Tag: Nintendo

  • Weekly Game Music: Deep Red Pastures (Baten Kaitos Origins)

    New week, new music.  We start this year with a little-known JRPG game.  The genre is full of audio surprises.  Anyway, here’s Deep Red Pastures, composed by Motoi Sakuraba.  It fits with the windy setting of the game, Baten Kaitos Origins. Baten Kaitos Origins starts with our hero, Sagi, tasked to commit murder by his…

  • Weekly Game Music: Sweet Memories of Earth (DuckTales)

    New week, new music.  Here’s a rock-and-roll remix of the The Moon Theme from DuckTales, Sweet Memories of Earth.  The remixer, CarboHydroM, successfully adds adrenaline to Hiroshige Tonomura’s dreamy 8-bit composition.  Many of you will undoubtedly feel nostalgic about it! DuckTales narrates Scrooge McDuck’s treasure hunting journey.  Much like any platformers in the heydays, Scrooge would jump, climb, and waltz…

  • Weekly Game Music: Title Screen (Animal Crossing)

    New week, new music.  Here’s yet another piano composition from the famed Nintendo music composer, Kazumi Totaka.  The calm, jazzy Title Screen music is quite appropriate for this laid back game, Animal Crossing. The story behind Animal Crossing is very simple, if lacking.  You (yes, you) decide to leave home and travel to a town full of animals.  As you…

  • Weekly Game Music: Wind Waker Unplugged (Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker)

    New week, new music.  Late again this week, but I’m currently checking out SIGGRAPH 2012, and it’s quite a bit exhausting.  Anyways, lets go with something special this week.  Here’s Fredrik Larsson’s medley, Wind Waker Unplugged , which quite predictably blends together various tunes from Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.  It does great justice to the original…

  • Weekly Game Music: Some Like it Red Hot (Viewtiful Joe)

    New week, new music. This week’s music is Some Like it Red Hot, baby!  Two cool dudes, Masakazu Sugimori and Masami Ueda, manage to capture the exciting and flashy nature of a city.  It best fits the rad superhero action game, Viewtiful Joe. Viewtiful Joe, is, like, an action game about a stupid nobody named Joe.  The loser…

  • Weekly Game Music: The Angarian Journey (Golden Sun)

    New week, new music. Let’s get those nostalgic glands running, shall we? Here’s The Angarian Journey by Motoi Sakuraba. It’s an amazing and epic overworld music for the equally sophisticated game, Golden Sun. Despite the hardware limitation on the Gameboy Advance, this music still proves that composition really is the king. Golden Sun starts with a traumatic childhood memories…