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Re: Blue Reflection OST-- glad to hear some love for the soundtrack and what people enjoy from it. The trigger for my own listenthrough was actually Mac's post in the pre-nomination topic! Other than the tracks I nominated, I like hallucination and hope a lot (I probably prefer to OVERDOSE at this point); favourite boss theme as a whole is probably DNF FW15C right now. I like that even the tracks that might have been filler in another OST have some charm-- I'm partial to Triangle, Square, and Circle (Disc 1 track 22), for example. Listening to Qualia, it's pretty nice as well.

Re: polarized opinions-- this is how I see it:
-outsize statements draw outsize reactions-- when someone says a track is 'trash', or starts an arms race for number of inequality signs used in a post, there's going to be several people who genuinely like the track (it needed the explicit support of at least three individuals to make it into the contest!), and some of them will probably respond in kind;
-related to the above-- a lot of people take their taste personally so they'll feel at least a bit hurt if a track they like is put down harshly or repeatedly (making it seem like an insult to their taste), making a harsh response more likely;
-it's more about perceived disparity in track quality than absolute quality-- if a track is 'okay' by one person's standard, that person isn't going to make any statements about it winning a first-round match against mediocre competition, but if it beats a track they really like, you're more likely to hear a response like 'I really don't understand why people like this track'-- a sentiment that really starts to set in when that same track keeps moving on and even makes it to retirement. Take, as an easy example, Amusement Park-- from what I remember it wasn't a track you hated so much as found totally unremarkable, but when it's made it to retirement after taking out a track you nominated, you're a lot more likely to spit invective at it. For most people, I think, the retirement tracks consist of a couple they like and a bunch more that they're ambivalent on that beat competition they liked a lot more. There's definitely no real consensus on track quality, even in the finals