Top 10 Video Game Soundtracks that are Better Than the Games that They Belong To

The Top Ten
1 Chrono Trigger's soundtrack

While the game is incredibly overrated and shallow, and is completely too easy, its music is so utterly perfect that it basically is completely impossible to over-rate.

2 Undertale's soundtrack

While the game kind of is even more "just okay" than Mother 3, its music quite-easily is even MORE amazing than Mother 3's.

3 Mother 3's soundtrack

While the game largely is "just okay" in both its story-telling department and its gameplay department, its music is incredibly-excessively epic and detailed.

4 Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest's soundtrack

While the game largely has the same "graphics over gameplay" problem that DKC 1 has, its music quite-easily is even MORE atmospheric and beautiful than DKC 1's.

5 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night's soundtrack

While the game itself objectively is nowhere near being as good as Super Metroid, its music is SO much more complex and interesting than Super Metroid's.

6 Mega Man 2's soundtrack

It might not really be Mega Man's best game (it mostly just is one of MM's easiest games), but it DEFINITELY has one of Mega Man's best soundtracks.

7 Xenogears's soundtrack

The game honestly is even more boring and pretentious than Final Fantasy VII, but its soundtrack arguably is even MORE epic than Final Fantasy VII's.

8 Mario's Mystery Meat's soundtrack

The game itself actually is quite good for being a result of a bunch of memes getting thrown into a blender, but its soundtrack contains Cursed Cathedral, Jesus Bleibet Meine Freude, AND pieces of the best parts of quite a few other video game soundtracks (Metroid 1's Brinstar, Earthworm Jim 2's Puppy Love, Final Fantasy 5's Beyond The Deep Blue Sea, Earthbound's New Age Retro Hippie, Super Mario World's version of Link's Awakening's Tail Cave, etc).

9 Sonic the Hedgehog 2006's soundtrack

Pretty much every Sonic game should be on this list.

10 Final Fantasy VII's soundtrack

Despite how much of a pretentious and utterly overrated train wreck the game is, its music is absolutely amazing and is some of Final Fantasy's best music.

The Contenders
11 Kirby Super Star's soundtrack

Despite how easy and boring the game is, its music is incredibly epic.

12 Mario Kart Wii's soundtrack
13 Kingdom Hearts's soundtrack
14 Grand Theft Auto 5's soundtrack
15 Splatoon's soundtrack
16 Earthworm Jim's soundtrack
17 Donkey Kong Country's soundtrack
18 Final Fantasy VI's soundtrack
19 Metroid 1's soundtrack
20 Xenoblade Chronicles's soundtrack
21 Sonic CD's soundtrack
22 Parappa The Rapper's soundtrack
23 Um Jammer Lammy's soundtrack
24 Cave Story's soundtrack
25 Mega Man X6's soundtrack
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