OH BOY. If there was ever one topic to get me absolutely gushing, it's videogame soundtrack. Brace yourself for... well, gushing. XD
So some of my favourite soundtracks already mentioned aside (those being Bravely Default, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective and Darkest Dungeon), I've found Monster Hunter: World to have a fair few spectacular tracks. The battle themes for the
Wildspire Waste and
Rotten Vale are particular standouts.
One can hardly talk about a game with a great soundtrack without mentioning Crypt of the NecroDancer, where in a sense the game
is the soundtrack! All the songs have a delightful driving beat that's great to help you keep in time. My personal favourites are probably
Mausoleum Mash,
The Wight to Remain and
Last Dance.
On the topic of music with a great beat and a lot of energy, the Splatoon series has a fair few pretty strong tracks,
Calamari Inkantation,
Fly Octo Fly//Ebb and Flow are some notable examples from the story mode, though just in general it has a peppy soundtrack that fits the game brilliantly.
Dead Cells also has a stellar soundtrack, with my personal favourite from that game being
The Temple.
For consistently good soundtrack, the Etrian Odyssey series has some pretty great music that's delightfully intense and I guess orchestral rock for the battle themes? It's very nice, and the dungeon themes are pretty good too. Some notable tracks are
Destruction Begets Decay,
The End of Raging Winds and
Woodlands of Frozen Flowers
For something a tad more dramatic, the 3DS Fire Emblem games had very strong soundtracks, regardless of what one may think about the quality of the games themselves. FE: Awakening brought us such gems as all the variations of the 'Id' theme (
Id (Purpose) is likely the most recognisable, while
Id (Sorrow) may be my personal favourite) while pretty much all of the map/battle themes were pretty great. Fates brought such gems as
No Justice (Fire) with those
bagpipes, while
Justice RIP (Storm) is a great contrast between the frantic drums and the slower melody.
Alight(Storm) was a wow moment for me when I first heard it in-game. After hearing it in the trailer and
loving what little snippet I got, the music left my mind as I played through Conquest. Then, when I neared the end of Birthright I heard it. I legit got chills. Shadows of Valentia had me right from the beginning, with the music used in the opening cinematic,
Omen is incredible. It sets the tone for the game brilliantly, stirring up emotions before the game already begins. My favourite from this one is almost certainly
The Sacrifice and the Saint, though other themes like
A Song for Bygone Days and
What Lies at the End.
And last of all is a track from a game that's kind of eleven songs in one, transitioning between them, and that is the Ravnica theme from Magic the Gathering: Arena. It's really,
really cool in that it has a
'default' version, but it transitions to variations based on the guild-themed cards you play and it's awesome. My personal favourites are the
Boros version and the
Dimir version.
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