GOTY-quality soundtracks from rarely discussed games

[Pottuvoi]

Forbidden Forest had brilliant but rarely mentioned soundtrack on C64.

 

[Skyfireblaze]

Blue Reflection

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There are three of us who played Blue Reflection. I would also give a heads up to Azure Nights which has a pretty good OST.
Other Gust series with great OST: Ar Tonelico and Ar/Ciel no Surge

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I haven't played Blue Reflection, but I've listened to the OST almost every other week for nearly a year and a half. It's amazing. It's also absurd because quite a few songs have incomprehensible titles, like this one:


KOSUICHINOKAKUSURANAKIKU.EXE
*chef kiss*, beautiful!

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You are all amazing people, Blue Reflection and At Tonelico and the Ar/Ciel no Surge games have an amazing OST!

Let me add the Atelier series, not many people talk about it but its music is also fire! :D

 

[jett]

Soukaigi, a nothing-who-gives-a-shit action rpg from Squaresoft for the PS1.

But with a soundtrack from Hiroki Kikuta, known for Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3.

The soundtrack is fucking amazing.



https://youtu.be/OQ-2H45WTaw?list=PL74A294E9C891A8C2



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gceva3eF3k&index=4&list=PL74A294E9C891A8C2

 

[More_Badass]

Rain World has a fantastic soundtrack, equally fascinating because the composer made it by taking "junk audio" and distorting it and adding other musical elements

https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/21/14685358/rain-world-game-junk-audio-soundtrack

To create Rain World's distinct soundscape, the composers used a technique known as "junk audio." Essentially the idea is to use everyday objects — rusted tin cans, old car parts — record the sounds they make, and then mash them together into a song. "You take it, and you process it, and you amplify it, and it becomes something else,"

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Here's one track

 

[Izzard]

Everybody's Gone To The Rapture is one of the best soundtracks I've heard, and it fits the game so well.

 

[Chiramii]

Soundtrack alone made me pick this game up.

 

[Prolepro]

I think a widely overlooked aspect, even by fans, of the Battlefield series is its use of soundtracks.

Battlefield 1 had a sublime orchestral OST.

 

[SENPAIatLARGE]

Ruiner from Devolver Digital had a fantastic OST, reminescent of Akira, and a great track from legendary Berserk composer
Susumu Hirasawa.