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59th: Sonic Mania - Hydrocity Zone Act 1
Composer: Tee Lopes
Score: 66/100 (7.0), Sonic Mania (18/28)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e48OijK2LiI

Okay so since we're starting to see the Mania remixes of Genesis stuff pop up now, time to lay some general thoughts down that'll influence a LOT of placements over/under the originals. While I really like how Lopes keeps the integrity of the FM sound in a LOT of instruments, I don't necessarily love the mixing on a lot of these pieces; they seem a little too washed out with reverb and it makes it not as nice to listen to as just straight up the originals. This depends on the song though, cause some songs don't seem to have this problem nearly as much as others. In general there are a lot of cases where I actually wish there'd be some variance in instrumentation other than modern percussion/an actual bass (which is NOT as good as an FM bass) so they end up lower.

And this is one of those cases! Pretty much both of those things apply to this song in general, but it's not a particularly egregious case of either in this song. So it's just slightly below the original, and I'll wait to talk about that instead for now.

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58th: Sonic Mania - Green Hill Zone Act 2
Composer: Tee Lopes
Score: 67/100 (7.1), Sonic Mania (17/28)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN7_Wnitn1E

And here instead we have a properly remixed song since Sonic 1/2 songs don't already have split Act 1 and 2s! I really do like this remix a lot, I think the amount of creativity put in while still feeling close enough to actually be an "Act 2" of Green Hill is astounding. But does it match up to the original? ...Nah, not really. Seems kinda of over-ambitious; stuff like the accordion solo at 0:41 is really cool but the change in pace from the rather lethargic melody of Green Hill Zone is just too weird. Still a very cool, fun song, almost like if Palmtree Panic was meant to be a Green Hill remix originally.

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57th: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Hydrocity Zone Act 1
Composer: Tatsuyuki Maeda, Sachio Ogawa, Masanori Hikichi
Score: 67/100 (7.1), Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (8/17)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrWepCaCJ7c

And now for the original! Super fun jazzy piece, love the swing in it, especially in the latter half of the song. Has a lot of room to breathe in there without actually feeling like there's empty space like I had complained a lot of songs in the lower part of the list did. Just an incredibly solid, fun piece, not much more I can say about it!