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Rose Gun Days - linkage-alter
Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure - Soaring Through Azure Sadness
Tales of Vesperia - Fury Sparks

MATCH 1

I tend to like Jake Kaufman songs. Even across a variety of different music styles from Shovel Knight to Mighty Switch Force to Double Dragon Neon, there's typically at least one song from him that I like quite a bit in the styles that he works with. It's usually catchy melodies that draw me into his music, and while that's definitely present in other Mighty Switch Force songs, it's unfortunately pretty absent for me with Soft Collision. I think here, there's more of an emphasis on interesting chord changes, and while I can appreciate that and even actively enjoy a song, at least in part, for that reason, I don't find it something that really appeals to me in this case. So this song is basically "fine, but not particularly noteworthy."

I still think linkage-alter is probably one of my favorite Rose Guns Days songs! In fact, off the top of my head, it probably is my #1 favorite in the game next to Mission ~No. 023~. The dramatic piano lines are, perhaps unsurprisingly, the highlight of this song for me. The violin accompaniment is really nice as well. Really, there isn't a dull thing about this song. Everything just blends together really well. And I usually focus a lot less on rhythm than I do on melody, but this is one of those songs where I actually really like the rhythm in this song. I guess the extra 2 beats from it being in 6/4 (sorry if I'm explaining this wrong lol, I'm not the best with music theory) gives the rhythm this sort of punchiness that I think is pretty cool.

MATCH 2

Soaring Through Azure Sadness is a song that I think is pretty nice, but not something I really love. I'd probably give it somewhere in the low-mid 7's if I was attaching a numeric score to it. It has a nice melody and good instrumentation, but I can't really give it more praise than that. Sounds kinda negative overall, but I will say that this is one of the better Gurumin songs I've heard from the soundtrack and definitely my preferred Gurumin song in the bracket! For the record, my favorite song I've heard from the soundtrack is To Make the End of Digging.

Fuse Man is really nice too! Nice upbeat synth melody. A bit close between the two, but Soaring wins here.

MATCH 3

I can't say much about Discovery, unfortunately. It just doesn't really do anything that's appealing to me.

I should have qualified my comment on JRPG rock that I mentioned during my Nefertiti write-up a bit haha. Fury Sparks is one of those JRPG rock songs that sound fine, but I don't see them as anything special. That said, because it's still a style I typically like and the song doesn't do anything that I actively dislike, I still think positively of it overall and it beats out two of today's songs, one of which being its opponent.

linkage-alter > Soaring Through Azure Sadness > Fuse Man Stage > Fury Sparks > Soft Collision > Discovery

HasteDeux posted...

Ohhhhh... all this time I had thought it was loweffortmemes who nominated it. Ermm... actually, just checking to see if you were the "original" nominator?

Just to confirm, I was indeed the original nominator of linkage-alter in VGMC13! I'm not sure if anyone else nominated it before that year without it making the bracket though because that was my first year participating.