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Topic	[BOST] Day 9: Ar nosurge v MM10, TitS FC v Einhander, Plok v DJMAX Respect
kaonashi1 08/14/19 9:40:56 PM #31:	Class::EXPAJA Madness Cotton Island short writeups for tired human EXPAJA is, like, cool. Yeah. Capital letters EPIC at times but never boring about it. No Turning Back is all right. Some parts of the melody and the way the second square wave and triangle wave support it are cool. Certainly evokes the classic Mega Man feel, but never hits the heights of my favourite Mega Man tracks. (This just reminds me again that I didn't support MM5 and that an extra support would have placed it in the main bracket. Damn.) Wandering in the Darkness reminds me that I played Trails in the Sky for several hours a long time ago! I should probably return to that game. This is nice enough-- I get some vague Layton vibes. Madness is my personal #2 of this soundtrack. That opening motif is wild. The last three notes of it stubbornly refuse to line up with the beat the way everyone wants them to and I love it. Then the main beat kicks in and it's jam city. That shining synth chord at 0:55 is the best. Something I love about a lot of Einhander tracks-- they don't rest on their laurels. New sounds and new progressions roll out over the course of the track and it rewards you for paying attention, all the while maintaining its overall aesthetic. PLOK! I don't love this-- I get the general idea but I'm not a huge fan of it. It's shifty enough to keep itself afloat, though. It's serviceable, and not everything has to be Beach, I guess. Every time the opening little piano jingle comes up I'm like 'ooo, pretty' and then the actual track kicks in and I'm always a little disappointed. Groovin up is CATCHY and RETRO and DISCO and really wants me to know that. I think this is a near-miss for me-- it sits just on the periphery of catchy for me but I feel kinda repelled by it as well. <cite>kaonashi1 posted [p:926079943] in [BOST] Day... [t:77937358]...</cite> <quote>Class::EXPAJA Madness Cotton Island short writeups for tired human EXPAJA is, like, cool. Yeah. Capital letters EPIC at times but never boring about it. No Turning Back is all right. Some parts of the melody and the way the second square wave and triangle wave support it are cool. Certainly evokes the classic Mega Man feel, but never hits the heights of my favourite Mega Man tracks. (This just reminds me again that I didn't support MM5 and that an extra support would have placed it in the main bracket. Damn.) Wandering in the Darkness reminds me that I played Trails in the Sky for several hours a long time ago! I should probably return to that game. This is nice enough-- I get some vague Layton vibes. Madness is my personal #2 of this soundtrack. That opening motif is wild. The last three notes of it stubbornly refuse to line up with the beat the way everyone wants them to and I love it. Then the main beat kicks in and it's jam city. That shining synth chord at 0:55 is the best. Something I love about a lot of Einhander tracks-- they don't rest on their laurels. New sounds and new progressions roll out over the course of the track and it rewards you for paying attention, all the while maintaining its overall aesthetic. PLOK! I don't love this-- I get the general idea but I'm not a huge fan of it. It's shifty enough to keep itself afloat, though. It's serviceable, and not everything has to be Beach, I guess. Every time the opening little piano jingle comes up I'm like 'ooo, pretty' and then the actual track kicks in and I'm always a little disappointed. Groovin up is CATCHY and RETRO and DISCO and really wants me to know that. I think this is a near-miss for me-- it sits just on the periphery of catchy for me but I feel kinda repelled by it as well.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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