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[Splatoon 2]

Splatoon sheets baby

Splatoon 2
Riptide Rupture
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

So the performance in this one is kinda sloppy, there's a lot of rushing (on the sixteenth notes) and dragging (on the eighth notes, and triplets), but the general tempo is 172. It's pretty difficult to play, so any suggestions for making it easier I'm open to.

Comments:

• Kazoo notation. I have no reference for what it should look like so I just estimated.
• LH m6 last sixteenth note to m7 b3, I moved this part down an octave to make it easier to reach the octaves. But when it repeats in m10-11, I left it up the octave.
• m24-31, I have the lh octaves crossing staves since I find it easier to play that way.
• There are a lot of spots where the lh has a lot of ledger lines, but I was having trouble figuring out if/where I should put 8vb
• It is really hard for me to tell what a lot of the chords are, and in some places (like m8 rh) where it sounds like theres an unintended note. I thought it'd be cool to write down chord names so it can be somewhat treated as a lead sheet, I just dunno how to name stuff

Splatoon 3
Seasource
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

TLDR; Asuka Hayazaki is the composer

Since this song was added to the game this month, we don't have the official soundtrack for composer credits. However, the in-universe band that made this is Sashimori, who previously had two songs in splatoon 2 and Asuka Hayazaki was credited for those (link) and those are literally the only songs she wrote. With the release of side order, Asuka Hayazaki is listed in the credits (but not in the base game) and while it could be because she made music for side order, it's more likely that the sashimori songs will be on the soundtrack release of side order.

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There are spots in this with shouts that I tried to capture (m6, 8, 10, 44) and some that has more pitch to it, so I just followed the general motion and followed the supporting harmonies (m20, 28). The section at m29-35 is really weird, I tried to give each note its own spot on the scale (hence all the double sharps) but I don't know if theres any harmonic reasoning here

[First thoughts]

I'm gonna post my Xenoblade Chronicles thoughts here as I play through the games (may be a while lmao). Also, there are going to be spoilers in these, even outside of the ending section, so be warned

First thoughts
I really liked the game, as much as I hoped I would and maybe even more than I thought I would. I found myself constantly impressed the visuals, the world building, the music, everything. Over my playthrough I felt strangely nostalgic, and I think that's because after several years of listening to the soundtrack, I'm finally seeing what the game is about. And because I've listened to the soundtrack so many times, I had imagined what the game looked like and what the story would be like. There was quite a bit of music in the first half of the soundtrack that I felt got stale and weren't as good as the battle themes and themes like Gaur Plain, but when you're running around and taking in the sights, the music becomes so much more enjoyable. I actually felt the battle themes lost some of their impact in game because there was so much to pay attention to and other noises.

Locations - Bionis
Exploring each area and taking in the sights became my favorite thing to do. When I reached Colony 6, I just stood there at the edge and looked around. I saw the arm of the Bionis holding the sword directly above, with the Mechonis far in the distance. I could look out and see the leg that I had just walked up, and the knee where I exited Tephra Cave. I looked down the knee and could see Colony 9 just behind the foot. I could easily imagine walking around the waist to reach the back where we'd climb up to the head. But the game instead had us go inside the lung and then launch up before coming out onto the back which was a huge rainforest? At this point I started to feel like I couldn't place where I was on the Bionis. I had thought the back would be more of a cliff, or a mountain, I don't quite understand physically how Makna Forest fits on the titan. Despite this, this part of the game felt the most magical to me. Partially because it felt like it shouldn't exist in this way, but also because there was more departure from the serious science fiction the story had up until this point. I had realized that this was because the upper half of the Bionis had more ether concentration, which you could visually see (that's why Satorl Marsh looks dull and dead in the day and magical at night). This was also the point in the game where we encountered races and creatures we didn't see much before. Every now and then you'd see a nopon, but here you only see nopon, as well as weird bugs and magical dinosaurs. You also encounter the High Entia for the first time, which has been mentioned several times before. It was here that I started getting answers to certain aspects of the world building (like why was there ancient technology in colony 9). Then Eryth Sea was quite beautiful, with the floating islands and advanced technology, and the stars and aurora that lit up the night sky. Upon reaching Alcamoth, and experiencing the events here, I had realized that this game was kind of like reading a book trilogy. In fact, bits of the story started reminding me of Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (not that the stories are any way alike, but I was getting similar vibes). It was also here that I started to feel a connection to the characters (actually it was just melia lol) and truly felt engulfed in this world.

Characters
Up until this point I had felt the characters and their interactions weren't that compelling, and I still do feel that way. Shulk and Reyn are good bros and their dynamic is based around Fiora, so when Fiora dies, their character dynamic has to change. Shulk was always viewed as weak and unaware, but since obtaining the Monada and the drive for vengence has caused him to become more powerful. Reyn is meant to protect Shulk but as he gains power, Reyn slowly loses his need to protect Shulk. This shift in dynamic leads Reyn to realize that his role is no longer to proect Shulk, but to watch his back. I feel like this character development should've happened by Makna Forest, instead of being delayed to much later, as a lot of other characters get added to this dynamic and they just have no meaningful interactions until after this development occurs. Specifically I'm talking about Sharla, who has literally zero development or place in this dynamic until the game decides that there's romance between her and Reyn (and even that's not interesting at all). I feel like Dunban joined the party at the perfect time for this development to take place. In fact, Reyn has this character development at this time in one of the heart to hearts with Dunban, but it doesn't actually happen in the story until later. The reason I feel this stuff should've happened earlier is because the game wanted there to be romance between Melia and Shulk, which could have been far more interesting. Melia joining the team could've acted as a replacement to Fiora in Shulk and Reyn's dynamic, and just as romantic feelings started budding, we find out that Fiora isn't dead. At this point, Shulk would become distant from Melia, only focusing on getting Fiora back, setting up conflict between the two before they come to mutual respect (once again, this does happen in the game but literally it happens right before the final dungeon). I feel that all of the character developments should have been finished before reaching the Central Factory because by that point we are fully invested in the story.

Locations - Mechonis
Reaching the Mechonis also marks a moment of disconnect between how I imagined the game would play and how it actually came out. I had always thought that we would cross the sword and step foot onto Mechonis Field and it'd be large and open like Gaur Plain. I thought it'd be this moment of awe and excitement at the fact that you're finally on the Mechonis that you've seen in the distance all this time. With an atmospheric theme and a new battle theme (side note, mechanical rhythm is absolutely the best battle theme in the game), you'd feel pumped up to explore the titan. Especially with the fact that the field could've been on the Mechonis arm, leading straight to the head where Agniratha is. I had hoped that it was in Agniratha that you'd meet the people of Mechonis and find out the reasons behind the assault and the story is more complicated than originally thought. Then from there you'd have to head down and go inside the Central Factory where you'd eventually fight Egil. I'd thought that the game would end shortly after where you find out who the true villain is and enter the final dungeon somewhere on Mechonis. Instead, Mechonis Field is the equivalent of Tephra cave, taking place as a climb up the leg. After that we enter the Central Factory, which was even more epic and impressive than I thought it'd be (like goddamn this place is so visually amazing). With this series of events, I felt like the fact that we're on a titan was kind of forgotten/under-utilized as it was once again hard for me to conceptualize where exactly I am. Especially with all the locations being inside the Mechonis rather than on it. I honestly didn't like that Agniratha was a ghost town. It made sense in the story, but it felt underwhelming as the "final" dungeon before fighting Egil (yes the final fight with him is in the Central Factory, but I would've rather gone through that as the dungeon before fighting him), as well as the fact that the game started to have a steep difficulty spike.

Difficulty
For most of the game I didn't have much difficulty with levels or with the combat system. Since I spent so much time doing side quests and running around, I was 5-10 levels higher than the enemies around me. I constantly checked each previous area for side quests after each chapter, but there was hardly anything new during the entire climb of the Mechonis (I also couldn't upgrade colony 6 to level 4 because you don't get the items needed until after every single area on the Mechonis) so I had assumed that there wasn't anything else to do and that the game was catching up to my level for the final few fights, which is fine. It also meant that I felt the game started being more unfair with the combat system with the increased amount of spike enemies. At first, spike creates an interesting dynamic in how you approach combat. Previously, your best way to get an advantage on an enemy was your position (attack from the side or the back), with the mechon being difficult because you need to topple them or use the monado. The addition of ether based enemies created more need for ether defenses and varied attacks, and you can use status conditions and buffs/debuffs for additional strategy (this also allowed you to damage mechon without needing to topple them). Spiked enemies just meant that it's now more necessary to topple them so you can freely deal damage, so I then based my arts around toppling and dazing. But then enemies started having spike after they're toppled, which at first sounds interesting because it means you don't want to topple them. But that just means that there's no way to get an advantage over the enemy and you're just stuck with auto attacking and waiting for your arts to cool down. And this becomes a bigger problem because you're expected to fight multiple enemies at once and sometimes you want to quickly deal with one that's causing the most problem but you can't since toppling them will make you die faster. Spiked enemies made me not want to get into fights because it made me feel restricted in what characters I can use and how I am able to play. But I felt I could forgive this since this is the final area and we just have the final boss fights left right?

Ending

Spoiler

I fought Egil and Dickson comes out and betrays you and Zanza comes out and now its time to fight. I had thought that we would get transported to one final area and then fight and it'd be done. I didn't like this last portion of the game because it felt like a lot of the world building was thrown out the window. The story made sense to me up until this point. I understood why the mechon attacked Bionis, I understand why homs were turned into faces, I understand that this fighting has been going on for thousands of years. I was just hoping for the explanation as to why Zanza struck in the first place, but the game started saying that it was planned all along, which that one statement made a lot of choices far more questionable than they were before. There was no explanation for why Zanza had to do things in this way, or why he had to wait until his "chosen vessel" was born. He said that's done this time and time before, but creating intelligent life was a mistake? And with the explanations of why Zanza needed to create life as food in order to sustain himself so that he can live forever doesn't make sense because why did Meyneth not do the same thing? And then the explanation of it being an experiment? That ending twist was the thing that I'd spoiled for myself a while back, but was hoping that it would make more sense in context, but it doesn't. It reminds me of how I felt about Mistborn's ending :kekdog:  However, I'm not completely unsatisfied with the ending, as I the fact that 2 and 3 exist and their DLCs (and the soundtrack of 3 specifically) makes me trust that this will make sense with those games. I'm a little upset by the amount of stuff that becomes lost after the Mechonis is destroyed (I had chosen not to fight many unique monsters because I thought I could return later) and how a lot of information revealed at the end needs more explanation. I'm a little upset that the game slowly dropped the idea of exploring a world on a titan (especially with how you would just fly to whatever location you need to get to at the end, and how Prison Island was just in the middle of nowhere and had a distinct lack of visual interest).

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Despite it flaws, this game will stick in my mind for a long time. I hear a lot of people say that 1 is the best, even after 3 has come out, but I feel like I'm going to like 2 and 3 more. I think those games will have better character interactions (from the little bit of 2 I played a while back, I already like those characters more) and answer my questions more completely. I'm glad I played this game, and especially glad I did it in a week and a half lmao. 9/10

It's time for HOLEHILLLLLLLLLS!!!!!!!!

For this one I was struggling a little bit with how to combine the bass and the middle voices in m3-m18 in a way that's fun to play and sounds good. Right now I just settled for being more accurate but it's a little awkward to play imo but if other people think it's fine then I'll leave it. There's a lot of wacky harmonies in m31-m34, though it's mostly just chromatically rising in the chords and I dunno what's happening in the melody.

[musx] [mus] [pdf]

And joining the fray is Withered Savannah!!!

I want the right hand to play the chords on beat 1 in m1, m7, m17, and m21 but I'm struggling to find a clean way to notate that. Right now it's just in the bottom staff and I labelled it vaguely, but I also considered adding a 3rd clef or just putting it in the top staff but it looked messy to me. I did not put any key changes until m43 because there's a lot of accidentals and changing harmonies. Also I did add some interpretive notes closer to the end to fill out the sound and also to represent the percussion when there's only chords being played.

[musx] [mus] [pdf]

[Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon]

Alright this was kinda done hastily since I am a little busy rn 😅

Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon
Ancient Barrow
[musx]

[Halo: Combat Evolved - Halo]

Alright here's one, I may do a second one if I can find time before the deadline.

Halo: Combat Evolved - Halo [musx]

I am unsure about the notes for measure 31, I was trying to follow the upper string line but I can't exactly tell what it's doing.

[Plok!]

Plok!
Flea Pit
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Had to be quite interpretive on this one in the ladder half. Most notably starting at 47, since it's more percussion focused. I just played a chord for the snare hit and then for the weird sound on beat 2 I put an Eb just to add substance. Also, the melodies for 51-71 are all an octave higher (except the sixteenth note rune) so they do not interfere with the left hand.

So I used this upload to arrange it, but the audio is detuned (it's quarter tones) so I used the second upload on the bottom to double check everything.

[Halo: Combat Evolved]

So I have a sheet for a new game:

Halo: Combat Evolved
On a Pale Horse
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

And a replacement
Pokémon Black and White
White Forest
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

[Zelda II: The Legend of Link]

Everything is in order of release. I'll probably condense it later when I have more stuff.

Zelda II: The Legend of Link

Battle Theme (Famicom)
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Solstice

Title Theme
[on site] [musx]

Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

Player Select: Zelda
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Christine's House
[on site] [musx]

Plok!

Beach
[on site] [musx]

Flea Pit
[on site] [musx]

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Hydrocity Zone: Act 1
[on site] [musx]

Hydrocity Zone: Act 2
[on site] [musx]

Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream

Slow Water
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Halo: Combat Evolved

Halo
[on site] [musx]

On a Pale Horse
[on site] [musx]

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords

Sea of Trees
[on site] [musx]

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures

Hyrule Fields
[on site] [musx]

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

Minish Woods
[on site] [musx]

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

The Great Sea
[on site] [musx]

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

Zelda's Lullaby
[on site] [musx]

Tower of Spirits (Dungeon)
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Papuchia Village
[musx][mus] [midi] [pdf]

Before the Final Battle
[on site] [musx]

Xenoblade Chronicles

Once We Part Ways
[on site] [musx]

Pokémon Black and White

Driftveil Drawbridge
[on site] [musx]

White Forest
[on site] [musx]

StreetPass Mii Plaza

Title Screen
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Palace Theme
[on site] [musx]

Kidnapped!
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Captive Mii
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Venture Forth
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

To Battle, Heroes!
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Fight on, Heroes!
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Armored Fiend
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Ultimate Ghost
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Dark Room
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Current Results
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Ending
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Bamboo Island
[on site] [musx]

Kid Icarus: Uprising

Ruins of the Temple
[on site] [musx]

In the Space Pirate Ship
[on site] [musx]

Pokémon Black 2 and White 2

Castelia Gym
[on site] [musx]

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

Peaceful Castle
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Return of the Hero
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity

Withered Svannah
[on site] [musx]

Holehills
[on site] [musx]

Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon

Drilbur Coal Mine
[on site] [musx]

Ancient Barrow
[on site] [musx]

Sheer Mountain Range
[on site] [musx]

Road to Primeval Forest
[on site] [musx]

Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes

Title Theme
[on site] [musx]

Hytopia
[on site] [musx]

Madame Couture
[on site] [musx]

Sir Combsly
[on site] [musx]

Stage Select
[on site]  [musx]

Woodlands
[on site] [musx]

King Tuft
[on site] [musx]

Riverside
[on site] [musx]

Lady Maud
[on site] [musx]

Sky Realm
[on site] [musx]

Boss: Lady Maud
[on site] [musx]

Credits
[on site] [musx]

Den of Trials
[on site] [musx]

Splatoon 2

Octo Canyon
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Riptide Rupture
[on site] [musx]

Mario Kart Tour

Vancouver Velocity
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Rae-Bel Tableland/Night
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

Agnus Colony
[musx] [mus] [midi] [pdf]

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Sky Islands
[on site] [musx]

A lot of people are saying that they don't like the art style, but I adore it! Also, if the entire soundtrack is a bunch of small ensembles, I'm going to cry, I love it. I hope they release toy figurines like this, it'd be so cute!

This song is probably the most epic song in video game history, how much more epic will it sound on piano?

Tbh, I'm hoping Bespinben will do an arrangement of this, but I don't care who does, it'll be epic no matter what.

Apparently this is a song that I never knew about. Also, it has been requested before, but it hasn't been fulfilled.

This is the game where you have to find Dudeman's comment in every High Quality Rip. Once you've found Dudeman's comment, post a picture of it on this topic and tell us what High Quality Rip it was on. Example:

Found on: Great Fairy's Fountain (Beta Mix) - Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time


Have fun searching! I swear Dudeman disappeared off the face of the earth the moment I tried looking for him.

Okay, so I need an arrangement of this to be made for a guideline for the 8th Arrangement Contest (Well, I don't need this to be arranged for the contest, I just would really appreciate it), I also really want to play this song and the arrangement I'm doing for it is very lazy and I'm not liking it. I would really appreciate if somebody arranged this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQsj-HlXCMc

I want to arrange this song as a piano duet for an upcoming piano recital (in December). I was going to arrange it myself until I realized I have no idea how to notate some things as well as the solutions I came up with I couldn't notate. I'd be very happy if someone helped out with this. Also, I was going to do a duet with my crush, so don't make the bass clefs too hard, please, thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H7fkSJUH7k

Here's what I got so far (it's not much and it's not very good/accurate).
I started out with the bass, but I can't really get it correct as the tempo and dynamics is determined by the player.
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So I was looking at the forum games when I came across a bunch of these types of games. I thought it'd be fun to play, so I'm reviving it with yet another pokemon one (because pokemon seems to be the easiest).

Rules:
You can only post once per calendar day.
You can heal up to 1
You can hurt up to 2
(If the game gets too long, I'll do Sudden Death; everything's health goes down to 1)

We're doing generations of pokemon. (I know Sun and Moon's not out yet, but we still have enough information to judge it)

Gen 1--15
Gen 2--15
Gen 3--15
Gen 4--15
Gen 5--15
Gen 6--15
Gen 7--15

Somebody's gotta start it, so I will!

Gen 1--14 -1
Gen 2--14 -1
Gen 3--16 +1
Gen 4--15
Gen 5--15
Gen 6--15
Gen 7--15

Congratulate the person above you and tell them something they did and why it's an achievement.

[Find Mii]

I was going to arrange some songs from Find Mii, but I didn't know where to start. I thought the title theme from Find Mii would be good, but my version of finale wouldn't be able to arrange it and giving a list of instructions for several songs would be too hard. I came to the conclusion that because this is a good soundtrack, maybe others might want in. Thus, the Find Mii/ Find Mii 2 arrangement project was born!

I don't know how these arrangement projects work, but I'll try my best.

Color coding:
Black: Not claimed
Blue: Claimed
Brown: Submitted
Green: On site

List of songs:
Find Mii
Title
Palace Theme
Kidnapped!
Captive Mii
Venture Forth
To Battle, Heroes!
Current Results
Fight On, Heroes!
Dark Room
Armored Fiend
Ultimate Ghost
Ending
Find Mii 2
Title
Venture Forth 1
Venture Forth 2
Venture Forth 3
Venture Forth 4
Keep Fighting, Heroes!
Current Results
Save the World, Heroes!
Armored Archfiend
Dark Emperor
Ending

For now, claim only 1 song.

I know there's already an arrangement of this on the forums, but it's a two pianos piece and for some reason I can't download the music.
I'd like someone to make a duet for this piece please; I want to play it at my next piano recital so if you were to take this I'd like it done by August, thanks!
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NALkdPuHDQ

[Completed by Dusk]

Completed by DuskWhy hasn't this been done?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0XQMITBQ44

[JOOOOOOOOHN]

Basically you type one word. We're trying to make a story, one person types a word and you type a word that you think should come next. You may end any sentence whenever.

Story

Doughnut was jumping on the pokeball because she didn't catch themallomgwtfdoughnutyouresobadwhatanoob. After doughnut launched cake icing onto JOOOOOOOOHN NASHHHHHHH, doughnut decided to go away forever! The doughnut wished death on dragon tamers EVERYWHERE! This game sucks. The mods hole. What doughnut kills everybody and destroys this forum. "Cool," she died. Then, doughnut prayed ravenously for food. Food! Miraculously, food. She gave food away. But, food fell on vaginas everywhere. Thus, weirdness unintentionally exploded Doughnut, killing Doughnut doughnuttedly in Kansas. While a priest bazooka'd a whore, the bloodied whore is slowly tripping on whores all morning long. "Daaaaaaaaaaaankkk," the whore said. The whore grabbed a dildo but thrusted until sore. Once morning ended siobhan ran into a buffalo! The he violently fucked the buffalo in Texas. After fricking the buffalo babies appeared. The buffalo fucked its fucking kitty vagina with his agonizingly big penis, though the skyscraper fell on NYC, but John Stopped caring about Life. So, death tormented John nonchalantly. So John died. In July, tits broke. Nonetheless,

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I'll start off:

Doughnut