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banshiryuu
06/20/22 10:00:02 PM
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Welcome to Video Game Music Contest 16, an annual celebration of the best of the best video game music according to the voters!

Important Links:
Bracket: https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=475935
Contest info sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_IU5iCFTM_4WEx8ZWKwznMz5v2tarCKh1Ag0mxIgAes
Contest discussion thread: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80027411
Main bracket playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT3m7iohpL0xxfgkmGKvEyWfHvNZ53Kbn
Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16XAaBMDuUnQ4c5AxQNL9ZhvD7VG5kQyrXWWZxnkrn-o
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o
Discord: https://discord.gg/WDvMS4a

Rules:
- Listen to both songs in a given match, at least through the loop time provided (to make sure you don't skip before you've heard the whole thing!)
- Please consider the loop point listed when judging the song; if a video loops one minute 5 times, don't treat it as if it's a repetitive 5 minute song
- If it's a match between your favorite song ever and a song you despise, still LISTEN TO BOTH! Votes can and will be disqualified if there is suspicion songs are not being listened to, and you may be discounted for the rest of the contest for repeat offenses.
- No alt accounts, no rallying or begging, etc., etc.... You only get one vote! Swapping votes is alright, just make clear that you've already made a vote and are swapping.
- Make clear what your voting options are! Please keep votes separate from any comments, and use the titles given in the topic post.
- Voting in all matches is not mandatory, feel free to skip matches you do not wish to vote in.
- Vote based on the links provided, and not other sources of audio. Links are specifically chosen for best quality and the like.
- Don't discuss vote tallies in this thread, or in other threads, as they may influence votes. Likewise, please refrain from looking at the running tally before voting.

Voting Period:
- Today's matches will last 24 hours from the time of posting, or 24 hours from 10pm Eastern, whichever is the later time.
- Please note this may mean that two topics will be active at the same time!
- If you anticipate being unable to vote in a given day, please send an absentee vote to @banshiryuu, or post your absentee vote in the discussion thread!

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Match 1

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd - Illusionary Blue Flowers
Composer: Ryo Takeshita
Loop Point: 1:58
Genre: MAGMATIC DISCO
https://youtu.be/LeCq5dLItXQ

Metal Gear Solid - The Best Is Yet To Come
Composer: Rika Muranaka
Loop Point: 5:42
Genre: ANNUAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1bzqjoZyeQ38

Match 2

Burning Rangers - Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
Composer: Naofumi Hataya
Loop Point: 3:56
Genre: TOKU SPIRIT
https://youtu.be/qrYuhfeXpS8

Beyond Good and Evil - Home Sweet Ho
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DireKrow
06/20/22 10:01:53 PM
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Illusionary Blue Flowers
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
City of Tears
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Hbthebattle
06/20/22 10:05:48 PM
#3:


MAGMATIC DISCO
TOKU SPIRIT
A.N.N.E.D.E.M.O.N.I.U.M.

match 3 kinda tough
i'd prefer the english version for Burning Hearts but hey, still good

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Fivda
06/20/22 10:07:54 PM
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Metal Gear Solid - The Best Is Yet To Come
Beyond Good and Evil - Home Sweet Home
Hollow Knight - City of Tears
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dowolf
06/20/22 10:13:49 PM
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The Best is Yet to Upset
Home on Sweethome
;_; city

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moons
06/20/22 10:20:05 PM
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Metal Gear Solid - The Best Is Yet To Come
Homestuck
A.N.N.E.D.E.M.O.N.I.U.M.
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MoonRunes
06/20/22 10:32:06 PM
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Illusionary Blue Flowers
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
City of Tears
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quantumB
06/20/22 10:32:52 PM
#8:


The Best Is Yet To Come
Home Sweet Home
stg_travel_2_3
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FL81
06/20/22 10:56:21 PM
#9:


The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd - Illusionary Blue Flowers
Burning Rangers - Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
A.N.N.E - stg_travel_2_3

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Team Rocket Elite
06/20/22 11:26:43 PM
#10:


Metal Gear Solid - The Best Is Yet To Come
Burning Rangers - Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
Hollow Knight - City of Tears

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HBJDubs
06/20/22 11:29:34 PM
#11:


The Best Is Yet To Come
Home Sweet Home
City of Tears

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DeadTaffer
06/20/22 11:36:38 PM
#12:


The Best Is Yet To Come
Home Sweet Home
City of Tears
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MaxGalactica
06/21/22 12:13:23 AM
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Doing votes early today (and probably for the next few days) so I don't get stuck being busy and not having time to listen to everything before the deadline.

Illusionary Blue Flowers is alright. Nothing about it particularly interests me though. It's just there. Melody is okay, instruments aren't noteworthy, production is fine. Not much else to say about it.

Apparently this is the other memed to death song here. Unfortunate, since I really like this one. Aoife N Fhearraigh does a fantastic job on the vocals. Lovely instrumentation throughout. The low whistle solo in the intro is great as well. And including a bouzouki is always welcome. Great melodies throughout too, making one of my favorite Metal Gear songs in general.

Burning Hearts is a fun song. Takenobu Mitsuyoshi has a great voice, and the chorus is super catchy. The sax solo is pretty cool too.

Home Sweet Home is really nice. Love the piano parts here. The strings are pretty nice as well. I like the quiet hand percussion too, it adds quite a bit to the texture of the composition. It does get a bit repetitive, but it's not too long of a song, so it's not a dealbreaker or anything for me. This is kind of a tough match tbh.

City of Tears is so good with the vocals, strings, and harp. Such great instrumentation. I do wish it had a stronger melody, but that's a minor gripe here. I still really like the song.

Hmm, I kinda like stg_travel_2_3, but it also doesn't really capture me either. The production is pretty solid, it has a cool melody, but at the same time, it kinda doesn't go anywhere interesting to me. So I'll just leave this song with a decent rating from me.

Pretty good day today.

Votes:
END TITLE / THE BEST IS YET TO COME
Home Sweet Home
City of Tears

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HasteDeux
06/21/22 12:16:26 AM
#14:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Home Sweet Home
stg_travel_2_3

Illusionary Blue Flowers (8.6 - 17th place) / The Best Is Yet To Come (7.2 - 37th place)
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL) (5.8 - 58th place) / Home Sweet Home (7.5 - 43rd place)
City of Tears (8.3 - 27th place) / stg_travel_2_3 (9.45 - 4th place)

Again, TBIYTC is ranked higher than Home Sweet Come because we're comparing different brackets! (clearly I like Bracket C more than Bracket B!)


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kamakazikila
06/21/22 12:18:55 AM
#15:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
stg_travel_2_3

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azuarc
06/21/22 12:20:54 AM
#16:


The Best Is Yet To Come
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
City of Tears

Didn't explicitly listen to City of Tears, but I was playing Hollow Knight earlier, so I think that counts.

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UF8
06/21/22 12:29:40 AM
#17:


MAGMATIC DISCO
NOSTALGIC PULSE
A.N.N.E.D.E.M.O.N.I.U.M.

sorry takenobu
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HidekuniHorita
06/21/22 12:58:27 AM
#18:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
stg_travel_2_3

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Omniscience lies beyond the void, beyond decay!
I am one with the Akashic Records!
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Prince46
06/21/22 1:00:53 AM
#19:


The Best Is Yet To Come
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
City of Tears

I'm a sucker for SEGA, but whoever wins Match 2 is fine.
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KCF0107
06/21/22 2:00:14 AM
#20:


Illusionary
Home
Travel

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GameBopAdv
06/21/22 2:48:18 AM
#21:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Home Sweet Home
stg_travel_2_3

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banananor
06/21/22 3:15:42 AM
#22:


END TITLE / THE BEST IS YET TO COME
Home Sweet Home
City of Tears

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Mihark
06/21/22 5:01:24 AM
#23:


The Best Is Yet To Come
Home Sweet Home
City of Tears
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Tked
06/21/22 5:13:13 AM
#24:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Home Sweet Home
City of Tears
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Sceptilesolar
06/21/22 6:18:50 AM
#25:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
stg_travel_2_3

Burning Hearts is fun.

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andylt
06/21/22 6:27:48 AM
#26:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Home Sweet Home
City of Tears

Flowers is decent, I like the first 30 seconds a lot and whenever that bit is in the background, the rest not as much. Why is Best is Yet to Come given a slot every year? It's alright but not even remotely near the best MGS song, and it's not bad enough to be a meme pick. I guess you had to be there.
BURNING RANGERS~. For some reason that catchy chant gets me, the rest of the song is alright but that alone makes it memorable. Unfortunately Home Sweet Home is more my kind of thing, but respect to the BURNING RANGERS.
City of Tears is probably my least fav of the 3 HK tracks that made the bracket, but I still really really like it. stg has its moments but this is no contest for me.

Flowers: 3/5
Best: 2.5/5
Burning: 2.5/5
Home: 3.5/5
City: 4.5/5
stg: 2.5/5

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tgs2
06/21/22 6:48:20 AM
#27:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Burning Hearts (Burning Angel)
stg_travel_2_3

Blue Flowers [7.5]
TBiYtC [6.5]
Home Sweet Home [7.5]
Burning Hearts [8]
City of Tears [7]
stg_travel_2_3 [9.5]

Maybe this time I will have a faves bracket winner make it past round 1.

1. Turok 2:Seeds of Evil (GBC) - Scroll Stage
2. Super Mario 64 - Staff Roll
3. ???
4. ???
5. Warframe - Sleeping in the Cold Below
6. Heartland - Para Bellum
7. ???
8. Alto's Odyssey - An Endless Desert
9. Phantasy Star Online 2 - Yggdrasil
10. Shatter - Argon Refinery
11. The Caligula Effect 2 - xxxx/xx/xx (Remix)
12. Napple Tale - Dreams in a Pie
13. ???
14. A.N.N.E - stg_travel_2_3
15. ???
16. ???
17. GITADORA OverDrive - Jupiter Guns Novel ( Long Version)
18. ???
19. Lightning Returns - The Glittering City of Yusnaan
20. Mad Rat Dead - Breath of Forest

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Collen
06/21/22 6:54:09 AM
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Illusionary Blue Flowers
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
stg_travel_2_3

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Seems like that leaks out and I forget all the wonderful things escape me now
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Raetsel_Lapin
06/21/22 8:01:12 AM
#29:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
City of Tears

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Flamander
06/21/22 8:07:45 AM
#30:


The Best Is Yet To Come
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
City of Tears

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MargaretAnnMid
06/21/22 8:11:58 AM
#31:


The Best Is Yet To Come
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
City of Tears
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Isquen
06/21/22 8:20:13 AM
#32:


The Best is Yet to Come
Home Sweet Home
City of Tears

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th3l3fty
06/21/22 8:26:19 AM
#33:


Metal Gear Solid - The Best Is Yet To Come
Beyond Good and Evil - Home Sweet Home
A.N.N.E - stg_travel_2_3

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DoctorJimmy133
06/21/22 9:21:34 AM
#34:


Illusionary
Burning
City

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R-Man
06/21/22 9:32:15 AM
#35:


The Best Is Yet To Come
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
stg_travel_2_3

LOL at the genre name for TBIYTC. Might as well call it The Best Is Yet To Edge because let's face it it is not retiring (I will gladly be proven otherwise though)
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rwlh
06/21/22 11:23:35 AM
#36:


1. PowerOne
2. You Were There
3. Scroll Stage
4. ???
5. Staff Roll (Super Mario 64)
6. Dreams in a Pie
7. ???
8. ???
9. CHAMPION RITUAL
10. Passing Through the Forest
11. ???
12. ???
13. ???
14. ???
15. ???
16. ???
17. ???
18. Kusanagi Village
19. ???
20. Calling
21. LIN NE KRO NE
22. Egg Reverie
23. ???
24. ???
25. The Glittering City of Yusnaan
26. ???
27. ???
28. Sky Tower
29. ???
30. The Elephant's Foot of Obnoxious Music
31. Time Moves Slow
32. The Apex of the World (Rain)
33. Radical Dreamers ~Unstolen Jewel~
34. Interwoven Stories
35. ???
36. ???
37. ???
38. Home Sweet Home
39. The Wretched Automatons
40. It's Dangerous to Go Alone
41. ???
42. ???
43. xxxx/xx/xx (Remix)
44. Yggdrasil
45. stg_travel_2_3
46. ???
47. SaKuRa
48. The Rain Formerly Known as Purple
49. ???
50. Kaze no Ne

Very strong third match. Home Sweet Home/City of Tears would be an interesting matchup: they both scratch similar itches.

The Best Is Yet To Come
Home Sweet Home
stg_travel_2_3
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golden009
06/21/22 11:44:29 AM
#37:


The Best Is Yet To Come
Home Sweet Home
stg_travel_2_3
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Prody Parrot
06/21/22 11:48:56 AM
#38:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
stg_travel_2_3
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DanKirby
06/21/22 11:52:41 AM
#39:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
stg_travel_2_3

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tennisboy213
06/21/22 11:56:04 AM
#40:


The Best Is Yet To Come
Home Sweet Home
City of Tears

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xx521xx
06/21/22 12:09:51 PM
#41:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
stg_travel_2_3

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sergiocornaga
06/21/22 12:15:02 PM
#42:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Home Sweet Home
stg_travel_2_3

Hard first couple of matches. Almost can't believe I'm voting against Takenobu Mitsuyoshi's consistently incredible voice
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Mac Arrowny
06/21/22 12:49:45 PM
#43:


Ahh, the best Trails OST returns. As does one of the worst MGS songs...

Burning Hearts kinda feels like a song that would come on the radio and cause me to switch stations. I feel like Burning Rangers has had better songs than this in these contests. Home Sweet Home kinda feels like a nice modern FF song, but it doesn't go as many places as I would've liked.

City of Tears has that nice feeling but with some more emotion to it. This is the only close match today... stg is good stuff too but in a totally different way.

Illusionary Blue Flowers
Home Sweet Home
City of Tears

Illusionary Blue Flowers > City of Tears > stg_travel_2_3 > Home Sweet Home > Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL) > The Best Is Yet To Come

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TheArkOfTurus
06/21/22 1:24:46 PM
#44:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Home Sweet Home
City of Tears

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Our eyes were removed
For our own safety
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skulltrumpets
06/21/22 2:33:43 PM
#45:


The Best Is Yet To Come
Home Sweet Home
City of Tears

I'm voting depression today despite being in a good mood. Match 1+2 are close enough that I won't be upset by a loss.
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OrangeCrush980
06/21/22 4:50:52 PM
#46:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Home Sweet Home
City of Tears

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Korji
06/21/22 5:06:00 PM
#47:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Home Sweet Home
City of Tears
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Plasman
06/21/22 5:46:47 PM
#48:


The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd - Illusionary Blue Flowers
Burning Rangers - Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
Hollow Knight - City of Tears

Nothing bad or super stand-out today. just a day

Rurning Bangers > Che Test Bs Uet Yo Tome > Fllusionary Ilue Blowers > Tity cf Oears > 3tg_sravel_t_2 > Home Hweet Some
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Janus5k
06/21/22 6:21:49 PM
#49:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
stg_travel_2_3

Voting for everything happy today : )

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slykirby
06/21/22 6:42:56 PM
#50:


Illusionary Blue Flowers
Burning Hearts (Burning ANGEL)
City of Tears

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