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[Newtype-001]

Some of my faves
FF7 - Cosmo Canyon

Oaths in Felghana - Trading Town of Redmont

Ni no Kuni - Fairygrounds
^^This ones so goood

Traverse towns theme does make me nostalgic.

 

[Secret Owl]

I wouldn't say it's my favorite, but it's underrated and sets the tone very well for such a short song.

Gargoyle's Quest - Village

 

[Swapzism]

The GOAT

 

[legacyzero]

I already hate this thread because I just want to go back and experience Super Mario RPG all over again. Damn you OP.

That said, I gotta rep Earthbound's luxurious Onett

Also, Tams, Man of the Sea from Xenogears always put a smile on my face.

 

[Orakio Rob]

Oaths in Felghana - Trading Town of Redmont

The Genesis version is awesome too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBdbN7cBmzk

 

[liftedly]

Illusion of Time/Gaia - South Cape

 

[Nocturnowl]

I'll throw a few in...

Frontier Village - Xenoblade
Jaunty flute and accordion goodness that hits me right in a personal sweetspot.

On the Other Side of the Mirage/Yormgen - Tales of Vesperia
Sakuraba can fall into a trap of rather samey sounding town themes due to the amount of stuff he has to put out, I mean they're still good and a number of his pieces in the Tales and Golden Sun series are favourites of mine, this one though always felt more out there than the usual with its mysterious and sombre tone.
A quick mention for Asgard from Symphonia while I'm on this series.

Fourside - Earthbound
I first heard this track years ago with its SSB Melee remix and honestly I never dug it that much. So it was surprising when I finally played through Earthbound around a year or so ago just how much I ended up digging the same theme in its original form.

Not really an RPG but Monte d'Or: Carnival Night - Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask
Yup, It's Layton music

 

[Rhomega Beta]

Slateport City - Pokemon ORAS
Welcome To Our Town - Final Fantasy IV
Nimbus Land - Super Mario RPG

 

[Tuffty]

I've seen Tales of Vesperia mentioned a few times but I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this one yet

Dahngrest - Tales of Vesperia

I stayed longer in this town because of the music.

 

[themagicalkitsune]

Dragon Quest VII - Heavenly Village
Dragon Quest VII - Strolling in the Town
Dragon Quest VII - Town Square Banquet
Dragon Quest VI - In the Town

 

[Gurgelhals]

I do have a lot of love for Terranigma's town themes too, so I'll just mention Crysta's theme as well.

This. So much this. Though in retrospect the Crysta Theme isn't so much relaxing than devastating, because so much heartbreaking shit and revelations happen in the towns with that theme. Especially dat ending :-(

 

[orioto]

Everything is mentioned already so i'll try to be a worthy hipster!

Sakura Taisen Imperial Theater (Nighttime Theme)

 

[RubberLuffy]

Muladhara from Digital Devil Saga 1 is super cool and chill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTSruCfTU_0

 

[Oregano]

Ooo a (kind of) recent favourite of mine is Bravely Default's Eternia. One of the best pieces of music in the game.

 

[tensuke]

The BGM to Carona in Threads of Fate/Dewprism is so great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJkRw8LfkzI

What's even better is how it actually sounds different between night and day, even though it's the same song. It's just the atmosphere and the way it sounds makes you think it's slightly altered for different settings.

 

[Shingaling]

I'm playing through Suikoden 2 for the first time and I'm really digging the Head Quarters Theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlog26_Kwlw

Spoiler

Even though I just spoiled myself in the fact that it changes at some point by looking the song up

 

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Norune Village - Dark Cloud
Queens Town - Dark Cloud
Besaid Village - FFX (Its first played in Besaid , but used in Kilika as well i think)
Casnan - Ys Memories of Celceta
Pokemon HG/SS - New Bark Town

 

[Gabriel_Logan]

Persona 4 Your Affection, soooo good.

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

My vote goes to Fisherman's Horizon

So good, Traverse Town is excellent too. One of my favorites.

 

[Kodaman]

Mitsuda got this on lock.

Less known example: Tsugunai - Early Afternoon In The Village

 

[devious.one]

Roer, the City of Iron and Steel

Heimdallr, Crimson Imperial Capital

Both from Trails of Cold Steel. Probably not my GOAT choices, but seeing as most of my favorites have already been posted, might as well inject some new challengers.

 

[GKSilKamina]

Baten Kaitos Origins - Town of Good Harvest

 

[skLaFarebear]

I'll keep it short and post a recent one I really loved. Legram, Lakeshore Town from Trails of Cold Steel 1

 

[SolVanderlyn]

I'll keep it short and post a recent one I really loved. Legram, Lakeshore Town from Trails of Cold Steel 1

This is probably the best recent one. It instantly calls to mind knights and medieval castles. Glad to see all the Vesperia love in here, too. Dahngrest, Aspio and Yormgen are all amazing.

 

[Goteki_45]

Suikoden 3 - Duck Village

Entered the town, had to stop and literally listen to the whole song until the loop.

 

[Awful Falafel]

Ooo a (kind of) recent favourite of mine is Bravely Default's Eternia. One of the best pieces of music in the game.

Revo really nailed the entire OST in that game. Personally I prefer Hartschild's theme and the one for Florem for town themes in the game.

 

[jett]

Illusion of Time/Gaia - South Cape

Let me one up you with the better town theme from the same game.

 

[victreeb3l]

I really liked Snowbelle City from Pokemon XY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYASGXzBTfw

 

[Hoya Destroyer]

I like the music from the town of Kuldahar, in the original Icewind Dale. It only goes for about 30 seconds, but its very calming and otherworldly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhVxvv4VWLc

 

[HabeeNo]

Legend of Mana (Yoko Shimomura)

Hometown Domina
Cliff Town Gato
Port City Polpota
Magic City Geo

Came here for Hometown Domina. The GOAT

 

[ULTROS!]

Resonance of Fate - Ebel City - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG6amM0I-fA
By the same guy who did Alundra's OST, Kouhei Tanaka, superior in all ways and very homey sounding.

Final Fantasy II - Town - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFxBYMFPRC4
Oldie but goodie. I learned this song through Theatrhythm Curtain Call. Amazing 8-bit piece.

Came here for Hometown Domina. The GOAT

Well if this counts as a town piece:

Sparkling Ruined City - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xevd898bCyg
( Though I like the Drammatica version much more - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcLr70_t71c )

Then this song probably beats all... and is GOAT, heh.

 

[FStubbs]

Dragon Quest VII - Heavenly Village
Dragon Quest VII - Strolling in the Town
Dragon Quest VII - Town Square Banquet
Dragon Quest VI - In the Town

I'm on DQ7 OST blackout but the DQ6 town themes are otherworldly good. The symphonic version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsR3-wg1yg

DQ2 and DQ8 shone as well:

DQ 2 town theme
DQ8 town theme
DQ 9 Observatory (hey, it was sort of a town)

Trails in the Sky

Seaport Ruan - Once or twice I would enter town and just let the music play.

Suikoden 3

Duck Village

Secret of Mana

I forgot the name of this town but it's early in the game

Wild Arms 1

Aldehyde Castle Town

Radiata Stories

The bad part of town? - is this cheating?

 

[Shepard]

These are really, really good themes from games with a kinda underrated OSTs

Okami - Wep'keer theme
Okami - Sei-an City Commoners' Quarter
Rogue Galaxy - Planet Zerard
Rogue Galaxy - Burkaca Village
Final Fantasy XII - Eruyt Village

 

[Azalean]

Tales of Eternia - Gnome Village
Final Fantasy VII - Valley of the Fallen Star

 

[Copper]

Peaceful Days- Chrono Trigger
Frontier Village - Xenoblade Chronicles

 

[H.Protagonist]

Other great ones:


Suikoden II - Imprisoned Town (Greenhill)

Yessssssssssss! I was going to say this one (with the force of a thousand nostalgia hearts). So haunting and good. I usually throw this one on loop while I'm working.

Also: The Mining Town themes

Tinto - a variation of which was also used for the Suikogaiden II opening (see below).

And Tierkreis gets a lot of shit, but I thought the music was pretty memorable:

Mining Town



And I don't care if it's not town music because everyone needs to see these...

Suikogaiden I opening

Suikogaiden II opening (unfortunately a bit blurry...)

 

[diaspora]

Lavender Town

 

[Nikodemos]

My favourite "less known" motif is the generic village theme from Arcanum.

String quartet at its finest.

Honorable mentions: Vendigroth, Tulla.

 

[Bane]

I have to give mention to Traverse Town. I'm not much of a KH fan at all but that music really caught me off guard when I first played it and I still love it today.

Kingdom of Ixa'taka

Came to post this so, you're pretty awesome.

Oh yeah, FFXIV has good town music too.

Soken is killing it with that game. He's the first person I felt was truly Uematsu's worthy replacement. I'd love to see him do another mainline game if he had the time someday. For town music, I especially love Sultana Dreaming.

 

[ShooterMcGavin]

Witcher 3 - Oxenfurt

 

[Cmagus]

I've always liked Fenith Island from Rune Factory Tides of Destiny

Rune Factory Tides of Destiny - Fenith Island Daytime

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Roer, the City of Iron and Steel

Heimdallr, Crimson Imperial Capital

Both from Trails of Cold Steel. Probably not my GOAT choices, but seeing as most of my favorites have already been posted, might as well inject some new challengers.

I love these threads as they give me an excuse to drop phat beats on new ears, and I never run out.

Roer: City of Iron and Steel ~ Trails of Cold Steel 1

Heimdall, the Crimson Imperial Capital

JDK's more sophisticated, cosmopolitan side comes to the surface in their calmer, more laid-back games.

Whispers of Oxenfurt (Inst) ~ Witcher 3

Plaintive, empty, achingly beatiful, shame about flubbing the transitions there, though.

Shibuya Underground District ~ Shin Megami Tensei IV

Yo, I heard you liked cyberpunk and FM.

The City on the Deep Blue Sea ~ Etrian Odyssey III

Koshiro's and Generation 7's best soundtrack (check that bass!)

Not really, but backup is always appreciated!

Here's some more (that I hope keep appearing):

Phenac City ~ Pokemon Colosseum

RECORD SCRATCH!

Town on a River ~ Suikoden V

Miki-Chang retires but the sounds are in good hands.

Guild ~ Breath of Fire III

Have some smooooooooooooooooooth Q-Sound-esque jazz from late 90s Capcom.

 

[Bassmastergeneral]

Here's a favorite

Popolocrois - Godrif Town

 

[Skab]

Diablo 2

Harrogath.

Rogue Encampment.


Sooo good!

 

[Nikodemos]

Other honorable mentions for good tracks are Kaer Morhen (Prologue) and Murky Waters (Chapter IV) from the first Witcher.


And since Kuldahar was already mentioned, I'll add Lonelywood from Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter.

 

[Infernostew]

Wild Arms - Town

The best i have heard, the best ever.

First thing I thought of.

Xenogears - My Village Is Number One

Legend of Mana - Hometown Domina

Final Fantasy IX - City That Never Sleeps ~ Treno

 

[jett]

No love for Zelda town themes? So many to pick from, but Outset Island is one of my favourites: warm and upbeat while minimalist enough to never be a distraction.

What about Zelda 2's town theme? I wish Nintendo would stop forgetting this game exists. Look how nice it sounds all arranged and stuff.

 

[AuthenticM]

Final Fantasy 8 - Under Her Control

That funk!

sogood.gif

 

[Dark_castle]

We have a RPG town music thread every week and I'm okay with that.

 

[Nanashrew]

Ctrl F Goldenrod...

*nothing*

Came on Gaf...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1-VyHIx_SY


Even better, pokemon puzzle challenge version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEi7h6LSA54

My favorite city and song. I always saved my game in this city.