VGM Knock-Out Tournament

[Shad]

Throbbing Heart

First Steps

[NFUN]

sorry for the delay something came up yesterday

Singing Hill < Imperial Astronomical Quantum Wave Theory Laboratory (0 < 3)
In the Mirror < Heart of the Mountain (0 < 3)

Best of Exa Pico
Round 1, Fight 7

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ahih rei-yah ~Connecting Feelings~ from Ciel nosurge
c. Akiko Shikata

vs

Everything Will Get Distorted Soon from Ar nosurge
c. Kazuki Yanagawa

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Best of Celeste
Round 1, Fight 7

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Anxiety

vs

Confronting Myself

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[Egix96]

Celeste

r1f4: Spirit of Hospitality
r1f5: Heart of the Mountain
r1f6: Reflection
r1f7: Confronting Myself

[NFUN]

Throbbing Heart ~Cloche~ > EXEC_Z/. (3 > 0)
Reflection < First Steps (1 < 3)

Best of Exa Pico
Round 1, Fight 8

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EXEC_COSMOFLIPS/.from Ar tonelico Qoga
c. Masumi Ito, v. KOKIA

vs

EXEC_PHANTASMAGORIA/. from Ar tonelico
c. Akira Tsuchiya, v. Noriko Mitose, Akiko Shikata, Haruka Shimotsuki

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Best of Celeste
Round 1, Fight 8

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Golden

vs

Exhale


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[Piayer_0]

ahih rei-yah ~Connecting Feelings~
Confronting Myself

EXEC_COSMOFLIPS/.
Golden

[NFUN]

Phantasmagoria
Golden

[Shad]

ahih rei-yah ~Connecting Feelings~

Confronting Myself

[Shad]

EXEC_PHANTASMAGORIA/.

Golden

[NFUN]

oops

Connecting Feeling
Confronting Myself

[NFUN]

ahih rei-yah ~Connecting Feelings~ > Everything Will Get Distorted Soon (3 > 0)
Anxiety < Confronting Myself

Best of Exa Pico
Round 1, Fight 9

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The Second Tower from Ar tonelico 2
c. Ken Nakagawa

vs

QuelI-_EX[cez]-_{kranz}; from Ciel nosurge
c. Morrigan, v. Noriko Mitose

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Best of Celeste
Round 2, Fight 1

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Resurrections


vs

Reach for the Summit


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[Shad]

The Second Tower

Celeste became....... very difficult very quickly. Resurrections

[davtarkov]

Quiet and Falling
Heart of the Mountain
First Steps

[NFUN]

EXEC_COSMOFLIPS/. < EXEC_PHANTASMAGORIA/. (1 < 2)
Golden > Exhale (3 > 0)


Best of Exa Pico
Round 1, Fight 10

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EXEC_PAJA/.#Misya extracting from Ar tonelico
c. Akiko Shikata, v. Akiko Shikata

vs

Personality Collapse Project from Ciel nosurge
c. Akiko Shikata

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Best of Celeste
Round 2, Fight 2

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Little Goth


vs

Quiet and Falling


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[Egix96]

Celeste

r1f8: Exhale
r2f1: Resurrections
r2f2: Little Goth

[Piayer_0]

QuelI-_EX[cez]-_{kranz};
Resurrections

EXEC_PAJA/.#Misya extracting
Quiet and Falling

First time hearing The Second Tower, now I know where Atelier Shallie's On the Old Road came from

[Shad]

Personality Collapse Project

Quiet and Falling

[NFUN]

Tower
Summit

Misya

[NFUN]

The Second Tower > QuelI-_EX[cez]-_{kranz}; (2 > 1)
Resurrections > Reach for the Summit (3 > 1)

Best of Exa Pico
Round 1, Fight 11

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Crimson Scars from Ar tonelico 2
c. Daisuke Achiwa

vs

em-pyei-n vari-fen jang; from Ar nosurge
c. Toru Ishitsuka, v. ORIGA

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Best of Celeste
Round 2, Fight 3

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Heart of the Mountain


vs

First Steps


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[Egix96]

Heart of the Mountain


vs

First Steps

First Steps

[NFUN]

EXEC_PAJA/.#Misya extracting > Personality Collapse Project (2 > 1)
Little Goth < Quiet and Falling (1 < 2)

Best of Exa Pico
Round 1, Fight 12

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QuelI->{ein te hyme}; from Ciel nosurge
c. Akiko Shikata, v. Akiko Shikata

vs

XaaaCi. from Ar tonelico III
c. Yoshitaka Hirota, v. Noriko Mitose

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Best of Celeste
Round 2, Fight 4

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Confronting Myself


vs

Golden


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[NFUN]

Xaaaci
Confronting Myself

The composer of Xaaaci was also the main guy behind Shadow Hearts (the similarities aren't hard to find lol). Kenji Ito, another of SH's three composers, did another hymmnos song that's not in this bracket... well technically there was a fourth composer who arranged one of Mozart's songs for it for some reason, who was Akiko Shikata, whose name you're probably sick of seeing by now! Just need Mitsuda to show up out of nowhere to arrange an Exa Pico song for the weird incest circle to be complete. Also xaaaci is about the planet itself getting sick of mankind and trying to genocide them or some $%#! these games are wild

[NFUN]

oops almost forgot

Crimson Scars
Heart of the Mountain

rip random russian song

[Piayer_0]

em-pyei-n vari-fen jang;
Heart of the Mountain

XaaaCi.
Golden

I considered nominating the Russian song on Board 8

[Shad]

Best of Exa Pico
Round 1, Fight 13

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EXEC_over.METHOD_SUBLIMATION/.from Ar tonelico II
c. Akiko Shikata, v. Akiko Shikata

vs

niizhtana from Ciel nosurge
c. Hayato Asano

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Best of Celeste
Round 3, Fight 1

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Resurrections


vs

Quiet and Falling


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[Piayer_0]

niizhtana
Resurrections

[NFUN]

Sublimation
Resurrections

[NFUN]

Crimson Scars = em-pyei-n vari-fen jang; (1 = 1)
Heart of the Mountain > First Steps (2 > 1)

QuelI->{ein te hyme}; < XaaaCi. (0 < 2)
Confronting Myself = Golden (1 = 1)

EXEC_over.METHOD_SUBLIMATION/. = niizhtana (1 = 1)
Resurrections > Quiet and Falling (2 > 0)

Do you plan on voting on the tied matches Shad, or should I get somebody else?


Best of Exa Pico
Round 1, Fight 14

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CLASS::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;from Ar nosurge
c. Morrigan, v. Noriko MItose

vs

Attack Mechanism from Ar tonelico III
c. HIR

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Best of Celeste
Round 3, Fight 2

<awaiting tiebreakers>

[Shad]

I'm out of the country for another week abouts, will catch up on whatever I missed after that.

[NFUN]

Confronting Myself < Golden (1 < 2) courtesy of Prince46

Best of Celeste
Round 3, Fight 2

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Heart of the Mountain


vs

Golden


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[NFUN]

EXSPHERE
Golden

Exsphere is another winner of the big vgm contest. It sounds schizophrenic because part of the context is the player character being compelled by... something (the player, maybe?) to destroy and she's fighting it. Control! Reconnect!

[NFUN]

Best of Exa Pico
Round 1, Fight 15

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Class::CIEL_NOSURGE;from Ar nosurge
c. Akiko Shikata, v. Akiko Shikata

vs

EXEC_RIG=VEDA/. from Ar tonelico
c. Ken Nakagawa, v. Noriko Mitose

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Waiting for Celeste results for finals

[Egix96]

Resurrections

Heart of the Mountain

[Piayer_0]

CLASS::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;
Golden

EXEC_RIG=VEDA/.

[NFUN]

will wait for shad for more exa pico results there's no hurry
Heart of the Mountain < Golden (1 < 2)

Best of Exa Pico
Round 1, Fight 16

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AT inside ~Resonance~from Ar tonelico
c. Ken Nakagawa

vs

Colors ～SEN～ Will This Flower Bloom? from Ar tonelico 2
c. Eiichiro Yanagi (Takahide Murayama), v. Noriko Mitose

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Best of Celeste
Round 4, Fight 1
FINALS

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Resurrections

vs

Golden


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[Egix96]

Resurrections

[NFUN]

Still waiting for Shad for Exa Pico and Celeste still has another few days

[Shad]

Yeah my old phone's headphone jack busted and listening to weeb jams out loud in the office felt like a bad idea and I needed to use the one moment of actual free time I've had so far this month updating my own game. Going to roll through everything I missed here whether it's moved on or not because I want to here them, but it's looking like Tuesday at best before time exists again.

[Piayer_0]

Colors ～SEN～ Will This Flower Bloom?
Golden

Resurrections is an instant classic but the peaceful-yet-uncertain soundscape of Golden's virtual mountain is too magical.

[NFUN]

SEN
Resurrections

[Shad]

And awaaaaaaaaay we go

[Shad]

The Second Tower > QuelI-_EX[cez]-_{kranz}; (2 > 1)
Resurrections > Reach for the Summit (3 > 1)

Best of Exa Pico
Round 1, Fight 11

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Crimson Scars from Ar tonelico 2
c. Daisuke Achiwa

vs

em-pyei-n vari-fen jang; from Ar nosurge
c. Toru Ishitsuka, v. ORIGA

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Best of Celeste
Round 2, Fight 3

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Heart of the Mountain


vs

First Steps


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Crimson Scars feels like Earthbound hit the gym. em-pyei-n vari-fen jang caught me off guard by being in some Slavic language but isn't doing much to stand out to me uniquely.

Heart of the Mountain ~~ Both of these are quite good in very different ways. I might just be voting Heart because it's longer.

[Shad]

EXEC_PAJA/.#Misya extracting > Personality Collapse Project (2 > 1)
Little Goth < Quiet and Falling (1 < 2)

Best of Exa Pico
Round 1, Fight 12

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QuelI->{ein te hyme}; from Ciel nosurge
c. Akiko Shikata, v. Akiko Shikata

vs

XaaaCi. from Ar tonelico III
c. Yoshitaka Hirota, v. Noriko Mitose

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Best of Celeste
Round 2, Fight 4

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Confronting Myself


vs

Golden


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XaaaCi. not particularly close for me

Golden is nice and does eventually go places, but Confronting Myself is an absolute bop.

[Shad]

Best of Exa Pico
Round 1, Fight 13

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EXEC_over.METHOD_SUBLIMATION/.from Ar tonelico II
c. Akiko Shikata, v. Akiko Shikata

vs

niizhtana from Ciel nosurge
c. Hayato Asano

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Best of Celeste
Round 3, Fight 1

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Resurrections


vs

Quiet and Falling


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A 1 minute cut vs a 17 minute cut feels a bit silly lol. I respect eclectic, and Exa Pico certainly has plenty of that. METHOD_SUBLIMATION feels a bit too disjointed of a sound collage to immediately move me, but I want to see it live for another chance to grow on me.

Quiet and Falling is fantastic

[Shad]

Crimson Scars = em-pyei-n vari-fen jang; (1 = 1)
Heart of the Mountain > First Steps (2 > 1)

QuelI->{ein te hyme}; < XaaaCi. (0 < 2)
Confronting Myself = Golden (1 = 1)

EXEC_over.METHOD_SUBLIMATION/. = niizhtana (1 = 1)
Resurrections > Quiet and Falling (2 > 0)

Do you plan on voting on the tied matches Shad, or should I get somebody else?


Best of Exa Pico
Round 1, Fight 14

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CLASS::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;from Ar nosurge
c. Morrigan, v. Noriko MItose

vs

Attack Mechanism from Ar tonelico III
c. HIR

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Best of Celeste
Round 3, Fight 2

<awaiting tiebreakers>

CLASS::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE

[Shad]

Confronting Myself < Golden (1 < 2) courtesy of Prince46

Best of Celeste
Round 3, Fight 2

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Heart of the Mountain


vs

Golden


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Heart of the Mountain

[Shad]

Best of Exa Pico
Round 1, Fight 15

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Class::CIEL_NOSURGE;from Ar nosurge
c. Akiko Shikata, v. Akiko Shikata

vs

EXEC_RIG=VEDA/. from Ar tonelico
c. Ken Nakagawa, v. Noriko Mitose

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Waiting for Celeste results for finals

Ugh these might be my two favorite so far and they're head to head. EXEC_RIG=VEDA? Maybe?

[Shad]

will wait for shad for more exa pico results there's no hurry
Heart of the Mountain < Golden (1 < 2)

Best of Exa Pico
Round 1, Fight 16

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AT inside ~Resonance~from Ar tonelico
c. Ken Nakagawa

vs

Colors ～SEN～ Will This Flower Bloom? from Ar tonelico 2
c. Eiichiro Yanagi (Takahide Murayama), v. Noriko Mitose

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Best of Celeste
Round 4, Fight 1
FINALS

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Resurrections

vs

Golden


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Colors ～SEN～ Will This Flower Bloom? Resonance was good but not good enough for this

Resurrections I was kind of neutral on Golden and it's not growing on me from there much.

[Shad]

Oh wow I'm actually caught up now

Cheers, hopefully won't fall that far behind again XD

[NFUN]

winners are Scars, Xaaaci, Sublimation, Exsphere, Veda, Sen...

and your Celeste grand champion is Resurrections, with a 3-1 score against Golden! Congratulations...

and what will we do now that arthur vanished and presumably isn't running Best of the Worst? should i sprint to finish ys?

anyways

Best of Exa Pico
Round 2, Fight 1

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Mikazuchifrom Ar nosurge
c. Kazuki Yanagawa

vs

EXEC_METEMPSYCHOSIS/. from Ar tonelico 3
c. Yoko Ueno, v. Yoko Ueno

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[NFUN]

Transmigration