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Honkai: Star Rail - Hope is the Thing With Feathers
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana - Iclucian Dance
Espgaluda - Fort City - Stage4

MATCH 1

Skyway definitely captures the Megaman X rock music style well, to the point that I believed this was an official MMX game until I noticed that this is just a fangame. My only dislike with this song is that the instruments feel too fake, if that makes any sense. Of course, it's an SNES track, there are no live instruments, but comparing this with something like Spark Mandrill, the SNES guitar sounds a lot better there. I think it might be the sample being used for that instrument in Skyway.

Hope is the Thing With Feathers was actually a planned nomination of mine, but I figured other people had plans to nominate it too. I'm glad though that others wanted to, because it's a great song! It's kind of a good kind of sappy music. I really like it melodically. The vocals are great, and I really like what the background instruments like the piano and guitar do as well.

MATCH 2

I honestly think Iclucian Dance feels plain to me for an Ys song. Not that it's bad or anything, but it's not representative of what I really like from these games, at least melodically. The violin and piano are most definitely my thing when the melody's right, but this is unfortunately not one of those cases. This sounds kind of harsh, so I will say that this is probably in the upper 6/low 7 range in a rating out of 10 system, which is decidedly above average.

Ah, I remember Yoda Goes for a Swim. I think it was a Place VGM guessing game where this was unveiled. What a song. I think it's funny that it made it into the contest. Not to knock anyone who does like it, of course. Definitely not my thing musically though nor is it really appealing to my tastes in humor either.

MATCH 3

Tapha Niang has a cool groove to it. I like the vocals too.

I've really grown on Fort City all of a sudden this year. I'm familiar with this song, but I don't know, I'm really into it right now. Really cool beat and good melody too. Kind of feels like something you'd want to play if you were DJing in a nightclub for VGM fans.

Hope is the Thing With Feathers > Fort City - Stage4 > Iclucian Dance > Tapha Niang > Skyway (Hurricane Hoatzin Stage) >>> Yoda Goes For A Swim