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To those of you who understand how this topic works by now, feel free to jump right in and start posting.
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Final Fantasy IX - Dark Messenger
...This is a ****ing bizarre song. I think it works, for the most part, despite the very contrastive elements. There are a few sections that make me question that but eh.
6/10
Street Fighter II Turbo - Ken Stage
Pretty good! I can agree with it not really having any weak parts, though I feel like it doesn't take many risks either, so that could be part of it.
6.5/10
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvgexxw7pjc&hd=1
Well, I've been wanting to post this track for a while, since starting Zelda II actually, but I didn't want to risk sabotaging page 20. >_>
This is the basic enemy encounter theme, which means it plays a LOT, because the game classifies any sidescrolling area that is not a palace or a town as an enemy encounter. So, it's not only the random encounter theme, but also the fixed encounter theme, and the cave theme. Luckily, I actually really like it, so I didn't even mind it playing all the time. I think it's just a solid chiptune all around, but I especially like the somewhat slower section from :09 to :24.
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"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
Liberal Arts Major
This is a pretty solid song, and to take what you said about Ken Stage, seems to take no risks. I'll say 6.5.
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link - Battle
I can see why you kept this off Page 20! It was a good decision! Yeah, this doesn't really do anything for me. It just feels... strange... which is about as unhelpful as a criticism as I've ever used. Let me try to get a better handle on this, I guess it just runs into a problem I think is more common to chiptunes, it feels kind of... I dunno, "choppy" or something. I know this is all dreadfully unhelpful, and I'm honestly sorry. Point is, I'm not a fan of this really. 4.5.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHh42td_dNk&hd=1
So here is a pretty big departure from most of the other G.U. songs in the topic, at least I think so. Obviously not a battle theme or anything, this plays pretty late in Vol 3, and while I am on-and-off the record as "not getting" this whole "songs causing emotions" thing, I think Eight Keys is probably in that category, so perhaps for the people who do get that, this will be a good thing! But maybe not! It'll be a surprise for everyone, including me! I'm not sure how much of a fan I am of the um... strings I think, in the beginning, they're not bad, but they're also not a highlight or anything, in fact, I think they're both the more dominant of the two things going on there and also the inferior of the two, which isn't so good a combination. My favorite part of Eight Keys is most definitely the section at 0:39 - 0:59. That said, I'm not sure that would work by itself, it probably "needs" the rest of the song that I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of for the contrast of the sections in order to achieve the full effect.
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But after hearing some of the themes lately, i couldn't help but step my game up since it seems you guys have been going for themes that i thought noone listened to these days, mainly Parasite Eve and Silent Hill (Especially Bloody Tears!)
So here's some blasts from the past themes i know are underestimated. And they surprisingly come from Romance of the Three Kingdoms. But no Romance of the Three Kingdom series i know has better music than number 6.
ROTTK 6 - You are the King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26y_c0kLb6I&feature=related
ROTTK 6 - One on One Duel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpnkyu-Yo8g
And here's something that sucked gameplay-wise... but had decent music.
Rambo - Wilderness music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umC-rYfYec8
And remember Secret of Mana? How about Secret of Evermore? It was a copy of SoM, but made from the states. buggy game, but still just as good as SoM. The music composer i read is the same one that went on to make the same soundtrack for the Elder Scroll series. Some notable examples are:
SoE - Ivor Tower
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9cG0C0ZWUU&feature=related
SoE - Pirates of Crustacia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjfwk2pgT6U&feature=related
SoE - Mini-Boss theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkEH0e07jg8
As for Silent Hill, i won't deny that series has alot of flavor compared to other horror series. since the series more psychological, they use more emotional music than the usual jump-and-scare types that i enjoy.
They also have quite a bit of dedicated vocal sheets, but do a damn good job of it.
Some good examples are:
Silent Hill 2 - True
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D7Pkvs2bi4&feature=related
Silent Hill 3 - Opening Theme - You're not here (Vocal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZmMD84XpCs
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So are we! It's totally not a problem. <_< If you like certain things and dislike other things, and can be tough on both, you're just as qualified as any of us are.
If you just don't want to though, that's understandable, it takes a surprising amount of time (ask CG7, who spent like 8 hours on it the other night).
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Liberal Arts Major
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Liberal Arts Major
Hmm, this is fairly good. It never does anything I think is bad, the closest it comes is just that I think I have a general disinclination to songs I characterize as "happy" or "upbeat" or whatever. But that's totally a personal preference thing, and like I said, this never does anything wrong, IMO. 5.5.
ROTTK 6 - One on One Duel
There we go! This basically removes my one "issue" from before. Although I do think it has some "relatively" weaker section, but it's made up for by most of the rest of the song. This might also be one of the very few songs that has a whistling-type thing in it and doesn't make me automatically despise it (looking at you Wild ARMs!) 6.0.
Rambo - Wilderness music
Parts of the very beginning of this remind me of Mega Man, enough so that I tried to find out if Capcom was behind it, but then I got lazy and gave up when I didn't find out within a few seconds of trying. Of course, it could just be that I'm really bad at differentiating chiptunes. Anyway, back on topic, I said it sounded like Mega Man and I'll qualify it as "good Mega Man." 5.5.
SoE - Ivor Tower
Hmm, not as big a fan of this one. If only because I feel it's kind of repetitive. Not bad, but at the same time repetition is a risky game to play with me usually. 4.5.
SoE - Pirates of Crustacia
This is actually fairly interesting, but I think it's a bit too... I dunno what the word I'm looking for here might be. Minimalist? There is stuff going on, but I'm not too big a fan of that wind effect or the... bird-like effect. And while those certainly make the song unique, it has the danger of having my opinion of the song hinge on it because they stand-out so much to me that even the beat and such take a back seat for me. 3.5.
SoE - Mini-Boss theme
I like this one a lot more though, it's got a pretty solid percussion and beat and all that, and the other effects work out fairly nicely. Especially that um... ...man, I am terrible at this. I want to say strings, but that can't be right. I don't know what it is! I like it though! 5.0
Silent Hill 2 - True
Now this is quite good, no real complaints here except for perhaps not liking the strings as much as the rest of the song. The percussion, piano, and vocal-ish effects are all great. Strings definitely aren't on that level, but they're not bad, and that doesn't erase how great the rest of the song is. 7.0. That might be a shade too high, it was borderline 6.5/7.0 for me, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt here.
Silent Hill 3 - Opening Theme - You're not here (Vocal)
Not bad, but I did like True more. I liked the instruments in True more, and I don't think the vocals quite made up the difference in the two. 6.0.
Bonesaw: The Game -
Liberal Arts Major
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7oFPHPM3iY&hd=1
So, remember a week ago I was saying Moon-Dwelling Demon was in a fight for my favorite non-Rustling Throb ~Cloche~ AT2 dungeon theme? Here's the other main contestant, and right now I'd say it wins that by a fairly considerable margin. At least a clear enough one where I probably wouldn't exactly call it a fight. However, I think you can generally predict my favorite of the two by "Which one did I listen to last?" Mechanical Maze has some pretty neat effects going pretty much throughout the song on multiple levels, and I definitely appreciate that. I also like what at least I consider the payoff at 0:57 - 1:21, it's probably my favorite section of the song. Mechanical Maze is another song I don't feel has any weak points, but unlike most times I say that, I think Mechanical Maze avoids not having clear strong points. Which is one of the better situations a song can be in, IMO.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RJY1jcMlSI&hd=1
I think this is officially the second time I've posted a song with a main vocalist who is a robot, which means that robot vocalists are officially catching up to male vocalists in number. Seriously, during Vocals Week I was trying to post songs with male vocalists, but they just don't ****ing exist. I don't get it. Whatever.
This song is pretty cool! It apparently doesn't appear in the actual game, but does appear in the demo, which is fair game for this topic, in my opinion. Normally songs with multiple different styles of vocals are a miss for me, but this one works, possibly because I feel like any of the styles individually would get old if it was just that for 3 minutes. The instrumentation's good too; I think an instrumental of this wouldn't end up feeling "empty" like they often do, which is a good thing. I also feel like the lyrics here could be fairly interesting... if I could actually understand them... because the two lines I can sort of make out go in a rather compelling direction, but we may never know for sure.
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"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
Liberal Arts Major
This sure is... interesting. Not sure how much I like it, but that sure wasn't what I was expecting. On pretty much any level. 5.0.
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Liberal Arts Major
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckxy-i7Dc5U&hd=1
This is a song that I used to like a lot more a while ago. I still think it's good, but well, not even close to what I originally thought. Also, I'm pretty sure the title is In the Final, but this is harder to check than I thought it'd be. If you're thinking it sounds more like something out of KH than Mario, like I think I did the first time I heard this, there's a good reason for that. Same composer. My favorite parts of In the Final are short bursts of what I guess I'd call "increased intensity," for example the part at 0:21 - 0:28, but it's pretty solid all throughout. This also loops, so just giving a warning on that.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3h1MHYC06U&hd=1
Yay, more "weird" effects that are awesome! While I don't like Tin Soldiers nearly as much as Annul or Scrap IO, it's still good IMO. It's main flaw is its length, and tied into it, some rather noticeable periods of downtime. When Tin Soldiers is at its best, it's pretty great, it's just not always there. Like with Scrap IO, the piano is a really good part of this (as is the percussion), but my favorite section of the entire song probably has to be 2:58 - 6:10, pretty much everything before that is just buildup to that section IMO. If Tin Soldiers was just that section, or at the very least the other parts were "compressed" into less time I feel I might like the whole thing a bit more, but what can you do?
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Metroid Fusion - Serris / Yakuza Boss Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp2b3EYFAXw&hd=1
So, as you might or might not know, I did a 1% run of Metroid Fusion a while back. Serris and Yakuza were both bosses that gave me a lot of trouble (Serris less so because of my pro-as-hell strategy of fighting the sea monster underwater instead of above-ground). As such, I had to listen to this theme. A lot. I especially remember it because the Yakuza fight opens with Yakuza slowly descending from the ceiling, with this track playing while it does so... in fact I didn't even consciously realize it played during Serris' fight too until I looked it up on YouTube.
In any case, this is not a very typical boss theme, especially for Metroid, being much more... subdued, or some such. It works for Metroid Fusion though, because Fusion is much more survival horror oriented than any of the other Metroid games. A boss theme that's more atmospheric than most, with a few subtle effects (see: 55 seconds) every now and then, plays off that survival horror vibe. So yeah, not an amazing theme, but a decent one, and one that I had stuck in my head for a long time.
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Touhou Project: Undefined Fantastic Object - A Tiny, Tiny, Clever Commander
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oayu297xrns&hd=1
Almost certainly one of my favorite Touhou tracks... of the handful I've heard. Actually led to me feeling bad in the VGMC5, because it drew Ar tonelico in R1 and I had to vote against it. When some people were complaining in later matches about how anti-Touhou everyone was, I had to be like, "Look, I swear I'd have voted for Tiny, Tiny, Clever Commander over like 80% of the field! Nuclear Fusion and company just aren't as good!"
It shouldn't be too hard to see why I prefer this to a lot of other Touhou music, I hope. It's a lot more reserved; there's a very clear foreground and background, so it rarely ends up sounding muddled like a lot of Touhou tracks do. One of the main instruments almost has a violin-like effect for me, though I'm almost certain it's not an actual violin... correct me if I'm wrong, I suppose. In any case, it works for me, and makes ATTCC stand out. It still sounds like Touhou music, but is very obviously distinct from the other Touhou tracks I've heard.
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This is kind of strange. I can't really point to anything specifically wrong, but this doesn't strike me in any way to even really reach average. 4.5.
Touhou Project: Undefined Fantastic Object - A Tiny, Tiny, Clever Commander
Tiny, Tiny, Clever Clever Commander is okay, but not one of the best Touhou or anything IMO.
It shouldn't be too hard to see why I prefer this to a lot of other Touhou music, I hope.
Harder than you think! If only because I don't see this as significantly "clearer" than some Touhou songs here. Obviously this is no Necrofantasia or anything, but... I mean, I guess I can sort of see it, but it doesn't really strike me as something that "special."
Anyway, back to the song, it's okay, but it doesn't really do anything to keep my attention or anything. I'll say 5.5.
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Liberal Arts Major
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U80AGvH4Yw&hd=1
So, if you had told me this was Sonic I'm not entirely sure I'd have believed you at first. For whatever reason, this doesn't strike me as "Sonic" too much. That might have more to do with me not playing anything from Sonic since SA2 though. Anyway, Planet Wisp Act 1 doesn't do anything I consider all that special, but it is pretty solid all throughout IMO. It does go on a bit long though, but that might just be a loop I just can't quite tell. Pretty sure it is, but yeah. As is fairly standard when you hear me say "pretty solid throughout" I can't really pick a favorite part. Well, in this case I could, but it'd be fairly trivial when matched up against pretty much any other section.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYARGMN7CDs&hd=1
(This loops halfway through.)
My second favorite track from X-Men Legends... and honestly it's in contention with Weapon X Facility (Action) for being my favorite, too. I normally don't go for songs like this, ones that try to create an atmosphere over trying have an actual, coherent melody, but this is a rare exception. It probably succeeds because it succeeds, which seems like a tautology, but it doesn't happen as often as you might think! Something like Forest Temple from OoT tries to sacrifice a coherent melody for atmosphere, but then it fails to create said atmosphere anyway, which is kind of a problem.
Sentinel Lab (Quiet) at once manages to sound sinister and mysterious, two approaches I tend to really like in music when a piece can pull them off. It also does something else I really like - and I commented on this for Epic Pinball's Space Journey too, though I couldn't really describe it there, and am still going to have difficulty describing it here - which is that it kills most of the background music for a while, and leaves the foreground sort of broken up. As you might expect, the section that does this - 40 seconds through 58 seconds - is my favorite part of the whole piece.
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"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
Liberal Arts Major
Well now... Seeing as how I don't get "creepy" out of this, this already starts in a pretty bad place for me. That part you singled out is probably one of the better ones, though I'm not sure it's my favorite, I think I might prefer the very end a bit more. I'll say 4.0.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81rQXiTh20s&hd=1
So, I think this might be my favorite battle theme in the game if we don't count songs that happen to play in battles but seem to have some other primary purpose. (Like People of the North Pole, maybe STDWE, etc.) This is all basically based on a single section too, which is not always a good thing, because the other side of that is that I don't particularly care for the rest. That section is 0:16 - 0:50, particularly the 0:16 - 0:34 part of that, and I don't really have anything against 0:00 - 0:16 either. This does loop, so that is a bit more of the song than it might initially seem, but yeah.
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I feel like this is in a perpetual state of approaching greatness but never quite achieving it. I can't point out anything really wrong with it, except that it can feel a bit cluttered at times, but overall it just strikes me as... good, but with a lot of missed potential.
6/10
ROTTK 6 - You are the King
Pretty good. Sort of runs into a similar problem as Eight Keys though, where it never really grabs me. Hence the similar score.
6/10
ROTTK 6 - One on One Duel
Hmm... I'd probably lean towards this one being the better of the two... but then maybe not. It's close, in any case.
6/10
Rambo - Wilderness music
I actually agree with xp about this sounding like Mega Man! Not sure if I'd call it "good Mega Man", but then I think I have a higher opinion of classic MM tunes than he does... maybe. In any case, I like this.
6.5/10
SoE - Ivor Tower
This is... okay. But it's way too repetitive. Way, way, way, way, way too repetitive. But it's okay.
5/10
SoE - Pirates of Crustacia
Ehhhh not sure how I feel about this. I think it would work quite well in context, but it's a bit too minimalist and carried by non-musical sound effects to really work for me out of context. I think I prefer it to Ivor Tower though, if only because it's more interesting.
5/10
SoE - Mini-Boss theme
...Better. I think this pulls off a more atmospheric boss theme pretty well. It's also pretty unique, I can't think of too many other boss/battle themes with an acoustic guitar used so prominently, and it... works here.
6.5/10
Silent Hill 2 - True
Really good. Silent Hill continues to have exceptional music. ...I really can't think of anything negative to say, except I'm not really sure where I stand on this vs. Blood Tears, which sort of limits how high of a score I can give it.
7/10
Silent Hill 3 - Opening Theme - You're not here (Vocal)
This is... okay. Silent Hill vocals songs have been hit and miss for me (mostly miss), but this is better than most of them. Not something I'm going to go out of my way to listen to, though.
5/10
Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica - Mechanical Maze
So instantly, this reminds me of like... Vectorman or something on the Sega Genesis. Which is kind of neat and not what I was expecting. However, that section that you singled out as your favorite part is not a credit to team. Really doesn't work with the rest of the piece at all tbqh. Rest of the song is pretty good and very interesting.
6.5/10
Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story - In the Final
Stealing my material that I stole from VGMC5! I didn't realize this was another Shimomura piece, but it explains why I like it so much, I guess.
7/10, could even be a 7.5 if I was feeling generous, but I'm not right now!
Neotokyo - Tin Soldiers
Stealing my material that I stole from VGMC5 again! Twice in a row!
So Tin Soldiers is... a weird piece for me, in that my first time listening to it, I basically... tranced out and lost track of time for a while. And it's very, very rare for music to have that effect on me. In fact Tin Soldiers is one of the only songs that can pull it off consistently. In any case, not sure this is better than Scrap IO, but I almost certainly like it more, personally.
7/10
Sonic Colors - Planet Wisp Act 1
Sonic Colors is one of the few Sonic games where I'm just not that fond of the soundtrack... with Sonic 2006 also "up" there, though in fairness, Sonic Colors' music is at least "okay", whereas Sonic 2006 has almost universally awful music.
As for Planet Wisp Act 1... it's okay, but I feel like it's rather repetitive, and what it's repeating isn't even that great to start with.
5/10
Final Fantasy X - Attack
Fun fact: I thought this was the FFX normal battle theme, not a boss theme. ...This does not work out in your favor, because I probably prefer the normal battle theme. Really I'm fairly indifferent to Attack!
5/10
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRAbUE1wSg4&hd=1
End of love, love is gone...
This song has a story to it. It was in the Japanese version of SotN, but when the game was localized, it was removed. But then when DXC was released, it was added back into that game's version of SotN, and not only that, it was given an English version, which I happen to like a lot more than the Japanes version!
Something I tend to like in songs with lyrics is lyrical dissonance - that is, when the lyrics don't really match the music itself in mood. And this song definitely qualifies. It's a rather playful, cheerful song about the destruction of everything good in the world. Love itself has vanished. Life is no longer worth living. And consider the first line of the song, about a goddess of happiness who is crying endlessly. If you stop and consider the implications of some of this stuff, it can be pretty horrifying. Of course, the song cops out at the end by closing on a hopeful note, but it's still fairly interesting. One of the rare cases where the lyrics absolutely make the song for me, and as a result, I couldn't care less about the Japanese version, or an instrumental version if one exists!
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"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
Liberal Arts Major
Eh, this is okay, but considering I rarely care about what the lyrics are saying, that whole lyrical dissonance thing means nothing to me. It's still okay even looking beyond that, so it's not too big a hit, but it is there. 5.5
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7IE7IiZLfU&hd=1
Two main things carry this song for me, the vocals, and the percussion. I really doubt I'd like too much if you took away either of those things. The vocalist is fairly good, IMO, definitely good enough that the vocals are one of the best parts. There are a few points where I waver a bit on that, but for the most part I think that's accurate. Percussion is pretty much always solid though, which is nice. Not that the rest is bad or anything, but they don't contribute as much to my liking the song as the percussion.
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that is... disheartening, despite the fact that i think i knew this about you already. IMO the lyrics are probably the single most important part of any song with lyrics; if you don't care what the lyrics are saying, the vocals basically just become another instrument, the same as a piano or a flute.
Last Ranker - Glorious Fights We Call "Life"
I feel like the vocals are wholly unnecessary here... like they seem to be fighting with the rest of the song a lot of the time. Would definitely prefer an instrumental, I think.
5.5/10
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Jet Set Radio - Sweet Soul Brother
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xevC7nT71o&hd=1
Probably my favorite song that I've heard from this series! And I was avoiding posting it because I knew nobody would like it, but now we've officially reached the point where my remaining material is all so bad that it's about a wash! Fun times! (Exclamation marks denote fun times!)
Anyway, about the song: my favorite part is probably :01 through 2:56, with a close second place being :00 through :01! Of the former, I especially like the parts where it says "sweet soul brother"! I also think this is better than Oldies But Happies but I'm not sure if it's better than Newies But Saddies! Somebody should make that and then post it so we can find out! In conclusion, I'd probably lean towards saying Sweet Soul Brother is a song!
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"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
Liberal Arts Major
...How "fun." 3.5.
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Liberal Arts Major
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZiuvc57yxM&hd=1
As a side note, I believe I've run into the same "issue" Kenri was talking about regarding older Touhou and which is what. So there is that.
So here we find ourselves back at Touhou, but this times it's older Touhou, and I'm not sure if it's just a coincidence, or just a consequence of being older Touhou, but I feel the whole "cluttered" thing isn't even really an issue at all. Dimensional Dream maintains a fast pace all the way through as well, which I usually appreciate, and really I just find it quite enjoyable all throughout. Again, I'm pretty sure there's at least one loop in there.
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As a side note, I believe I've run into the same "issue" Kenri was talking about regarding older Touhou and which is what. So there is that.
I have to think this is the penance we end up paying for posting Touhou tracks. Though I'm not sure why it only applies to older ones...
So here we find ourselves back at Touhou, but this times it's older Touhou, and I'm not sure if it's just a coincidence, or just a consequence of being older Touhou, but I feel the whole "cluttered" thing isn't even really an issue at all.
I doubt it's a coincidence, because it applies to more than just Touhou. Chiptunes don't get "cluttered", and if you try to make them cluttered, they just become "awful" instead. And everyone can tell they're awful, so they don't get posted here, or nominated for the VGMC, or whatever. Also why I tend to prefer older VG music, or at least find less of it really objectionable.
Speaking of which, this is pretty good. 6.5/10
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