Although many of the Metroid title music themes are derivatives of earlier themes, they all have their own unique flavor. Which Metroid title screen theme is your favorite and why. Which one do you think best sets you up for the game's ambiance, and which one makes you look forward to booting up the game?
Basically, which one do you like the most overall?
Note: videos are in order of timeline;
1) OG Metroid NES
2) Metroid Zero Mission GBA
3) Prime 1 on the GC
4) Prime 2 on the GC (ignore the select screen part of the video for poll)
5) Prime 3 on the Wii
6) Metroid II for the Gameboy (After around the 0:54 mark it starts to become easier on the ears)
7) Super Metroid SNES
8) Other M for the Wii
9) Metroid Fusion GBA
"The Metroid series has been noted and praised for its unique style of video game music. Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka, composer of the original Metroid, has said he wanted to make a score that made players feel like they were encountering a "living organism" and had no distinction between music and sound effects. The only time the main Metroid theme was heard was after Mother Brain is defeated; this is intended to give the player a catharsis. At all other times, no melodies are present in the game. The composer of Super Metroid, Kenji Yamamoto, came up with some of the games' themes by singing them while riding his motorcycle. He was asked to compose the music for Metroid Prime to reinforce the series' continuity. Kenji Yamamoto copied the musical design of the original Metroid in Metroid Prime 3, by keeping the music and themes dark and scary until the very end, when uplifting music is played during the credits." - source
Bonus videos not for the poll:
Metroid Prime Trilogy Wii Trailer which plays the three Metroid Prime 'select screen' themes
Other M Retrospective Trailer
