It's kind of unfair so I don't really count it, but I'll be darned if I don't love how insanely packed and stacked Smash Ultimate is with some of the best music in video games. The easy answer I'm plenty of people can agree on is Smash Ultimate, though. It's a shame the game wasn't recognized more for it's music. The orchestra, choir, composers and arrangers, and vocalists all deliver such great performances. There's maybe only one or two songs in the game that aren't absolutely fantastic, and outside those, every song is wonderful to listen to and masterfully produced. I might be guilty of recency bias, but I honestly think this game has probably one of my top game soundtracks of all time. Several tracks use smaller ensembles, and in the case of Galaxy 2 the game even has a few tracks that take a big band and jazz ensemble approach. Bonus points for the willingness to experiment with more than just orchestral compositions, too. They all have a certain Mario personality to them that, despite nothing like it having been done before in the series, all still felt distinctly Mario. The music direction is unlike anything that had been seen in a Mario game before then, and the compositions themselves are among some of my favorites in the series. Super Mario Galaxy (and Galaxy 2 -it's hard for me to view these separately) are also both absolutely incredible. It might not have been the first game with Zelda's Lullaby or other famous themes, but there's plenty of themes it did give birth to like Epona's Song, Gerudo Valley, Kokiri Forest, Zora's Domain, and many other themes that have since become the basis of musical motifs in Zelda. It's also an absolutely massive soundtrack of pretty high sound quality considering what most games looked like at the time.
While it did borrow some themes from Link To The Past, it also established new motifs that have become huge parts of the musical heritage of the series. Ocarina of Time is one a lot of people bring up, and I think it's fair. I have to try really hard not to feel like I'm just biased for nostalgia, but to be honest that nostalgia can be part of what makes a soundtrack great. This is always such a tough question for me.
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