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a "various past me things kind of" day

Faint Dream ~ Inanimate Dream
ElectriCITY
Luna Ascension EX

sky tower is a very sky tower song honestly i don't like it as much as the original though... but it is still sky tower so. you know. it's catchy and alright.
inanimate dream is a good example of good classic 2hu music. i happen to like that kind of stuff even more than you'd think. only weak point with it is a somewhat unremarkable loop, besides that i still dig this a lot

truth be told i never played a sims or simcity game myself, but something like this is still deeply nostalgic to me I suppose largely because of the other games similar to it that i played at the time (eg. rct3), even if they didn't have the same composers. it's good.
by contrast, even though i do have a reasonable amount of familiarity with the particular composer of the opoona song, the games I've played that he's done are all not this style. Rather than Opoona, the 2007 basiscape-composed game I played was GrimGrimoire. Which i don't regret, mind you, GrimGrimoire's easily one of my favourite games. Point is though, it's a style I never really experienced outside of vgm and that's interesting to me.
oh right oops i never gave impressions on either of these uh idk it's pretty close this is a good match actually

when this version of luna ascension managed to retire the ost wasn't even out and it only formally got a name a little after the contest ended lol, and that was before any other rivals song did too i think. i feel like it's kind of bad this one did what it managed to do with a very unexpected cinderella run i never saw coming, since it just kind of cemented a status for rivals over every other flashygoodness soundtrack when i consider it probably their weakest one overall. at the time i nominated it, there weren't very many songs uploaded, but it was the only one i would've ever considered for the contest, and even then i was also on the fence about it vs the Super Smash Land version https://flashygoodness.bandcamp.com/track/tower-of-heaven-luna-ascension-gb-mix and actually the main reason i only really went with it was because i thought it would benefit from the extreme Undertale presence that contest combined with recency bias which i guess worked out. either way, it's one of the definitive flashygoodness songs to me whatever iteration it's in.
dammit dowolf stealing the joke i wanted to do. anyway endless 9 is... ok. it's not bad but i can think of a surprising number of other umineko songs (and not just dai songs) that give off the same general impression to me that I just like more. sunshine -destructive- it is not (vgmcx luna ascension match reference)