Board 8 > [VGMC] Day 83! Jupiter Guns Novel/Sky Tower, DESIRE/Breath of Forest

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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!

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Rules:
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Sky Tower
Breath of Forest

Sky Tower
Breath of Forest

Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)
Breath of Forest

abstain
DESIRE

Sky Tower
DESIRE

jupiter
desire

(aka planetes)

Jupiter Guns Novel
Breath of Forest

Sky Tower DX possibly going for that Moonstruck Blossom rerun wherein it retires despite me never fucking voting for it even if I consider it a solid 8/10 song. There's a chance I will never vote for it unless it wins B and faces off with Passing Through the Forest. Insanity.

abstain
Breath of Forest

Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX - Sky Tower
Mad Rat Dead - Breath of Forest

Guns
Desire

GITADORA OverDrive - Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)
Mad Rat Dead - Breath of Forest

Breath of Forest

Sky Tower
Breath of Forest

yep i have voted against a song i supported four times dear god. also begrudging vote for sky tower even though it's the wrong version but... it's sky tower lol jgn is a very worthy winner as well though fwiw

jupiter
BOF

Sky Tower
Breath of Forest

Jupiter (long)
Desire (short)

Sky Tower
Breath of Forest

Sky Tower
Breath of Forest

Jupiter Guns Novel
Breath of Forest

Sky Tower
Breath of Forest

Sky Tower
Breath of Forest

Sky Tower
DESIRE

Sky Tower
Breath of Forest

Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)
Breath of Forest

Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)
Breath of Forest

Sky Tower
Breath of Forest

Sky Tower
Breath of Forest

Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)
Breath of Forest

Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)
DESIRE

Sky Tower
DESIRE

Fully expected to vote forest, but for some reason I'm enjoying desire more than any other song this morning.

Sky Tower
Breath of Forest

since it's probably guaranteed desire ends its run here i figured i'd go and link the proper ingame version of DESIRE since the album version in the video, while super nice and clean and good, does fade out early for whatever reason

in other words, i'm showing the ending with the ending since it's all ending

https://youtu.be/RqWkJ3o2aGw?t=1033

there may have been better quality uploads for this but static sounds aside this was the one i personally felt sounded the best from what playthroughs i noticed

Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX - Sky Tower
Cleopatra's Fortune - DESIRE

Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)
Breath of Forest

Sky Tower
DESIRE

Sky Tower
Breath of Forest

Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)
Breath of Forest

Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)
DESIRE

Raiden V - The Phenomenon (Yoshimi Kudo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4rJfVT3nbo

I don't expect The Phenomenon to rank at or near the top of anyone's Raiden V favourites list except for a small handful of people. I'm one of them! The Phenomenon scratches a particular itch that I'm sure some people have noticed in my vgm taste-- shifting, repeating figures that make interesting musical patterns. This one intrigues me in particular because despite this somewhat minimalistic feel, the track itself feels really big in that sort of epic Kudo way. This is apparently the true final boss theme of the game, and it really does give you a sense that you're facing something enormous and unknowable, a sort of cosmic force of nature.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity - Illusory Holehills (Keisuke Ito, Yasuhiro Kawagoe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brtdP3mKm2M

I don't think PMD and Caravan Stories always sound similar, but this one does feel similar to something that might show up on Caravan Stories Vol. 6, especially the intro. This is a wonderfully playful track, dancing about unpredictably; I love little things like the way the tritone feels on 0:09 and succeeding repetitions. The way the descending bells and chords introduce the 'determination' section of this track is really awesome too-- it's an unexpectedly delightful payoff. I promised Toxtricity once that I'd listen through the whole GTI soundtrack; this is another self-reminder to sit down and go through it properly.

Chase Bombers - A Lovely Drive With You (Shuichiro Nakazawa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFa4-Ilb6cg

What a jaunty track. This sort of 6/8 feel is always a lot of fun for me to groove to. Digging around for this track was pretty interesting as well-- it led me to look at some older ZUNTATA work that I hadn't really explored. I think this is a big part of the experience of looking for new music as a tangent from music you've encountered and liked-- you end up finding entire pockets of music you may not have checked out otherwise.

Mad Rat Dead - If We Could Be Friends, (Camellia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIswYjsnqck

I mentioned this in an earlier writeup, and running into it was one of the things that led me to this r4 approach. The opening melody is very reminiscent of Undertale. Sometimes Camellia likes to throw the kitchen sink at a track, and that can be a lot of fun, but I also like his more subdued approach here in the intro, full of light, bright sounds. 1:43 is extremely 'rhythm game' Camellia and I like it a ton; I like his use of detuning just after this as well.

Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)
Breath of Forest

Amazon Guns Novel (Long Version)
Breath of Planet

Sky Tower
DESIRE

Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX - Sky Tower
Mad Rat Dead - Breath of Forest

Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)
DESIRE

Sky Tower
DESIRE

Sky Tower
Breath of Forest

rat

[abstain]
Cleopatra Fortune - DESIRE

Man. Today's heap:

[8.0] DESIRE
[6.0] Sky Tower
[6.0] Jupiter Guns Novel (Long Version)
[6.0] Breath of Forest

Sky Tower
Breath of Forest