The Best is Yet to Come is so very lovely, though, and I give it a lot of props for being such a calming song that manages to have a great sweep to it, and it does so, so, so, so very much of the heavy lifting when the storm clears during the approach on Shadow Moses in act 4 of MGS4 to really instill the feeling of being really back to where it all began, after a fashion.414975 4/5. So while it's a bit ironic that the one top-to-bottom licensed song is the one that fits the best, Way to Fall is genuinely chill-inducing with how well it fits thematically with the entire game, and given the story behind why it got in the game in the first place, it's some kind of cosmic fate that Kojima would come across it and realize just how perfect it was. Most of the ending themes to MGS are great in isolation, but they almost all felt a bit detached from what came before it and kinda call attention to how little they tie into what just transpired in the ending (Here's To You being the most blatant example as a result of the entire ending getting changed during development). And bits of MGSV's Sins of the Father play throughout the game (and also featured prominently in the game's trailers), so it's not strictly just an ending song, but whatever, I'll include it lol. Snake and Ocelot were going to be captured and trialed for their apparent terrorist crimes, like the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, featured in the movie of the same name, where the song is originally from. MGS4's Here's to You, an arrangement of a piece originally composed by the legendary Ennio Morricone, was chosen for an alternate ending that never came to be. Now MGS4 and MGSV are more curious cases.
MGS2 features a lovely jazzy lounge track in Can't Say Goodbye To Yesterday, and they probably intended to follow what MGS1 did, with it playing over live action footage of New York. Then there's the licensed track Way To Fall playing over MGS3's credits with just the most incredibly appropriate lyrics to the themes and narrative of the game, despite not being written for the game. Hearing The Best is Yet to Come playing over footage from Alaska will always be one of my most treasured gaming moments. MGS has always had some of the absolute best choices for ending tracks. I was reading this article about the creation of MGS2's soundtrack and just started listening to a bunch of MGS music.
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