Yasunori Mitsuda/Awesome Music

"Battle with Magus" from Chrono Trigger.
- What about the Chrono Trigger main theme? The original version and the fully orchestrated version. Epic.
  - Memories of Green, the theme's overworld mix.
- Frog's Theme. Started out excellent. Then it got a cutscene power-up.
- World Revolution. Schala's Theme. Wind Scene. The tragically unused Singing Mountain. Zeal. It'd be quicker just to list the merely good tracks.
  - What's better than Schala's Theme? Wiz Khalifa rapping over Schala's Theme.
- Time Circuits/Corridors of Time
- Last Battle is (and forever will be) pure and utter WIN. Also, the Battle Theme.
- Lucca's theme, and Spekkio's theme. These ones are also very awesome: the fair, your home, and the trial and this one also have funny music. The boss battles too. And the black omen theme. It's one of my favourite songs now.
- The Black Omen theme, now orchestrated!
- No Secret of the Forest? That song is absolutely relaxing. Not good enough? There's Zohar002's piano version, which seriously makes you forget about ALL your worries.
- To Far Away Times is like the essence of hope and nostalgia personified in 4 minutes and 20 seconds of 16-bit music. Apparently even Mitsuda is moved to tears by this song, because he was inspired to write it by someone close to him. If hearing this song doesn't make you feel something, you very likely HAVE NO SOUL.
- The track heard immediately before the credits when the party has to return to their own times, Epilogue: To Good Friends. Starts out as a rendition of Marle's already beautiful theme, then becomes so much more.
- Ocean palace, 'Nuff said.
- This one's meta. Robo's Theme is a beautifully awesome track, giving you a good bit of inspiration about the little robot that won't ever give you up. Never let you down. Wait a second. Goddammit. So. I guess Square's got seniority on that one.
- Let's have some remixes, shall we? Kickass uptempo metal/synth version of "Frog's Theme," a metal version of "World Revolution," a beautiful vocal version of "Singing Mountain," and from OverClocked Remix, "Atonement," an awesome take on Magus' Theme.
  - Also from OC ReMix: "The Place We Knew", a slow remix of "Outskirts of Time" with vocals by pixietricks; the hilarious "Team Gato"; the haunting "Zeal Love"; and "The Trial in Concert", an eight-minute piano-only remix of "Kingdom Trial" done in a single take.
  - See also Chronotorious, an album of remixes done by the best in the biz, the Bad Dudes.
  - And the tragically aborted Chrono Resurrection gave us this gorgeous version of "Corridors Of Time".
Between the Chrono games, Yasunori Mitsuda worked on Xenogears. Notable for featuring one of the first vocal credits songs in RPGs, Small Two of Pieces (which remains to this day one of the finest examples of such songs), the soundtrack is known as one of Mitsuda's best works. Other notable tracks include Shattering the Egg of Dreams, The Treasure Which Cannot be Stolen, Gathering Stars in the Night Sky, Flight, Tears of the Stars, Hearts of the People, The One Who is Torn Apart, Omen, and Awakening.
- This Troper is partial to Balto and Dazil
- Let's not forget Shevat -The Wind Is Calling-, shall we? Simply beautiful in this troper's eyes.
- There's also My Village Is Number One, a nice little sound-alike of CT's Millenial Fair that plays in the hero's hometown. Then there's the orchestrated version, which takes it to a whole new level of awesome.
  - The One Who Bares Fangs At God, easilly one of the best examples of beyond EPIC Final Boss Music.
- "Gathering Stars in the Night Sky" is sappy, but instantly endearing. And speaking of sappy, who can forget "Small of Two Pieces", the wonderfully cheesy Power Ballad that closes out the game? Its unreleased sister piece, "Stars of Tears", is noteworthy as well, as is its in-game instrumental version, "Sentiment".
And then there is the Xenosaga Episode I soundtrack. The Battle Theme is pure win.
- Let's include some examples, shall we? The Resurrection and Last Battle are personal favorites.
  - Breaking Space Ship Pursuit. A song so epic in this troper's eyes, it was simply too awesome for battle music, so they made it a random scene.
Then came Chrono Cross. Scars Left By Time. Home World - Fields of Time. Chronopolis. Another World - On The Beach of Dreams. Chronomantique. Leaving the Body. Dragon Rider. Magical Dreamers - Wind, Stars, and Waves. Garden of the Gods. Terra Tower - Dragon's Prayer. Radical Dreamers - Unstolen Jewel. Mere words are useless.
- Dead Sea/Tower Of Destruction sets just the right tone for the area it's hardcoded into. It still gives this troper goosebumps listening to it.
- Prisoners of Fate, AKA that song that plays when you fight Miguel.
- Don't forget the battle against the Dragon God, as well as Fate - The God of Destiny.
- How could this list possibly exist without The Girl Who Stole the Stars?! It brings tears to my eyes. The absolutely perfect theme for Kid.
  - On the subject of Kid, Burning Orphanage, which is only played once, in a completely optional dungeon.
- Fortress of Ancient Dragons, the Fort Dragonia theme.
- Also The Dream that Time Dreams, the music that plays during the demo movie, and climactic song Life: The Distant Promise.
- How do you make Scars Left by Time even better than it already is? Scars Left by Time, fully orchestrated.
- An often-overlooked but truly unforgettable song is The Frozen Flame, a carryover from Radical Dreamers. And speaking of which...
Radical Dreamers had a small selection of wonderful songs that didn't reappear in Chrono Cross. The opening theme, for instance, is quite lovely, and the track dubbed "Final Confrontation" is as rousing a boss theme as any you'll hear (why it wasn't reused as Lynx's battle theme in Chrono Cross is beyond me).
- Gale, the fight theme, is quite intense, while fitting well with the atmosphere of the game. A redone (and rather lackluster) version serves as the main battle theme in Cross.
Bomberman 64: The Second Attack had a soundtrack that simply radiated epicness. Not like you'd expect any less from Yasunori Mitsuda, the same person who did the music for Xenogears and Chrono Trigger.
- The Angel theme is probably the most epic composition this trooper has ever heard.
And just in case anyone should have even the slightest doubt that Mitsuda's still got the touch, let me present: the main theme of Sands of Destruction. Yeah. He's still got it.
Mitsuda is the longtime childhood friend of Yoshitaka Hirota (see below). And so, doing the friendly thing, he contributed a few tracks to the Shadow Hearts series. And those tracks happened to kick ass, nicely complementing Hirota's already-awesome work.Astaroth, for example, is among Mitsuda's contributions.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl. "Vs. Marx". That is all.
Both Mitsuda AND Shimomura are composing the musics of the upcoming title Xenoblade: We already know for sure that the soundtrack is going to be brilliant.
- Actually, Mitsuda only composed one song for the game: the ending theme Beyond the Sky. All the other tracks are composed by the other composers including Shimomura.
Mitsuda also worked on an obscure and somewhat mediocre title called Tsugunai: Atonement. You are not likely to have heard this song from that game, but you may have heard it from the playthrough vids of the Chrono Trigger fangame Crimson Echoes. It's a pretty kickass song either way.
He also worked on This awesome track for Kid Icarus:Uprising its just, epic.

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