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I am home from gdq and have to return to work, and by work i mean "place where i am a political football and therefore have plenty of time to write extensive essays on songs." and by songs apparently I mean countries? Not sure how that happened. This song sounds very Italian countryside to me. I suppose this is reasonably appropriate, Iberia isn't that far from Italy, but the "Spanish" sound in my head is incredibly different than this, what Portuguese-speaking friends I have are from Brazil, and this is radically different from any of that. Castinets are at least vaguely Hispanic but again not what I expected? I kinda like it though, nice interplay with the melody. But yeah. Maybe I just need to expand my horizons and meat some actual Portuguese folks. I refuse to fix that typo.

At least, not until I listen to the next song. See what I did there? And now everyone realizes they did not miss me at all ANYWHO yes i can hear you lady that is how music works. wait you used "boku" does that mean I should interpret this as singing from a masculine perspective? I've never really been clear on that. Like there's songs where that's clearly the case -- "Hikari" aka "Japanese Simple and Clean" very clearly has two voices, one male and one female -- but sometimes it's just "boku" is two syllables and you need a two-syllable word and every single female first person pronoun is at least three. Which is weird from the perspective of English but you don't actually use your pronoun that much in Japanese so it's fine. As for the song itself, it's... fine? Feels like a reasonably generic early 2000's Japanese ballad. Nothing particularly special about it, but I did enjoy it. Lyrics are nice, might do a TL later if I have (even more!) spare time at work this afternoon.

I miss 2019, sometimes. I am tempted to write more but I think not.

SMG music is just not my thing. While I am very far from the biggest basiscape fan here, anything against it is still fighting an uphill battle, one SMG is basically destined to lose. Everything I want in music, it denies me.

i can't believed the remake did CO power themes dirty. Okay "dirty" is a strong word but simply a more upbeat version of the character themes is insufficient. The Dual Strike theme from this game is one of the most memorable, thrilling, powerful moments there is. When you activate it, when you see the bars fill up, when the lightning crackles, you are filled with the conviction that there is nothing that can stop you, that the big damn heroes have arrived and they are gonna take all the turns. And while I see there's normal CO power themes on the OST so I assume they're playable somehow, those remixes are also, uh... Bad.

Back in Time is fine, but it doesn't compare well to the rest of the OST imo. maybe technically top 5 though.