In Japan Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and Tales Of are the three mainstream Rpg series, but lurking in the shadows, is a little blue and white snowy critter smiling.
Battle For Survival is just godlike, I can't think of any RPG series at the moment where battle OST makes turn-based combat feel like playing Devil May Cry.
DDS really is Meguro's magnum opus. The style shift between 1&2 perfectly reflects the story. I played them at launch and still after all these years Hunting Betrayal and Airport make me teary eyed
I love the disparity between DDS1s songs and DDS2. In DDS2 the songs feel more like heroic battles rather than DDS1's "I can't afford to lose" another way of showing how far the embroyn came
theres something poetic about madness, the intensity of instrumentals giving you the sense that your party has gone somewhat feral and then the sudden calmness of the piano... just soooo good
It's hard to describe how special DDS 1&2 and their soundtracks are to me honestly. DDS was my introduction to SMT and Shoji Meguro. I'm 33 now but I still have so many fond memories playing this game.
It's kind of insane how many battle themes there are in this game. The first time I played DDS1 I was really surprised everytime I heard a new one playing. And each and everyone of them gets you really motivated for the battle too. It's probably my favorite Atlus game soundtrack as a whole. The whole games feels super cohesive and the soundtrack in particular fits so well to the game's vibes and themes.
i love this game so much i have the Water Crown atma symbol tattoed (on my chest, not my face). also, Battle for Survival is one of my top battle themes in the entire MegaTen franchise. Wish Atlus would acknowledge DDS and remaster/remake it.
The raw emotion you can feel in Divine Identity always makes it stand out in my mind among great final boss tracks. You can feel the scale of the battle, the weight of our friends' sacrifices, like a fist closing around your heart. But also the love and the promise that even the mightiest tyrant can fall.
It's also a contrast. Normally you fight to kill God (or Lucifer) or someone who wants to become god. This time, you're fighting God to convince him to not destroy the world.
top five megaten soundtracks for me are 1. Persona 5 2. DDS 1 & 2 3. Persona 3 4. Devil Summoner Raidou Kuzunoha 5. Too hard to decide between Nocturne and P4
From the when this game first released when I was 13, to now as 29 year old, Hunting Betrayal has always been my #1 favorite video game track out of any and all Ive come across
I remember hearing Hunting-Comrades for the first time in my younger days playing on ps2. It was a slap to the face. I just put the controller down and kept on listening. DDS1 probably has my favorite battle themes in all of the SMT franchise. Banger after banger.
@@trickster1959 i didnt like persona 3 and i will play smt 3 when the remaster comes to PC but i doubt they will connect me to the characters like dds did haha thanks for the info tho
@@ryudou4966 Well I'm not sure what else to recommend sorry :( I was introduced to SMT through Persona so, I may be biased when I say games like Persona 5: The Royal or Persona 4: The Golden are good picks lol, not everyone has the same experience or whatever the actual term is, but you get the gist of it XD
18:55 me: “Alright Heat, I’m expecting great things from you!” (Casts Revelation) (Half the orbs repel it, killing Heat instantly) Me: *absolutely gobsmacked* “oh! (Whispering) I am so sorry, Heat...”
I've only seen an hour of gameplay on this, so I barely know anything about the story. But what I do know is that these themes are SOLID AND UNDERRATED bangers
Both have such different energies. The first is more calm and reserved as they’re not used to their power, while the second is when they’ve become accustomed to it and are letting loose on their enemies.
You can play Nocturne, Digital devil saga 1&2, Persona 3fes&4(the ps2 version not golden), From the psn store on ps3. But the ps3,psp,and vita stores are closing permanently soon so you should hurry.
@@JayAreAitch your a bit late greedy Sony decided to keep ps3 and vita stores open. Probably because they made alot of money by making gamers panic buy ton of ps3 and vita exclusives. PSP store is still closing, though it's super easy to emulate with ppsspp on and yes you can play two players and install DLC.
i love how passive agressive the description is. "This is all the battle themes from Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2, two games with some of the best OST's ever (better than most Personas)." why can't we all get along, fellas.
@@HYPERR3AL People will always find silly ways to shit on persona since it's more popular. I'm more of a mainline SMT fan myself but I've never been fond of that kind of thinking in the community and personally imo people are stuck on their hate on the persona fandom and success more than the actual games.
@@hellthrust760 yea cell shaded really makes a game last in the visual department. same as sprites. Tis why all the "realistic 3d graphics" from the 90s look like shit but not spites or stuff with an actual aesthetic
@@hellthrust760 I would take a Nocturne-style remaster where they essentially just bump up the resolution of the screen and some textures, and add some QoL.
I didn't play this game much, but most of the battle themes sound like you can tear your enemies to pieces, except you are terrified of yourself at this point
There will never be another time as fucking baddass as PS2 era Atlus
They were fucking slaying it. Nocturne, DDS and Persona 3.
Meguro was mad devoted back then. He penned a couple masterpieces too for the Devil Summoner games on the PS2, can't forget those.
@@DrummerDucky Indeed. Raidou was a cool guy, shame that Atlus seems to have forgotten these games
@@otakamerd1220 this has not aged well well i think the new devil summoner will be good but it will not fit what it built over the years
@@ofilosofoouumfumante5655 well the new DevilSummoner is not Raidou series tho.
@@ahmadalkautsar2973 the raidou duology is in the devil summoner series
In Japan Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and Tales Of are the three mainstream Rpg series, but lurking in the shadows, is a little blue and white snowy critter smiling.
Hee..... Ho......
In Japan SMT is bigger than Tales of
@@JimLink in japan smt is prolly bigger than FF im just sayin. Although yeah Dragon Quest is at the top
@@fen6300 it definitely isnt. the most sales any smt game has gotten is iv with 600k, which means smt anywhere is not nearly as popular as ff in japan
@@stea20 600k in 2015, isn't it?
Battle For Survival is just godlike, I can't think of any RPG series at the moment where battle OST makes turn-based combat feel like playing Devil May Cry.
Same lol
DDS really is Meguro's magnum opus. The style shift between 1&2 perfectly reflects the story. I played them at launch and still after all these years Hunting Betrayal and Airport make me teary eyed
Digital devil saga during quarantine was a great experience.
Feel the same way
me too
Same here brudda
Same
Same. It was the first time I experienced the games too.
I'm always sad this game never gets as much recognition as other Shin Megami Tensei games. It is so good
I've never played DDS but from what I see and hear, it seems to be very good.
@@trickster1959 fix that
@@trickster1959 in my case, i never played Raidou DeSu games but from what i heard(the music specifically) it makes me want to play the games so bad
Nice pfp
I hope they remaster this series as well
I love the disparity between DDS1s songs and DDS2. In DDS2 the songs feel more like heroic battles rather than DDS1's "I can't afford to lose" another way of showing how far the embroyn came
I can still hear Gale and Cielo casting buffs whenever I listen to any of the boss themes
I just picture serph folding his arms in front of his face and casting a spell
"Æ"
-Cielo
We have the advantage, proceed
*Transforming noise*
I picture Argilla raising her hand in the air casting Mediarahan after the enemy gives themselves extra turns
theres something poetic about madness, the intensity of instrumentals giving you the sense that your party has gone somewhat feral and then the sudden calmness of the piano... just soooo good
It sounds like something from madness combat
It's hard to describe how special DDS 1&2 and their soundtracks are to me honestly. DDS was my introduction to SMT and Shoji Meguro. I'm 33 now but I still have so many fond memories playing this game.
Same I'm 31 and this is so nostalgic 😭 for me good old ps2 love the shin megami tensei /persona series
I just got it a few days ago, the game is Heat🔥🔥🔥.
It's kind of insane how many battle themes there are in this game. The first time I played DDS1 I was really surprised everytime I heard a new one playing. And each and everyone of them gets you really motivated for the battle too. It's probably my favorite Atlus game soundtrack as a whole. The whole games feels super cohesive and the soundtrack in particular fits so well to the game's vibes and themes.
DDS2 for real has one of the best collection of battle themes in the entire MegaTen franchise
I agree and I'm in the Persona crowd.
00:00 - Hunting
02:20 - Hunting -Surprise Raid-
04:43 - Hunting -Compulsion-
07:33 - Hunting -Comrades-
10:26 - Hunting -Rare Devil-
12:27 - Big Battle
15:25 - Hari-Hara
18:55 - Hari-Hara the Second Movement
22:00 - Battle For Survival
24:40 - Madness
27:08 - Heroic Battle
30:03 - Epic Battle
32:29 - Hunting -Betrayal-
35:03 - Enemies Reborn
37:56 - Divine Identity
That's just how UA-cam handles the - title - stuff
Bless you
Those guys really wanna hunt demons so bad
hunting
@@LarryButz -hunting-
i love this game so much i have the Water Crown atma symbol tattoed (on my chest, not my face). also, Battle for Survival is one of my top battle themes in the entire MegaTen franchise. Wish Atlus would acknowledge DDS and remaster/remake it.
ATLUSさん見てるかな
こんなにたくさんの人がDDSを未だに求めてます
リマスターでも続編でも期待してるぞ
Translation;
I wonder if ATLUS is watching
So many people still want DDS
I'm looking forward to the remaster and the sequel
The raw emotion you can feel in Divine Identity always makes it stand out in my mind among great final boss tracks.
You can feel the scale of the battle, the weight of our friends' sacrifices, like a fist closing around your heart.
But also the love and the promise that even the mightiest tyrant can fall.
It's also a contrast.
Normally you fight to kill God (or Lucifer) or someone who wants to become god.
This time, you're fighting God to convince him to not destroy the world.
Hunting Comrades and Hunting Betrayal are so freaking good.
Compulsion is pretty epic too
hey I like the pfp!
@@ram_taka3436 funny terry pfp
@@jerrysmith8814 Hunting surprise raid is my jam because of the extra Guitar riff at the start
@@magicmasterplayer can't argue with that
ペルソナからメガテンに挑戦してる新規だけど、こんなかっこいい音楽のゲームps2に置き去りなのもったいない！
DDSのストーリーもBGMも最高でした。
多くの人に知ってもらいたいゲームの１つ
アバチュ1とメガテン3のBGMが全てのゲームで一番好き
to any atlus employee collecting feedback: yes there is demand for a digital devil saga remaster. please just make it better than nocturne's.
I just recently started DDS2 and I got to say, I absolutely love the ost of 1 but somehow the second is even more amazing! So good
What a convinient time to upload these. I just started playing DDS last week.
I also played DDS 1 + 2 for the first time around a month ago. I love them both and I hope you enjoy them as well.
@@samza9233 I started playing it in August 2020
@@alinepiroutek8932 i finished the second one in august. what a coinkydink
@@tgrgjii8076 There is always at least one person in the World playing DDS.
The encounter rate are insane
Ppl said nocturne has Insane encounter rate but dds is on another level
is there estoma in the game?
DDS2で初めての戦闘曲流れた時、ボス戦の曲かっけぇ〜！と、興奮していたら通常バトル曲だったでござる。
通常バトルがボス曲ばりの盛り上がりでテンションぶち上がっていたのが懐かしい。
先週クリアしました…
最高のBGMをありがとう！
おめでとう！
DDS and Raidou Kuzunoha are peak megaten music.
Nocturne and P3/5, too.
@@thephantomthievesofhearts4388 Yeah.
top five megaten soundtracks for me are
1. Persona 5
2. DDS 1 & 2
3. Persona 3
4. Devil Summoner Raidou Kuzunoha
5. Too hard to decide between Nocturne and P4
idk, SMT IV was godlike imo
@@chickenstrips5138 like your opinion my g
Hunting -Betrayal is my jam. 83
From the when this game first released when I was 13, to now as 29 year old, Hunting Betrayal has always been my #1 favorite video game track out of any and all Ive come across
Same
I remember hearing Hunting-Comrades for the first time in my younger days playing on ps2. It was a slap to the face. I just put the controller down and kept on listening.
DDS1 probably has my favorite battle themes in all of the SMT franchise. Banger after banger.
i love the big battle theme! makes the battle feel so big...
Damn they are all so good it's insane.
it makes me so sad listening to these themes since there mostlikely wont be any other game like dds 1&2 that touched my heart
Hope you find another game like it, a suggestion would be SMT3, or Persona 3?
@@trickster1959 i didnt like persona 3 and i will play smt 3 when the remaster comes to PC but i doubt they will connect me to the characters like dds did haha thanks for the info tho
@@ryudou4966 Damn I see, np np.
@@ryudou4966 Well I'm not sure what else to recommend sorry :(
I was introduced to SMT through Persona so, I may be biased when I say games like Persona 5: The Royal or Persona 4: The Golden are good picks lol, not everyone has the same experience or whatever the actual term is, but you get the gist of it XD
@@trickster1959 yea i feel ya on p4g didnt play royal but vanilla haha i guess i'll wait for smt v then ^^ still tyvm :)
Just started this game for first time today, and i already love the Battle Theme
I started it yesterday
Such good memories! I learned to play guitar to these haha
my favorite was Hari-Hara
Witch one?
Same
18:55 me: “Alright Heat, I’m expecting great things from you!”
(Casts Revelation)
(Half the orbs repel it, killing Heat instantly)
Me: *absolutely gobsmacked* “oh! (Whispering) I am so sorry, Heat...”
Between Altus, SEGA and Nintendo, I’d say the gaming industry put everything they had and more into the 6th generation.
37:56 Thomas the Tank Engine
The fight is easy, but still fucking awesome ending
From Mr. X to Brahman, Thomas The Tank Engine fits all acting for menacing enemy's, even if he clashes tonally with the role.
Missing DDS2's Rare Devil Theme
A.K.A Jack Frost Theme
@Rock counterargument= "critique btw"
some of the greatest battle themes in video games ever made
Dds2 just has such a brilliant atmosphere to it
Meguro at his peak in terms of guitar work tbh. So happy that tracks in P5 like Keeper of Lust gave huge DDS vibes, to me at least
Shoji meguro is the boss. I like pretty much all his soundtracks
I don't know what happened with Meguro these days p5 OST is okay but nothing extraordinary
@@ofilosofoouumfumante5655 it's awesome
@@toooydoeur it's mid tier
@@ofilosofoouumfumante5655 well disagreed, it's still one of my favs
I listened to this playlist for the last 6 months and forgot to give a like 😅. Legend for uploading this and a thumbs up is now given 👍
Give me my HD remaster, Atlus.
Nocturne remaster was low effort, not sure I'd even want a DDS remaster, almost nothing I'd change about it
@@bud11_2 Honestly that's good, they should just leave the game how it is, except for better textures, resolution, and higher fps
@@c01onel You'd hope so, but Im sure we'd get blurry AI upscaled cutscenes and messed up audio or something if it really happened
Atlus: I cant comprehend.
too busy milking persona
*Takes one step* 0:00
24:42
When you're really hungry but it's 2 in the morning
Just go back to sleep, but you would just wake up hungrier
Can't get bored of this.
Steam version remastered plz Serph senpai!
I need a remaster of DDS1 and DDS2 ASAP. Atlus make it happen.
Honestly for real, my laptop's having real trouble emulating it I'd love a proper remaster
@@mothman5025 I'm playing on an android and the quality has been surprisingly good
I've only seen an hour of gameplay on this, so I barely know anything about the story.
But what I do know is that these themes are SOLID AND UNDERRATED bangers
Both have such different energies. The first is more calm and reserved as they’re not used to their power, while the second is when they’ve become accustomed to it and are letting loose on their enemies.
Man I miss Shoji Meguro in mainline SMT games.
Shoji Meguro is good but i feel that ryota kozuka just captures the emotion of playing a smt game
this isn't mainline SMT lol
@@ovensmuggler5207 yeah, I just miss Shoji Meguro in mainline SMT games.
he worked on two SMT games lol
all of these are really great, but i gotta say my favorites are hunting-betrayal and hari-hara
すべてのゲームの戦闘曲の中で1番すき(アバチュ無印hunting)
Hunting may be one of SMT's best normal battle themes ever made.
1と2セットでリマスターしてくんないかな〜
A 90% complete HD widescreen texture pack is available for PCSX2
I wish they could’ve added these titles to ps now app, had 100s of hours fun playing these as a kid sadly not available on later gen consoles.
You can play
Nocturne,
Digital devil saga 1&2,
Persona 3fes&4(the ps2 version not golden),
From the psn store on ps3. But the ps3,psp,and vita stores are closing permanently soon so you should hurry.
@@iloveemiliaandrem9443 >But the ps3,psp,and vita stores are closing permanently soon
Samarecarm
@@JayAreAitch your a bit late greedy Sony decided to keep ps3 and vita stores open. Probably because they made alot of money by making gamers panic buy ton of ps3 and vita exclusives.
PSP store is still closing, though it's super easy to emulate with ppsspp on and yes you can play two players and install DLC.
@@JayAreAitch Also you forgot to press read more on my first comment.
@@iloveemiliaandrem9443 What? I QUOTED the end of your first comment.
My entire point is that they aren't dying, hence Samarecarm.
Heroic battle awesome!
But the best is normal battle SMT3.
アバチュのリマスター、待ってます…！！
i love how passive agressive the description is.
"This is all the battle themes from Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2, two games with some of the best OST's ever (better than most Personas)."
why can't we all get along, fellas.
The Chad Digital Devil Saga VS The Virgin Persona
@@Renbuscus so true
Wait how the fuck does one compare them it's the same conposer
@@HYPERR3AL People will always find silly ways to shit on persona since it's more popular. I'm more of a mainline SMT fan myself but I've never been fond of that kind of thinking in the community and personally imo people are stuck on their hate on the persona fandom and success more than the actual games.
@@Sharpshot20 persona 5 twitter makes people think that all persona fans are like that
Compulsion is best
I've never actually heard all of Surprise Raid because I retreat too quickly to get the chance.
Hot take, but this game has the best of Shoji Meguro's composing talent. Mans was cooking w that fender
Betrayalの部分が1番再生されてるっぽい？さすが皆さんわかってらっしゃるわー！笑
All of them are bangers, but my favorites are Compulsion, Comrades and Big Battle.
underrated af
We have the advantage. Proceed.
エピックバトルが好きすぎる
てれれれれてれってーのとこすき
original Hunting & Hunting - Betrayal never gets old...
Enemies Reborn is very badass tune!
限界突破してた頃の目黒将司
I keep my PS2 running for these gems. As graphics get better on the current gen, I keep coming back to my PS2.
通常戦闘のhuntingも最初は微妙だったけど聞けば聞くほど好きになっていった。ていうかこのゲームスルメ曲多いよね
My favorite battle themes in a smt game.
自分が小学生の頃だった、今では20後半…今でDSS大好きだ
i love the buildup in surprise raid so much
Especially when the drop syncs with you transforming
The melody for "Madness" sounds a lot like the boutique music from Soul Hackers
ほんまマジ格好いいな！
リマスターあくしろよ！
jams. jams all around.
真・女神転生3みたいに
リマスター出してくれないかなぁ
DDS 1&2 both have legendary OST’s
30:03 is pretty epic.
You are epic.
No. **YOU** are epic.
Just make out already, jeez.
@Nero Metal w-wait what!? N-no~
PS5でリマスター版出してくれないかな。
遊んだことなくて実況動画でしか世界観知らないんだけどめっちゃ面白そう。
メガテン3に続いて頼む！
Hearing hunting betrayal and enemies reborn for the first time was memorable
I wish the entire first hari-hara song was like the starting bit
Hunting - Compulsion - is the best one IMO
praying this gets a port/remaster/something
They don't make JRPGs like this anymore -.-
Inb4 DDS1 & 2 remake/remaster
the games still look amazing so remasters would be just fine imo
@@hellthrust760 yea cell shaded really makes a game last in the visual department. same as sprites. Tis why all the "realistic 3d graphics" from the 90s look like shit but not spites or stuff with an actual aesthetic
@@hellthrust760 I would take a Nocturne-style remaster where they essentially just bump up the resolution of the screen and some textures, and add some QoL.
Compulsion sounds like a certain battle theme from SMT 3...
which one?
@@MisterSpeedStacking
Fierce Battle
I keep hearing "Do you aid Lucifer , do you?" in my head
Holy fuck hunting and comrades just HIT DIFFERENT!!! SOME STRAIGHT HEAT!!!
Heat😏
The first time I heard Hari-Hara the Second Movement I shit myself. Damn what a powerful song.
god, i need to play this game again. still my favorite OST of the whole MegaTen franchise.
久しぶりしたけど、BGM秀逸🙄
人修羅のBGMとか、チョーカッコいいんだが。
I didn't play this game much, but most of the battle themes sound like you can tear your enemies to pieces, except you are terrified of yourself at this point
24:42
**Missed!**
**Escape The Battle**
Great game and great songs!
27:59 & 28:11 & 29:17 & 29:30
The lick! I like how they incorporated them in this song...
thanks for this.
My first smt game and to me it is da best
ほんと戦闘曲神ってますよね(≧▽≦)
Thanks dude.