100. LoZ: Link's Awakening - The Frog's Song of Soul
Score: 7/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 100
Comments:
(TheArkOfTurus) a 28 (second) song that is incredibly obnoxious. I hate this.
(SoliPants) What? Haha. Game was great but this song is not.
(Kenri) Wow, this is awful, but at least it has the good graces to end really fast, which is something I can really appreciate...
(MycroProcessor) Haha this is pretty absurd and I am curious about the context of this....wow why do I never dislike anything
Oh, was there ever any question about what would lead things off? Inexplicably the song did get a lone 2 in the final round when Kenri wanted to emphasize just how badly he hated another song. But let's be realistic about what this song is here for: every "rank 100" thread needs a Crazy Bus. I do not disappoint. Also, I may have done my own personal rankings VERY quickly and haphazardly, but there's no way I'm going to look back on this one and go "what was I thinking?" More like people are going to see the inclusion on the overall list and think that instead.
99. Secret of Mana - Kind Memories
Score: 9/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 43
Comments:
(NioraptH) a bit boring
(Ytterbium_70) that accordion or whatever I think it is really ruins it all
(Kenri) Simple, but cute. I sort of like this! Even though I don't have much to say about it...
I'm really disappointed in all of you. All of you. And I even have myself to blame, because I performed fill-in duty for this song and assigned it a 1 myself! (I blame the group of songs it was pitted against.) Sigh, my dear sweet Secret of Mana...this is really one of my favorite songs from the game, even if it is rather short. I understand Ytt's comment about the "accordion" sound, but I actually think it works really well. Kind Memories, aka Dyluck's Theme, is a song that works really well within the game (IMO) and I guess just doesn't translate outside to non-fanboys.
98. EverQuest - Felwithe
Score: 9/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 97
Comments:
(Kenri) *listens to song* *cannot remember a single thing about it even seconds after it ends* *listens again* Oh, it's just unexceptional in basically every way. That explains that.
(NioraptH) those random trumpets aughhhhh
(Ed Bellis) not bad, just nothing special
I played EverQuest for a long time in college. Entirely too much. There's practically no music in the game at all, so what little there is sticks out. One other track I nominated for VGMC and lost in round 1, Kelethin, is actually not half-bad if you don't mind MIDI files. Felwithe is more of a personal nostalgia factor for me because it plays right outside my main character's home town. I make no illusions over it being a great song, and there are plenty of at-least-decent songs to choose from, so I'm not the least bit surprised to find this at the bottom.