Board 8 > [VGMC] Day 24! feat. a PCbowl, a Nintendobowl, and an Arcadebowl

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Chromesthesia
Stilt Village
VEX DAY TRANSFUSE.EXE

DoW
FIV
SoL

i'm pretty sol ngl.

Chromesthesia
Fire Island Volcano
VEX DAY TRANSFUSE.EXE

Chromesthesia
Fire Island Volcano
VEX DAY TRANSFUSE.EXE

Chromesthesia
Fire Island Volcano
Specimen of Life (Long Version)

Dance of Wind
Fire Island Volcano
Specimen of Life (Long Version)

akiko shikata jumpscare

Dance of Wind
Stilt Village
VEX DAY TRANSFUSE.EXE

Can't write much tonight, but Match 1 is pretty close. And good!

Stilt Village sounds like what you'd get if you put a SimCity song into the Robots GBA game.

Sadly, I'm not into this Shikata as much. VEX DAY is pretty dang good, though.

Tribal Hunter - Dance of Wind
Pokmon Super Mystery Dungeon - Fire Island Volcano
beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS - Specimen of Life (Long Version)

MATCH 1

Dance of Wind is pretty neat. It has a decent folky melody too it. I find myself wanting more from it, but it's still a decent song as is.

Cromesthesia is decent but doesn't stand out too much. It has a bit of a 13 Sentinels sound to it without the strong melodic elements of something like Isoleucine. 1:20 and the part after it feels like it could go somewhere but then doesn't really do anything I'd want it to unfortunately.

MATCH 2

Stilt Village is pretty neat! I don't feel very strongly about the buildup, but the melody at 1:02 is really good! If this song was just that melody on loop with some stuff going on around it like at 1:10, it would be significantly better. But that part alone makes the song for me, so it's still a good song when that part makes up a decent portion of one full loop.

Fire Island Volcano is such a fun song with the flute and string melodies! Not a whole lot to say about it despite my positivity towards it, it just hits my music tastes very well.

MATCH 3

Specimen of Life is really cool with the soundscape Akiko Shikata provides with her vocals and the arrangement of all those instruments! Similar to Fire Island Volcano, I don't have a lot to say here, it's just very good. It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Akiko Shikata's music! And that holds true here as well. Hearing these new IIDX discoveries in the contest makes me want to try to play them in game, but the IIDX cabinet at my Round1 stopped working and apparently it's been that way for like a month and a half now, so I guess I'll have to wait to do that! This song's normal chart, looking at it, might be a little too hard for me right now though until I get the muscle memory for my fingers on all the keys.

I like the arpeggio at the beginning of VEX DAY TRANSFUSE.EXE, but the song loses my interest pretty fast after that unfortunately. I just don't really like any of the other things it does.

Specimen of Life (Long Version) > Fire Island Volcano > Stilt Village > Dance of Wind > Chromesthesia > VEX DAY TRANSFUSE.EXE

Noctuary - Chromesthesia
Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) - Stilt Village
Life Expectancy Service X-DAY - VEX DAY TRANSFUSE.EXE

[9.0] Chromesthesia
[9.0] Stilt Village
[9.0] Fire Island Volcano
[8.5] VEX DAY TRANSFUSE.EXE
[8.0] Specimen of Life (Long Version)
[7.0] Dance of Wind

Could go either way on match 2 but both songs are phenomenal. Chromethesia could climb to 9.5??

Tribal Hunter - Dance of Wind: Fitting to the game's name, this sounds very tribal but with modern elements. I think it goes without saying that I love flutes, so the flute parts in this piece are a plus for sure. I especially like the section at 1:10. The strumming melody (idk the instrument) gets a bit repetitive after a while, but it's otherwise pretty catchy.

Noctuary - Chromesthesia: Whoa, this is honestly pretty impressive. Other than the trap section, I am pretty enamored with this piece. The synths and the beat are just really fun to listen to. Hell, I don't even mind the trap section as much as I would normally.

Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) - Stilt Village: David Wise rarely misses, and this piece is no exception. Just like with the Tribal Hunter piece, I love the tribal atmosphere to this piece with its more traditional-sounding percussion and flutes. Did I mention I love flutes? Of course I did. But I'm saying it again because yeah.

Pokmon Super Mystery Dungeon - Fire Island Volcano: I see the theming for today is mostly just tribal-sounding stuff huh? I love the celtic vibes in this one. Those drums are peak. This is easily one of my favorite fire level themes of all time, only very clearly beaten by Melty Molten Galaxy and Melty Monster Galaxy off the top of my head. I'm proud to call this one of my supports.

beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS - Specimen of Life (Long Version): Oof, I'm really not a fan of the main vocalist(s) here (the choir vocals are cool though). Something about higher to very high-pitched Japanese female vocals just really rubs me the wrong way more often than not. That being said, I do love the strings and the eguitar solo. It's a well-produced song that I would probably like with a lower octave vocalist or instrumental-only.

Life Expectancy Service X-DAY - VEX DAY TRANSFUSE.EXE: I'm enjoying this more than I thought I would. This usually isn't my thing, but I actually kinda like it, and there's nothing super egregiously awful about this song that ticks me off.

Fire Island Volcano > Chromesthesia >= Stilt Village > Tribal Hunter >= VEX DAY TRANSFUSE.EXE >>> Specimen of Life (Long Version)

VOTES:
Chromesthesia
Fire Island Volcano
VEX DAY TRANSFUSE.EXE

Chromesthesia
Stilt Village, somehow, despite everything
VEX DAY

Chromesthesia
Stilt Village
VEX DAY TRANSFUSE.EXE

This is a very uncharacteristically high quality day for all 6 songs.

Tribal Hunter - Dance of Wind
Pokmon Super Mystery Dungeon - Fire Island Volcano
beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS - Specimen of Life (Long Version)

Tribal Hunter - Dance of Wind
Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) - Stilt Village
beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS - Specimen of Life (Long Version)

Matches 1 and 3 were pretty easy votes. My vote in match 2 goes against everything I stand for. But I had to do it