Rate the Person's Video Game Composition Above You!

[gabriel sama]

Hmm. This is interesting. It's got a DQ feel to it. Battle music, huh? It's pretty nice, I'd say. It's like... Dragon Quest's illegitimate child or something. 8.5/10

We Are Finally Cowboys from No More Heroes/ No More Heroes 2, by Masafumi Takada  

[Belzayne]

Cowboy feeling...huh I can see it, but I'm missing it at the beginning. Action certainly can be situated with this song. And a DAMN YOU for going for the song I was after to review. 7/10

Majora's Mask: Ballad of the Wind Fish by Koji Kondo  

[gabriel sama]

Ehh... while that's a Ballad of the Wind Fish, it totally has nothing on the actual one from Link's Awakening. 6.5/10

The Battle For Everyone's Souls from Persona 3/P3: FES/ P3P by Shoji Meguro  

[The Lolwut Pear]

I have to be honest here: I have a friend who is obsessed with the Persona series, and most of the music he showed me was complete crap sounding like it came out of a porn video. This however was a good song, it had a right mix of rock, amazing percussion line (like seriously, you try not to tap your foot to that!) and even vocals. Needless to say I was impressed- 8/10.

Celestial Troupe- Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria by Motoi Sakuraba  

[ThePersonInFrontOfYou]

This is very interesting to me.
While it uses similar progressions and harmonies and such, I feel like Sakuraba really made this song stand out. The only thing that doesn't make me think of him is the main guitar riff itself. It isn't as weighty as something in, say, Iconoclasm. It doesn't sound as... what's the word... not rough, but real. Like, I can imagine Sakuraba rocking out there, but I can't imagine this one as well in that sense. That's not bad at all, it's just different from what he does, and I am in comparison mode. I actually really like the latter half of the song. It sounds like it gradually becomes more of its own beast, with its slower, more quiet bits that hold it out longer before heading back into the faster parts, while going back down in keys, almost like a little relief. I really like this song, and I think I'll give it an 9/10. What prevents me from scoring it higher is, well, I just like one half of the song more than the other.

Also, Roy, Dark Cloud is a PS2 game. I have it. It is a very simple dungeon crawler/building game where you delve into dungeons with a variety of characters and rebuild a destroyed world in a sims-esque way. Its very simple and can get more than a little repetitive, but I thought it was charming and fun. Not to mention Osmond is badass. He's a rabbit from the moon who wields guns, builds giant robots, and flies around with a helipack. Friggin' awesome.
It also had a sequel, which I have never finished. I lost interest. It seemed like it was trying really, really hard to be invited to my birthday party, if you know what I mean. I just couldn't get into it. It didn't have the simple charm of the original. And on the subject of music, Wise Owl Forest from the first Dark Cloud is one of my favorite video game tunes. Unfortunately, all of the youtube versions of it seem to be in the wrong tune for some reason...

And all that Sakuraba talk earler made me realize that there is no Golden Sun music in this thread yet.

Venus Lighthouse- Golden Sun, by Motoi Sakuraba  

[gabriel sama]

@ Hassan:

If you really wanted porno music from Persona, Strip Tease from Persona 4 would have been your best bet. XD

@ Tiki: I'll be sure to look around for it at my local Gamestops for it then. If I can't find it, I'll use the power of the internet to get it. Membership helps. Sounds interesting.

As for your song... I am slightly (very slightly) reminded of a mixture of Tales of Symphonia's Derris Karlan and a bit of Metroid. I've always been a big fan of Golden Sun music. 3nodding 9/10

Speaking of things that haven't shown up yet... no one's gotten Chrono Trigger up.

Battle with Magus from Chrono Trigger by Yasunori Mitsuda  

[Belzayne]

*Places song on replay* Oh yeah Chrono Trigger...I loved this game. I also enjoyed battling Magus once the time came for it. I just want to jam to this tune if I got the chance...hell I'm home alone right now so I will for sometime! The way this song goes is just great to me. This is a 10/10 for me cause I loved this song.

Devil May Cry 3 Battle Music by Tetsuya Shibata, Kento Hasegawa  

[gabriel sama]

Perfect score. Aw yeah. cool

As for the DMC 3 Battle music... it kinda grows on ya. Especially the vocals part. I'm more fond of Devils Never Cry, but this is good too. 8.75/10

Continuing on from our DMC song... allow me to give you some fun facts about a particular favorite game of mine from which this next song comes from, since it does in fact Dante in it.

1) In exchange for having Dante appear in one of my personal favorite games (and insanely difficult to boot), Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne, DMC borrowed Kazuma Kaneko, who was responsible for the artwork in the SMT games, to create the devil trigger forms for both Dante and Virgil in DMC 3.

2) In the Japanese-only release of Nocturne, known as Nocturne Maniax Chronicle, rather have Dante fight you like in the English version, you face... Raidou Kuzunoha, from his self-titled games in the SMT series. He is... insanely powerful, and like most other protagonists in SMT, he's silent.

3) The protagonist of this game, SMT 3: Nocturne, appears as a secret boss in Digital Devil Saga. And he's claimed to be one of the strongest secret bosses ever made in the SMT universe, on par with Elizabeth from Persona 3, who can kill you with A FRIKKIN PIXIE.

What do all three of these have in common? They're all in the same battle that this theme plays in, depending on which edition you get.

Dante Battle from Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne by none other than the esteemed Shoji Meguro.  

[The Lolwut Pear]

I felt as though that song was very repetitive, almost trance inducing. However, I will give it extra points for changing figures every now and then. 6.5/10

Holders of Power Ys (original) by Yuzo Koshiro  

[gabriel sama]

The song grows on you. It's pretty nice. 8/10.

lol, lame review is lame. XD -mind is currently elsewhere-

Down the Mountain Stream from Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards  

[The Lolwut Pear]

Oh God, Kirby 64 has an adorable soundtrack! (minus the scary underground pipe level in Ripclaw D; ) and thank you for reminding me what I am missing on my iPod! (loves thatjazz-like cello/double bass song that plays in the second last [?] level where you run the gauntlet and fight enemy after enemy, if you know which song I'm talking about, please link it, and I'll love you forever and ever.) And for this song, for being cute and one of those songs that just scream KIRBY!!!!!!! it gets a 9/10.

Final Map- Fire Emblem Gaiden by Yuka Tsujiyoko  

[ThePersonInFrontOfYou]

heart heart heart heart heart heart KIRBY 64!!!! I was just thinking of that soundtrack a few days ago! I love that song!

I mean, uh... Fire Emblem Gaiden.

That's a nice beat there. And it feels like a good final battle theme... Though that said, perhaps it's the NES limits, but it sort of feels like it's missing that "OOMPH" necessary. That, and the transitions are a little weird to me. But it's a fun song, and it gets a good 7/10.

Night Mare- King's Quest 6: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow, by Chris Brayman.  

[Belzayne]

A nice flute and clarinet balance, I like that at the beginning. I may be biased, cause I like listening to some clarinet stuff (don't judge me because I'm a band kid!). The feeling is nice there, though for some reason I get a bit of sorrow from this? I may be wrong, since I have not played this game. Overall, I like it. 8/10

Hassan, if you review this, here's something for you: Fire Emblem Thracia 776: Fight with Leidrich by Yuka Tsujiyoko  

[The Lolwut Pear]

Ah, Leidrick, fun guy, the standard armoured big boss in any FE you fight. However, this is a very interesting song for me, the brassy trumpet part (totally makes sense xD, like after the main melody, it plays for like five seconds or so?) gives me a great visual of a climatic saber-like pirate duel between Leaf with the Blaggi Sword and Leidrick with the Lopto Sword (or if you're me, Mareeta with an uncursed sword with KARMA written all over it). For conveying an awesome scenery and being an awesome song, I'll give ya' a 9.5/10, the brass in FE5 is some of the best brass synthetic in SNES history IMO, next to Illusion of Gaia.

Under Water- Breath of Fire by Yasuaki Fujita  

[gabriel sama]

About that one particular Kirby song, Hassan... I think I know which one you're talking about. You're talking about the level where you're going up the stairs on your way to fight Miracle Matter, right? In that case... I might have it. I'm replaying through the game just to make sure it's the right level and not the one before it. sweatdrop

As for your song... it feels like you are underwater, and yet it has that sort of "congratulations you beat the game" feel at certain parts of it that just throws me off sometimes. 8.5/10.

So... I watched Madoka Magica a couple of months back, and I was actually kinda surprised to see that they had released a PC game on it recently or something. It's pretty short though, sadly.

Oktavia from Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Grief Syndrome. I... don't have the name of the artist, unfortunately. sweatdrop