Song of the Week - WEEK 63 Voting/WEEK 64 Nominating

Throwing up a nomination. I'll give points later.

Album: Phantom Brave Original Soundtrack
Title: Game Breaker
Track Number: 1-12
Composer: Tenpei Sato
Catalog Number: SLPS-20344
Year: 2004

Ok, here's some points.

3 Points: CRISS†CROSS ~ CROSS†CHANNEL Soundtrack Arrange Version - Airwaves

Funny story about this track. I was considering nominating Airwaves at some point down the road, but didn't know it's name. If this track sounds mysteriously familiar, slap yourself now. It's the in-game music for Nanaca Crash.
I asked CHz if he knew where to find it and he kind of choked, since it was already on his server space for nomination. When CHz posted his nomination, he said "sup crash", which was both a taunt at me and a comment on the track's in-game use. But I've been anticipating this week for a while since I've always thought this was a kickass, rockin' tune.

1 Point: Uncharted Waters Online (Game Rip) - South african ocean

The drums are nice and I like the light, choral atmosphere. It builds well by the end also.

1 Point: TimeSplitters (Game Rip) - 1970 Chinese

Kinda offbeat but with plenty of character. It's grown better with repeated listens.

1 Point: Enthusia Professional Racing Original Soundtrack - Running To Horizon [OCEAN BRIDGE]

It's not really a surprise that this track is enjoyable. Not as good as others in the album but refreshingly shorter. And I do like jazzy tracks oh so much. <3


This was a very well-rounded week. I expect some very strong competition by Sunday's results.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by ikkei

If I'm not incorrect this ost has already been nominated thrice

I can think of one time, and that was Week 52, where The End of This Passionate Feeling placed third.

Before that, there were a couple Adventure of Puppet Princess OST noms. Sato composed those as well, so perhaps that's the source of your confusion? I believe they're all Nippon Ichi games, which doesn't help matters.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by CHz

Okay, I've got the Strangers on a Train part, but I can't figure out which of the tracks it has to do anything with. Another hint?

I'm gonna guess that it was something of a "criss-cross".

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I don't have a huge problem with the 3rd Gig album. Obscurity is relative and I think sometimes we forget to examine the larger picture. Since SotW is filled with VGM enthusiasts, it's very likely that any Seiken Densetsu arrangements will maintain a higher than normal profile, if only due to participants being immersed in the general subject matter.

But to the average video game player, would they know such a thing exists? I doubt it. I tend to feel that almost all arrangements fall into the realm of general obscurity and doujins especially so.

As long as the nominated arrangement isn't covering a phenomenally well-known tune (for example, I'd never, ever condone an arrangement of Liberi Fatali, no matter how obscure the album), then I don't see any major problems.

We ran into this with Suikoden, and it seems that the Suikoden clause is becoming the standard by which these things are judged. The familiarity of the source material doesn't always indicate wide recognition of the music.

I recently came across an arrangement of an unused track from Mega Man 5. It's pretty snazzy. But the original chiptune was never included in the final game. It was only resurrected for to be an interesting addition to the official arranged album. To me, this is pretty freakin' obscure. But would everyone discard the nomination just because Mega Man 5 is one the NES's hallmark titles?

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Three pages and a minimal amount of votes. I don't think this was the purpose of SotW, to endlessly bicker minutae about eligibility.

Make some polls and end this already.

I was speaking idiomatically.

But it does stand that Soule is a professional and all works by professionals - personal projects or not - are acceptable. The nature of the melody, that of a very recognized source, is what I find questionable.

I'll say right now that I lean toward opposing the Soule track, if only for its high profile on OCR. If it were a buried treasure, I'd be more willing to accept it. This is not the case, however.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I don't think you'll run into any problems with Radiata Stories, Portopia or World Runner nominations.

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I'm actually surprised that "Esperanto" rallied as it did. I thought it was merely average.

I thought maybe "Airwaves" would take second and "Revelation" third.

Always surprises in SotW.

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