Official(?) Nintendo Consoles Music Thread v2.0

JayMoyles wrote:

If MGS1 released nowadays this would be an unrelated CHVRCHES track and Snake would be portrayed by the likeness of Guillermo del Toro.

Well if the song was WRITTEN for the game it's not unrelated and the casting is surely

Norman Reedus = Solid Snake
Mads Mikkelsen = Revolver Ocelot
Léa Seydoux = Meryl Silverburgh
Troy Baker = Liquid Snake
Margaret Qualley = Naomi Hunter
Tommie Earl Jenkins = Roy Campbell
Nicolas Winding Refn = Otacon
Guillermo del Toro = Kenneth Baker

Lindsay Wagner, I'm undecided maybe Boss

Who am I kidding it would just end up like this


On Day 31 the tune I was thinking about being stuck in my head

Your image is broken there boss.  Meant to be a YouTube?

Two more 'so classic I can't possibly comment' tunes there.  I think the Tetris theme, beyond being a classic, has survived the ravages of time particularly well.  It's still a really good hummable tune in this era, not suffering from the bleepy bloops and never remixed so well that it's been superseded.  I'm not sure what it would look like, but I'd dance to that.

...I commented anyway, huh.

Day 30: Credits Music



I could have made someone look a fool by picking a song from someone's day 31 but I'll stay true. Super Mario 3D World had great music throughout and the credits keep that up by going full on big band. I like that they went a different way with to Galaxy with the soundtrack for these games, as great as Galaxy's orchestral music is, this style definitely felt much more suited to 3D World.

More from this game in Day 31...:

I'll give you all some credit:

Day 31: Music from a game you're surprised hasn't been done already



To avoid breaking my own rule where I can't mention my previous choices I'll submit this first, I eluded to it earlier in the month and this brilliant piece of music which perfectly captured the sinister tone of the game deserves a mention.

More importantly though, how did we not have an entry from The Wind Waker? For my money it's the Zelda game with the best music, from the opening theme to sailing music, it's all magnificent.



The music for Outset Island is possibly my pick of the bunch, so upbeat and relaxing, pair it with the colourful island itself and the two go hand in hand perfectly.



I'm also gonna crowbar in one more as probably my most remembered boss music, I just love the little build up at the start before it goes straight in there with the main tune, quality stuff.

That SM3DW credits theme, while obviously and objectively a jazzy bop, also feels like it's summing up all the ways SM3DW differed from the other 3D Mario games - no emotion, no epic orchestra, no grand close to an adventure, just a jazzy fun time. I don't like it so much as a result. Funnily enough I'm pretty fond of that previous Smurf choice!

The TLoU piece is a pretty good moodsetter for what I understand the game to be while not having that great a tune in and of itself; but those two WW picks are bangers. Did WW have the best soundtrack for a Zelda? Maybe, you know. Maybe...

Yes it did, look:

Treesmurf wrote:

For my money it's the Zelda game with the best music, from the opening theme to sailing music, it's all magnificent.

Whoops! Missed that.  

Anyway: I've been playing New Super Lucky's Tale, and while most of the time the soundtrack's easily ignored, occasionally it throws up something like this:



The Yoshi's Crafted World composer could have come up with this.  If you don't think it's too bad, fast-forward to 0:39.  Torture.

Day 31

Very apropos!

Buskalilly wrote:

In terms of songs, and the games they come from, which I'm genuinely surprised didn't get a mention, there are two NES masterpieces which basically invented modern gaming . . .

Jimbob wrote:

Day 31

There we go. Sorted.

This was really fun guys! By the far the most action this thread has ever seen, and saved my bacon from trying to pull an equivalent to the Pokémonathon, the Marioaluigiapalooza, the Smashtonbury and the NINTENYEARS out of my ass. There is a nice obvious anniversary next year though, which will presumably come with a game release or two . . .

I'll probably make a playlist on youtube with all of these in it at some point, so look forward to that. In the meantime, here's a thought: If we took hard mode in the polar opposite direction, what game series do you think you could fill every day with? Or for very hard mode, what individual game?

Easy Metal Gear for series

Its good for the big ones but I dont usually remember level themes and smaller stuff like that.

I would have to look at things like portable ops or any with a level structure but I reckon it could be done.

Edit

The biggest problem actually would be the genres as there's no racing game and even if you said Mario for instance surely Mario Kart is it's own series not a spin-off

Probably nothing would suit every day, but I think Mario is the only safe bet - if it's got Mario in it, it counts as a Mario game.

OR

If I took a year off work and devised a series of games starring the same main character, and wrote the music for it, would you sign up for my Patreon?

You could use Konami Krazy Racers for Metal Gear, would struggle with the RPG genre though unless I'm missing something. Mario would absolutely count though and it's probably the only one.

Even then, can Mario do licensed games?  Maybe the All-Night Nippon version of SMB?  I'd think you'd have to pick Pokémon and play fast and loose with the idea of 'licences' - I'm sure you could find a minigame in one of the PokéParks that counted as a shooter.  

Actually... it's Smash isn't it.  I imagine you could get every piece from Ultimate's absurd library alone.

Jimbob wrote:

If I took a year off work and devised a series of games starring the same main character, and wrote the music for it, would you sign up for my Patreon?

Yes.

I reckon you could do Sonic, if only he needs to be in the game as you'll have a Tennis, Party, Fighting, Racing, RPG etc games to pick from but


Day 1 MGS Menu Theme
Day 2 Tanker
Day 3 MSX
Day 4 MGS4 is still only on PS3
Day 5 Shadow Moses
Day 6 Nice and Quiet
Day 7 I switch it up
Day 8 The best shooter?
Day 9 It's the other way
Day 10 Turn Based Action
Day 11 You try figuring out the controller
Day 12   Boss  
Day 13 Least something good from this
Day 14 SNAKE EATER
Day 15 From the greatest Boss fight
Day 16 Color
Day 17 Father
Day 18 Not the real one
Day 19 More Violin
Day 20 Thanks Smurf
Day 21 Escort Mission
Day 22 Mother Base
Day 23 It's not Snake Eater
Day 24 13secs
Day 25 Time for an Encounter
Day 26 Mobile
Day 27 Paz and a tad different to the rest
Day 28 Best isn't yet to come as it's here
Day 29 One more fight
Day 30 Goodbye or is it?
Day 31 Revengeance

Double post!!! Unless I decide to delete the previous one, anyway I finished Paper Mario: The Origami King and with it being released just before we did the music challenge it seems to have gotten lost in the ether. This is a huge shame because it's a great game with some great music, here's a few favourites:



We start rather uninspiringly with the title music which has a grand adventure feel to it, I felt rather guilty skipping past this everytime I played. This appears in the game itself later on and feels like a great moment given the circumstances.



I include this one, not only because it has some top notch Moo Moo Meadows vibes but also because it provided me with my first "oh that's kinda cool" moment, a truly Nintendo touch.



I think I might have heard this one before release when Nintendo tweeted it out, clearly quite proud of their work and rightly so. Incredibly unexpected when I seen this area in screenshots but it goes well with the overall feel of the area with its long grass and gusts of wind, it's also the area you spend the most time with a very dear friend.



There's a lot of music in this game when they could have just recycled some stuff which is quite impressive, this particular song is from a very small area you're unlikely to spend more than a few minutes in, none the less it stuck with me mainly due to it sounding very Breath of the Wild and being very chill.



Last one is a sort of remix of the title theme but it's nice and relaxing and reminds me of some of my favourite moments from the game.

I'll leave it at that, it's hard to find songs that don't have a spoilery title but I feel these are a good indication of what the game offers, it's a big thumbs up from me.

I loved Autumn Mountain. People get a big hard-on for Spring but Autumn is really where its at for beautiful mountains.

And the cafes were great. Right up there with animal crossing and phoenix wright in terms of capturing that feeling of sitting down with a coffee.

In order: banger with strings, nice enough folksy piece, genuinely one of my favourite pieces of gaming music holy heck that is tremendous I could listen to it for days, interesting piece for a small area that has a bit of 'old Paper Mario' to it, and aww that's a really sweet remix! That's a top soundtrack all right. I listened to a couple of pieces from Colour Splash on YouTube and was distinctly underwhelmed, but this is top.

No but really going to listen to Autumn Mountain forever now Dat erhu.

Seems timely to remind folk of the quality job that SEGA's Sound Team did of remixing classic songs from Super Mario 64, Sunshine and Galaxy for the Wii U game Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.












And a Brucey Bonus!

I'll come back to these later and give them a proper listen, but WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO BUOY BASE THE MONSTERS


EDIT: Okay, in general I think there's a lot of cases there where extra pumping percussion has been added, and detracts from the rest of the track. My favourite is Gusty Garden, which doesn't do that; and Koopa's Road, which does in places but is otherwise pretty faithful to the original (and hard percussion kind of fits the original anyway). The SM64 credits don't either, but it's a completely different take on one of my most emotional pieces ever and... ah, you can't beat perfection! Still pretty good though.

The Buoy Base variant can die in a dumpster fire.