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#1. Katamari Forever - Everlasting Love + You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0KzYztRZiw

This is... one of the happiest songs ever. This is the absolute cliche of when you're having a bad day and you listen to this song and you can forget about the things bothering you for the next 10 minutes because you're still riding the high from the song. This is literally one of my favorite songs ever, not restricted to video games. I love every single aspect about this song. I love the new arrangement. I love the new instrumentation. I love the new stuff added to it. Whoever thought of mixing You Are Smart into this song is a genius. Take a thin song that's made up of a bunch of beep boops and turn it into a backing track for a larger song. I'm also glad that this song is in English. Now I'm not normally a lyrics person at all, I rarely pay attention to the words that people sing even when they're in my own language. I usually treat singing like an extra instrument and just hear it as more sounds among all the other sounds. (That's why I don't have trouble listening to non-English music, I mean look right here, nearly this whole list is Japanese songs). I fully believe that this song would still be my #1 even if it had the original Japanese vocals from WLK. But there's something about this song, just due to the sheer number of times that I've listened to it, that being in English allows me to create an extra bond with it, by allowing me to fully follow along with it in a way that I wouldn't be able to otherwise. So this may have been a risky decision for them and possibly turned some people off from it, but for me it only helped. The part at 4:12, where it hits a climax and repeats the chorus with more instruments than earlier, still gives me chills every time even after hearing this song hundreds of times. I would say that this song is primarily responsible for me calling Katamari Forever my #1 favorite game soundtrack for many years, enough so that when a challenger approached, I started questioning whether I was actually overrating it due to the influence of one song rather than the whole thing. But I think I've settled it and ranked it fairly now (it remains in my top 3).