Recommended video game music: compelling masterpieces and popular tracks you’ll want to listen to.

Battle! Team Star BossTaniguchi Teruo

[Pokémon SV] Team Star Boss Battle [Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Gameplay Video / BGM]

This track, with its gripping hard rock sound, symbolizes the rebels of the Paldea region.

Composed by Teruo Taniguchi, it’s featured in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.

The fusion of scorching guitar riffs and synths is packed with impact, making it a perfect fit for the tense battles against Team Star bosses.

The situation and the music together really fire you up! Even if you’ve already played, listening might make you want to challenge the Team Star bosses all over again!

Fire Emblem Themetsujiyoko yuka

Fire Emblem Theme

It’s a piece of music used in the openings of most games in Nintendo’s Fire Emblem series, and it’s also well known for the fact that a version with Japanese lyrics was played in the commercial for the first title, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light.

a tranquil row of housessugiyama kouichi

【DRAGON QUEST VII】 Tranquil Row of Houses

Fishbell, the starting village of Dragon Quest VII.

It’s a piece that evokes the simplicity and rustic charm of a small fishing village and the vistas of a bountiful sea.

It’s a peaceful village with the protagonist’s home and the mansion of his childhood friend Maribel, known for its local specialties of seafood, steamed buns, and rice crackers.

Battle Theme Part IHayama Koji, Inose Katsuyuki

Last Armageddon - Battle Theme, Part I

The battle theme from the PCE cult classic Last Armageddon, famous for the line “There’s prey!” Composer Koji Hayama, known among gamers for the legendary title Cho Aniki, worked on this track.

It’s a masterpiece: a chaotic blend of diverse genres that somehow holds together in exquisite balance.

On the journey: “Final Fantasy VII Piano Collections”Uematsu Nobuo

On the journey

A piece from the game Final Fantasy VII that conjures up the image of a tranquil town encountered along a grand adventure.

Supervised by composer Nobuo Uematsu, it’s included on the classic album Piano Collections FINAL FANTASY VII, released in May 2004.

The serene atmosphere of the original is accentuated in its solo piano arrangement, whose delicate, faintly nostalgic tones sink deep into the heart.

It’s perfect as background music when you want to focus on work or study—the gentle, lyrical melody will calm your mind without disrupting your thoughts.

Why not spend some fulfilling time wrapped in the fleeting peace the story’s characters must have felt?

Age Shinjo & Leon’s ThemeNakanō Yasuhiro, Tanabe Fumio, Umegaki Runa, Motoyama Myungseop

The stage theme for Eiji and Leon in the third Battle Arena Toshinden.

It’s a bold rearrangement of the track from the first game—so much so that I didn’t recognize it at first—delivering a piercing sense of speed, with familiar phrases slipping in between.

The result is astonishingly polished.

There are also phrases that seem to have been composed by Luna Umegaki, who helped create the now highly sought-after soundtrack and the Choro Q series.

An absolute must-listen!

To the ends of the wildernessnaruke michiko

[Game Music] Wild Arms ♪ To the Ends of the Wasteland

Wild Arms, famed as an RPG set in the wilderness, features this as the opening theme of its landmark first installment.

Built around guitar and whistle, it truly evokes the image of the open wilds.

It portrays a man and a woman among three protagonists who, guided by fate, meet and uncover the truth of their world.