Game Set Mash!! 3 - Streets of Rage vs. Etrian Odyssey

[DarkeSword]

Welcome to Game Set Mash!!, a team-based, long-form competition format for the OC ReMix community!

Current Status

I'm gathering interest here on the forums and in our Discord and I'd like to start in July depending on if we can get some sizable teams. I would love to have around 6-7 people on each team to really get the spirit of collaboration going.

What are the games we're remixing?

The time around we're celebrating the music of Yuzo Koshiro! This legendary composer has such a wide breadth of work, and for GSM3 we're going to mix the pulsing beat 'em up beats of Streets of Rage with the sweeping JRPG scores from Etrian Odyssey.

• Streets of Rage - Streets of Rage, Streets of Rage 2, and Streets of Rage 3
• Etrian Odyssey - Etrian Odyssey, Etrian Odyssey 2, Etrian Odyssey 3

Each franchise features more games than just the initial three, but for the purposes of this competition we're going to limit to those first games.

What are the rules about teams?
I want to make things easy and accessible for people to participate, so there's no maximum on team size, but I'll be asking people to do their best to even out the teams once we have all of our participants signed up. There are no rules about who has to be a primary arranger for a track from week to week. Teams will be free to organize and determine how each of the three remixes gets covered. Using your teammates for collaboration and feedback is highly encouraged.

Game Set Mash!! is run primarily on OCR's Discord server, so you need to make sure you join up there.

I'm new to GSM, how does the competition work?

• Participating remixers will form 2 teams of at least 3 members each.
• Each team will be assigned a set of 3 games.
• The competition lasts 6-7 weeks, with 10-day mixing rounds alternating with 4-day voting periods.
• At the start of the mixing round, each team will choose and reveal 1 source tune from each of their 3 games.
• Each source will be paired with another source from the opposing team, for a total of 3 pairs.
• Each team will be responsible for writing 3 remixes for the week that combine (or mash) both source tunes in each pair.
• At the end of the mixing round, we'll upload the remixes and have a community vote.
• Voters will vote on the 3 remixes that did the best job of mashing the two source tunes together.
• Teams will accumulate a score based on how many of the community votes they win.
• In the next mixing round, we'll rotate which games get paired up with opposing games.

 

[Dyluck]

I may come to regret what this will do to the crumbs of my remaining spare time, but I want to join in. I see this as a great opportunity to explore Koshiro's music, which I'm not exactly familiar with and thus is a good "neutral" ground for me, and also to work on my own production and arrangement skills.

[JSABlixer]

Count me in!

[Ronald Poe]

Since I was in GSM2 and had some success (my team ended up winning), why not join this one. I'm unfamiliar with both series but I'd like to try anyway. Only problem is that I'm going to be out of town for a weekend in July (due to my birthday).

[paradiddlesjosh]

I'm not super familiar with either series and I've got a few events happening in July, but I'm happy to fill in for either team. Let's get mashin'!

[DarkeSword]

Pushing this to August! Sign up sign up sign up!

[pixelseph]

I'm in! August is definitely doable

[colorado weeks]

put me in coach!!

 

EDIT: won't have availability this fall for GSM3, unfortunately. but i look forward to seeing all of your tracks!

Edited September 1, 2024 by colorado weeks
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[moebius]

I am also interested, but would likely be unavailable towards the last few weeks since I am visiting Japan from the 2nd week in September.

[gravitygauntlet]

I'll be busy on and off through August but my schedule should free up after that, I'd be happy to join either way.

[The Vodoú Queen]

Hey.

It's a consideration, and depends on how much of my surmounting work-load on current albums I can successfully navigate and swim through between August and September (not to mention doing theater work for an Oct/Nov show.)

If people would like me onboard or would like whatever input I can put towards it / collaborate with me, let me know either here or in Discord and I'll join--more learning experience besides. :)

[DusK]

I'm in!

[Dj Mokram]

As a Koshiro stan, how could I say no? 😉

[Mel Decision]

I'd love to join! 

[Xaleph]

I’m interested.

[Nase]

This Is cool, didn't notice It B4.

Mayb i can join in sept or oct. Wanna do some traveling B4.

Hope It stays alive. 

[The Vodoú Queen]

Just a heads up I won't be able to do this or participate for the foreseeable future. Need to back down and out for personal reasons.

I am sorry guys. I hope this does happen soon and you all have fun with it. ♥ I look forward to voting on your creative mash-ups, at least. :)

Edited November 11, 2024 by The Vodoú Queen

[Genesis83]

I'd be up for working on Streets of Rage remixes if this project takes off . :)

[paradiddlesjosh]

Just to clarify: you’d remix material from both series. One team will select the source tracks from one series (one track per game, three games) and the other team will do the same for the other series, and then the sources will be paired up. Each team will produce three mashup mixes, one for each of the three pairs of sources.

In the previous two GSMs, teams have taken different approaches to getting tracks put together with regard to whom does what. You might be on a team with three or four performers and a couple of mixers, maybe one team member is good at mastering, and three arrangers; or your team might be five arrangers and someone who plays guitar or something. As long as your team gets their three mashups done by deadline, it doesn’t matter how you do it. :)

[gravitygauntlet]

Mini-bump: I'd like to be on the SoR team (I understand we're using content from both series) but I had a cousin who's super into Etrian give some source tune recs:

Etrian Odyssey I: (full playlist)
Scatter About (superboss theme; debuts in 1, also used in 2, 3)
The Lounge Where We Speak of Tomorrow
The Withered Forest (slow / tense melancholy dungeon theme)
Blue and White (very Phoenix Wright-y dungeon theme)

Etrian Odyssey II: (full playlist)
Guardians of the Sorrowful Ice (somber battle theme)
Woodland Ruins / Labyrinth I
A Sudden Gust of Wind that Calls for Death (strong enemy encounter)

Etrian Odyssey III: (full playlist)
Calling That Detestable Name (superboss)
Cavern of Splendor / Labyrinth III (lava dungeon)
Their Own Brand of Justice (final boss)
Waterfall Woods / Labyrinth I
The End of the Raging Waves

SoR's easier to pull stuff from since it's older and they're all on one console but I haven't checked to see whether MIDI's readily available for all these (ex. VGMusic) or if we'd need to rip any.

Edited February 23 by gravitygauntlet