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Central Tower "Axis Pillar"
Dialgas Fight to the Finish!
Towards the Horizon

Final Wishes of the Mist (5.7 - 54th place) / Central Tower "Axis Pillar" (9.7 - 2nd place)
Dialgas Fight to the Finish! (9.3 - 8th place) / Subete no Yuri wa Chiri Hatete (6.8v - 47th place)
Towards the Horizon (7.6 - 31st place) / FLIGHTLESS (6.8 - 46th place)

I love the details in Axis Pillar... the way it builds up the orchestration is awesome. Also, I love certain aspects of the percussion, such as at 0:30 and the percussion choices near the end. and It's one of those pieces, like Vast Ice Mountain Peak, where it's cool to "zone out" a bit, not focusing on anything but being aware of all the parts. Also, it might have my favorite rendition of that famous theme (forgot what it's called) in the second half, of any Trails track... though Merciless Savior does a good job with that too. Also, great blending of sounds...for example, the use of the guitar for support starting at 1:00 is just fantastic. Axis Pillar is one of those tracks where I don't initially get a lot out of it, but as I keep listening to it... it gets better and better!

The tb is also part of NFUN's long-ago conceived nefarious plan to torment all of us with having to listen to a 10-minute track repeatedly! ARRGHH will this ever end?!

Oh, hey, it's Dialga's Fight again! Great stuff! I love how it kind of does two different keys at the start, and the main PMD motif gets thrown around in ways that really appeals to me. And it's really epic when it goes into the fifths later on, too. Where does this rank...? Oh, wow, it's only in my top fifteen in the game, huh? I had forgotten about some of the tracks ranked higher! I'm not planning on VIMP being my last Explorers rep to get into a contest. In future years I may very well nominate Vast Ice Mountain, or Ending, or Upper Steam Cave, among others.

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