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Red Alert Hell March
Ooh…I have an entire playlist of my favorite OSTs. Long term, I’d have to say One-Winged Angel, specifically the remake. Also worth mentioning:
Dark Soul 3 main theme
Feel from Lies of P
Dependent Weakling from Nier, specifically this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePXlfGufSjk&t=0
NieR: Automata - Weight of the World
This is at first so beautiful, and later on it just hits so hart. And listening to the other versions, japanese where the performer even cries, and chaos (a fantasy language) (video with spoilers, sadly), this is such a great piece of art. The perfect bittersweet song.
Hard to pick just 1, so here’s a list of ones I deem notable from a few different games:
- 14.3 Billion Years — Outer Wilds
- Undertale — Undertale
- City of Tears — Hollow Knight
- Under the Eye of Kibenya — Heaven’s Vault
- No publicly available version of this one; but the game and soundtrack are good, so they’re worth a buy
- Private Room — Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location
- Tiny’s Theme — Mario Golf
- Cleopactra — Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness
- Dive Into the Mellow — Sonic Adventure 2
- Fathomless Tomb — Deep Rock Galactic
- They Might As Well Be Dead — Risk of Rain 2
- xX_TF_CNS_FloatingBits_Mp3_Xx (Floating Bits) — The Finals
I’m partial to the original Dwarf Fortress music
A classic! I do also love Simon Swerwer’s work on the official steam DF OST
Mass Effect 3 - Leaving Earth
Scored by the great Clint Mansell, also check out The Fountain OST.
To me it’s always been the B version of the original Tetris. This and most of Megaman X
The Boomer Kuwanger theme is a banger. This might be my favorite version though.
Nice!
Dude! My most unpopular opinion has always been that b track of tetris was more of a banger than the version! I’ve received dozens of down votes over it!
Well many people can be wrong at the same time!
This is gonna be an old cut but Paperboy the arcade by Atari frickin slaps.
Chiptunes hit different
Metroid Prime OST, too many good options to pick just one.
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 OST Carrotus
Original music: probably everything Solar Fields did for Mirror’s Edge. Not original: No Rest for the Wicked is perfect for Borderlands. Hard choices though, there’s a lot of good shit out there.
It has to one of these two for me, hard to pick: The Chersonese soundtrack from Outward or Fear Not This Night from Guild Wars 2.
The Outward one hits especially hard while adventuring through Chersonese!
Edit: typo
The outward soundtrack is something different.
Dearly Beloved
‘Trial Of Thunder (5-3)’ from the ‘Crypt of the Necrodancer’ (Metal Soundtrack). I’m not a fan of this type of game and have never played it, but Familyjules totally shreds the original 8-bit soundtrack it had.