Honestly, if Phantasy Star Online 2 isn't famous for its plethora of costumes, it's famous for this. Every square inch and meter of this game's soundtrack is filled to the brim with fantastic music, and, well, let's just say we'd be here all day if we were to talk about all of them.
Field
- Seabed's theme, both the tense yet beautiful Battle variant
and the soothing Calm variant. - The field music for Tokyo has a feeling of mystery and surrealism, perfect as you duel the Phantoms in the streets.
- The Riding Quest themes, "Neon Days" and "Neon Nights", performed by Runblebee, which just rocks.
- The theme for Mother Corps' moonbase, in a rather cunning move, is built with elements of various sections of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Using the linked video as reference...
- The piano fill at 5:07 is taken nearly verbatim from the beginning of the third movement...
- ...while the vocal linesnote follow the right-hand chords for the beginning of the first movement. And it just carries on from there.
- The piano fill at 5:07 is taken nearly verbatim from the beginning of the third movement
Boss
- Big Varder may have been one of the first bosses, but its theme takes the cake through sheer awesomeness. And it just gets better from there.
- The theme of Dragon EX features Orchestral Bombing at its finest.
- Many consider the theme that plays during Dark Falz Elder's preliminary fight against the Falz Arms to be extremely epic.
- Then comes in the proper battle theme for Dark Falz Elder, titled IDOLA the Sledge of Destruction. Over-the-top title much? The song itself far surpasses its epic name, which is saying a lot.
- Dark Vibrace's theme. The perfect theme for the final wave of the Tower Defense Emergency Quest.
- The theme when you showdown with Deuman Theodore is pretty darn good.
- Dark Falz Luther, the deadliest and most challenging boss in the game to date, also brings with him one of the greatest boss battle themes known to recent history, with its haunting Ominous Latin Chanting, powerful instrumentals that respond to Luther's phase changes (and even a Musical Nod to Olga Flow!), an incredibly tense mix denoting the incoming One-Hit Kill, and to top it all off, a new mix of "A whole new world" with 100% more Ominous Latin Chanting to remind you that what you've started isn't over yet.
- The theme of Falz Dranble, "Chaotic Dynasty", is just as imposing and frenetic as its title suggests, yet also has a sort of playful bounce to it befitting Gemini's twisted mindset.
- "IDOLA" the Audacious JOKER", Dark Falz Gemini's theme, is tense and fitting for the most utterly deranged boss in the game. The music in the first phase is a mixture of awesome and dread-inducing. When Gemini loses around 50% of its health, the music suddenly goes ballistic for a moment as Gemini turns into a cluster of rockets and tries to run you over. After that, the original music continues in sped-up and higher-pitched version while Gemini throws everything it can at you to keep you from reaching the Profound Darkness.
- The Profound Darkness' battle has three examples in a single boss battle!
- The first phase has an absolutely amazing remix of Ooze, the original Profound Darkness' theme from Phantasy Star IV.
- Instead of incorporating elements of the song into its boss theme, its next phase has a flat-out remix of IDOLA The Strange Fruits. And it is also amazing.
- And then when the fight is nearing its end, another new mix of "A whole new world"! This time with 100% more electric guitar!
- The first phase has an absolutely amazing remix
- Whatever track plays during the Bad End fight with Matoi Viel, carrying home just how tragic the entire situation is with a single, sad piano as you fight.
- "Borderless" basically takes the awesomeness of Tokyo's BGM and cranks it way up so it suits fighting a laser-armed, missile-raining World War II battleship with a small squadron of mecha.
- Esca Falz Mother brings with her yet another spectacular remix, this time of "Death Place" from Phantasy Star II.
- Episode 5 gives us Dark Falz Persona. First two phases start off with two of four remixes of the previous Omega Falzes. Then he puts on the Persona mask and we get "Over the Universe" and the real fight begins.
- The tracks for the mission Queen's Nightmare: Earth Depths include MARASSO AI LIBEICION, which is at the outset before destroying the first blockade, ATAQUELUT AI LIBEICION, when the player reaches the Limestone Caves, and ASTELTO AI LIBEICION near the end, culminating with DYREINA in the 2nd Half of the mission.
- The bosses of both Sector 3 quests of Fleet Interception are accompanied by "All ARKS", the lyrics pushing the players to fight for their future.
- "As One", the boss theme of Grave Exegul in Divide Quests, hits the ground running with the first half taunting ARKS that resistance is futile. When it shifts to the second half, the lyrics change to ARKS's point of view as they push back with determination.
- In Episode 6, the second form of the Primordial Darkness, Sodam, has Dark to Light blare in the background throughout the fight. If the true final boss's theme being an epic power ballad with two layers of vocals isn't enough to sway you, then maybe their symbolism will - the female vocals are sung from Matoi's, Hitsugi's, and Hariette's perspectives, while the male vocals are sung from the perspective of the Protagonist. That's right: this isn't Sodam's theme. It's yours.
Urgent and Other Quests
- The "ARKS Ship Inferno" Emergency Quest plays the theme song of Burning Rangers to get you in the mood to put out fires and save lives.
- For being such an underused gameplay mode, Challenge Quests have an absolutely spectacular sound lineup.
- "Resonant Defensive", the extended version of "Resonant Nation" from Mining Base Defense: Despair. There's even MORE beyond Dark Vibrace's theme and the build up is intensely well done.
- "Resonant Catastrophe", the theme to Mining Base Defense: Demise, starts off familiar enough... then the new OST hits partway through Wave 1, which brings the awesome from Despair and cranks it up. Wave 4 in particular is regarded as absolutely godly.
Concert
- You can't have a concert without the resident idol Quna's hit song "Our Fighting", the perfect song to rally up ARKS for an impending threat. "Eternal Encore" is also a beautiful but somber song towards a dear friend. You can listen to them both here, and here for the English version.
- The one and only Takenobu Mitsuyoshi brings his star power to PSO2 with "We're ARKS", and it is glorious. And there's an English version that Mitsuyoshi came in to dub into English as well!
- The PSO2 Live Broadcast crew proves that Quna isn't the only one who can rock the ARKS stage with their own infectiously catchy hit, "Rare Drop☆KOI☆KOI!". There's even an English version of that!
Other
- It's no surprise that "The Whole New World" is the Leitmotif for ARKS, having no less than twelve different variations that play for the most climactic of fights. The very first one that you hear in the first opening is your grand initiation to the game's score and is sure to get you raring to go on your adventure. As is fitting for a leitmotif that accompanies the end of the game's major fights, the final version that plays at the end of the credits serves as a majestic Bookend: this version has full lyrics talking about the overarching 'phantasy' of the saga, and how fighting the odds every step of the way has shown a path towards a whole new world for the heroes.
- Xion's theme has a very ethereal feel to it, accompanied by a soothing violin that gives it an air of mystery.
- Luther's theme. Elegant, mysterious and sinister.
- Mother's theme is an eerie yet calm electronic tune. It's also a remix of Xion's theme.
- The theme that plays when Luminmechs attack in Episode 6's Story Quests is frantic, heart-pounding electronic awesome.
- The Screen-to-Stage Adaptation is no slouch in the music department: just have a listen to "Phantasista"!
- Although reception to The Animation has been rather cold, "Rare Drop☆KOI☆KOI! One More!" has been very well received by those who bothered to tune in.
