Patient Gamers

This is all going to be "great gameplay" rather than "great story".

If you have a way to play 3DS games and a tolerance for punishment in your JRPG dungeon crawlers, the Etrian Odyssey series has some of Yuzo Koshiro's best work.

• This is the first random battle theme in Etrian Odyssey IV. Your first battle of the game, against a couple of grasshoppers, to this.

• When you hit something more serious for the first time, you get this instead.

• Now you're in trouble.

• And, uh, there's this memorable remix of the wandering-boss theme from the first game.

You already have Persona games in your list, but let's add some more Shin Megami Tensei:

• Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne random battle theme

• Shin Megami Tensei V random battle theme

• Digital Devil Saga I last boss, first phase (the second phase is sadly less original)

Finally ... Monster Hunter is an incredibly fun and addictive game series, and though it doesn't center the music quite as much as a typical JRPG does, it's got some great stuff. I particularly like the soundtrack of MH: World -- although the newer game MH: Rise tried something new with its mostly choral arrangements, I think they are not quite as memorable overall.

• Desert zone battle from Monster Hunter: World

• Arena battle from Monster Hunter: World (it's particularly impressive the way this theme, the small-monsters arena battle theme, and several of the town themes reuse the same melodies in different arrangements)

• Ice zone battle from Iceborne expansion

• Zinogre, everybody's favorite thunder puppy, World version