Borderline week.

(2 points) Legend of Heroes ~ Sora No Kiseki SC Original Soundtrack – Hamel
(2 points) Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Image Sound Track - Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze
(1 point) dodonpachi DAI-OU-JOU KE-TSU-I kisunajigokutachi ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - DEFENSIVE LINE - Lurking in the Darkness
(1 point) Spyro the Dragon (Game Rip) - Dark Hollow

Here's my next nomination:

* Album Title: Dreamfall: The Longest Journey Original Soundtrack
* Artist: Ingvild Hasund
* Track Title: Rush
* Source: Dreamfall Soundtrack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
* File Location: Nominations folder
* Disc Number: 1 (of 1)
* Track Number: 21
* Catalogue Number: NA
* Year: 2006

<vote>

<track points="2"> Hamel </track>
<track points="2"> Kawanabe Theme </track>
<track points="1"> Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze </track>
<track points="1"> Agni </track>

</vote>

(This is the last time, I promise)

Also, I realize this might be a bit late, but I was just wondering if anybody else thinks Liontamer's nom might be pushing it a little bit. I mean, IIRC we've had a ruling regarding new games before (i.e. not allowed), not to mention that pretty much every single person who's played Portal at this point knows and loves this song already. I call "not obscure."

Let's spread some points:

1 point ~ Ar tonelico II ~Sekai ni Hibiku Shoujotachi no Metafalica~ Original Soundtrack – Agni
1 point ~ Climax Landers Original Soundtrack - Lao's Theme
1 point ~ Legend of Heroes ~ Sora No Kiseki SC Original Soundtrack – Hamel
3 points ~ Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Image Sound Track - Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze

Umewara almost took another point.

Close Week
Climax Landers Original Soundtrack - Lao's Theme --> 1 Point
dodonpachi DAI-OU-JOU KE-TSU-I kisunajigokutachi ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - DEFENSIVE LINE - Lurking in the Darkness (Stage4) --> 1 Point
Legend of Heroes ~ Sora No Kiseki SC Original Soundtrack – Hamel --> 2 Points
Spyro the Dragon (Game Rip) - Dark Hollow --> 1 Point
Umihara Kawase (Game Rip) - Kawanabe Theme --> 1 Point

My votes:

(3 points) Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Image Sound Track - Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze

(2 points) Legend of Heroes ~ Sora No Kiseki SC Original Soundtrack - Hamel

(1 point) Climax Landers Original Soundtrack - Lao's Theme

Spyro was very close to getting a point but I liked "Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze" too much.

3 points - dodonpachi DAI-OU-JOU KE-TSU-I kisunajigokutachi ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - DEFENSIVE LINE - Lurking in the Darkness (Stage4)
2 points - Spyro the Dragon (Game Rip) - Dark Hollow
1 point - Legend of Heroes ~ Sora No Kiseki SC Original Soundtrack – Hamel

There were a couple other good tracks, but those were the three that stood out to me. I'm a fan of the dodonpachi DAI-OU-JOU KE-TSU-I kisunajigokutachi ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK, so that gets my top spot.

Oh man, wish I'd read this/thought of it sooner.

Yeah, so I've played Portal, and anyone who has not yet played Portal is hereby banned from SotW until they play Portal, so now every active SotW member has played Portal and therefore has very likely heard this song.

Seriously though, does no one else have an issue with this?

I've played Portal, and yeah, that song is awesome. I wonder how many of us have really heard it, though?

Well...at least 4. :P

Will edit with points shortly.

Agni: Sub-par for Atelier series standards. Nothing special about it.
Lao's Theme:
Defensive Line: Not bad, but there's not enough variation for me.
The Grown-Up Game: I like cheery songs, but this one's too simple, and I don't care for the singing.
Hamel: The best song this week.
Dark Hollow: Perhaps the most interesting song of the batch, simply because it's different than most songs.
Kawanabe Theme: More enjoyable than most of this week's songs.
Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze: Quality stuff. Not as enjoyable as Kawanabe Theme, though.

Hamel - 2 pts.
Kawanabe Theme - 2 pts.
Brilliant Marks - 1 pt.
Dark Hollow - 1 pt.

Controversy!

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE

Voting is closed and nominations are restricted and Still Alive is questionable so let's have more passioned defenses or lynch mobs and so on!

1). [31] Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Image Sound Track - Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze
2). [27] Legend of Heroes ~ Sora No Kiseki SC Original Soundtrack – Hamel
3). [23] dodonpachi DAI-OU-JOU KE-TSU-I kisunajigokutachi ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - DEFENSIVE LINE - Lurking in the Darkness (Stage4)
4). [22] Spyro the Dragon (Game Rip) - Dark Hollow
5). [12/10] Climax Landers Original Soundtrack - Lao's Theme
6). [12/8] Umihara Kawase (Game Rip) - Kawanabe Theme
7). [11] Ar tonelico II ~Sekai ni Hibiku Shoujotachi no Metafalica~ Original Soundtrack – Agni
8). [0] Giftpia Title Music + Nanashi-FM - The Grown-Up Game

And "Silver Wings" takes another Silver...Coincidence or no?

(lol @ random pick getting second. Love it!)

Well, my computer can't run any of those fancy Orange Box games, so I haven't heard this Portal song yet. And because of that, I'm fine with leaving it in SotW because it will be new to me.

Also, congrats to Blah getting gold on his first time nominating. Too bad we can't all be that lucky.

On the subject of Still Alive, I'm don't advocate jumping on newly released music for nomination in SotW. I've made this point before. And as with Katamari Damacy, for example, just because it doesn't seem popular out the door, doesn't mean everyone won't hear it a couple months from now. In fact, I'm currently making a point to not nominate anything that was released in the present year. Give the listeners some time, I say.

What's the controversy over Liontamer's nomination? I haven't even heard of the game or the composer, so voting 'yay'.

Haha, thanks guys. I was actually unsure of which track to nominate from the Yamibou Image soundtrack, since all of them were just so good. In the end I settled for the one with more percussion.

In any case, I'm happy one of the more obscure Noriyasu Agematsu works got some attention!

This is definitely more a matter of you needing to get out more. :tpg:

Congrats, Bigblah! Excellent song choice there.

With regards to Portal, wow, the game looks really neat! But I don't think I'll be able to play it anytime in the near or distant future. :P For one, I tend to get a bit dizzy playing first person shooter type games.

Try the Flash version then. :)

I'm going to call this one in favor of Still Alive being disqualified for now. There are enough heards/haven't-heards to put it to an eligibility vote, but that combined with the fact that the game was released less than three weeks ago puts this over the edge as far as novelty-is-not-obscurity goes. Bring it back in a few months (how many??? :confused:) and see what it looks like then.

Seriously though, everyone needs to play Portal.

VICTOLY

Take that, Smelly Oji! :D

Well, Dr. Uzuki tabled his Odin Sphere nom indefinitely after the same arguments were invoked, so there's no real precedent that I can recall.