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#57: Zero no Kiseki - Temptation of Wisdom
pyre: 5.5/6.5
NFUN: 8.2/8
Total: 6.85/7.25 (7.05)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NjauOcgKdqQ
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FsDEnLvrn-E

Mysterious and brooding song that mostly doesn't end up leaving much of an impression. It does have a harpsichord though so there's that. The instrumentation of the evo version does work somewhat better towards this end though. Really like the guitar at 1:28 also, although that is not what the previous sentence was referring to.
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wowow it's the first song you hear ingame in zero!!

Ups the creepiness a good bit. Was wondering why I prefered the original until the guitar came on. Doesn't seem to fit super well, but doesn't clash so poorly as to ruin the song

#56: Trails in the Sky SC - Enforcers
Raetsel: 5.34/7.25
NFUN: 8/7.7
Total: 6.67/7.475 (7.0725)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=z07WdBYBEe0
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ySLH1FHDVxs

I had a rather hard time coming up with anything to say about this track, having intentionally left this space blank on the first two listens. . Part of the problem is this is one of the few songs from the ranking that I actually recognized (as I may have mentinoed in another write-up, I almost never actually notice background music in games, so the vast majority of songs here felt new--even though I've played through the original versions all the games represented here), which makes it difficult to imagine the song in any other contexts. The other issue is that I've never actually cared about the original version of the song--yes, it's technically memorable, but for something that wants to be a mixture of "mysterious & intense" it's just not very interesting. I'm sure I get what the artist was going for, trying to make the Enforcers seem POWERFUL & slightly MYSTERIOUS, but the song is just so... slightly above average that I'm left always wanting more from it. The Evolution version is a marked improvement, though I still don't feel much like talking about it.
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theme of "holy shit it's an enforcer"

This is *almost* extremely cool. Everything is just a little... off. It kind of feels like the composer wanted to make a song like this, and chose this arrangement to do it, instead of the opposite. I'll give it some props, at least

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