Hollow Knight has an excellent soundtrack, and unlike the game, the soundtrack can be played full speed on any device capable of playing media files of the appropriate type. It has some nice orchestral music (the original music favors strings, often solo strings, while the music added in the expansion uses a lot more winds), and it does some interesting things rhythmically, including some interesting time signatures.
Shovel Knight also has a good soundtrack, though it doesn't play with unusual time signatures (notable exception: "Go No Further!" from the Spectre of Torment expansion).
Of course, there's Undertale.
As for some other favorites:
* Final Fantasy 2's overworld theme. Also, the theme in FF3 that plays in the flooded world (sadly only a brief portion of the game) and the one in FF5 that's used for the final world.
* Final Fantasy 2's normal battle theme, particularly in the remakes (PSX and later).
* Final Fantasy 5's regular boss theme.
* "Cinco de Chocobo" from Final Fantasy 7, even if I don't like the game it's from (I actually got to play this tune in band).
* Dragon Quest 3's boss themes (both the final boss theme and the one added in the remakes).
* The normal battle themes of Dragon Quests 3, 4 (both standard and Chapter 4, yes that game actually has *two* of them, which is less common than it should be), and 5.
* From Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the song that plays in the Alchemy Laboratory, the one that plays in the Outer Wall, and the overused (but still great, and worth listening to in full) Finale Toccata.
Edit: Of course, just after posting, I thought of some other favorites:
* From Final Fantasy 3, "In the Covert Town" (plays in some of the optional towns later on, particularly those focused on a specific job)
* From Final Fantasy 5, "Home Sweet Home".
* From Final Fantasy 9, ""The Place I'll Return to Someday", and its variations. (This track is also called "A Place to Call Home", and it is first heard on the title screen.
(Anyone have any similar folk/renaissance video game music to recommend? Doesn't need to be the same composer, and doesn't need to be from an RPG, but please no electric guitar (ecoustic is OK) or vocals.)
Post edited February 04, 2019 by dtgreene
