| c0rd said: I haven't played Spirit Tracks yet, but that theme sounds great. I mean, we've all heard it plenty already thanks to the trailers... To be honest, I really don't like the same old songs being used as a main theme. In Link to the Past, the Dark World theme was the superior overworld theme. Many of NSMB Wii's overworld themes bother me, as they're simply taken from the DS (worse, the main one isn't even as good as the DS version). Remember SMB3, or Super Mario World? The soundtracks were unique and amazing, which helps give the games their own identity. It would've sucked if they just used remixes of the original themes. Zelda is the same. That's one of the reasons Ocarina is more memorable than the others - the soundtrack is so awesome, that it gets used in future Zeldas (though I'd prefer that didn't actually happen). I hope Zelda Wii gets its own overworld theme! |
This man speaks the truth!
However, re-used music is actually one of my pet-peves with SMW (and Sunshine) as well. Nearly every song is an arrangement of one single main theme, and while the theme isn't bad by any means, it's still lazy and drab work by the composer. That is why Yoshi's Island's soundtrack is better than that of it's precursor, much like everything else about the game.
The arrangements of the Zelda series, on the other hand, are only subtly based on the Zelda main theme, and such variations form the basis of my favorite kind of music. I hope Zelda Wii's soundtrack is as large a leap for the series music as OoT's was (please let it be orchestrated/composed by Kondo, please let it be orchestrated/composed by Kondo, please let it...).
