Layer Cake
Crocus
Crystal Caves
sorry rhythm gamers ;___; also swapping on my match 2, crocus is actually hitting rn wow. anyway crystal caves is now probably what i want to win bracket a (maaaaaybe shinin queen idk)
From TunnelScene:
NULL APOPHENIA (Arcaea)
Underwater Lv. 1/4 (Frogger Beyond)
Crystal Caves (Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom)
the same category as opn I bite through it where it's just a common 3+3+2 rhythm but presented so aggressively and rapidly that it winds up sounding super erratic instead. I like that! crazy sound design that's always evolving
p5 so often features these amazing basslines with lots of constant 16ths that I really love
I could go on quite a bit about how amazing I think the sound design is in this game's music. one of the most ALIVE soundtracks I can think of. the tracks that truly excite me are kinda sporadic because its a very eclectic ost, but this is one of the ones that's absolutely style. the echoy mallets, reverby guitars? nothing sits still, it's all swirling into this wet vortex and I really feel like I'm staring in wonder at ATLANTIS. it's got that angular "eden 1" ascending sequence. and this distorted percussion oh my god. I really don't know what to say because I just want to say everything. . . I definitely like this track for similar reasons to why I like Opoona music. just the relentlessly trippy dense production and merge of electronic and natural. I think this contest has more 10/10s for me than any vgmc has ever had. this track is somewhere in my top 50 now, along with a great deal of others that weren't originally there when I ran that guessing game. (this isn't the only time I'll say that this contest. I mean I already said it with kaze no notam menu I guess)
mmmm mellotron flute
oh man all the tuned percussion at 2:00 is such a treat. also later on lots of vibraphone. it's refreshing to hear vibraphone in a less "cool city jazz at smoky bar with suave ass holes that i dont like" context and instead to represent nature. it's technically my favorite instrument to play and timbrally my favorite non-synth, but often it's just used in contexts I'm not a fan of. a big thing that made me fall in love with vibraphones is the track "lunch with the king" from American beauty. that has a similar almost computery constant 8ths sequence that somehow manages to evoke nature like this one as well
the FM8 preset sequence that's in both this and ff13-2 the labyrinth of time makes me so happy ^^
From NFUN:
Null Apoidea
Underwater
....tbd