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Phantasy Star Online Episode III - IDOLA The Strange Fruits
Rewrite - Beyond the Darkness
Metal Masters - Metal Beat

MATCH 1

IDOLA The Strange Fruits starts off with a really cool intro with the soft vocals and piano. Feels like a really mysterious sci-fi thing (which is probably what PSO is). Don't like some of the following parts as much, but I like parts like 1:41-1:54 where you have the trumpets coming in to harmonize with that main melody. I also like that brief key change at 2:10.

RE:UNION's a neat song. Goes a little too much into rhythm game tropes like really loud percussion for me, but overall I think it's good! Might've liked this more if it was in last year, I think. I'd rather this song let the pianos shine more like other Deemo songs I like. It does that in the intro from 0:00-0:10 and I probably like that part the most. Despite what I've said about it, it's actually a pretty close match and I don't really have a preference either way for which song wins.

MATCH 2

Have no fear Haste_2! Here I am, coming through with a positive Beyond the Darkness review! So, I also nominated a Rewrite song, but I actually like this song more than the one I nominated (Deep Forest) so I'm really happy that this song was able to make it in. I love this song a lot. Really soft ED theme. Great melody and vocals, and it just has great vibes overall. It also has the vocal harmonizing stuff I like a lot! Especially at 1:34/1:35-ish. I probably don't like this for the same technical reasons that others have shared, since I've never really been one to focus on that stuff. Well, maybe the reason why I say I like it melodically has to do with that, but yeah, great melody and feel-good vibes would be the reasons that I can put into words. I know from a more objective standpoint, that's super unhelpful as far as trying to explain what I like in music goes, but I guess it's the feelings I get from certain songs that matter? Anyway, this definitely ranks among some of my favorite Rewrite songs, though I love the soundtrack as a whole and it's my favorite soundtrack out of all the Key games. English localization of Harvest Festa when

Hinagiku is also a really neat song! This is the kind of "weird" song that I can really get behind. Really unique and mysterious melody in the background that's kind of reminiscent of Drakengard 3's The Final Song in a sense. Like the intro of it. 1:00-1:24 is also really good! I like that dreamlike feel of it. Beyond the Darkness was something that I really wanted to see in the contest and as I said, I love it a lot, so it's my clear preference here, but I would've liked to vote for Hinagiku if it was matched up against a different song. I think I'd take it over both match 1 songs.

MATCH 3

(Posting early to get my votes in on time)