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#55: Trails in the Sky the 3rd - Cradle Where Feelings Rest
hb: 7.5/7.6
NFUN: 7.2/6
Total: 7.35/6.8 (7.075)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ydu3N3EZl5A
https://youtube.com/watch?v=39M5zISUm_Y

Sad piano is good, actually. Sad piano with the Evo's orchestrated hits is slightly better (except for that xylophone part)
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sadvnpiano.mp3

thought it was the same sadvnpiano.mp3 with more grace notes, but wow, that violin is way overdone. It's got the subtlety of a brick to the face. That flute isn't anything to write home about either

#54: Trails in the Sky SC - Fateful Confrontation
Janus: 10/4
NFUN: 8.3/6.1
Total: 9.15/5.05 (7.1)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5ok9bzDzaS0
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qk8RYZrmZdE

nfun why did you do this to me

It's honestly really hard to make a proper writeup of the original because it's such a sentimental favorite, but may as well try. I love the spooky triplets at the start which cut out two beats before you'd think to get into the meat of the song, I love the HUGE reprise of the Enforcers theme, complete with the rhythm guitar chugging away in the back, I love the keyboard sound and the way it follows up the previous part, as well as the triplets leading into the next bit, and I LOVE LOVE the 7/4 part at the end. Just a really infectious rhythm. Any time I wonder if the song is getting stale that part hits and nope, I still love it. There was a time when I put this below Silver Will in my TitS music rankings, but that's definitely no longer the case.

One thing I'll say about the Evo is that the drums are more -interesting-, as that wasn't really a selling point for the original (though they're sometimes a bit much and I kinda miss some of the little fills). The guitar tone is... not great, but honestly the keyboard bothers me a lot more. There are a couple moments that just feel really dissonant, and there's a weird screechy sound in that first riff that honestly has like no reason to exist. It's also just less cohesive - Singa tries a lot of things here and on occasion things sound nice but overall it's very jumbled. I probably wouldn't be this critical of an arrangement for any other song, and honestly trying to detach this from the original I probably don't -hate- it, just... man. This probably seems really critical for a 4 so I'll just remind everyone that this is actually still Fateful Confrontation, sort of
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theme of last-second vgmc nominations

theme of squeaky guitars and weird drum panning. i don't terribly mind terrible guitars so whatever

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