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Pressure Cooker (80th) vs Solitude (154th)
The Venerable Ancient Battlefield ~ Suwa Foughten Field (15th) vs Another Winter (95th)
Battle!!/Torna [14th//17th] vs Evolution Era [31st//52nd]

Pressure Cooker is so cool!!! At the start the little tink a tink tink a makes me think it's gonna be some like tropical groovy thing but then when the song slowly starts to fade in, that part is so cool. Tone shifts at 0:49 and 1:09 are fuckin CRAAAAZY as well like whoa. Love all the sweeps and stuff in here too lol, it's not a favorite from VVVVVV but it's an excellent showing of what the game is capable of and that it succeeds in a celebration of the style its portraying. "V" Solitude is ranked low here but my opinion of it has gone up quite a bit so its actually position now is a bit higher. At first I thought that I wasn't too big on the atmosphere that it creates cause a lot of the song is rooted in really brewing in that atmosphere and dissolving you into the broth but uhhhhh yeah it's grown on me lol. Turns out I am soluble in Solitude after all, it just takes a while. And I'm still not totally there I think; I definitely prefer Pressure Cooker but I appreciate Solitude a lot more now. Good match!!

HEEREE WEE GOOOOO one of the only Touhou songs that I like SUPER care about this song is just WHOAAAA in like every way. Even though I tolerate it very heavily, I never really care for how ZUNpets overpower songs when they're used, but this song subverts that somehow and almost drowns out the ZUNpets itself with CONSTANT NOISE DARK ENERGY which is absolutely fucking amazing at 2:05 where the melody suddenly gets SUPER FUCKING POWERFUL like HOOOOOOLY SHIT THIS CHORUS MELODY it literally floors me everytime I listen to it like holy shit. lets go over other assorted things that i think are fucking amazing: wind sounds at 0:10, hi hat stuck in a refresh loop at 0:24 and 1:15, meter change at 0:35, transition at 1:26 and just the general calmer feel of the pre-chorus in general, okay speaking of pre-chorus both the fact that its a call and response, and that response part being all over the place everywhere is very very good, and yeah the entire chorus just. all of it. the whole song. this is just a very, very powerful song and really transcends what i expect from the average touhou song in so many ways. Another Winter is a classic and needs no introduction at all but damn it just can't keep up with Suwa at all in my mind. Great, great match but my heart's decision is clear.

Torna is still a crazy good song!! Evolution Era's success is very confusing to me because it sticks out to me as something that's trying too hard to be as "powerful" as other Deemo songs and just falls completely flat. Like seriously, it sounds flat. Like if Deemo were a person, Evolution Era is what would play when their face is stone-cold serious and unfeeling. All its attempts to have a happy or uplifting melody kinda gets stuck in a limbo where it sounds uplifting and also sad at the same time and its like what??? am I feeling???? what is this song feeling??????? I love a lot of other V.K. ventures like Wings of piano and Reverse - Parallel Universe (the latter of which would actually be getting a vote from me over even Torna lol) but this just doesn't do anything for me. It still /sounds/ good, which is the real kicker. But listening to it annoys me in a very strange way that makes me feel more negative about it than I actually am lol

The Venerable Ancient Battlefield ~ Suwa Foughten Field > Battle!!/Torna > Pressure Cooker > Another Winter > Solitude > Evolution Era