There's plenty of music that became instant favorites of mine on first hearing, but as they are not video-game related and I'm sure no one would care, I'll skip that for now.

As iffy as the Kingdom Hearts series is on some notes, one absolute undeniable highlight is the score -- specifically, the Darkness of the Unknown track. This combines all the different variations of the score so I'm technically cheating, but as someone who was, and likely still is, unversed in video game composers, this introduction to Yoko Shimomura's non-synthesized work is absolutely astounding. Now any time I hear she's connected to a work, I always expect the very best; such as her remixes in Smash like Kass's theme and her new Vega arrangement. I'm a sucker for violins in general.

As a note, I wasn't the most into the SSBU Aria of the Soul remix but I love it now, in fact I could do and entire analysis on it.

@MegaBossMan :It's ok if you are a fan of non-Video Game music.

Please refrain from double-posting in the same thread -- you can conveniently find an 'Edit Button' option on the posts you make! Please remember it's not polite Community etiquette to notify people twice for something you can just edit into a post! - MBM