1. Falcom Sound Team jdk - Sealed Time (okay, right off the bat, I'm already liking the sound design a ton lol; really looks like this arranger and I are in a similar wavelength when it comes to this sorta stuff huh, especially with the other track that just so happened to have been arranged by them, interesting stuff... but yeah, I might be just nominating this for the sound design alone, especially considering how, outside of the heavy violin usage, it's definitely very similar to the DAW arrangements I tend to make in particular, like I normally tend to spam the fuck out of impact and riser sounds and normally tend to be influenced by trance type of sounds in general myself, so I mean... fuck me right )
2. Dr. Pez - Normal Battle [Pokemon TCG](Band Cover) (nice lol; I barely know anything about the music for this game, but I do know it's definitely more involved than most Gameboy music out there, and this is a nice jazzy remix of it too, so yeah, I'll vote for it I guess)
3. David Wise & Kenji Yamamoto - Harvest Hazards (was going to vote for this, but honestly on second thought this didn't wow me nearly as much as I would've hoped, plus there are better Tropical Freeze tracks that could've been chosen instead, so yeah, sorry :V)
4. Lena Raine - Reach for the Summit (well, it's definitely better than the other Celeste tracks chosen, but I still don't feel like it's quite there for a vote yet... which is a shame since I do think there should be much better options for Celeste music out there, and quite frankly it realy just feels like y'all are doing the soundtrack a huge disservice LOL)
5. Ujico*/Snail's House - Strawberry (yeah, sounds just about what you'd expect from them and their style lol; not too bad I suppose, but didn't wow me all that much sadly)
6. EX-LYD - Ocean of Colors (part 2) (same as above)
7. Suburban All-Stars - Some of the Real (ehh, I guess I did enjoy this more than I was expecting, but otherwise it wasn't too remarkable or whatever)
8. Xiu Xiu - Sad Pony Guerrilla Girl (almost ended up being somewhat good until that one part halfway through lol)
- Dr. Pez - Normal Battle [Pokemon TCG](Band Cover)
- Lena Raine - Reach for the Summit
And some commentary...
- Four songs ended up deadlocking for one of the slots, and I felt the other three were too mediocre for me to include them there, so thus one out of these four ended up going in that slot. The contenders were Ujico*/Snail's House - Strawberry, Falcom Sound Team jdk - Sealed Time, EX-LYD - Ocean of Colors (part 2) and Lena Raine - Reach for the Summit. I ended up choosing the last one, but unlike the last time I chose one by Lena Raine (Resurrections), there wasn't as much for me to go off of: if these two songs meet in some upcoming duel, I would choose Resurrections.
- What in the world was... Xiu Xiu - Sad Pony Guerrilla Girl??? This song got bizarre at about 2:05 for about half a minute or so.