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#20: Trails in the Sky SC - Liber-Ark
Raetsel: 6.41/6.05
Mycro: 9.9/8.8
Total: 8.155/7.425 (7.79)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sta_Lb5sx64
https://youtube.com/watch?v=e5S6I8J9U-k

The original song feels like you are exploring some ancient ruins atop a snowy mountain. Nicely mysterious and intriguing. The Evo version is a nice enough song, but it loses all the ambiance and doesn't make me think of anything in particular.
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definitely prefer the original, but i don't actually see the evo version as much a downgrade here so much as "a different version", reminds me a lot of hiroki kikuta's "like joe hisaishi in the 80s/90s" arrangement style; but the original is much more unique and ethereal than evo could hope to be

liber ark for vgmc 15

#19: Trails in the Sky - Ancient Makes
hb: 7.9/5.8
tgs: 8.9/8.7
Total: 8.4/7.25 (7.825)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6rIegfs7c3E
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pDQHLkVmLMU

By far one of the "proggier" songs in Trails, this one's synth runs and frantic pace are both cool, but when the main theme comes in is where this piece really sells itself. The Evo versions replaces the synths with heavy guitars and violins, which kinda don't sound as clean as the original- some parts just sound totally off-key, and the main theme coming in has less impact because it's using the same violin as the melody beforehand instead of switching to a new sound.
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Evo is slightly better sounding to my ears, but these two are the Soul/Soulless meme come to life. That violin kicking in at the 1:20 mark in the original elevates the song so much by adding a bunch of emotion to an already great battle theme. Evo is just using that violin throughout the whole track and the moment at 1:20 loses all of its "oomph". It is now merely more great violin instead of something special.

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