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Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky - Sky of Twilight
Aka - Desert
Granblue Fantasy - New World Order

Vocals day!

MATCH 1

Not sure if I still like Sky of Twilight exactly as much as I did last year when I first heard it, but it's still an amazing song! Good enough that it skyrocketed to the bracket winner in my favorites bracket once again. Such a great song from start to finish. Really good melody that I love both during the harder rock portions as well as the softer portions. This leads me to the fact that I like how the song switches things up throughout the song and that each individual portion of the song is equally good. I remember some people saying last year that 3:05-3:47 felt out of place in the song, but I don't get that feeling at all. I view it as a distinct part of the song that sounds great and flows well in the song as a guitar solo section. And of course, I really like Kanako Itou's vocals, which really shines the most when there's harmonizing in her vocals like at 0:53, 1:36, and 5:56 (just to highlight a few parts, since there's vocal harmonizing pretty much the whole song). Even though it would be awesome to see some new songs that are just as good, I'm still more than happy to see this song come back because it's so good.

Hmm, I may be enjoying The Cold Science of Supremacy a little more than in the past like when I heard it in RtVGM. Things that sound dark, like this song, have some potential to be appealing to me depending on the direction the song goes in. In large part, I'd say this song doesn't really do anything exceptional, but I can enjoy it a bit in general. One particular thing to note that's cool is the chord change that happens at 0:49. I feel like if that chord change showed up in a different song that I liked a lot, I'd be really enthusiastic about it.

MATCH 2

While I don't like every Dodonpachi song I've heard, there are some really cool ones out there like Flotage. It seems that people don't really expect me to be a fan of the kind of music from these games, since when I decided to pick Vertigo for the crowdsourced VGMGG 200 in the discord server, there was a bit of surprise from some of the participants. But yeah, like I said, there are some great songs in these games! Flotage is another example of these neat electronic songs. Pretty cool song all throughout. I think the intro's especially nice. Perhaps the least surprising opinion from me regarding this song might be that 1:33-1:57 is my favorite part of the song. I just think this guitar solo's really good and it fits quite nicely among all the electronic stuff in the background.

I really like Desert! This is probably the song in this match that people would expect me to like. The intro to this song's super good. Really catchy world-sounding stuff there. The vocals and other backing instruments are very nice too. The other selling part of this song is definitely 0:58-1:36. Very emotional part in a way that I really like. That part definitely hit me when I first listened to this song during the nomination period. I didn't add it to my potential supports playlist but if this song was in danger of not making it in by the very end, I probably would've ended up supporting it. And honestly, it might've been a consideration had there not been so many great songs nominated.

Strong match here! Desert's the clear pick, so unfortunately, Flotage got a rough draw here. There are definitely plenty of songs I would've picked Flotage over but not this one. Bye for now, Flotage :(

MATCH 3

Now with New World Order, I'm amazed that I didn't support it during VGMC13--or at least I don't think I did--because I had this song as a bracket winner. I've seen some complaints about the vocals, but honestly, I don't have any issues with them. Like yeah, I can barely make out half the words they say, but I don't really care about that lol. I don't think I'm super picky about vocals usually, though, (opera vocals are the only vocals I tend to get picky about lol) so maybe that explains why I think they're fine. Another fantastic song from start to finish! Feels like you're flying through the clouds at a blinding speed. The violin in the intro is great, and once again, more harmonizing in the vocals like with the male and female vocals from 1:44-2:08. And then more awesome violin melodies right after that! With how much vocal opposition to this there was during last year's contest, I'm so happy that it went as far as it did! I almost forgot that it tied with its round 2 opponent before going on to win the bracket. By the time the rest of my favorites were out, I was pushing so hard for this to win the contest. Sadly, it couldn't beat Revenger, but being able to have my favorites bracket winner be the actual winner of that bracket was such a great feeling!

Machine celebration time! I never got to actually play Nier Automata myself, but I watched a no commentary let's play of it, and I was happy that the uploader didn't kill any of the machines in the main area because they're just having fun and they don't attack you! Anyway, Amusement Park is actually much better than I remember it being! Emi Evans' vocals are great and I really like the violin backing in this song! I'd say this is definitely among some of the better songs in this game, though not my favorite.

Sky of Twilight > New World Order > Desert > Flotage (Stage3-B) > Amusement Park (Dynamic Vocals) >> The Cold Science of Supremacy

Good day today! I liked every song here, but the top 5 are the really good ones. I'd say like all 7.5/10 or above for the top 5 songs today?