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Awesome Music: Sixth Generation
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This is the Awesome Music page for PS2, Xbox, GCN, Dreamcast, GBA
- The Sly Cooper series has pretty laid-back music for the most part, French lounge lizard Dimitri's own musical theme "Greasy Sweet" is pure CMOA. Two versions in particular stand out, the boss mix (which doesn't seem to be on Youtube), and the "the special remix
 ", which can be found as an Easter Egg in Sly 2, and in music video form as a reward for 100% Completion in Sly 3. It's worth it.
- Just the boss mix alone (which also plays during the mission where you tail Dimitri) was awesome enough to convince this troper to pick up the series.
- Despite being a clear example of why Licensed Games Suck, the Eragon video game has damn nice music.
- The video game version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has some of the best soundtracks in the entire Harry Potter franchise, films included!
- Dumbledore VS Voldemort It goes down, especially the redone version of the classic soundtrack at 1:12.
- Wand Combat The way it starts off jolly, and then turns much darker and cooler at 0:45
- Star Wars Republic Commando. Vode An.
- The regular and final boss themes of Skies Of Arcadia, which morph from conventional battle music to nightmarish dissonance to beautiful epic melodies depending how close you are to victory or defeat.
- So, so much from Beyond Good And Evil. It's made even more impressive when you consider the fact that every vocal effect in the music was made by the composer and his family doing different voices in a sound studio. Just listen to the whole soundtrack, but if you If you want to cut straight to the most epic...
- Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner final battle.
- Don't forget Leo Leo!, the music from the Boss Battle with Vic Viper. To elaborate: This is the music that plays when you fight Leo Stenbuck, the protagonist of the first game, in his Vic Viper, which is of course patterned after the famous ship from Gradius. Naturally, then, this track's takes cues from both Gradius and the boss music of the first game.
- And Air Fight. Even if it's mostly derived from Beyond the Bounds, which is awesome in its own right.
- It is a criminal offence to mention the music from Zone of the Enders and neglect 'Kiss Me Sunlights'. I'll let you off with a warning this time. (As an added bonus, here's the english version opening movie from the game itself).)
- The second half of Ardjet from Zone of the Enders 2—it just gives you that extra feeling of heroic-ness as you're keeping the immobile Ardjet from falling into lava and carrying it to safety.
- A favorite song of This Troper, from Zone of the Enders 2 is Descending Aumaan
- and last but not least....ALOIVIA.
- Subverted in Killer7, where possibly the most uptempo and exciting piece of music in the entire game, "Rave On", is heard only during a brief interstitial scene in which a character climbs a flight of stairs — without facing any enemies or obstacles whatsoever. It could possibly be considered a sort of prelude theme to each level's upcoming Sub Boss fight, but it's still funny to have a completely uneventful trip through a stairwell scored by blood-pumping ass-kicking techno.
- And it goes for four minutes twenty nine seconds, too!
- The soundtrack for Eternal Darkness was just as excellently creepy as the gameplay. Listen to The Chosen One, The Gift of Forever, and Black Rose.
- The God Of War soundtrack. Particular music of note would be Zeus' Wrath Divine, The Minotaur Boss Battle and Isle of Creation.
- Theme from Battery from Splinter Cell : Chaos Theory is quite unique.
- Every game in the WarioWare series has at least one example:
- Haru-Nutsu-Aki-Fuyuu aka "Four Seasons" accompanies Kat storming a castle taken over by a skeleton samurai to save her sister and the prince/princess.
- Oe No Tadayô Namima Made aka "Drifting Away" or "Floating Voices" accompanies Dribble and Spitz's taxi ride.
- The BGM during the Pyoro minigames becomes faster and gains more instruments as your score increases, eventually becoming surprisingly rocking.
- Wario Ware: Mega Party Game$ has Shinobi Game aka "Stealth Turtles", which plays during Kat & Ana's turtle-balancing game.
- Wario Ware: Twisted! has the Mona Pizza jingle, in both English and Japanese. Dribble and Spitz's stage lets you choose the accompanying music; amongst the choices available are the Taxi Symphony and Dribble and Spitz's instrumental theme.
- Wario Ware: Touched! has Ashley's Theme and "Rock The Mike!"
- Finally, Wario Ware: Smooth Moves continues the tradition of music in Dribble and Spitz's stage with "Tomorrow Hill."
- Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne has two. First, there's the transformation of this somewhat unremarkable theme tune from the first game into this. Then there's the song "Late Goodbye" by Poets of the Fall, based on a poem by the game's writer, which plays over the closing credits; it went on to become a chart-topping hit in the band's native country.
- That goddamn theme song from 2 makes me cry... The wailing sorrow of the voilin, the crying pain, just... I'm sorry.
- Alan Wake from the same developer has this piece by the same band. Not only is it an awesome piece of music, but it is heard at what may be the game's Crowning Momentof Awesome, fighting a legion of The Taken while standing on a rock stage with exploding pyrotechnics all around, not just used to enhance the mood but to fight the Taken using the light of their explosions.
- Oh Lord there are so many examples from the Dragonball Z Budokai games, seriously.
- Dude, of all of those how did you possibly manage to miss this piece of brilliance?
- Since we are in the subject of Dragonball games, here's this gem from Super Dragonball Z.
- Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee has mostly blah music. However, one track, used in the opening, gets to be on this page simply because it sums up the entire game: giant monsters fighting each other and causing massive destruction.
- Moon Dwelling Demon and The Second Tower from Ar tonelico II.
- TimeSplitters. Made by same guy who made the music to Golden Eye 1997. Almost all levels in the games contains music like this. There are so many that should be mentioned here, but from the second game you have the Golden Eye 1997 throwback Siberia, a wild west theme that gives Ennio Morricone a run for his money, a thick and heavy techno theme of Planet X. In multiplayer there many other goodies such as the haunting circus theme, the theme rom streets, which starts slow and then builds up, ufopia that is a mix of techno and 50's theremin driven sci-fi themes. But nothing beats this. While being a throwback to the old 8 bit themes, first it sounds fun, but then you will just fall in love with it! Just go to the main site and pick your choice!
- A little piece from the third game called Scotland the Brave here. It just so happens to be THE BEST piece in the game. The only question is... how are Free Radical (or Crytek Nottingham, nowadays) going to top it?
- The entire Shadow of the Colossus soundtrack, but most especially...
- Burn Out 2: Point of Impact had some particularly awesome music, especially when you initiated a boost - most of the time the music is subdued and in the background, and then all the instruments get in your face (or rather, ears) as you suicidally flew down the highway on the wrong side of the road. Of course, they had to change it in Burnout 3 to have generic indie music, and since then each iteration appears to have lost some of the spirit present in Burnout 2's music and become mindless arcade-style Car Fu. A shame, really.
- Hey man, don't diss Orpheus. or for that matter, Over The Counter Culture, Everyone Alive, or Independence Day. on the other hand, Lazy Generation could have been switched out...
- ...says you.
- Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil has a relatively catchy soundtrack, but most of the mindblowingly awesome music occurs in the second half of the game, where the tone of the music becomes a good deal darker than the more light-hearted tones near the beginning of the game. Memorable tracks include Cursed Leorina, King of Sorrow, The Sorrow Revives, Hyuponia, and Mirage.
- The Tower of Dawn from Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. In fact, a significant portion of that game's OST could qualify, as witness the backlash when Warrior Within replaced Chatwood's orchestrated themes with generic grunge rock.
- Judging from the newest game's main theme, they seem to have corrected this mistake. A lot.
- Star Ocean Till The End of Time had some awesome battle music, but Reflected Moon, the theme of the Royal Palace of Aquaria, is awesome for a different reason: it could sooth a raging bull.
- Kessen is unfortunately not a very well known game series, but the soundtrack of the entire series is Crowning Musicof Awesome for anyone who likes sweeping orchestral fanfares for battles mixed with muted character themes for cutscenes. Although it's quite hard to find the soundtrack on youtube (This Troper may upload it just to have it more available), this is a medley of many of the first game's themes, and here is one of the battle themes from the same game.
- Rhythm Tengoku for GBA has Remix 6, which is a medley of all 25 songs. Its DS sequel follows its lead with its own megamix of its set of songs, Remix 10. You can thank Tsunku for these songs.
- The DS version also features Remix 7, which is an extension of one of the songs in Big Rock Finish, and Remix 9, two of just many catchy remixes in the game.
- Gameplay-wise, there's Remix 8, which is already a great, energetic, fast-paced song... and then, at the end, it starts speeding up to an epic finish.
- If individual songs are allowed here: Polyrhythm, Doctor Bacteria, Stealthy Rat, Air Batter, Rhythm Epilation, and Night Walk from Tengoku.
- From the Wii version, we have Air Badmitton. Ba-bam bam bah!
- Not to mention Remix 10. This one even has snippets of lyrics!
- .hack//Infection brings us Skeith: The Terror of Death. Such an awesome song that most of the other Phases had remixed versions of it for their own themes.
- And the amazingly beautiful Cathedral.
- For the final battle against Cubia, we have this song. Rather unorthodox for such an epic encounter, in that it is very slow-paced and haunting, yet manages to be awesome in its own way, and very fitting for the battle.
- .hack//G.U. could be said to have a whole Crowning Soundtrack of Awesome, but to give an example and not just cheat you all, enjoy some of the finer moments. Preparing to fight a giant monster? In need of a theme that demands attention without being loud? Care to share the joy of unleashing your superpowered evil side? Or just want to sound like the final boss you feel you should be? Fear not. Chikayo Fukuda has you covered. This is of course a small sample of what's, on the whole, a very good soundtrack.
- Phantasy Star Online has its share of epic music. Some examples of musical awesome (at least to this Troper) include Shambertin's theme (despite being in the PC-exclusive Blue Burst,) Olga Flow's phase 1 theme, Gal Gryphon's theme, and Dragon's theme. And that's just the bosses. As for other music, this Troper enjoys the Mines' battle theme, the Spaceship's exploration theme, and Central Control Area's battle theme.
- The Ruins battle theme is one of this Troper's personal favorites.
- The "IDOLA" series is used to identify final boss themes throughout the series. "IDOLA" Have The Immortal Feather is used for Olga Flow phase 1, for instance. Each stands as an example of how awesome music is one thing Sega and Sonic Team consistently get right.
- Wild Wind from Napple Tale, amongst other songs.
- You missed F-Zero GX. Everything about it's music [[IS]]. SO. GODDAMN. AWESOME. TRY. TO. DISAGREE.
- On a more serious note, the music is probably the most memorable part of this game. And that is saying quite a lot.
- Emperor Breath, the stage theme for the Falcon vs. Deathborn race in Story Mode, is pure racing adrenaline.
- The name is too punny, this is awesome incarnate. It's like a Falcon Punch of pure win. I'll be putting this in a MP3 converter
- ZEN (Aeropolis) manages to be driving and ethereal at the same time. Infinite Blue (Big Blue) is wicked sweet. And Shotgun Kiss (Vegas Palace) doesn't just have the best name ever. Really, it's hard to go wrong with the track music from F-Zero GX.
- ...No Chaos Legion examples? Really? Try Now I See, A Way To Nowhere, and Feel No Fear.
- The Chaos Legion OST has no song on it that isn't awesome. Welcome To The Darkness is this troper's favorite song on the whole soundtrack, although that does not make the rest of the soundtrack any less friggin awesome, especially hearing it while playing the game itself.
- Especially the fight against the villains music:
- The intro of Solemn Voice was enough to give goosebumps.
- A lot of the Drakengard and Drakengard 2 soundtracks deserves an honorable mention.
- No Zodiac Empathy for Virtual On? Oh Sweet Tragedy of Dreams! I'll give you a 13 second warning before I go Into The Crimson and you Fade to Black.
- The Suikoden series. In particular, this troper always gets misty when hearing Determination ~ Tragic Battle which you hear snips of throughout the later half of the game but only really get to hear in all its glory during the battle against Sialeeds.
- The Ratchet & Clank games have pretty catchy songs in each of the games. Special notes goes to Death to Squishies, Courtney Gears' song of declaration of war against organics.
- Xenosaga:
- Episode I: Pain and Kokkoro, the two ending songs. Panic and Breaking Space Ship Pursuit, when things get serious, And Albedo and the Song of Nephilim, when you get tired of sleeping at night.
- Episode II: Communication Breakdown, Fatal Fight (Jin & Margulis) , Lamentation
- Episode III: She's Coming Back, Testament, The Battle of Your Soul, Promised Pain, Maybe Tomorrow, Godsibb and all three versions of Hepatica.
- Also, don't forget To The Last Place. Actually, a good majority of the third game's songs fit this category anyway.
- Asterix & Obelix Kick Buttix/XXL is a rather obscure game, but the soundtrack kicks buttix!
- Dynasty Warriors - forget the Anachronism Stew aspects of using techno and wall-to-wall guitars to score battles set in ancient China. The soundtrack rocks. Special mention should go to the truly epic feel of "Men of Intelligence" (He Fei castle, Wu side, third installment) and the adrenaline of "Flame and Rapidity" (Chi Bi in the sixth installment). Plus, whenever the tide of battle turns in your favor and the "winning" music kicks in, especially in DW3, it feels ridiculously awesome.
- Contra: Shattered Soldier. The soundtrack was produced by Akira Yamaoka of Silent Hill and Sota Fujimori of Dance Dance Revolution fame. Winners include "Battle Train", "Super Power Robot Yokozuna Jr.", "Maximum Speed", "The Crawler Tank", "Submarine Power Plant", "Jinmen-gyo", "Islands", "Relic of Morai", and "Critical Moment of Contra".
- Jet Set Radio Future. Seriously, how can you miss this game from the list? Listening to songs like Funky Dealer, Teknopathetic and more importantly The Concept Of Love, all while running around on rocket-propelled Rollerblades spraying graffiti on anything that moves makes for some brilliant moments.
- Also from SEGA, Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg. Sample Tumbling Xylophone, Bossa Nova of Briny Air, A Jack-in-the-Box!, and especially Volcanic Orchestra; all of which reappeared in Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing alongside the Final Boss theme.
- Gauntlet: Dark Legacy. A lot of tracks are quite good, but the absolute peak is the Sky Realm, all four stages - Spire, Docks, Shipyard, and Mothership.
- Psychonauts . Both Black Velvetopia themes are pretty sweet.
- You Were There from ICO.
- Go (Into) The Distance from the Xbox remake of Ninja Gaiden.
- Chou and Koe, from Fatal Frame 2 and Fatal Frame 3, respectively.
- Jak and Daxter has some great music, especially the final boss fight in Jak II and pretty much EVERY song in Jak X.
- Jak II's might be good as well, but this troper always thought that the final battle in Jak 3 was accompanied by probably the most epic music in the series.
- This troper, on the other hand, prefers the Stadium ruins theme or the extremely haunting Haven City theme in Jak 3. The latter really reminds you of the hopeless situation the place is in.
- Turok: Evolution features some very good music including Lost temple, Sacrifice and Airborne Makes one wish the entire game was as good as the soundtrack.
- Gitaroo Man. After playing through most of the game enjoying the combination of music from many genres and batshit insane visuals (such as a space shark that transforms into a robot with turntables for nipples that sings reggae), there comes the electric guitar version of "The Legendary Theme".
- Medal of Honor
- European Assault's Dogs of War A gorgeous, evocative song that manages to capture the time period of World War II
- Listen to the music that plays in Arnhem and try not to cry. This is the official theme music of pure tragedy, folks.
- The Arnhem music in Frontline always leads to some emotional moments, especially towards the end of the level when you realise most of your squad of chirpy Cockney paratroopers has been wiped out. But the music that plays during the mansion and train missions is perfect for getting you in that Nazi-shooting mood.
- The OST for Odin Sphere. Damn you all.
- Wild ARMs 3 has more awesome tunes, particularly "FATE Breaker" and "Flying in the Mists of the Storm", though there are several dozen tracks that would easily fit this category. The ending theme, Wings, has cemented its place as the best ending song of any game, ever (only the one used in the US, though; the Japanese version is nowhere near as powerful, and the version in the US game is not available on any soundtrack; it has to be ripped from the game OST.)
- Blood, Tears, and the Dried-Up Wasteland
- Wild ARMs 4: "Gun Blaze" is an incredible normal battle theme that captures the Wild Western spirit of the games. Then there's the game's main theme, "I Look Into the Sky Because You Are There"; and another epic battle theme that actually remixes the first game's intro, "To the Edge of the Wilderness, ver. Detonator".
- Buried City is an interesting song that slowly builds up and adds new instruments as it goes on
- Wild ARMs 5 has "On the Day The Shovel Was Named Invincible" (aka Dean's theme), possibly the catchiest, most toe-tapping tune of any game, ever. Also, the battle theme, "When the Heart Ignites", is one of the best "normal" battle tunes anywhere.
- The Final Showdown from Bully
- Mushashi: Samurai Legend is also full of great tracks. But among the best are Rockstar as well as Secrets of the Deep
- This little gem from the Pump It Up collection. It makes you want to dance.
- Tekken 5. Sparking. Nuff said.
- Shenmue. Sedge Tree is the orchestrated version of the Main Theme.
- The main theme of No One Lives Forever.
- The main theme from Fable is really damned epic. Mostly because it was composed by Danny Elfman.
- You can't mention epic music in Dragon Quest VIII without making mention of the final boss music. (Note: That's a video of the final boss fight, possible spoilers)
- Heavenly Flight from Dragon Quest VIII is quite nice.
- How about "Melody of Love" from Dragon Quest V? It plays exactly once ingame (twice if you play your cards right), and I often find myself going back to the location it plays in just to listen to it. My personal favorite love theme in any game.
- Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 2: The main menu theme, commonly referred to as Kain Refused The Sacrifice. Reminiscent of Ozar Midrashim while also having several snippets of Ariel's dialogue from the previous game.
- The song you're thinking of is appropriately titled Ariel's Lament
- While most of the music of Metal Wolf Chaos is pretty good, ""Metal Fighter" is just out-and-out awesome.
- House of the Dead III with its final boss theme. A very epic song for a rail shooter arcade game.
- Choose a song from either Space Channel 5 game. Now THAT series has some awesome music!
- Wario Land has had various epic music in the past, but the only two This Troper can currently recommend are the theme tune to Crescent Moon Village from Wario Land 4 and the music from the Toxic Landfill in the same game. Wario Land Shake It and Master of Disguise has some decent music too.
- R-Type Final:Creature System, Mechanical System, Giant Warship, Dimension 26, Stage F-A, Accident And Oblivion(acid techno), Summer Night (a reprise of the title theme), Anti-Space, and the final boss theme(Halo style Gregorian chant intro) are Made of Win.
- Strange Klug's theme from Puyo Puyo Fever 2. Epic final soundtrack while battling the Big Bad...and that is simply amazing for a puzzle action game. Just can't figure out why they use a picture of Carbuncle instead of Strange Klug.
- Bold letters ask you to listen to the song above.
- From it's predecessor, Puyo Puyo Fever, we have Popoi's theme, another great final boss theme.
- Mafia is not only a very underrated game. The soundtrack is great. Besides the fantastic period songs, the written soundtrack is equally top notch. Just listen to the amazing main theme.
- Yggdra Union. Yggdra Freaking Union. Dept Heaven probably needs its own page now.
- Pac-Man World 2 has probably the most epic-sounding mountain themes. Just listen to Ice River Run. The next two levels get more intense, with Avalanche Alley and Blade Mountain.
- La Pucelle gives us Legend of the Holy Maiden of Light, A Martyr's March, and Great Wilder, the latter of which shows up in a number of Nippon Ichi's later games.
- Sinful Rose From Disgaea2, an upbeat song about betrayal and violence. Pretty much a theme for the entire series.
- From the Mai Otome PS2 game, we have the awesome opening theme, Yousei Teikoku's Valkyrja.
- The little-known Bullet Hell shmup Psyvariar 2 has some of the most incredible techno ever.
- Triggerheart Exelica's Updated Rerelease Enhanced greet player with shiny Anime Theme Song, with GRAVITY ERROR as OP song.
- The entirety of the Freedom Fighters soundtrack. One track (March Of The Empire) can make even Mardi Gras sinister.
- Steambot Chronicles has "In your Voice" and 4 other really great songs. But In your Voice stands out for it's amazing beat and melody that simply makes you want ♫Sing along with us...♫
- From Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance the Elfsong is quite a beautiful song, It's Raining In Baldurs Gate. The final boss theme is a very epic song. Other good boss songs are The Orb Of Undeads Sess'sths Xantams Ciraxis' and Ilavarras.
- Theme of Elvandia Story from... well Elvandia Story
- Much of the soundtrack of Jade Empire is amazing, particularly the haunted sound of Lost In The Wilds and the actiony Torment: The Way of the Closed Fist.
- SSX has TONS of this. For starters, here's Song for Dot and Slayboarder, the first game's theme.
- The first Wayofthe Samurai had a few noteworthy tracks, particularly Afterglow. The song manages to take a pan flute, piano, some strings and a guitar and utterly capture the feel of what it must have been like to be the last of a dying breed, fighting a losing battle against time and technology.
- Followed by Righteous Soul. This song makes even the good ending a heartbreaking and yet beautiful experience.
- Okami. Giving Kushinada A Ride. That is all.
- Crazy Taxi. Five words: YAH YAH YAH YAH YAH!!! Remind me never to play The Offspring or Bad Religion while I'm driving, lest my mind suddenly make the snow drifts look like jump ramps...
- Route 99 from Metal Saga
- The last boss theme from The Rumble Fish
- What no love for the GCN Animal Crossing music? To this day this troper still finds it better than the Wild World and City Folk soundtracks that came after them. A few notable ones are 7AM 8AM 11PM12AM and as for Holidays there is Halloween and Chirstmas Eve
- From the Japanse-only RPG Zwei: Final Battle -Demon Vesper- is a bit unique among Final Battle themes in taht while it's not EPIC it opts for a more catchy and somewhat lighthearted tone while still having the feeling that it really is the final battle.
- The music for the Hitman series, composed by Jesper Kyd, is brilliant, but the piece which probably stands out is the main theme of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
- Towards a Far Away Sky from Sky Gunner one of the most peaceful yet awesome opening songs ever
- BIONICLE: The Game gives us the Main Theme, "Le-Wahi Area 3" "Po-Wahi Mines", etc.
- There was a little-known, very ambitious and, sadly, commercially unsuccessful PS2 game called "Haven: Call of the King" which boasted a "genre-defying" gameplay experience and a COMPLETELY FUCKING AMAZING soundtrack. The gameplay is a topic of some contention and many believe that it made an admirable effort but ultimately failed to deliver the "all styles in one" schtick it claimed to offer, but as the gameplay was far from horrible and the game was about USD $8.00 in a bargain bin 8 years ago it's well worth picking up for the music alone. Unfortunately, as Western games seldom get proper soundtrack releases, to my knowledge there is no CD soundtrack to be had for this game. I can, however, entice you with the Level 1 music. At the time of this writing, the video comments include links to a download page for the rest of the soundtrack. The links are all "001, 002, 003" but seriously, just pick some. You're guaranteed to get something that sounds good.
- Toy Commander, another overlooked game for the Dreamcast, has a pretty fantastic soundtrack. One of the best songs is Feel.
- Anu Orta Veniya from Panzer Dragoon Orta .
- Arcana Heart has some good tunes, but it really reaches the awesome when you get into the second game, even if it's mirred with disasters. For instance, here's a remix of Heart Aino's theme, now used for the school background, the theme of Petra Johanna Lagerkvist in her home, or the theme of new kid genius Catherine Kyohbashi or the final song when you fight BOTH the Avallone sisters. Be sure to check them out when you find the less-disastrous arcade versions too.
- Who would of thought that a Spongebob game would have great music? Here are some examples: The Poseidome theme, the final boss theme, and the Flying Dutchman Graveyard theme from Battle for Bikini Bottom, and the slide theme and trench theme from the Movie Game. Both are actually really good for licensed games.
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