Board 8 > NFUN Ranks 1000 VGM: 300 VGM Edition

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TheHotAndColdDog's Favourite VGM
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NFUN posted...

wait what is this is this actually in minecraft how have i never heard this.

It features many music tracks that were "silently" added to Minecraft in the Music Update a few days after the album's release, as well as the music discs that were missing from the first album (except for "11"). Similarly to Volume Alpha, Volume Beta includes short bonus tracks that are not in the game.

Aria Math is in the game as creative4.ogg

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24. Boku no Te no Naka no Rakuen - Papiliones
Nominator: VGMC Honorees
9.4 (9.4/0)
VGMC History: VIII: Champion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M56BpH3lCDU
Of my my favorite weird obscure weebshit I found through VGMC. This versus Zero-Two must've been an interesting match (or a bloody match where many fans of either song could not understand what was there to like about their opponent). Combining soulful singing with a solid Celtic backing is a recipe for success in my book. Favorite part: the chorus

23. Irisu Syndrome - You Have Zero New Messages
Nominator: @Regaro
9.5 (9/1)
VGMC History: None
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YggCFMtYVMc
Actually effective sadvnpiano.mp3. Tearjerking songs are much less effective than melancholy songs for independent rankings. So many examples of that genre seem to be too tied to context, having genuine sentimental power yet only being truly effective when paired with the framing of the game. Here, you just need the song name to give you all you need (and that's probably more than necessary). This feels less contrived, evoking a very simple message of loneliness without striving to break the listener emotionally. And how the hell did I not know this was watson? Favorite part: don't think I have one
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I feel like To the Distant Sky had so much potential, like, GOAT potential, but it just doesn't do enough.

Maybe it's just me being weird as heck, but I think the shortened version of Papiliones is noticably inferior compared to the longer version. All that buildup at the start really makes the chorus starting at ~1:32 pop and the song just snowballs in momentum from there.

22. Professor Layton and the Unwound Future - Theme of the Last Time Travel
Nominator: @JONALEON1
9.5 (9.5/0)
VGMC History: III: R6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmd58nFB6OI
My favorite Layton theme. It's the best parts of all of them distilled to excellence, to the point where half the time when a random Layton song comes on, I swap to this. Instrumentation is perfect, composition is excellent, evolution is inspiring, etc. Favorite part: 2:32-3:02

21. Little Busters! - Melancholy of a Noisy Girl
Nominator: @pyresword
9.6 (9.1/1)
VGMC History: None
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUIdaCm5Ooo
Excellent kindergarten music. Love all of the instrumentation, even those cute weird little vocalization things. The backing piano is something I never consciously notice but might part what makes the song. Honestly, I'm not sure how I can really do a write-up of this. The most I can really say for why I like it is "cute and good instruments", as I did, and beyond that, if you don't like it you won't understand. Favorite part: 1:30-1:48

there goes jona and pyre
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Bonus because I thought this already went out and gives some context to the other writeup

20. Attack of the Friday Monsters! - Expedition With An Active Imagination
Nominator: @UF8
9.7 (9.2/1)
VGMC History: None
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCX4i3mRqaM
More excellent kindergarten music. I'll admit that I have a weakness for it. They're something I imagine would get on a lot of people's nerves, which honestly just makes them better. I want to rock these drums and lead around a group of kids, torturing everybody within earshot with this super charming song. Which reminds me, somebody really should make an arrange in this style of Looking Up at the Sky. I think it'd be hilarious, and super offensive to a lot of people who can't have any fun. And yes, I still have my elementary school recorder
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19. Choro-Q 2 - Middle Size Circuit
Nominator: @MycroProcessor
9.7 (9.2/1)
VGMC History: None
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR8WkrRJQSE
I have trouble making writeups for Mycro noms in general. Most kind of speak for themselves, y'know? You like the style of each or you don't. I'm not nearly precise enough in these kinds of things to delve into the cool stuff each is doing. Hey, a Charge Cycles synth at 1:35. Rest kind of feels inspired by Mario Kart somehow.

wow all of the worst writeups i had left got shunted into one day
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18. Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse - Tokyo (Large Map)
Nominator: @Regaro
9.7 (9.2/1)
VGMC History: None
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOqTgQZBJhk
It's very frustrating to me when I can only find extended links for songs. When, for a while, that was the version of this video I had, I enabled the loop feature on youtube. I could (and have) listened to this for hours. It's the blend of calming and motivating that I love (see Azure Sadness). I even bro'd out with a friend with this song when he was overwhelmed with social anxiety at a party. I've had a lot of ""vibe"" songs ranked highly in this list. This is the highest and vibiest. Favorite part: none, really

17. Steins;Gate 0 - Gate of Steiner
Nominator: @OrangeCrush980
9.7 (9.2/1)
VGMC History: None
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5fnglcM5VI
After months of looking at the thumbnail (an old one where Okabe is yelling at his phone) and having no idea what was going on, I've finally embraced my inner Hououin and played. You may expect significant gameplay bias (although I've always been partial to Gate of Steiner). I changed the link to the full version, btw, which I prefer.

Bias aside, I do like the song a good amount (if being an ending song for a game I liked is all that mattered then I'd like I Swear in any way at all). The lyrics, just like the games, appeal to my edgy sciency side and in the month after I beat SG0 I sang it in the shower literally every day. Vaguely meaningful scientific nonsense is one of my favorite things to appear in lyrics! And in any case, this had almost the same score before I played, so I clearly had emotional attachment to it uncontextualized. It's just a beautiful song

Make this moment last, last forever!

It's been a while since Orangecrush lost a song, and I bet Regaro wasn't expecting to get 2 top 25 songs, but they are both gone now
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16./5. Atelier Ayesha - Invitation Flower -- Autumn
Nominator: @dowolf
9.7 (9.7/0)
VGMC History: XIII: R6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZhjh-DME3k
The clear best Invitation Flower (> Summer > Spring >> Winter) and perhaps the best song in Ayesha, even considering it lacks the glorious wood flute/earthy guitar combo. This does pretty much everything right. Or everything perfectly right. I can't really find any flaws. It's sooo good. The instruments are (of course) glorious, and that lick the marimba plays the whole time gives me shivers throughout the song. The way it kind of fades in and out of moods is sublime, and unexpected every time. Good VGMC performance too (suck it deo). It died to Exsphere (so did everything else, but more directly than most) and yet for obvious reasons I'm not too upset about that

I spent a very long time agonizing over whether or not to give this a Deserved point. I hadn't heard this song when it was nominated, so I shouldn't penalize the song my getting familiar with the soundtrack later, but I think I listened through it before getting to this song in the rankings. It's a song that stands out, but it doesn't stand out that much from Yanagawa's other works, which I see all the time now. I think ultimately, it just felt *wrong* for this to be the #3 song in the rankings, and so regretfully it loses the point it once had. Sorry dowolf

15./4. Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;
Nominator: VGMC Honorees
9.7 (9.7/0)
VGMC History: XIII: Champion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BywGBJDXQ0c
Hi VGMC (champion[!]). Guess deo's off the hook for a nomination

*static* EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *static*

Okay the static is actually really cool. The guitar that starts at 2:15 is so great and I didn't notice it for so long. This song grew on me a lot. Initially I had reluctant admiration for a dreaded hymmnos (or something in the vein of one, at least), but every so often I'd come back to it and like it more, and by the time VGMC rolled around I'd have voted for it over any of its competitors*. I made a big stink at Calamity losing to fucking NWO but uh, not too upset at this winning. I will say that these videos are required for hymmnos. Without them, the songs can be too chaotic and inscrutable. You need the contextualization that they provide (even if the Japanese translation isn't perfect). For more details on why I like this, see any one of the many essays by mycro or dowolf on why this song is GOATed. I somehow managed to get a non-VGM person really into this song, so you know it's good
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whatever i'm taking the bronze medal anyways #dealwithit

also don't get me started on that video's tl bro.
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a bad translation is better than no translation
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14./22. Liberation of Azure - Hero's Sword
Nominator: @FL81
9.8 (9.3/1)
VGMC History: None
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F71vFcQa-G8
why didnt you nom this for my normal battle topic it would've gotten second

whoa this was composed by a guy who did Yakuza 0 music (not that much though)

rip vgmc dreams. we'll get 'em next time, when i can actually support it

sega good

i would talk about the actual song now, but i covered what needed to be said. an exemplar of its genre

13./2. Idola Phantasy Star Saga - Endeavour
Nominator: VGMC Honorees
9.8 (9.8/0)
VGMC History: XIV: Champion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74TocPKiNCs
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BRING UPON US A NEW TOMORROW BRAND NEW BEGINNING WITH ALL US TOGETHER

except fl won't be there. because he's dead. there goes the last of the champions too
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everybody left (except mycro) has one song left, so eliminations are implied

12./17. Lord of Vermilion IV - With their fingers entwined.
Nominator: @kaonashi
9.9 (9.4/1)
VGMC History: XIII: 1.5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHDYCe66_bg
Opening makes me think of OneShot, then it gets very **not** OneShot, but in a good way. This is great and makes me FEEL things. The random electronic burst later on likely would've made me drop this a lot lower (seriously, why is it there) if METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE hadn't gotten me accustomed to those sounds. Those notwithstanding, this is extremely moving and powerful. Everything (but the wubs) is perfect. DUDE the harp thing at 1:15 and throughout. I listened to this so many times without picking up on those. Man, this song is so good what the hell

11./14. Emil Chronicle Online - The World of Curiosity
Nominator: @Zyxyz0
10 (9.5/1)
VGMC History: None
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGwErkquA8g
The worst part of rankings is that sometimes I'll want to continue a train of thought from one song to the next, but since obviously this continuity wouldn't be preserved when I actually post the songs (unless I'm *really* biased), it'd make no sense at all in the context of the topic. I was gonna say something like 'unlike the last song, this is generic and could be anything but does enough that it manages to be pretty good regardless'. Well, that, and the last song was Clannad - Hurry Starfish. Have fun scrolling back 300 rankings or so because you certainly don't remember what that song sounds like unless you are r0xm2n, whoever that is.

Anyways, I love this, and it really grew on me over the years. I kind of thought it was a generic VN tune at first; later, I think the song name gave it *just* the extra bit of contextualization that it needed for me to really be drawn to it. It doesn't need to be complex at all; the simple flute and accompaniment is beautiful and conveys a sense of wonder perfectly, and with the song's carefree energy, it makes me see the world a bit like a child again. Needless to say, I am moved

This really shot up in my rankings. I found it kind of difficult to comparatively rank 'sentimental' songs poorly compared to songs that I possibly enjoy more, with less emotional connotation, and while this is very sappy, it's sappy in a way that manages to connect; therefore, this may have been placed higher in my ordering playlist than it should've due to this bias... in other words, this is so high because I couldn't bear to put it lower. All told, I do enjoy it a great deal, certainly enough that I can't find its placement objectionable. Perhaps its placement is just an artifact of my particular moods while finalizing these rankings. Perhaps in five years I'll still love it. Right now, it's here, where it belongs
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BONUS Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D Revolution - "IDOLA" the Strange Fruits
Nominator: Schtolteheim
9.9 (9.9/0)
VGMC History: XIV: 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J02meO3Ovlg
Too powerful a nomination that it would become too clear ahead of time I love to allow in the normal contest. I love Partizans, but man, that shit still hurted ;__;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSa3uUMwv8s
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^5 for having the correct top-rated champion

NFUN posted...

Opening makes me think of OneShot, then it gets very **not** OneShot, but in a good way.

holy shit started the song, thought this, and then read this

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10./13. Magical Chase - Waltz of Meditation Part 2 (Arrange)
Nominator: @MycroProcessor
10 (9.5/1)
VGMC History: Ineligible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzjVEnTPDdY
The beginning is very Beatles, or maybe just very 70s prog rock that I don't have a proper reference frame to connect to. As I'm sure you all know, Yoshimi Kudo is based. There's no other word for it. I love this song, and I am unhappy it's not VGMC eligible. Come for the interesting progressive prog progressions, stay for the surprisingly heartwarming atmosphere that pervades the song

comedic timing demands i post this now without making a fuller writeup
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9./12. beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA - Element of SPADA (Long Version)
Nominator: @Prody_Parrot
10 (9.5/1)
VGMC History: None
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j14wIrcbMo
Nekomata Master good. Only he can blend rhythm, world and emotional music in this way. He's a goddamn treasure. I always forget that this gets Exa Pico halfway through for a bit. Honestly, I don't know how much that adds to the song. The original link died, and I don't remember if it was the full version or not, so I'll use the short one, which is overall tighter... oh wait, you explicitly called it the long version. Thanks for being clear. Don't worry, I don't even know if the difference is worth any points. The chanting breaks the flow a bit, but it picks back up very well, so the bump gets smoothed over
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8./11. The Norwood Suite - Blue Moose Man
Nominator: @Place
10 (9.5/1)
VGMC History: None
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw9ke02fz-s
A song that has grown in my estimations over the years. I dig the mellow weirdness that it has going on. Most songs like this would lose my attention, but it's got a very compelling *thing* going on. The way that the instruments in the beginning crescend over each note pulls you in... wow. Okay what the fuck. It sounded a bit like the notes were reversed in the way they did that; holy shit I was not expecting exactly what they are. I expect reversed piano to sound like Skyclad, not this. I'm in tatters. Also the marimba is GOOD and COOL. I had more to say but I'm ruined now. Thanks Place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdhMQDmC5uU
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7./10. Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou - Transmigration
Nominator: @Collen
10.1 (9.6/1)
VGMC History: XIII: R1
https://youtu.be/f7_l-L-I5Jg
wow nfun likes tong nou music who couldve seen this coming

this song is... somebody I showed it to referred to it as 'sound nostalgia'. I'm not sure if he meant the song just sounds nostalgic, or if it reminds him of he heard in the past. I think it being a little ambiguous fits. It's sound nostalgia. That is what this song is. That is what it makes me feel. Nostalgia for experiences I didn't experience. Haunting, mysterious, both natural and occult. A lush virgin jungle, ancient and primordial, untouched by human hands yet containing unknown stone ruins. An endless steppe, effulgent by the illumination of a perpetual golden sunset, with hallucigenic apparitions and visual warping and inexplicable, glowing motes breaking the maddening, enlightening monotony of the plain. A fucking giant green head that's a also an island whose ear you can go into. It's tranquil, calming, relaxing, hypnotizing. There's tension, apocrypha, but you are lulled back into passivity. Unexplained calls echo around you... and then that MELODY returns. God. I think on first inspection the Tong-Nou theme would appear weirder to most people, but it doesn't put me in some weird-ass headspace like this one does. This is more deceptive in its peacefulness. Good nom. Thanks for introducing me to this game
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6./9. REFLEC BEAT limelight - IMAGE -MATERIAL- (Version 0)
Nominator: @Prody_Parrot
10.1 (9.6/1)
VGMC History: None
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jljKZhVWj4k
This is tailored for [2018] me. "Epic Falcom" strings and choir with a good deal of variety in its long length. It's like the Merciless Savior mixed with Ar Tonelico and a better Bemani OST... alright, I have a confession to make (and no, that confession isn't "I have no idea how to properly compare this with anything"). When I played this in NFUN Radio, I'd actually already heard it before. I just wanted to surreptiously share it with people without revealing that I liked it a lot. My reaction to this was pretty much like Dire's. Something along the lines of "holy shit, what is this, this is awesome, this is so good, this is like an instant 9.5 for me". yeah. me too buddy
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NFUN posted...

6./9.

ni./ce.
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5./8. LifeCycle - LifeCycle
Nominator: @UF8
10.1 (9.6/1)
VGMC History: None
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8rcy67EZ1I
Reminiscent of something. Mozell? Watson? Oh. Yep. Just "UF8 noms". Kind of gets messy a bit in with the low drum crash type thing and afterwards I'm not hugely into the cymbals. It does pick up a PMD feel then, which is nice. I think something about the sound design is simultaneously very cool and somewhat offputting at times. Segments of it are extremely good, like the last ten seconds after 2:55, which competes for my favorite portion of any song nominated. God, it's infuriating how close this is to top tier. If it was mixed a little differently this could be probably top 20... oops. Yeah those objections evaporated without much fanfare. There are still certainly parts I like less (I am adamant that the mixing could use some work), but they don't bother me at all anymore unless I'm actively listening for them. Meanwhile, the parts I really like I *still* really like. Individual pieces are still some of the most touching bits I've heard in this project, and they're made especially powerful with the relentless dedication to this bittersweet, determined, uplifting mood. What a song
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NFUN posted...

Reminiscent of something. Mozell? Watson? Oh. Yep. Just "UF8 noms".

well i guess it sounds a lot like genetos music and stuff since it's the genetos guy

https://youtu.be/zEyqRfIQPmI

lifecycle best tatsuya koyama song and game

the only genetos song I know is Origin, and I see the connection there, though that wasn't what I was thinking of
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Good Transmigration write-up. Makes me want to listen to it again.

4./7. Tempest 2000 - Minds Eye
Nominator: Akkrillic
10.1 (9.6/1)
VGMC History: Ineligible
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZdjlSWipbWM
Oops I accidentally spoiled how much I like this song. My bad. In the songs preceding and following this, I through in a lot of description of how the song impacted me, or how the song made me feel. I'm not doing that for this. This song didn't affect me emotionally, or help me to grow in my understanding of how I appreciate music, or expand and define and re-evaluate my taste. No. This song is just a straight-up banger. What the hell

In the final rankings, Tempest 2000 > Gamera 2000 > Tyrian 2000. Congratulations to all contenders for your performance in the *real* contest
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is this a hint that next time you're doing 2000 songs

UF8 posted...

is this a hint that next time you're doing 2000 songs

I would jump off a bridge first
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How about 1500 songs as a compromise?
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3./6. Armored Core Verdict Day - Stain
Nominator: @banshiryuu
10.2 (9.7/1)
VGMC History: None
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnvqcSKho5w
This song is oddly... compelling (I need a invent new genre based on this and the Gamera song). More than any other I've had it randomly pops in my head, forcing me to relisten to it. The lyrics are complete gibberish to me (and probably in general too), but the way they're shouted fits perfectly with the dramatic tone in the song, especially with the thumbnail. Somehow it's the most deo song in this list. The energetic, near-incomprehensibility of it, in my eyes, fits him extremely well. The song desperately wants you to listen, to pay attention, to empathize with it. "Desperately", with all of the connotations that word can hold. It's out of options. It's begging. It's throwing everything it has in this one final effort. You are its last hope. You can't resist a call like that
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Armored Core feels like a blend of world music and rock to me, whatever that genre would be.

maybe "Angry World"
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dowolf posted...

maybe "Angry World"

so, XaaaCi.? :V

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xaaaci for vgmc when

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it's obviously the Nekomata Master+ genre

NFUN posted...

In the final rankings, Tempest 2000 > Gamera 2000 > Tyrian 2000

You shut your filthy mouth!

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2./3. Ar tonelico 2 - Sen ~ Kono Hana Saku ya (Dye ~ Let This Flower Bloom)
Nominator: @dowolf
10.3 (9.8/1)
VGMC History: ELIGIBLE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igWXbPWrqMQ
My original review: yep that's ar tonelico alright. The distorted screaming at 3:06 is neat

My new review: Out of every song nominated that I haven't saved due to being part of a soundtrack that I've gone through, this is undoubtedly the one I've listened to the most. The flow chart for me listening to it is essentially "Did I think of this song? Yes -> listen to song". It's sublime. It's isn't common for me to connect emotionally with a song I have no context for. This absolutely did (to the point where writing that line made me tear up a little just by making me think about the emotions). I'm not sure I can even say why. I think the way its constructed, more than the lyrics, is extremely magnetic to me, kind of similar to how I haven't stopped thinking about XaaaCi in a year or how I get filled with energy at CIEL_NOSURGE's 'FAMNE'. I often tend to view things in a way akin to Freytag's Pyramid (without the inherent strict organization), of swells and trenches of energy or emotion or drama. I structure my lists in terms of 'movements' like this, for example, trying to build a story, of hope and disaster and determination, told without words. This song is the ideal of this kind of storytelling, and I'm not sure if I've ever heard another song that did anything like this in this way, or another song that I felt I could understand despite not knowing the lyrics (btw, having lyrics that aren't perfect is infinitely better than not having lyrics at all #newvideolink). Honestly, other hymmnos like EXSPHERE or the ones I mentioned earlier are the only examples I can think of. So what I'm saying here is that this song is basically goals

There's another song that's well-known I think I can use as a point of comparison. I've mentioned, here and elsewhere, that songs that are very emotion-focused (for example, End of All) need something else to draw me, otherwise they'll just be complete misses. This manages to hit three marks. It's got an energy, it's interesting, and it's beautiful enough to get over the barrier and connect with me. The last trait is very rare. The former two are why I like lot of PSO2 music, and *especially* Endeavour. You'd think I'd hate Endeavour from some of my other opinions. You'd be forgiven for thinking I'd hate this. But they both manage to succeed where most other pretenders failed. You might remember how hard I pushed for Endeavour to win in 14. Draw your own conclusions (ha ha, I gave them a tied Personal score but this is ahead because of Deserved. I'm leaving this comment here regardless)

Oh cool, this is now specifically eligible. Needless to say, I will be nominating this
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1./1. Aurora Memoria - Philosophical Data Session: 2093 - DigiFamily
Nominator: @MycroProcessor
10.4 (9.9/1)
VGMC History: None
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx6Hdg1QTJY
This is super cool. The instrument and melody that starts at :35 reminds me strongly of something, but I can't place it now. Nevertheless, this is the type of Mycro song I adore. It's got all sorts of weird shit going on, but in a way that, to me at least, is interesting and well put together. Sometimes these kinds of songs almost seem to be 'trying too hard' to me, and they just can't *click*. This, on the other hand, very much does. It's satisfying to hear all of this madness come together into something incredible. It's one of those songs (like Kimera II, for instance), that gets better every time you hear it indefinitely, even if it took a year to get from a 9.8 to a 9.9. Christ, it's so fucking good. Just as I knew THE KING would win my last ranking when I first heard it, this was destined for victory as well.

Oh wait I've got it. It, oddly enough, reminds me of a segment of the 2017 International Wrestling Festival's gachi collab. Anyway, remember, that was 2018 NFUN talking. I've swerved much more into this kind of music since then. Maybe I liked it so much now that my good feelings echoed back in time, influencing how I felt about it in the past. Childhood's End. The end of my childhood of VGM listening. Anyways, a winner is you. Congratulations Mycro! I doubt this was the pick you were expecting to make it the farthest, but I also somehow doubt you're entirely surprised... Once again, thank you for showing me this song
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0./0. Undertale - Dogsong
Nominator: @lucifiere
18.8 (18.3/1)
VGMC History: None
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woPff-Tpkns
geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet dunked on
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Nobody managed to beat the benchmarks, but congratulations to Mycro, Deo and Place for having the top 3 scores, and Mycro, Deo and dowolf for having the top 3 songs!

Final scores:
NFUN: 8.8
VGMC Honorees: 8.52
MycroProcessor: 8.39
banshiryuu: 8.25
Place: 8.2
kaonashi: 8.16
Akkrillic: 8.1
Zyxyz0: 8.09
UF8: 8.03
rwlh: 7.99
dowolf: 7.98
JONALEON1: 7.93
Scholteheim: 7.91
Muzzleflash: 7.87
Collen: 7.86
Zyxyz's Mom: 7.84
ellie: 7.84
pyresword: 7.81
pyromide: 7.8
-hotdogturtle--: 7.79
Thomas: 7.75
RyoCaliente: 7.73
PSI_NESS: 7.72
Th3_M4j0r: 7.7
BetrayedTangy: 7.7
rukir: 7.69
FL81: 7.69
azuarc: 7.65
Regaro: 7.64
trdl23: 7.6
Chinballz: 7.6
Direkrow: 7.58
Shonen_Bat: 7.57
Rob: 7.52
PrinceKaro: 7.52
UltraMana: 7.5
Neotelenta: 7.43
UnluckyLucky: 7.4
Pikman: 7.4
Raetsel_Lapin: 7.39
wv: 7.38
scarletspeed7: 7.36
rwlhs friend: 7.35
Ian: 7.3
DragonImps: 7.3
Choco: 7.3
Rufus: 7.29
Dragon66116: 7.26
Se7enThrust: 7.24
MargaretAnnMid: 7.21
OrangeCrush980: 7.21
Prody Parrot: 7.21
jangler: 7.18
handsomeboy2012: 7.14
Elecmarol: 7.12
LOLIAmAnAlt: 7.1
Wicklebee: 7.08
Snake5555555555: 7
r0xm2n: 6.99
Reddeh: 6.96
Johnbobb: 6.87
lucifiere: 6.48
arti: 6.09
Bane: 2.1

Top 10 composers (with at least 3 songs ranked):
Kota Hoshino: 9.44
Morrigan: 9.14
Takeshi Abo: 8.88
Nekomata Master: 8.86
DM DOKURO: 8.84
void: 8.81
Osamu Sato: 8.67
watson: 8.42
Masashi Hamauzu: 8.35
Yoshimi Kudo: 8.34

That is a very NFUN top ten, except Hoshino managed to displace zts. Guess I need to listen through Armored Core now... which is convenient, since rtvgm is playing AC2 today

Top 10 series (with at least 3 songs ranked):
Armored Core: 9.44
Katamari: 8.67
VA-11 HALL-A: 8.44
beatmania: 8.36
Guitar Hero: 8.34
EXA_PICO: 8.22
Minecraft: 8.22
REFLEC BEAT: 8.2
Atelier: 8.17
Murasaki: 8.15

Top 10 genres (usual terms & conditions apply):
Emotional Banger: 9.24
Jolteon: 8.78
Disco: 8.49
Umbreon: 8.42
Flamenco: 8.37
Violin: 8.36
Happy: 8.29
Chill: 8.27
Collen: 8.26
Trance: 8.15
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Many of you lamented the poor song choices you made years in the past. Many have gotten to know my taste much better over the years (and hopefully all of you have gotten to know my taste much better over the last three months). Many, I'm sure, wish for a second chance, to do things right this time.

For a limited time only, I am allowing people to nominate one (1) additional song! You have one (1) week to nominate a song that I have not heard for me to rank. If I have heard your nom, I'll tell you and you can try again. Please don't get clever and nominate something from a soundtrack it's clear I like but haven't heard through yet; I want new and creative nominations.

Happy hunting
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeKaE-gusMmb3og5h9QccANYBTxK5ezRe
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WOW
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Boneworks | Bone Rhapsody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j30JBa2exa0

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oh nice top 10

i didn't expect to be above average at all

also i nominate this you're welcome

https://youtu.be/dydDAB2qwJM

got a gold and a silver and a bronze from nfun topics awww yeah collection complete.
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Phenomenal writeup on Transmigration, wouldn't have been able to write something better even though it is one of my all-time favorite songs.

Here's my nomination for the after party:
Brutal - The New Challenges | festival of the [Ghoul] | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwEgarf-esk

Also, when did I become a genre lol? did not notice that til now

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NFUN posted...

You have one (1) week to nominate a song that I have not heard for me to rank

I don't think you were in the vgmgg I ran most recently, though if you were then you would have heard this.

Subarashiki Hibi Denpa Relay no Shousha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzT7F95XlC0
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