157. Decap Attack - Level 7
Uploader: TheKnightOfNee (342)
Rating: 6.6
Comment: Level 7 has a really cool melody and a bass part that would make Flea proud. In hindsight, I feel like I should have taken this one higher. I mean, it's even got a cowbell part!
156. Sonic 3D Blast (Saturn) - Panic Puppet Act 1
Uploader: Kleenex (035)
Rating: 6.6
Comment: I don't know the setting this plays in since I haven't played a Sonic game since Sonic 2, but the ambience this creates is menacing and likely with a lot of Robotnik/Eggman/whomever's robot monsters. Yeah, that describes pretty much every Sonic level, doesn't it. There's a mellow passage that the song uses to back away from the heavy techno flavor, but it gradually melds back into the electronica. I may not know how the song is used, but the song itself stands on its own just fine.
155. Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance - Central Park in-game
Uploader: Ed Bellis (477)
Rating: 6.6
Comment: Part of me is very impressed with this song and part of me isn't much at all. I respect C64 tunes a great deal, so the chirpy effect the song opens on doesn't phase me at all, and sets up the bass well, which in turn leads to the initial riff. The melody that enters is fine, albeit we lose some of the other parts due to hardware limitations. I'm not completely sold on the stop time section in the fourth minute, but besides that there's nothing objectionable, so I'm not sure why this doesn't reach higher. The truth is, each time I listen to it I get a different impression, so I'm not going to constantly contradict however I rated it the time before, but I was perfectly content listening to it just now.
154. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door - Title Screen
Uploader: Pikachu025 (227)
Rating: 6.6
Comment: Hypnotically catchy. Ridiculously so, to the point that if I weren't guarding against toe-tapping and head-bobbing, this might have tricked me into giving it a high score.
153. Bastion - Terminal March
Uploader: TheKnightOfNee (370)
Rating: 6.6
Comment: Ahh, gypsy industrial at its finest. (Gypsy industrial?)
152. Baten Kaitos - The True Mirror
Uploader: Pikachu025 (171)
Rating: 6.6
Comment: I haven't played Baten Kaitos, but I have played Eternal Sonata. I was VERY confused. See if you can figure out why: ...eh, same composer. I shouldn't be surprised. And it's really only the early melody that matches up. If I had to pit them against one another, The True Mirror is better because all the other parts of the song are actually decent, whereas Leap the Precipice is kinda boring.
151. Suikoden IV - La Mer
Uploader: Kleenex (371)
Rating: 6.6
Comment: Good song, with a Latin flavor that is very smooth and easy to listen to. It's just not my favorite, but I could easily see it being justifiable for this song to be far higher on someone else's list.