A compilation disc pulling the best strategy game music from across Nintendo's catalog and it goes surprisingly hard. This 2009 Best Selection CD covers Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, and more across SNES through Wii hardware.
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The Fire Emblem Theme by Saki Kasuga anchors everything with that legendary melody, and then Andy's Theme from Advance Wars shifts the whole mood into this upbeat, almost playful military march. Yuka Tsujiyoko's Let's go together!
has this warm energy that makes you want to actually deploy your units. Raiden Nakayama's contributions get weirdly classical with track titles like Allegro Maestoso in F sharp minor, but somehow it fits. If you've ever lost an entire weekend to a Fire Emblem campaign, this soundtrack was the reason you couldn't stop.