Board 8 > [BOST] Day 57: Spark v Automata, Ar nosurge v Shallie, Iridion II v Tangledeep

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Greetings, and welcome to the Best OST Contest 5! In this contest, you and fellow video game soundtrack lovers will come together to once and for all answer the question "What is the best video game soundtrack? (For now.)"

Links:
Contest Bracket and Info - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sD964sXfa3trbXrr14mFKeEIA14cGM2RtHmW9TqGBmw
Discussion Thread - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/77915805

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VOTING RULES

- Each match will be between the songs representing each game, not the game as a whole. Please remember to listen and vote with this in mind! Any votes referring to a game name rather than a song name will not be counted. You have been warned!
- Listen to both songs!! If one is your literal favorite song in the world and the other is something you hate with a passion, listen to them both!!
- No alts, no rallying, no begging for something to get more votes, etc., etc., you know the drill.
- If you change your mind and would like to swap your vote, you may do so. As soon as it is 24 hours since the match topic was started, you may not change your vote and new votes will not be counted.
- If you would like to vote in advance for matches you know you will miss, please let me know in the discussion topic.

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Main Bracket: Losers Round 5 Match 1

Spark the Electric Jester - Flower Mountain Canyon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEojs3W-pEQ" data-time="

NieR: Automata - City Ruins [Rays of Light] (Dynamic - Vocals)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx0U9UsUgpI" data-time="

Main Bracket: Losers Round 5 Match 2

Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star - Class::XIO_PROCEED;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hs_Zukzguc" data-time="

Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea - Scorpio

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

Snubs Bracket: Round 3

Iridion II - In My World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4HUzjR60LM" data-time="

Tangledeep - Clash With a Mighty Foe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLF2eekypac" data-time="

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Vote Form:
Flower Mountain Canyon / City Ruins [Rays of Light] (Dynamic - Vocals)
Class::XIO_PROCEED; / Scorpio
In My World / Clash With a Mighty Foe

City Ruins [Rays of Light]
Scorpio
Clash With a Mighty Foe

Flower Mountain Canyon
Class::XIO_PROCEED;
Clash With a Mighty Foe

Flower Mountain Canyon
Class::XIO_PROCEED;
Clash With a Mighty Foe

two of these votes may seem slightly uncharacteristic for me but there was no way you were getting me on the third.
Or maybe they aren't all that uncharacteristic who knows not even me.
class with a mighty foe ha ha
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Flower Mountain Canyon
XIO_PROCEED
In My World

Weak Nier pick might lose it a winnable match, if I'm any judge of things. Which, looking at the past, I am not but~

I suppose I probably shouldn't curse the person who made the bracket for making gust fight gust in round 5, but dammit I'm gonna anyways.

Snubs is a match that I have voted in.
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Spark the Electric Jester - Flower Mountain Canyon
Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star - Class::XIO_PROCEED;
Iridion II - In My World
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NieR: Automata - City Ruins [Rays of Light] (Dynamic - Vocals)
Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star - Class::XIO_PROCEED;
Iridion II - In My World

To me, it seems like Iridion tries to be the GBA equivalent of the awesome Project S-11, but fails. And yet it still does more for me than the incredibly disappointing Tangledeep entry for this round. Weak day today. I guess it's largely because we have to deal with 4/5/6 reps again. (for next BOST, let's........yeah)
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Flower Mountain Canyon
Scorpio
Clash With a Mighty Foe

i love both songs and games and games' soundtrack in match 2 tOO MUCH unless some unforseen tragedy happens and they get gust-off'd again against blue reflection (god please no) i will likely be voting alongside the winner of match 2 as far as they go lmao ((okay i Double Checked and there is a chance for both sets i would vote for fallen leaves (Round 7) and Round 8 i could get the bleu reflection-off and want to die cool otherwise ddpdfkbl in losers finals lmfao yeah))

City Ruins [Rays of Light] (Dynamic - Vocals)
Scorpio
In My World
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Flower Mountain Canyon
Scorpio
Clash With a Mighty Foe
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City Ruins [Rays of Light]
this is like choosing between your two kids. Class::XIO_PROCEED;
In My World

bye tangledeep damn this sucks.

Flower Mountain Canyon
Scorpio
Clash With a Mighty Foe

Meh, better songs from both games in Match 1.

Hymnos chanting and Daisuke Achiwa metal are my favorite types of Gust music AAAAAHHH why does it have to be like this?? Voting Scorpio by the narrowest of margins because that guitar solo 2 minutes in is absolute ! I'd take XIO_PROCEED over all the other Shallie tracks in this contest (other than maybe? Sweep) easily though.

I was expecting to be let down by the quality of the Snubs songs after Match 2, but both of these are also great! I'm going to disagree with Haste_2 here, I feel I like the Iridion songs just a little bit more than the S11 set. CWaMF has that classic JRPG boss sound I love.
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Flower Mountain Canyon
Scorpio
Clash With a Mighty Foe

Flower Mountain Canyon
Scorpio
Clash With a Mighty Foe

City Ruins [Rays of Light] (Dynamic - Vocals)
Scorpio
Clash With a Mighty Foe
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City Ruins [Rays of Light] (Dynamic - Vocals)
Scorpio
In My World

Whoa, these all feel like close matches, but I also feel pretty strongly about who I want from each matchup! Really good day of returning favourites along with a solid discovery in the Iridion track.
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Flower Mountain Canyon
Scorpio
Clash With a Mighty Foe
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I'd like to change my third match vote to abstain, if that is allowed. The match is simply too close for me to call.
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Flower Mountain Canyon
Scorpio
Clash With a Mighty Foe

Oof, weak Nier pick.

Huh, match 2 actually pretty close. Think I like Scorpio a little better though.

Match 3 close in a worse way. The songs aren't terrible, but I don't really care about either.
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Flower Mountain Canyon
Scorpio
Clash With a Mighty Foe

City Ruins I really like, honestly in my top 2 NieR songs I've heard, and I was almost expecting to vote for it here, but man Flower Mountain Canyon just makes me smile whenever I listen to it.

Class:::whatever I wish was all like the first 20 seconds of it tbh. But there were definitely some cool parts near the middle! Scorpio almost feels like it's cheating for me with what it is. I love some good riffing and energy and this does it all.

Both of the snubs match songs are decent, actually a really tough match, I think Iridion works with its instruments(?) better than Tangledeep does, but I like some parts of Clash's melody more.

City Ruins [Rays of Light] (Dynamic - Vocals)
Scorpio
Clash With a Mighty Foe
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NieR: Automata - City Ruins [Rays of Light] (Dynamic - Vocals)
Abstain
Iridion II - In My World