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Sim Broadway
Danger (ARM version)
444

This was a really fun day. All the matches were close and I won't have any issue with any of these progressing to R2.

In the first match, you have a really cool flamenco-inspired electronic tune from Mad Rat Dead. The kind of thing I'd normally consider voting material. In the other corner you have Sim City 3000 providing a refreshingly jazzy tune with some really nice chords and soloing. I went with the jazz.

Second match is close too. Danger was always the kind of song that I couldn't really stand because it felt like the arrangement put too much weight on the most grating part. Thankfully, ARM's arrangement remedies this. There's just a lot of sick stuff going on and it thankfully enhances the progginess of the original rather than reducing it. If Five was going up against a more "normal" song, I would've voted for it. It's a really pretty sounding melodic trancey thing. Reminds me of Takahiro Unisuga's trance stuff more than say, zts, and that makes it really refreshing in my eyes (ears? lol).

And in the third match, you have a really neat AC7 song that really encapsulates a lot of what I think is cool about Ace Combat. I love how Ace Combat incorporates a lot of elements from seemingly distant genres but packs them cohesively in a very "cinematic-sounding" context. This track is slightly atypical on that front, since the orchestral elements aren't as prevalent from the get-go, but they're kind of introduced gradually which gives the track a sense of rising tension. It also helps that there's a lot of neat harmonic and rhythmic stuff going on in the second half, that's always a plus. The Yo-kai watch track is an interesting, swingy kind of thing. It's a solid bop but doesn't do as much to interest me as AC7, so my vote goes to Kitadani.