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#10: Trails in the Sky SC - Flying Battleship Glorious
Haste: 8.7/8.6
NFUN: 7.8/8.3
Total: 8.25/8.45 (8.35)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXr3DA_1FnA
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cTwfhG-fu6g

This one's cool! MIlitaristic, cinematic orchestral, dangerous-sounding. Sounds like Fanfare like the Common Man for like the first eight measures. Cool thick chords right after. I like those industrial percussive hits at 0:33. "The horn, the horn, it sounds so forlorn...." But yeah, the melody there really sets the mood. Kind of Phrygian-sounding, which really helps set the mood. The flute material later is cool, too... more minor 2nd harmonic movement gets a similar, but also contrasting, mood. and I love the rseponse by the high brass and xylophone! (more Phrygian-ish stuff) I looooove those chords near the end... major triads transposing by diminshed intervals (and the 5th in the bass makes it sound dissonant, for some reason)...the effect is awesome, and it seems like such a "Trails" thing to do.

EVO version: I like the addition of that static at 0:33. Other the changes aren't really that notable to me. The overall intensity seems to have dropped, though.
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evil villains. I'm strangely partial to this one. I don't think most people would like it. I guess I just dig the mood it's going for and how it accomplishes it

Evo really needs to learn that sometimes less is more. Parts of this falls into the trap of adding too many instruments which can take away from the dramatic simplicity the song is built off of. That being said, I prefer it to the original. It's still intense when it needs to be, with added nuance in the quieter parts; I particularly like the harp at 1:40. I think a song like this is generally the best you can expect from Sky Evo: the original, with small improvements. The songs that are largely rethought tend to be disasters

#9: Trails in the Sky SC - Unleashed Greatest Treasure
pyre: 8/7.5
NFUN: 9.1/9
Total: 8.55/8.25 (8.4)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=maDSLL6uTAU
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2AMCT1t83mk

Man I love this song. Trails does epic menacing themes like this really well in all the games so it's a shame they don't play too often. The combination of choir and the low brass belting out the main theme gives me chills every time. It does peter out a bit towards the end which doesn't matter in context at all but affects things here somewhat. The Evo version is mostly worse but not in a way that's critically damaging. Just slightly less impact on pretty much everything.
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One of my SC favorites, a song, despite its overdone genre, that I'll defend as brilliant until my dying breath... to apparently the choir who also appreciates this song. I didn't think it'd be popular until it was a common BOST recommendation. I'll take it. Kickass cutscene too

Jindo re-arranging his own song. What did you expect?

RIP SC

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