Or maybe, bear with me, just maybe, sometimes a linear focused experience offers a better way to explain a narrative than does an open world game, where you can do things in disorder and then diludes heavily the lore and cinematic focused experience of the story. The game is rich with lore, this tells me the first…

But this list doesn’t include the Dragon Quest VIII OST. Travesty, I say! I still mark it as among the very tip-top of game soundtracks. The level of production quality is simply staggering. And from what I’ve read—and for some reason I cannot quite comprehend—only the American version of the game got this symphonic…