Super Mario Galaxy Clips

The game sounds great, both in the music department as well as sound effects.  Really nice that they opted to go mostly orchestral this time; I love the World 1 piece!

The first four are synth and are mostly interesting to hear updated arrangements of these old favorites (despite sounding suspiciously like "Mars, Bringer of War", the airship theme has especially held up well). The World 1 piece is orchestral and fantastic.

KujaFFman wrote:

There are more samples here: http://nintenon.blogspot.com/2007/11/no … nd-et.html (the link at the bottom)

One of them is a very surprising battle theme with chorus! I really wish they release a soundtrack.

Man, the "niveau boss" track (aka "Koopa Road" from SM64) just doesn't move me like the N64 version does...

Would anyone agree that Deep Space and World 1 sound like they could be in a Star Fox game?  Maybe the first half of World 1 for a first level in a Star Fox game, and Deep Space for one of those dark, outer space levels in Star Fox?

I was just thinking about that.

A soundtrack has been announced, but it's only available to Club Nintendo members in Japan.  There will be a 1 disc album and 2 disc set.

http://club.nintendo.jp/rank2007/
http://club.nintendo.jp/new_present/
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=208641

The Club Nintendo links are very slow, so I linked the info from Neogaf.

Last edited by PeteV (Nov 16 '07, 9:23)

Contacted Nintendo to get a response about availability in the US.  They better! 

Also, shame on Yokota for dodging the question.  He could have said, "We are working on a promotional release in Japan."  =/

I'm not really familiar with Club Nintendo... is that where those Koopa/Peach/Luigi compliations came from a while ago?

that sucks they had to go and do something like this with the soundtrack... talk about inconvenient. Can you say "FF Finest Box"?

Last edited by Ashley Winchester (Nov 16 '07, 14:01)

What gets me is which games of Nintendo's HAVE gotten soundtracks released for general sale vs. which haven't.  Pikmin and Metroid Prime over Smash Bros. Melee or Twilight Princess?  What are they thinking (nothing against either of those soundtracks... I'm thinking sales potential only)?

Don't know, Metroid isn't nearly as popular, especially in Japan.  I think what Kenji Yamamoto said in his interview may actually be true.  He said they had spare time (maybe it was a slow time at Nintendo), so Yamamoto was able to oversee the creation of the Metroid album at that time.  If you think about it, Nintendo was pretty slow on the GameCube, so I'd believe that to be true.  They're a lot busier with the Wii and DS, so I doubt Kondo or Yamamoto really have the time to oversee albums while concurrently overseeing dozens of projects that are ongoing there.  Just a thought?

Mario Sunshine and TTYD were overseen by Kondo while Yamamoto oversaw Metroid.  Perhaps Kondo was too busy with projects while Yamamoto had some free time.

Looks like Play-asia and NCSx will be taking orders for the 2 disc OST.

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-na- … -2f4e.html
http://mgrsti3030s.seamlesstech.biz/tem … olderID=47