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Undertale - Battle Against a True Hero
Final Fantasy IX - Melodies of Life
Rewrite - Philosophyz

MATCH 1

Battle Aganist a True Hero is one of those iconic Undertale songs (though you could probably say that about a large portion of the soundtrack) and I like it! I think I actually like the softer parts of the song the most, such as 1:36-1:55.

Village of Whispers is really interesting, but ultimately, it's a good example of metal songs that would make sense for me to like but is something that I'm not overly excited about. I could do without the horror strings intro, but the main riffs are pretty boring, to be honest. I do like metal a lot, so this is still good to me in the sense of "I like metal and this is metal music so I like this." It's just that it has a lot of potential to be really good, but doesn't quite get there. This reminds me about my feelings on Dimmu Borgir's (a black metal band that I like) music. I love a lot of their older albums because of this epic, symphonic style to it, but their newer works lost a lot of that flair and now just has the kind of generic riffs that I feel like Village of Whispers is guilty of having. I guess in short, Village of Whispers has a style that I can get behind, but isn't quite in line with my tastes, so I'll have to take Battle Against a True Hero over this.

MATCH 2

Melodies of Life is really pretty! Slow songs with a good melody like this are really pleasant to listen to. This song has a sort of vintage feel, for lack of a better word. Like the kind of song that my parents could've slow danced to in their youth or something like that (that is, of course, if that song had existed back then).

I was a bit worried about how this might've matched up against Vision Soft Reset because I thought the setlist was pretty cool overall, but fortunately, it drew one of the weaker songs for me, so this decision became a lot easier. Chronic Duel is kinda cool and I guess it sounds like what the name suggests, but it's pretty forgettable overall.

MATCH 3

Key visual novels always have such great OPs! I love this j-rock style from Philosophyz! The melody in the vocals is super good, especially in the chorus, and the guitar is great too.

The Original is interesting. Cool sax and guitar. This actually feels a bit different from what I've heard from Guilty Gear songs in the past. Guess the song kinda lives true to its name haha. Cool song, but not good enough to beat Philosophyz.

Philosophyz > Melodies of Life > Battle Against a True Hero > The Original > Village of Whispers > Chronic Duel