Board 8 > [VGMC] Day 24! SilentD/SpiritOfTheM, Panditah7/SkyOfT, MorningB/MADLASTW

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banshiryuu
06/21/22 10:00:00 PM
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Boy do I have a tasty poll for you today :)










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.
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- Voting in all matches is not mandatory, feel free to skip matches you do not wish to vote in.
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- 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.
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- 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

Ys Origin - Silent Desert
Composer: Takahiro Unisuga
Loop Point: 2:03
Genre: STRIDENT SANDS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j06QakJVbMw

Alto's Adventure: The Spirit of the Mountain - The Spirit of the Mountain
Composer: Todd Baker
Loop Point: 5:04
Genre: ASCENDANCE
https://youtu.be/rW_0Niws2p0

Match 2

Jewels of the Oracle - Panditah of the 7th Mountain
Composer: Steven Sauv
Loop Point: 1:33
Genre: HYPNOTIC WORLD-BEAT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfpb6jQuPSI

Atelier Escha &
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MargaretAnnMid
06/21/22 10:02:07 PM
#2:


Silent Desert
Sky of Twilight
Morning Bell
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Hbthebattle
06/21/22 10:03:47 PM
#3:


STRIDENT SANDS
SORROWFUL MODULATION
RAT UNIVERSE

After playing Ys Origin, I can safely say I am still confused as to why there's a desert inside a tower. Or lava! or whatever the fuck Blighted Blood is made of

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kamakazikila
06/21/22 10:12:38 PM
#4:


Silent Desert
Sky of Twilight
Morning Bell

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th3l3fty
06/21/22 10:21:00 PM
#6:


Alto's Adventure: The Spirit of the Mountain - The Spirit of the Mountain
Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky - Sky of Twilight
Nobunaga's Ambition: Haouden - Morning Bell

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Place
06/21/22 10:37:53 PM
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Alto's Adventure: The Spirit of the Mountain - The Spirit of the Mountain
Jewels of the Oracle - Panditah of the 7th Mountain
Nobunaga's Ambition: Haouden - Morning Bell

Super divisive today, which I'm betting will reflect in the votals. My favorite age in Myst is the one called "Todd Baker". What's going on with the mixing in Silent Desert?! It made me laugh so I gave extra points for that Today's company:

[9.0] Spirit of the Mountain
[9.0] Morning Bell
[8.0] Panditah of the 7th Mountain
[6.5] MAD LAST WORLD
[5.5] Sky of Twilight
[4.0] Silent Desert


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DoctorJimmy133
06/21/22 10:40:19 PM
#8:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Sky of Twilight
MAD LAST WORLD

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quantumB
06/21/22 10:40:20 PM
#9:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Sky of Twilight
Morning Bell
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NFUN
06/21/22 10:47:33 PM
#10:


sprit
panda-san
sad blast jorld

8
9
7.5
7
7.5
7.5

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Isquen
06/21/22 10:47:40 PM
#11:


Silent Desert
Sky of Twilight
MAD LAST WORLD

Match 1: Who put this Castlevania-ass song in my Ys? This is far from a silent desert. There is nothing about this track that says "desert" and I don't know how to judge it there. On the flip side... I'm getting some weird Toto vibes when the riff picks up in minute 1 of the Alto song? And then the bass and percussion around the mid 2:30s mark... And then it turns into Enya or something.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/5/4/AAAACbAADXkK.jpg
Gotta go with the more cohesive one, methinks. But this was probably the closest match I've had to decide on yet.

Match 2: I feel like I've been listening to Panditah, except in Deep Rock Galactic as random cave ambience. I've had to listen to it thrice over and nothing of it is hypnotic or memorable. On the flip side, I'm very obviously not the target audience for Sky of Twilight, either, but at least that one is musical.

Match 3: MRD has grown on me a bunch over the last year. This isn't my favorite from it (the overuse of cymbals around 1:30 really grates my cheese) but overall I like it leaps, bounds, and heartbeats better than the Kanno track, which sounds like it fell out of Fantasia. What is wrong with me today? Why am I voting against sweet orchestral? I DON'T KNOW SOMEONE SEND HELP.


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DireKrow
06/21/22 11:03:08 PM
#12:


Silent Desert
Sky of Twilight
MAD LAST WORLD

First match is cruel.
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Aakadarrr
06/21/22 11:16:23 PM
#13:


Silent Desert
Sky of Twilight
Morning Bell
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tgs2
06/21/22 11:18:39 PM
#14:


Silent Desert
Sky of Twilight
MAD LAST WORLD

Silent Desert [8.5]
Spirit of the Mountain [8]
Panditah [5]
Sky of Twilight [8]
Morning Bell [7.5]
MAD LAST WORLD [8]
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Team Rocket Elite
06/21/22 11:41:58 PM
#15:


Ys Origin - Silent Desert
Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky - Sky of Twilight
Mad Rat Dead - MAD LAST WORLD

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UF8
06/21/22 11:51:49 PM
#16:


ASCENDING HEIGHTS II
TWILIGHT SKY
AWAKENING

good poll lmao
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HidekuniHorita
06/21/22 11:55:13 PM
#17:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Panditah of the 7th Mountain
Morning Bell

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HasteDeux
06/22/22 12:16:33 AM
#18:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Sky of Twilight
MAD LAST WORLD

I love Spirit of the Mountain! Especially the vibraphone moments omg omg *_*. Close third match, though I suppose it's not quite as close as I what I had rated them. I hope Morning Bell doesn't get destroyed... it has certain "chord" moments that are amazing. But Kazuya Takasu has a tendency to make really solid compositions that are far greater than the sum of its parts.

Silent Desert (5.4 - 61st place) / The Spirit of the Mountain (9.25 - 8th place)
Panditah of the 7th Mountain (6.8 - 51st place) / Sky of Twilight (8.3 - 27th place)
Morning Bell (8.57 - 19th place) / MAD LAST WORLD (8.65 - 17th place)

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MaxGalactica
06/22/22 12:16:38 AM
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Silent Desert is definitely a Falcom song. It's not offensive (bad mix aside), but it doesn't do anything to interest me either. Definitely not something I'd return to.

The Spirit of the Mountain is such a cool track. Love the instrumentation used throughout, just like all the other Alto songs in the contest. Great percussion especially. The atmospheric effects add a lot as well. I do wish we had a higher quality audio file of this, but that'll come in due time I suppose. Great track.

~~Speaking of songs we don't have good quality files of.~~ It's really hard to appreciate Panditah when the audio quality is this bad lol. It's mostly ambient stuff anyways, which I can appreciate to a certain degree, but it'll have a hard time against something with more substance to it like Sky of Twilight.

Sky of Twilight has some neat elements in the guitars particularly. The vocals aren't my favorite though. The mix isn't great either. In the end, this song ends up being decent with the good elements balancing out with the not-so-good elements.

Morning Bell is definitely my favorite track in Bracket C and probably top 3 in the entire contest for me. The orchestration is sooo good in this. With the brass leading the intro, followed by flute, piano, and strings trading around the melody. The string-writing is incredible, which isn't an easy thing to do at all (Kanno makes it seem easy tho). The flute solo starting at 2:44 is really lovely, and the soft timpani to back it up is so good. Then the buildup from 3:29 till it climaxes with the main motif (which is super good btw) again is just fantastic. Then the short violin solo at 4:54 makes me a bit emotional every time. Such a great track, and it'll really hard to top this.

The transition from Morning Bell to MAD LAST WORLD is a bit jarring lol. I like this a bit more than I did during noms, though the motifs are kinda all over the place. I like the piano and sax parts in particular. But yeah, this doesn't touch Morning Bell for me.

I really like Spirit of the Mountain and Morning Bell from today. The rest is eh.

Votes:
Spirit of the Mountain
Sky of Twilight
Morning Bell

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Prince46
06/22/22 12:26:22 AM
#20:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Sky of Twilight
MAD LAST WORLD

Todd Baker is going to sweep VGMC (and so it's Yoko, but I admit I liked the MRD song more!).
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FL81
06/22/22 1:15:00 AM
#21:


Ys Origin - Silent Desert
Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky - Sky of Twilight
Nobunaga's Ambition: Haouden - Morning Bell

the silentest of deserts

Really respect what Pot7M is going for here even though I like its opponent more. Really wish we'd get more Shade songs in these contests than just SoT.

Super close match 3, I really like both of these.

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Collen
06/22/22 4:07:22 AM
#22:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Panditah of the 7th Mountain
MAD LAST WORLD

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Janus5k
06/22/22 5:27:34 AM
#23:


Silent Desert
Sky of Twilight
MAD LAST WORLD

Unisuga king
Kanako Itou queen
Ratatouille
I HATE mountains (actually Spirit of the Mountain was good too but don't tell anyone)

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Tked
06/22/22 5:29:16 AM
#24:


Silent Desert
Panditah of the 7th Mountain
MAD LAST WORLD
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Sceptilesolar
06/22/22 6:15:35 AM
#25:


Silent Desert
Sky of Twilight
Morning Bell

I can never get enough Sky of Twilight, it's great. That last match is very close for me though and I went back and forth. Happy with either advancing.

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KCF0107
06/22/22 6:28:43 AM
#26:


Spirit
Sky
Mad

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andylt
06/22/22 7:05:08 AM
#27:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Sky of Twilight
MAD LAST WORLD

Desert is pretty cool, but Mountain feels like a more complete experience. It's fresh, chill, catchy, has a wonderful atmosphere, it's completely my kind of thing. Every aspect of it is solid!
7th Mountain is a little too minimalist for me (and the sound quality is very canned), but I'm a little intrigued. I like when Twilight goes eh ki shi waaaaaa or whatever she's actually saying. There's bits I like, plenty I don't, and the whole thing feels very disjointed. That seems like a trend with this game's OST! Probably to match the character's silly hat.
Match 3 is interesting, it's difficult to compare such contrasting tracks. Morning Bell is pretty relaxing and I enjoy my time listening to it, but it's maybe a little generic or repetitive overall. I can't deny how beautiful the big swells sound though! I like the first minute or so of Mad World much more than the second, the main riff is catchy enough to get the vote.

Desert: 2.5/5
Mountain: 4/5
7Mountain: 1/5
Sky: 2/5
Morning: 3/5
WORLD: 3.5/5

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Raetsel_Lapin
06/22/22 7:18:39 AM
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The Spirit of the Mountain
Panditah of the 7th Mountain
Morning Bell

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Flamander
06/22/22 7:34:30 AM
#29:


Silent Desert
Sky of Twilight
Morning Bell

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Fivda
06/22/22 8:00:11 AM
#30:


Alto's Adventure: The Spirit of the Mountain - The Spirit of the Mountain
Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky - Sky of Twilight
Nobunaga's Ambition: Haouden - Morning Bell
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Mihark
06/22/22 8:12:01 AM
#31:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Sky of Twilight
Morning Bell
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MoonRunes
06/22/22 9:52:19 AM
#32:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Sky of Twilight
Morning Bell
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azuarc
06/22/22 9:57:40 AM
#33:


Silent Desert
Sky of Twilight
MAD LAST WORLD

These votes would appear to peg me for a certain style of listener, but two of these matches were very close for me.

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sergiocornaga
06/22/22 10:16:33 AM
#34:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Panditah of the 7th Mountain
Morning Bell
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golden009
06/22/22 11:12:33 AM
#35:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Sky of Twilight
Morning Bell

Spirit > Twilight > Bell > Desert > MAD > Panditah
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TheArkOfTurus
06/22/22 11:36:15 AM
#36:


Silent Desert
Sky of Twilight
MAD LAST WORLD

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tennisboy213
06/22/22 11:43:44 AM
#37:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Sky of Twilight
Morning Bell

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DanKirby
06/22/22 11:44:25 AM
#38:


Silent Desert
Sky of Twilight
MAD LAST WORLD

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dowolf
06/22/22 12:01:42 PM
#39:


Mountain
Mountain
Mountain...of rats? look the third match is just not being a bro here.

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xx521xx
06/22/22 12:11:38 PM
#40:


Silent Desert
Sky of Twilight
MAD LAST WORLD

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Prody Parrot
06/22/22 12:18:33 PM
#41:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Sky of Twilight
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rwlh
06/22/22 12:19:35 PM
#42:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Panditah of the 7th Mountain
MAD LAST WORLD
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Mac Arrowny
06/22/22 2:09:23 PM
#43:


I'm rather more fond of the super arrange of Silent Desert, but this version is still good. Spirit of the Mountain is a lot of fun too! Close-ish match.

Panditah bores me. Sky of Twilight definitely does not. It's inconsistent, but the peaks are crazy high.

Morning Bell sounds like something off a typical movie soundtrack. Not the uniqueness I want from Yoko Kanno. Although there are better MRD songs, MLW is good shit.

Silent Desert
Sky of Twilight
MAD LAST WORLD

Silent Desert > Sky of Twilight > MAD LAST WORLD > The Spirit of the Mountain > Morning Bell > Panditah of the 7th Mountain


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skulltrumpets
06/22/22 2:36:20 PM
#44:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Panditah of the 7th Mountain
MAD LAST WORLD

I like it better when the hills are silent tbh. i have my falcom favourites, but silent desert is doing nothing for me.

year of todd baker

match 2 was a weird one. 7th mountain felt too short. sky of twilight way too long for me. but i'd rather want more than less.

i'd honestly pick morning bell over both match 2 songs, but alas, bracket hates me it has this sweeping, timeless, ghibli-esque quality to the score. i can't say it is the most memorable or "vgmlike" of the kanno songs this year, but still solid.

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barreldragon88
06/22/22 3:53:02 PM
#45:


Alto's Adventure: The Spirit of the Mountain - The Spirit of the Mountain
Jewels of the Oracle - Panditah of the 7th Mountain
Nobunaga's Ambition: Haouden - Morning Bell

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JONALEON1
06/22/22 4:45:02 PM
#46:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Sky of Twilight
MAD LAST WORLD

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OrangeCrush980
06/22/22 5:15:59 PM
#47:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Sky of Twilight
Morning Bell

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LkProd
06/22/22 5:30:50 PM
#48:


The Spirit of the Mountain
Sky of Twilight
MAD LAST WORLD

Match 2 is hilarious
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Zigzagoon
06/22/22 6:02:17 PM
#49:


Silent Desert
Panditah of the 7th Mountain
MAD LAST WORLD

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R-Man
06/22/22 6:09:34 PM
#50:


Silent Desert
Sky of Twilight
Morning Bell

Almost forgot to vote again but pretty easy day today
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