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Don't make the same mistakes like the previous polls
Beautiful! 1 (5.3%)
Awesome... 2 (10.5%)
OK 2 (10.5%)
Eh... 1 (5.3%)
Pitiful! 1 (5.3%)
Odawara Castle, SW1 2 (10.5%)
Odawara Castle, SW2 4 (21.1%)
Beautiful! 0 (0%)
Awesome... 1 (5.3%)
OK 4 (21.1%)
Eh... 0 (0%)
Pitiful! 1 (5.3%)
Total Votes: 19
Rate the Tracks! Part 15; Kyushu, Odawara Castle, Sekigahara
Topic Started: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:18 am (370 Views)
Xalfrea
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Ok, after the suggestion of Jin, I'm finally throwing it all down:

The idea of these polls is not to choose which one is better out of the entire selection, its to see how you rate all of them according to your own tastes and preferences. Look at Lord Cao Cao, he rated them all and gave his own thoughts and opinions about all of them.

Anyway:


I've always considered the Kyushu stage to SW's own Nanman Campaign (even though the people of Kyushu are also Japanese). So the track kinda suited it, it sounds drastically different from the rest of the tracks with the chorus and sounds a bit epic, I'll give it Awesome only, as its only flaw is that it gets a bit repetitive.

Despite Odawara's SW1 track being more suited to a castle siege, its also repetitive. I'll pick SW2, it has a catchy beat and its a lot more fast paced.

To be honest, I was disappointed with Sekigahara's track. For such an important battle its track doesn't suit it. I was hoping for something more along the lines of a "Wu Zhang Plains Style". I'll only give it OK, the only good part about this track is the 13 second intro before the track starts.
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Lord Cao Cao
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Kyushu:
Similar to what Xalfrea says, you almost have to consider Kyushu to Japan as you would Nanman to China; and Kyushu gives enough of a tropical feeling to it, even if it doesn't lay it on hard (see DW6's Tropical Wars, ironically enough not a Nanman track despite being best suited to it!). Yes, it gets a bit repetitive, but I can forgive that. It's nice, it's 'Awesome'.

Kyushu: 7.8/10

Odawara Castle:
I must admit that I quite liked the original; it suited the design of the inner castle quite well and it has a bit of an edge to it...it almost suggests treachery is afoot.
But I completely love the SW2 version...it's very fluid, fast, and through the track, right up to the end, it builds up its own intensity, giving a feeling of inevitability which matches the battle itself perfectly...the Hojo hold out against Hideyoshi's millions, but it always seems an inevitability that the castle will...eventually...fall.

Odawara Castle SW1: 8.5/10
Odawara Castle SW2: 9.5/10

Sekigahara:
I'm not going to punish Sekigahara quite as harshly as Xalfrea has done for lacking a 'showdown' feel. For me, the castles serve this purpose better in Samurai Warriors; Sekigahara is the first major field showdown in the Samurai Warriors series (if you ignore Komaki-Nagakute, which doesn't get it's own theme in SW2), and while it lacks some intensity and drama (like nearly all SW2 tracks), it's a good track anyway. Not really my type, but it's still nice.

Sekigahara: 8.2/10
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I've never liked the Kyushu music much, it was too dramatic for my liking so I would say eh..
I cant seem to recall what the SW1 Odawara music sounds like but im sure I would remember it if I had liked it. The SW2 Odawara was good though I did like that ^_^
Sekigahara was another one that was ok I didnt particularly like it or dislike it -_-
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Xalfrea
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Jan 25 2008, 12:46 PM
Sekigahara is the first major field showdown in the Samurai Warriors series (if you ignore Komaki-Nagakute, which doesn't get it's own theme in SW2)

Wait its the first?
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Xalfrea
Jan 26 2008, 12:43 AM
Lord Cao Cao
Jan 25 2008, 12:46 PM
Sekigahara is the first major field showdown in the Samurai Warriors series (if you ignore Komaki-Nagakute, which doesn't get it's own theme in SW2)

Wait its the first?

It depends what you call a 'showdown', really... :)

Kawanakajima, being the first stage really, isn't...
Anegawa is a major battle in the Oda-Azai war, but in the overall scheme of things, I wouldn't call it a showdown.
Mikatagahara is a failed ambush turned retreat...not a showdown.
Nagashino is just plain unconventional (at least in Warriors' terms).
Honnoji wasn't even a battle, let alone a showdown.
Yamazaki can be argued as a showdown of sorts...for Mitsuhide at least.
Odawara Castle is not a field showdown. Nor is Osaka Castle.

Er...yeah. I'd call these battles, rather than showdowns.

In Dynasty Warriors terms, battles like Wu Zhang Plains, Chi Bi and Guan Du qualify as showdowns...in Samurai Warriors, it's less clear-cut. I'd say Sekigahara, Komaki-Nagakute and Odawara and Osaka Castles qualify as showdowns...

Tell me if I'm missing anything glaring, however...!

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Ah I see where this is going. The fact that there are a lot more castle stages here makes SW have a different feeling of showdown...
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Xalfrea
Jan 26 2008, 01:34 PM
Ah I see where this is going. The fact that there are a lot more castle stages here makes  SW have a different feeling of showdown...

That's pretty much what I'm getting at. In DW, most of the major battles happened out in the field...leaders died on the field of war, and most leaders were wary of using castles as military defences, usually because the castles themselves housed hundreds or thousands of civilians. In SW, many of the major battles are sieges.

EDIT: Doesn't look like there's much interest in this poll...four days and only three posters?
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