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Guilty Gear -Strive- - Love the Subhuman Self
Cladun: This is an RPG - Knight of a Foreign Country
ChainBeeT - Banbard (Chroma Remix)

MATCH 1

I mainly like Tokyo for the intro. It has a cool, futuristic sound to it. The rest of it's cool too, but I think the intro's the best part.

Love the Subhuman Self has a strong, driving melody here that I like. Coupled with its metal guitar riffs and drumming, all of this makes for a very cool song.

MATCH 2

I actually really like Shake Ya Body. This feels like more like a "classic" house song than the more pop-inspired type of house songs that I think I'd be more inclined to listen to, but I do enjoy house music generally speaking. I think this song really starts to shine around the 4 minute mark where the piano and guitar loops start to kick in. This is pretty apparent in just about every writeup I do, but I'm someone that cares a lot about having a good melody to latch on to, so these melodic loops bring the song up several notches compared to just having a solid beat to listen to. They're pretty evocative too, which is even better! 8:42 is super good and by far my favorite part of this song. Really love the vocal melody there and all the instruments that come together in the background bring a really exciting and dancey vibe. I also really like that sort of call and response of the softer vocals at 8:50.

Knight of a Foreign Country is an old favorite of mine, and I'm really happy to see it back. It's one of the finalists in my favorites bracket and tore through it pretty easily, only barely being stopped by my champion. It just goes hard from beginning to end. Those opening bagpipes (as a quick aside, hell yeah, bagpipes in hard rock/metal!) just slap you in the face and I love it. Really, everything is great about this: the violins, the guitar, just the overall energy of the song. I first heard this song a little bit before my first year participating in VGMC, VGMC13, and I was immediately hooked on it. When I saw it nominated that year, I knew I had to support it, and seeing it pop up again this year, my reaction wasn't much different. As much as I'd love to give a vote for Shake Ya Body, there's just no way I could not vote Knight of a Foreign Country here. There's few songs in Bracket B I'd take over it, and Shake Ya Body sadly isn't one of them.

MATCH 3

It's nowhere near as good as the original, but the Chroma remix of Banbard is still a pretty decent song. The instrumentation is a big part of what I love about the original, so while the overall melody that I like is still largely preserved, the difference in instrumentation unfortunately brings down my enjoyment. Though, again, I do like it a fair bit for the melody alone.

Let It Die ~Wandervogel~ is a pretty good song as well. Good vocals. The chorus at 0:52 is my favorite part of the song. I think there's just more going on in the song that I enjoy during that part. I feel like I'm enjoying this more than I did going through my favorites bracket, so this match is a lot tougher today, but I still think Banbard (Chroma Remix) is the pick here.

Knight of a Foreign Country > Love the Subhuman Self > SHAKE YA BODY > Banbard (Chroma Remix) > LET IT DIE~Wandervogel~ > Tokyo

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