Criminally Underrated/Overlooked Game Soundtracks

[Haoie]

Namco games in the PS1 era:

Favs namely - Klonoa, Ace Combat 2, and Ridge Racer 4!

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These have been in playlist recently. All pretty uptempo.

Well known game, but a damn fine remix of my favourite Darkstalkers track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C6bi15Scdw

Soul Calibur 2 is another well known, but this song can be easily missed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU2JFNz9qSU

Same again, best song from vanilla Virtua Fighter 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIMpTXkYlFE

Also been digging the Tyrian soundtrack again lately. I have fonder memories of the music than the games rough Raiden aping. All nice and short as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynSTjQoVW2o Metroid at 0.32
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f0R5ZV9 ... 45bvKhmlHw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rcKidHE ... 45bvKhmlHw This one is hectic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3jK1nY3 ... 7D7817F546 Ah, the glory days of adlib and soundblaster.

It shows what amazingly put together pieces of work Civilization games are when the loading screen music is this sublime. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdUzM7PI ... 45bvKhmlHw

The whole of Super Amazing Wagon Adventure's soundtrack is great but this is the standout. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-9IVngM ... 45bvKhmlHw

[BurningDoom]

Lords of Thunder on TG-CD. Greatest video game soundtrack of all-time, as far as I'm concerned.

Whoever is playing is just tearing it up at guitar in this song in particular:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76zevuME ... 9874861B25

[marurun]

Lords of Thunder on TG-CD. Greatest video game soundtrack of all-time, as far as I'm concerned.

It is a fantastic soundtrack and is pretty widely recognized as such. Unfortunately, it is not at all underrated or overlooked, as is the topic of this thread. In fact, I think the SegaCD soundtrack is pretty over-rated compared to its better sibling on the TG SuperCD.

There's not much on the TG-CD music-wise that's horribly underrated, though there are many that are overlooked, but that says more about the obscurity of some of the games, especially the Japanese ones. Metamor Jupiter and Flash Hiders are a couple great games that few know about, and both have very interesting, very under-appreciated, and very different soundtracks.

[BurningDoom]

Lords of Thunder on TG-CD. Greatest video game soundtrack of all-time, as far as I'm concerned.

It is a fantastic soundtrack and is pretty widely recognized as such. Unfortunately, it is not at all underrated or overlooked, as is the topic of this thread. In fact, I think the SegaCD soundtrack is pretty over-rated compared to its better sibling on the TG SuperCD.

There's not much on the TG-CD music-wise that's horribly underrated, though there are many that are overlooked, but that says more about the obscurity of some of the games, especially the Japanese ones. Metamor Jupiter and Flash Hiders are a couple great games that few know about, and both have very interesting, very under-appreciated, and very different soundtracks.

It may be well known in circles such at Racketboy. But the average everyday gamer hasn't even heard of the game.

[MaliceValentine]

Personally I find Deep Fear for Sega Saturn fits the bill in this case. I believe the composer was the fellow who did Ghost in the Shell's OST



(first time back here in a while too ^_^)

[marurun]

It may be well known in circles such at Racketboy. But the average everyday gamer hasn't even heard of the game.

This may be true, but there's certainly no shortage of the tracks up on YouTube, and I think when we talk about underrated and under-appreciated, to a certain extent we're talking about even within this forum. By that logic, Super Mario Brothers is an under-appreciated game if you bring up this kind of topic on a Sega forum.

Champions Forever Boxing on TG16 wasn't a great game, and there wasn't any music during matches, but the title screen/intro music was heavy with digital samples, and the game was replete with excellent digital sound. It's actually a pretty good example of using digital sampling well on the PC Engine hardware. Beats much of the sampling work I've heard on the Genesis, and even, in some cases, on the SNES.

[pierrot]

Champions Forever Boxing on TG16 wasn't a great game, and there wasn't any music during matches, but the title screen/intro music was heavy with digital samples, and the game was replete with excellent digital sound. It's actually a pretty good example of using digital sampling well on the PC Engine hardware. Beats much of the sampling work I've heard on the Genesis, and even, in some cases, on the SNES.

That is impressive, sir.

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