LogFAQs > #954378740

Id (Purpose)
Brave New World
Fateful Confrontation

Awakening - I had this song on highest settings before Corrin existed on the Fire Emblem levels in Smash 4 for a reason. I kind of want to see an accordion-off in this bracket, but besides that, apart from the lyrical section being maaaaybe a few bars too long, it's just glorious.
Contra - I see the composers, and I get excited, but then I realize it's just Konami namedropping their sound team. This doesn't sound very impressive to me, unfortunately. Even trying to give it a fair chance, it's just giving me a slight headache in comparison.

NxC - One of my greatest vgmgg host shames is using the inferior Project X Zone during the most bullshit "name the theme" themed block I ever ran. BNW gets stuck in my head a LOT and I have no problem with that - in fact, it's one of the songs that got me into the outskirts of the Megaman ROMhack community (thanks to Quick Man's level in Rockman no Constancy.) Unless its competition extremely "wow"s me, it's getting my vote here.
Civ6 - It's a good "hmm!" and not a "wow," alas. It's impressive, and versus some other matches I've been antsy on I likely would've voted for it (choral orchestra is a huge plus in my book.)

TitS - If I didn't know the name and if Konami didn't outright kill the game franchise, I would say this sounds like a modern Castlevania climax bossfight, except it's got some guitar shredding going on instead of a harpsichord. Pretty good!
Dead Cells - Mood music needs to grab me a lot earlier than this did. That runtime is a *big* ask. It does its job of mood well, but out of context, I don't think it performs too admirably, even with Nier-esque vocals during the second-half.


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[Brackets.] - Endless backlog. Presume I'm playing something MMO with some Indies on the side.