Board 8 > [BOST] Day 62: Blue Reflection v VVVVVV, Hollow Knight v IIDX 24 SINOBUZ

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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 Semifinals

Blue Reflection - Sayonara (ALL PHASE MIX)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6jDbcWm4k" data-time="

VVVVVV - Positive Force

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG3Bs53QqHY" data-time="

Snubs Bracket: Quarterfinals

Hollow Knight - Nightmare King

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

beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ - Quakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJCACFZnQ28" data-time="

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Vote Form:
Sayonara (ALL PHASE MIX) / Positive Force
Nightmare King / Quakes

Positive Force
Quakes

Blue Reflection - Sayonara (ALL PHASE MIX)
Hollow Knight - Nightmare King
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VVVVVV - Positive Force
beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ - Quakes - I still don't know how IIDX 24 failed to make the main bracket.
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VVVVVV - Positive Force
Hollow Knight - Nightmare King
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Sayonara
Nightmare King
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Sayonara (ALL PHASE MIX)
Quakes
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Positive Force
Quakes
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Positive Force
Quakes
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Sayonara (ALL PHASE MIX)
Quakes

Why did it have to be Sayonara? I didn't want the first match to be tough to pick. But screw it, I'm sticking to my guns.

Positive Force
Quakes
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Sayonara (ALL PHASE MIX)
Quakes

Sayonara (ALL PHASE MIX)
Quakes

prog prog prog prog prog edm edm edm edm edm
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Positive Force
Quakes

Y'know, I think I can safely say that Sayonara is my favorite Blue Reflection track. I really love the powerful sounding intro here, very reminiscient of Umineko - Hope or Atelier Ayesha - MARIA. I also really love the part at 3:05 where all hell breaks loose all of a sudden. Rest of the track is kinda ehhhh but this has enough high points for me to enjoy it. Positive Force and the track that sounds just like Positive Force are my favorite VVVVVV tracks, but Sayonara might've been able to take some of its weaker picks.

Nightmare King sounds really cheesy to me, and I can't tell if it's supposed to be intentional or not. It gets pretty cool, like actually cool, towards the end, but then it just ends. Quakes has a lot of elements I love and a lot I hate, but overall it stays more interesting.
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Positive Force
Nightmare King

Positive Force
Quakes
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Sayonara (ALL PHASE MIX)
Quakes

The first section of Sayonara is actually pretty nice, reminds me of Sunshine Coastline.
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Positive Force
Nightmare King
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Sayonara (ALL PHASE MIX)
Nightmare King
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Blue Reflection - Sayonara (ALL PHASE MIX): 4. This sure goes on for a while. (yes i know it's the ALL PHASE MIX but still)
vs.
VVVVVV - Positive Force: 7. One of my least favorite V6 songs, but still not as disagreeable as villain kingpin Pushing onwards. What a scoundrel.

and

Hollow Knight - Nightmare King: 2. What a disappointment this is after I loved the other Hollow Knight songs so much.
vs.
beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ - Quakes: 3. i guess this didn't shove an alka-seltzer up my butthole

Votes:
Positive Force
Quakes

Sayonara (ALL PHASE MIX)
Quakes

NK's good at first, but I don't like the "chorus" type parts. Quakes is awesome.

Sayonara the king. Positive Force I dunno how I'd compare to other V songs. It's alright.
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VVVVVV - Positive Force
beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ - Quakes

Something I thought was worth noting: I actually prefer Pushing Onwards over PF by a decent margin, and had it in the set instead until a handful of people asked for the change. Dunno, guess I just prefer the jaunty adventurey feel of Pushing versus the climax of Positive.

Huh, this is probably one of the BR tracks that forged a very lukewarm impression in my mind. The parts of this that I love don't stack well against the wubby EDM stuff that takes up the bulk of the seven minute runtime. That stuff don't fly with me at all.

Aw man. HK's set is extremely strong, I feel, but the DLC tracks just don't carry the emotional resonance of the base game. Grimm especially feels out of place against the sublime melancholy of Hallownest; it's like Pennywise showing up in the middle of Grave of the Fireflies. It's fine music, but I feel nothing for it.

I haven't enjoyed the SINOBUZ set up to this point, so good on Quakes for surprising me today. I don't like this new era of BEMANI at all--it seems to just slosh around without deviating from a handful of sounds and ideas, so I appreciate hearing something that breaks the mold.

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Sayonara (ALL PHASE MIX)
Quakes

VVVVVV
Quakes
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i mean positive force
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VVVVVV - Positive Force
Hollow Knight - Nightmare King

No write-up today. Lots on my mind. Thanks for the great music though!

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Blue Reflection - Sayonara (ALL PHASE MIX)
Hollow Knight - Nightmare King

MATCH 1

Sayonara is really good! I love that soft piano for the first 2 or so minutes. Much of the other two parts of this song (I assume it's 3 phases like TIGAR and DNF) is the usual DnB + violin and piano stuff that I like a lot about this game's music. I really enjoyed the brief cameo of Blue Reflection (song) as well, since that's another one of those soft piano songs that I enjoy a lot from this game. Probably my favorite of the All Phase Mixes, though it still doesn't beat Overdose for overall favorite song!

Positive Force is a really nice song as well. Wouldn't say it's my favorite song from VVVVVV (that would probably go to Potential for Anything), but it still has the usual melodic strength of other songs from this game that I like.

MATCH 2

Tough match 2, but not exactly for the best reasons. My reaction to Nightmare King is pretty much the exact opposite of Mycro. I love the dark melody and harmony throughout this song, but strongly dislike 1:30-2:12. Quakes has some nice melodic elements to it, but it feels drowned out by rhythm game noise. I'd say Nightmare King is slightly the preferred song here. If only that 1:30-2:12 part of Nighmare King weren't there, it would be a tad bit easier of a match. I think they're both decent songs here, so it's not like it's a match where I hate both songs, but it's more that these songs have potential, but just do something I don't particularly care for.

Sayonara (ALL PHASE MIX) > Positive Force > Nightmare King > Quakes

VVVVVV - Positive Force

beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ - Quakes
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