[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 207 Voting/WEEK 208 Nominating

(3 points) The Blithe, the Blend and the Bizarre - Mutants: Excellent, excellent song, but doesn't this fall under Doujin? To me, it seems to be an outside composer remixing C64 tracks. PP004 | The Blithe, the Blend & the Bizarre - VGMdb

(2 points) beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - Mind Mapping: A nice midtempo electronic piece. My beef with the occasional beatmania et al nominees is that they all seem hyper-speed Jpop tracks. Thankfully, this is something different.

(1 point) Ragnarok Online 2 - The Gate of the World (Game Rip) - Albrassia Field: Okay, I admit it -- I'm choosing this on instrument samples and atmosphere alone. I really wish the track actually did something, but the empty calories that are here are good enough.

As for the rest:

Devil's Crush is a very good track but it doesn't need to loop. Rat Poker has a nice beat but this is one time where the Game Boy synths are distracting me. Just about what I was expecting from Alph Lyra with Transient Silence. Fate's not bad, but it feels like a Lufia knockoff. Future Tense does nothing for me.

Jam it back in, in the dark.