**Rate the Music: Week 5**
 

Glad that the boards have been running so that we can count up the votes from both ends. I'd hate to have somebody get left out because of God damn technical difficulties. Regardless, here we are for another entry. Last week saw Bloody Tears from Castlevania 2 go through the grinder and it came out smelling fairly well. A 7.85 score keeps it from the bottom of the barrel and stays in some good company. Here are the standings:


One-Winged Angel (Final Fantasy 7) - 8.71
Guile Stage Theme (Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo) - 8.25
Bloody Tears (Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest) - 7.85
Green Hill Zone (Sonic the Hedgehog) - 7.72

One-Winged Angel remains at the top sitting pretty, but I seem to remember Super Mario Bros. 3 being able to brag about the same before getting dethroned. Will the Final Fantasy 7 staple suffer the same fate? Let's a listen to this week's contender, from the game that launched an Xbox juggernaut of a franchise. It's Halo: Combat Evolved supplying us with this week's track that goes by the name...uh...Halo! Well, that certainly helps with recognition if nothing else. How does it fare as a musical piece and theme? I'll let you all be the judge of that. Until next week!


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Well it sure is a song

Surprised Castlevania did "so poorly" do ppl just hate the game?

I think the consensus is that the renditions in future games were better, but it served its purpose in its original format.

Pretty mid so I gave it a 5

So are we rating the rendition or the composition?

It's the version that I post. In the case of Bloody Tears, we're going with the original iteration.

That changes things significantly

If you feel more comfortable rating it as a whole, that's fine. It's just that some renditions of a song are better than others. Miley Cyrus doing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" blows royal dong, but it takes nothing away from Nirvana.

10dbs

there are 1.7 posts on this site per day and at 4:22AM on a Saturday MAG and I same time posted

Very nice sir