60. Nanostray - Sekai Outpost
Nominated by: Ace_Killjoy
Pretty cool song. I feel like a lot of the more interesting stuff happens in the background though; I wish it was a bit louder, because the main beat almost drowns it out. That's not a big issue though. The actual sound quality also seems kinda low but that's just DS music being DS music, so I can't hold that against it.
59. Sword of Mana - Courage and Pride from the Heart
Nominated by: agesboy
Another one where the actual sound quality seems... really low, but whatever. I don't feel like this is a particularly unique or monumental track, but I enjoyed it a surprising amount. I've already mentioned not particularly liking battle themes, and in particular I generally don't like JRPG battle themes, but this one... works. I especially like the percussion-heavy section near the end.
58. Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 - Divine Entity
Nominated by: azuarc
Another example of "I'm not crazy about battle themes". In this case though I feel like it has a lot of elements that don't really work together so well. The piano that comes in for a few seconds, like twice throughout the piece. I like it, but not so much in conjunction with everything that comes before it and after it. But I'm being too negative. Overall I think this is a very competent battle theme.
57. Skies of Arcadia - Bombardment 2
Nominated by: Mega Mana
I'm a big fan of Skies of Arcadia and its soundtrack. This isn't the piece I'd really go to for good music from the game (think my favorite is still the Main Theme, which is a bit of an unpopular opinion, I think). I definitely like this, though. It's a battle theme, but not as chaotic as a lot of them tend to be, probably because ship battles in SoA were a lot more strategy-oriented... or at least seemed that way due to the system used. In general I just like the style Skies uses for its music. Not sure if it's actually orchestrated or just fakes it, but in either case it's great to listen to both in and out of the game.
56. Rusty - Queen in the Dark Night
Nominated by: FL81
So this is a Castlevania ripoff game? Queen in the Dark Knight definitely sounds Castlevania-y. It sounds Stage 1-y too so I guess it's fairly appropriate. I feel like this is the kind of song I'd hear in game and think it's pretty good but never really go out of my way to look up again, especially if there were better tracks from the same game.
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