The Decisive Collision - Takahiro Unisuga
I don't even care for Trails as much I used to, but I love these Trance masterpieces that much.

CS1 Honourable Mentions: Unknown Threat (Unisuga), Great Power (Jindo)

Blue Destination - Takahiro Unisuga

This debuts before the final boss sequence so I'm breaking my rules a bit for this one
but it's basically The Decisive Collision's sister song anyways

The Extreme - Nobuo Uematsu

FF8 Honourable mentions: The Legendary Beast (Uematsu), Maybe I'm A Lion (Uematsu)

One Who Bares Fangs At God - Yasunori Mitsuda

Xenogears Honourable Mention: Awakening (Mitsuda)

The First Hunter - Tsukasa Saitoh

live Opera moment

The Merciless Savior - Wataru Ishibashi & Yukihiro Jindo

SC Honourable Mention: Gravestone Struck by Lightning (Ryo Takeshita)

The Greatest Jubilee - Rei Kondoh

Lord of the Castle - Yoko Shimomura

Kaine (Escape) - Kakeru Ishihama
Shadowlord - Keigo Hoashi

Spoiler (Ending Y) - Kakeru Ishihama & Keigo Hoashi
Dependent Weakling - Kuniyuki Takahashi
The Sound of the End - Keiichi Okabe

Last Battle - Yasunori Mitsuda

Revolt Against Doom - Hayato Sonoda
Liberation Drive - Takahiro Unisuga
Vesper Umbra - Takahiro Unisuga

Battle With the Devil - Yasunori Mitsuda

vs Star Dream - Hirokazu Ando
Intermezzo Without a Leader - Jun Ishikawa
Vagrant Counting Song of Retrospection - Hirokazu Ando

Dialga's Fight to the Finish - Arata Iiyoshi, Keisuke Ito

Soaring through the Azure Sadness - Takahide Murayama

Darkness of the Unknown - Yoko Shimomura

The Azure Arbitrator - Takahiro Unisuga & Yukihiro Jindo

The Endless Bloody Sea - Shuntaro Koguchi

Over Drive - Yuzo Koshiro & Ryo Takeshita

Honourable mention: Termination (Yuzo Koshiro & Yukihiro Jindo)

To A Glimmering Tomorrow - Takahiro Unisuga

The Final Battle - Tsukasa Saitoh

One Winged Angel - Nobuo Uematsu
Birth of a God - Nobuo Uematsu

Open Your Heart - Jun Senoue

Spoiler - Yasunori Mitsuda

Time to Raise the Cross - Motoo Fujiwara
A Place in the Sun (Fujiwara)
Finish the Promise (Fujiwara)

Final Battle - Nobuo Uematsu
Dark Messenger - Nobuo Uematsu

Dreamy and Boisterous Holy Land - Ryo Takeshita

Devil Advent - Takahiro Unisuga
Evildoer - Takahide Murayama

Unmitigated Evil - Yukihiro Jindo

Battle Hymn of the Soul - Shoji Meguro

Live and Learn - Jun Senoue

With Me - Jun Senoue

What I'm Made Of - Jun Senoue

Soul of Cinder - Yuka Kitamura

Gwyn, Lord of Cinder - Motoi Sakuraba

Final Battle - Masashi Hamauzu

The Perfect Steel of ZERO - Yukihiro Jindo

Promised Pain - Yuki Kajiura

Redeem the Future - Manami Kiyota

Spoiler - Manami Kiyota

For My Precious Friend - Saki Momiyama
Nihilistic Idol - Saki Momiyama

Risk Everything on this Moment - Hayato Sonoda

Theos De-Endrogram - Hayato Sonoda

The Depth Napishtim - Maiko Hattori & Wataru Ishibashi

Silver Will - Wataru Ishibashi

Heteromorphy - Hayato Sonoda

CROWNED - Hirokazu Ando

RTDL Honourable Mention: Another Dimension (Jun Ishikawa)

Two Planets Approaching the Roche Limit - Hirokazu Ando
Morpho Knight - Hirokazu Ando

Moonstruck Blossom - Hirokazu Ando

The Battle at the Summit! - Junichi Masuda & Go Ichinose
The Battle at the Summit! (Hau) - Junichi Masuda & Go Ichinose & Hitomi Sato

vs Iris - Hitomi Sato

Battle! Area Zero Lab - Toby Fox
vs Terapagos - Rei Murayama & Toby Fox & Go Ichinose

It Has to Be This Way - Jamie Christopherson

Vector to the Heavens - Yoko Shimomura

Guardando Nel Buio - Yoko Shimomura

vs Chaos King
vs Queen
Toby Fox

An Earnest Desire of Grey - Yoko Shimomura

Dismiss - Yoko Shimomura

In The Final - Yoko Shimomura

Champion Battle - Junichi Masuda & Go Ichinose

The Future of the World - Yuzo Koshiro

Ordeal of Stars - Yuzo Koshiro

Doomsday Trance - Takahiro Unisuga

Majestic Roar - Takahiro Unisuga
To the Future - Yukihiro Jindo
4.5/5 Tier roughly starts here

Last Battle (TDE) - Shoji Meguro

vs Diantha - Junichi Masuda & Shota Kageyama

Sword Saint - Yuka Kitamura

The Strongest Enemy - Mieko Ishikawa & Yukihiro Jindo

Dark Eve - Rei Kondoh

Fly Octo Fly - Toru Minegishi & Off the Hook

Marx Battle - Jun Ishikawa

Battle Against the Spoiler - Shogo Sakai

vs Cynthia - Junichi Masuda

vs Giratina - Junichi Masuda & Go Ichinose
vs Spoiler - Junichi Masuda & Go Ichinose & Hitomi Sato

Calling that Detestable Name - Yuzo Koshiro

Shekinah - Shoji Meguro & Toshiki Konishi

Take the Shield, Raise the Spear - Shoji Meguro

Merkabah II - Ryota Kozuka

SMT4 Honourable Mention: Lucifer II (Kozuka)

False God of Causality - Yukihiro Jindo

Ancient Disputation - Masanori Osaki

Where to Join the Chorus - Yukihiro Jindo
Chaotic Loop - Mitsuo Singa

Anima Ergastulum - Hayato Sonoda

vs Gigantamax Eternatus Final - Go Ichinose

Enemy of God - Ryota Kozuka

Hari-Hara - Shoji Meguro & Kenichi Tsuchiya

Divine Identity - Shoji Meguro & Kenichi Tsuchiya

The Almighty - Shoji Meguro

The Colourless Moment - Yoko Shimomura

When Determination Strikes - Motoi Sakuraba

Silver Bullet - Casey Edwards

Vergil 3 - Tetsuya Shibata

Aesir - Rei Kondoh

Nisus - Tsuyoshi Sekito

Hopes and Dreams - Toby Fox

Solaris Phase 2 - Tomoya Ohtani

Seven Rings in Hand - Kenichi Tokoi

vs Dark Gaia - Hideaki Kobayashi

Dancing Mad - Nobuo Uematsu
overrated af. I don't even want to put it here but just so some people don't get bothered I'll at least give it an honourable mention and explain:

I mostly just like the proggy parts, those are pretty good. but a lot of the song otherwise? it's just bloated with generic melodies and it's really just 4 different songs stitched together with transitions that really aren't that interesting. Blizzard Island Medley from PMD2 is the gold standard of transitions between very different sounding sections of a song. DM doesn't even come close. even a lot of Sakuraba or Uematsu himself has prog rock battle music that's more memorable and boppable than Dancing Mid to me. idk just overtime I've gotten increasingly tired seeing how many praise this song like it's the gold standard for video game battle music. idc if most RPG fans love this song, but I am begging them to at least listen to & appreciate the rest of this list and give them some deserved credit instead of praising DM like it's the Mona Lisa of VGM for the 100th time.