Video Game soundtracks

Reasons? I mean it's good but the best?

I've never been partial to a whole soundtrack but I like a lot of Uematsu's stuff. FFXII soundtrack wasn't all that bad either.
 
I'll say Metal Gear and Soul Series has some of my favorites, but I'm also a big fan of the Kingdom Hearts soundtrack (especially 13th Anthology). Zelda and Star Fox have some classic kicking tunes, and Smash Bros. Brawl brings the best of the Nintendo world together. Speaking of, I absolutely love Fire Emblem's soundtracks. When musicians can come together and make classical tracks sound modern and amazing, it gets my vote.

Classic wise, Mega Man series (including Legends) had some great tunes, as did other odd and end games like Dynamite Headdy for Sega, Rocket Knight Adventure Series for Sega and SNES, and Super Mario RPG. A lot of Square's music in the olden days (Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, etc.) was fairly exceptional.

I don't mean to prattle on and steal anyone else's choices, I just own a wealth of VG soundtracks. Carry on!

Oh, here's 13th Anthology if anyone's interested:

 
Castlevania SotN- Perhaps the greatest soundtrack for a videogame.
This is Michiru Yamane's best game, but all her soundtracks are great.

I will also admit that that the Culdcept series also had a great soundtrack.
Soul Blade alone stands high in one of my personal favorite soundtracks.
Super Mario Galaxy had an amazing orchestrated soundtrack and it is one of the few examples where a Japanese Orchestra can actually play good music.

Uematsu does do good stuff, but I generally put put FF at the top of the the best videogame soundtracks. To be honest, I like the older FF soundtracks better than the newer ones. FFVIII did have a really good soundtrack compare to most.

Yasunori Mitsuda is the man.
 
Notable VG soundtracks

1) Shadow of the Colossus (loved this OST through and through. It does an excellent job setting the tone for environment and battles. Easily on of my favorites)
2) Odin Sphere (another favorite. I'm an overall fan of Basiscape's work and they did an excellent job with Odin Sphere. This game possesses one of my top 5 favorite boss fight themes of all.)
3) Final Fantasy Tactics (My number 1 favorite FF game as well as my number 1 favorite FF soundtrack. Score was also done by Basiscape)
4) Digital Devil Saga Series (of all the Megaten game OSTs, DDS is easily my favorite of them all.)
 
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