Fav. Arrangement Album

Definitely Phantasy Star Sound Collection 1 heads the list. It takes the classic PS melodies and gives them pretty much the perfect arrangement...It's all done with synth (and electric guitar!), but everything clicks moreso than any other sound set-up I've heard. The rock pieces rock, the soft stuff finds its' mark and the bombastic orchestral-style stuff meshes well with everything else. It is literally perfect...I'd love to see every one of my favorite scores arranged the way this one is.

Then there's Falcom...Both the Ys IV Perfect Collections and the Turbo Duo Redbook of Ys 3 (plus Oath in Felghana, a complete modern re-enactment of the score) are flat-out amazing and go so far as to immortalize both scores. Plenty of other Falcom ones I like (the other Perfect Collections for the Ys games, the Sorcerian Perfect Collections, the JDK Bands), but none approach the first ones I said.

And no way I can't mention Konami: Their Perfect Selection (Battle and otherwise) and Tokimeki Memorial Sound Collections made me the diehard fan of them I am today. Ditto for SNK, who outdid themselves through most of the latter 90's with the KoF and Fatal Fury series (most of the arranged stuff was from Neo Geo CD games).

Recently, ZX Tunes and both of the Atelier Iris arranged albums have joined the rank of all-time favorites of mine, not to mention so many of the various doujin arranged albums: Legend of Xanadu -Kleene-, Preludio: For All of You FF Lovers, Raydric (Akineko's Ragnarok Online arranged album), Lukar's Dragon Slayer IV Arrange, Sound Paradise: Power of the Music and Jesus is Dead's Jailbreak...All classics (and that's cutting the list significantly short)

But yeah...If I had to name one single album, Phantasy Star Sound Collection 1 all the way as the undisputed champ. If I had to pick a series of albums, the Ys IV PC's.

Edit: Katamari is definitely an OST. The main theme is arranged on later albums, however...

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