A Last Story song by Nobuo Uematsu was really bad during my 'final exam,' but I didn't have any readily available replacement, so I left it alone. Then I watched the latest episode of Kaginado, which featured the song 'Phobic' from Rewrite. I thought to myself, hey, that song is good, couldn't it replace Order and Chaos? But when I actually tried it out, Phobic was also lacking. It didn't feel like hall of fame material. So I expanded my search to the entire Rewrite soundtrack and found this little alternate gem, Yuriha by Shinji Orito. This is the long and circuitous path by which Yuriha found its place in my music hall of fame.
I don't have any more songs 'slated for execution' like Order and Chaos or Fog of Phantom, so I'm going to have to find an efficient way to ax 1-star video game songs without knowing personally why they need to go. I think the best method moving forward is to delete the longest 1-star video game song, whichever that might be, until none are left. The reasoning being, that if a 1-star video game is short, it does less harm, because it takes mercifully less time, but if a 1-star video game song is long, the damage is multiplied by its endlessness. You can never get away!
This way I don't have to listen to 800 separate 1-star songs and judiciously decide which is the very worst every time I want to introduce a new good song into my hall of fame. I can trust the conclusion I reached earlier in my 'final exam' that they're all bad and the longer the worse. Accelerated axing.
Humorously, if my 1-star hall of fame ever does manage to get rid of all its bad video game music and replace every slot with cool new music, it might be as good as my 5-star hall of fame by the end, and my rating system will be horribly inaccurate. I'll worry about crossing that bridge once I actually come to it, but I'm not too worried. The idea that there are 874 good songs about to burst onto the scene and replace my entire slate of 1-star video game songs is absurd. If there were that many good songs laying around, I would've heard about them and incorporated them long ago. 10 years from now, when enough songs really do come out, I promise to re-score my ratings accurately. Until then I think it's safe to relax.
In some bad news, Aiyoku no Eustia's new release date estimate is 'spring 2023.' I was looking forward to Aiyoku next year, but I guess 2023 also works. 2022 will have Summer Pockets, Kud Wafter, Majikoi A-5 and the like, so there will be plenty of visual novels even without Aiyoku. If it's so far away, it's a good thing I kicked it out of my rankings, though. Distant possibilities aren't as worthy of recognition as imminent realities.
Meanwhile, Gate of Nightmares has released its first manga chapter. Hiro Mashima isn't the actual scriptwriter of the manga, but he is the character designer and overall theme creator for the story, and you can tell his influence right away. The first chapter feels a lot like Edens Zero or Fairy Tail. Any story that's 'like Fairy Tail' is going to be amazing, so I fully endorse this manga and have added it to my reading list.
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