Lightning Pandemonium -{EDGE OF THE FUTURE} ... eh, i don't have enough time now to reach a verdict i'm comfortable with yet, if i'm free after my house inspection in about 10-14 hours and the match is still going i might come back to it
when i said i was definitely not voting rivals before i honestly managed to forget that this was still an alt so uh hey thanks for forcing a tie so it could play lol. i am going to turn on it so hard from next round onward though since the only song left in it that i'd likely vote over even like an eighth of the field is nihil (still wild to me how all the songs not from rivals almost ended up filling all of the top 3 of the set, yet it was still the one nominated. i'm getting justice for non-roa flashy next time with a bean dreams set for sure) sakimoto never really seemed to suit 13s to me but this song really is a peak form of sakimoto. still, it still feels like an act of mercy was passed here, to see that this match isn't totally one-sided despite the continued attempt to murder umineko for the hubris of requesting less zts epics (to be fair these kinda are c-tier (b-tier maybe but that feels slightly generous) non-zts umineko songs, could've just done RIP or discolor (yeah it's zts but i don't think anyone would've complained lol)). i also wish the vocal version of golden nocturne was valid... granted i think that for the longest time the demographics were such that the instrumental version was way more potent a pick here anyway, but whatever the case i at least would have likely flipped if it was the one here. close either way though damn both games turned up to the match here. i'm glad since the sa2 set is so... arbitrarily arranged (not in a bad sense mind you, it just tries too hard to show off specifically two mostly incompatible aspects of the soundtrack that to their credit are still good, just polarising) and the arceus one... well, it was obviously missing arceus itself (fair though) and i was also gutted in hindsight that obsidian 1, alabaster 2 and crimson 2 (ok that one maybe was a bit riskier to have but shh) also didn't make it on... anyway love the style of both but i have to give an edge to fly in the freedom in that particular regard, it's an underrated song of such a high standard for jazz vgm... but it's also so fucking hard to top the feeling arceus' remixes have, especially those coupled with ichinose's style. match hard