12. Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 - Brahman
Score: 23/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 20
Comments:
(Kenri) Pretty good. As usual I'm not a big fan of battle themes, but I've got no big complaints about this one. I really like how it periodically breaks up the song with little piano interludes.
(Natwaf_akidna) Best of the lot, though it's missing something to kick it to a higher degree of liking from me... but I'm not sure what.
(Ed Bellis) totally forgettable
(MycroProcessor) whoa some of the chromatics here are really nice for making the chord progression less OBVIOUS sounding. Awesome SYNTH sounds.
One black eye from Ed Bellis, (not the last time we'll hear that,) and the rest were fours and fives. I think this song is pretty amazing and I'm surprised the only DDS song to appear in VGMC is Battle For Survival, which isn't even half the song Brahman (also sometimes called Divine Entity) is. The captions on the video are pretty a pro pos: the quiet part at 1:04 is really good, and then the climax at 1:17 is simply great. This was #3 on underworld23's top 100 RPG battle themes, and considering his second was (the entire) Dancing Mad and his first was utterly laughable, I'm considering this the proxy #1 on his list.
11. Final Fantasy VIII - Force Your Way
Score: 23/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 3
Comments:
Speaking of great RPG battle themes, this one is so frequently overlooked IMO. I mean, yeah, it's got competition from its own game from The Extreme and The Man With the Machine Gun, but for a standard boss battle theme, I'd take this on top of everything else Final Fantasy has to offer, and that isn't exactly damning with faint praise next to songs like The Decisive Battle and Still More Fighting.
10. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team - Ascend to the Heavens
Score: 24/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 35
Comments:
I can't help but think that some of my saved comments got eaten along the way considering there have been a few songs now where I've been forced to give the entire play-by-play on my own. However, I don't have much to say about this one. The intro is neat, but once it goes into the main melody, it's kind of just happy sing-songy, and would be extremely bland if it weren't so well done.
9. Castle Crashers - The Race Around the World
Score: 24/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 13
Comments:
(MycroProcessor) WHOA A DESTINY SONG WITH SYNTHS IN IT there is one MAJOR KEY-y part that is out of place that I both like and don't like because I like minor more than major and I wish more of this song was minor and the major part doesn't make the minor parts cooler or fit with it in a nice way or anything but I DO LIKE the fact that it makes it kind of WEIRD. I LIKE this but it is always one that is really hard to RANK for me. Depending on my mood it could either be my 2nd favorite here or my least favorite of these 5.
This song is both silly and great at the same time. I'm amazed that the composer (I assume Waterflame?) managed to make so many different sounds work together, including that weird hiccuping noise I've heard others describe as a banjo. I'm also amazed that the song got such good support here, when I've heard a lot of people decry this song as being a bit lame or annoying. Mycro was the one that gave it the weakest rating, a 2, and you can see from his comment that he could have put it just about anywhere in his ordering. Otherwise it received 3-4-5-5-5.