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#9. discolor
Game: Umineko no Naku Koro Ni Chiru
Nominated: Ed Bellis (September 2012 - CHANGED)
Score: --- [1/7]
Month Change: Even
Games Rank: 3/61
Time: 5:44
Link: https://youtu.be/x_2Sso-JoO4
Note: I really enjoy how heavy it is without going over the top or extending itself at length like many other Umineko tracks. There's a serenity to it.

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I don't have nearly the words that could describe this song. There was one comment that stood out to me and I wanted to share it.

bananaz7084, 10 months ago

"This song is calmly overwhelming, like a big wave slowly approaching. It feels like all the problems are swimming around you and not giving you the time to focus on one at a time, they're all coming at once. And you simply give up. It's like a barrage of feelings, a tempest of worries and a profound sense of helplessness that in an instant hits you with the realization all efforts are meaningless and ruthlessly cripples you into reluctance."

This makes absolute sense... in the context of the episode 5 trial with all the alibis crossed off, Krauss said in red to be dead eliminating that hope, and tearing apart the kinder Kinzo illusion from this episode directly after. It's savagery and drowning of the spirit, choking out the hope and leaving only despair. Its savagery would entertain 'Monokuma.'

However, that's with context. When I listen to this on its own separated from the game, it's a jam. It feels like relaxing in a warm bath, turning your mind inwards, and following the interweaving melodies like shooting stars in the sky and seeing the world and all the lights upon it from up high, gaining a perspective to take the problems you've made into mountains and realize they are molehills. There is still an overwhelming sense of everythingness in the world, but for me, personally, there's something to this where it can make refocus and tackle the problems right in front of me, that I can do something about. Maybe it's because I live a life of anxiety and 'crippling reluctance' already, so it works inversely for me like Adderall for ADHD and non-ADHD works differently.

It doesn't go higher because, well, when I think of what 'discolor' sounds like if I haven't heard any Umineko in a while, I'll think of 'system0' 90% of the time >_>. It's at 9th because of a perpetual misfiling, <_<