Song of the Week - Chocobo's Happy Christmas precedent debate

I voted yes, because I believe as popular as a theme is as diverse can be its arrangement. A theme merely is a melody and be incorporate in so many ways and styles. Yes, even an OWA arrangement should be allowed, if it passes the general obscurity test.

Even so, an OWA arrangement should be something completely new to be worth considering. It should be radical in what it tries to invoke. For example, since OWA is already a battle track, the last thing I want to hear is just some improvements in the instruments, making it more impacting, or slight arranging that still invokes a final battle feeling. I want a lullaby or a trance-dance track, which still retains certain characteristics of the theme. This is what I mean.

A good example would be Chocobo's Happy Christmas... while still retaining some charm of the original, the greater and dominant part was the christmas-feeling, therefore (even though I wasn't participating in SOTW at that time) I wouldn't even oppose to it, even if I knew this track before, because I think it falls under the category of being eligible.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yeah, it is ironic that you give these arrangers the “professional” status because they composed for games, yet all everyone nominates are their arrangements from ancient times. Totally lost their face as actual VGM-composers. “Yeah your game music suck, I won’t nominate anything from it, but the SOTW clause enables me to nominate your awesome arrangements, thank god you actually dish out some even if sucky VGM-works”.<-- unlikely, extreme situation

But I guess these are the rules. Rules will always have gaps and holes, just prey people don’t poke around in them too much and possibly tearing the whole apart.

There's nowhere I can't reach.