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I'm gonna start doing these one at a time, no reason to do them in batches of 5 anymore and that was hindering me a lot

15. Venus (Mega Man V)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ecLJlSol1I

This is peak Mega Man V. What a clever and creative little tune this is - it's short but it makes the most of it by cramming as many ideas as it can in here. There's a little bit more of that ska-like influence we saw in Uranus, with that off-beat action giving this track a little spring in its step that most other tracks don't have. I'm a really big sucker for unusual rhythmic ideas and lots of jazzy, chromatic movements so this one really suits me in particular. I'm not crazy about the GB soundchip in general here so the bassy parts of this aren't as great as I would like but the melody is shaped really well so I can forgive the overall sound design. I know this track is kind of a deep cut but it's got the sort of complexity of writing and jazzy rhythms that I really like and it gets stuck in my head a whole lot. The top of my list is kinda defined by which robot masters' stages I'm most excited to go to just to hear the theme and this is up there. I can't think of any other MM track that sounds like this one.

Final Mega Man V (GB) Rankings:

1. Venus (15)
2. Uranus (37)
3. Dr. Wily 2 (44)
4. Jupiter (89)
5. Mars (95)
6. Mercury (105)
7. Dr. Wily 1 (114)
8. Saturn (137)
9. Pluto (140)
10. Neptune (141)

Thoughts: Well, like I always say in MMV writeups, this soundtrack is weird as fuck, and I appreciate it for that. Not all of these tracks do something I've never heard before but about half of them do, and that's pretty solid. It's held back a little bit by kinda mushy sound design and some kind of repetitive ideas but overall it's a top half soundtrack and it's the best of the GB games aside from MMIII but that's sort of cheating because of the high density of great reused NES tracks.

Regrets?: Could have ranked Jupiter, Mercury, and Dr. Wily 1 all a bit higher, but they languished at the bottom a bit mostly due to a relative lack of nostalgia for them over other tracks I think. Also everything around the top 100 range is just really good so what am I gonna do.