I've wanted to do this for a while. I think I've got enough for a list here. I'll be listing games, and then specific tracks that stand out in the whole OST, and I'll talk a little bit about the games themselves. This should be an interesting read. I'll also link to each track so that you can take a listen. This is going to be extremely opinionated.

#10 - Trauma Center: Under the Knife

I first saw this game by watching a longplay. Seriously. At the time I saw this, I never owned a DS OR a PSP. Also, I've always found medicine to be an interesting profession, but never something I'd personally want to do. Now, I watched it on the Longplay Channel on YouTube, and what I saw simply amazed me. I was totally impressed with this game, I wanted this game. It struck me to see how original it was, and how Atlus was actually being innovative aside from their weeaboo wank fests of Persona. The game is played in a visual novel s-t-y-l-e (WTF THEY CENSOR ST-Y-LE??) and you do operations for the gameplay aspect. But what earns it a place on the list is that the music was composed by none other than the man himself, Shoji Meguro. It's kind of odd that he'd do the music for this, but he makes it stand out, it's fantastic.

His ability to make the music for this game is second to none. He makes it all very creepy when it needs to be, and it all has a very serious touch to it. I can't really describe it too well, but know that it works.

The game takes place around a rookie doctor and general surgeon who just got his license named Derek Stiles (DS. Clever), and his nurse assistant Angie Thompson. In the beginning, he makes some serious mistakes that make him regret wanting to become a doctor, but through a series of events, he becomes a legendary doctor who possesses something known as the "Healing Touch", an ability that allows the surgeon to perform remarkable feats, such as concentrating to the point time is slowed down to them in his case. He ends up joining Caduceus with Angie, an organization at the forefront of medicine to battle the insidious Delphi and their viral weapon known as G.U.I.L.T. (Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin).

The game also saw a re-release on the Nintendo Wii, "Trauma Center: Second Opinion", featuring a new doctor who would later become a prevalent main character in Trauma Team who is known as Naomi Kimishima. Her fake name was Nozomi Weaver (NW. Clever, again...) And all new operations with a digitally remastered soundtrack by Shoji Meguro once again.

Notable Tracks (I'll link both versions of the tracks, the ones from Second Opinion and UTK.)

Patient Profile (Operation Briefing) - UTK - Second Opinion

Judgment Day (Savato Operation) - UTK - Second Opinion

Code Blue! (Emergency Operation) - UTK - Second Opinion

On The Cutting Edge of Medicine (Caduceus USA Theme) - UTK - Second Opinion

Sins Can Be Forgiven(The Burden of Failure) - UTK - Second Opinion

All in all, it's something that probably won't interest a lot, but it's very original, and adds spice to a mostly bland genre of story telling, which is the Visual Novel **** Trauma Team perfected their story telling methods, however. Still, the only problem with the Trauma Center games is that they are stuck on the Wii. Maybe since PSMove is coming out, they'll re-release it for PS3 and increase their content and graphics capability and insta load times? Naahhh....

#9 - Trauma Team

Ok, now I know what you're thinking. I just did the first game, why would I put another in the same series and try to make it look like I'm NOT trying to pull things out of my @ss? Well, I'll give you a good reason.

Atsushi Kitajoh first made his debut in making music for the Trauma Center series on the game "Trauma Center: New Blood", which was released on the Nintendo Wii. He did an outstanding job on it, so much so they decided to bring him back for Trauma Team. He has really shined on his work for this game, I can't put it any other way. Though there is a distinct lack of focus on the surgery and music surrounding it, he made all of the tracks in every profession very fresh. The game is variety incarnate, and his work helps this stand out as a musical greatness.

Trauma Team is a game that focuses on six doctors with six different abilities. General Surgery, First Response, Orthopaedic Surgery, Endoscopic Surgery, Diagnosis, and Medical Forensics. Though this is the first game that deviates from the recognizable operation briefing, sadly, it still does a good job on it's own.

Emergency Conference (Briefing)

Rosalia's Thorns (First Response)

Unraveled Truth (Forensics) MY FAVORITE

Strength and Skill (Orthopaedics)

Twisted Rosalia (Surgery)

Face to Face (Diagnosis)

Seeking Within (Endoscopy)

Struggle for Life (Surgery)

Hero's Resolve (First Response)

Truly splendid, at least to me...

#8 - Baldur's Gate 2

See, I like the music of this game, but I've never actually played it. Very fail, I know. And there's a certain someone going to come and beat me down for it. When he told me that this game had some amazing tunes, I just had to download it's OST. Sure enough, it was pretty decent. But, well, since our tastes differ greatly, for the most part, this won't be in the top 5 on the list, but I think it deserves a place here, much like Diablo 2's soundtrack does. There's even a funny story behind that, but I will save it for later.

Heh...I can't really make a description for this, but I will list some notable tracks, at least ones that I thought were impressive.

Tavern Music
The Good
City Battle 2
Romance 1
Jon Irenicus Battle and Peace
Main Title Theme

I'm an audiophile.

#7 - Mabinogi

Alright, alright. I know, I know. Weeaboo wet dream come true, I know what I've said about this game. See, the only problem with this game is the fact that it's an F2P MMO. If this was a single player game with multi player abilities, this would be a very awesome game. Sadly it revolves around a cash shop and bad service, at least for the American version. Before I get to the ranting about Nexon NA and such, I will stop myself. Let's just keep in mind, however, this game has an AMAZING sound track and I've got it all on a playlist for Winamp. Every NPC has their own theme, well, at least most of them do. The ones in Iria and mot of Tara don't.....

Still, the game features OVER 200 MP3s, and with constant patches thanks to the courtesy and intelligence of it's Korean developer "DevCAT", it will continue to rise.

Also, they say that the people who wrote the story for G9 were satanists. Hmm...

Counter-Attack of Light: Shadowy Requiem Claimh Solais Boss Theme ::I love it greatly.

Wishes Travel Taillteann City Theme

A Kiss on the Wings of the Goddess Snowfield Theme, I couldn't find a link! I uploaded it instead!

Frozen Lake of Tears Pars Snowflake Ruins Dungeon Theme

Chest of Dreams Alexina's Theme

Shadow of Early Dawn Uroboros Boss Fight Theme

Asda's Constellation Nuadha, The King of All Gods Boss Fight Theme

Ara Shadow Doppleganger Fight Theme, Final Boss

The Plague of the Earth Boss Theme for Shadow Realm in Tara

Song of Wishes Sliab Cuilin Area Theme ::Once again I couldn't find a link. Uploaded! This is good too, if you like cheery themes.

Though this game has a lot of themes, this is what I recommend. I recommend the boss themes HIGHLY, because they are climactic and whatnot. Moving on...


#6 - Valkyria Chronicles

Hell yeah, Valkyria Chronicles. I recommended this to Taxonomic but he hates the amount of story it has, comparing it to the god-awful Planescape video game from ages past. I wish he would see past it to some degree, but oh well. I DOMINATE this game, this is MY game. Not only does it satisfy my strategy + story desires, it has a strong soundtrack to go with it. Sometimes it drags on, but there's an incredible variety. I got an A rank on every single mission during my first playthrough, and you can have my save file and check it to prove it. However, you'll need to go through about 10 seconds of scrolling to find it. I have probably over a 100 saves in the game.

I was naughty.

Anyway, here we are...

Main Title Theme
Conferral of Honors (Hey, I love this because I got an A rank and killed all Aces and Enemy Commanders every mission!)
Valkyria's Awakening (Nice little tune. It's civil war with technological badasses revered as gods in the midst of it)
A Moment of Relief
Randgrith Archduke Family
We Are Squad 7
The Final, Decisive Battle

I really can't get over this game. It's a magical experience that not only provides challenge to the lovers of a good strategy game, but it truly shows something else. Valkyria Chronicles and .hack G.U. are games that inspire Resonance of Fate, it is my strong belief. .hack G.U. has the greatest Real time combat ever conceived, and Valkyria Chronicles is the best strategy game on a console PERIOD. It only makes sense the next best thing is Resonance of fate! Of course Resonance of Fate is extremely off topic here, I just had to go on that little tirade...

Squad 7 in Valkyria Chronicles is such a ragtag group of countrymen, but they end up saving the entire country, both from a greedy federation and a conquer-hungry empire. They are in the middle of a massive war, and yet they can protect their peaceful home. Welkin is the ultimate commander, he refuses to rely on valkyria power to win the battles. And they did just that. They won through skill and tactics alone. The story is so beautifully written in an amazing fashion, I can't stop talking about it. I love to murder everyone possible in games, but I also want deep stories, I enjoy being engrossed in a game that not only has awesome mechanics, but likable characters and story. The likes of Dot Hack and this game make me obsessed about having an emotional story where you CAN lose PERMANENTLY, and it really makes you feel bad if someone dies. Fortunately, I never lost anyone. I ruined all of my former strategy if I had someone go to 0 health, actually. I had to save them. So teddy-bear of me.

Everyone is a Captain Kirk, but not Welkin. Everyone disrespects Squad 7, but in the end, THEY won the war. Everyone else got pwned.

MUST HAVE VALKYRIA CHRONICLES 2!!!!!!!!!