Awesome Music / Xenosaga

• Xenosaga I's soundtrack was composed by the venerable Yasunori Mitsuda:
  • Xenosaga I's battle theme. Pure orchestral awesome.
  • Life or Death. Perfect for when your ship has been invaded and you need to either find a way off or fight off whatever's invading.
  • The final boss fight theme, appropriately called "Last Battle", is surprisingly minimalistic yet incredible.
  • Breaking Space Ship Pursuit. A song so epic, it was simply too awesome for battle music, so they made it a random scene.
• The Battle Theme is pure win.

• While a lot are quick to put down Hosoe's tracks as being of "lesser quality" than Kajiura's, or Mitsuda's Episode I tracks, his work here is honestly still really good, especially the normal battle and major boss battle themes, the latter of which is significant given Episode I never had a dedicated boss theme of its own.

• Yuki Kajiura took care of Xenosaga Episode III all on her own, treating us with another amazing soundtrack:
  • Special mention must be given to godsibb, which is widely regarded to be one of the best songs in the series. Its live performance is a Moment of Awesome on its own.
  • Abel's Ark is also quite beautiful, and slightly unsettling. Also a Call-Back tune to "One Who Bares Fangs At God" and "The One Who is Torn Apart" from Xenogears.
• The "Sakura" theme in Episode II and "Hepatica" theme in Episode III (arguably the themes for their respective games) are truly awesome. Not in the way to inspire awe and terror, but the way they draw out Tender Tears in how beautiful they are. The song "Testament" from Episode III can produce similar feelings... Well, at least the beginning part of it.

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