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Haste_2
06/12/20 9:13:16 PM
#270:


I thought the user was crazybusisgood, not crazyisgood. Oh, well, my memory is not good. Are you saying that username didn't come from the fact that Crazy Bus was in VGMC?

117) Ar Tonelico II - Moon-Dwelling Demon
Series rank: 6 of 6
https://youtu.be/0jqSry2J7xs
Composer: Ken Nakagawa
Score: 7.8/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 2 (Lost R5 to Into the Wilderness)
Favorite Part: The Intro

This has to be the least Ar Tonelico sounding music of any its music. It sounds more like Sonic music to me in some ways. Still, I like this. Man, that intro! Those echoes and panning sounds! Those 4th/7ths! The synth pads, choirs, and bells! It then goes into a kind of funk like you might expect in a video game, still maintaining the bass and chords from before. The beat is fun, too. Those little horn crescendos such as at 0:35 - 0:36 are neat! The violin melodies plays relatively straight rhythms, which counterbalances the syncopated beat really nicely! The oboe parallels the violins meanwhile. I like how at 1:00 it combines the style of the intro with the style of the main material. But, yeah, that beat!

116) VVVVVV - "Pushing Onwards"
Series [Game] rank: 4 of 4
https://youtu.be/25m3Gk7mRQM?
Composer: Magnus "SoulEye" Plsson
Score: 7.8/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 4 (Lost R1), VGMC 5 (Lost R3), VGMC 7 (Lost R5 to Re-CODA)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/25m3Gk7mRQM?t=86

ARGH, why do these tracks all have to start with the letter P! This is why Im never ever able to keep track of their names! This one doesnt quite have the impressive blending of ideas that Positive Force has, and neither does it provide the good feels of Potential for Anything. It starts off kind of boring, but it does pick up later. I like 1:25 when it starts doing more really fun rhythmic use of chords, a catchy melody, and then another one! Then, finally the climax melody at 2:27 fills me with excitement! Same with the melodies from 3:08 and on! Aw, yeah. Then again, some of these melodies are used in some of the other tracks, so it lessens the impact somewhat. I didnt even know until directly comparing them that some of these themes are shared among the tracks in this game I thought they sounded familiar just because my memory was bad! Overall, this is, to me, the most boring of the four VVVVVVs, but it does have that unique chiptune blend of sounds and super catchy melodic fragments that ornament the main melody just like most others from the game (honestly, its hard to say exactly why it sounds so good), so I still like it a lot!

115) White Knight Chronicles 2 - The Battlefield Flower (Violin Version)
https://youtu.be/BP2oz6fSczM
Composer: Noriyasu Agematsu(?)
Score: 7.8/10 (Great)
VGMC History: VGMC 6 (Lost R6 to Sburban Jungle)
Favorite Part: That flute!!! Esp. at 3:18

It kicks off with a fantasy movie-like violin intro. Calm, but passionate, as if in a reverberating hall. But then. WHAMO! Epic! A full string section immediately starts handling the now-energized theme, highlighted at 0:57 where it plays one of those CATCHY slow-triplet phrase endings which, fortunately, get used a bunch throughout the track! I love all the sixteenth runs at the beginnings of those phrases the strings do! Great little flute additions make a HUGE difference, toothey complement the violin perfectly, and it does AWESOME sextuplet patterns things at 3:18, for example, and other times). 1:38 just makes me feel so GOOD with that Dorian note getting used! Another great moment is 2:27 love how it emphasizes that Dorian note! (AGAIN) 2:18 has some rhythm section breaks always a plus. At 3:29 strings do something new, including a neat bluesy descent blues used sparingly is cool. But man, I cant get enough of that flute!!!!


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