Board 8 > Final Fantasy Music Contest (FFMC) Day 5: Feat. Shadowbringers v Dear Friends

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Full bracket (we're currently in the 'Upper' section): https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=475177
Results & Discussion Topic: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79743704

Rules:
-You may vote for one track in each match.
-You do not have to vote in every match, and you do not have to vote all at once.
-Please make your votes clear.
-Please familiarise yourself with both of the tracks in a match before voting.
-You can vote based on any metric you wish, as long as it is about the music.
-The matches will last 24 hours from the posting of this topic.
-The track with more votes in each match moves on, the other is eliminated.
-If a match is tied after 24 hours, that match will remain open until one more new vote is cast.
-No alts, no rallying, no trading votes, no deleting posts.
-Please do not provide any updates to the scores.
-Have fun!

Match 1:

(1) Corneo Colosseum (VIIR)
Composed & Arranged by Mitsuto Suzuki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIFoTfjYcTE
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(16) Aerith's Theme - Home Again (VIIR)
Original game: Final Fantasy VII
Composed by Nobuo Uematsu
Arranged by Yoshinori Nakamura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEZre1odTxA

Match 2:

(8) 'Neath Dark Waters (Scions & Sinners Version) (XIV: Shadowbringers)
Composed by Masayoshi Soken
Arranged by Keiko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPz2hcu8GC8
v
(9) One-Winged Angel (VII)
Composed & Arranged by Nobuo Uematsu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDD-iYkHBhc

Match 3:

(5) Shadowbringers (XIV: Shadowbringers)
Original game: Bridge based on "Eternal Wind" from Final Fantasy III
Composed by Masayoshi Soken & Nobuo Uematsu
Arranged by Masayoshi Soken
Lyrics by Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Vocals by Amanda Achen-Keenan & Jason Charles Miller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH9IRVHBZ7Y
v
(12) Dear Friends (V)
Composed & Arranged by Nobuo Uematsu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiLn_5_O5Hk

Match 4:

(4) Court Jesters (IX)
Composed & Arranged by Nobuo Uematsu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJLp97nCjmw
v
(13) Matoya's Cave (PS Version) (I)
Composed & Arranged by Nobuo Uematsu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUc_t3i4qwE

You can listen to all of today's tracks together here (33-40): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIFoTfjYcTE&list=PLFj0gJtesYY_F4VpWk2KONwsFBVgt6X1w&index=33

Easy vote form (Delete as appropriate):
Corneo Colosseum / Aerith's Theme R
'Neath Dark Waters / One-Winged Angel
Shadowbringers / Dear Friends
Court Jesters / Matoya's Cave

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Corneo Colosseum
One-Winged Angel
Shadowbringers
Matoya's Cave

Aerith's Theme R
'Neath Dark Waters
Shadowbringers
Matoya's Cave

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Corneo Colosseum
'Neath Dark Waters
Shadowbringers
Abstain

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Aerith's Theme R
One-Winged Angel
Shadowbringers
Court Jesters
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Aerith's Theme R
One-Winged Angel
Dear Friends
Matoya's Cave

why ps1 matoyas and not nes aaaaaaa its okay songs still a bop

Aerith's Theme R
'Neath Dark Waters
Shadowbringers
Court Jesters

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Corneo Colosseum
One-Winged Angel
Dear Friends
Abstain

Aerith's Theme R
One-Winged Angel
Shadowbringers
Matoya's Cave

Match one was easy, I didn't like Corneo Colosseum at all. Match two was closer, neither song was great. Shadowbringers was great, though! Fourth match was the closest but it's hard to beat Matoya's Cave.
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Corneo's?
'Neath Dark Waters
Shadowbringers
Court Jesters?

I really think both tracks in the second match would've been better served by different versions.

Shadowbringers <3
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Aerith's Theme R
One-Winged Angel
Dear Friends
Court Jesters

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corn
OWA
Shadowbringers
Jester

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Corneo Colosseum
One-Winged Angel
Dear Friends
Court Jesters

Dang, Corneo Colosseum is cool. I love songs with aggressive, methodical percussion. I love the new Aerith's Theme too but I'm more in the mood for the first song today.

One-Winged Angel is top tier. There's not much else I'd vote for over it, here or otherwise.

Aerith's Theme R
One-Winged Angel
Shadowbringers
-

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Aerith's Theme R
One-Winged Angel
Dear Friends
Matoya's Cave
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Aerith's Theme R
One-Winged Angel
Dear Friends
Court Jesters

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Aerith's Theme R
'Neath Dark Waters
Shadowbringers
Matoya's Cave

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(16) Aerith's Theme - Home Again (VIIR)
(9) One-Winged Angel (VII)
(12) Dear Friends (V)
(4) Court Jesters (IX)
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(1) Corneo Colosseum (VIIR)
(9) One-Winged Angel (VII)
(12) Dear Friends (V)
(4) Court Jesters (IX)

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FF7R Aerith's Theme
One Winged Angel
Shadowbringers
Matoya's Cave

Yeah go Matoya and OWA though I like the Advent Children version of OWA a little more.

Matoya's Cave > One Winged Angel > Shadowbringers > Aerith's Theme > Dear Friends > 'Neath Dark Waters > Court Jesters > Corneo Colliseum

Aerith's Theme R
One-Winged Angel
Shadowbringers
Court Jesters

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Aerith's Theme R
One-Winged Angel
Dear Friends
Matoya's Cave

Can't emphasize enough how much I love this version of Aerith's Theme. I'd probably say it's the definitive version for me. The original I always thought was very pretty but a bit overdramatic for the melodies the song actually uses, so this ends up working really well. This honestly might go a bit too far in the other direction, but I think it works out to a net positive.

'Neath Dark Waters keeps sounding like it's going to play a part of One Summer's Day from Spirited Away and then I get sad when it doesn't.

Apologies to Court Jesters because I really like that song also.
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Home Again
'Neath Dark Waters
Shadowbringers
Court Jesters

home > pkmn emerald battle dome (tekken mix)
i'd say i like, say, average hamauzu piano music more than this (opened up alpha clock on a whim earlier today) but i still like it a lot
sorry matoya

(16) Aerith's Theme - Home Again (VIIR)
(9) One-Winged Angel (VII)
(12) Dear Friends (V)
(4) Court Jesters (IX)
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Aerith's Theme - Home Again
'Neath Dark Waters
Dear Friends
Matoya's Cave

My favorite part of Shadowbringers is when it is Eternal Wind. If only there was a song that was more Eternal Wind...

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Corneo Colosseum (only because actual Aerith's theme is in the bracket so it being here is redundant)
One-Winged Angel
Dear Friends
Matoya's Cave

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Aerith's Theme R
'Neath Dark Waters
Dear Friends
Matoya's Cave

Don't feel very strongly about match 1, 2, or 4, and going against my usual "I LOVE EVERYTHING FFXIV" I must also point out that I love FFV quite a bit. Match 3 was probably the closest for me, and only loses out because I want to play Endwalker already and am getting tired of HOOOOOME, RIDING HOOOOME every time I get inactivity logged.


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Aerith's Theme R
One-Winged Angel
Dear Friends
Court Jesters

court jesters is surprisingly groovy

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Corneo Colosseum
One-Winged Angel
Shadowbringers
Court Jesters

Matches 2 and 3 were tough calls. 2 because I didn't like either of the songs all that much, 3 because I enjoyed both quite a bit. I also thoroughly enjoyed Matoya's Cave, but Court Jesters is just too tough an opponent.

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(16) Aerith's Theme - Home Again (VIIR)
(9) One-Winged Angel (VII)
(12) Dear Friends (V)
(13) Matoya's Cave (PS Version) (I)

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Aerith's Theme R
One-Winged Angel
Dear Friends
Matoya's Cave

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Aerith's Theme R
'Neath Dark Waters
Shadowbringers
Matoya's Cave

The third and fourth matches were quite difficult

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Aerith's Theme R
One-Winged Angel
Shadowbringers
Matoya's Cave

you know I knew that one part of Shadowbringers sounded familiar but couldn't place it - makes sense it would be from one of the games I haven't played (but of course it's still a famous enough song for me to know). anyway let's go FFVII and also NES remixes apparently

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Corneo Colosseum
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Corneo Colosseum
One-Winged Angel
Shadowbringers
Matoya's Cave

The last match was tough, both are great. Dear Friends is good too.

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Aerith's Theme R
One-Winged Angel
Shadowbringers
Court Jesters

Match 3+4 hard choices. If Shadowbringers didn't switch into Eternal Wind, I could easily see myself flipping. And while I prefer slower arrangements of Matoya's Cave, I like this instrumentalization a lot. I feel like Jesters just does both better.

Corneo Colosseum
One-Winged Angel
Shadowbringers
Court Jesters

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Aerith's Theme R
One-Winged Angel
Shadowbringers
Court Jesters

Corneo Colosseum
One-Winged Angel
Shadowbringers
Court Jesters

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Aerith's Theme R
One-Winged Angel
Dear Friends
Matoya's Cave

Pretty easy picks this time around, although I do feel kinda bad for 'Neath Dark Waters. I do like piano pieces here and there, and this matchup entirely works against it.

this was all planned to set up Sephiroth killing Aerith next round wasnt it

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I'm saying nothing!!

(She could kill him tho!)

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