No Secret of the Forest? That song is absolutely relaxing. Not good enough? There's Zohar002's piano version, which seriously makes you forget about ALL your worries.
To Far Away Times is like the essence of hope and nostalgia personified in 4 minutes and 20 seconds of 16-bit music. Apparently even Mitsuda is moved to tears by this song, because he was inspired to write it by someone close to him. If hearing this song doesn't make you feel something, you very likely HAVE NO SOUL.
The track heard immediately before the credits when the party has to return to their own times, Epilogue: To Good Friends. Starts out as a rendition of Marle's already beautiful theme, then becomes so much more.
This one's meta. Robo's Theme is a beautifully awesome track, giving you a good bit of inspiration about the little robot that won't ever give you up. Never let you down. Wait a second. Goddammit. So. I guess Square's got seniority on that one.
Also from OC Remix: "The Place We Knew", a slow remix of "Outskirts of Time" with vocals by pixietricks; the hilarious "Team Gato"; the haunting "Zeal Love"; and "The Trial in Concert", an eight-minute piano-only remix of "Kingdom Trial" done in a single take.
See also Chronotorious, an album of remixes done by the best in the biz, the Bad Dudes.
An often-overlooked but truly unforgettable song is The Frozen Flame, a carryover from Radical Dreamers. And speaking of which...
Radical Dreamers had a small selection of wonderful songs that didn't reappear in Chrono Cross. The opening theme, for instance, is quite lovely, and the track dubbed "Final Confrontation" is as rousing a boss theme as any you'll hear (why it wasn't reused as Lynx's battle theme in Chrono Cross is beyond me).
Gale, the fight theme, is quite intense, while fitting well with the atmosphere of the game. A redone (and rather lackluster) version serves as the main battle theme in Cross.
Bomberman 64: The Second Attack had a soundtrack that simply radiated epicness. Not like you'd expect any less from Yasunori Mitsuda, the same person who did the music for Xenogears and Chrono Trigger.
The Angel theme is probably the most epic composition this trooper has ever heard.
And just in case anyone should have even the slightest doubt that Mitsuda's still got the touch, let me present: the main theme of Sands Of Destruction. Yeah. He's still got it.
Mitsuda is the longtime childhood friend of Yoshitaka Hirota (see below). And so, doing the friendly thing, he contributed a few tracks to the Shadow Hearts series. And those tracks happened to kick ass, nicely complementing Hirota's already-awesome work.Astaroth, for example, is among Mitsuda's contributions.
Both Mitsuda AND Shimomura are composing the musics of the upcoming title Xenoblade: We already knowfor sure that the soundtrack is going to be brilliant.
Actually, Mitsuda only composed one song for the game: the ending theme Beyond the Sky. All the other tracks are composed by the other composers including Shimomura.
Mitsuda also worked on an obscure and somewhat mediocre title called Tsugunai: Atonement. You are not likely to have heard this song from that game, but you may have heard it from the playthrough vids of the Chrono Trigger fangame Crimson Echoes. It's a pretty kickass song either way.
