What are some really underappreciated/obscure/literally nobody talks about them Game OSTs? I love digging into Game OSTs and I could go on for hours about the various obscure ones I love, but here's my top #1 of this exact moment:
RPG Tsukuru 2 for Super Famicom
There were two different RPG Makers (yes, the same franchise that is available today) on the Super Famicom, and this one has by far the better soundtrack. It's 2.5 hours of varied, delightful music. I especially like Mysterious Forest and Giant Robot, but most of it is really pleasing.
I'd love to see any weird/obscure/underappreciated game OSTs y'all love, so please comment or share!!
a pretty basic tetris clone for DOS, was before the tetris guidelines were a thing really, and a very short list of tunes (only six songs) but its all incredibly good, and has probably my favorite arrangement of the original tetris theme (Simple Song)
holy shit i gotta listen to all of these
here's a track that's similarly obscure and similarly styled. i can only find one more song from tHis game so i might have to rip it myself
Love that ACiD Tetris already got brought up; "Tearing Up Spacetime" is a long-time favorite of mine.
I would like to bring up a soundtrack that few people have heard because they're unable to play the game - Boneworks.
This song comes on roughly when the first really complex puzzle comes up during an already complicated tutorial. A lot of people never got the chance to experience Boneworks, due to it being exclusive to PC VR and having unusually high system requirements (two things that make it a very expensive investment). It's certainly a top notch production, but the soundtrack is the real reason I love it. This song in particular made me feel so smart. It's a weird thing to put into words - you're faced with a difficult problem, but the music actually helps you concentrate on it and solve it? Not to mention it's just such a damn groove that I'll put it on during literally any other time in which I need to focus on a problem.
Go put this on sometime.
There's so many choices, but off the top of my head it's got to be Kenji Yamazaki's 70-minute long ambient house mix from The Shinri Game 2 on the SNES, complete with visualizations:
I guess there's probably a game too but seriously, the cart could have just been this and it'd be worth it
well my first two choices for pure obscurity seem to have been so obscure there's no youtube uploads of the tracks I wanted (Breakdown for XBOX and Heart of Crown on steam) so let's go for the backup: Lock's Quest for DS, an I think generally pretty overlooked tower defense game that had a soundtrack that went way harder than a weird tower defense game had any reason to. It's a little cacophonous at times but I love it. This is the theme for the game's first town.
as a bonus, enjoy the inexplicable remaster's take on the game's tutorial music, which is incredibly short but a BAFFLINGLY catchy loop
none of the soundtrack was used in the game, but it did exist in the game files.
(two albums)
honorable mention: the first track of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory