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The First Thing
Reach for the Moon
Collapsed Expressway

First Thing is way cooler than it has any right to be with its mix of monologue and guitar. Nefertiti is better than I'd expected (didn't get around to this in noms; I anticipated it to be typical B8 bait like a lot of Atelier stuff) but it didn't grip me. I didn't want to listen to the full thing like I did with First Thing. Nefertiti did have some Touhou feel to it when there wasn't a guitar, so that's a plus from me... and likely a minus from almost all the rest of the board.

Speaking of which, second match time. National Park is pretty whatever. I can appreciate more placid themes, but the game boy instrumentation does this no favor. I'd love to hear a version of it with more updated production quality. Meanwhile, this version of RftM is fightan' gaem 2hu, which is gonna make it hard to top for me. Not sure about that Theremin-like trill in the background sometimes, even though I helped support this in.

I used to train to be a classical singer, so I'm way harsher on vocal tracks than I probably should be. I hated the breathy timbre of the singer in half the song and general lack of emotion throughout most of it, which is a damn shame because I think a good singer could've made this work. Collapsed Expressway is solid. Not amazing, but respectable, and more than enough to make R2

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