Soundtracks

As I was sitting here listening to the soundtrack to Crisis Core, it occured to me do a small post regarding soundtracks in games. For me, half the game is the music. I might sometimes turn off the music in favour of something else, but if I can't play the game & enjoy it's own music, at least sometimes, then that game is a failed experience for me. So what do I think are the best game soundtracks? It's a long list, but for the purpose of this post, I shall endevour to list only the top 15.

01: Final Fantasy IV - Nobuo Uematsu

02: Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne - Shōji Meguro

03: Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Nobuo Uematsu & Takeharu Ishimoto

04: Chrono Cross - Yasunori Mitsuda

05: Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (SE) - Tetsuya Shibata & Kento Hasegawa

06: Persona 3 FES & P4 - Shōji Meguro

07: Final Fantasy VIII - Nobuo Uematsu

08: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Koji Kondo

09: Star Ocean: Till the End of Time - Motoi Sakuraba

10: Final Fantasy Tactics - Masaharu Iwata & Hitoshi Sakimoto

11: Phantasy Star Online - Fumitaka Shibata, Hideaki Kobayashi, Fumie Kumatani, Kenichi Tokoi, & Tomonori Sawada

12: Tales of Symphonia - Motoi Sakuraba & Shinji Tamura

13: Silent Hill - Akira Yamaoka

14: Assassin's Creed - Jesper Kyd

15: The Longest Journey / Dreamfall - Bjørn Arve Lagim & Tor Linløkken / Leon Willett