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Welcome to the topic where all 180 VGMC retirees are ranked! (Maybe this has been done before?) Having missed the first twelve VGMCs for the most part, perhaps Im the LEAST qualified person to rank the music, but screw it, Im doing it because I feel like it! If it wasnt for listening to the list of retirees and realizing what I missed out on, I wouldnt have gotten myself involved with VGMC XIII in the first place! I view this topic as a way to atone for my sin of missing all the previous contests. Its also pretty much the only way I can retroactively get involved with past VGMCs!!!

Every year Board 8 has a major video game music contest. All music that makes it to at least round five gets retired from all future contests. All such music is part of a VGM Hall of Fame of sorts.

Ive listened to all of the music many times over. I also did my best to listen carefully to all the details of the music. I will make no attempt to objectively measure the music in any way. Instead, I will rate them based on how the music makes me feel. Now, granted, I will be mentioning many aspects of the music ( objective things). These are merely factors in how the music makes me feel!

I apologize in advance for ranking poorly some music you love, because Im not going to apologize in the write-ups! Now, unlike other vgm-ranking topics, every single retiree has been proven well-liked. With that in mind, please be courteous whenever you disagree. Oh, and a warning: I have a heavy bias toward JRPG music! (hello thar, Player0 and TRE!) I promise, however, the top of the list will NOT be all Gust music!

To be honest, my writing skills and music knowledge arent the greatest! I do have music theory knowledge, so the write-ups are going to be a bit technical -- in other words, poor mans Mycro write-ups ;). Expect grammatical (and other kinds of) errors. Expect to see a lot of ooh, I like this, I like this, I LOVE that! But, hey, consider this advantage: my write-ups have been created in advance! This means I will be moving through them this much faster than some of the other music rankers!

Finally, there will be a few other minor surprises in store! Ah, lets just get the surprise over with: there are two game series that I Iike very much that dont have any music retired: Ace Attorney and Pokemon. My top three from each of those series will be ranked alongside the retirees! In addition, my top ten or twelve (non-retired) music from VGMC XIII will be ranked alongside them!

(More in the following post...)


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