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Spark the Electric Jester - Megaraph Fleet
Project Cerberus - L L ~Infinite Beating ver~
Mario Kart 8 - Big Blue

About the poll, I voted "loser of EXEC_Z and GUERRANT" but really, my picks are either EXEC_Z if it loses or Wings of Terror Phase 2 if EXEC_Z wins.

MATCH 1

I think I like Lunar Bass a little more, but Megaraph Fleet's pretty cool too! This is a pretty close match with certain parts of Megaraph Fleet being pretty much equal or a little below In Circles as a whole, but specific parts of this song push it above In Circles for me. The best part and what wins this song over for me in the end is 0:59-1:22 (and to a lesser extent 1:22-1:45). I really like the guitar melody there and the vocals + the strings harmonizing underneath it is really great. I wish the rest of the song was like this, though! The rest of the song is still good, but not as good as those parts I mentioned.

In Circles, I think I overrated a bit from last year. Even looking back at last year's bracket, I definitely should've had it losing to TIGAR in round 4 instead of beating it. That said, I still think it's a great song. It's a nice, melancholic song, which as I've said in the past, is something I like in general. The chorus is definitely my favorite part of the song. I like how it brings all the instruments together and makes the different layers of the song more pronounced.

MATCH 2

I really like Dance With Me! Such a catchy little tune. I'd like to tell that little penguin guy, "yes I'd love to dance with you to this song, but could you please put that big knife of yours away? It's a little intimidating." This is another example of "yay, very full instrumentation, me like." I think I tend to like accordions a lot in songs, and it fits super well in a song like this. The brass instruments and everything else also come together really nicely. Definitely a shame that it's up against L.L, because I'd definitely like to see Dance With Me advance a few rounds. Which brings me to...

Hello again SSH! L.L ended up being my pick for my Bracket A champion in my favorites bracket, so like I was saying, really unfortunate opponent for Dance With Me! I'm really glad this was introduced to me through RtVGM because I love it! Literally from the first second, it's super cool and appealing to me and never stops once! I'm sure for some, it'll just seem like one really long guitar solo, but I don't know man, this song just hits all the right notes for me. I really wish I could explain for songs like this why I love them so much, because I guess they're not super complex compositionally in a way where I can talk about all sorts of things; they just appeal to a certain portion of my taste and they do it very well.

MATCH 3

So this is an interesting segue because it's another fast-paced rock song, but one that I'm not nearly as interested in. Don't get me wrong, it definitely does a lot of cool stuff at various points and I do like it. It definitely takes a while to start getting really good though. Like around the 1-minute mark and then around 2 or so minutes in to start doing more cool things? From then on, I think it keeps my interest rather well. Might be something that I start liking more and more as time goes on, because I know I like this now more than I did when I was first going through the ToC bracket.

I love this arrangement of Big Blue! The original song's great as is, but this also does the whole rock thing very well. The saxophone's a really nice touch that I think works really well in this song. Don't have a whole lot to say about it (and I'm also a little strapped for time regardless, sorry!).