Board 8 > VGMC11 retirement round d5: Whereabouts of Light (SC) vs Laguerra del Mundo (GE)

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Welcome to today's topic for Video Game Music Contest 11, a tournament of the best tracks from games, as decided upon by you, the voters.


Links:
Bracket - http://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=466312
Contest info - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d-N92Sis_Ghh-QYE2cQqClPP5H3T-idwlk0CUHOv2ew
Discussion and results thread - https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/75317291
Main bracket playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1RFteVUCpIsmLHRwqLStaQJD
Side bracket playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1RE35F2S4u6Ie8w1o0jHPKXB

Rules:

- Listen to both of the songs. Links have conveniently been provided for both songs. 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 you are not doing this, your vote may 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 isn’t up by then.
- 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!

Main match:

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC - Whereabouts of Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3VZBlmVWFM

Granado Espada - Laguerra del Mundo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_--z5kyU1w


VGMC masters side bracket:

Beatmania IIDX 18 Resort Anthem - New Castle Legions -Stage 1 Mix-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev2wxCG_WnQ

Drakengard 3 - The Final Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph4f06Q5ItE


Tiebreaker:

Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - U.N. Owen Was Her?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyC5eWJhCr8

Gundemonium Recollection - Tuxedo Knight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7yklG0a-6U


Easy vote form:
Whereabouts of Light / Laguerra del Mundo
New Castle Legions -Stage 1 Mix- / The Final Song
U.N. Owen Was Her? / Tuxedo Knight
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Whereabouts of Light (SC)

is it now

Whereabouts of Light
The Final Song
U.N. Owen Was Her?

TB is the best match of the day by a lot.

Will: Emil / Karma
Want: goldenslaughterer
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Whereabouts of Light
The Final Song
U.N. Owen Was Her?
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC - Whereabouts of Light
Drakengard 3 - The Final Song
Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - U.N. Owen Was Her?
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Granado Espada - Laguerra del Mundo
Drakengard 3 - The Final Song
Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - U.N. Owen Was Her?
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Mundo
Final
Owen
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Laguerra del Mundo
New Castle Legions -Stage 1 Mix
Tuxedo Knight
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC - Whereabouts of Light
Drakengard 3 - The Final Song
Gundemonium Recollection - Tuxedo Knight
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Laguerra del Mundo
New Castle Legions -Stage 1 Mix-
Tuxedo Knight

Is it just me or does NCL sound kinda like a VVVVVV song?
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Laguerra del Mundo
New Castle Legions -Stage 1 Mix-
Tuxedo Knight
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Laguerra del Mundo
The Final Song
Tuxedo Knight
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Whereabouts of Light
New Castle Legions -Stage 1 Mix-
U.N. Owen Was Her?

And since things I like never win:
Want: Anything but goldenslaughterer
Will: goldenslaughterer
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Whereabouts of Light
-
U.N. Owen Was Her?

I'll be honest and say that I think I officially don't fully get Laguerra del Mundo. It's kind of a whatever song in my opinion, and my least favourite of the evidently four different songs from Granado Espada that have been in these contests by a noticeable margin. Similarly, Whereabouts of Light is a song I'm quite indifferent to, at least compared to the other Light song that Laguerra disposed of, but it still easily gets my vote here.
If nothing else, it continuing to well does have one benefit in that it retroactively makes Sai-Hate Galaxy and all the other songs I liked from its initial 8pack look better than they probably otherwise would've, but that still doesn't mean I'm okay with it retiring.

NCL/Final Song is a rare sight as far as my bracket is concerned, as it is a match where I had both songs in my favourites bracket. And it was quite a tossup at that, NCL more or less proving itself as one of my favourite songs in the masters bracket despite me not even taking it past R3. Final Song I took to the finals (fittingly) but even then NCL came too damn close for me to really make a clear pick then, and I'm still not sure how I feel about the match even after a couple of relistens now, hence the abstention. Best match today pretty easily.

UN Owen has the distinction of being the only other song left from my favs bracket still in the masters. In it I took it to R4 much to my surprise, and it ended up losing out to the song I picked overall (one which, uh, did less than great in reality, bowing out in R1 with minimal fanfare). Of course, this is far from a bracket pick. Tuxedo Knight, or at least this remixed version of it that I now know is specifically for the Steam version of the remake, technically actually making it a 2010s song after all go figure, manages to spend four minutes without looping, and goes basically nowhere in the process. I used to kind of like this song, but this contest I've realised I just don't like it nearly as much as I did back then. If I did, I probably wouldn't have easily picked R-Type Title over it and strongly considered also picking Hills of Radiant Wind over it too, in a contest where I've also been really down on NieR music too. I almost feel it would've been better, at least as far as I'm concerned, to have had the original Tuxedo Knight instead... Though I still wouldn't have picked it here. UN Owen's simply a better song, yet again surprisingly. I mean, it isn't even close to being one of my favourite 2hu themes!

Laguerra del Mundo
New Castle Legions -Stage 1 Mix-
U.N. Owen Was Her?

And goldenslaughterer for both will and want
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Laguerra del Mundo
New Castle Legions -Stage 1 Mix-
Tuxedo Knight
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC - Whereabouts of Light
Drakengard 3 - The Final Song
Gundemonium Recollection - Tuxedo Knight
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Whereabouts of Light
New Castle Legions -Stage 1 Mix-
U.N. Owen Was Her?
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Whereabouts of Bump
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Whereabouts of Light
The Final Song
Tuxedo Knight
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Laguerra del Mundo
New Castle Legions -Stage 1 Mix-
Tuxedo Knight
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Laguerra del Mundo
New Castle Legions -Stage 1 Mix-
U.N. Owen Was Her?
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Mundo
Final
Tuxedo
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC - Whereabouts of Light
Drakengard 3 - The Final Song

Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - U.N. Owen Was Her?
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC - Whereabouts of Light
Drakengard 3 - The Final Song
Gundemonium Recollection - Tuxedo Knight
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Up.
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just barely remembering to post these votes for:
Whereabouts of Light
The Final Song
Tuxedo Knight
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th3l3fty posted...

just barely remembering to post these votes for:
Whereabouts of Light
The Final Song
Tuxedo Knight

I would've gotten them. I just happened to be out all evening. But thank you.

*looks at match results*

Actually, no thank you...*eyes narrowed*
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