The votals are going down rather than up. Hopefully they stabilize soon man, this is a great idea for a contest. Know that I'll be a part of it even it goes down to like three votes a day though. :DDD
Undersea Palace
I proudly proclaim this the best piece of video game music related to an underwater gameplay area... OF ALL TIME!! It really is quite hauntingly mood-setting, slow and simple or not. Long passages before melodic development are just fine by me. One thing that Chrono Trigger did really well that too few JRPGs have followed is kicking the regular battle themes to the curb in uber-atmospheric dungeons and I'm damn glad that's the case here. One continuous theme.
"Singing Mountain" is beautiful though. To this day I'm bummed it didn't make the cut. My mind ever-races with imagery... oh, what scenes could have been. But it just doesn't beat the sea.
Dome 16 Ruins
In the Spring of 1998, user Jeff Zero, a spry tyke at the time, sat down to play Chrono Trigger for the first time. It was his fourth JRPG and he was really diggin' it. Now JZ was a little guy back then, I can't emphasize that enough. His shoulders would one day grow broad and his resolve would be legendary, but he was just a kid back then, you know? And he reached Dome 16 and he said unto his sixth-grade BFF,
"Groovy as f***!"
...now for the rest of time when one of them enjoys a song, these are the spoken words. And it is written that it shall be as such forevermore. Groovy as f*** indeed, Lil JZ. Groovy as f*** indeed.
The Hidden Truth
Uematsu's clearly still writing for FFVI with "Silent Light". It's a good song by all accounts but when I think Chrono Trigger "The Hidden Truth" is higher up on my agenda. A gem of a minute stored deep within the early, more boring hours of a great game, "The Hidden Truth" really sends a message -- don't eat food that isn't yours.
Secret of the Forest ~ Guardia Forest Theme
Now this is how you handle the concept of shrubbery in the Chrono universe, Mr. Uematsu! :P I'm actually not the biggest fan of this song (it's still like a 7.5 though, rest assured... LOL Chrono Trigger OST) so it's somewhat disappointing that more poorly-seeded favorites of mine don't get to advance to the second round, but such is life.
Good night, "Good Night".
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"Later..." <Toonami> <4/1/2012> <Never Forget> ~SCP~
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