My top 11 best video game battle themes

Whenever I play a video game, I make it a point to take a little time to listen to the music that the game provides. In all my years of playing games, I've heard millions of music tracks (I am not joking, I have played hundreds of games since I was five years old). I have heard some fantastic tracks, I have heard some truly awful pieces of music. However, today I want to look at battle themes, the musics that play whenever you, as the player, have to fight an enemy, or several enemies, in order to continue onward on your journey. This is not a collection of boss battle themes, which is music that you listen to when fighting a boss. No, this is a collection of normal battle themes, the music that plays every time you get a regular battle in an RPG, or when fighting a regular opponent in a fighting game (read: a character any player can use, in contrast to the special boss character no one can use). These are my top 11 best battle themes. Why top 11? Because I'm ripping off Doug Walker.

Wind's Nocturne- a look at the power of song in gaming

As a child, I never really liked animated musicals very much, mostly because most of the songs were annoying to me. Seriously, very few, if any of these songs, were good in my opinion. I guess that's why I took to gaming as much as I did. I didn't want to hear the princess sing about how she's waiting for her knight, I wanted to see the knight kick ass! No, I don't want to hear the comic relief characters sing about friendship, I wanna control the hero as he tears through the bad guy's armed forces!