His best cues are delicate, mysterious, and hazy whilst also being as melodically rich as many Uematsu classic tunes.
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Trilogy lead composer Masashi Hamauzu has a more angular approach to melody than series legend Nobuo Uematsu and Hamauzu employs just as wide an instrumental palette covering light jazz, jazz-rock fusion, new age electronica, and huge orchestral and choral themes.Īs brilliant as Hamauzu's work is, it's Mitsuto Suzuki's music for the sequels that especially blew me away. Tom highlight - Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy core trilogy (2010-2013): Final Fantasy XIII, XIII-2, and Lightning Returns Composers: Masashi Hamauzu, Naoshi Mizuta, Mitsuto Suzuki, Yoshitaka Suzuki, and Hiroshi Kaneko (& Nobuo Uematsu's chocobo theme)įor anyone who wrote off Final Fantasy XIII, or the core Fabula Nova Crystallis trilogy, there are some essential music tracks that soar above the soppy piano cues that drew criticism as players suffered cutscene after cuscene in the first game.
We haven’t highlighted them as such, nor do we link to our products.)ĭeveloper Remedy channels Stephen King and The X-Files while Finnish composer Petri Alanko nails the brooding aesthetic with clever synth and orchestral textures (earning a BAFTA nomination in the process.)Ĭivilization V Composers: Geoff Knorr and Michael Curran multiple artists (licensed tracks)Ī dizzying array of original and licensed music transports the player all over the globe, exposing them to classical and traditional pieces from almost every continent. (Tom: There are some Laced Records-affiliated soundtracks included on the list: ones I already admired, grew to love through work, or that Mat nominated.
Please respect that nothing can be ‘missing’ from a personal list like this one - We haven’t ‘forgotten’ anything. We’d love to hear what would be on your lists via /laced_records / Facebook / /lacedrecords. The list runs chronologically by year, alphabetically within a given year. With one or two exceptions, these are all original scores and/or licensed soundtracks that play in the game - so no arranged albums or piano collections (much as we love them.) And, as arbitrary gods of this listicle, we’re going to cheat our pants off and group together multiple titles in special cases because we couldn’t bear to choose between them. This is a personal, entirely subjective list by Mat (freelance writer) and Tom (Laced community manager and blog editor.) It is not a “Best of the decade” because this is not an independent media site that, and we haven’t listened to every track of the thousands of game soundtracks released over the 2010s. There’s been all sorts of experimentation and genre-blending and, not to be overlooked, music supervisors have outdone themselves in licensing killer tracks from megastar and minnow artists alike. We’ve seen talented young composers rise to prominence, whilst many veterans have continued to dazzle with their mastery of the craft. Writer Mat Ombler and Laced community manager Tom Quillfeldt pick their favourite original and licensed video game soundtracks from the Teens.įrom 2010 to 2019, the Teens was an abundant decade for video games and game music - arguably transcendental rather than merely transitional.
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