Board 8 > With my topic purging, I'm free. (Character themes thing)

(+) Yeah! (+)

But I still like to do write-ups. I just can stop wasting time on write-ups for people that don't care about my shit.

So uh. If I deem you as someone who gave a shit... Then I can go get your rankings.
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I give a
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Think I'll do things this way. We'll ignore what's been ranked already because either you were here for them... or you weren't. And at this point I'm only doing things for those that were here for them.

At 52 left, this is what remained.

Advance Wars: Black Hole Rising- Grit's theme
Assassin's Creed II- Theme of Ezio's Family
Child of Light- Aurora's Theme
Clannad- Nagisa
Devil Survivor 2- The Anguished One
Dragon Age: Inquisition- Sera Was Never
Fate/Stay Night- The Church on the Hill
Final Fantasy IV- Rydia's Theme
Final Fantasy IX- Vivi's Theme
Final Fantasy V- Clash on the Big Bridge
Final Fantasy VI- Relm's Theme
Final Fantasy VII- Descendant of Shinobi
Final Fantasy VII- Cid's Theme
Final Fantasy VIII- The Man With the Machine Gun
Ghost Trick- Jowd ~ A Captive of Fate
Guilty Gear X2- Holy Orders- Be Just or Be Dead
Hollow Knight- Hornet
Hyperdimension Neptunia V- Noire's Theme
Kingdom Hearts- The Other Promise
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Remix- Musique pour la Tristesse de Xion
Little Busters- Heart-Colored Capriccio
Marvel vs Capcom- Theme of Megaman
Mass Effect 2- Illusive Man Theme
Mass Effect 2- Garrus
Mega Man X5- Dynamo's Theme
Megaman 3- Whistle Concert
Nier RepliCant- Kaine's Salvation
No More Heroes- The Virgin Child Makes Her Wish Without Feeling Anything
Okami- The Sun Rises
Onimusha Dawn of Dreams- Blue Oni Prologue
Paper Mario- Twink's Theme
Pokemon Sun/Moon- Vs Rival Gladion
Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon- Partner's Theme
Professor Layton and the Curious Village- Professor Layton's Theme
Sengoku Basara 3- Ieyasu Tokugawa's Theme
SoulCaliburV- Daybreaker
Star Wars: Empire At War Forces of Corruption- Zann Consortium
Street Fighter 2- Ken Stage
Street Fighter V- Ibuki's Theme
Street Fighter V- Karin's Theme
Super Smash Bros Brawl- Ashley's Song
Tales of Berseria- Velvet's Theme
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time- Zelda's Lullaby
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass- Linebeck's Theme
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess- Midna's Lament
Touhou 8: Imperishable Night- Love Colored Master Spark
Touhou 8: Imperishable Night- Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Touhou 11: Subterrranean Animism- Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom ~ Nuclear Fusion
Touhou 11: Subterrranean Animism- Lullaby of Deserted Hell
Trails in the Sky SC- Silver Will Super Arrange Version
Umineko no Naku Koro Ni- Happiness of Marionette
Undertale- Bergentrckung/ASGORE
World of Warcraft: Legion- Anduin's Theme

#52 itself would have been a Pyresword song, if he cares to take a guess which is my other low rated character at a 7 rated song.

Some nominators can request their songs straight up. Some readers can request my opinions on some songs. But the project itself is done. I don't have a mood to do the rest of this truly.
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Since it's my last one anyway I'll request Garrus.
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Man just before one of my songs was going to get ranked also.
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Garrus placed 14th overall with a song score of 9 and a character score of 6. People are gonna lamblast me for my Garrus rating, but just bear with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tayibILjXA

The song opens up like a space western, fairly fitting for our sniping gunslinger. A lot of it steadily turns kind of average, as it has minimal of an actual song, but it's fitting for background music... and then 3:45 happens and it's like... There's no point when I'm actually sick of the song. I highly enjoyed it despite how often I tuned out ME's music.

Garrus himself hit a massive high point when he appeared in ME2, and his recruitment afterwards my first time playing it. After the first time... it's not as entertaining. And after recruitment... he's just kind of an edgelord to be honest. Both of his loyalty missions are "I didn't kill this dude before, I want to kill this dude." Sure, that's looking at the casing of the nut shell and not noticing that one is a peanut and the other is an almond, and just treating both as the same instead, since there's plenty of differences between the two... but this is what I get out of his character. I'd love to see if ME3 really settles him into fully taking a side against... more main story related problems. Maybe he can make me recalibrate my opinion of him.
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My stuff.
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I'll request Linebeck, please.
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I didn't nominate but I'll still request Theme of Ezio's Family because it's one of my favorite character themes
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pyresword posted...

Man just before one of my songs was going to get ranked also.

Yeah, I wanted to get to yours, but I technically wanted to make sure Snake noticed his write-up originally, he forgot to post after it and I didn't get my safety bump this time. Just forgot about the topic late last night stupidly.

scarletspeed7 posted...

My stuff.

Yours will take a bit longer, and about to start on a movie. I'll get to all this later today.
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I'll request mine because last time I nommed Noire in a project of yours I got #1 so I was curious how I would do this time. Also because Twink's theme is nice and pleasant.
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Talk about Tyber

The rest of the board needs to know
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how bout the rest of mine
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Also requesting my stuff
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Which one did I have left? That one please.
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Garrus definitely has some of the finest moments in ME3.
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Alright, to finish Scarlet's things. To give the short rank and place everything.

78. Lance's Champion Battle theme- HG/SS
46. Cid Highwind's Theme- Final Fantasy VII
37. Sera Was Never- Dragon Age Inquisition
9. Illusive Man's theme- Mass Effect 2
3. Theme of Ezio's Family- Assassin's Creed 2

We saw Lance's, I can probably chat more about that but over Discord if he missed that write-up at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJzfOA9uV6E
Song- 7, Character- 5.5 (since unknown). Cid's theme was one of the few I listened to twice while doing the quick rankings, which is also where it comes in that I'm like "eh, X could have been higher" that I did for one song. His song is one I kind of like, but not one that pushes further than simply I like it. It has a really good melody, with both the forefront and just the extra higher pitched piece going along, and the snare line behind the rest. The rest of the song is okay, which keeps the song at a 7, rather than pushing to an 8. There's some things about Cid's character that I have an idea I'd dislike, but I shoved them away for the ranking. Once again, I can probably chat about this over Discord, I kept the 5.5 because of stating I have no knowledge, rather than going off what I have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Zkun0tJc4
Song- 8, Character- 5.5; As Scarlet promised me this song longer ago, and then would keep singing a little bit of it during Borderlands everytime a Guardian Sera showed up on screen... Of course changing the lyrics to make it fit... I had a little more intrigue than dismissing it because of disliking the vocalist and not being that attracted to the character. The lyrics are fantastic however. Makes me feel like I know the character even if much of it could be lies. Maybe eventually I'll have possession of Inquisition and I'll be able to tempt my fate. It's not like she'll never be in my party (I just might not romance her).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBLOvSb56Vc
Song- 9, Character- 7; This was a song I actually remembered from Mass Effect, even if I felt more like I heard it in the wrong place. I love the foreground melody with just the deep "pulses" constantly hitting, as it gives off just the intimidation and mystery of Cerberus, and especially the boss himself. It was very difficult to pick which to rank higher between 9th and 10th (which no one may ever know which song that is unless I choose otherwise), because I really loved both songs... This one literally won on the edge that even if I know basically nothing about the Illusive Man... It's actually the point compared to the person who ranked just below him. I don't know how to talk about the Illusive Man, I feel like I want to take in full exposure before I truly comment on him. He did top the 9/7 themes.

Finally...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEgE5z6Sl7Y
Song- 10, Character- 5.5; One of 5 10 rated songs, and it comes from something I have not played. It begins with a perfect build-up of a chorus in the background, then has a touch of violin, ramps up and down. I'll straight up say it, I absolutely love the use of piano, and all the different strings+background chorus they bring into it. It even lovely pulls in an electric guitar without even making it overload at a point. I'm a sucker when it comes to orchestral music, and this one beautifully utilizes its melody to give off a peaceful feeling in Ezio's family up until it starts to end, and then gives this small intimidating presence as the strings crescendo to a point louder than it had been before that either represents the assassin himself, or something far more exciting.
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Now I really want you to finish the ME trilogy, play the Dragon Age trilogy in its entirety, and then play the Ezio trilogy.

I figured that Ezio would land my top theme spot. Glad the Sera theme did its job and wormed its way into your brain!
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Shonen_Bat posted...

I'll request Linebeck, please.

One of the people that didn't really comment, but since he's a character I know... I'll oblige.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkbuJQp2Jag
Song- 7, Character-7; What I always enjoyed about this song, is even though it is limited by the DS sound system, it actually does well to still keep kind of a left hand/right hand melody like a piano song is built. You have the bass notes that just beep around and this forefront melody that has both a heroic, yet roguelike theme. It represents the entire tale of Linebeck well, I don't remember the entirety of his story... I just remember it being something surrounding like what he did to Jolene and some bad luck that ensued. I'll eventually play PH again. I just remember liking him as the story went on as he truly grew to respect Link and became respectable himself.
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Great_Paul posted...

I'll request mine because last time I nommed Noire in a project of yours I got #1 so I was curious how I would do this time. Also because Twink's theme is nice and pleasant.

You hadn't had a placement, so I can't really blame you for my drop in motivation.

Noire's Theme placed 26th with a song rating of 8 and the highest character ranking of that song tier at 9.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg_7L6UA6AQ&feature=youtu.be
It represents Lastation really well, which is more what the Neptunia character themes are meant to do. And honestly, Lastation is pretty much my least favorite of the lands, though Noire is my favorite of the normal CPUs. It has a nice 'industrial'-esque tune to it, but really steps up at the minute mark with more of a modern piece, probably to represent Black Heart. Don't believe I really need to cover the character.

Twink's Theme got higher at 20th with a song rating of 9. I haven't played any Paper Marios, so I couldn't comment on the character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZAR4LG1wfQ
The song, however. I just flat out adorable. Pipe melody is catchy and lovely with the little xylophone in the background is just a true joy to listen to.
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Regaro posted...

Talk about Tyber

The rest of the board needs to know

Only Tyber, huh? Alright.

Zann Consortium placed 27th with a song rating of 8 and a character rating of 7.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRyNLNf9BMA
The song itself... one of the strongest things about it is that despite being a different composer, it walks into a Star Wars video game and feels like it's belonged to the series the whole time. It doesn't clash with the true style of the normal music, but also presents itself as far different than being part of the main teams. This was necessary since it followed Tyber Zann. For those that don't know about Empire at War, it's a Star Wars RTS, and while not the best RTS, it's definitely an overlooked series. The first game covered a bit inbetween the two trilogies, showing the formation of the Rebel Alliance. The expansion is where the Zann Consortium shows up. This game takes place over the course of the original trilogy with its own non-canon version of Tyber Zann sneaking around with his space pirate band and steadily finding things to claim for himself. One thing interesting is similar to Red Alert, there are hero units that given a unique space craft or land unit, will have special commands. Tyber bribes units to his side. Yeah, that mechanic. The campaign does some interesting things and ends in a rediculously non-canon fashion, but it's a very interesting campaign. Since it includes things like the Zann Consortium finding and invading an old droid factory and taking some schematics for I think Droidekas. He also recruits many characters, some new, some actually known such as IG-88 of Jabba's bounty hunters. For anyone that reads this, check out the game. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good if you don't mind it not being that hard.
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I might ask about one of the others after a few others have their fun

But Tyber was the one I was most interested in, once you said you'd played the game.
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WickIebee posted...

The song, however. Is just flat out adorable. Pipe melody is catchy and lovely with the little xylophone in the background is just a true joy to listen to.

Definitely agree. And Twink is one of my favourite 1-time Mario characters.
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Aww I hate the purge. :(
I did remembered reading Deep Blue Jeer's write up as the latest ranking but I don't remember if I posted about it or not.

Can I have Happiness of Marionette please?

I was conflicted whether or not to nominate Happy Maria as well but that song is more like a like it or hate it thing so yeah.
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Zyxyz0 posted...

how bout the rest of mine

As for you... I mostly refuse. I'll do only one write-up and it's because it's a character I was hyped on doing a write-up of. Sure, there was also a Touhou character that each I do research because I know it's a series I'll never actually tackle because I'm just bad at Bullet Hell, but that's not the one. Ironically the one I will cover is bullet hell. lolme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfgmMPke7_k
It ranked 25th overall with a song rating of 8 and the only character ranking of 10 this ranking saw. Asgore is straight up one of the few Undertale characters I really liked and it was more than just a like. But I'll explain that after the song. Undertale is actually why I wanted to do a music ranking at the time when I set up someone pushing for an idea of a BGM project for me and then this was nominated and it was such a great idea I did it. Despite that, the song really dissolves into a 9 different note melody, if even that. It's still a great song as it represents just the fluffy nice guy Asgore is, and how he truly doesn't want to fight... Yet you can also hear the determination of needing to fight. That's also where I like Asgore himself. Throughout the game he's brought up by many characters as an intimidating presence, as the first time you're probably not going to be on Pacifist or Genocide routes. Then you meet him, and he's the father figure to Toriel's mother figure (which is obvious on why if you know spoiler stuff). But he also takes the scary part of being a father figure. Undertale pulls a lot of breaking the 4th wall situations, and I don't like things that are too reliant on breaking the 4th wall for humor. I hate Flowey, I've never liked Deadpool... these sorts of things. Asgore continues how pretty much every character can break the 4th wall, but he does it in one singular fashion. He destroys the Mercy option on your menu. I found that thing just the perfect mood setting for his fight. I also love that his attack options are the same as Toriel, just more difficult since "end game" character. He was a perfect fit for an end game character and he truly shone with a fatherly aura in basically... less than a minute of text box reading. It's all he really had, but it was great to hear even more things about him and just understand his character through the Pacifist route too.

Phew, long write-up. Whoops.

trdl23 posted...

Which one did I have left? That one please.

I refuse, to be honest. You don't know your nom and I even reminded you in the thing. And you hardly really showed up to your own songs. It's wasted effort for me to build another write-up for someone who didn't want to read my write-ups anyway.

I'll get to JONA's stuff shortly, to address that he was in between these two posts and I'm not just missing him.
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I'd like to see Man With A Machine Gun
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Raka_Putra posted...

Aww I hate the purge. :(
I did remembered reading Deep Blue Jeer's write up as the latest ranking but I don't remember if I posted about it or not.

Can I have Happiness of Marionette please?

I was conflicted whether or not to nominate Happy Maria as well but that song is more like a like it or hate it thing so yeah.

Also if you don't mind, maybe The Virgin Child Makes Her Wish Without Feeling Anything as well.
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JONALEON1 posted...

Also requesting my stuff

Another overall 5 rankings:
67. Roll's Theme- Tatsunoko vs Capcom
45. Blue Oni Prologue- Onimusha Dawn of Dreams
41. Ashley's Song- Super Smash Bros Brawl
40. Karin's Theme- Street Fighter V
16. Professor Layton's Theme- Professor Layton and the Curious Village

Obviously Roll's was covered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRjZsj1TOAk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9bu0Ge25js

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn-TsS5_6ys

All three songs rated 7s, just the difference in rankings was the first was an unknown character so score of 5.5; and the other two... while I've never actually played the games their from... each score 7 because I basically already know I like them from some preconceived knowledge. They'd probably be higher than 7 if I really knew them, but if I like them already they get 7s. I'll separate song write-ups though.

Blue Oni Prologue had a cool melody, kind of similar in my aspect of liking orchestra stuff. It was a little rock based and then had the kind of... I don't remember the name of the instrument. The one string instrument that's usually tied to Japanese samurai stuff. There's a lot more to it, although it never really reaches to like a melody I could call great. Just good.

Ashley's song is hilarious with lyrics, but it's not the greatest song from it. It also makes one of the weirdest thought provoking things. She at one point threatens that if you refuse to be her friend, you'll be toast. And considering she once turned her teacher into Ermine's spoon, it makes me wonder. Is she literal about the toast, or figurative. Like the fact that I had time to sit there and wonder that since the chorus is kind of boring after you return to it for the third/maybe fourth time. Yes, we know... your name's Ashley.

Ohoho. Oh right, I'm supposed to make a write-up of the song. But I can't help but comment on the fact that if I ever played Street Fighter... I'd probably main Karin the moment I picked up the game. Unless I had to unlock her first. Then I'd main her the moment I got to unlock her (not be limited to playing her, but definitely mah main). I enjoy the fact that her song is jazz-esque but orchestral, it definitely gives off her ojou-sama feel and continues to make me sit there like "waaaaant." Yeah, I love the archtype, now you know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ak_il8E8E
Finally, in a post of its own because of the massively different rating. While the character rating is my usual unknown (5.5), the song rating actually was a 9. For me, it's the fact that it perfectly is kind of your English city tune, when you're just around in the streets with piano, strings, and like an oboe or something. It gives some mystery, and is just peaceful. It's a BGM that makes you feel like you're in a completely new place with some detective nearby analyzing something. Sure, I don't think of Layton instantly, but I would if I played the game, likely.
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I didnt remember because there are lots here I would have picked but didnt get the chance (Touhou, Asgore, etc.). But hey, its your topic. Ill leave you alone if thats what you want.
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Raka_Putra posted...

I did remembered reading Deep Blue Jeer's write up as the latest ranking but I don't remember if I posted about it or not.

Can I have Happiness of Marionette please?

Raka_Putra posted...

Also if you don't mind, maybe The Virgin Child Makes Her Wish Without Feeling Anything as well.

Also, now that you're starting to see my attitude hit... It's also time I point out one of the major reasons I'm glad my topic purged.

Happiness of Marionette ended up my #1, now check the first line of my sig and see how obliged I am to actually do your write-up.

Cavedweller2000 posted...

I'd like to see Man With A Machine Gun

You're not to blame for my topic. I guess I can do a small thing for it.

It actually was going to drop shortly after top 50. Hell, quite literally shortly. #49. It interestingly sounded like a helicopter chase but to me the sound system seemed to be its major flaw. Sounded like it had severe limitations. It still got a "good" rating of 7, and placed as low as it did because I've never played FFVIII, so shot all knowledge of Laguna that I have out the door as it's just speculations.
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:(
Okay. I'm so sorry.
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