Read: Composer Stephanie Economou on scoring Assassin’s Creed: Dawn of Ragnarokġ01. Halo series / Martin O’Donnell, Michael Salvatori The Legend of Zelda Series / Koji KondoĢ9. ABC Classic 100: Music for the Screen – Video Game rankingsĢ3.
Australian games Hollow Knight, and Untitled Goose Game also made an appearance in the second half. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Marcin Przybylowicz, Mikolaj Stroinski) just missed out at #101, while the recently released Elden Ring (Yuka Kitamura, Tsukasa Saitoh) rounded out things at #200.
Video games made up a bigger portion of the next 100 entries of titles that narrowly missed out. The Final Fantasy series, with music by the legendary Nobuo Uematsu, came in at #64 (far too low if you ask me), with Pokemon (Various Composers) coming in at #75. In between the Nintendo titles was the Halo series coming in at #29, with fellow Microsoft title Minecraft also making its mark at #54 – C418 and the excellent Lena Raine got their due. Read: Untitled Goose Game Live will bring orchestral chaos to ACMI