96. Tales of Eternia - Mid Boss 2
Nominated by: agesboy
...Sort of like the above, except Mid Boss 2 just sounds really harsh and grating and not pleasant to listen to. I give it the nod over Fighting Fate though because it's at least kind of interesting. I think I'd like a remix of this that used some different samples, because that's really the main thing I have a problem with here. The whole "someone beats on a trash can lid while a fly periodically buzzes past the microphone" angle doesn't work for me. On any level.
95. Desire - Reflector (Unlimited)
Nominated by: JONALEON
Ryu Umemoto, eh? I'm not his biggest fan or anything but I definitely like a few pieces of his in particular. They tend to be closer to chiptunes than this one though (<3 YU-NO). I actually really like parts of this piece, but overall it's just too noisy for my liking. It is oppressively noisy and cluttered, and a lot of what I do like about it gets drowned out by that.
94. Breath of Fire II - Boss Theme
Nominated by: Mega Mana
...There's nothing really wrong with this, but at the same time I just wish it was better. The first two seconds are the most interesting part, and after that it's just a very unexceptional boss theme. It's sort of repetitive too. I also feel like it would start to grate if I had to listen to it for more than a minute, but whatever, can't really hold that against it when it's not more than a minute long.
93. Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City - Disturbances ~ Their Own Justice
Nominated by: FL81
A lot of the same criticisms I gave above apply to this one as well. The difference is that Disturbances ~ Their Own Justice is, to me, a bit more interesting, so it cancels out the piece being long enough that it actually does start to grate. Also, this isn't really here or there, but I think I slightly prefer the PC-8801 version. >_>
92. Super Robot Wars OGs - Ialdabaoth Apotheosized
Nominated by: agesboy
I actually really like the soundtrack to SRW OGs and I remember being quite disappointed when it didn't get into the OST Contest. This is not one of my favorites though. In fact this might be my least favorite track from the game that I've heard. >_>; Again, it does some things I like, but spends a lot of time just making noise and being generally cluttered. I'm sounding like a broken record at this point. A good example though is 0:12 through 0:19. Don't really like that, and don't really think it serves a purpose, and it's kind of indicative of everything I dislike about this piece.
91. BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend - Soukyu no Hikari (Short Version)
Nominated by: Phase
So this is... okay. Insofar as Jpop or Jrock or whatever goes, it's fairly unextraordinary. Nothing really jumps out at me as being especially bad or especially good, except the length, which is just too short, a problem shared by a lot of short versions of songs. Now, I definitely prefer that to a song being too long, but this definitely needed another minute or three IMO.
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