Board 8 > [BOST6] Best OST Contest Day 14 feat. Conquer, SURVIVE, Brave, Ambition

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PIayer_0
11/27/22 7:00:00 PM
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Greetings, and welcome to the Best OST Contest 6! 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/1dzksb-FzWnDGAZKUYQ6qJNkBJkp88TRVk9TmnPthy00
Discussion Thread - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80233689

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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.
- 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.

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Winners' Bracket: Round 1 Match 27

Celeste - Farewell
https://youtu.be/VXIqXaX1blY

Genshin Impact - All-Conquering Tide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ4y4CxTye8

Winners' Bracket: Round 1 Match 28

Eschatos - SURVIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKtZ1OoWuFg

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse - Credits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wWA3iZoNP0

Snubs' Bracket: Round 1 Match 13

SoulCalibur II - Brave Sword, Braver Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HH3JOvxANk

Nobunaga's Ambition: Tenshouki - The Cloudy Road
https://youtu.be/zw7aZ0e6-i8

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Vote Form:
Farewell / All-Conquering Tide
SURVIVE / Credits
Brave Sword, Braver Soul / The Cloudy Road

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DireKrow
11/27/22 7:30:11 PM
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Farewell
SURVIVE
Brave Sword, Braver Soul
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kamakazikila
11/27/22 7:33:32 PM
#3:


Farewell
SURVIVE
Brave Sword, Braver Soul

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Puff Stuff
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Fluttershy_Pony
11/27/22 7:38:52 PM
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All-Conquering Tide
SURVIVE
Brave Sword, Braver Soul

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azuarc
11/27/22 7:56:43 PM
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All-Conquering Tide
Credits
The Cloudy Road

I would say what a shock it is that I'm voting for my two nominations today, but that wasn't a given and depended on the match-up.

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FL81
11/27/22 8:19:04 PM
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Genshin Impact - All-Conquering Tide
Eschatos - SURVIVE
SoulCalibur II - Brave Sword, Braver Soul

good matches again

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UF8
11/27/22 8:23:22 PM
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All-Conquering Tide
SURVIVE
Brave Sword, Braver Soul

was almost into it until it became celeste enough again zzz
i wonder how many songs genshin even has now... naturally, i have yet to refamiliarise myself with like 90% of it, yet this one obviously feels genshin enough that i should probably be concerned that it managed to end up even more samey than farewell (but then again i think this was one of the earlier soundtracks anyway)

fine i will jeez. this is probably a difficult match though...
i would've laughed if shantae got rave in the grave here instead. kinda impressive that both sets ended up lowballing here but still ended up as high energy as they are, even given their soundtracks. i mean it's not even a shantae stage theme

yeesh poor nobunaga. one of yoshihito yano's justifiably most iconic tracks ever isn't exactly the warmest welcome yoko kanno could've gotten, and now it's happened TWICE god damn (what even were the odds that both this and lonely rolling star would come up r1 with these matchups)
yeah this is really hard and definitely the best match today

thinking about yano kinda makes me wish sqc had been nominated now. guess if there was anyone that would've done it though it was probably cako or me so oops. could've made one pretty easily honestly...
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Thorn
11/27/22 8:32:18 PM
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Celeste - Farewell
Eschatos - SURVIVE
Nobunaga's Ambition: Tenshouki - The Cloudy Road

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Formerly known as xp1337.
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tgs2
11/27/22 8:48:20 PM
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All Conquering Tide
Credits
The Cloudy Road

Had to think hard on match 2.
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TeamRocketElite
11/27/22 9:07:03 PM
#10:


Genshin Impact - All-Conquering Tide
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse - Credits
SoulCalibur II - Brave Sword, Braver Soul

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My bracket looked like random picks compared to his.
Congrats to azuarc for winning the GotD 2020 Guru Contest!
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MacArrowny
11/27/22 9:07:20 PM
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All-Conquering Tide
SURVIVE
Brave Sword, Braver Soul

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Isquen
11/27/22 9:11:57 PM
#12:


Farewell
Credits
Brave Sword, Braver Soul

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[Rock and Stone] <o/
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HBJDubs
11/27/22 10:42:40 PM
#13:


All-Conquering Tide
Credits
Brave Sword, Braver Soul

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Save in the name of true love
~Project 1000~
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Hbthebattle
11/27/22 11:12:47 PM
#14:


All-Conquering Tide
SURVIVE
Brave Sword, Braver Soul

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DanKirby
11/27/22 11:21:45 PM
#15:


Farewell
Credits
Brave Sword, Braver Soul

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes
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slykirby
11/27/22 11:35:31 PM
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All-Conquering Tide
Credits
Brave Sword, Braver Soul

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Rikalaya28
11/28/22 12:18:57 AM
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All-Conquering Tide
Credits
The Cloudy Road

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Haste_2
11/28/22 9:41:22 AM
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All-Conquering Tide
Credits
Brave Sword, Braver Soul

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rwlh
11/28/22 10:29:59 AM
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All-Conquering Tide
Credits
Brave Sword, Braver Soul
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DoctorJimmy133
11/28/22 10:38:01 AM
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Tide
Survive
Cloudy

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Mihark
11/28/22 11:33:00 AM
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All-Conquering Tide
SURVIVE
The Cloudy Road
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MaxGalactica
11/28/22 12:07:35 PM
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Farewell has some pretty nice piano chords, and I'm a fan of the percussion samples used here. My main issue with Celeste soundtrack in general is the presentation of the dynamic tracks making the tracks feel long and repetitive. This one's pretty good at making it feel like a long buildup. Good track. All-Conquering Tide is also really good. What a great combination of strings and synths. This one's also a pretty solid buildup-type track. I'm gonna go with this one because the synths sound better to me and the strings are really well-done.

Eschatos and Yousuke Yasui music in general is very much not my thing. Don't really like how loud his masters are and his synth choices don't sound very appealing to me. SURVIVE's melody is ok, but that's about it as far as positives go for this one. Jake Kaufman is another person that tends to have unusually loud masters, and that's definitely the case in Credits. However, I definitely prefer the instrumentation and synth choices in Credits. Decent melody and some nice chords in here as well.

Not sure if I like the fake orchestra in Brave Sword, Braver Soul. Melody isn't great either. I do like the Asian instruments and chords used though. The Cloudy Road, on the other hand, is basically the definition of "Maxcore". Emotional piano solos are like my favorite thing ever. Such a beautiful melody and accompaniment here. Fantastic song all-around. One of the easiest votes of my life here.

Mixed day today. Some really good stuff and some not-so-good stuff.

Votes:
All-Conquering Tide
Credits
The Cloudy Road

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PIayer_0
11/28/22 1:02:01 PM
#23:


Farewell
Credits
The Cloudy Road

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andylt
11/28/22 2:07:17 PM
#24:


Farewell
SURVIVE
Brave Sword, Braver Soul

1's tracks are well-matched. They both have good buildups but Farewell's payoff is better imo.
SURVIVE gives me those good beeps 'n' boops I like. I like Credits quite a bit too.
3 is a difficult one, I always have a hard time comparing two songs that are going for very different things. I am weak for sad pianos, but Brave's progression is too fun to ignore.

Good day!

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TheArkOfTurus
11/28/22 2:13:06 PM
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Farewell
Credits
Brave Sword, Braver Soul

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Our eyes were removed
For our own safety
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Disillusion
11/28/22 3:14:21 PM
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All-Conquering Tide
SURVIVE
Brave Sword, Braver Soul

As much as I like Lena Raine's and love Jake Kaufman's work, their opponents felt better to me. That's especially rough for me for Match 2, since Kaufman has been a long-time favorite of mine and I've only known Yasui for the past year or so already.

As for Match 3, as soft and peaceful as the Nobunaga song is, I'm always a sucker for songs with faster-paced energy like what SoulCalibur offers. Sorry Kanno.
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sergiocornaga
11/28/22 4:03:55 PM
#27:


[abstain]
Credits
[abstain]
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th3l3fty
11/28/22 4:41:40 PM
#28:


Genshin Impact - All-Conquering Tide
Eschatos - SURVIVE

Nobunaga's Ambition: Tenshouki - The Cloudy Road

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Waveshine_2001
11/28/22 4:58:33 PM
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All-Conquering Tide
Credits
The Cloudy Road

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Fox Only, Final Destination.
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Korji
11/28/22 5:26:08 PM
#30:


Farewell
Credits
Brave Sword, Braver Soul
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Arti
11/28/22 6:25:03 PM
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Genshin Impact - All-Conquering Tide
Eschatos - SURVIVE
SoulCalibur II - Brave Sword, Braver Soul

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skulltrumpets
11/28/22 6:36:23 PM
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all-conquering tide
survive
brave sword, braver soul

i'm not as big a fan of farewell as i'd like. i appreciate what it is trying to do, hell, idk if i would change anything about it if i heard it in game. it really feels quintessential to celeste. adding instruments as you go, as if you're, well, climbing mt. celeste. tide, meanwhile, is more my thing. it takes less time for it to pick up, instrumental and arrangement more my thing.

survive is so thrilling and exciting! i don't normally have a lot of thoughts about eschatos. i just find the music to be very neat. the shantae credits music is very, well, shantae. the use of the burning town motif is particularly fun and playful. preference to survive, but not a bad matchup.

brave sword is very thrilling! i grew up on this game and despite how much i've listened to this track, it is very blood pumping. i love the way it dips and dances, switching between high energy and quieter pauses before winding back again. very fighting game and i say this affectionately. once again, i feel like the gods are trying to get me to vote against kanno. the cloudy road is very breezy and dreamy. like sleep music, but not at all boring. i would honestly pick this over most songs from sc2 but not its opponent.
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Plasman
11/28/22 6:41:28 PM
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Celeste - Farewell
Eschatos - SURVIVE

Why is this bracket so backloaded sobs
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pyresword
11/28/22 6:43:31 PM
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SURVIVE
The Cloudy Road

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Huntmaster95
11/28/22 6:49:40 PM
#35:


Farewell
SURVIVE
Brave Sword, Braver Soul
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loweffortmemes
11/28/22 6:58:26 PM
#36:


Genshin Impact - All-Conquering Tide
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SoulCalibur II - Brave Sword, Braver Soul

Gonna abstain on match 2. Really close match and could go either way here.
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dowolf
11/28/22 7:13:22 PM
#37:


all conquering tide
credits
BS BS

yes i know i'm late i don't care.

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