[Top 100 RPG Battle Themes] #37 - Tales of the Abyss

Game - Tales of the Abyss
Song - The Arrow Was Shot
Composer - Motoi Sakuraba

Notes: Motoi shines in this style once again.

Welcome to the Top 100 RPG Battle Themes playlist. This is a representation of the 100 best songs spanning my gaming history of RPG's. Some of these games, I haven't played, others I have spent countless hours on, but the music has stuck with me for whatever reason. I have tried my best to not have too many from one game or series.

This list was updated in April 2011.

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Music

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• tales
• of
• the
• abyss
• arrow
• was
• shot
• motoi
• sakuraba
• battle
• rpg

[triAceFanboy]

This always reminds me of how bad Sakuraba can be sometimes. Goddamn, whenever he's composing a Tales soundtrack, he seems to just fall asleep and not even try.

[tomenaki]

@triAceFanboy I can understand what you mean, but I personally think this is where Sakuraba shines. He does this style well. I do agree that he should branch out and try to steer away from this style and feel regardless of the game.

[Testsubject909]

Ah, Tales of the Abyss, the second Tales game to make it's apparition in this list.

Considering the lack of 8-bit era and 16-bit era song though it makes one wonder when you started gaming.

[tomenaki]

I actually began gaming in the 16-bit era with Sonic the Hedgehog, however, my first RPG was not until the Playstation came out.

[shuyin023]

This is actually one of my favorites. I always fight in the coliseum just to hear this.

[jonathan0294]

@REALmikegordan That was the same order for me, actually i played pokemon withouth knowing it was an RPG ( i was a little kid) then FF VII really captivated me and now im a RPG fanatic.

[erzseven]

thats cool

[REALmikegordan]

Wow! Me too. Actually, I began gaming with Sonic 2, and my first RPG I have ever played was Pokemon. However, Final Fantasy VII was definitely the first story-driven RPG I have ever played and beaten.

PS: Sonic 2, Final Fantasy VII, and only two other games hail as being my favorite video games of all time. Those two games I haven't played 'till recently, so that's quite an achievement on their part.

Oh, and those two games are Chrono Trigger, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

[Luiscota1986]

The Arrow Was Shot !!!!!!!!!

[Blassreiterfan95]

the opening really reminds me of megaman