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Galacta Knight
Level Design - Sheet Music
Calm Passion

Galacta Knight is "okay" (hm on a second listen at a later time than when I first started writing this, I'm actually more into it and the fast rhythms that one metal sound is often doing, but I guess I feel like this song is missing some thing) but Empty Town is slow moody NES style music which is basically 3 things I don't like.

Maaaan this second match is gonna make me sad. Honestly Sinister Gale is a real solid track, but I am a huge fan of the uniqueness of Off-Peak in general in this contest and this song is no exception but I get the feeling it's not gonna make it oh noo... One thing that bugs me is that if that's the case then we're not going to get to hear Panopticon, the other song in the bottom 4-6 list, which is a song I really like and have a lot to say (also it's disappointing on it's own that it has to be considered a #6th place) and so if it gets eliminated before that can play then I don't get to make an excessively long write up going into detail on the distinctly different feelings between sections linked together by recurring vibes of a metal hallway with poorly functioning fluorescent lights. But don't think that's the only reason I'd be voting for "Off-Peak,", Level Design - Sheet Music is a solid piece as well (also what an interesting name for a song especially after finding out the kind of game Off-Peak is I'm not sure how that would mean). Artsy strings with some jazzy woodwinds. Doing some interesting messing & climbing around with the beat and tempo around the middle, and a couple interesting sorts of warps in the background later on. I also do really like the notable transition at 3:20 of just that one string sound resetting itself over and over but lasting longer as the resets get slower before the song resumes hey that's a pretty cool thing that's sort of like a "glitch" in a rather "non-glitch" soundscape setting (though I guess it's got the warps in the back so maybe that's inaccurate oh well it's cool). As I said though Sinister Gale is pretty cool too, with those neat, light percussive notes sounding peaceful in a real determined atmosphere. But my votes going to the unique level design sheet music

I actually Sort Of had to think/consider about the 3rd match to be honest, or at least more than you might expect me to. I recall the Tokyo Xanadu setlist as a whole being tricky for me in that it consistently had good potential but also consistently fell flat for me at some parts and this song is also partly an example of that. I'm a big fan of the hard techno bass synth as well as the light background ones, but there's something about the trumpet and all of it's parts that feel weak and not terribly appealing to me. Anyway, for the opponent I actually don't mind the ultra-rural guitars in Heavy Gauge nearly as much as I do with a number of other more commonly used realistic rural instrumentations, and the song it played is pretty solid too. It's like Heavy Gauge is the kind of very "not-me" song I would want to give a vote to but ultimately not this situation. Calm Passion's real digital breakdown with the far-out synth in the middle is real cool and has a very appealing key change going on in the background
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luigi says: "and"