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#220: Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift - Eternal Time
Nominator: Panthera (6/7)
Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC9y1mALuiI" data-time="

This song roughly marks the point at which I like songs enough to consider using them in VGM Guessing Game lists. As far as songs in this atmospheric style go, it has a strong opening minute. It has this mysterious, dark and vaguely melancholic atmosphere that I'm enjoying. A song like this could be easily boring to me, or feel too much like its dragging its feet, but I think it manages to avoid that. It just sounds good. The part at 1:00-1:30 though? I don't like it quite as much.

#219: Europa Universalis IV - The Voyage
Nominator: Handsomeboy2012 (7/10)
Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9yzenyI7_0" data-time="

It feels like this cinematic orchestral style is quite common in modern strategy games, when they're not aiming to evoke a particular ethnicity. Honestly, this genre of VGM isn't terribly interesting to me. A lot of it sounds kinda the same. I know there's plenty of others who dig this sort of thing though, considering how many views some of these songs get.

Don't take that to mean I dislike this, though. It wouldn't have gotten this score if that were the case. The part I particularly like in this is the big swell at 0:41 and the entire following section from 1:00 to 2:24. The sound of the violins is mmmm, so good. I dig the slow pulsing of the music here, rising and falling in volume, as if to emulate the flow of the waves. The second half of one of my favourite Ori songs (

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnB4mFmlaCM" data-time=" ) uses a similar effect in its second half to emulate gusts of wind. It's an effect that I really love.

I'm also reminded of how much I tend to prefer stringed instruments to brass, since the following section just doesn't have the same impact on me, despite being so much more grand and epic. Maybe I'll one day understand why.
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