Board 8 > [BOST 2022] Day 2 - The Legend of Legacy

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VOTES
Nilah, the Joy Unbound
Renata Glasc, The Chem-Baroness
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/0/4/AAYf1jAAE_BQ.jpg

VOTES
Subterranean Sunrise
Renata Glasc, The Chem-Baroness
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

VOTES
Subterranean Sunrise
The Stygian Study
Pishon Dry Lake

ugh, sorry, League.

VOTES
Subterranean Sunrise
The Stygian Study
Pishon Dry Lake

I really like all six songs

Votes:
Subterranean Sunrise
The Stygian Study
K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah

Ironic the only League song I like this go-around is for a character whose primary positions I avoid like the plague.

VOTES
Subterranean Sunrise
Renata Glasc, The Chem-Baroness
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

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Subby Sun is an interesting meatball. It feels like a great song to explore a metroidvania to. The instrumentation and rhythm are really cool. This is growing on me! The last minute or so in particular is so cool. Nilah certainly lives up to its subtitle; it's such a wonderfully evocative song. I think the intro is a fair bit too long? But then we get into the bit at 1:00 and it's so cool. So yeah, I love it. But I do wish it were a bit tighter. It feels unfair to say that it would've won the match if it were 2:30 instead of 3:15, but it also feels unfair to say this is a round 1 matchup so.

Straight from Africa to the Middle Easterlies? Sure. I don't really have much to say about this. It's kind of a letdown after the last two tracks. It has a similar cool last-minute buildup as Subby Sun, but it doesn't land nearly as well. Ranoutof Glass is easily the weakest from the lollards, I guess I like it more? But I'd rather just vote for any of the other 4 tracks.

Fission feels derivative. I have heard this melody so many times. Given that I know e.g. The Rain Formally Known as Purple is a reference (shocker, I know), it's probably a reference to The Thing, but I can't pull up from my brainstem what The Thing is and it just bothers me. but that's fine because IT'S BACK TO AFRICA BABY wait is the subtitle implying he's a lion? is that racist? i don't care the drums are so cool (am i allowed to call them tribal drums? i feel like i'm not). Really this is just Nilah but better. And I like Nilah! It manages to be tighter, yet 45 seconds longer; it just has more ideas. The brass right at the end of the first section is so badass. The middle section is maybe a bit long, but then we get to 2:30 or so and it's so emotional. I have no idea if these are even actually lyrics, but I feel like I can hear prayers offered at the dawn. Then there's the final, glorious cheer. What a way to go out.

During noms, I knew I liked only a very select number of RL2 tracks, and I feared LoL didn't really have a full compliment of songs. I don't think either set here makes me disagree with those assumptions; in particular, I don't know a single other 2022 LoL song. But hey, if it wins, hopefully I'll be surprised.

VOTES
Subterranean Sunrise
The Stygian Study
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

This is a hardcore match, since I really like the League soundtrack. Subterranean is my favorite from RL2, while K'Sante is my favorite from League. Match two has the weakest songs from both, haha.

VOTES
Subterranean Sunrise
Renata Glasc, The Chem-Baroness
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

The first match here had me worried I'd be completely voting against my own double.

Subterranean Sunrise
Renata Glasc, The Chem-Baroness
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

Nilah, the Joy Unbound
Renata Glasc, The Chem-Baroness
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

Subterranean Sunrise
Renata Glasc, The Chem-Baroness
Pishon Dry Lake

VOTES
Subterranean Sunrise
Renata Glasc, The Chem-Baroness
Pishon Dry Lake

Subterranean Sunrise
The Stygian Study
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

VOTES
Nilah, the Joy Unbound
The Stygian Study
Pishon Dry Lake

Man I am really just not feeling this day. I mean I love Rogue Legacy, but definitely not for its soundtrack, and the LoL ones just feel generic and uninspired.

Subterranean Sunrise
Renata Glasc, The Chem-Baroness
Pishon Dry Lake

VOTES
Nilah, the Joy Unbound
Renata Glasc, The Chem-Baroness
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

weak day

VOTES
Nilah, the Joy Unbound
Renata Glasc, The Chem-Baroness
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

VOTES
Subterranean Sunrise
The Stygian Study
Pishon Dry Lake

I like both Sunrise and Nilah very much, I just gotta listen to know which one hits more today (...) Okay, I'm going Nilah, but make no mistake this match can go either way for me.

Stygian is kinda nice. Renata is also just okay. Hmmm... after relistening, Stygian sticks out more, weak match though.

Piston Lake is pretty good, the drops are the best part but it keeps itself constantly good. K'Sante is such a banger, though! Hard to say no to it, League's music just continues to surprise me.

VOTES
Nilah, the Joy Unbound
The Stygian Study
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

Subterranean Sunrise has such a killer intro. The sparse plucking sound setting up the rest of this track. This is a killer song. Especially when it switches to something that feels kind of Risk of Rain-esque. Such a strong, solid track. It'll be pretty difficult to beat this one.

I just love how pleasing League music is on my ears. Even when it's a genre I'm not hot on, the production is just so good and immersive. The soundscape is really top notch in this one. The rustling, like sand in the wind, the flutes and drums ... it really feels like a joyous movement unfolding. A really close match we have here.

The Stygian Study is pretty good stuff. I really like how it picks up pace towards the end. Wish there was more of that.

Dude I love scary milfs. This theme is so smoky and slippery, this cool jazz sax riff right out of something like L.A. Noire, combined with those drums and sinister strings. It is dangeorus, but in a way that's so, so stylish. This is such a sick combo that I don't get often. I also, in my beautiful ability to forget to read video descriptions, did not know Two Feathers worked on this. I only know them from Hellsinger but talk about a style shift. Anyway, this is great, probably my favourite League song. Or at least my favourite in recent years. I cannot in good faith dunk on LoL because of Renata Glasc.

I like the rhythm at the beginning, it kinda reminds me of water drops. Not sure if this dry lake is meant to be aboveground or underground, but I'm kind of thinking about a big cave structure here. And then it just hits you with a strong, heavy melody. Man, but when it goes all quiet again might just be my favourite. I think if a song remains high energy it sometimes becomes a slurry of sounds to me.

I know I said that stuff about Renata Glasc making it impossible to shit on League, but K'sante's theme might just be better. The rhythm is so cool, drums beating in a pattern like a war song. And the vocals really do remind me of Nilah's theme as well. A sense of joy and self expression. That part where they stop for a second and it all goes silent ... before it doubles down on the intensity?? Oh my God so good.

Not going to comment on the snubs match because what the fuck those are a lot of songs, but the Arcaea one was such a pleasant surprise.

Votes
Subterranean Sunrise
Renata Glasc, The Chem-Baroness
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

Subterranean Sunrise
The Stygian Study
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

a note by the way, on the snubs group stages
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/2/AARWb-AAE_J0.png
you'll have to wait for the rest of them to be featured on each of the threads each day here but all 8 groups can be voted on at any point between now and the end of r1 (at the end of day 9) now, both here and discord (specifically here: https://discord.com/channels/87835278454050816/1168155142978293780)

additionally, there will be a listening party on the last day and i'll be linking back to all of these topics in case people don't have enough time to get on all these 8-way matches any sooner

the main matches will still end after 24 hours though, this is just for the polls

VOTES
Subterranean Sunrise
Stygian Study
K'Sante, The Pride of Nazumah

Nilah, the Joy Unbound
The Stygian Study
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

ngl was expecting a league sweep but stygian study surprised me!

UF8 posted...

a note by the way, on the snubs group stages
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/2/AARWb-AAE_J0.png
you'll have to wait for the rest of them to be featured on each of the threads each day here but all 8 groups can be voted on at any point between now and the end of r1 (at the end of day 9) now, both here and discord (specifically here: https://discord.com/channels/87835278454050816/1168155142978293780)

additionally, there will be a listening party on the last day and i'll be linking back to all of these topics in case people don't have enough time to get on all these 8-way matches any sooner

the main matches will still end after 24 hours though, this is just for the polls

to clarify further since i just realised i didn't make it 100% clear, yes this means everyone now gets 2 votes on the snubs matches

VOTES
Nilah, the Joy Unbound
Renata Glasc, The Chem-Baroness
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

Nilah, the Joy Unbound
The Stygian Study
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

Good day. Although match 2 was considerably weaker than the other two matches.

final 10ish mins bump (the snubs poll remains open for another week but time is running out to vote on the main bracket matches...)

Subterranean Sunrise
The Stygian Study
KSante, The Pride of Nazumah

note here that DEM is a filthy cheater abusing host privileges and otherwise this match is OVER (you can still vote on the snubs poll though)

congrats to League on the narrow victory

less than 6 hours left till the snubs r1 polls close (the main match already ended ofc)

get your votes in the topic polls here and on the discord

https://discord.com/channels/87835278454050816/1168155142978293780/1168155142978293780

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKMrAE0RW9lFWm9a40xlCmrycp-KIBuk_

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