Board 8 > [VGMC] d72: ChantSuddenDragons LoveSpeedstarLake MysteriousWeightalovania

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Welcome to today's topic for Video Game Music Contest 14, a tournament of the best tracks from games, as decided upon by you, the voters.

Links:
Contest info - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VNrPnFRI7nJ4PqFiURBW0NWqxvXiuasoq8Sn_O169ss/edit#gid=320804650
Bracket - http://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=473292
Discussion and results thread - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78714595
Bracket playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1REnVI_W6yELaDP6Zac8b0Wq
ToC playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1RE-TQMj19D0k5nm-0zeH12J
VGMC compability sheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lpX4faqnn_geI0y4i6MrZ2AXpV6SWXoWrIA6_eyx-yM/edit

Rules:
- Listen to ALL of the songs. Links have conveniently been provided. Even if Song A is your favorite of all-time and Song B is from a series you hate... Listen. To. Both. (If I have suspicions your vote is not based on a fair and impartial preference, it will be disqualified.)
- Obvious contest rules apply (no alts, one vote per person, no rallying, etc.).
- Please make your voting options clear, rather than burying them in text.
- Each set of matches lasts 24 hours, even if the new one isnt up by then. (Matches do not begin until at least 10:00 EDT.)
- Always vote on the versions of the song provided, not versions from different sources.
- If you know ahead of time that you're not going to be around and you want to vote in advance, post your choices in the discussion/bracket topic.
- Please do NOT post tallies/score updates in the middle of the match, as this has a tendency to directly influence matches.
- You don't have to vote in all the matches, but it'd be cool if you did!

Special rules for the wildcard matches:
- Yes, there are 9 songs.
- You may vote 6 times.
- You may vote a maximum of 3 times for the same song
- The intent is that you will select a +3, a +2, and a +1. This is not mandatory
- DO NOT read the other votes before making (or adjusting) your selection.
- I reserve the right to not count vote changes if I deem them suspicious. If you do change your vote, please be 100% clear in your choice.
- Request: vote in the order the songs are listed (not descending order) to make counting easier

THE COMBATANTS:

Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg - Chant This Charm
https://www.youtube.com/

+2 Two Dragons
+3 Love Scope
+1 Lake

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+3 Mysterious Trap
+3 Lake

Like, I like Megalovania better, but c'mon, its already retired and the Smash version is near identical
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+2: Chant This Charm
+3: Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade
+1: Megalovania
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+3 Two Dragons
+3 Sudden Visitor

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+3 Love Scope
+3 Lake

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+3 Weight of the World (Japanese)
+2 Sudden Visitor
+1 Two Dragons.

I actually still like the smash Megalo, but there were three songs a bit better than it here.

+3 Love Scope
+3 Weight of the World (Japanese)

Sorry Lake :(
I wish I could give you a +3, but unfortunately, 2 more important songs had to go down.

+2 Sudden Visitor
+2 Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade
+2 Lake

This seems like the weakest I've felt overall about a wildcard match. Which I guess is a good thing? Would've given Mysterious Trap a point too but I couldn't decide between which of these 3 I'd take one away from, sorry.

Actually I'm kind of shocked that at one point I considered Sudden Visitor a top favorite song of the contest, and even marked it as my Bracket-C favorite really early on. Like at this point I think I might in some ways prefer the other two songs I'm giving points to than Sudden Visitor (though, still not enough to warrant taking a point away for Mysterious Trap). I guess my mood for it has shifted.

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+3 Love Scope
+3 Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade

was gonna just drop points on Love Scope and peace but sometimes the chaotic urges can't be helped

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+3 Lake
+3 Mysterious Trap

I guess an easier wildcard than normal, these are the only two really in consideration for me. Sudden Visitor, Kanade, and Weight of the World each appeal to me to some degree, but not enough for me to give them a point. Lake and Mysterious Trap are both tracks I love pretty dearly. secretly pulling for Weight of the World though!
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+3 The Caligula Effect: Overdose - Love Scope
+3 NieR: Automata - Weight of the World (Japanese)

ez

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+2 Chant This Charm
+1 Lake
+3 Mysterious Trap

Mysterious Trap wins as it's my nom, but CTC has so many oldschool elements I love, it's like, the PERFECT oldie.

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+3 Love Scope
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+2 Two Dragons
+1 Sudden Visitor
+3 Megalovania

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+3 Sudden Visitor
+3 Mysterious Trap

if these weren't here:
+3 Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade
+3 Lake
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+3 Sudden Visitor
+3 Lake

Wow, this is a really weak wildcard day overall. I almost gave points to Two Dragons of all things.

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+1 Two Dragons
+2 Mysterious Trap
+3 Weight of the World (Japanese)

I should probably be doing 0/3/3, but screw that noise.
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7.7 Chant This Charm
3.9 Two Dragons
8.4 Sudden Visitor
5.6 Love Scope
8.5 Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade
6.7 Lake
8.1 Mysterious Trap
3.6 Weight of the World (Japanese)
7.0 Megalovania

i guess is how i'd put this

so i guess
+2 Sudden Visitor
+3 Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade
+1 Mysterious Trap

+3 Yakuza 0 - Two Dragons
+3 NieR: Automata - Weight of the World (Japanese)

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+2 Two Dragons
+2 Sudden Visitor
+2 Love Scope

+1 Love Scope
+3 Lake
+2 Weight of the World (Japanese)

meh, weakest wildcard day yet

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+3 Sudden
+2 Lake
+1 Mysterious
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+3 Sudden Visitor
+3 Lake

+3 Lake
+3 Mysterious Trap

+3 Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade
+3 Mysterious Trap

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+3 Chant This Charm

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1. Chant This Charm
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109. Lake
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69. Mysterious Trap
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119. Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade
38. Love Scope
104. Weight of the World
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62. Megalovania (this has since fallen to like bottom 10)
117. Sudden Visitor
151. Two Dragons

+3 Chant This Charm
+2 Love Scope
+1 Megalovania
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+3 Love Scope
+3 Megalovania

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+3 Love Scope
+2 Weight of the World (Japanese)
+1 Megalovania

Damn this was a strong batch...contemplated going all +1 with Chant This Charm, Sudden Visitor, and Two Dragons added

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I'm sad that cako's opinion of Chant this Charm dropped. Or Maybe Chou Chou and Lake are rated 9.5+, I dunno. I love how CtC ended up #1 on rwlh's rankings, though!

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The wildcards make it clear that his ranking doesn't stay consistent though, so I wonder if it's still #1?

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+3 Chant This Charm
+3 Weight of the World (Japanese)
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+2 Sudden Visitor
+3 Lake
+1 Megalovania

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+1 Chant This Charm
+2 Love Scope
+1 Mysterious Trap
+2 Weight of the World (Japanese)

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+3 Megalovania
+2 Chant This Charm
+1 Two Dragons

This wild card batch sucks. I almost abstained.

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+1 Two Dragons
+2 Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade
+2 Weight of the World (Japanese)
+1 Megalovania

+3 Mysterious Trap
+2 Chant This Charm
+1 Sudden Visitor

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Chant This Charm is a lot of fun. I don't know if it has the "wow" factor to get through this type of multi-song melee, but it's a good song.

Two Dragons just feels really generic to me. It's the type of song that I wouldn't feel disappointed to use as an anti-vote, but if I were voting for it in a 1v1 and it lost, I'd probably be furious not that it lost but that its opponent won.

Sudden Visitor is...a step above Two Dragons, if that much. Techno is fun, but only in short doses; otherwise it causes insanity.

I vaguely remember really loving something from The Caligula Effect. I doubt this was it. But eh, it might be worth a vote. I wouldn't be disappointed if it got through.

But of course, the real problem with voting for Love Scope is that Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade is also in this match, and while Love Scope is anime, Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade is animu. It is over-the-top anime, and therefore it SFFs regular anime. Maybe. Actually I think I like Love Scope better but I said after its first-round match that I wanted to vote for Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade for the lulz because it was legit fun, but outclassed by its opponent. Say, its opponent is safely in Round 3, right? ...oh fuck no. You guys advanced an EXECrement in a bracket this strong? Not to mention the fourpack that Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade came from, where you advanced about the only song not worthy of making Round 3.

...Actually I can't even be hugely mad about EXEC_PAJA making Round 3, since about the best thing out beat out was Chant This Charm. I think the real problem was that you had a fourpack that weak in the same bracket as two other fourpacks that strong!

Case in point. This would normally be a thing that I anti-vote, but I still had to vote for it in Round 2, because EXECrement.

I seem to remember being blown away by Weight of the World just the other day when it was in its R2 match. It's certainly good, but hardly the runaway must-have I was expecting.

You know, I honestly was considering saying screw it to the rules and checking to see if a vote for Megalovania would be a wasted vote, because just looking at what people are saying, it sounds like they wish they could outright anti-vote it. But that would only be a worthwhile consideration if I could honestly say that helping things that are not Megalovania would be a good thing. I can't. Lake would probably be my next pick, but...

+2 Love Scope
+1 Weight of the World (Japanese)
+3 Megalovania

... and -314,159,265 EXEC_PAJA.

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+3 Chant This Charm
+3 Sudden Visitor

+1 Lake
+3 Mysterious Trap

+3 Sudden Visitor
+3 Weight of the World (Japanese)


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+2 The Caligula Effect: Overdose - Love Scope
+1 SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN - Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade
+3 NieR: Automata - Weight of the World (Japanese)
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+1 Two Dragons
+1 Love Scope
+3 Mysterious Trap
+1 Weight of the World (Japanese)

No idea what these specific votes say about my taste, but i certainly had to mull over these for a while. trying to make decisions among 9 songs (even if two are kanade and smash megalovania) is tough

+1 Sudden Visitor
+2 Love Scope
+1 Lake
+2 Mysterious Trap

+3 Chant This Charm
+3 NieR: Automata - Weight of the World (Japanese)

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almost vote changed but i cannot in remotely good faith do so now that i know the consequences if i do so