30. Treasure Quest - Prophecy
Nominated by: azuarc
Oh man. This song is a disaster, and yet I love it. I'm especially fond of the chorus, but I feel an odd amount of affection for the entire thing. I don't even like the singer's voice or the lyrics - the bits and pieces I can actually pick out - very much, but I just... like the song. GOD WHATEVER IT'S MY RANKING I'LL DO IT HOW I WANT
29. Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies - Megalith -Agnus Dei-
Nominated by: todbot
So this is a really cool song with the disadvantage of being too long. 6 minutes is about my limit unless a song is really damn good, so this is just a bit too long and slightly not good enough to justify the length... But I definitely do like it. Megalith -Agnus Dei- is at once heroic and imposing, and it absolutely captures the sense of scale that I think they were going for. Part of that is because of the length, but I dunno, I just think it starts to drag around the middle.
28. Yoshi's Story - Love Is In the Air
Nominated by: Kamekguy
I've only played Yoshi's Story once, for a few minutes, years ago, but based on Yoshi's Island my hopes for this were effectively rock bottom. Thankfully it is surprisingly competent. While it doesn't blow me away, it's a cute song and the strings are really appealing to me personally. I can sort of picture this playing on a peaceful, laidback day out in the countryside or something.
27. Final Fantasy X - Rikku's Theme
Nominated by: swordz9
It's weird, my opinion of FFX character themes before this project was basically "Auron and Yuna have the only ones worth talking about, and Yuna is questionable". Now I'd definitely put Rikku's theme in that same category though. It's actually really good, and I think only part of that is FFX just generally have good music. Rikku's Theme is a very relaxing theme which I'm not entirely sure fits her, but whatever. My favorite part might actually be that... harmonica? that comes in at 1:13.
26. Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 - Ending Theme
Nominated by: FL81
So the link provided was dead by the time I got around to this writeup. Luckily I had already listened to everything once so I was able to find a replacement, though I think the sound quality is... much worse... which is a shame.
Anyway. I feel like I have talk up the saxophone here because I know CG7 is going to throw a fit about it. It's awesome and absolutely the best part of this. The first 3 minutes of this song are fantastic, but then it goes in kind of a weird direction for a while and it doesn't really mesh with the rest of the song up until that point. So that hurts it, but it's still really cool.
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