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Punishing: Gray Raven - NARWHAL
Lost Judgment - Unwavering Belief
Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge - Gambit

MATCH 1

Narwhal is pretty decent. I don't think what it does is my kind of thing, but I can certainly appreciate it!

NARWHAL has some nice melody and vocals going on. I like it the most once the trance part starts at 1:32. Plus, the song name is louder, which means it's better.

MATCH 2

For some reason, 0:12 of Desert Dunes reminds me of The Big Ride from last year's contest, which was also a kaonashi upload (and probably nomination/support too). Unfortunately, I don't like Desert Dunes as much as The Big Ride, but it's still a decent song.

Unwavering Belief has some cool vocals and violins, but there are a few things holding it back. There are a few parts I don't like a whole lot, such as the very dubstep part at 0:59, as well as 4:37. I also feel like I want some kind of peak or climax to the song that stands out among the other parts of the song, which I don't personally experience here. But that said, it's a cool song overall!

MATCH 3

Breaking Pandora isn't very interesting to me. The repeating melody in this song isn't bad, but it's just kind of meh.

I've always really enjoyed the Follin brothers' music. Gambit isn't as good as many other songs from them, but it's still a pretty good song! It has some elements of those lush chords that I like from some of their songs, which is what I like the most about Gambit, though there isn't as much of it as something like 0:49 of Briefing (https://youtu.be/nqnaE-MeGqo?t=49). There are also better melodic lines in other songs like Plok - Beach, but again, Gambit is still a good song either way, and it easily beats its opponent here.

NARWHAL > Unwavering Belief = Gambit > Desert Dunes (Desert) > Narwhal > Breaking Pandora

Not entirely sure what order I'd rank the middle four songs in. They're all fairly close to each other.