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Library of Ruina - String Theocracy
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth - Pursuit ~ Lying Coldly
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MATCH 1

Shackled Wolves is pretty nice. Some good dramatic melodies interspersed throughout the song.

My eyes sure are buttered. String Theocracy was a really cool discovery this year! I really like all these bright sounds combined with this swing rhythm. My favorite part's the chorus. Super upbeat and that ending of the chorus when she says "theatrically" and "kill me thoroughly" is great melodically. I also can't get over how much I like Mili's voice at 1:16 haha. I honestly want the whole song to be sung with that voice. Jazz can be hit or miss at times, but I really like it here. I'll also throw in Akari Is Here as another similar jazzy song that I like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyneiz9FRMw

MATCH 2

Pursuit ~ Lying Coldly is really neat throughout. I like these dramatic piano melodies.

This match would be a lot closer if it was the original Love You Love You Love, but I don't like this remix as much. It still sounds nice, but I feel like this remix takes a lot of the energy that I like from the original song out of it and doesn't really make up for it. At the same time though, when the tempo speeds up at the end, I feel like it's too fast haha.

MATCH 3

Man what an absolute rollercoaster my experience with Image -Material- was. When I listened to this during my favorites bracket listens, I had the biggest grin on my face once 0:56 and 1:11 happened because I knew that early on that it was shaping up to be an incredible song. When I got to the chorus though, I actually remembered hearing it, which is when I discovered that I actually passed it in the nominations playlist when I was going through it! I was, and still am, stunned that I wasn't immediately hooked on this song when I listened to it then like I was when I listened to it when filling out the favorites bracket. I must have listened to this song on loop like 5 times in a row after listening to this song the second time around, it's just that good. The vocals at 0:22 are such a great way to build up to the heavier parts of the song. I was thinking to myself that it's what I want Nightwish to sound like haha. The strings at 1:28 are also incredible, as is the chorus at 3:17. Even those talking voices at 2:30, which sometimes I'm lukewarm on hearing in songs, sound completely fine here. Maybe it's that I like how the voices sound lol. Reminds me a little of Yukari Tamura. Basically, I love everything about this song and it's easily my favorite discovery in the contest. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that this is my #1 favorite song in the contest! Both of my favorite discoveries relating to this year's contest (Image -Material- being one and PSO2 - Dark to Light being the other) were because of NFUN, so thank you for that. I feel like "songs that have well-known beatmaps of them in osu" is starting to be a common thread linking a lot of really good songs. Off the top of my head, I've seen videos of this song, Sky of Twilight, and Sakura no Uta (albeit in a worse, sped up form) being played in osu. Not to mention, I recently found a really cool non-VGM song in the related videos section of Image -Material- during one of my listens (Angreifer by Unlucky Morpheus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz6nMsQPSJk) and what do you know, it also has an osu beatmap. Maybe I should start checking out more popular osu songs.

Targets is a fine song, but it's absolutely no contest here. At least I don't dislike Targets, but I still feel very strongly about this match haha.

IMAGE -MATERIAL- <Version 0> >> String Theocracy > Pursuit ~ Lying Coldly > Fire Emblem: Three Houses - The Shackled Wolves (Rain) > Targets! = Love You Love You Love (Good Morning Onee-san Mix)