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Zeal Continent (113th) vs Metropolis ~ Kerwan (171st)
You're Not Here (180th) vs Massive X (1st)
Despair of ELFERIA [4th//5th] vs Flash Frost [5th//6th]

I love Banbard -Flamenco Version-!! oops i mean uhhhhhh yeah Zeal Continent is really cool! This really does remind me a lot of mozell works so it makes sense that I think this is really cool haha, the flamenco claps, the constant flipflop of different instruments, it's very cool to listen to even if I don't... really care about the composition that much?? Besides the intro which I love a LOT, once the meat of the song happens I kind get lost and just keep listening. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, but something about this song makes me feel like I'm missing out. Not really sure! Kerwan suffers a bit from this as well; don't really care about the composition enough to have much feelings on it and the instrumentation just isn't interesting like Zeal's is, so it takes a much larger hit.

As much as I love a lot of Yamaoka's BEMANI works, it's usually very hit-or-miss with Silent Hill for me. Things like Theme of Laura are huge hits, but You're Not Here is a Not Hit. I think I just really don't like McGlynn's vocals generally. Massive X is pretty cool.

toc match is a match from hell; i love flast frost a lot but. godDAMN despair of elferia dude. This is easily the best thing Nekomata has created in so many ways. It absolutely PERFECTLY showcases exactly what Nekomata is capable of when handling the mixing of "ethnic world instruments" and "hard EDM" and how he can blend them so seemlessly into a concoction so powerful that it's almost hard to believe this is VGM. Rengoku no Elferia was an excellent powerful boss song already and that was a final boss, and here Despair is just a regular boss song and manages to up the ante an absolutely insane amount. When I first joined and learned that I had just narrowly missed being able to support Despair to victory against MEGALOVANIA of all things, I was really sad! But now here I am able to rave about this song and help it see second success. Also fun fact this song is the hardest song I've cleared!! Well, easy cleared the 12 but even that's harder than anything I've done lmao (people have tried to argue HADES HC or SSS [L] HC is harder but i found those way easier THIS SONG HURTS IT KEEPS GOING AND GOING AND NEVER LETS UP

Massive X > Despair of ELFERIA > Flash Frost > Zeal Continent > Metropolis ~ Kerwan > You're Not Here

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haha just kidding here we fuCKING GO FELLAS Massive X is my 1st favorite song in the conteWORLD!!! Yasui is not a real human being. No one can coerce sweet, sweet FM instruments in such a way to create a masterpiece like this. It doesn't exist. This song GOES EVERYWHERE and UNDER HERE and OVER THERE(not gitadora_ and IN MY BRAAAAAAIN AAAAAAAAA I AM BECOMING A SEGA GENESIS X68000 AMALGAMATION ARCADE MACHINE!! There are sooooo many different constantly moving parts and cool sounds and listening to this is just such a sensory overload of the perfect kind every single damn time I listen to this, and I've listened to this song A LOT. Like, it's been my undisputed #1 song of all time since 2013 a lot. Lets break down things that are just absolutely sex about this song: the intro ostinato, the way that ostinato manages to blend with the melody, the low sweep at 0:06, the bass and its sample of choice just AUGH, the main melodies ALL OF THEM but especially the 0:37 one hot mama that's a STYLISH TUNE, the entire climax like just literally all of it this song JUST FUCKING GOES EVERYWHERE IT CAN. ALL THE TIME. WHAT? HOW? how?? howww????????????? this song embodies why i love vgm, and the eschatos ost is what lit the fire under my butt than eventually spread to my whole body and then i ran around finding more thing to fuel this fire because i love being on fire i love vgm i love this contest!!!! i love you!!!!!!! and everything!!!!! this songs so good lmao