I'm doubling down on all the heart attacks Raging Waves gave me in VGMC!
Game: Etrian Odyssey V 4. Town - Source of the Morning Glow's Smiling Face -
Oh boy town themes yes please
hot take most of the fm themes are meh but fm towns are also great
I extremely want to delete raging waves tho
Actually after checking wow i really don't like the inclusion of all of those battle themes. How is not a single one of them even shining dagger?
I did include the 6th labyrinth battle theme for EO4, but Shining Dagger didn't seem as interesting. I would swap it in for Primeval Forest Ring; I have no problem saturating the list with battle themes since most of the bracket is just song-against-song matchups. If you want to avoid bringing it to 5/7 battle themes, then it can replace Activation or Critical Situation?
Raging Waves does seem polarizing...I guess it did "well" in VGMC by winning 2 rounds after the bye, but they were hair-splittingly close matches. It's definitely the one track that feels like a must-include for me, assuming it doesn't actively hurt the nomination as a whole.
Honestly, I don't really consider myself representative of whatever average EO music fans like. I was only considering V since i figured stuff like 4 or 3 would be prioritised instead (or nexus, which i haven't played since my 3ds is essentially dead now), so you're good. Personally, I'm hoping you can sneak in A Town Embraced by the Azure Sky even though it'd bomb because it's lowkey one of my favourites for it.
Shining Dagger is... admittedly not that great, but I feel it definitely stands out compared to the other battle themes in 5. Not that the others are necessarily bad, they're just very samey and that's not a good thing. I would've definitely put it in my lower 3.
I'm also a fan of how consistently solid the labyrinth themes are in 5 and would be cool with any of them between 2 and 6. So... Needless to say, I didn't mention it before but I'm all for any of your any initial potential swaps you mentioned.