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Apologies for the delays with polls! They're up now, happy voting! :-)

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Round 1, Side B: Touhou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (2002) vs Neon White (2022)

Touhou | Neon White

Campaigns under the cut!

Campaign for Touhou:

Every melody from here os iconic and is and is almost classic now

Campaign for Neon White:

Machine girl did the soundtrack and it's very good ... i have not played the game but still listen to the soundtrack often that's how much I like it

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Round 1, Side B: Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux (2017) vs Golden Sun (2001)

Shin Megami Tensei | Golden Sun

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Campaign for Shin Megami Tensei:

Strange Journey's OST is super underrated when it comes to SMT. IV gets the love it deserves, but SJ doesn't and I want to change that.

Campaign for Golden Sun:

Best GBA soundtrack (⁠ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ⁠)⁠━⁠☆ﾟ⁠.⁠*⁠･⁠｡ﾟ

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Round 1, Side B: Persona 5 Strikers (2020) vs Hades (2020)

Persona 5 | Hades

Campaigns under the cut!

Campaign for Persona 5:

It combines base Persona 5's jazz with a bit of rock to go with the new combat style. It's lit, fam.

Campaign for Hades:

N/A :(

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Round 1, Side B: Pac-Man All-Stars (2002) vs Toree 3D (2021)

Pac-Man | Toree 3D

Campaigns under the cut!

Campaign for Pac-Man:

One of my personal favourite pac man ost's, though it's one of the more underrated ones. The main theme, the snow theme (5:45), the garden theme (7:20), the lab theme (8:55), and the theme for Wandy's castle (10:30) are all dear to me.

Campaign for Toree 3D:

It's a really fun retro style ost.

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Round 1, Side A: Sally Face (2016) vs Return of the Obra Dinn (2018)

Sally Face | Obra Dinn

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Campaign for Sally Face:

it IS largely ambient i wont deny but its like. goood. ambience ykwim? memories and dreams, the calm, in seeking providence I-V, and the fucking ending track man. its all so good trust me dude aha

Campaign for Obra Dinn:

N/A :(

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Round 1, Side A: Toree 2 (2021) vs Pac Man World 2 (2003)

Toree | Pac Man World

Campaigns under the cut!

Campaign for Toree:

It's a really fun retro style ost like in Toree 3D

Campaign for Pac Man World:

It's good. Several iconic themes, particularly the menu theme. B-Doing Woods, Inky's Blade O Matic, Pinky's Revenge, Clyde in the Caldera and Haunted Boardwalk are usually fan picks for favorite.

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Round 1, Side A: Calico (2020) vs Ooblets (2022)

Calico | Ooblets

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Campaign for Calico:

It's really cozy and like, whimsical, ethereal, i love it a lot. Very calming.

Campaign for Ooblets:

The soundtrack is bouncy and cute and it gives me a lot of happy juices when I listen to it. The game has dance battles in it so there's great music for that, but also just peppy music as you go around doin your thing, and every song manages to be adorable without being obnoxious. It just makes me really happy.

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Round 1, Side A: Guilty Gear Strive (2021) vs Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (2013)

Guilty Gear | MGR

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Campaign for Guilty Gear:

I just think it's really cool that Daisuke made an entire game that came free with his album. But fr all the character themes provide incredible insight into the inner machinations of everyone and their thoughts and feelings at that point in the story.

Campaign for MGR:

Every boss song is such a banger, honestly Collective Consciousness is what convinced me to play the game in the first place

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Gaza is being bombed at this very moment in the “designated safe zone”

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curious: what does the blog header symbolize related to the competition?

Nothing. I chose it because I wanted to make the blog theme pretty, but then I realised I had no appropriate or fitting images, so... I just stuck with whatever I had in my reaction folder. If you want, you can interpret it as the mod's ever-growing need to get out of school, so the mod can actually update the blog every week with new polls instead of being inconsistent.

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I regret not finding this blog earlier because it seems that no one ever submitted the Trails in the Sky soundtrack.

This is my posthumous mourning of its passing. These other soundtracks are good, but none of them have a song called "Overdosing Heavenly Bliss".

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Inspired primarily by @bestgameostcrownduel and the video game tracks submitted to @its-to-the-death's Villain Song Showdown, I'm making a video game track tournament!

Rules:

Just to be clear, I'm referring to individual tracks/songs, not full soundtracks!

Tracks should be official/come from an actual game. So no fan songs, and no K/DA situations.

Related to the above, music that was created specifically for (and used in) rhythm games is allowed, but no pre-existing songs or covers of them that happened to be used in rhythm games.

Though I hope this should go without saying, I won’t be allowing any tracks from games from the Harry Potter franchise. I’m also not allowing tracks from the series The Last of Us, and may disallow other series/games if I feel the need.

Please don’t spam the submissions with the same track multiple times, but feel free to submit as many different ones as you want.

I do require a link to the track. If you can’t find (or upload) it anywhere online, it’s not getting in, sorry.

The rules may be updated if I remember anything important I’ve left out, but that’s all of them for now. So beyond that, go wild! I’m tentatively setting the end date for the submission period to February 25; it may be extended depending on how many submissions I receive.

Submissions go here! (make sure you've read the rules!)

Tags for visibility under the cut!

@tournament-announcer @tournamentdirectory @the-polls @gamequoteshowdown @video-game-kids-tournament @vg-soundtrack-showdown @fuck-you-upmusicbracket @worstvideogamesong-poll @tourneys-by-me @silly-name-tourney @besttropeveershowdown @characterswithcolorsnamesfight @who-do-i-know-this-man @badass-queer-couples-battle

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Anyhow, I am still quite ill so do alert me if any links aren't working properly or something else doesn't look right. Have fun go nuts etc.

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Minecraft has won this battle by a close hair and shall move onto the next round. Sorry Terraria fans. You fought quite admirably.

Round 1, Side B: Terraria (2011) vs Minecraft (2011)

Terraria | Minecraft

Campaigns unavailable for both.

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Kirby Super Star Ultra has received a comically larger amount of votes than Ms Pac-Man and will move to the next round.

Round 1, Side B: Kirby Super Star Ultra (2008) vs Ms Pac-Man Maze Madness (2000)

Kirby | Ms Pac-Man

Campaigns under the cut!

Campaign for Kirby:

N/A

Campaign for Ms Pac-Man:

People always say it's one of the best pac man ost. Skimmed through it a bit seems like a vibe

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Fire Emblem: Awakening has won and will move onto next round. Sorry Silent Hill fans.

Round 1, Side B: Silent Hill 2 (2001) vs Fire Emblem: Awakening (2012)

Silent Hill | Fire Emblem

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Campaign for Silent Hill:

Akira Yamaoka makes such excellent use of samples throughout the soundtrack to the point where you would have never even known he did unless you listen in very closely. We got some of the most iconic tracks like the Day of Night, Promise (Reprise) or Null Moon on the track listing. Not all the soundtracks are haunting and mellow, sometimes it's broken up by absolutely dreadful tracks like Ashes and Ghost with its suspenseful fast paced drum beats and an eerie absence of instruments otherwise. Listen I think the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack overall has just done more for us as a society and is just more iconic. Silent Hill 2 SWEEP

Campaign for Fire Emblem:

Don't Speak Her Name is incredible even as a standalone composition, but it's truly fucking magical as an example of video game music. There's other pieces in the OST obviously but I've been obsessed with Don't Speak Her Name for about a decade now. Some context: FE Awakening (aka FE13) is a turn based JRPG, and in terms of combat music, there's two tracks for most pieces - one that plays when you're zoomed out and seeing the chess-like overview of the map, and an embellished version that is seamlessly transitioned into and out of when your units make an attack and the camera zooms in on them. (It's a little hard to explain in words, so if you're curious you can look up a gameplay video.) There's also a third track that plays whenever it's the enemy's turn. Story spoilers here on out! The ruling queen of the kingdom you're fighting for is taken hostage by the enemy kingdom, whose king demands the Fire Emblem (important macguffin) in exchange for her. The queen instead jumps off a cliff, becoming a martyr to both her kingdom and the enemy kingdom. In the fight afterwards, Don't Speak Her Name is the track that plays for the entire fight - while you're zoomed out, while you're zoomed in, and even on the enemy's turn, because the enemy is just as reluctant to fight as you are. The title of the track comes from the protagonist of the game, the queen's brother, who is furious at the enemy commander for talking about his sister. I can't do the moment justice by just describing it - Don't Speak Her Name is so fucking good in and of itself, but I also think it's a superb example of the narrative power music can wield AND an example of the unique way games, as an interactive medium, can exploit the intersection of mechanical-musical structure to enhance their narratives. FE13 sets up the expectation of out-of-combat + in-combat + enemy turn tracks, so when Don't Speak Her Name breaks that expectation it communicates something. So so cool.