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4) Phantasy Star Online 2 - GUERRANT-OFENZA-SUPRONT-UNNE
Series ranking: 1 of 2
https://youtu.be/GTBCuuojyos
Prelim score: 9.5/10
Score: 9.8/10 (Phenomenal)
Composer: Hidekuni Horita
VGMC History: VGMC 14 (Lost R5 to [-Deoxyribose]-)
Favorite part: The intro as well as 1:15

...and that finishes the highest-ranked series with two or more reps! Oh maaaaan, this one is so exciting! What a blend of folk, fantasy and cinematics. It knocks your socks off the moment it starts. So many asymmetrical rhythmic things and fun harmonies make this one of THE most engaging tracks on the whole list! And the strings joining the rhythm section is fun when it happens, too. The thing about this music is that it pretty much requires you to pay close attention to get the most out of it.

The rhythmic pulse of the opening is so catchy!! I cant get enough of it really, it doesnt sound like 6/8 at all. And the stuff next at 0:09 complements it so well! And I love how the melody sounds like its in a different key vs. the harmonies. I love the way the melody lands on the tonic at 0:11 (9/8 at 0:14), but the harmony decides to delay things a bit before establishing the tonal center (7/4 around here). And now its in 7/4, ah, the rhythm section is SO blood-pumping here, especially when they align with the flute (melody) at the phrase end and this sort of thing happens a lot during this track, actually!!! At 0:28 I guess is when the main theme formally starts. It trips up my rhythm here because of that added beat at the start! I like stuff like that. The accompanying alternating triple and duple stuff makes this SO MUCH FUN, too, and I LOVE when they switch things up like at non-pivotal moments like 0:35 (the cymbals!). At 0:42 we get 5-on-6 OMG OMG! (it took me a number of listens to notice) Then at 0:48 everything lines up again with a temporary meter-change here... so awesome! I love the double-neighbor tone thing the bass does at 0:46 - 0:48 (not to mention other dissonances there)! @0:51, parallel fourths are fun :) Then cello gets to solo while everything else joins the backup At 1:05 the orchestration is really thick...lots of stuff going on thats hard to hear.

At 1:15 were back to the intro material/switch up in meter feel, YEEEESSSSSSS!!! At 1:26 harmonies are at their best OMG OMG OMG!! Like it takes advantage of the ambiguous melody coming into this part and at 1:23 its really cool how different scales get used to transition into a new key :) :) :). It relaxes a little bit here, too, but then the intensity ups again at about 1:43, where we get the opening material again used really creatively EPIC! And you got a primitive horn call underneath it. And a choir blends in, too cool. And following that you got one final triple-meter dance Then when it loops it plays pretty much (if not exactly) the same thing, but just a half-step higher.

But yeah, this is among my favorite styles of music! I would also rate this one of the highest ones objectively... but man, I hope to explore some more PSO2 music soon. I've only listened to maybe a few dozen tracks, but a disportionate amount of them are really awesome...


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