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Topicdeo listens to Classic Sonic level themes for the first time and ranks them
banshiryuu
12/30/19 2:52:10 AM
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EX12: Sonic 3D Blast (Genesis) - Rusty Ruin Zone Act 2
Composer: Tatsuyuki Maeda
Score: 79/100 (7.7), ~19th place of 174
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whawZhKPlks

The song design of this song is just downright eerie, in a way that is totally and completely fucking amazing. We'll get into more about what exactly about this song I love because a lot of (what I will assume are) Maeda's compositions do similar things, but multiple different voices doing different melodies entirely that slightly overlay each other in sort of an on-and-off pattern and then occasionally come together in harmony is ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. Right away in the beginning we have this with the main melody kinda of drawn out over the other ostinato melody, and then they come together in the scale at 0:16 and that's where you know WHOOOOA this song is gonna GO places. After that intro explosion, the song is pretty low-key up until the scaley flourishes begin again at 1:11 and let me tell you THESE are absolutely my favorite parts about the song in general. Even the bass does its impression of it at like 1:18 and then you get the beautiful little bursts in twos at like 1:28 and AUGH such a good song. Very lovely, very cool to listen to, really just great stuff.

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EX13: Sonic 3D Blast (Saturn) - Gene Gadget Zone Act 1
Composer: Richard Jacques
Score: 96/100 (8.8), ~3rd place of 174
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEIwqlXfUVs

HELLO???? EXCUSE ME i am absolutely SHOOK that no one made it explicitly clear to me that this game also had Sonic R rejects in it that are actually better than anything in Sonic R this is BEYOND HOT!! Definitely more of a repetitive song in the main melody but since when has that been a bad thing for me?? The answer is never it never has okay that's a lie it has before but NOT WHEN THE MELODY IS GOOD i mean okay. The other background stuff switches up enough where the fact the main melody is just on constant loop almost is forgivable already, but then the melody is an absolute earworm so it's like fixing a problem that didn't exist anyway so it just makes it a ton better instead and wow. Great, great song and while I'm not talking about it I really, really love the Act 2 as well!! But I definitely prefer Act 1. Absolutely a new favorite of mine.

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EX14: Sonic R - Living In the City
Composer: Richard Jacques
Score: 94/100 (8.7), ~4th place of 174
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdwnHWnB7fM

Okay I can't just say something is "better than anything in Sonic R" and then let that go by as if I think Sonic R is way below it but this is easily my favorite Sonic R song and it's baaaaaaaarely below Gene Gadget Act 1 but like yeah I love the Sonic R-style Richard Jacques compositions as a whole a lot lot lot and then you add vocals on top of it and oh no dangerous combination VERY DANGEROUS COMBINATION. PANASONIC BLU-RAY can't believe sonic r's ost is real tbh, still fucked up i had to vote for octopunch (a literal 10/10 song) against you're my number one and kill sonic r in bost5. ANYWAY Yeah this song's incredible. IN THE CIIITYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAH

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tomorrow's my last day home before i leave for magfest so we'll get one more batch of extra ranks in before the break!!
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