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The Caligula Effect: Overdose - Onboro
GTI Club: Supermini Festa! - Arcade Menu
Beatmania IIDX 21 Spada - Dark Legacy

MATCH 1

Apex of the World, compared to the other Three Houses songs in the contest, is actually pretty good! This song doesn't have the problem that the others have of not being able to draw me into the song. The melody's pretty nice, and while it doesn't beat other Fire Emblem songs that I like, it's still a good song.

So as I said in my Love Scope writeup, I love this game's upbeat j-rock music. Onboro, in particular, is another highlight of Reina Ueda's great vocal work. With this song, it's actually kinda neat how her voice almost sounds like she's going crazy at some parts. Like the way she puts so much force into her vocals in the chorus and also parts where her voice kind of cracks like at 3:23-3:25. Very easily rose to the finalist position in my favorites bracket because it's so good!

MATCH 2

I like how Variations on a Ra Melody starts out. Especially when the arp chords and bass show up at 0:07. Nice example of good arpeggio usage in a song like this and I like the vibe it has. The song kinda loses its luster somewhat as it continues to go on. It just doesn't do anything else that captures my attention beyond that intro part. Good song, though.

Arcade Menu's some good, upbeat, funky stuff! It doesn't suffer from any kind of cheesiness that might hold a song like this back for me. Consistently good all throughout, so even though its opponent has some good stuff to write about, I have to go for Arcade Menu here.

MATCH 3

Close match here but I think I prefer Nekomata Master's style of music as seen in Dark Legacy (the whole violin + electronic music stuff) compared to Infestation's brand of electronic music in this case. I'm fine with either song winning here.