Video Game soundtracks

Music by Harry Gregson-Williams will make the Metal Gear Solid games stand out. From Metal Gear Solid 2 onward, the series has had a movie composer, and it shows.

The Soundtrack to Metal Gear Solid does sound a lot like a summer blockbuster and it is a fresh change of pace from most video games. This kind of soundtrack is way more fitting for the game than a Japanese composer. Metal Gear Solid was definitely meant to try and have an American feel to it. I actually think that it would hurt the experience if it had a soundtrack like "Shadow of the Colossus".
 
While I agree, Rei, MGS1's soundtrack was also mind-blowingly amazing. Only game music that rivaled it at the time was FF7's, imo.

Also, my man Jaytech reminded me of the epicness of Xenosaga's OST. Yuki Kajiura outdid herself on XS2's and XS3's OST, and Yasunori Mitsuda's stuff in XS1 was as good as his other stuff.

If you don't listen to every single one of these, you're robbing yourself of some good gaming music.

Xenosaga 1, starting off with "Fighting KOS-MOS." Mitsuda is too good:

Xenosaga 2, starting with the 2nd best song in XS2, "Here She Comes":


Followed by the best song in XS2, "The Image Theme of Xenosaga II". This was the #1 game trailer for any video game the year this trailer was released:




Xenosaga 3 stuff, starting off with two epic songs in one trailer, "Forgotten Sanctuary" at the beginning, then "She's Coming Back," which is a rerrangement of XS2's "Here She Comes." Too many epic songs for me to rank them. Promised Pain is probably one of the best final battle songs ever. Hepatica is VERY good, too.

Maybe Tomorrow Piano Version

There are a lot more good shit from the XS series. These re just a few that came to mind.

Dunno who did the XS anime ending, but it's pretty good too, I thought:


Also, the Onimusha series' music is LEGIT. Check out Onimusha 3's intro. Probably the best video game intro ever. The music played a huge part in making it as epic as it was:

 
Way better than FFVII in my opinion.
That was the time when Soul Blade, Symphony of the Night, and FF Tactics came out. Xenogears did not come out much after that also.

FFVII was actually one of the less impressive soundtracks to a hyped game for me at that period.
 
FF7's was amazing and there is no denying that, but don't all of Square Enix's games have beautiful music?
 
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