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#35. Halls of Collosia, Chamber 1
Game: Secret of Evermore
Nominated: Ed Bellis (September 2012)
Score: - [7/25]
Games Rank: 14/61
Time: 2:52
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeV1P00FP4
Note: A quiet, haunting tune. Absolute love.

If Flux were still a tier, this would be The Last Supper. I originally had this fairly low with the rest of my atmospheric drops like Wings of Kynareth and The Shimmering Marsh, but I really enjoy the haunting spirit and ancient reverence this track bestows. Unlike Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore (and the unrepresented Illusion of Gaia) maintain top twenty-five spots in my all-time game love and Jeremy Soule's music lend so much to the eerie, secretive, mystery of Evermore itself. Describing it now, Secret of Evermore was the Myst of the SNES: a strange lived-in world you find yourself trapped in, seeking escape through antiquity, jungle, futuristic settings, and more. Not nearly as many puzzles though.

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#34. Kaizokuki wo Agero
Artist: Project.R
Nominated: VincentLauw/Menji76 (May 2012)
Score: #56th [2/7]
Standard Rank: 21/49
Time: 2:09
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTyhQMz3AeY

One of the problems with rankings these is getting caught up watching like twenty videos of nostalgia. Anyway,

The first time this song plays is 5:37 into the first episode as the Gokai Galleon sweeps into the Zangyack fleet surrounding Earth and busts through in some of the better CGI Megazord action until this point in sentai. It's used often when the heroes are making their comebacks, enhances dramatic speeches, and often accompanies the team almost as often as the main theme and the Gokai Change theme whenever they appear in an anniversary, usually as their dramatic entrance. Kaizokuki wo Agero is one of many tracks I adore from the 35th Anniversary season of Super Sentai, my favorite Sentai/Power Rangers series, and something I recommend to anyone with a love or nostalgia for the franchise. It's a great heroes song and I hope it does extremely well in paulg235's upcoming rankings.

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#33. dead angle
Game: Umineko no Naku Koro Ni
Nominated: Ed Bellis (September 2012 - Replaced Nom)
Score: --- [4/7]
Games Rank: 13/61
Time: 6:36
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVP09lhSPm4
Note: 'As Regaro once said, "Dead Angle is pretty much perfection in BGM form."'

This is indeed some great background music. And while I initially placed it at #78, it got so much better as I re-read the end of Episode 1. Such an amazing finale scene, waves of tension but also this... feeling of stability or inevitability. This is not a danger tune or a call to action. This is a feeling of malaise coating the surroundings as fate's been set. This is a dead end. Whatever you were trying to do to prevent this no longer has any bearing on the outcome you've reached. This is a track without hope, without despair, it is settled acceptance of defeat. It continues to play an important part of the visual novel throughout the rest of the series, particularly in Episodes 3 & 4 iirc. I'm too crunched to go back over ProfessorProf's archived Let's Play again.

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#32. Pelagic II Exploration
Game: Perfect Dark
Nominated: Ed Bellis (June 2012)
Score: #56th [1/3]
Games Rank: 12/61
Time: 4:11
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2_A7YzqYvU

One of the many, many cool options in Perfect Dark's Combat Simulator was being able to customize your soundtrack for multiplayer fights. Pelagic II Exploration & its X variant were always on and always welcome facing down bloodthirsty Sims from easy Meat to deadly Dark. Datadyne Extraction, Chicago Stealth, Villa, Maian Tears, Alien Conflict, Air Base X, and End Credits were up there too, but nothing touched Pelagic II Exploration.

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#31. Sonic Boom
Game: Sonic CD
Nominated: Ed Bellis (September 2012)
Score: - [6/25]
Games Rank: 11/61
Time: 3:08
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnVboYhEe5Q
Note: So freaking epic, it's a super sonic flight.

I've never played Sonic CD, but I did play Sonic Mega Collection. And half the time I had the disc in my Gamecube or Wii, I'd divert from pulling up Sonic 2 or Mean Bean Machine to play the Sonic CD intro in the Extras section. It's just so good.