As you folks who have seen a few posts of my blog (all three of you) may have figured out by now, I'm a pretty musically inclined person, especially when my two interests of music and video games intersect in some way. There are some games whose soundtracks I absolutely adore, and one recent example is Persona 4. The opening theme song of that game is catchy enough to qualify as a pandemic-level infectious disease. Likewise, the battle music, while good, is hampered by one flaw - there's only one track's worth of battle music, only varied slightly when fighting big bad guys or bosses.

Now, I understand the value of having music identified with a particular game event - note the victory music of the Final Fantasy games and how well that's been ingrained into our gamer minds. But one way to enhance the replayability of a game is to vary the music from time to time. And that got me to thinking about the following question: if you just succeeded in accomplishing a Herculean task in a video game, what would your music sound like?

Now, this may sound weird, but I think the track "Forever and Always" by Bullet for My Valentine would be good victory music for me. The stadium-filling, epic-sounding riffs coupled with the slow and thick drumming and the melodic vocals just conjure up in me images of having rescued the girl by slaying about three armies' worth of video game bad guys, having blown the head off of the last boss with the only bullet left in your arsenal. Weird association, I know, but that's just me. So, if you had to pick victory music for yourself, what would you pick?