(96th//192nd)

wow another amazing day!! we did good in bracket d guys lets keep it up (pretending aghr didn't lose of course)

I think Lincle is the only name directly related to the "IIDX" lore, which is the name of the Kingdom that the game's main event takes place in. Lincle Kingdom then loosely plays into SPADA's Qprogue, and subsequently PENDUAL's Qpronicle Chord where Despair is from. Those are the only three games that really had what is a true story, though the characters from the trilogy show up nowadays still. tricoro did have some story stuff that played into events but is more tangentially related to the Qpro storyline (Red Ripika being the final boss) than the other three games' big events.

....Also Qpronicle Chord is basically part dating sim too. Just thought that'd be funny to mention.

I agree, the banners are awesome!! I kinda figured ELFERIA was getting a low characterization score so it was risky, and the risk proved to be a bad risk compounded with you not liking the song lol. I was originally regretting going with this over the first song, Rengoku no Elferia, cause Rengoku is a little more on the nose with "final boss song in rhythm game form" but given the writeup I don't think it would've mattered so I don't really regret it after all.

The Apex of the World (Rain) (88th//157th) vs Variations on a Ra Melody (4th)
Credits (54th//77th) vs Dungeon - Geofront 4 (22nd//28th)
Despair of ELFERIA [2nd//5th] vs Battle!!/Torna [6th//17th]
(96th//192nd) [8th//56th]

go ra melody!!!!!
go geofront!!!!!
GO ELFERIA oh my god PLEASE go PLEASE save the travesty ToC has become

yes absolutely i need something to force me to listen to everything in these (ive only rated all of fc and cs2 lmao)

+3 Blind Justice Torn Souls, Hurt Faiths ~
+3 The Venerable Ancient Battlefield ~ Suwa Foughten Field

~~~~

Akeldama (15th//20th) vs Celestial Resort (Good Karma Mix) (29th//41st)
The Least 333sec (41st//58th) vs The Ruined City "Kishgal" (34th//47th)
(96th//192nd)

WOW holy shit today is AMAZING!! i very much would like to win these matches but even if i lose both i won't be too sad~~ (except maybe losing akeldama cause that's the 9 in this sea of 8s but yknow)

Dimension Drive - Runaway
https://dimensiondrive.bandcamp.com/track/runaway-jos-mora-jim-nez

Vision Soft Reset - Dual Rewind
https://willsavino.bandcamp.com/track/dual-rewind

Super Ledgehop: Double Laser - Unlockable Girl ~ Star Azure Fantasy
https://sylvysprit.bandcamp.com/track/yuuto-battle-unlockable-girl-star-azure-fantasy

+3 Infant Queen Bee
+3 Dark Man Stage

in chronological order....

PS2 1 - gran turismo 4 b-spec be like
DS fat - Dropped as a kid getting mad at New Super Mario Bros, top screen stopped displaying anything. used as a game boy micro mega from there on out until it stopped charging
PS2 2 - gran turismo 4 b-spec still be like
DS lite 1 - left on a plane (rip super princess peach :( )
DS lite 2 - left on an amtrak (rip yoshis island ds :( )
Wii - doesnt read discs so its basically a mega man 9/10 machine
Famicom - only one I've busted as an adult. used the wrong power cord and fried the fucker on accident. felt like a moron for months but now I have an AV so that's cool

I have lost consoles/handhelds before, but I always found them eventually. Currently everything I have is accounted for and working.

holy shit that is a hot mega man zx list, i'm rooting for that one more than my own i think lol

Haste_2 posted...

Wow, deo, your rating of Autumn went way up. Cool.

lol me. For some reason when I said that I thought we were only in R2 of the ToC, so I thought you ranked it 8th of 32. Then I realized we're in R4, and Autumn was, in fact, in dead last!

oh LOL i actually totally thought that was just poking fun at how it ended up in last after its run of destroying literally five of my favorite songs in vgmc13

and now its run continues!!

Shinju Forest Rebel Army? (80th//143rd) vs Roll Me In (90th//163rd)
Pressure Cooker (56th//80th) vs Another Winter (63rd//95th)
(96th//192nd)

mananbu myniki

two things went my way, but was it worth the ToC match being one of the worst results to happen in the past three years? it was but still fuck you autumn