I remember when A.B.A's trailer was released. I thought the song seemed good. I liked it. I wanted to hear more. Then the IGN gameplay came out. Which gave a decent uncut version of the song, with the obvious downside of the sounds of fighting drowning out the music. And so, I waited for the full thing to be released. Then I saw this tweet: And yeah, it's a stupid joke tweet. Footage of a monkey staring into space listening to the second half this song. But it was my first exposure to the ending. It was incredible. The replies of course held a download to the full song, which I preceded to listen to. I thought it was really good, even if we didn't know the lyrics too well. I still thought it was "rocking out", rather than "quirky note". A lot of the other lyrics were a bit harder to tell what they were. But the main idea was still there. And of course, the best verse was still as clear as ever. Then Naoki released the real lyrics, and it all made sense. The song was perfect. I still didn't want to rate it as best, due to percieved recent bias. With this tierlist though, I couldn't rely on recency bias. The numbers said it was perfect, so the song was perfect. Nothing more to say. I love Symphony.