Board 8 > [BOST] Day 19: Caravan S vs Dariusb, Zakuzaku vs Rorona, Tekken 7 vs Iridion II

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Greetings, and welcome to the Best OST Contest 5! In this contest, you and fellow video game soundtrack lovers will come together to once and for all answer the question "What is the best video game soundtrack? (For now.)"

Links:
Contest Bracket and Info - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sD964sXfa3trbXrr14mFKeEIA14cGM2RtHmW9TqGBmw
Discussion Thread - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77915805

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VOTING RULES

- Each match will be between the songs representing each game, not the game as a whole. Please remember to listen and vote with this in mind! Any votes referring to a game name rather than a song name will not be counted. You have been warned!
- Listen to both songs!! If one is your literal favorite song in the world and the other is something you hate with a passion, listen to them both!!
- No alts, no rallying, no begging for something to get more votes, etc., etc., you know the drill.
- If you change your mind and would like to swap your vote, you may do so. As soon as it is 24 hours since the match topic was started, you may not change your vote and new votes will not be counted.
- If you would like to vote in advance for matches you know you will miss, please let me know in the discussion topic.

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Main Bracket: Winners Round 2

Caravan Stories - Muddy Warrior

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jECd5xTsf4E" data-time="

Dariusburst - Good-bye my earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF0HNcI-bIQ" data-time="

Main Bracket: Losers Round 1

Zakuzaku Actors - Battle of Mao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMxmc0DItg8" data-time="

Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland - Dark Domain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X21ig41AFe4" data-time="

Snubs Bracket Match

Tekken 7 - Infinite Azure 2 (Siren's Call)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3cFuBcmHaI" data-time="

Iridion II - Spiral Bliss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TUJ_zigSwo" data-time="

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Vote Form:
Muddy Warrior / Good-bye my earth
Battle of Mao / Dark Domain
Infinite Azure 2 (Siren's Call) / Spiral Bliss
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Muddy Warrior
Battle of Mao
Infinite Azure 2 (Siren's Call)
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Dariusburst - Good-bye my earth
Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland - Dark Domain
Iridion II - Spiral Bliss
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Muv Luv Alternative and Rewrite worst losses tbh
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n/a
Battle of Mao
Infinite Azure 2 (Siren's Call)

Hrm, so far you guys are 0-3 on matches involving songs you gave me to rank & me actually voting for them ...
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Good-bye my earth
Battle of Mao
Infinite Azure 2 (Siren's Call)

Muddy Warrior's mostly pretty nice, but there's not much to it. Just the same thing over and over again. Expected to vote CS here, but ended up with Darius. Shame, since I like CS's OST better overall.

Battle of Mao's pretty smooth. Dark Domain not particularly exciting. I keep voting against soundtracks I prefer today...

Azure real nice. I thought about throwing a nom Tekken's way for a while. Spiral Bliss is okay I guess.
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Muddy Warrior
Battle of Mao
Spiral Bliss
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Good-bye my earth
Dark Domain
Spiral Bliss

Muddy Warrior
Battle of Mao
Spiral Bliss
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Good-bye my earth
Battle of Mao
Infinite Azure 2 (Siren's Call)

Good-bye my earth
Battle of Mao
Spiral Bliss

Muddy Warrior
Battle of Mao
Spiral Bliss

close day

Muddy Warrior
Battle of Mao
Spiral Bliss
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Muddy Warrior
Dark Domain
Spiral Bliss

Good-bye my earth
Dark Domain
Spiral Bliss

Super close second match, wow. Wasn't expecting Battle of Mao to be topped!
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Good-bye my earth
Dark Domain
Spiral Bliss

muddy water
dark domain
spiral bliss

i think this might be the only zaku-rorona matchup where i vote this way.

blech.
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Good-bye my earth
Battle of Mao
Spiral Bliss

Caravan Stories - Muddy Warrior
Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland - Dark Domain
Iridion II - Spiral Bliss
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Good-bye my earth
Battle of Mao
Infinite Azure 2 (Siren's Call)

Basically have the same thoughts as Mac on these songs.
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Muddy Warrior
Dark Domain
Spiral Bliss
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Muddy Warrior
Battle of Mao
Spiral Bliss
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Caravan Stories - Muddy Warrior: 3.5. I like the percussion here a lot, it's probably my favorite part. The rest of it doesn't really appeal to me. Parts of it are interesting at least, like the section before the loop. If the whole song was like that, then we'd be in business!
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Dariusburst - Good-bye my earth: 8. Desperate heroics call for desperate songs. I genuinely enjoy those vocals (though I'm sure there are comments in this very topic decrying them, which I will read after I finish my post).

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Zakuzaku Actors - Battle of Mao: 5.5. Sometimes I like the Mozell fake piano but this isn't one of those times. It overpowers everything else. There are parts of this I really enjoy and parts I really don't.
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Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland - Dark Domain: 7. more like dork domain lmao

real writeup: I really like this! It's always a nice surprise when I find an Atelier song I enjoy, probably because what's popular here isn't always what I enjoy. Like, why couldn't this have gotten into VGMC?

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Tekken 7 - Infinite Azure 2 (Siren's Call): Despite this song doing a lot of different things, I really have nothing worthwhile to say about it. That's the definition of a 5!
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Iridion II - Spiral Bliss: 7.5. This is super poppy. Super lemon poppyseed. This melody sounds ripped from Ristar, and I love Ristar.

Votes:
Good-bye my earth
Dark Domain
Spiral Bliss

Muddy Warrior
Dark Domain
Spiral Bliss

The vocals in the Dariusburst song are a bit much for me.
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Caravan Stories - Muddy Warrior
Zakuzaku Actors - Battle of Mao
Iridion II - Spiral Bliss

Voted Umineko Chiru for the poll, but I'm with pyresword on Rewrite being a sad loss as well. And not just because they're my nominations.

MATCH 1

Muddy Warrior is very exciting adventure music. It honestly sounds like what I would want Monster Hunter music to sound like. Monster Hunter's music to me has a similar orchestra composition, but its melody isn't as exciting as Muddy Warrior.

Good-bye my earth is pretty weird and not really in the good way. Don't really care at all about the horror-like intro and I'm not a big fan of the vocals either. They get a little better at the end when there's some more normal sounding harmonization going on, but that's only a small improvement.

MATCH 2

Battle of Mao is really, really good! Probably one of my favorite Zakuzaku songs besides Oriental Piano Attack. I love these piano chords and the more rapid piano melody at 0:54 is really nice too. I've said plenty of times before that I really enjoy piano music in video games and this song is a great example of this.

I like Dark Domain a lot too! This songs sounds like it fits well within a "dark domain" like the song name says. Really cool and mysterious song. Definitely a shame that I have to vote against it because I'd vote it over most of the songs up today.

MATCH 3

Infinite Azure 2 has a pretty cool beat but much of the song feels like just drumming and various vocal samples. I'd prefer a more prominent melody to this song. Not bad, though.

Really enjoying these beginning chords of Spiral Bliss! The melody's not as good, but it's still pretty decent. Kinda feels like Sonic music to a degree. This match is a little close, but not too difficult to decide.

Battle of Mao > Muddy Warrior = Dark Domain > Spiral Bliss > Infinite Azure 2 (Siren's Call) > Good-bye my earth

Good-bye my earth
Dark Domain
Spiral Bliss
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Good-bye my earth
Battle of Mao
ranking Spiral Bliss

solid
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