Board 8 > [BOST] Day 66: Winners Finals!! Umineko v VVVVVV; Snubs Semi Murasaki2 v IIDX 24

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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: Winnera Finals

Umineko no Naku Koro ni - worldenddominator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVr0IUQ6BwE" data-time="

VVVVVV - Piercing the Sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD9jNa1yNlE" data-time="

Snubs Bracket: Semifinals

Murasaki Tsurugi - Lake of Tears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LshN2rYYsUA" data-time="

beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ - DORNWALD ~Der Junge im Kfig~

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

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Vote Form:
worldenddominator / Piercing the Sky
Lake of Tears / DORNWALD ~Der Junge im Kfig~

match 1:

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dammit tsurugi you made me vote Junge today
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Umineko no Naku Koro ni - worldenddominator
beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ - DORNWALD ~Der Junge im Kfig~
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I'm da winnera!

VVVVVV - Piercing the Sky - worldenddominator #1?! It is my least favorite of the setlist.
beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ - DORNWALD ~Der Junge im Kfig~- huh, I didn't know about this "extended" version of Junge. Junge's one of my all-time favorites, so it makes me happy to find out about this.
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worldenddominator
DORNWALD ~Der Junge im Kfig~

the best

the best

wed a top two song from the contest (I assume YNA was on FFIX's setlist, so that'd be #1, though wed's right up there with it)
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Piercing the Sky
Lake of Tears

First match is basically two 10/10s for me. Except Piercing the Sky is actually like 11/10
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worldenddominator
DORNWALD ~Der Junge im Kfig~

okay umineko i give up you can finally have my vote in this amazing match befitting of winners finals..... even though i still wish it were a bit more "what the fuck this made it to winners finals?!" lmao

TOTTO TOTTO TOTTO TOTTO TOTTO this is actually a rare case of liking the long version the same as/more than the short version, the intro is really really cool and some added stuff is very cool LIKE THE PIANO HITTING AT 3:46 AAAAAA god i hope archaic tale ep2 happens (even tho dawn of simurgh really should've been ep2 tbh lmao)

With your drill, Pierce the Sky!

technically i should abstain apparently but i dont think zyx's mom will notice
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worldenddominator
DORNWALD ~Der Junge im Kfig~

worldenddominator
DORNWALD ~Der Junge im Kfig~

zts zts zts zts
totto totto totto totto
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worldenddominator
Lake of Tears

Fuck you deo for orchestrating this match. It's not tsurugi's fault zero divide failed to make the match that should've killed it first, or even mine

Umineko no Naku Koro ni - worldenddominator
beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ - DORNWALD ~Der Junge im Kfig~

MATCH 1

To me, worldenddominator's honestly the most quintessential song in Umineko's soundtrack. I feel like if you were to ask fans of this game what the most popular, defining, or well-liked songs in the game are, you'd get a lot of people giving this song as an answer for all 3 of those questions. That's pretty much why I felt that this song had to be in the #1 slot. As for the song itself, I love all the emotions it packs into this from dark and tense to calm, somber even. Definitely a shining example of zts at his best. Though, I think this is actually a close second for favorite zts Umineko song. I feel like I enjoy lastendconductor just a little bit more.

Piercing the Sky is also a very good representative from VVVVVV's soundtrack, but there's no way I vote against worldenddominator here. I'll show you this golden dream!!

Very strong match.

MATCH 2

Lake of Tears feels very tropical. Like this kind of composition just makes me feel like I'm at a beach resort or something. Really relaxing song that I like a lot!

I feel like I like this long version slightly less, but the main highlights of the song, the vocals and the piano harmonizing, are fortunately still very prominent, so my score for this wouldn't be lowered by that much. Pretty close match, but I'm feeling Dornwald more right now.

worldenddominator > Piercing the Sky > DORNWALD ~Der Junge im Kfig~ > Lake of Tears

Good songs today!

worldenddominator
DORNWALD ~Der Junge im Kfig~
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Piercing the Sky
Lake of Tears

Piercing the Sky
Lake of Tears
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Piercing the Sky
Lake of Tears

Piercing the Sky
Lake of Tears

shout out to the three guys above me
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worldenddominator
Lake of Tears

good stuff
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Piercing the Sky
DORNWALD ~Der Junge im Kfig~

For as generally disappointed as I've been with the results from the contest, this finals makes up for it.
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worldenddominator
DORNWALD ~Der Junge im Kfig~

Feel like voting for the "evil"-sounding songs today.
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Piercing the Sky
Lake of Tears

CHANGE my vote to worldenddominator. though it is still my least favorite Umineko rep... granted, all the reps I score between 7.5 and 8.5, so it's not like I don't like it overall! I love the 7/4 on top of 4/4 late in the loop, as well as some of the cool voice leading after that. I would have given this an 8.5 or even a 9 if wasn't for the obnoxiously loud beat....
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VVVVVV - Piercing the Sky
Murasaki Tsurugi - Lake of Tears

Holy wow, tough day and there's a lot to digest. Let's start from the top.

Piercing the Sky is kind of perfect. And I don't mean that it's perfect like "best VGM song ever" or whatever. I mean that it accomplishes everything it sets out to do, and no part that you could add or subtract would reasonably improve it. I feel this way about most of VVVVVV, but Piercing is really the -one- where all the elements come together and take you off on this soaring, evocative adventure with dramatic highs and lows. It wants you to dance, to move, but it also wants you to reflect. To push past the limits of what you're capable of, or what you think you're capable of, and pierce the fucking sky.
I love this song, dude.

"VVVVVV vs. Umineko is the most obviously B8 final possible, and it's surprising it took 5 contests for us to reach this point"
~FL81

I haven't been around here long enough to really understand the weight of this, but even without a first-hand account I can tell that Umineko music is held up as a sort of gold standard. It's the bar, and very, very few things are going to be able to best it. That all out and said, I don't get it. I've listened through worldenddominator something like four times in a row today, each time more critically; poring over details I may not have noticed before. And I still feel so empty.

Maybe I just needed to be there, you know? A couple years give or take of a song like this growing on you to the point of being a fond memory. But for now, it has precious little to offer me. Even the bits that I did like (the harpsichord solo and glitchy distortions in the back half) couldn't make much of a difference since the whole is so bland and played-out. Maybe I'll feel differently with time.

Moving on, Murasaki's been tearing up the snubs bracket, eh? And we might not be done just yet, because damn if Lake of Tears doesn't have the right moves. In some places, it reminds me of another game in the bracket: Ripple Dot Zero. Swap FM for contemporary synth production and it might make a lesser Part Two track for a Crater Lake-type area. Also wanted to note that the sweep pads, heavily associated with hard EDM of the day, are put to great use during lulls just before the repeating chorus. On the whole, it's a shiny little funk/jazz fusion arrangement that's just sticky enough to keep you coming on back for play after play.

DORNWALD made some admirable headway in the last VGMC, and it's not difficult to see why. Track's got a lot of B8 appeal for sure, and the great moments are like stupid great. But the parts alone don't make a whole and, while I can't remember if this was the version used in VGMC or not, I definitely enjoy the in-game cut more since it's got just the right amount of all the good stuff. Stings to vote against this today, but I consistently and confidently prefer Lake of Tears that bit more.

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MycroProcessor posted...

It's not an "it grows on you, you'd like it if you were there" thing i don't think really, it's just a thing that's in the category of NOT your particular taste and that's all there is to it.

Oh hm, I don't want to clutter the thread in progress but that does cast a more reasonable light on things. Though in this case I'm not sure if it's specifically the EDM side of wed that I reacted to.

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worldenddominator
DORNWALD ~Der Junge im Kfig~

Piercing the Sky is actually the vvvvvv song I really like but Umineko still better.

Also for the record I think exposure through board 8 might give sort of a distorted view of the Umineko soundtrack? I feel like what board 8 mostly talks about are the zts songs, which I do like a lot, but also they only comprise like 5% of an OST that is very diverse in terms of the styles of music it has on it. That variety is actually a much bigger factor in why I praise the Umineko OST than just really liking dreamenddischarger or worldenddominator whatever. I'm not sure if you'd like the other stuff more or not, but there's definitely a lot more types of songs than just this edm stuff.
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worldenddominator
Lake of Tears

in a weird way I kind of want whichever winner song that loses here to also lose in the losers bracket just because it would feel like a shame to have the last song that goes into it just make a U-Turn mockery of the entire extra system we've done. Which is also somewhat odd for me to think about because I would think it's cool if VVVVVVV won and I'm not even voting for it here so maybe I need to rethink priorities anyway also the picture of the dude for the vvvvvv song bugs me more than it should but that doesn't affect my vote
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*drowns in the lake*