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Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade
The Merciless Savior
Chocolate Missile

Megalovania is my 191st favorite in the contest! this probably looks like some contrarian ranking placement but i just do not like this song ESPECIALLY not this version, normal megalovania's a bit higher but still 3/10. other undertale music's a bit more my thing but i tend to prefer deltarune music by a lot when it comes to toby fox. i don't want to waste my time and energy trashing this but basically it's a combo of a bunch i dislike at once: blues scale being half the basis of the track (used extra plainly and mechanically at that), and mixed horribly, reverb drenched in a way that makes it impossible to hear anything that could potentially be cool...everything just sounds like glhkjdlfgm;kb;mud. "carnival fast 2&4 drums battle theme" all the playful choromatic stuff in the composition feels very strained and forced to me for some reason like it's trying too hard to be funny halloween quirky song but instead it's grandma emerald's really big beeswax factory educational building where you learn about the ABCs and how to count to the number "too lazy". its not that i'm "tired of it" because it's overpopular or what ever, honestly i usually forget it has the status it has, it just literally is the antithesis of what i like. if i want to be excited about popular indie game song i will be excited about like idk Positive Force or Rude Buster or whatever the most popular shovel knight song is or Umbral Ultimatum from the video game homestuck or Literally Any Other Undertale song. toby fox was a composer that excited me from the a long time ago times, and i still love a lot from him now, but battle tower and "smash ver of megalovania" might be specifically my 2 least favorite songs from him and they're both in this contest somehow lol. his other stuff mostly ranges from OK to AMAZING to me so i hope i do not come across as Big UndertALe FOX TOBY hater because i am definitely NOT that but this particular track is just not for me. still gets a 3/10 because it is EPIC enough for me to think it's a big adventure battle. if you like this song that is ok : ) sorry that I do not like it : ( sorry for wasting my time being mean to it even though i said i didn't want to do that.

Chou chou kou soku de mae sai soku!!! Speed star Kanade is my 116th favorite in the contest! I wish this was not the NOFX version and had all the crazy filters/effects that get put onto it in-game, i feel more than most sound voltex music this is meant for that. speedcore kickdrum drilling/buzzing sound craziness is way more pronounced and the mix just winds up sounding better in-game when it's put through those filters. Anyway i unironically do like this song, come back to it every once in a while, i'd like it more if the vocals were less loud only because I want more clarity of the crazy glitchy programmed drums behind them. i honestly don't see this track as super weird just because i know lots of people into speedcore/extratone and adjacent stuff and i like some of it too sometimes, i'm not like super well versed in that stuff outside of a few artists honestly but i like much of it so this track doesn't come across as a weird novelty to me. it's like an entire genre and this is just a random example and it's a silly one but the entire concept of the genre is a silly one so Who Cares. this'd honestly be a high tier example from it if i were fonder of the mixing (or if the vocals were different/quieter), but it does jump up like 50 ranking slots when it's the in-game version with the effects atop! (maybe i'll nominate an in-game recording of this next year..................) Fun! Music!

now i am looking up speedcore remixes of undertale music for some reason haha. i'd possibly vote "MEGALOVANIA (Camellia Remix)" (thank you for pointing the existence of this out to me uf8) and "Toby Fox - MEGALOVANIA (Algorithm Dude Trash Mix) [UNDERTALE, SPEEDCORE]" over speed star kanade. wish more of these remixes were not megalovania

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Lake is my 57th favorite in the contest! one of my favorite effects in music to an almost excessive degree is fading in/reversed chords with an abrupt cut off and that is a GOOD neat spread out voiced maj9th chord it sounds like super monkey ball for orchestra. So my favorite element here is easily that. everything else comes together to make it nice and fun too though. arpeggeios both fast and slow are nice, i like sequenced drums in pokemon music usually in gen 3-5, they're nice and detailed~! honestly there's A LOT going on in this song at once for something this chill, it all interlocks and intersects nicely. go ichinose regularly has cool "nostalgic" chord progressions that make me happy : ) sometimes. this is one of those times!

The Merciless Savior is my 26th favorite in the contest! 5/4! Yay! I always liked how smooth the 5 here is (to the point i never noticed it was in odd time until much after i first heard it) and it's neat that it somehow works in this 90s fake piano electronic dance music context. this track is an example of something i rank highly because it manages to touch a bunch of unrelated things i like at once, it's proggy (odd time and cool chords/chord changes), it has natural elements (cool strings/brass and cool chanting), has "90s dance music" elements (the fake piano on that 5/4 rhythm reminds me so much of "Little Planet" from sonic cd jp version, which is one of my favorites from that game), and i guess in general i just like it. I'm ecstatic that these things that might not be hard to find on their own, but are hard to find in combination, are all in one song. That's important for me because that's the way to rise to the top in my tastes. it's effortless to find any random 90s dance music with fake piano & synth, or any random epic chanting violin melody vgm song, bit harder to find "prog" but it's still like, a genre. this isn't a "genre", you can't just like, find an example of a song that mixes all these unrelated things I spend time struggling to seek out so easily. To me that's a big deal and why I value this song so much. the chord changes in this track make me FALL OVER they are so PERFECT thank you Wataru Ishibashi for making this song come to life, your time on this earth was valuable and you made wonderful music that made it a better world to be in

who made this matchup wtf not fair : (((((((

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Chocolate Missile is my 14th favorite ToC entrant! this retired recently so i don't have too much motivation to talk about it but i liked it from the start, but it's continued to grow on me. really nice retiree and it nails a LOT of things i look for at once. cool chord changes/sound desig