(The same team is working on Drakengard 3's soundtrack, from what I hear. As enigmatic as anything else in Nier, then. If there's meaning to be found in those lyrics, it's not for us to know. Its affecting soundtrack, though, is universally adored by anyone who played through the game, whether they enjoyed the overall experience or not.Īpparently, a lot of the singing was done in a language based on Gaelic but otherwise entirely fictional.

Nier's a difficult game to recommend, because it feels almost deliberately old-fashioned in a lot of ways and aggressively bizarre in others. I have no idea how Monolith Soft pulled this off. The quality consistency of so many tracks from so many composers just completely baffles me. An outstanding 92 tracks, many of which are day/night remixes, from the cream of the Japanese game composer crop. Its best feature far and away though is its soundtrack. It looks incredible, it has a truly unique setting, it effortlessly merges JRPG creativity with Western RPG design, it has a overpowered furball that can bring down monsters twenty times its size. Xenoblade Chronicles is a remarkable game by many metrics with which one might judge a video game already.

Try to limit the number of embedded videos if you can, as having a lot can start to pile on the bandwidth.) (Though I don't intend this to become a popularity contest, absolutely feel free to post your own favorites in the comments. (Because YouTube videos to copyrighted music tend to disappear faster than the morning dew, I've left the entire titles of the tracks featured for people to copy/paste into Google/YouTube in case the videos they link to are already down.) Rather, I'm just curious what everyone's favorite soundtracks of the past seven-ish years have been? I've thrown together a list here (but not a list list, since they still won't let you hyperlink) of twenty of my favorite overall soundtracks from 360, PS3, Wii, DS, PSP and PC (post-2005) games and a subsequent runner-up smattering of single tracks from otherwise exemplary OSTs. Games are already too much a matter of taste already without adding something as patently subjective as music on top of it.

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