Board 8 > VGMC] Day 15! RftM v GSC / BEIRRD v NaviCust / Sight of Silence v Terminal March

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Toxtricity
05/25/21 5:24:07 PM
#51:


Mr Lasastryke posted...


yikes. not gonna lie, i thought you liked RFTM a lot more than this! (though of course it's still early in the contest, so this ranking might make your opinion on it seem more negative than it actually is.)


this is a really misleading ranking because as i've said a bunch this contest, i really only dislike very few songs in it. so rftm is certainly in the "at least somewhat like" pile, but i've never been like a mega-fan of that specific song, i'd also say i've never disliked it. i will say i dont dislike touhou music in general, but there's a mountain of touhou tracks i like far more than rftm though. my reaction to a given touhou song is actually kinda all over the place despite how self-consistent its style is
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Janus5k
05/25/21 6:15:12 PM
#52:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
BWLAUTE BEIRRD
Sight of Silence

Probably not the year
Navi Customizer is actually kind of neat but there's not much to it, also anime
Don't really care for either song in the third match but Sight of Silence has cooler sounds

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R-Man
05/25/21 6:34:04 PM
#53:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Navi Customizer
Sight of Silence
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Arti
05/25/21 6:44:39 PM
#54:


Pokmon Super Mystery Dungeon - Gentle Slope Cave
Nukige Mitai na Shima ni Sunderu Watashi wa Dou Surya Ii Desu ka? 2 - BWLAUTE BEIRRD
Bastion - Terminal March

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ZelRaat
05/25/21 6:48:52 PM
#55:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Navi Customizer
Sight of Silence

Sight of Silence > Reach for the Moon > Terminal March > Navi Customizer > BWLAUTE BEIRRD > Gentle Slope Cave

Just saying, Sight of Silence may likely be my favorite song in this whole contest.
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JONALEON1
05/25/21 7:29:34 PM
#56:


Gentle Slope Cave
Navi Customizer
Sight of Silence

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DeadTaffer
05/25/21 7:32:41 PM
#57:


Gentle Slope Cave
Navi Customizer
Terminal March
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PabloSmith
05/25/21 7:36:58 PM
#58:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
BWLAUTE BEIRRD
Sight of Silence

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sergiocornaga
05/25/21 7:42:17 PM
#59:


Gentle Slope Cave
Navi Customizer
Sight of Silence
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LkProd
05/25/21 8:38:56 PM
#60:


Gentle Slope Cave
BWLAUTE BEIRRD
Sight of Silence

finally a good falcom song
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Disillusion
05/25/21 9:04:33 PM
#61:


Gentle Slope Cave
BWLAUTE BEIRRD
Sight of Silence

First time I'm voting against a support, kinda surprised
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Snajed
05/25/21 9:21:46 PM
#62:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
BWLAUTE BEIRRD
Sight of Silence

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bebr117
05/25/21 9:31:39 PM
#63:


Gentle Slope Cave
BWL no fuck this "blue bird + water"
Terminal March

no i didnt pull a tsunami on match 3. bastion's pretty sick.

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Plasman
05/25/21 9:33:07 PM
#64:


Gentle Slope Cave
BWLAUTE BEIRRD
Sight of Silence

may be somewhat expected but the first match is by far the closest here for me. All good songs, though.
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pyresword
05/25/21 9:34:45 PM
#65:


Gentle Slope Cave
Navi Customizer
Sight of Silence

Match 3 > the others
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loweffortmemes
05/25/21 9:35:04 PM
#66:


Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Nukige Mitai na Shima ni Sunderu Watashi wa Dou Surya Ii Desu ka? 2 - BWLAUTE BEIRRD
Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure - Sight of Silence

I picked year of Nukitashi because of how much I love BWLAUTE BEIRRD, but I want year of Falcom too! Plus, there's always room for year of Falcom in any given year, but top-tier eroge song retirees are the real prize!

MATCH 1

As I mentioned in 14.5's RFtM match, I like the original Reach for the Moon a lot more. I'm a big fan of Touhou music in general, and Reach for the Moon is still a great Touhou song. This is only my third year participating in VGMC, but I haven't grown tired of this song in the slightest.

Gentle Slope Cave is fun and playful! Fire Island Volcano would be my preference for the folky sounding Super Mystery Dungeon songs, but this is a good song too. I'd take it over Navi Customizer and both match 3 songs, but unfortunately, it's no match for Reach for the Moon.

MATCH 2

I'm very happy that BWLAUTE BEIRRD is in! I have a slight preference for The Apple is Cast as far as Nukitashi OPs go, but this clearly turned out to be the favored song. Still, this is my favorite song in Bracket B! And honestly, it's not even close. This song had the easiest path to being a bracket champion in any of the brackets when it came to filling out the favorites brackets with none of the matches being close. Funny enough, with all that said, I can't point out a whole lot that's special about this song. It's just really good j-rock! Strong, catchy vocals and pretty much everything about this is great. I don't always go head over heels for random eroge OPs, but a song in this style has a pretty good chance of being highly liked by me. Something like "visual novel OP" is a type of song that if you sent a bunch to me at random, there's a high likelihood of me liking most, if not all of them.

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cakophon
05/25/21 9:36:19 PM
#67:


Gentle / Customizer / of Silence
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-hotdogturtle--
05/25/21 9:37:01 PM
#68:


Gentle Slope Cave
Navi Customizer
Sight of Silence

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MargaretAnnMid
05/25/21 9:38:21 PM
#69:


Gentle Slope Cave
BWLAUTE BEIRRD
Terminal March
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HasteDeux
05/25/21 9:48:34 PM
#70:


Toxtricity posted...
this is a really misleading ranking because as i've said a bunch this contest, i really only dislike very few songs in it. so rftm is certainly in the "at least somewhat like" pile, but i've never been like a mega-fan of that specific song, i'd also say i've never disliked it. i will say i dont dislike touhou music in general, but there's a mountain of touhou tracks i like far more than rftm though. my reaction to a given touhou song is actually kinda all over the place despite how self-consistent its style is

Well, I have data from last year... Tox ranked RFtM #142, deo ranked it #72, and I ranked it approx. #173. Out of a field of 192. This year's scores.... deo ranked it #51 this year (field of 256), I ranked it #49 in bracket B (field of 64), and Tox ranked 73rd out of 88. Mathematically, Tox's ranking went down while mine went up (in fact, my score changed from a 6 to a 7), and deo's ranking went up considerably this year.

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kaonashi1
05/25/21 9:50:52 PM
#71:


Gentle Slope Cave
Navi Customizer
Terminal March

It's Reach for the Moon! My boy, beating this track is what all true warriors strive for!

Gentle Slope Cave is playful music that skips and dances along like an excited Stufful and WOW that transition at 1:14 is great. I think this track is rad; it's whimsical but keeps itself pretty fresh with instrumentation that's both charming and well-suited to the track's mood, and when the strings step in for a more dramatic flavour they bring some really cool chord changes with them.

There's a lot of references to the blue bird of happiness, huh. This is reasonably fun j-rock SHOUNEN ANIME OP and that video picture suits it. It's comfy.

I'm always a bit torn about Navi Customizer-- it's cool but I keep getting stuck on the feeling that I'm waiting for something in this track that never arrives. And, well, that's probably the point! But it sits in a strange middle ground-- it feels active enough for me to look for something but not to find it.

I feel pretty relaxed listening to Sight of Silence even as it gains in energy through the track-- just the feel of the bass and the mallet percussion and piano. I guess it's a relatively muted sound relative to even the other tracks in this match. It's engaging and pleasant and I like that about it.

Terminal March-- much more aggressive. I think the interactions of things that are slightly detuned or a semitone or tone off the other thing that was just playing gives this a really interesting flavour. The percussion, and the specific effects to make them sound the way it does, are cool. The track gives the feeling of something kinda loosely assembled, almost haphazard, like the locales this would play in.
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Akkrillic
05/25/21 9:56:37 PM
#72:


Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Navi Customizer
Terminal March

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Place
05/25/21 9:59:41 PM
#73:


Pokmon Super Mystery Dungeon - Gentle Slope Cave
Mega Man Battle Network 3 - Navi Customizer
Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure - Sight of Silence

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Toxtricity
05/25/21 10:00:01 PM
#74:


i'm going to have a heart attack
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HasteDeux
05/25/21 10:01:19 PM
#75:


*has a heart attack*

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Hbthebattle
05/25/21 10:01:53 PM
#76:


year of pokemon never ends

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Congrats to azuarc for winning the GotD Guru!
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Janus5k
05/25/21 10:02:33 PM
#77:


darn

oh well, not that it was getting out of this division anyway

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NFUN
05/25/21 10:02:46 PM
#78:


Janus5k posted...
darn

oh well, not that it was getting out of this division anyway
that's tautological

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PIayer_0
05/25/21 10:03:52 PM
#79:


GSC takes the commanding 2-0 series lead over RFTM!

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