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Fear the Dark
Liela Xea
MARIA

I'm on a huge Fire Emblem kick right now, so it hurts to vote against a Fire Emblem song, especially one from one of the most recent games where they really upped the soundtrack quality. But Fear the Dark is just amazing and I would certainly not complain if its next VGMC appearance was in ToC3. My favorites bracket has it coming up just short, but I made that bracket based on "quick impressions", and this song clocks in at almost 9 minutes and, as nice as it is already as soon as the snoozy 45-second opener ends, it gets even better somewhere in the sixth minute. (Also, I know B8's voting tendencies, and I find it making R4 far more plausible than it facing anything I'd actually want it to lose to in said round.)

This...is not one of DPP's better songs. It's acceptable, I guess, but...I don't get it. Why have so many of B8's Poké-nominations been the intentional snoozefests? *checks stats* ...Huh. Pallet Town only got in once, actually, and Littleroot never did get in. I know there was a push for it last year, but it failed. Seriously, though, Pokémon's done a great job with legendary battle themes, and main-series legendary themes have gotten in...never. Pokémon Stadium's Mewtwo Battle has, as has Dialga's Fight to the Finish (which I approve of), but the closest we've gotten to a main series legendary theme is Brawl's Spear Pillar (which is a remix of both the Spear Pillar area music and the Dialga/Palkia battle theme from DPP). ...Not that it matters because very few Pokésongs would be able to get my vote over Liela Xea. Epic rocking and foreign-language chanting in the same song? Yes please. In a different bracket placement, I'd support this song for retirement, but I guess I can settle for being happy that either it or Fear the Dark will be back next year.

Maximum High Speed is awesome jazz music. MARIA is...wait, I distinctly remember hating just about everything that came out of this game's soundtrack last year! And since I had listened to Maximum High Speed during nominations and considered throwing it some support of my own, I didn't even bother listening to make my pick in this match for my favorites bracket. This actually needs more consideration...let me just check the results of the other match from this day...okay, now let's listen to that song...

...Ouch. I know that the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games version of FBZ is inferior to the original, but that's just painful, especially since Sexualizer isn't the type of song that I thought B8 normally liked. I expect MARIA would have a better chance against Sexualizer, but...MARIA does also apparently have a major hatedom. And frankly, I'm not sure which of those three songs I want to go to Round 3! I think it's Sexualizer...but I think I'd be more okay with it losing to MARIA than to Maximum High Speed, so there's your answer! (Which shows me that I need to stop blindly following the favorites bracket I made, since that had Maximum High Speed outright retiring this year.)
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