Board 8 > [VGMC] Day 19! feat. Everlasting Existence, Twisting Trails, and Double Dreams

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The Whereabouts of Life
Spiral of Erebos
Congregation of Ambition

honestly all very close i think i switched from my fav bracket on some of these

Eternity (Kasumi)
Spiral of Erebos
Kegare Naki Yume

Eternity (Kasumi)
On the Road
Congregation of Ambition

The Whereabouts of Life
Spiral of Erebos
Congregation of Ambition

Eternity (Kasumi)
On the Road
Kegare Naki Yume

Gonna make it a 3/3 and vote all the Payday stuff, wow the orchestra sounds amazing on this one. Spiral of Erebos is a great song but I think I liked this one more.
Match 1 is both two great songs where I enjoyed Kasumi just a little more. Match 3 is one I am slightly more neutral upon. It is overall a good wrap up to B3, I'd say.

Eternity (Kasumi)
Spiral of Erebos
Kegare Naki Yume

Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy & the Liberator of Polar Night - The Whereabouts of Life
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III - Spiral of Erebos
11eyes: Tsumi to Batsu to Aganai no Shoujo - Kegare Naki Yume

MATCH 1

The Whereabouts of Life is pretty cool with its dramatic vocals and melody. I typically go for the more folky flavor of Atelier songs that the series is known for, but songs like this are definitely my thing as well!

Eternity has some cool stuff going on synchronously, but the song as a whole doesn't draw me in all that much. Still a good song though!

MATCH 2

Last year, I took Spiral of Erebos to round 5 in my favorites bracket, and unfortunately, it fell just one round short of getting there. This year, I sadly had to drop it round 2 to Kegare Naki Yume, but I still really like Spiral of Erebos! There's Falcom songs I like more, but this is still an upper-tier Falcom song for me.

I liked the other Payday 2 songs more than On the Road Again. This just has something of a cheesy Spaghetti Western feel to me or something like that.

MATCH 3

I think a lot of the Fire Emblem songs I enjoy have come from the more modern games like Shadows of Valentia and Three Houses. Congregation of Ambition is okay, but there's something about the style of this song that I just find kind of uninteresting.

Kegare Naki Yume was my favorite VGMC discovery this year! Really great melody and vocals. This song is very much appealing to my tastes. It's kind of funny that a lot of these VGMC discoveries that I've come to love over the years have also just so happened to be songs that are apparently popular on osu. (Edit: These writeups were super rushed because I started way too late as usual lol, so I'll elaborate a little more on this song at least now that my votes are in) One thing I really like about this song is this darker symphonic feel to it. The violin melody at 0:18, for example, kind of reminds me of Kuusu Mesorogiwi from Future Diaries, which is a big favorite of mine in terms of anime OPs. I grew up really loving symphonic metal, so that might have at least something to do with my like for Kegare Naki Yume. I like the drumming patterns in this song too. The chorus at 1:03, for example, has a drumming pattern that I really like to hear in songs. It's something I kind of associate with some JRPG games like Trails, these strong 2 and 4 beats in the drums. I also like fast drum rolls mixed into the drums like at 0:54. The drums here only make the already great vocals even better. I'm an expert at drumming on my desk with my fingers, and this song makes it very easy to do just that haha. The guitar solo is also really great. Basically, it's just a very top-tier song for me all around.

Kegare Naki Yume > Spiral of Erebos > The Whereabouts of Life > Eternity (Kasumi) > On the Road > Congregation of Ambition