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Touhou musical tastes/questions
Ghaleon:
Hey guys, I'm wondering if I'm the only one who feels like the music in MoF/SA just isn't as good as PCB/IN. PCB in particular is the best imo. In another thread someone mentioned that they wondered why everyone liked PCB music so much but from what I could tell I was the only person who really thought it stood out that much.
To me PCB music just sounds so damn climatic compared to the others. Necrofantasia just makes me want to tear off my shirt and fly to the nearest maiden in distress, As does the final boss in the normal game. In addition there is alot of emotional variety between stage themes imo. IN was good too but it kinda lacked a standout song or part imo, most of it really seemed like one "spacey" song after another, where it gets progressively more and more spacey as you near the end of the game (though the extra stage is an exception).
With a very few select exceptions, I found music in MoF, and SA to be kinda dull in comparison. I really like the stage 1 theme in SA, but it's a bit weak overall for a "favorite" song in the game >=P.
I'm sure there are plenty of people here who like the music in MoF and SA, but I'm just curious if I'm really one odd exception or if there is even a slightly noticeable mass opinion regarding this matter. Personally I kinda hope there is in hopes that Zun recognizes this and makes a future Touhou game with music that is more appealing to me again (yeah I know stupid wish but hey. I can wish).
Drake:
The greatest part in PCB was when you finish off Yuyuko. You get the majestic last-boss-exploding-noise, then BAM and you start a survival card. Halfway through the guitars kick in and you're like FUCK THIS IS GREAT and when the timer finally runs out, all the bullet explode into cherry and soar towards you with that crazy riff playing until it fades to white. Beating Yuyuko is probably the most satisfying normal Touhou occurrence ever.
Vile Lasagna:
--- Quote from: Drake on June 11, 2009, 05:23:04 AM ---The greatest part in PCB was when you finish off Yuyuko. You get the majestic last-boss-exploding-noise, then BAM and you start a survival card. Halfway through the guitars kick in and you're like FUCK THIS IS GREAT and when the timer finally runs out, all the bullet explode into cherry and soar towards you with that crazy riff playing until it fades to white. Beating Yuyuko is probably the most satisfying normal Touhou occurrence ever.
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+1
As for PCB vs MOF/SA, PCB is still my favourite touhou in many aspects music BEING one of them. MoF has some awesome music, namely Dark Road (FUCK YEAH!!!!), Foughten Field and Kero Destiny (yeah, suddenly I forgot the real name of tha one), but overall I think it doesn't feel as grandiose a WHOLE thing like PCB does. As for SA I think the music in that game is really awesome, with the exception of Stage 5 but it IS SA stage 5 so my opinion may be quite biased. I'm not particularly fond of Yamame and Parsee's musics, but their stages themes are awesome, and when you get to Streets of a Former Hell it is INDEED FUCK YEAH! (I think the only bad part of that music is the switch to Onion Rings when it comes to the boss battle.. Not a bad music but...). Stage4 has great music and Satori has another amazing theme. The cherry on top being nuclear fusion which is simply awesome, it got me severely addicted to it.
Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin:
In the old forums, I posted an idea to the effect of: Okay, so, the timeout card begins, and it's manageable so far, but then the trumpets begin and it becomes twice as dense with butterflies, and then Yuyuko whips out an electric guitar and begins playing the theme on it and the screen's covered in fscking FIREWORKS.
*cough* Okay, that said: I think MoF frankly has pretty damn good music, especially in the stage 1 theme and the last stage two stage themes and the final boss theme. Suwa Foughten Field is ... epic. It really gives a feel of "You're fighting the GODS!" there.
Nuclear Fusion, meanwhile, really lays on the "Oh shit, nuclear strike!" feel. It grew on me, I felt. The stage 5 and 6 themes ... not so much. I suppose I was expecting it to build on MoF's "sort of like a cross between Kagome Kagome and Ancient Temple, except moreso" and "We're about to hit an awesome climax here!" Deserted Hell ... well, it's hauntingly beautiful in its own way, but it just doesn't give the feel of "All right, we're almost at the end here!" that the stage 5 themes of the rest of the games did. Hellfire Mantle sounded like "roar, intense!" rather than the "Awright, we're at the leadup to the end here!" of the other games.
Sorry, I'm babbling incoherently now ...
Zengar Zombolt:
--- Quote from: VileLasagna on June 11, 2009, 06:23:11 AM ---Kero Destiny
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Native Faith, I guess.
Also, I partially agree with Muffin's point of view. For me, it's not that I like a song or not, but if the actual atmosphere of the stage/boss combines with the song. And I think ZUN's descripitons of the songs tell how much they fit each stage (At least for me).
So yeah, you could say I love every song.