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490: MASAFUMI TAKADA - ALICE IN THE CHILDRENS LAND:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf5fN3CRRw8&list=PLLmUcHIAJVw_GCWsy10Bv4-rtr6XDQfSU&index=7

Nominator: DoctorJimmy133 (17/27)
Source: NecroRonpa Crypt, Of The (11/20)

Initial Score: 48.69 [#436]
Revised Score: 46.47 [#473]
Final Score: 48.20 [#490]

(First Thoughts: Its a little unsettling, but not nearly unsettling enough.)

Well, its definitely one of the more unique tracks this topic, and its actually an improvement over the original, but Im not a fan of it. Im not sure why I dislike itit feels like its novel enough that I should give it at least 50 pointsbut I just cant bring myself to actually give it that high of a score.

[having run out of songs she actually wants to talk about, Raetsel proceeds to spend twenty minutes clicking through her Spotify playlists, finding nothing.]

Right, lets go with something really stupid then:

Sonic the Hedgehog (Tiger Handheld) - Marble Zone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_KCaSO9_W8

Its high-speed noise, but if you change the playback speed to slow it down, you can actually make out the Marble Zone theme! Why this game had background music when the vast majority of Tiger Handhelds didnt, and why the song is sped up to unrecognizable levels, is still a mystery. Ive come very close to nominating this over at the VGM Rating topic several times, but Ive never seriously wanted to subject everyone to it or waste an actual nomination on it.

[Final Thoughts: Like Stroll Music before it, this song proves that just being weird doesnt guarantee you a high score. ...not these days anyway. Im rather curious how I would have reacted to this song two years ago when I very actively was giving high marks to anything & everything unusual, but we lack the ability to shatter the time barrier to find out.

[not to say that I dont still love unusual songs, its just harder to get incredibly high scores by default.]]

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489: MAZEDUDE - SLICK RIPPIN KEEN:

https://mazedude.bandcamp.com/track/slick-rippin-keen

Nominator: sergiocornaga (14/18)

Initial Score: 47.39 [#456]
Revised Score: 47.13 [#467]
Final Score: 47.00 (upgraded to 48.40) [#489]

(First Thoughts: Not bad, but largely unremarkable. Going to put this in a tie with Glow Worm Jim for now.)

Well, obviously Glow Worm Jim impressed me enough on a second listen that it got bumped up the list and the two songs are no longer tied.

Like my original thoughts, I still find this song to be alright but unremarkable. Ive never played any Commander Keen games, so theres no chance of nostalgia factoring injust listened to a few random songs from the Commander Keen 5 OST and this nomination is way beyond anything on that soundtrack, so Im sure Mazedude has done a fantastic job with this song. Unfortunately, like a lot of songs around this level, I just never connected with it at all, and it drops here.

[Final Thoughts: A marked improvement over most of the 40 point songs and consistently in the high 40s, but sadly, I still cant quite convince myself to move it up another tier.]

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