BOTW imo is one of the most underrated soundtracks, while it would not make a top 15 for me either i feel it deserves a mention, though it lacks proper “songs”, the low piano in the fields and when a full orchestrated piece comes up in a cutscene or village or battle its truly magical

By far my favorite soundtracks have to the the Super Galaxy 1 & 2. From calming, silly, to an epic-ness orchestra these soundtracks feel impactful. Video game music needs more recognition outside the video game industry.

Super Mario Galaxy... That games soundtrack I hold dear to my heart. It's so absolutely beautifully composed, it will never lose it's charm to me. Every time I listen to both soundtracks it always feels like I'm hearing them for the first time.

100% agree with your Top 1 pick. Not only is it my study/sleep music and inspiration, but it also takes me back to when things were simpler.

EarthBound, Splatoon, and Mario Kart Wii are my most favorite soundtracks! The Mother series is an absolute masterpiece and the music is amazing! Also, same as you for Mario Kart Wii, the music is iconic, and I’m nostalgic for it! Splatoon is another one for me as well! Lots of the songs really fit what they were meant for very well, and they’re super hype as well! You can tell effort was put in it.

Super Mario Galaxy's soundtrack is just so beautifully made, it impacted my childhood and helped make Mario Galaxy my "nostalgia" game. Growing up, I played Super Mario Galaxy from a friend's Wii and ended up getting Gusty Garden Galaxy stuck in my head. I didn't remember the name of the song, I just remembered what it sounded like and once I had internet access, I had to scour for it. Definitely helped peak my interest in video games.

Love your vids man keep it up! ❤

Great list, definitely agree with your number 1 pick, BEST soundtrack of all time. Some of my recommendations would be the soundtracks for Kirby Planet Robobot/Triple Deluxe, Rayman 3, Pac-Man World 2, & Persona 5.

My personal list: 15: Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games + London 2012 Olympic Games 14: Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Wii version) 13: Minecraft 12: Playground (the Wii game) 11: Stick Fight: The Game 10: Dirt 3 9: Dirt 5 8: Skate 3 7: Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing 6: Halo 5 5: Go Vacation 4: Mario Kart Wii 3: Ace Combat 7 2: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance 1: Forza Horizon 1 (specifically Bass Arena)

My favorite soundtrack is F-Zero GX because it's just amazing. It gets me excited everytime I boot up the game and It just feels like the music was actually made in the F-Zero universe. Every Character has their own style and so the soundtrack accommodates them with fitting and action filled songs

I definitely forgot about the Super Mario Galaxy soundtrack but it is amazing, one OST I will never forget is Hollow Knight

I loved how the past few videos have had some very unique ideas/topics.

Dire Dire Docks is a classic,Hyrule Field makes me feel like I'm going on a adventure,MT.Coronet brings the atmosphere in Pokemon Platinum,The Distortion World is relaxing in Pokemon Platinum,ARMS main theme is pretty good to get you pumped,Fossil Fighters main theme definitely makes me want to replay the game again,Tomodachi Life main theme is bittersweet nostalgia,and Goemon Mystical Ninja village theme is beautiful.

Music in video games is so important to me. No joke, Xenoblade wouldn't be my favorite game if it didn't have such a good soundtrack. In no particular order, some of my favorites are: Xenoblade 1 (duh) & 2 Final Fantasy VI, VII, IX DKC 2 Mother 3 Sonic Mania Smash Ultimate (idc if this is cheating) Great vid!

I've always loved the Max Payne soundtracks, for all 3 games. But Max Payne 1 in particular just has really mood setting music that makes you feel the dread, the isolation that Max as a character is all about

I love Tomodachi Life’s soundtrack the most. Every song in that is very nostalgic and brings back so many memories. Each song, wether it’s sad, happy, fun, or anything, is just all so good. I think I might be biased, but it’s one of my favorite soundtracks of all time. I also wish we got a sequel on the Switch.

Hearing the New Leaf soundtrack always takes me back to the good old times of playing that game. It has to be my favorite because it’s the only ost to give me such an emotional reaction.

My favourite OST would have to be Kirby's Epic Yarn, every song in that game is amazing. ACNL would be a close second though.

great list! I couldnt figure out why you put so many great games lower than I expected, but it all made sense when I found out your number 1 is mario galaxy. Nothing quite compares to galaxy!

Wii Sports Resort has my favorite soundtrack, and I love how you play it at the end of your videos👍

Surprised to see no Pokemon, but hey, everyone has different tastes! I'm surprised Wii Sports made it on here at all, but again, that seems like a personal thing for you. For me, my personal thing would be putting Minecraft in the Top 5 at least. I guess that was for me what Wii Sports is to you. Absolute classic nostalgia (and, I also agree that Animal Crossing New Leaf is the best of the franchise and super underrated as a whole!)

i started crying during some of these songs because of nostalgia :)

Great video! In the past year the Persona 5 ost has become one of my favorites. The soundtrack alone got me to try out the game and eventually complete it, which is something no other soundtrack has gotten me to do :)

You did an amazing job with this video. Wow just wow

My favorite game for it's music will be Metroid Prime 1 and 2. No matter how many times I listen to them, I never get tired. The title and menu themes, overworld themes, battle themes and everything just feels immersive, frantic when it needs to be, chill, mysterious, intense and terrifying. Every song drips of atmosphere and I can't give enough praise.

Dude. I love your channel. I swear you never disappoint. Thanks for all the awesome videos.

Love love love the hell out of your videos! Very consistent and comfy voiceover, nice detailed and passionate commentary on things you care about - makes them really comforting to listen to and just joyful

Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart Wii, Minecraft, Breath of the Wild, and Splatoon are my favorite game soundtracks.

These are incredible I appreciate you for making these

You sure have a great taste in music :) Some of my favourite videogame soundracks have to be: - Paper Mario: The Origami King The Paper Mario franchise sure has great music, even the least loved titles like sticker stars. But man, you know this one is gonna be good at the exact moment the game launches, the title screen is breathtaking, with amazing visuals and one of the best mario tracks I've ever heard, and it's a feeling that never changes throughout the game. - Miitopia The music of this game is really good and captures perfectly the goofy atmosphere the game has, while still sounding epic or dark when it needs to. Not something you would expect from a mii game made by devs high on sprinkles. - Spirit of the North This one is very personal. It's a game made by about 2 persons and a third creating thr music. In it, you play a fox who follows a mysterious red trail in the sky and explores ruined landscapes inpired by Iceland and solves little puzzles blocking his way. The game looks good (not as much on nintendo switch, sadly) and the little soundtrack enhances perfectly the feeling of beauty and loneliness with a tone of nostalgia the game has. At least, that's the effect it has on me. I don't necessarily recommand to play it, especially if you don't like straightforward exploration and contemplation games, but the music is really worth the shot if you wabt to feel relaxed. [Edit: here's the 14 songs playlist if you want to give it a try :) kzfaq.info/sun/OLAK5uy_lob_ERMI0QhJ0M4o2RCb9pcBYa6wSoHoQ ] That's my top 3 "kind of underrated games with a mn amazing soundtrack". I have other titles in mind that I love, but I chose some that aren't well known or given credit for it. Other than that, Genshin Impact's music is a complete masterpiece but it's not exactly underrated.

Seeing Skyward Sword on this list was perfect, I clapped and cheered. I love a lot of Zelda soundtracks, but SS really did all the things you said it does. It has a great amount of emotional range and the orchestration is amazing.

Anything late 90s and 2000s nintendo makes me think of my childhood and so does kingdom hearts. Skyrim and red dead redemption make me think of middle school. Didn't play a whole lot of games in high school. And today I really like the music in Pokémon sword and shield and legends arceus

COMPLETELY AGREE ON CELESTE!!! ‘Reach for the Summit’ is my personal alarm. Generally choosing a song for an alarm kills the song because waking up sucks, and having a song associated with that just ends up hurting the song. But Reach for the Summit’s entire thing is that it’s pushing you to go through hell and reach for the summit. It’s very fitting and a very effective motivator.

Probably gonna make a list of my own on my channel after watching this, and so, off the top of my head, a few classics I adore are: -The Super Mario Galaxy games -Skyward Sword -Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition -Fire Emblem: Three Houses -Super Smash Bros. Ultimate -Kid Icarus: Uprising -Undertale -Evergate ...Okay, all of this hype makes me wanna start typing my own full list in order, haha!

Seeing XenoBlade Chronicles Definitive Edition on This List Makes Me Smile 😃 Not only is the SoundTrack a MasterPiece The Story/Characters VoiceActing and Game is Too and it’s also in my Top 5 VideoGames of All Time

Great video as always, dude! I agree with a lot of your picks, especially the ACNL music being better than ACNH. It's really hard to pick my own favourite, but I do love the music from Pokemon DPPt soundtrack because of the tracks that change depending on what time of the day you're playing (also the pokemon centre music from that gen slaps). Pokemon BW/BW2 have great music too, love Skyarrow Bridge and Accumula town with it's variable score. And Join Avenue too of course, *chef's kiss*

Great list! I love the inclusion of Stardew Valley. Didn’t think I’d like the game but I love it. The soundtrack is so good

Celeste has an amazing soundtrack, the only time I found it repetitive was during chapter 9, but that was probably because I was dying so often 10/10

I literally yelled out YAY when I saw Stardew Valley in your list. I so agree with everything you said about it. Concerned Ape is amazing.

Gusty Garden Galaxy is my favourite song from a Nintendo game

Your voice sounds cool and makes me feel relaxed watching your videos and also love your picks in this video especially DK and mario galaxy

Nice ranking, I’m glad that you put Mario Galaxy at number 1, it was my first ever 3D Mario game and will always remain the best 3D Mario in the series! I like the Mario Kart Wii sountracks, Splatoon soundtracks, Zelda soundtracks and Minecraft soundtracks!

Just want to give a shout out to the Hollow Knight soundtrack too!

I'm really going to have to try Undertale one of these days. I've heard that it's somehow reminiscent of Earthbound, and I've always loved Earthbound. My attempt at a top 15 (the longer it goes, the less certain I feel about the rankings): 1. Final Fantasy 6 - Nobuo Uematsu's magnum opus, chock full of great melodies and moving character themes 2. Vagrant Story - Hitoshi Sakimoto's masterpiece, dark and brooding, but also rhythmic and bombastic 3. Super Castlevania 4 - My favorite Castlevania soundtrack, just a uniquely moody score which can also be catchy 4. Streets of Rage 2 - My favorite from Yuzo Koshiro, master of techno chiptunes, and this one I think was his best for that The rest: Parasite Eve Donkey Kong Country 2 Grandia Star Ocean 2 Tenchu: Stealth Assassins Valkyrie Profile Megaman 2 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen Gate of Thunder Suikoden

this is a great video man you have some really good choices! i really love tropical freeze’s music it’s just so good and definitely one of my favorite 2D platformers ever

I was listening to the Earthbound OST when I got a notification for this. I mean this list was predictable but I think it's still cool for explaining why these are such memorable soundtracks.

Tropical Freeze music goes hard

I totally agree but you should also check out the Starbound soundtrack it's just overwhelming and would definetly be in my list (My favorites are "On the beach at night", "I was the Sun (before it was cool)", "Atlas" and "Planetarium") I would just count Wii Sports to the Wii series (as well as the the e-shop and menu themes) Edit: I completly forgot about the Mario & Sonic franchise (the older titles were better tho)

Wow. What a fantastic list. There are so many great soundtracks, I don't know how I could choose. Awesome work here! :)

No Nintendo Land? That's my jam.

my personal favorite soundtracks are Earthbound, BOTW, skyward sword, ocarina of time, wii sports, splatoon, Mario bros 3, Mario sunshine, galaxy, and odyssey, mincraft, spider man ps4, toy story 2 video game, kirby and the forgotten land, and my favorite, kingdom hearts

OK WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR THE THIRD ACE ATTORNEY GAMES SOUNDTRACK

Mario Galaxy 2 has a much better soundtrack than the original IMO. A lot more powerful, orchestral tunes which I prefer. And the Star sound effects are fully orchestrated. But obviously you can’t go wrong either way. Love the video!

Okay, here's my list: #10: Earthbound Honestly, this soundtrack can be pretty hit or miss for me. It definitely has a unique style of music, but it doesn't alwasy do it for me. But the reason it's on my list is because it still has some amazing songs. Onnet is extremely catchy and upbeat, Snowman is nice and calm, and Pollyanna might just be my favorite lyrical song in any video game. #9: Super Mario Sunshine Honestly not anything too groundbreaking, but so many songs from Sunshine have become very iconic and recognizable, like Delfino Plaza or Bianco Hills. Also, I like it when games reuse their main melody for each song like Sunshine does. My personal favorite song is probably Deep Sea of Mare, it's just so relaxing! #8: Paper Mario: The Origami King This game has insanely catchy music. It's hard not to love it! But I have to admit, some songs like the boss themes can be a little samey. They are still great songs though! It's just a very solid soundtrack. My favorite one has to be the Purple Streamer Battle Theme, I just love the violins used in the song. #7: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds I might be nostalgia biased since this was my first Zelda game, but I don't care. I just love this game and it's soundtrack so much. It's severely underrated. Most of the songs may just be remakes from A Link to the Past's soundtrack, as the game itself is a psuedo remake of the SNES title, but they're still really good remasters of the songs and the original songs they have are also pretty great. My favorite song is probably Eastern Palace, as it just reminds me of getting lost in the first dungeons of the game when I was a kid. #6: Kirby Triple Deluxe This was the game that got me into Kirby, so it's very special to me. It's hard to narrow down which Kirby soundtrack is my favorite, but I have to choose this one. It just has so many catchy songs, as is the Kirby standard. But the reason this soundtrack takes the cake is because of the song Moonstruck Blossom. And Masked Dedede is also a banger, but it technically was from Super Star Ultra so it doesn't really count. #5: Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze It's hard to say what DKC game has the best soundtrack between this and DKC 2, but I'll have to go with Tropical Freeze. Not only are the songs in this game beautiful and atmospheric, but they also symbolize the return of DKC's original composer, David Wise. Seriously, this guy is great at making video game music. My favorite song out of the (banana) bunch is probably Seashore War. It's a very soothing yet also meloncholic song. #4: Undertale This soundtrack is just full of bangers. I can't think of a single song I don't like. Even the silly joke songs are weirdly catchy. I must admit, however, that I have kind of grown tired of this soundtrack after hearing it so much. Especially Megalovania. It's still a great soundtrack, though. It's hard to pick my favorite song from this game, but I'll have to go with It's Raining Somewhere Else. It's just a very chill song. #3: Deltarune It's like Undertale, but I haven't grown tired of it yet. Enough said. #2: Animal Crossing: New Leaf This is definitely my nostalgia showing, but NL's music is just so calming and reflective that I can't help but get emotional whenever I listen to it, and I don't think nostalgia is the only factor to that. It's just a really nice and relaxing soundtrack. All the hourly music fits so well with the time of day. My favorite song is definitely 7pm. #1: Super Mario Galaxy 2 Galaxy 1 is great, but I think Galaxy 2 has slightly better music so I'm putting it on the ist instead. Each song is just so great, I don't really know what to say. Puzzle Plank Galaxy is so cheerful, Cloudy Court is triumphant and beautiful, and even smaller songs like Green Star are really good. But my favorite has to be Bowser's Galaxy Reactor. It's just such a great theme. Anyway, that's my list. Thanks for reading!

Good list! Fortunate enough to be familiar with all 15 :) My number 1 fav is Risk of Rain 1, to me it’s a perfect OST with no duds. Follow-ups would be Dustforce, Tunic, Deadbolt, Rayman 2, Risk of Rain 2, Sephonie, Ecco: Defender of the Future, Donkey Kong Country 2 and Xenoblade Chronicles X

I was like there is no way he doesn’t add splatoon but then it got second place ♥️

Mario Galaxy has really good music, but it can't dethrone the nostalgic to those who never even played music of Minecraft in my opinion. It literally managed to be so soothing and shocking yet fitting.

I always assume I am the weird one to appreciate a lot of video games soundtracks when most others focus on Pop, Rock, Metal, Rap, Bands, Jazz and Classical... etc. Good to know there are other people who focus a lot on video games' soundtracks!

It means a weird amount to me to see Mini Ninjas represented even visually, just a very important game to me

Xenoblade is on here that’s all I need

great list, no complaints

One of my favorite soundtracks has to be Pokemon Sun and Moon. I know that game isn't that popular in the Pokemon series, but I really love everything about the game and it is my favorite Pokemon game. And it is home to my favorite video game song ever "The Battle at the Summit"

Super Mario Galaxy 1&2 and pretty much the whole Halo series are my favourite soundtracks of all time

My personal favorite is Waterfall from Undertale. Something about it makes me feel lonely but in a good way.

acnl 7pm is my favorite piece of music of all time. it’s indescribable how it makes me feel and how much it means to me. i could go on but i’ll just leave it at that.

This is a great list! I love many of those games and the soundtracks! I'd also like to add an honorable mention: Wii Fit Plus. For a get-healthy fit game(that has some fun minigames too) the music has no right to be that good- I also love the Mario and Sonic at the 2012 london olympic games soundtrack, they're both extremely nostalgic to me as I played them a lot in the happiest period of my life.

Some of my top soundtracks from franchises not mentioned: 1. Rayman 1 2. Rithm paradise/heaven 3. Team fortress 2 (It's just the menu music but its so good) 4. Do GTA San Andreas radios count? They aren't OST but they're definitelly part of thr soundtrack 5. Cave Story 6. Terraria 7. Grim Fandango No particular order, but Grim Fandango is definitelly the most underrated

Toby fox better be on here

I have to say, I really love the early fallout (1 and 2) soundtracks - they're so ominous and desolate, a great reflection of the world the game is in itself.. definitely helps the game's atmosphere.

I am going to get DESTROYED saying this because the internet hates opinions most of the time The amount of times I've seen the Mario Galaxy games (ESPECIALLY the first one, because of a certain theme I do not need to mention cause I bet you alreay know what it is) at the very top of a "best video game music" list is honestly bothersome for me. It's not the fact it's very good, I enjoy the OSTs myself, but its the fact they HEAVILY, and I mean HEAVILY, overshadow other Mario OST, or hell, even game OSTs in general, that bothers me most. Are they some of the best OSTs? Hell yea. But are they THE best? No, at least in my eyes. I'm more of a fan of the more underrated game/Mario OSTs (cause the Mario Galaxy games overshadow A LOT of them with the exception of obviously Wonder and SMO) like 3D Land, Slam Basketball, and Super Sluggers. if there was one OST that I'd say would be number 1 in my eyes, it's between those few, along with many others Thought I'd get that off my chest Also... If anyone's reading this, huge thank you, cause no one ever seems to see or care for my comments/replies most of the time, so a reply or even a like would be a lot. Again, if you're reading this, thank you

The greatest soundtrack of all times must be Mario Kart Wii credits 1. It is just so emotional when you finished all the courses and this soundtrack comes up and sums up the entire feeling. Nothing is better than that

Professor layton and pandora's box is the best one by far especialy the outro music

For me trails series specifically the sky trilogy is one of my favorite music to listen to even for generic some of the background soolundtrack is

My favorite gaming OST of all time is old school runescape

What a good list

Just some of my favorite Halo: CE-Reach is perfection, 4 is ok, 5 is mediocre, Infinite is great Metroid Prime: I was able to love this game before I knew it existed. In Sup Space the main theme would play on a Samus mission(that had some difficult platforming) so I heard it a lot. Just finally played Prime last year and its an incredible game SNES: Super Mario world, Link to the Past, and DK Country are incredible soundtracks. So many found memories of all these games. Kingdom rush was very memorable as a kid gaming on an I pad. Such a great medieval theme throughout the game. Minecraft, Mario Galaxy, and Stardew valley for just being the greatest And last is Battlefield 1. There is so much emotion in the games OST that it's hard to describe. The music gets me pumped in game and out of game. And the more calming themes are extremely relaxing and sad

Earthbound and especially Mother 3 are definitely my favorite soundtracks of all time. Such fire 🔥🔥🔥

#1 super Mario galaxy easily

I absolutely hated the Splatoon soundtrack save two songs, I even had to leave the room whenever my brother played it, so I'm surprised at the 2nd place lol

Donkey kong country tropical freeze has great music.

this is a good list i need to pick up outer wilds I love games like oxnfree, so it's right up my alley my top 5 1 new leaf just unbeatable 2 oxnfree play it you will love it 3. botw somehow made it up this far in the list as It's what the game needed 4 wii sports resort basically the same reason 5 Mario odyssey just due to how hype it gets me play oxnfree if you like outer wilds then you'll love oxnfree

Surprised a smash game didn’t make this list

I have not tried so many games but my favorite is wii sports resort super mario odyssey and slime rancher

Celeste has my favorite soundtrack

Wii Sports - for the meme 👌

Wasn't this a pleasure to listen to!

I know it’s his favorites but ocarina of time is awesome

SDV Better be on here man.

My top ten: 1. Donkey Kong Country 2 2. Timesplitters 2 3. Metroid Prime 4. Ocarina of Time 5. Killer Instinct 2 6. Doom 64 7. Mega man X 8. F-Zero X 9. Turrican 2 10. Conkers Bad Fur Day

While I don't disagree with any of the choices you did make, I'm kinda sad that Prof Layton didn't even manage an honorable mention. Except for some chosen series' representatives, there are some that I would pick differently, but that's detail questions.

Donkeykong 64 has sooooooooooo good music, every track Others are almost everey zelda game and bioshock 1 +2

Heres my top 5 5. City Folk/wild world I love the music of it some much 4. Smash ultimate having many different of my favorites in one game is awesome 3. Mario Kart Wii this game is super nostalgic to me and I love almost all the songs from it 2. Persona 5 even as someone who hasn't played it yet I've listened to the soundtrack and it's this amazing jazzy style songs 1. Sonic unleashed this game is my favorite because all the different styles of music weathers is big band for the American inspired stage or jazzy and upbeat for the Africa inspired stage.

I really love Brawl’s soundtrack. All smash games have great soundtrack but Brawl is my personal favourite mostly for nostalgia. For me Brawl would be in the top 10.

My favorite video game soundtrack is the Yo-kai Watch 3 soundtrack. But my second favorite would probably be the one for LBX.

Persona 5 not being on this list is a crime

What was that song for Outer Wilds? The one that he played before moving onto the next one? That one was so beautiful

I see Outer Wilds, I like.

Personally the whole hollow knight soundtrack is the best

0:56--1:03 S A M E

please help me what is the music playing at number 9 undertale?? im obsessed.