Official Nintendo Consoles Music Thread (Thanks for Listening!)

If I hadn't known that SEtG was going to take your top spot anyway, that would have been a spoiler.  

That isn't the only theme on the soundtrack that features their themes, there's also Four Legends.  

And now, for my second favourite theme of Bravely Default!  Some say he's a myth, others say that he's superior to satan himself.  All we know is he's called Ba'al, and this is his theme.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znkBQOvDLeg




In complete honesty I was really tempted to put this as number one, I've been rocking out to this theme almost every day since I got the soundtrack.  It's Revo doing what revo does best, upbeat epic rock, with a creepy yet epic chant.  The only thing I dislike?  The fact this theme was never used outside Ba'al. Such a epic theme deserves more use!

The exciting conclusion to my top five bravely default themes!  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLBTIUzPpEQ



No intro is needed, although I will add that this is easily one of my top final boss themes of all time.  Hmm, maybe I should do a top ten out of those some day.

And nobody is surprised, ever. Not that I can argue with either of those two, although I'd have put Ba'al up over SEtG - I love creepy children's music (brrr).  I think that SEtG is better when it's remixing old themes than doing its own thing, though, with 2:57 and 4:39 being highlights.

I could do my own BD week now, but I don't want to drown people in JRPG music.  Instead:

GNamer's Soulful Music Week 84: Hubris (Erhu Version), Soul Calibur II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEGH14U3Y9o



I love the erhu.  Some of you may have heard me mention this.  And this piece, from the only "proper" beat-em-up I've ever played, is what introduced me to it.  It suits the despairing nature of the Xiwei Siege Ruins, a pointless deadly conflict over something that may not have even been there, to a t.  The overly happy, squeaky-voiced character it goes with?  Not so much.

Also, who doesn't love a bit of Cervantes?  I know Jas does.  This one's for you, Jas!

Great song and game, it's not a beat'em up its a fighter though. Surely you played KI on SNES or N64 though.

Ah soul calibur 2, how I miss ye.  And speaking of that, who doesn't like the apocalypse in song form?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piIBaoySmIA

Well then, let us dance! You're quite the rude one. Enough! Die already!

Repeat ad nauseam. I really overused Raphael in SCII.

Raphael is Ringabel from Bravely Default.  It's so obvious now!  And he's still less annoying than Xianghua - "Justice will prevail!  Just kidding! (inhales more helium)"  My personal favourite for quips (and in general) was Yoshimitsu: madder than a bag of ferrets, and less of a gimp than Voldo.

Inferno was a rubbish villain, which is odd when they had several good ones just sitting in the character select screen.  Even Charade was better.  Still, he's got a good organist working for him, I'll say that much.

masofdas wrote:

Great song and game,  it's not a beat'em up its a fighter though.  Surely you played KI on SNES or N64 though.

Eh, quibbles.  Wikipedia says, "Beat 'em ups are related to—but distinct from—fighting games, which are based around one-on-one matches rather than scrolling levels and multiple enemies. Such terminology is loosely applied, however, as some commentators prefer to conflate the two terms."  So you're right, but I'm not too wrong.  Maybe I'll start calling them "fight-em-ups" from now on!

As for KI, the SNES game was before my home-console time (began with the 64), and N64 Magazine weren't too flattering of KI Gold.

I want to put in here as it's a Nintendo console exclusive be it a home-brew NES game (so could of gone retro) and this is only a trailer for it but you will see from it. The chiptunes might be decent but the trailer does use real tunes as well, so a little hard to judge.

But here is Study Hall

I'll agree, no easy place to plonk that. It feels more like a gameplay trailer than something music-centric to me, so I guess retro? Or just in one of the big General Gaming threads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItlMzEvf7Uw

I really need to play this game some day.

Athrun888 wrote:

I really need to play this game some day.  

Why?  It's strategy.  And gloomy strategy at that. (Gage's theme is pretty good though.)  Anyway, in tribute to Tropical Freeze:

GNamer's Simian Music Week 85: THE DK RAP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcP91tQ4ZSM



I didn't go a bundle on Donkey Kong 64, I'll admit.  After the colours and characters of Banjo-Kazooie, Rare's next 3D platformer left me cold.  It seemed darker and grimmer, with worse level design and, in particular, a less memorable soundtrack.  I was shocked to discover that Mr. Kirkhope did the music to DK64, because it's just so unremarkable compared to B-K's.

But there's one "tune" in it I'll always remember.  Even if I wanted to forget it, I couldn't.  It's quite possibly the cheesiest piece of "music" I've heard in a videogame; but it's self-consciously so, and therefore it deserves a music week.

"Come on, Cranky, take it to the fridge!"

GNamer's Objectionable Music Week 86: Objection 2013, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwoi6-8UFQI



Sometimes remakes of classic tunes go right, such as Apollo Justice's theme.  Sometimes they go badly wrong, such as Miles Edgeworth's.  (What is that at the beginning?  Some rubbish MIDI brass?)  But nothing in DD went quite so right as this - a revamped version of the Objection theme from Trials and Tribulations, with a healthy dose of strings and just a pinch of epic.  What better music to take a villain down to?  Shame about the villain, really.

Is it cheating to not mention a piece of all-new music?  Maybe so.  Athena Cykes' courtroom theme is pretty great too.  All the courtroom themes are!

About to be a triple-post.  Better do a big game to get people interested...

GNamer's Meowsic Week 87: Sprawling Savanna(h), Super Mario 3D World: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1zod5n4dxg



Because cats, geddit?  SM3DW's style is a lot more bouncy and percussive when compared to the sweeping epic compositions of the Galaxies, and while this doesn't lend itself well to all pieces (dear God, what have you done to Gusty Garden, you sick twisted people?), it works very nicely with the upbeat savannah theme.  Probably doesn't hurt that I really liked what they did with Sprawling Savannah, although it really needed more hills and less time limit.

  YOOOOOOOOO. 

I see that and raise you a World "8" (which must've been written by Franz Ferdinand)

My favourite part of that is the "parp" when the melody kicks in.  Great stuff, and very Bowser.  (doesn't get Franz Ferdinand comparison; is okay with that)  Also, here's the other tune I was looking for: my favourite "epic" piece from the game, although it does give me traumatic flashbacks of the smiley rolling fireballs.

Ironically, Sprawling Savannah is probably one of my best-remembered levels from the game. And it's only memorable for having a cool camera angle. Let's face it, the level's biggest draw was having a great big feckin' open space in it.

Eh, I liked it. It was a change of pace from the other levels, and the music was good.

As is most of DKC:TF's!  I think it may have the best soundtrack of any 2D platformer I've ever played.  It's going to get its own week at some point, so here are some of the pieces that almost certainly won't make it in: the first two world bosses, showing how varied the soundtrack can be, and the peaceful underwater music from the first few levels.  I repeat: these are ones that are unlikely to make it in.  David Wise, you absolute genius.  Can't wait to hear what he's done for Tengami.

GNamer's Top-Hole Music Week 88: Banson's Aria, Henry Hatsworth and the Puzzling Adventure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6nc77yI3qA



Played this?  Odds are, you haven't, but it was rated 86% in NGamer and was a jolly good, fun, hard combination of platform, combat and puzzle that somehow hung together, as well as introducing the world to s-tea-mpunk.  This is the second boss fight, and I love that it's just a bunch of random Italian musical terms set to an aria.  

My other favourite piece in the game has to be The Butler Did It, which plays in Tealand, i.e. stereotypical Victorian England/London.  More than shades of Tubba Blubba's theme in there.

I've been playing Pokemon Pinball as of late, and I think it might have one of the best soundtracks of any Pokemon game.

It's the perfect game to play on a lazy afternoon.

That second piece - was that a remix of Ecruteak Town, before GS came out? Creepy.

Eh, they're similar enough that I could believe the same guy composed them, but I don't think it's a remix of sorts.

You know, both the Phoenix Wright and Professor Layton series have some wonderful music.

I do indeed!  And here's some [url=messedupcables.forumotion.net/t14p300-official-nintendo-consoles-music-thread-post-links-to-videos-not-videos#27226]proof[/url]!  (Not to mention on this very page.)  Can't wait for the crossover effort, for the soundtrack if nothing else.

I tend to find the PW songs more memorable than the PL ones, though.  The only PL efforts from the earlier games that I remember are the main theme and the puzzle theme, the latter of which still has the ability to drive me absolutely insane.