User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: 1st Generation Soundtrack/@comment-76.188.238.195-20120617080503

As I was once an avid player of the first Monster Hunter, even to this day the soundtrack absolutely blows me away, from the theme of the cinematic trailor to the area themes. One piece that will particularly stay with me forever is the Kokoto Village theme; it is beautiful to me in every aspect, it tells a story of a hunter becoming a monster hunter. Sometimes I just have the urge to listen to it to remember all the great times I had playing this game that started my obsession with the series. Now focusing on the monster area tracks, I think these pieces allow the player to really focus on what is terrifying about the monster braving their sight. You may have killed that Velocidrome so many times and it may now be hardly a threat, but that creature still has those deadly qualities and the music assists the tune of its eternal bloodlust. Besides, while the point of the game is that the hunter succeeds, I think it is just as important that all the deadly monsters within it are given respect by player through hearing these epic pieces; the monsters are truly the stars of the show in my opinion. These monsters, afterall, are the reason why the player becomes deadly in the first place. Many players will never take this essence that these tracks have into any intelligent consideration, but I feel that all the music in the first Monster Hunter have more soul than these newer generations, but I still greatly appreciate the newer pieces. All in all, while Monster Hunter may not have the "best" video game soundtrack, it has touched me more than any other; it is beautiful and powerful, exciting and dramatic, and one that embraces the true awe of battle between the small and the mighty. (And the first Monster Hunter was indeed much more difficult than any of the PSP successors, and Monster Hunter Tri is simply easy compared to it.)