Board 8 > [VGMC] d77: Dead Neon Hell City (Demon Truck) vs Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE; (AnS)

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Welcome to today's topic for Video Game Music Contest 13, a tournament of the best tracks from games, as decided upon by you, the voters.

Links:
Bracket - http://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=471679
Contest info - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17rEeB1_oYWgryWzIxOaZXw2a381gKGnMegjHCG_2OTQ
Discussion and results thread - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77672812
Bracket playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1RF28glW72G6s_5M1e4kcSxR

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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 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.
- 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!

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Today's match:

Demon Truck - Dead Neon Hell City

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Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BywGBJDXQ0c" data-time="

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Easy vote form:
Dead Neon Hell City / Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

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Song lyric trivia: (mishread) ko ko mi ka shi / ha ee ah ohh / ko ko bu ko ka / me ka shka / we hu oo ah hu ko ko ni / ha ji ha me moo aa eh oh // hu ko ko me ka / gee ga go ni / ho ho ko nu ka kobe ka shi / kah mi hu ma ga / doku ma ha / me ha shi ka hee nu ha oh
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Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;
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Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Demon Truck has had its fun. Exsphere is too good.
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QuelI -> EXiV[vote]
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Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Dead Neon Hell City
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Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Sceptilesolar posted...

Demon Truck has had its fun. Exsphere is too good.

Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

in a match between contest villains I will go with the one that fully embraces it
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Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

i will be very very very very very very very very sad if exsphere loses but like both these songs own

class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;
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Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

DEMON TRUCK has fed.
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Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Dead Neon Hell City

#7 vs. #8 match! I'm actually low on both songs today because I re-realized that the parts I like don't last very long in either of them. Truck is the one that does a better job of keeping it together for me; Exsphere starts with so much potential but doesn't quite go the way I want it to past the middle section.
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Neon
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Dead Neon Hell City

Demon Truck was my first discovery support & now it's my last remaining support, how touching.

Class Exsphere Nosurge was technically a song that was relatively low ish on some of my rankings but it's a weird song that I have very mixed feelings about and I really respect weird songs so it is also high in some other regards for me so I'll be happy with it going forward but also wow it's off to a very strong start here gosh
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Dead Neon Hell City

Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;
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Ar nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;
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Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;
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Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE

Demon Truck - Dead Neon Hell City
Its my [second] least favorite retiree! The heavy rock with a strong bass with a hellish twist sounds kind of nice I guess, but its not really my cup of tea. (I prefer Hidra Heterocymin if I want something hellish!) I get pretty bored with the first 47 seconds of DNHC. After, the grindy bass and the placement of the squashy snare (reminds me Seiken Densetsu 3) are oddly satisfying. Everything dropping out at 1:36 makes more a nice set up to the final section. As far as the final section, I do like how the first phrase ends on iv, but the second phrase ends on IV. Finally, my FAVORITE thing of the whole thing is 1:53 where that treble instrument (no idea what its called) comes in via flourish and accompanies the other melody! Love that part. But overall, its just not very satisfying to me. But I must note that its never repetitive, which is unexpected for this kind of music, so thats a plus.

Ranking: 16 out of 16 (revised ranking: 15 out of 16, above Recollections...no, whatever it's called...Revenger, that's right!)
Favorite part: 1:53 through the end of the loop.

Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE
This one is awesome, but very complex, so it wont be easy for me to comment on it! The rough-splicing idea is really cool and works really well with the Ar Tonelico/Nosurge style. It starts with standard vocals Gust fans are familiar with, with some really cool dissonances! A violin plays fast atonal stuff thats cool, ending on a perfect interval. I love some of those "silent" moments such as at 1:19. 1:44 brings a nice, super tonal melody, then the 3+2+2/8 stuff after that is nice, then it goes back to simple tonality. 3:36 starts of pretty "whatever", but then violin enters, then a gong, then some extra bass stuff, extra voices, then the bass gets louder, the voices get more intrusive, then the bells come in, and next thing you know its UTTER CHAOS. Then suddenly everything cuts out its just the bells doing its thing. At 5:45 a chord of finality comes in.yummy! Except its not QUITE over. The singers finish up again with theme A, and I just love how it kind of "shuts off".

Favorite part: The first 27 seconds, plus 4:25ish - 5:02, I suppose, but most everything is pretty much equally good....
Ranking: 3 out of 16 (revised ranking: 4 out of 16)
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Dead Neon Hell City

Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;
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Dead Neon Hell City
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Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Rest in peace funny demon truck
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Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Dead Neon Hell City
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Dead neon hell city

Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;
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Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;
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Dead Neon Hell City
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Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE
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Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

5. Demon Truck - Dead Neon Hell City (7.5) (over Galaxy of Friendship; for Dark Man Stage; over Field of Hopes and Dreams)

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2. Ar Nosurge - Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE; (9.5) (over The Final Song, Dont Turn It Off, Escaping the Courtyard Garden)

Good match. City Neon Hell Dead is great and gross, but EXSPHERE is too stron-EEEEEEEYYYYYY EEEEEEEYYYYYY EEEEEEEYYYYYY

Vote:
EEEEEEEYYYYYY
(aka Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;)

Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Demon Truck
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Demon Truck - Dead Neon Hell City
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Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;
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Seminar::NOWCUBE_SAFEFROMFLOOD;
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Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Demon Truck - Dead Neon Hell City
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Dead Neon Hell City
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Demon Truck - Dead Neon Hell City

Match-up analysis:

DNHC is definitely the oddball of the retirees. steelchambers2 may be unconventional, but it sort of makes sense for people to like an unconvetional song enough to push it to retirement every once in a while. DNHC, however... is in some sort of middle line. I mean, I personally like it, but not much because it's conventional quality, or even unconventional for that matter. I'd define it more as a guilty pleasure than anything else. It's not a perfect piece, and the bit at 1:38 has the volume all the way up until it ends, which is really odd and lazy if the actual song is that way. Even then, the song is catchy and has a nice beat and use of instruments (I like when the sound interchanges between left and right ears, then goes for both). I still don't think this song is really deserving of retirement, although this is what we have.

...But hey, neither is EXSPHERE, although at least this one was comprehensible because, you know, Board 8. EXSPHERE has a lot of wasted potential, not because Gust could do better (I don't think it can actually do much better, tbh, at least not with hymmnos in the way), but because it's not done the right way (subjectively speaking, of course).

Happy, Innocent Truck In a Lively Place :3 >> EHeM (uuh) => [this song]; SuX ( (wellnotreallybutitcouldbebetterlol)
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That's a pretty poor imitation of a nosurge track name. I mean, I guess it looks a little like quell excess crayons, but eh.
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azuarc posted...

That's a pretty poor imitation of a nosurge track name.

pfft we haven't even gone into the deep end of those yet

em-pyei-n vari-fen jang;
Lxa ti-cia
Hymmn::I_HAVE_NO_ROYALTY_INCOME;
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Dead Neon Hell City
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azuarc posted...

That's a pretty poor imitation of a nosurge track name. I mean, I guess it looks a little like quell excess crayons, but eh.

You already beat me with your last post (and I didn't want to reuse mine from last round), so I had to get more creative!
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Sidebracket match Hymmn::I_HAVE_NO_ROYALTY_INCOME; vs Hymmn::SEXY_METAL_IDOL;

Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;
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Dead Neon Hell City
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