| 1. Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu Is it really any surprise? There are just so many memorable tracks from this game! |
| 2. Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon Man, does this game know how to work a piano. It knows exactly which notes to hit to make you feel whatever emotion it wants. |
| 3. Bahamut Lagoon Just like Fragile Dreams before it, Bahamut Lagoon's pretty good at laying down some emotional tracks. |
| 4. Mystic Ark How the hell did Produce make the SNES sound so good? Sometimes, it's hard to tell which track is the original, and which is the arrange. Also, crazy ass names abound. It's just a shame that my favorite track (Alone) is nowhere to be found on YouTube. Also, it sucks that the sequel dropped the crazy names for something much more boring. |
| 5. Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together Not the PSP version (although I've nothing against that), but the SNES version. It's like a boisterous proto-Mystic Ark, in a sense. It's just the type of fighting spirit I could use while writing about how much I don't like Costume Quest. |
| 6. Final Fantasy VI Again, like Seisen no Keifu, so many memorable and beloved tracks to pick from. |
| 7. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time OK, I mostly listened to this one while I was reviewing the game in question. It's how I figured out that half the soundtrack is ripped from Link to the Past. Doesn't mean I can't enjoy it, though. |
| 8. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Honestly, how the crap can you question this? Michael Jackson wrote the soundtrack. He snuck Smooth Criminal into the Ice Cap Zone. That is just all kinds of awesome. |
| 9. SaGa (Specifically, the Romancing variant of it.) Technically, I should only list Romancing SaGa 3 here, since 1 is hard as hell to find on YouTube (hint: English won't do you any favors), and I'm pretty sure that 2 isn't even on YouTube, but they're all so good. Kenji Ito sure as shit knows how to compose stylistic music. |
| 10. Hatsune MikuGoddamn it. I guess that's it. I've crossed the weeaboo line. There's no going back now. I have to admit, though, that this Vocaloid can work wonders when used properly. You (I) have @icemael to blame. |
| 11. Fire Emblem Gaiden I'm trying to institute a new rule where for each review I write, I try to write it to a video game soundtrack I haven't already done for this. This time, we have Fire Emblem Gaiden, which manages to eke in with a decent fantasy soundtrack, ranging from energetic to just plain mystical. |
| 12. Yoko Shimomura Oh, Ms. Shimomura. Only your elegant, sonorous pieces could help me survive the terror of reliving Alone in the Dark for review purposes. |
| 13. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies And following Ms. Shimomura is a soundtrack that's simultaneously bouncy and emotional. It's like Fragile Dreams Pinball, only not that fucking insane. |
| 14. Terranigma While I'm here, I might as well add the Terranigma soundtrack. So distinctive and soft. The sad thing is that neither of the composers for this game ever worked on anything else (as far as I can tell). |
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