Nominated by: JONALEON
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This is a much, much better electric guitar-centric song than Suck a Sage. It still suffers from a lot of the same problems, but is just generally less blaring and thus way nicer to listen to. I want to say it changes things up more than Suck a Sage too, but that could just be because I'm not willing to relisten to Suck a Sage to find out. In any case, it feels less repetitive, though 4+ minutes is still pushing it a bit. However, despite being less repetitive I do feel like it's kind of one note; the best part might actually be the beginning (appropriately enough) because the chimes used there add an extra dimension to the piece that I feel really helps it.
About the image: ...I have no idea, but it's different, at least. It took me a long time to even think of anything for this one and what eventually came out of it was this idea of... some kind of action scene that's only partially illuminated, but my attempt at that just looked weird so I started over. I kept the idea of bright colors on a solid black background though, and tried to keep some sense of action with the girl's hair. One thing Art Academy lets you do is vary the amount of water and paint on your virtual paintbrush. More water lets you blend colors more easily, so here I used basically no water to get deeper, more solid colors.
20. Xenoblade Chronicles - Unfinished Battle
Nominated by: ZaziGuado
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Man, Unfinished Battle. This song is gonna haunt me, isn't it? God, I just don't think it's as good as other people do. LEAVE ME ALONE. ...that was a joke please do not overreact to this or think i'm being rude. I've actually come around to this song in the time since my last ranking topic, though not enough that it's one of my faves now or anything. I do generally like battle themes that make use of bowed string instruments; it's a perfect match IMO and a wonder that they're not one of the staple "battle theme" instruments. Unfinished Battle is also appropriately... I dunno, dramatic? It's definitely closer to the hopeless side of the hopeless-struggle vs. time-to-kick-ass battle theme spectrum, which also the better side, so yay for that.
About the image: One of the harder songs to actually think of a picture for, and keep in mind that I don't really think of them so much as wait for them to come to me, so I guess "harder" is wrong and what I really mean is like... time consuming. What eventually happened was an image distressingly close to the one in the video, at least in terms of color choice. Stormy skies, tall grass being pushed around by the wind, and a guy running, wow it's almost like this song is DRAMATIC and has a sense of MOVEMENT.
Me (6:38:27 PM): welp, this image was supposed to have a person running, but i didn't slant him enough, so instead it has a person prancing
CG7 (6:38:34 PM): XD
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