6. Final Fantasy XIII - Blinded by Light
Nominated by: swordz9
The best track from FFXIII, that I've heard at least, but I think I'm familiar with most of the important ones... Blinded by Light also has the distinction of being an absolutely fantastic battle theme from a series that I honestly don't think has very many really good battle themes (Otherworld notwithstanding). Blinded by Light starts off with some build-up, which is sometimes risky, but it works out in its favor here. The real reason I like it so much, though, is the section from 0:36 to 0:53; it's such a unique and memorable sound, and it's somehow really uplifting. To such an extent that is almost seems inappropriate as a normal battle theme. Should be the "you just got a huge plot powerup and are now in WRECK EVERYTHING mode" battle theme or something.
5. Magical Drop III - KI.MA.GU.RE. [Whimsy]
Nominated by: NioraptH
...So I really hope those voice clips are not part of the actual track but just included in the video to be "cute". Because they are distracting and pretty awful. (And I have since learned that they are, but again, these writeups were written like two weeks ago.) Ignoring those, the music itself is fantastic. When I say I like simple music, which... I'm not sure if I have yet in this topic but CG7 can confirm that I've said it at points in the past, this is really the kind of music I mean. It does change things up a couple times, but each individual part only has a few components and just focuses on making those components really successful. Which they are. God 0:30 through 0:56 is good. I just wish it was longer, even if making it longer just meant having it loop rather than fade out at the end.
4. Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 - Unicorn
Nominated by: agesboy
Amazing. I've never known what to call this style of vocals, but I'm a big fan of it usually and this is not an exception, in fact it's more like Exhibit A. Between the vocals and the instrumentation Unicorn creates such a powerul impression of... powerful impressiveness. Really hope this plays during the game's climax or something because it deserves nothing else. I actually think my favorite part of Unicorn though is 1:13 through 1:40. The war drums and the violin(?) slow the whole piece down and create this tense atmosphere that's finally broken by one last burst of vocals, and it just works so well to end the piece. ...I do wish the whole thing was longer though.
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