Lately I've been listening to a lot of VGM music while I work on projects or just playing some retro titles, but I've come to the conclusion that Square, and by extension Square-Enix really does dominate in this area. I can't really think of another studio who can go soundtrack to soundtrack up against the library of titles SE has released over time and really win out on how dominating SE has always been about having stellar soundtracks.
Pretty much. They’ve attracted some incredible talent over the years and while those individuals have made music for other companies as well, I feel SE has always had the biggest concentration of them.
Nope, my preference goes to Falcom's music library. On an individual OST level there are more I prefer over SE but this thread is about entire library vs entire library, and other companies do have some lesser ones.
Falcom however, entire library vs entire library, I prefer over SE.
Subjectively speaking, I wasn’t moved by a single track in any of the Ys or Trails games I’ve played. But you should definitely share some tracks - you might get some people more interested in this series
Also will add that shortly after making the previous post I remember about the Touhou series which while only having around 15 tracks per OST, if you consider from the POV of having the most consistently great soundtracks in a library they pretty much beat out anything else. And they are all made by one guy all solo. Easily my pick for top composer.
And finally, my *actual* favorite OST is not from any of these three, as that goes to Umineko. But that was a coop project between many talented doujin composers that can't well be called a studio's work at all, although they did cooperate on other projects since.
I probably agree. Some games are up there rivaling SE spundtracks better whether any other company can compete overall I don't know, but I kind of doubt it.
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