"Starbomb: Player Select." Reaction thread.
Player select has been released on spoofy and people have released it on youtube. Nobody's posted a thread so post reactions here.
Posted Dec 16, 2014, 12:25 AM UTC
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Some songs are better than the first, I liked Smash! & Glass Joes Title Fight.
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If its anything like the first album, it should be awesome. Love me some Starbomb.
EDIT: Was awesome. Smash! was a really fun song. I liked the small story with Luigi being against the idea and eventually getting really into smashing.
The transformers one was fun. I loved the autobots trying to transform into random things that make no sense and I loved Starscream being stupid. Always both love and hate Starscream. Though I'm not sure why it was included. Sure there are transformers games, but they're licensed games based on the franchise. Still, it's great to have it.
I really like the Hero of Rhyme. The original zelda one was one of my favourites and this one was a great sequel song. I loved Link being ignorant of everything going on around him and just spitting out awesome rhymes whilst not bothering to save or help anyone.
Toad Joins the Band was a nice inbetween story thing, but I feel like it would have worked better as a random animation on Arin's channel. It wasn't a song at all. If Arin extended it and animated it on his channel I would love it. Great tidbit, not a song.
New Pokerap was beautiful. I have been in love with the original pokerap for a long time and I loved CollegeHumor's updated pokerap video. This is just a really fun way to poke fun of Pokemon in general whilst also being catchy.
Glass Joe was just amazing. I loved it. It might just be my favourite song (even though I say that about most of the album). I'd like to know how Joe managed to get to Sandman without dying. I don't think you can just randomly decide to fight the champion. Seven asses out of seven asses.
The Mortal Kombat was really catchy, though I don't like it as much as the other ones because I'm not a big fan of Mortal Kombat. It's the same problem I had with the Streetfighter rap battle. It was a good and catchy song that I liked to listen to, but I didn't understand a few of the references to characters other than the blatantly obvious. This is just a personal problem though, the thing I focus on with this song is how catchy the music is.
Inky's Lament was a very fun story. I loved Inky's character and personality, the song was very well written. Not that long, I would have liked a longer one.
God of no More was really fun. Like the Pokerap and Transformers, it was just really fun to listen to the different kinds of things they could list as gods for Kratos to kill. I didn't think I would like this one because I'm not a fan of God of War, but it was really good for me. Kratos voice was dumb without the special effects though.
My feelings on the Atari Mystery Hour are the same as my thoughts on Toad Joins the Band. Good animation idea, not a song.
I'd just like to say that what they did with Minecraft is For Everyone on the Spotify page. Every song except for the Minecraft song was labelled as Explicit. Well played. All in all, it was just a fun and entertaining song. It's so lighthearted and silly with the non-swears.
The Simple Plot of Metal Gear Solid was my most anticipated song on the album. Simple Plot of Final Fantasy was my favourite song on the first one, and this did not disappoint. Was very well written and they did a good job keeping the same idea and structure of the original song whilst also making it feel completely different. I know I've said this before, but this is absolutely my favourite song on the album. Just the quick pace and lovely music make this song for me. Along with the writing for Snake. Can't wait for Simple Plot of Kingdom Hearts.
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It's just barely alright, I like some of the call backs to the last album, and aspects of some of the songs like the starscream bit in the transformers songs, and how the punch out song ended up.
Just flat out saying it now, I didn't think the new pokerap or the atari mystery hour were remotely funny or well written at all.
I think the smash song, hero of rhyme , the metal gear solid and minecraft songs were alright, but the rest weren't great. Listen to this album for these songs.
It's a little disappointing, but it is better in someways, much less dick jokes this time around. I give it a 5/10
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5/10 seems generous considering your review.
I personally didn't laugh once during the album and didn't like many of the songs musically compared to the first album. I give it a 1/5 (2/10)
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I agree. I feel like some songs were pretty predictable in the way they were telling a story as well. And thats not a bad thing if you are going to listen to it multiple times. But I dont have a real reason to put some of the songs up for more than a second time.
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Glass Joe's sounded better than what I expected, really really good song.
PS: "Old Person" gets my best Pokémon award.
Edit: Did they just get Notch to say 2 lines? pretty cool.
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I think that was producer Dave. They said dave wanted a small cameo in the next album. Eithe rthat or they got notch. I imagine its Dave though
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It's Notch.
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thats fucking sweet then. ITs too bad that producer Dave didn't make it in
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I can't wait for the new Pokerap animated. and the rapping from the Hero of Rhyme is definitely topnotch!
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What I've heard so far:
Smash: awesome.
Transformers: Pretty good.
Hero of Rhyme: wow. Dat rapping though.
Toad: auuuuuuugh
Edit 1: Pokerap: Laughed so hard this Burger King must think I'm on drugs.
Glass Joe: I'm into it.
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What was the reason you found Pokerap so funny?
That song was horrible in my opinion. The entire humor is based on 'LOL SO RANDOM' names.
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Some of them are actually pretty clever, but remember this was my initial reaction. The novelty has worn off, and pokerap is less funny now.
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It's out on iTunes in Australia, since it's the 16th here before almost anywhere else. It's also #12 on the overall album chart already.
My favourite track is Glass Joe, mainly because it uses Danny's punchdrunk ad libbing from the Punch-Out episodes.
I don't have a worst song yet, there are no obvious clunkers like Kirby or Animal Crossing last time. The Atari track is 40 seconds for not much of a joke, but the radio-play style is nice.
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A bot disappointed to hear those thoughts on Reamland and Book of Nook, I thought the lyrics were great for both. Agree with Glass Joe tho, probably my favorite, but I still liked some from the first album more, personally.
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which song does Markiplier sing on?
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God of No More
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Is he the announcer on Smash! as well? It sounds like him.
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I'm fairly certain it's just egoraptor putting on a Xander Mobus esque voice
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No. That guy was Xander Mobus, also known as the announcer on ScrewAttack's "Death Battle".
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Also known as the actual announcer from Sm4sh.
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it doesn't sound at all like him. It's sounds like markiplier.
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Markiplier is the Announcer during Smash! Notch is himself in Minecraft Is for Everyone
Source: Twitter
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I like Smash! and Toad Joins the Band. I'm surprised no one immediately made a Machinima music video of the Minecraft song...
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From what I heard it already sounds so much better than the first album. Can't wait to sink my teeth in.
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i cant find it on spoofy? could somebody link me
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Here it is! I hope this link works.
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wait so is it supposed to be the intro and outro to the first starbomb album and then i just cant listen to any other tracks?
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For me, it says the songs are not availible in Canada yet.
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The page is working in Australia, so maybe that's the reason it's not working. i tried
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well im in the good old US of A so im still confused, whatever ill check it out tomorrow
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Why has no one mentioned "Mortal Kombat High?" That's my favorite one.
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As someone who really didn't like the first one, I actually thought this was pretty solid. The debut was way too puerile for my tastes, and while the new album still goes a bit too far sometimes, I can say that I listened to the whole thing without physically cringing, an honor I cannot offer to the first (Kirby in Reamland, anybody?). There's still a few lines that feel awkward, like they knew what they wanted to say but couldn't make it fit and just forced it in, but again, less than on the first. Arin's gotten much better at rapping, although I think he's still trying to bring his voice down a bit too low. He naturally has a higher voice, and when he throws it as low as he does it feels like he's trying too hard, I think. The two things that I consistently liked on the last album, the production (especially dat 80's synth) and Danny's voice continue to be fantastic. Danny is just really fucking good at singing. It's actually starting to piss me off a little.
If I were to score it just for what it is, I'd say it's about a 7/10.
In the context of just music in general, maybe a 3/10. That's not even meant to be a negative statement, actually. If I'm willing to give your comedy video game themed rap album a 3/10 when compared to, say, Sgt. Peppers, that's actually decently impressive.
In short, I really enjoy taking non-serious things way the fuck too seriously.
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implying Sgt. Peppers is exceptionally good
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Well, you know, it is pretty fucking good. I'll agree if you want to say it's overhyped, but that doesn't actually change the quality of the album.
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I think this album is a lot better than the first. It's not just mindless swearing, which I think is an improvement.
That being said, though, I really liked the first album too.
I'd actually argue that most songs are better than the first album. The only ones I liked more than some of the ones in this one are Luigi's Ballad and Crashervania.
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Agreed.
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So fucking good.
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The original Starbomb was definitely better. I don't think there were any absolutely horrendous songs in it, like Kirby's song from the first album, but the best points weren't as good as the higher moments from Starbomb. I enjoyed Smash!, Glass Joe's Title Fight, and Minecraft is For Everyone quite a bit, and Atari Mystery Hour and Simple Plot of MGS got a solid chuckle out of me. The rest ranged from solid to meh, but it was a decent effort overall I thought.
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I said this in another thread:
I like Smash and Glass Joe's Title Fight a lot. The songs overall are pretty good, and there's a lot more variety and comedy than the first album - like with Inky's Lament. The references to the last album are pretty fun, too. I'm not a complete fan of everything, though. As much as I like Arin, I don't think I'm still completely sold on his rapping yet.
These are really early impressions, though. I remember that on the first album I started to like some songs more than I thought, like The Book of Nook. I'll probably end up changing my opinions in a day.
I should add that what u/winchesters23 said is probably pretty true - I laughed at a few songs and enjoyed the album altogether, but none of the songs really stood out enough to me to be on a list of repeats.
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Oh man. This is definitely better than the first. They're all great. Also Markiplier being the Smash announcer is awesome!
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Considering the fact that they made this in such a short period of time it's alright, although I don't think i'll be purchasing it or listening to it on repeat or anything.