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| xp1337 | Posted: 4/12/2011 12:52:12 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 451 |
| Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major | G-Darius - Kimera II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMh-jn7GOTY&fmt=18 Another write-up that will suffer because I've never played the game. Kimera II is another one of my favorites, but this one I fully admit can be rather polarizing, unlike pretty everything else from EXEC_SPHILIA on, which I could only see that argument made if you didn't like vocals or something. Obviously I come down on the very favorable side for Kimera II. However, that is almost entirely the result of a single amazing section of it, without it, Kimera II would probably strike me as nothing too special, although I feel I'd still love a lot of the effects in it, but ultimately it wouldn't end up close to being one of my favorites. Kimera II has a lot of different effects going on in it, and I could definitely see some people not liking a lot of them and so it affecting their opinion of it overall. Me? Like I said, I like most, if not all, of them. Especially the different vocals, and some other effects that I can't even hazard at properly describing. My favorite section, which if you couldn't tell from the above is the one that made Kimera II stand out for me, is the section from 1:56 - 2:52. It basically leaves in my favorite effects and is just wonderful. I especially like the vocal sections in it, but it's just a very strong section in general for me. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
| Kenri of the Yuri | Posted: 4/12/2011 12:59:31 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 452 |
| Level: 43 Editor | switching to game - song format because it makes it easier for me to add to the spreadsheet Shatter - Amethyst Caverns http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=759LSnZJMlQ Here's a game I didn't even know existed until I found its soundtrack on YouTube, but apparently it's not even that obscure. It's got a pretty good soundtrack, too - a lot of people seem to like it, in the YouTube comments at least. As a warning, you're going to want to bail on this in the first few seconds. Don't do that. It gets better. Although whether you'll ever actually like it is a different matter. Now me? I do like it. My favorite part probably starts at around 2:13 and goes until near the end of the song, around 4 minutes, when my least favorite part kicks (you'll probably know it when you hear it). But overall it's just a pretty good song. You'd think I'd hate the synthetic-sounding vocals, but really it works fairly well. Wish I knew more about the context, but from what I hear the game is just like a Breakout clone or something, so I doubt I'm missing much. --- "There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic |
| xp1337 | Posted: 4/12/2011 1:19:18 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 453 |
| Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major | Shatter - Amethyst Caverns Hey, I like this! At first I heard those vocals and kept going back and forth on whether it was a good thing or a "good" thing, but by about a minute in I was firmly on the side of enjoying it. I also liked the rest of the parts of the song, feeling it went up in quality at around 40 seconds or so and stayed there pretty much the entire way, and then the vocals came back in and I liked it even more. I'll agree that at about 2:13 starts the best part. After 4 minutes it definitely hits "Prepare for polarization" territory, but I was okay with it. I didn't like it as much as the vocals when they were "normal" but it wasn't a dealbreaker for me. I actually thought it was a neat effect at first, but still, preferred the normal vocals to it. I'm going to say this gets a 7/10. I was tempted to say 7.5/10, but I don't quite know if this climbs all the way there. I think, in general, that vocal songs tend to be things I like (along with bells, definitely bells), with special note to "vocals that aren't quite what most would call actual vocals/lyrics" so it's even possible this could climb upwards over time, because I'd put this under that kind of category. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
| Celtic Guardian 7 | Posted: 4/12/2011 3:52:35 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 454 |
| Level: 41 New Moderator | Okay after that trollish entry... Theme of Laura - Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBYsdw4Vwx8&feature=related Screw it, I'm editing to put this one in too. They're both good. I want people to hear both and enjoy both. thx. Theme of Laura (Reprise) - Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JozVfR-XavQ&feature=related This is not quite on the level of Epyon's amazing entry, Promise (Reprise). But I wanted to see what else Silent Hill 2 had to offer in music, and this one is really pretty as well. Good theme is good. Again, piano might be biasing me though. --- "That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears |
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| xp1337 | Posted: 4/12/2011 3:58:52 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 455 |
| Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major | Theme of Laura - Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams *Sigh* I guess I'll go back and rate this too! As I said originally, though now it doesn't look like it occurred originally, this is the superior version, IMO. The first ~40 seconds are just great, and would probably end up around 7.0 or even 7.5. Unfortunately, the song does not end there and so the score drops, though occasionally it returns to some quality sections. Still ends up higher than (Reprise) for me at 6.5. Theme of Laura (Reprise) - Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams This is good, but... I feel like it doesn't do too much. Still, it's good enough with what it does do that I'd say 6.0. Not sure why you went with the (Reprise) version though, the "normal" - I guess - version is superior, IMO. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
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| Celtic Guardian 7 | Posted: 4/12/2011 4:01:37 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 456 |
| Level: 41 New Moderator | Piano makes me like it more. Both are good though. Edit: Screw it I added in the original too. --- "That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears |
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| xp1337 | Posted: 4/12/2011 8:48:34 PM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 457 |
| Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major | Shikkoku no Sharnoth - DORCHADAS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYELo6fRAOs&fmt=18 The theme of "write ups that will likely suffer" continues. However, DORCHADAS is just an amazing song. Definitely way up there near the top on my list of overall favorites. It's another song that just does pretty much everything right to me, I can't really think of any true glaring weaknesses in it. I really enjoy the vocals, the instruments, and all the other effects. It's all exceptional and unsurprisingly the combination of them all is even more exceptional. Choosing a favorite part here will be pretty difficult. In general, I like the parts where the song is faster, and the vocals are in full effect, the most. This happens at 0:50 - 1:42 and 2:44 - 3:36, although I like the latter section more because I like how the song continues from there to the end more. Also, special mention to 3:52 - 4:00, which in some respects might be my favorite part of the song, just love how most of the other effects stop, and the vocals keep going right there. Really, 2:44 - End is just nearly flawless, IMO. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
| Kenri of the Yuri | Posted: 4/13/2011 2:40:37 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 458 |
| Level: 43 Editor | Total Annihilation - The March Unto Death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CBTZqO83WQ&fmt=18 Total Annihilation is a game I actually did know about beforehand, but I didn't realize it had such a good, orchestrated soundtrack. The YouTube comments inform me that it's an electronic orchestra, not a "real" one, but hell if I can tell the difference. I haven't listened extensively to the soundtrack, but this is probably my favorite of the pieces I've heard. I don't know anything about where in the game this plays, but if I were to take a guess based on the track's name, I'd say that it's fitting. The piece captures both a great sense of movement and the feeling of facing overwhelming power, and throws them against each other in a lot of places, which is just a treat to listen to. --- "There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic |
| xp1337 | Posted: 4/13/2011 2:52:32 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 459 |
| Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major | Total Annihilation - The March Unto Death I can see why people would like this, but honestly, it's just not my kind of song. Unfortunately, that kind of places a very hard limit on what rating it can get from me, and that rating is pretty much 5.5. I liked it a lot more when it was "quieter," and had it stayed that way the whole time, it may have had a chance at a higher score, but I didn't really like the other parts, and yeah... --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
| Celtic Guardian 7 | Posted: 4/13/2011 4:21:54 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 460 |
| Level: 41 New Moderator | On To Grasstown - Cave Story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlmOhXoKmoQ I never played Cave Story, but I've seen a couple of complete playthroughs. It's an interesting game. This piece stuck out the most in my memory. It isn't exactly my type of music, but if I liked it enough to remember it, I guess it can't hurt to share it. The first part is dull but thankfully short, and it picks up tremendously in comparison after. --- "That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears |
| xp1337 | Posted: 4/13/2011 4:27:23 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 461 |
| Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major | On To Grasstown - Cave Story All right, so this right here. It starts off not so good, gets better, but probably stays short of average, and then finally with about 20 seconds to go it seems to put some real effort in, but by then it's just too little too late, I fear. I'm going to have to go with 4.5 here, I think. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
| Kenri of the Yuri | Posted: 4/13/2011 11:30:53 PM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 462 |
| Level: 43 Editor | G-Darius - Kimera II Well, you've probably succeeded in posting the single hardest thing for me to rate in the entire topic so far, so there's that. ...My issue here is that this doesn't read as music to me. But then I do like it. It's just not something I would listen to as music. In that this is a VGMusic topic, I'm inclined to give it like a 4/10, but that doesn't seem very fair, so I dunno! Theme of Laura - Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams Hmm, I'm not crazy about this, but I do like it well enough, and then it picks up a lot of points from being very good technically. I think 6.5/10 here, though it could probably hit 7 too, I'm just being sort of arbitrary. Theme of Laura (Reprise) - Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams ... ...... protip: don't listen to xp, he's trying to drag down your average. <_< 8/10 Shikkoku no Sharnoth - DORCHADAS Oh wow, this. At least I can say some negative things about a vocals song of yours, for once. The fiddle(?) parts read as either Irish or bluegrass to me, and it just doesn't work with the rest of the song, even though both parts are quite good on their own. I like the vocalist here, though. I'm going to say 7.5/10, but low 7.5, and in fact it's the vocalist just being really pleasant to listen to that saves this from hitting high 7/10 instead. On To Grasstown - Cave Story Man, On To Grasstown is one of those ones I never got the massive love for. That said, it's really quite good, it's just not a 9+/10 song like some people say. It's really more like "only" 7/10; on a good day I might even bump it up to 7.5, but I think 7 is probably closer to accurate. Also controversial opinion: I like the "dull" part just as much as the rest of it. --- "There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic |
| Kenri of the Yuri | Posted: 4/13/2011 11:44:56 PM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 463 |
| Level: 43 Editor | Tatsunoko vs. Capcom - Across the Border 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQhjj3sETzs&fmt=18 Never let anything get in your way of saving those that you love... Now here's an interesting thing. This is the main theme from Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, another game I haven't played. Actually, I just took it on faith that a game like this would have an interesting main theme, plugged it into YouTube, and bada bing bada boom. To me, the best parts of this song are really, really good. I like the vocalist a lot, she just has an amazing voice (even if she makes the lyrics hard to decipher), and the lyrics themselves are surprisingly not stupid. They're idealistic, yeah, but that's kind of the point, considering the game's source material. ...And then the rap portions come in. And while I'm not as critical of them as the YouTube commenter (in a different video for the same song) who said, "RAP RUINS EVERYTHING", I do think they're horribly out of place. It just doesn't gel with the rest of the song at all, and the lyrics for those portions would be generously described as "mediocre". If you're going to do such simple rhymes, you'd better make sure they actually rhyme - rhyming "hittin'" and "kickin'" isn't just doing this half-assed, it's literally doing a half-assed thing half-assed. There is only a quarter of an ass at work here, is what I'm saying. I still like the song because the rest of it is so good - I especially like the verse that starts at 24 seconds, that starts off slow and then hits a dramatic swell as the line I quoted above comes up - but the rap portions were just an ill-advised addition all around. If only there was some version without them...! Tatsunoko vs. Capcom - Across the Border 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqy_OvBYl-w&fmt=18 oh, look at that. ...Unfortunately, the vocalist here isn't as good, though she's not bad by any means, and I don't particularly care for the direction this version takes the song in (and yes, I know this is the original). But I feel like the rap parts in AtB 2010 might be a dealbreaker for some people, so even though I don't like this version as much, I figured I might as well include it. --- "There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic |
| xp1337 | Posted: 4/14/2011 1:52:27 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 464 |
| Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major | Tatsunoko vs. Capcom - Across the Border 2010 Well, I seem to have a predilection towards lyrics, so this could be promising. You know, at first I agreed that the rap parts were bringing this down, but I felt they got better as the song went on. I'll give this the benefit of the doubt and say 7.0 instead of 6.5 Tatsunoko vs. Capcom - Across the Border 2008 Yeah, not liking where this song goes relative to the other ones. It trades the rap, something I ended up not really mind, for worse everything else, pretty much. ...I'm going to say 5.5 here, which really thinks I overrated the other version, because a 1.5 gap seems a bit strange to me, but I'll stick with these scores. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
| xp1337 | Posted: 4/14/2011 2:02:22 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 465 |
| Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major | Xenogears - Light from the Netherworld http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuRdxVP_HdA&fmt=18 So, remember Awakening from a long time ago? Well, in that write-up I mentioned that Awakening basically took my previous favorite song in Xenogears and made it more awesome. This is that previous song. Light from the Netherworld has some really, really great parts that I'd put right up there with the best from Awakening, but the reason it falls short of Awakening itself is that it takes too much time to get to those parts. In general, all the reasons I like Awakening hold true for Light of the Netherworld, the different effects, the vocals, etc. What I don't like is how the song goes on too long IMO. I really think the part from about 4:26 to the End is out of place with the rest of the song, and the song itself could probably end at around 3:40 and I wouldn't complain either, though 4:25 would probably be a better "ending" point. As for favorite part, I'd say 2:41 - 3:40, with special mention going to 3:13 to 3:40. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
| Celtic Guardian 7 | Posted: 4/14/2011 4:44:22 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 466 |
| Level: 41 New Moderator | Dr. Wily Stage 1/2 - Mega Man 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFKtYCcMWT4 I think xp said that nobody ever got around to posting this, and that's pretty tragic considering that tons of Mega Man pieces are here but not this one. So here, I posted it. Most quality piece of the second game. I Wanna Be The Guy apparently thought so too because it shows up there and was actually where I first heard it. (Yeah I played MM2 late. Made for livestreaming fun though.) --- "That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears |
| xp1337 | Posted: 4/14/2011 5:48:49 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 467 |
| Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major | Dr. Wily Stage 1/2 - Mega Man 2 Awwwwww yeah. MM2 Wily Stage 1 is such a quality song. Way, way, up there on my list of favorite chiptunes (I couldn't tell you where because I'd have to think for a while to come up with that list, for all I know Wily Stage 1 wins), and not half bad on the overall list. I have nothing against chiptunes, but I feel like in general they tend to perform worse. I like to consider this to be because there's just a lot of bad ones, but maybe that's just a rationalization. Anyway, back to Wily Stage 1, out of all the Mega Man music I have ever heard, this is without question the absolute best. I'm not even sure anything even really comes close. (MM3 Title may be 2nd off the top of my head, and really there's just a huge gap between the two.) I kind of feel like my main criticism of Wily Stage 1 is that it doesn't always stay on my favorite parts of the song and instead does some other things for a while, but even that stuff is great, just not as great. Wily Stage 1 is easily an 8.5, maybe even a 9.0... Hmm... I'm going to say 9.0 here, just because I seem to be tending towards giving songs a break lately on these kind of calls and really, if any song deserves such a break, it's Wily Stage 1. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
| Kenri of the Yuri | Posted: 4/14/2011 7:21:01 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 468 |
| Level: 43 Editor | Xenogears - Light from the Netherworld ...This is another one that's hard for me to rate, because I feel like context/atmosphere would help it out tremendously. Without those I'll go with 6/10. It takes a while to get going and the best parts are shorter than I'd have liked. Those best parts probably do hit like 7/10, but overall, eh. Dr. Wily Stage 1/2 - Mega Man 2 ...And I'm not going to be nearly as favorable towards this as xp (how's that for role reversal?), because even though it's quite good, it's one of those ones that people obsess over and I don't quite get it. Sort of like On To Grasstown in that regard, actually! But yeah, I like chiptunes, MM2 chiptunes are really good, this is really good, it just doesn't go anywhere beyond that for me personally. Let's say 7.5/10. --- "There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic |
| xp1337 | Posted: 4/14/2011 7:34:34 PM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 469 |
| Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major | Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra - Hepatica (KOS-MOS) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV_g76ThygI&fmt=18 ***Warning: If you plan to play Xenosaga III, but have not done so yet, for the first time I may recommend you don't listen to this yet until after you've played it. You absolutely could, but I don't know, this might be the first case where I have some doubt regarding whether it'd be a good idea or not. If you do not plan on playing Xenosaga III, then obviously this means nothing to you.*** Like EXEC_RE=NATION/. I just consider this to be an overall beautiful song. I do feel I like RE=NATION more, but they're both exceptional, so that's not a knock. I consider this one of Xenosaga III's best songs, but as a testament to the quality of its soundtrack, it still isn't the best to me. I'm not sure where it would land if I just did a Xenosaga III song ranking. All I know for sure there is that Godsibb would end up first. If I were asked to give what I felt was a weakness of this song, it'd be that I feel like it might be a bit slow when listening to it on its own, but that's really about it, and that isn't a problem to me in context. [Spoiler for Xenosaga III, click to show]I mean, right here, we probably have one of the most beautiful battle songs right here, certainly the best in Xenosaga III, and I can't imagine many competitors could be found - Ar tonelico II gives it a shot, at least. If I first heard this before I played Xenosaga III, and you then told me it played for a boss battle, I'm not sure I'd believe you. However, it works perfectly, KOS-MOS v T-elos (Final) is a perfect place for this song, and it's just amazing. The sheer amount of amazing boss themes alone that Xenosaga III has is staggering. However, out of all of them, I feel Hepatica (KOS-MOS) is by far the most "different" from them all, similar to Here I Come where I said that was not what I expected from a boss theme, but this is just on another level of that. [/spoiler] Really, any part with the lyrics is a part I like a lot, but for my absolute favorite part, I'd probably have to go towards the very end at 4:27 - 4:53, where I prefer the other effects with the lyrics the most out of all the different sections. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
| GameCobra | Posted: 4/14/2011 11:00:10 PM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 470 |
| Level: 37 Advanced | at least this thread still is active. =P you guys should check out the character themes from Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. so sweet. hey, more memory lane stuff from good old me! Silent Hill original theme http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EN-_1OGtUY --- "But friends, i ask you. What is a GameCobra? From where does it come? Who are it's people?" - A Random Day on World of Warcraft |
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| Celtic Guardian 7 | Posted: 4/15/2011 5:03:24 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 471 |
| Level: 41 New Moderator | Will to Fight - Final Fantasy XIII http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3hN_8RW9So I know nothing about Final Fantasy XIII. I've been avoiding all the information I can on it until I can play it myself. To this day I don't even have it yet, though I want it (despite negative reviews being seen). I happened to hear this piece in yet another Pokemon video. It struck me in certain parts as incredibly pretty. Not all of it keeps to that high quality, but the parts that do have it pull at my emotions so much that I wanted to post it. --- "That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears |
| Kenri of the Yuri | Posted: 4/15/2011 5:19:25 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 472 |
| Level: 43 Editor | Enemy Zero - Enemy Zero http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4IEzVjt7Tk&fmt=18 Heh, another game I'd never even heard of before stumbling onto its music on YouTube. Checking GameFAQs, it looks like it actually was released in the US, but I guess being on the Saturn would kind of limit its exposure. Anyway, I think this particular track from Enemy Zero, which is also called Enemy Zero, is really good! And it's also pretty interesting. Give it a listen, see if you can figure out what's cool about it. ... Well, what I find cool about it at least is that it builds up constantly. It never gets quieter, or pauses, or anything like that (admittedly, I'm describing this poorly). How many songs do that? ...Not very many, really. I can't even think of another one off the top of my head. I especially like the last minute or so, when most of the instruments have come in and the whole thing becomes more frantic; normally I'd dislike something like that for being busy or cluttered or something, but I think it really works here. --- "There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic |
| xp1337 | Posted: 4/15/2011 5:30:20 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 473 |
| Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major | Silent Hill original theme Link was kind of down, well, for me at least, so I'm hoping I have the right song here. At first I was not liking this, but after a short while it improves greatly. Still think it's outdone by Theme of Laura, but it certainly made a nice recovery from the beginning IMO. I'll say... 5.5, just because it has hit that infamous 6.0 wall of mine that hits so many songs in this topic. Will to Fight - Final Fantasy XIII This wasn't what I expected to hear out of Final Fantasy at first. I was okay with it though, and it also got better, and I'm pretty much always a fan of vocals like this, so that helps too. In spite of that praise, I feel I can't really go with all that high of a score here. I like this, but at the same time, I feel it's held back. Let's say... 6.0. I could maybe argue 6.5, but... Enemy Zero - Enemy Zero ...Not a fan of this though. This started off not being something I liked, and never really did anything to change that. Building up something I didn't like is not really a positive quality! I'll say 3.0 here. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
| Kenri of the Yuri | Posted: 4/15/2011 5:39:24 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 474 |
| Level: 43 Editor | Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra - Hepatica (KOS-MOS) Passing on this until I finish Xenosaga 2. And then Xenosaga 3. ...It might be a while. Silent Hill original theme Oh man, the majority of this is actually pretty good, like 6.5 or 7/10 good. Parts of it sort of remind me of a track from Goldeneye for the N64, actually. But that opening. Oh man. Those first 20 seconds are killer. And not in a good way. They literally kill people. ... I don't want to give this a low score just because of that but oh man, it is so hard to overlook. Will to Fight - Final Fantasy XIII Assuming this is a battle theme, it is Yet Another Okay Battle The-hey wait a second, this is GOOD. Well, after like two minutes it's good. I'll go with 6/10 here. >_> --- "There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic |
| xp1337 | Posted: 4/15/2011 11:07:04 PM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 475 |
| Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major | Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica - METHOD_IMPLANTER/. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3W_Z69Wqe4&fmt=18 ***As a general rule, if the hymn translations are there: If you plan on playing Ar tonelico/Ar tonelico II, I recommend against reading them, but it's hard to exactly call them spoilers. So really, you can do what you want there, I'd just personally advise against it. If you don't plan on playing either game, then obviously this also doesn't matter to you!*** So, I was looking at what songs I felt were worth posting for this topic, and determined that Ar tonelico and G.U. (and to a kind of lesser extent, Xenosaga III) were just flat-out dominating everything to the extent that I had to plan around this. The solution I've come up with for the minute is basically to have my schedule run on a loop of sorts for a while until the numbers become more reasonable. What does this mean for you? Well, it means for that for the next couple of Fridays, it's going to be Ar tonelico (followed by more Ar tonelico and then G.U..) Now, I wasn't exactly happy to be "repeating" games once a week, but the way I looked at it was, Ar tonelico and G.U. just flat out are dominating what songs I have left (which isn't surprising considering the situation I'm in - where some of what I consider to be really good non-Ar tonelico and G.U. songs have already been used earlier in the topic.) And since my number one priority here is looking for songs I think are the very best, this is just naturally going to cause Ar tonelico and G.U. to show up a lot. So, sorry! But from my point of view, basically these are simply better than the other songs I could pick from so the way I see it, this is the better way to go! Anyway, onto METHOD_IMPLANTER/. itself, while EXEC_SPHILIA/. is my clear, uncontested favorite hymn in Ar tonelico II (and also overall, really) after that it becomes a little less clear. I used to think METHOD_IMPLANTER/. was my relatively uncontested second favorite from AT2, but lately I've been having my doubts on that count. However, regardless of that, it's still an amazing song. I feel that as a song it's closer to EXEC_RE=NATION than EXEC_SPHILIA in that I consider EXEC_RE=NATION to be a slower type of song and EXEC_SPHILIA to be a faster type of song. As for my favorite part, it's probably 1:42 - 2:02, but it's a tough call, because I like all the parts with lyrics, and choosing from among them is nearly impossible for me. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
| Celtic Guardian 7 | Posted: 4/16/2011 4:14:06 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 476 |
| Level: 41 New Moderator | Corridor of Time - Dark Cloud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyUeD5gT2cg Dark Cloud is a game I played a very long time ago. I don't think I actually got to the Gallery of Time, since it was basically the last stage. But I like this theme quite a bit. I have a thing for music with clocks in it, or related to them (see the owl fight in Okami, I love that piece). Then the 'vocals' kick in and make it pretty cool sounding. --- "That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears |
| xp1337 | Posted: 4/16/2011 4:56:30 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 477 |
| Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major | Corridor of Time - Dark Cloud CT Corridors of Time superior. Anyway, this is another one of those songs where I feel it just doesn't really do anything. It's just kind of "there." So, I'm going to say 4.5/10. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
| Kenri of the Yuri | Posted: 4/16/2011 5:47:59 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 478 |
| Level: 43 Editor | Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica - METHOD_IMPLANTER/. I think we've talked about this one before. I really wish I had saved that big inequality I figured out. But oh well. I pretty much think this is really good but not as good as RE=NATION or SPHILIA. I also think it's not as good as Dirge for the Planet, which I gave an 8.5 to, so this gets a 8/10, even though I should really just bump Dirge of the Planet up to like a 16/10 and then give this an 8.5/10. But oh well. Corridor of Time - Dark Cloud Hmm, I'm going to be a bit more charitable here, because I think it's got a lot of atmosphere and I like those vocals. So 6/10. --- "There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic |
| Kenri of the Yuri | Posted: 4/16/2011 6:19:10 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 479 |
| Level: 43 Editor | Senko no Ronde (Wartech) - assemble http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkRfePyfoj4&fmt=18 ...So I had another Senko no Ronde track that I was going to post yesterday, but then I ended up hearing this, and decided to switch ships. That's why Enemy Zero ended up posted yesterday. ...Despite that, I'm not sure what I think about this. Senko no Ronde music has this weird thing about it for me where, the more I listen to it, the less I like it. Like, it starts out at 7.5ish and then drops a whole point every time I listen to it. This is literally at like 3.5 for me right now and falling, and yet I'm still posting it, if only so that I won't have to listen to it anymore. DEAL WITH IT. Originally I liked this because it was... I'm not sure how to describe it. Really clean and crisp sounding, or something like that, and I liked the vocals, even if they're not a big part of it. Now it just sounds like elevator music or hotel lobby music or something. BUT I DON'T KNOW. I'm taking it on faith that somebody else will like this, maybe. Or at least only listen to it once and thus give it an inflated score. --- "There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic |
| xp1337 | Posted: 4/16/2011 6:25:00 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 480 |
| Level: 49 Liberal Arts Major | Senko no Ronde (Wartech) - assemble Well, let's see... You know, this started around 6.0 or 6.5, but then the song did not have the decency to end when I wanted it to. Which probably pushed it onto the bad side of the 6.0 barrier. It makes a few attempts to cross back over to the positive side, but it's all too little, too late. So I'll say 5.5. Or at least only listen to it once and thus give it an inflated score. Well, I guess you could say that's what happened here! --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? |
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