I didn't listen to the first version so I come with fresh ears!

We begin with a synth bass and percussion in a pretty standard loop, reminiscent of 80s pop or similar. As noted above, the master is fairly loud and seems to be pushing things a tad too hard, with some faint artifacts that can be heard at times, especially on the low/low mids. At ~0:13 you introduce Terra's melody and it's fairly faithful representation, with a few timing changes and flourishes, but keeping the chord structure and all that. There's a repetition of the melody around ~0:40 with a second synth, it has more melody variations and extra layers around it. In both sections I think the leads should be more forward in the mix, they get kinda buried under the bass, percussion and pads. ~1:08 there's a break, featuring the second main melody of the source. The sound design on this section is super cool and the interpretation is much more unique than in the first minute (although there's a flourish around 1:26 that sounds kinda bad). There's a SFX transition around 1:35 that's super loud. From there we get some Ridley-ish bass riff for a second round of interpretations of the main theme. Synth lead here sounds good although there's a terribly off note at 2:01. From 2:10 you start preparing the ending, there's a very awkward drum fill (claps sound super out of place IMO) around 2:13 before the drums completely disappear. There's kind of a fake-out ending around 2:23 and then the actual ending features a quick arpeggio that I can't really connect to either the source or the previous development of the track.

Arrangement is fun, to be honest the first minute seemed very vanilla to me, but from the 1:08 onwards it turns into a pretty cool interpretation of the track. I didn't really "get" the ending arpeggio, I would've ended the track around 2:23.

Production is *almost* there, with small details holding the track back. Most have been mentioned by the other judges, but I'd say the main issues are: loudness generates a couple artifacts, some very loud high frequencies at times, synth leads a little buried under bass/percussion/pads. There's also a couple of performance details to iron out, like the flourish at 1:26 that sounds odd and the wrong note at 2:01.

Overall, this feels 90% of the way to being accepted, so keep at it!

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