Board 8 > [VGMC] IT BEGINS! Jump Up Super Star/Beneath the Mask, Terra/Battle v True Hero

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Jump Up, Super Star
Battle Against a True Hero
Zero

I've always liked Beneath the Mask, but it's not really the best listening. It's good when you're focusing on the game and fits the mood well, but I find it dull on its own. Jump Up, Super Star is very fun and cool. I haven't listened to it before, but it's made a strong impression on me.

Terra really doesn't make much of an impression, and even annoys me a bit. Battle Against a True Hero is good.

Oh, this is Bump of Chicken? I really liked their songs for March Comes In Like a Lion. I don't actually love Zero as much. I don't really 'get' A Continental Gale either. There are some parts that are okay. Close match.
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Beneath the Mask - at first I was mad that so many were voting against JUSS, but then I listened to this and thought it was better, heh...
Battle Against a True Hero...meh, Terra's theme is nice, but I can't believe some consider it GOAT for the series, and it even made #1 on a submitted top 10! There are some very EXCELLENT remixes of Terra, though....
Zero
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My friend Shallie*, whose account is aging, is voting for

Beneath the Mask
Battle Against a True Hero
Zero

*she may in fact have a small bias towards atelier
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Beneath the Mask
Battle Against a True Hero
A Continental Gale
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Beneath the Mask
Battle Against a True Hero
A Continental Gale

Jump Up, Super Star is kinda charming and kinda corny and it really depends on my mood which side I fall on any given day. It does what it's trying to do pretty well and I'm sure it slays in-game.

Beneath the Mask's more downtempo, relaxed vibe is more my style right now, even if I don't think it's especially interesting musically. I tried in vain to figure out what the singer was saying in the refrain before looking it up. Okay-- 'a shapeshifter' vs. 'your one-up girl'. What a match.

I was really excited about Terra two decades ago-- some top 10 material back then for sure. I found the Final Fantasy VI Grande Finale arrangement of the Opening Theme (which contains the Terra motif) one day and thought it was just the best. I'd make some snarky comment about 'is this VGMC from the nineties' but, like, we have Ground Theme in this contest.

Battle Against a True Hero does a pretty good job of making me want to listen to Undertale music I like better. I think I like it a bit more than before, but I still don't think it's a great take on An Ending (the major chord the melody resolves into at the end is really awkward in this arrangement in particular, I think). I don't think the full-on Touhou homage at 1:36 is great either.

Mixed feelings about Zero-- I like the way it opens but find its chorus boring. I also preferred the instrumentation of the first verse more than the second-- the quieter arrangement with the high synth glittering in the background was growing on me before it went for something much more conventional.

Man, listen to that brass declare itself at the beginning of A Continental Gale. Pretty cool. I think overall it's okay? Some unexpected turns here and there. I don't love it but I think it's kinda neat.

Jump Up, Super Star
Battle Against a True Hero
Zero
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Ed Bellis votes:
Beneath the Mask
Battle Against a True Hero
A Continental Gale
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Jump Up, Super Star
Terra
Zero

could've voted for either song the first match. night and day, those two songs
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