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Its a new day and the scores get a substantial increase at this point, as I feel theres a very notable increase in how much I enjoy these songs in comparison to those eliminated last night.

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R#22: THE HAYSTACK PRINCIPLE:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6lAkGW1GB3Uyn82nq2KeAJ

Nominator: Shonen_Bat (20/27)
Source: History Repeating Red (6/10)

Initial Score: 85.92 [R#15]
Revised Score: 70.97 [R#22]
Final Score: 80.00 [R#22]

(First Thoughts: Probably the most tragic of The Megas songs. Needleman pleads for a way to stop doing evil things and, after being resoundingly told that he can never stop being bad, seems to just let Megaman kill him to end his suffering.

Its also a reverse of Airmans song from the previous album: Air lived ten miles in the air, Needle lives ten miles underground and they are both incapable of interacting with people without harming them (Do you know what its like to be built this way? With only the power to push others away? / No matter what I try, I cant help but hurt those close to me)... but they have different responses. Airman goes completely insane and wants to destroy the planet (Therell be a tombstone with THE PLANET EARTH ENGRAVED ON IT!!!!!) while Needleman desperately seeks any way out and finally chooses death to end the suffering.

...this is kinda a messed up album, now that Im thinking about it.)

I do love this song. Youd think the ending would be too bleak for me, but it manages to be just the right amount of tragedy. Im kinda drawn to villains that regret their path in life, so a song featuring a villain breaking down and begging for a way out of his evil path is a pretty easy sell for me.

Being so closely related to Airmans theme (by far the best song on Get Equipped) is also worth some points in its favor. Its not the deepest comparison (OMG that song said ten miles high and this song says ten miles down! SYMMETRY!), but its still a nice contrast.

Unfortunately, I think I like the idea of the song a bit more than the song itself? Thats going to be a common criticism so get used to it; While I love what the song goes for and accomplishes, its not exactly my favorite song to listen to. And Needle Man has never been one of the better Robot Master designs, so I dont have any particular attachment to the character the song is about.

...thats probably selling the song short as now it sounds like I dont enjoy it as much as I do, but whatever.

[Final Thoughts: Not sure why I dropped the score down to the 70 point tier while saying I loved it, but the score has been raised back to 80 points which feels more appropriate.

...Oh and I should probably clarify. I put spaces in the names of Mega Man characters when referring to the canon game versions and remove spaces when talking about The Megas musical version of the characters, seeing as they always write the names without spaces. Theres no good reason for this, but I swear Capcom once said the official English versions had spaces in their names and its rather drilled into my head now.]

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R#21: DECISIVE BATTLE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_za61uzOmnE

Nominator: @Toxtricity / Mycro (15/15)

Initial Score: 81.00 [R#18]
Revised Score: 71.00 [R#20]
Final Score: 81.00 [R#21]

(First Thoughts: Why hello there, track returning from last year (Place nominated it that time). It didnt do well last time; the scores started in the 7s on a first impression, but the track was so short that it didnt leave the best impression... every time Id start getting into it, itd end, and that disappointment led to the score dropping to a 5.2. Came in 221st place.

Im decidedly more into it this time than I was then. Well see if it holds up.)

Its holding up a bit better than it did last time, but it is starting to slip down the rankings a bit. I do like the way it sounds; it almost reminds me of Venetian Snares Li2Co3 in a way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf-nwbL4uDw

Theres a part early on in Decisive Battle where theres (some sort of wind instrument, I think, Im going to guess flute) playing pretty music over the loud, almost discordant piano and it gives off similar feelings to Li2Co3s beautiful music shining through even when metallic chaos attempts to drown it out.

Though Decisive Battle is certainly not as great and its really only a very short stretch that feels like it at all, thats still where my mind goes.

*goes to check what she said about the song last year*

*final score: 5.2

[I watched Angel Beats several years ago, but I dont recall any songs like this. Good song, wish it werent so short.]

At 1:40 this is far from the shortest song on the list, but I feel it really needs another minute or so. By the time I start to get into this song, it's already ending.

[Final Notes: It is good, just too short to ever really get engrossed in. And yes, I'm fully aware of how it looks cutting one song for being too long and then immediately cutting one for being too short in the next write-up.]

...Wow, that was abysmal. I just called it too short three times in a row and left it at that. Like, come on past me, there were only 300 songs that year, surely you could have put in a little effort.

[Final Thoughts: A pretty decent pick for a returning entrant, seeing as my opinion on the song has grown considerably since last year.]

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