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548: PIANO OPERA - THEME OF FINAL FANTASY IV:

https://open.spotify.com/track/18DQfPPo6dnIdDa42kzSiB

Nominator: Haste_2 (17/19)
Source: Piano Opera Final Fantasy IV/V/VI (10/12)

Initial Score: 50.00 [#406]
Revised Score: 40.64 [#526]
Final Score: 41.80 [#548]

(First Thoughts: I think this song will make a decent baseline; anything lower than it, I can safely say I disliked and anything higher than it as something I liked. Its probably an ill-omen for the album as a whole though, as my true first thoughts were yep, this is definitely taking a song I like and making it worse,, wow I really want to go listen to the actual theme as soon as this ends. Which is harshI cant say I really disliked the experience this song provided, but its certainly not for me.

SNES version would probably be around a 60.00, its nice and all, but Ive gone through FF4 quite a few times and it was never the best song, so Im a bit tired of it. DS is...I dunno, I dont care to listen to the whole thing to decide, its probably somewhere between SNES & Piano Opera in terms of score.)



I feel 50 points was way too generous as I spend the entire song wondering why someone took such an iconic SNES song and ruined it. All emotion of the song stripped out purely for the sake of playing it on a piano. Tragic, really. It not only pales in comparison to the original and the DS, but to every other rendition of the song I can findIm just clicking through remixes of the theme in search of something where I can say well, at least Piano Opera is better than this remix and I can find nothing that Id score lower.

Totally unrelated, but I want to draw attention to a remix of a different song:

Celtic Moon - Rydia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzoorvxOVnc

I dont know exactly how many points Id want to give that song, but its quite pretty and I want to make a note of it somewhere, so I can find it again in the future. Best thing about Piano Opera - Theme of Final Fantasy IV is that it indirectly led me to this remake of Rydias theme.

[Later: Oh, the Celtic Moon version of Rydias theme is so beautiful... the vocalizations dont quite work for me, but I think it would have to score at least 70 pointsprobably somewhere in the 80s..]

[Final Thoughts: FF4 Themes Piano Opera Version is kinda pretty in places, but not so pretty that I want to gush about it and give it a ridiculous number of points. Its kinda nostalgic from being recognizable as a theme Ive heard a lot, but just wrong enough that I want to reject ityou know how it is, where when you hear an inferior cover of a song you like, you just get fixated on all the things it does wrong in comparison to the original and come down harsher on it than it probably deserved?

...At least, I like to think thats a thing that happens to normal people.

And while Celtic Moon Rydia would not win a best indirect discovery competition, its still quite lovely and absolutely deserves me hyping it up for a third time. Such a wonderful song.]

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547: PSO2 - FALSE CREDO ~ EARTHGUIDE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJuY1_Dzs3w&list=PLeKaE-gusMmaq2FecWApCcMOVGJblcdrD&index=28

Nominator: NFUN (35/37)

Initial Score: 44.76 [#479]
Revised Score: 41.52 [#518]
Final Score: 41.90 [#547]

(First Thoughts: I was tired of this song two minutes in, then it proceeded to just never end. I suppose its fine, but Id rather have something aggressively bad that was worth discussing the flaws in than this seven minute barrage of adequateness.)

This song is one that I could drop anywhere from 0 points to 50 points and itd feel completely justified. I dont really mind it, so a full 50 point neutrality score would be justified ; I strongly dislike how utterly neutral this song is and would prefer songs I actively hated over it, so a 0 would be justified.

Somehow Ive wound up at low 40s which is also justifiable enough, I suppose. Either way, the song is seven and a half minutes of adequacy and I find it impossible to care about it.

[Final Thoughts: So very, very adequate.

...now I want to go back and listen to Adequate from the first ranking topic, but I suppose I dont have time for that detour right now.]

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