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#53: Zero no Kiseki - The Way of the Tree Spirit
pyre: 6.5/6.5
Mycro: 7.59/7.89
Total: 7.045/7.195 (7.12)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6z_ucvsnVhA
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4b26iYFD-MA

Neat woodwind track. Kind of Hollow Knight-esque although it's not quite as compelling as that game's music. Evo goes for a completely different instrumentation that is probably very slightly better overall but also feels a bit too understated at times.
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LOVE this type of song; evo version appeals more because "realistic sounding nonexistent instruments" works more for me for evoking Mystic Nature setting somehow than "fake sounding version of real instruments". original version feels like you're looking at a child's drawing of ancient ruins in the forest, remake feels like you are IN ancient ruins in the forest that are so ethereal their 'realism' is beyond your comprehension of reality, feels more real than the real world does, so much so that these strange synth sounds that are not like any real instrument you've ever heard, feel more IMPORTANT SPIRITUAL TRANSCENDENCE than actual real instruments would. The aura of ancient power awakening, forms of magic, anomalies in perception of reality, time, space, that you've never felt or experienced before, REAL; a surreal dream that is more vivid than any memory of real life, except it is real, and you are in it. I like both versions of this song : ) I LIKE ANCIENT FOREST MUSIC that sounds like joe hisaishi

#52: Trails in the Sky - The Whereabouts of Light
Janus: 7.5/6
dowolf: 8.5/6.5
Total: 8/6.25 (7.125)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX6xpVVNF2o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFDpjAQB6mQ

Interesting mix of sad and relaxing with a very memorable melody. Didn't think much of it at first but it's certainly grown on me.

Huh, making this basically acoustic was an interesting choice. Makes it less relaxing and more just plain sad, which works fine, but I don't find it as compelling. Probably has stronger instrumentation at least.
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"Aishiteru -- tada sore dake de futari wa itsuka mata aeru" <-- I cry every time. The emptiness of the Evo version is cool in its own right, but I prefer the more plodding feel of OG, if that makes any sense. Also the instrumentation on the final chorus of Evo is weird

#51: Trails in the Sky the 3rd - Illusionary Blue Flowers
hb: 7.9/5.5
Mycro: 7.65/7.6
Total: 7.775/6.55 (7.1625)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LeCq5dLItXQ
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tjG907TDEDA

Cool piano.mp4, this track brings a sense of mystery and exploration that is truly both fun and interesting to listen to. Meanwhile, Evo version replaces a bunch of the soundfont with BEES (and bad synths). A shame, too, I like the added percussion and piano harmony, and the base track is good enough that it doesn't fall too far, but its held back by a truly Singalicious factor or two.
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both the original and arrange are pretty cool and 90s new age feeling with nice ethereal glassy synths; but the evo version's mixing is very "hmmm" lol. the hypersaw/modern edm layers are like way too loud compared to all the background stuff even if i think i'd like them in the mix if they weren't. evo version has cooler/more interesting pads and other interesting sounds the original doesn't have though. a tough call

rip the homie

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