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| Topic | [VGMC] d34: Don't Speak vs Mechalullaby, Second Dark Matter vs Blind Jusice |
| Toxtricity 05/02/20 5:40:13 AM #22: | Mechalullaby Blind Justice Torn Souls, Hurt Faiths ~ goldenslaughterer Don't speak her name! is my 149th favorite in the contest! this has grown on me, i used to only really care for the Morishita contributions to Fire Emblem...they're still the only things i get /really/ excited for, this doesn't come close to the portion of the soundtracks i care about (i don't hate rei kondoh, he's done a few FE tracks I like and I like most of Okami!), but i at least think this is alright. it's EPIC and has some Big Moments (mostly cool modulations) that feel cool. idk i don't think i have much new to say about this that i haven't said before. when the plucked strings and glockenspiel poke through it feels nice! i don't find slow orchestra music boring anymore like i did in vgmc12 when i ranked this really low. i mean i guess 149 is low but i like this field way more than average haha Mechalullaby is my 130th favorite in the contest! the piano line in this feels SPOOKY. even though the chord changes in this are pretty straightforward, they don't feel like they are? they're really spaced out in a way that makes the familiar chords all feel fresh. This sound design is wonderful, bubbly sounds are cool, i love delay echoes!!! vocalist is singing in a vocal style that I like! BEEP BEEP BEEP sine wave having fun it feels like a Hitomi Sato pokemon song turned into a POP song on the RADIO. this flips between the relative minor/major a lot, which i often find difficult to find "effective" compared to stuff where the scales beneath have to change, but this manages to be like entirely the same diatonic scale the whole time and just changing the context around that scale has a lot of power. wow! |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Second Dark Matter Battle is my 68th favorite in the contest! another track much like don't speak her name, song that keeps getting into contests from a OST I love but the song not being representative of what i like about the ost AND, just like don't speak her name, this has grown on me...well not really, my opinion on this has been all over the place (part of this has to do with initially judging from an HQ rip, but later judging based on really low quality uploads that made it hard to hear elements about the track i cared most about, and only realizing later that my initial introduction was way higher quality source and thats why i "used to like it but stopped liking it" but then later "started to like it again". all depends on how well i can HEAR it lol since my interest is so dependent on tiny details that get lost with low quality). I think also maybe there's a lot of bias against it because i like at least 75% of the ost (and pmd series music in general) far more than this song so it's always been a frustrating recurring contest rep for one of my favorite soundtracks/series even if I still like the song. anyways i've talked about this a lot already in the past, it has things i like, 4ths/5th parallel harmony in melody lines, REALLY cool big chords, big flute! EPIC. starts with the fun voice. I LOVE THIS SONG OK i've said most of what i want to say before i didn't even need to type anything here Blind Justice Torn Souls, Hurt Faiths ~ is my 67th favorite in the contest! TOMOSUKE! I stopped exploring tomosuke music for like no reason, should get back to seeing what else he has that i do not know about that i might like. This is like if you made Bach music but turned it into something I love somehow. chord change at :30 is whooooaaa. has really cool subtle mixed meter rhythms in the harpsichord part as its kicking in at :40 which flows really smoothly with those chord hits and the constant 8ths. This is like if Umineko music waS REALLY COOOL (umineko music is really cool). 1:45 is TENSE O_o i'm going to be STABBED by the big church guy playing the harpsichord I like the vocalist and church organ is a fun instrument I like instruments. There's so many chord/key changes that hit at just the right moment. I think i tend to prefer this at the parts without the EDM drums but I LIKE how the edm drums are there because the contrast of those sections to "it literally just sounds like classical music" sections is necessary for the calmer moments to be effective (and vice versa). 3:27 is a very cool tense chord transpose on church organ angry moment and it's very scary and wonderful climax of intensity to this thing!! Amazing track, so many other details i could've pointed out. ermine showed me this a while ago and I had a reaction of mild positivity but the more I listen the more I like it. the only "only 1 place difference" round 1 match I'm aware of. Needless to say, ultra close match! |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Strike the Earth (25th/56) / goldenslaughterer (20th/56). very close match. I like strike the earth more compositionally but goldenslaughterer takes it in terms of atmosphere and sound design. other shovel knight stuff would beat goldenslaughterer easily, then again other umineko music would make this a no-contest vote for umineko. could flip later if i change my mind. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| honestly all 3 matches today are very close! just barely prefer one over the other every time. could flip on any of them --- time ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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