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Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade
Lake
Chocolate Missile

I feel kind of awkward that Megalovania is in here, considering it's been retired. Of course this is another version, but it's not really "distinct" enough from the retired version for as much as I'd like regarding that sort of thing I guess. Doesn't help that I don't like this version of Megalovania as much as the other version of Megalovania that is retired, what with the more realistic instrumentation with high strings, along with that "dramatic emotional hope" part, and the part before the loop that I liked is replaced with something I don't like as much with the big "overly used well known mascot tune" drowning out the other stuff. Meanwhile, Speed star Kanade is hilarious to me. Yeah it's got vocals but it's got plenty more about it to have me entertained. Like when I first heard :21 I was on a laptop speaker and it just sounded like white noise TV static it's so dumb I love it. There is a silly contrast of the cutesy voices with the strong beatdown of fast paced electric percussion. The weird contradictory environment sort of thing this song gives off throughout make this song more pleasing to listen to than a majority of other songs with vocals too. Maybe I don't dislike these vocals as much or the background noise isn't as obscured behind them are factors that help too. So hey, ultimately the especially silly speed star kanade experience leaves me feeling happier having listened to it than this version of Megalovania, so there is my vote

Lake starts out with one of those "calm peaceful" types of sounds which just feels boring and unwanted to me. Well, up until :48, which really changes up the pace and becomes a much more fun song, even if still a bit calm, but it really works like this now. And then an awkward loop point it returns Merciless Savior starts out with a more "realistic" or high quality instrumentation or something and has that high string I don't like, but the sort of backing aura it's got is much nicer I love that, which ultimately pushes into the positive for me, which gets pushed into a 2nd gear with the synth sounds and cool rhythm at like :32. then whoa at 1:40 things start to get dramatic. And, we've got chanting. Don't give me this chanting. The chanting is worse than the start of Lake for me. Then when it does go away we get back to the song's strength when it's much more pleasing to listen to with the cool synths and cool rhythms, but they get drowned out by the high strings and chanting. This is an awkward match to decide on, these songs both have sections that I love and sections I hate, very polarizing feelings contradicting each other cancelling out into, what? The polar points I would say are stronger on Merciless Savior, but that doesn't really help because that just means they still cancel out. I like it more and I hate it more. I think what makes the difference is the order of the likes & dislikes, and also the length. With Lake I gotta stick it out with a kind of dull garden that eventually really pops and turns into a good experience I can leave happy with, but Merciless Savior starts out all great but gradually just beats me down, drowning out the good with what I do not want, ultimately leaving me less happy, even if technically the ratings if added up together are equal-ish.

Chocolate Missile, probably my favorite vocal song from VGMC13, mostly because there's like no competition for that position lol. It is enjoyable for me though, which is certainly more that can be said of most vocal songs, like I said a few days ago Alice Schach seems to be pleasant to listen to, and maybe this specific fictional language helps too. The glitchy nature of this song is also great for me. In a way I guess this is one of the rare songs where I feel like the vocals don't entirely detract from the experience. 1:28 is a great section. Monolith starts out unimpressive to me, seeming like a typical generic quest song with an unimpressive instrumentation, but the pace picking up at about :27 does help quite a bit. Not enough to bring things on Chocolate Missile's level, and then it just goes forward by going backwards for me, slower more emotional feeling that I don't particularly care for. Again the more upbeat faster paced parts do help recover the song, and the beep sounds somewhat surprise me by feeling out of place, but also not seeming to detract from the experience. But again, Chocolate Missile is great and never quite breaks that threshold that chocolate missile holds for me. also oh no this song is long. But, doesn't ever really impress me enough, at best it meets Chocolate Missile's level but has too much baggage bringing it down for me.

What a weird day today. I'm voting two vocal songs over two non-vocal songs and ALMOST did the same for a 3rd (I'm counting Merciless Savior's chants as vocals). Part of me wants to swap that vote just for full silliness but as I said Lake leaves me happy and Savior leaves me frustrated and I'd rather the song that makes me happy stay in the contest. Plus I don't really dislike the vocals in Speedstar of Chocolate Missile all that much but I loathe the chants in Savior, so , ,

also hey long name for the first match and tiny name for the second match, nice

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