What is your favorite video game title track? Not necessarily from your favorite game soundtrack, but the one in the main screen that really took your breath away.
For some reason, I don’t find many modern main themes memorable.
And while I do remember the themes from SF2 and the Sonic games the only one that I have randomly pop in my head are Streets of Rage (IMO the best theme of its time) and Eternal Champions.
But I did play through Marvel vs Capcom Infinite and thought it was pretty good.
I feel like most main themes nowadays are supposed to be background music with no hooks or powerful leads to tell a story. Tekken 7 had a few different main menu themes with each update and they set a tone but are essentially elevator music. Contrast that to the game’s various character select music (again, changes with the updates) and they’re more potent and memorable. Same story with Soul Calibur 6.
Contrast that to SF4 and 5 which makes an effort to have a memorable lead melody. Killer Instinct thankfully makes a call back to the original’s guitar lead melody.
But I’m playing through a good amount of games on Gamepass and I’m loving a lot of the games I’m going through, some of them with fantastic soundtracks (playing Carrion ATM) but I gotta say, not one really memorable main menu theme for me. I pointed it MvsC:I but part of my fascination with that was that it strongly harkens to the feel of the Marvel movie themes and I found that interesting.
Im for sure going to have to say the end credit theme to INSIDE. The game alone was amazing but at that end…with the scenery and the song(a little high too lol) really brought me to that place.
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