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Ar tonelico III - EXEC_Z/.
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team - Dreamy Somnom Labyrinth
Atelier Rorona Plus - Flash Frost

MATCH 1

EXEC_Z is one of the EXA_PICO songs that I come back to listen to all the time. At least as of late, it is. It's just so infectiously catchy! I can't really say why, it just is and I love it. I was very close to putting this song as my bracket winner for my favorites bracket but ultimately decided against it (picked L.L over EXEC_Z round 5). Not much to say about it other than that it's super good!

I like the piano parts of FLIGHTLESS, but I don't really feel anything towards the rest of the song. Don't really know why that is. I know I don't really like the robotic vocals, but other than that, I guess the rest of the song that I haven't mentioned just feels kinda plain.

MATCH 2

G-O-S-U has that "epic music" sound but done very well. I really like that intro from 0:00-0:14. Definitely a pretty memorable song, although I don't have a lot to say about it.

Dreamy Somnom Labyrinth is really cool and definitely came as a surprise to me! I normally don't like Yoko Shimomura songs, so it's really nice to hear an exception like this. This song paints a really cool atmosphere that I like a lot. It's very mysterious and also gives me this image of traveling through somewhere to get to a really important destination. Maybe like a "final dungeon before the last boss in the game" kind of vibe. I feel like I may have gone the other way if BATALLURA was the song from PSO2 that made it in. For whatever reason, I feel like I enjoy that song more than G-O-S-U. Still, though, both songs are good here and I'm okay with either song advancing.

MATCH 3

I swear I've heard Meaning of Birth somewhere before I went through the ToC bracket. I haven't played any of the Tales games so it couldn't have been from there. I'm really not sure! Maybe I just went through some of the retirees one day and listened to this while I was going through them. I definitely don't like it as much as the other Tales song that just showed up the other day, Starry Heavens, but this is a pretty good song too! Feels like a nice, emotional (probably even more in context), final battle song. Simple, but good!

Flash Frost was a fantastic entry in VGMC13 and I'm happy to have helped push it to retirement! I love the melody here and all the backing instruments that accompany it give it this depth to its sound that generally speaking, I really enjoy in songs. Yet another example of how much amazing music there is in the Atelier series!

EXEC_Z/. = Flash Frost > Meaning of Birth > Dreamy Somnom Labyrinth > G-O-S-U > Flightless