1) Music that seems to be underrated in your opinion

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - Stone Tower/Stone Tower Temple

This was a lot tougher to find a music track for than I thought since most of the stuff I like everyone else likes as well, so I thought long and hard about it and I think I have an answer that requires some backstory first (I don't know if any of this is 100% true so I apologize beforehand). Majora's Mask was often viewed as a "black sheep" in the Zelda series when it first came out due to its recycled assets from Ocarina of Time and its surreal weirdness and it didn't find as much success as Ocarina of Time did. I did notice, however, that more and more people are started to appreciate the game a lot more now-a-days than back then when it was released... myself included. This one music I choose from this game is one that a lot of people don't really talk about as much as other music tracks. It plays during the final main dungeon and has a somewhat upbeat, positive sounding sound despite the fact that the dungeon takes place at the center of so much death and gloom. It's not the most epic video game tune ever, but I've always loved it ever since I heard it for the first time.


2) Music you associate with frustration

Mega Man 4 Voyage - Skull Man

I think I'm going to do something a little bit different with this one and choose a fangame for this one. It's a Mega Man fangame that is actually a ROM hack of the original Mega Man 4 game but with different graphics, music, and the same bosses but with different behavior. Don't get me wrong it is a functionally well made game but holy heck it was way too difficult for me. I think it might be more difficult than Mega Man Unlimited (another fangame) and that one is considered to be one of the harder fangames too! I feel bad ranting about it but there were just so many design decisions I didn't agree with like the Dive Man boss that ended up being a mashing fest against tiny missiles with tiny hitboxes that homed in on you and the wind-like physics gimmick of Dust Man's stage. However, I went with Skull Man's theme because it was the first robot master I went after when I played this for the first time so it's the main track I associate with the game... and the frustration


3) Music that makes you feel nostalgic

Super Mario Land - Overworld Theme

One of my very first Mario games. I was really young (don't remember my exact age) and my late grandfather bought me my very first Gameboy Color with Pokemon Blue and Super Mario Land (both games were actually for the original Gameboy). I had no idea how to play Pokemon back then so all my time went to playing Super Mario Land almost to death. Even if the game has aged slightly meh over the years, I have so many great memories with it. For example, I actually remember very clearly getting to the penultimate level of the game and asking my grandmother to play through it for me because it was too hard for me. I also remember feeling my heart beating so fast every time I defeated the final boss.