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#750: Kenichi Tokoi - Terminal Velocity [Act 1] (4:23):
https://youtu.be/IyFKFdTkzPg

Nominator: Haste [28/31 Remaining]

Initial Score: 47.06
Revised Score: 49.369
Final Score: 49.22

(First Reaction: The song goes a bit too hard for me. I know, if you're running down a giant space elevator, the song is obligated to go hard... but the context still doesn't really make it more appealing to me.)

This is an intense running song, but I don't really like "intense" or "running"...

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...Umm.. not sure there's much else to add here... it's a fine game and the song certainly conveys the feelings it wants to, it's just not a feeling that I''m really into experiencing. I suppose there might be other aspects of myself that might care if I were in their headspace, but it's not like I can flip at will... also, I suspect that part of me would rather "actually be running" instead of "listening to a song that simulates the experience of running" even if I could just toggle a personality switch.

*throws out a popular song as a distraction*

Gin Blossoms - Follow You Down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27S0DHkTp-g

The most popular song I've ever randomly started talking about? Probably. It's a fun, catchy song and I'm in love with the "So what the hell now, we've already been forever damned" line. I'd give a full writeup to the song, but eh, I'm sure you've already heard it and I've still got over 700 writeups for actually nominated songs to go.

[Final Thoughts: That is some next level laziness. To replace the song you're supposed to talk about with a different song and then not talk about the replacement song either? I'm not sure if Garfield would be impressed or ashamed with that commitment to doing *nothing*.

This song is fine? I think I'd enjoy listening to it if I were out jogging or something.]

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-I don't know why the number of equal signs is arbitrary for each nominator-

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#749: Rhythm Heaven Megamix - Final Remix (4:28):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ0Rg58wdZA

Nominator: Handsomeboy [30/31 Remaining]

Initial Score: 47.02
Revised Score: 49.66
Final Score: 49.50

(First Reaction: I haven't played a single game in the franchise (though I may have played a few seconds of a demo in a store at some point, I think), so I can't really get nostalgic, no matter how many different minigames flash by. As is, this is just a montage of utterly random things happening while an adequate but not really memorable beat continues in the background. I'm impressed by the player's ability to keep up with everything going on, but from a musical standpoint, this just kinda existed.)

I'm not good at games that require actual rhythm, for example I've still never managed to finish Space Channel 5 and I've made a fair number of tries at it, so I have a lot of respect for anyone that can do this kind of thing. Just seeing the game award only 92 percent for a full clear convinces me that this game is absolutely not for me--there's brutally difficult games and then there are things like this monstrosity where I could practice for years and never be able to reach the perfection that it asks for.

Back to the song: On some level, I can kind of appreciate how many different songs from the series' history this manages to blend together & how seamless the transitions are, but the impact is largely lost on me, as I've never heard the majority of the songs in their original format. It's a nostalgic trip back through gaming history that I never experienced and each segment is so brief, that I'm not sure it'd even be worth trying to analyze which parts I liked the most. It's just a rapid-fire stream of things that I lack context about. So... impressive gameplaying, impressive concept, don't think it stands up entirely well on its own unless you can properly grok what it's trying to do.

[Final Thoughts: A decent medley of decent songs that I have no knowledge of or particular affinity towards.]

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